New Britain herald., 1924-02-04

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 day they are showing the same spiri,
 that they show in the Stanley Works
 and that is the spirit of making nc
 difference between the management
 and the employees. They try to do
 away with the distinction between the
 management and the men at the desk | or bench or machine, and they have done a wonderful work. There is a
 great spirit of loyalty and cooperation
 in the Stanley Works; you can see it
 all through. If they want to do a thing they seem to be able to get to- gether and do it. There's that spleR-
 did spirit. One man said. Its the
 kind of place I would like to have my
 son work
 Now I started on my first build ing. My guide took me a mile or two up the track-I thought we were
 going to Plainville. I warned him he
 must not take me out of town. Af-
 ter we had gotten away up there he
 showed me on the right was the building where the new machinery
 was made. He said, I don't know
 whether we can get in or not: they
 don't usually let people in there l said Who's at the head of it?' He
 said, MT. Doolittle.' I said, If you
 ever get me over there we will get in, he's my Sunday school superintend- ent.' And sure enough we got in, and I thought I'd gotten into Methodist
 class room. All the men l knew. l went in there and saw something very
 interesting. These men were mak- ing new machinery to fit any special need They send up to these men
 and they make new machine to fit
 new need-create it. What a glor- ious thing that must be to a man.
 He's created something, constructed
 something to meet a need-nothing like it in the world.
 "Then we went up and saw this process in cold rolled steel They told me that the principal thing they
 make is hinges and butts. When we got outside I said to Fred CWooster)
 am going to confess my ignorance
 to you right now: I don't know the difference between a hinge and butt; don't really know. What is the diff ference? Why he said, a hinge is is; why yes, a butt's--a butt is Why yes, I'll show you directly So we went along and when we got down to his room where they are making all kinds of buckles and bolts, etc, while Fred was in the office there I spoke to his foreman: Really I don't know the difference between a hinge and a butt He pointed out two there on a box and said that's hinge and this is butt But I said. Whats the difference? We'll he said, that's on the outside of the box and this is on the inside Fred was inside listening because he wanted to know what the difference was himself. and by that time he rushed out with a catalogue and showed me that's a hinge and this is a butt
 "The next man I came to was Mir. Wainright, who is scared to death now because he knows I'm going to tell this on him. He stood up while ago and said he had been there 35 years, and when I got rid of Fred l said, MT. wainright do you know the dif- ference between a hinge and a butt, and will you tell me the differenceY Now he said. a hinge--a hinge is on the outside and is n long strap hinge, and a butt is on the inside and it is sawed off Then Fred rushed out with his catalogue again, and they had an argument The only thing l wanted to know was what is butt. I had a billy goat once and I knew what that kind of a butt was. l saw that nobody in Stanley Works knew the difference Between a butt and . ! hinge l went over to Waterbury and | asked man, Whats the difference | between a hinge and a butt?' and he 1 spent the rest Of the noon explaining | lt to me and do not know yet. I i went home and got a dictionary, and | that said that butt is sawed-off | hinge. It is called butt because it l fits into the edge of the door and butts | into the easing and that's the reason it | Is called a butt. But l don't think it | Is: but, anyway, that's what he said. | It's calleR butt because it fits into | the easing, that's what the dictionary | said; but probably the man who wrote | it never worked up at the Stanley | Works. As near as l can tell there Is | no difference between a hinge and a | butt.
 T noticed in studying the hinges | of Bible times and the old Dutch pe- riod in America. In Bible times they | had old doors that swung with pro- iecting thing that fitted into $ groove, and then, also. sometimes they had