The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-14
en a practical knowledge of the


 trade.
 So far the most successful plan has been to let the student spend his first year wholly in high school studies The second year he divides his time equally between school and shop, working one week at his school stud ieS and the next in the automobile plant. Naturally, this work is not compulsory as the young man does not have to seIect his course until the beginning of his second year in high school. At that time he generally knows whether he is going to prepare for college or business and if the lat ter, he usually selects the trade course. This not only gives him good practical training but also teach es him the value of money as he is paid for the work he does at the fac tory.
 This cooperative educational plan has been successfully carried out in number of cities. In many cases the first year students were found to be failures in regular high school work but later on showed a natural liking for the practical work in the shop.
 Army Adopts Motorcycle.
 After a number of tests in which ev- cry available means of communica.- ton between the different divisions of the army were used, the second di- vision of the reorganized army now stationed at Galveston and Texas City, Texas, has decided upon the motor cycle as the most efficient. and has ordered a number of machines for use in this service.
 One of the tests made in this con nection was the delivering of an order from the division headquarters to the various brigade commanders. The distance was about five miles. Wire I.o-<s aT16 the message was sent in this way. An other message was sent by telephone over ground wires which had been laid. An orderly mounted oHon a horse carried an order The mes sage was reIayed by gig-wagg1ng it of these messages reached all the points of destination as quickly as the one carried by an orderly mounted on a twin motorcycle.
 Auto Retires Horse. Henry A. Stafford, living some five 1 miles out of Anderson, Ind, has join 1 ed the ever increasing ranks of far mers who have retired the horse and buggy for the automobile. He figured 1 it all out beforehand and has a sys- | tenn whereby he claims the upkeep of l the car is not as great to him as that | of the family driving horse. Staff ford has gone in for dairying to some extent and every morning ships to the l city two large cans of milk. Previous 1 to the purchase of the automobile he l harnessed up early in the morning and took his milk to the receiving sta l ton four miles from the farm. Then I Stafford bought an auto. He made 2 wooden frame that slips on the two l seatbacks and holds several cans o1 1 milk.
 1 Taking the matter up with neigh l bors located along the road to the milk station and who were also de- 1 livering by horse, Stafford made g l deal with several to pick up their cans and deliver for them, charging very were glad to be relieved of the bur- ] den at the small cost.
 1 The monthly income received from 1 this source more than pays the upkeeI I expense of the car The machine l not only shortens the time formerly required for the trip by half but af. I lords the Stafford family many 2 pleasure unknown before.
 He Feels" His Car. l An automobile becomes almost ar integral part of a man after he hal driven it for awhile, says Stewart Mo Donald, vice-president of the Moor I Motor Car Company. Mcdonald il l 1ustrated the attachment of men fol their own particular make of cars bs 1 citing 8 news story which appeared l last week in the St. Louis papers I which told of two friends who nt T longer speak and who are each out O I pocket $200 as the result of a con troversy as to which of the two make of automobiles was the better. Il The two St Louisa.ns got into an ar. gument as to the relative merits o certain makes of cars. One of tn, friends owned a machine of a certai1 make. had driven it himself, and sais he knew there was none better Tn, friend disagreed and a race betwee1 the two makes was arranged and eacl put up $2eOton the result. When tn race time came one of the friends fail ed to show up and the money is bein;