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Diamond in Shipbuild

Every shipyard is a veritable

Note the structure of the gian supports, props, and derricks use See how they are all braced at Observe how these angle braces

This is a fundamental engi struction for Strength.

The Philadelphia Diamond
Wh

Marine Service-They call them "
For when a ship is in trouble, when the
pled, when the engines have stopped,
sinking and awash, they know they ma
standby, the Philadelphia Diamond Gri
the wireless call for help. In the na
Merchant Marine, more than a thous
Diamond Grid Batteries are now being

Coal Mine Locomotives-The cry coal-coal for our ships, coal for our for our camps and homes. One mine loc with a Philadelphia Diamond Grid B from ten to twenty mules and their d locomotives now going into coal miness Philadelphia Diamond Grid Batteries. immeasurably to increase the productio Passenger Automobiles-The automa win the war. In his automobile, the f laborers from their homes in the nea fields and back again at night. It ena do his marketing at night. It keeps fam ning by speeding the procurement of saved millions of bushels of perishable

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batteries. have been lost but for its annihilation of time and space.
is crip- The automobile is relieving the railroads. It is saving
ship is the time of officer and civilian in necessary war work. The
the old Philadelphia Diamond Grid Battery for automobile start-
to send ing, lighting and ignition, is Guaranteed for 18 months.
There is a special size and shape to fit every car. A thou-
adelphia sand dealers and service stations can replace the battery
in your car with a Philadelphia Diamond Grid Battery.
Commercial Trucks-Trucks also relieve the railroads.
ries, coal. They are the necessary transportation medium between
quipped the producer and the user. Electric trucks, equipped
replace with the Philadelphia Diamond Grid Battery, save gaso-
% of all line. Furthermore, electric trucks and also gasoline trucks
bed with equipped with an electric starter and a Philadelphia
helping Diamond Grid Battery can be driven by women and
thereby release men for other war work or for the front.
ping to Industrial Haulage-Industrial trucks and tractors
carries equipped with the Philadelphia Diamond Grid Battery
to his are speeding production everywhere. In the mills and
armer to factories, in the shipyards, loading transports and supply
ery run ships, at the railroad terminals, they are doing the work
It has of thousands of men. In powder mills, where a spark
it would from a horse's hoof, a back-fire from a gasoline motor, or

Burning Up Bread

We've Been Doing It for Years!

Let's stop it. Last winter when our allies needed millions of bushels of grain to help them avert famine, millions of bushels were being destroyed by fire in America because not safeguarded by concrete. In one fire alone in Brooklyn, nearly 1,000,000 bushels of grain were destroyed.

Foodstuffs will be scarce during and after the war. Everyone's interest demands that further waste be prevented by storing them in fireproof structures.

When you use concrete, transportation, skilled labor and steel, of which there are none to spare, are released for urgent war needs.

Whether you are go-
ing to build a

Coal Pocket or Silo
Factory or Warehouse
Dam or Power Plant
Railroad or Marine Terminal
Water or Sewer System®
Oil Storage Tank or

Watering Trough

-any structure from the smallest to the largest and all kinds and sizes between-Use Concrete.

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mentioned to him that it was a shame to give him that run.

"This train has never been on time. The schedule is all wrong. It is impossible to make the trip on time."

"We'll try. Hey, Bill?" he shouted to his fireman, and for the first time in the history of the road that express went through on schedule. Young Hurley never went back to the fireman's side of a locomotive after that.

Then came a railroad strike. They sent for Hurley on another road. He was about to take the job when he was told that he couldn't, it was against the Union rules.

"That settles it, I'm no quitter, I'll play fair," he told them, "but I won't sit around waiting for this strike to be settled."

The fellow who couldn't wait for the strike to be settled got a job that very day; he became secretary to the man who is known as the "Gladstone of the Labor Movement," P. M. Arthur. This shows the man; he had left school at fifteen and then turned to and worked as machinist, fireman, and engineer, and yet, meanwhile, he had studied hard and so was fit to step upward when the chance came. He didn't

to study trade conditions and got from him the first report that really improved our trade relations. Then he asked to help in Red-Cross work, being a masterhand at organization. Then there came trouble in our ship-building, a row between Goethals and Denman over wooden ships. President Wilson asked Hurley to take over the whole job.

They know now in Washington who "Hurry-up" Hurley is. Within six days after he took charge he took over all of the ships and shipyards for Government service. He began building yards until now we have nearly 150 shipyards. He standardized the ships so that 82 per cent. of the ships are built in factories all over the country, hundreds, and some of them thousands, of miles from the ocean. Only 18 per cent. of the ships are actually created at the yards. The standard parts are shipped on and the ships assembled. We must build 5,500,000 tons of ships this year, or 1,200 ships, which is ten times as many ships as were ever before built in Hurley this country in a single year. will do it.

WHAT FRENCH CHILDREN THINK OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS

care for the work, so he became a traveling PROVERBS, the world over, bear wit

salesman for a Pennsylvania steel-plate

ness to the folk-belief that children are keen observers of character, that they have an uncanny way of seeing what's behind the camouflage. see it. The writer Evidently with

firm at which he "hurried up" for years. Just then opportunity called and he was shrewd enough to continues:

A machinist of his acquaintance was trying to perfect a pneumatic riveter. Every one who has lived where steel construction is going on has heard the "rat-tat-tat-tat" of the pneumatic or comprest-air riveter. Hurley had very little money, but he hired five workmen and started, with his partner, perfecting the riveter. Into overalls and jumper once more, in a tiny, dirty shop, he worked with the men. Then he tried to introduce the riveter here. It was slow work. He decided to go to England with it.

To the great ship-building plants on the Clyde he went. His claims did not seem possible, but they allowed him to try it out. Before a big assembly Mr. Hurley drove the first rivet that was ever put into a steel ship in any other way than by hand. He had no difficulty in getting English rights and with this money he went back to America and started up a big business. Sometimes he went to a company and presented his card as president of his own company. At other times he presented a card which represented him to be only an agent. He carried his outfit, showed what his riveter would do, and thus built up his business here.

Without this pneumatic riveter the big ships of to-day could not be built, as it is necessary to use rivets far too large for man-power to drive.

No one knows how many years he might have been struggling to get his company started here if he had waited. But he knew that his riveter was as important for ship-building as for sky-scraper and bridge-building, so he went where the biggest ships were built.

Finally he sold out his interests for a million dollars, holding some other interests that did not require his presence, and retired to his stock farm at Wheaton, Ill. But so clever a man was needed. President Wilson had him go to South America

this in mind a soldier while in southwestern France requested a village schoolmaster with whom he was acquainted to ask his pupils to write, without preparation, compositions upon American soldiers as they knew them. It will be noted that the politeness, the cleanliness, the cheerfulness, and the "sweet tooth" of our boys are among the chief things that struck the kiddies, a quaint touch of the coming woman appearing in Mathilde's epistle.

The authenticity of the following extracts is vouched for by The Independent, in whose pages they appear.

gay.

They are all fine men, tall, large shoulders. I know one, a big fellow. He has a scar on his right cheek, which was made by a horsekick. He has a rosy face, long hair, carefully arranged. His feet are small for his size. He has a sweet tooth. He is He is good. He eats chocolate and There are some who going on an errand near their camp I met him sharing his chocolate with his comrades. Next Sunday I was playing at spinning-top with my comrades. He was looking at us. My small brother had no spinning-top. He gave him two cents to buy one.

sweets.

The Americans are polite. When they shake hands, they bow down their head a little. Before entering a house they take off their hats, and wait till they are told "sit down.'

They have good discipline; no fault is left unpunished. They are more daring than we are; they do not fear exJEAN LABERIOTE.

pense.

I know one more particularly. He is of ordinary size. He has a fine face, round cheeks, blue eyes. He likes to laugh at others. He is intelligent. He has got the bad habit of smoking and chewing tobacco. He is fond of sweets. He bathes very often.

The Americans have been very good

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