Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20
FORMER PROFESSOR
BECOMES A RIVETER
Master of Pneumatic Gun
Hopeful of Teaching
His New Trade

Less than six weeks ago Frank John
son had professorship in high school.
He worked at 1t, too. and nothing else.
Today he has another job. and SO differ
ent Is II In every respect from that prc-
fcssorshlp that one can scarcely realize
the transition.
A riveter in the Merchants shipyard
at Hartman! Yes. Stree. This man,
who never before did anything harder
than lifting a textbook or balancing 1t
before his class, now handles steel
riveting gun of great weight, and you
should see him crouched under a ship
hull holding that throbbing. jumping
machine against red-hot rivet as the
pneumatic power does the driving. This
| is no classroom exercise.
! Indeed, the classroom Is only mem
ory to this shipworker. The pedagogue's
boiled shirt has been replaced with a
blue jumper and the bare neck. tanned
to the healthiest color. now shows where
the white picadilly used to be- Safety
goggles have taken the place of the tor
toise-shell glasses. Incidentally. john
! son says these changes in his makeup
have come to stay. He Is done with the
schoolroom. He has found a new life,
! and It pleases him so much to be toiling
with humanity for humanity's sake that
| ne Is perfectly content to keep on point
ing that heavy rlveting gun as long as
his country needs him there.
Johnson's efforts to get into shipyard
work were at first discouraged owing to
soft, fiabby muscles. and only his per.
| sstence won the employment mans con.
| sent to give him a trial. OF his expert.
ence in the new work Johnson said
1.-THE hammer seemed to jump all
over the whole plate and to hit
every square inch of it except the
rivet head at which I was aiming. Tc
my surprise, my muscles rapidly hard.
ened. and l found I could manage the
hammer with comparative ease. From
then on / made progress.
| Now that l am regular member o.
n riveting gang I do not know what
the future has in store for me. I be
leve every trade has its opportunities
and that the field before me is Just al
broad as the one I had before as {
school teacher. In fact, my present am
bition is to become a riveting instructor
because I can now appreciate more thai
most men the wonderful work that cal
be accomplished by a corps of practica
trade instructors"
A CHESTER SHIP COMPANY employ,
offers the following formula to help all ship
workers to figure how much back pay Il
coming to them: Take the first thre,
figures of your automobile license "a do,
license will do just as WELD and add It t
the size Of your shoes then subtract from
It the buttons on your last summers suit
divide this by the size of your collar. ed
this to the amount OF your unpaid taxes an,
laundry bills tcXcept overall and jumper)
and then divide this by 80 per cent of ycu
telephone fumber Next. add the tota
weight Of your whole family plus YOU
serial number in the draft. divided by a
the speeches You have heard on increase
. exactly where you stand WITH the cashier.
IT TICKLES SIDNEY HAMBURGER, @
the New Jersey plate and angle shop a
Ta1fTts' punchins $500 holes in " ten hours When
, has gone as high as 1000 in the sam
length of time. "Bilr' Wild and job
Sapo of the same shop. also, find som
amusement in such notices. for they declar
, for them to punch $500 holes.
FRED BRANEDENBERG was the maj
u Several men at the Merchants shipyard q
$ Hartman claim the honor OF having hoiste
Gently. Somehow BrandenburG's name wa
: left out of the affair and he wishes to 81
, straight. He's the man who did It, he say
! The toolmen have been watching ever sint
t the flag raising for an excuse to mai
Henry Schmidt shin up the fagpole, Hen,
. | who is an ex-navy man, tied all the kno
l | according to naval rules and regulations ar
I was so sure they would stick that he offere
to climb the pole dozen times II sing
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