Milford chronicle., 1932-03-25
NOBODY LOAFS IN
MANUALCLASSES
Jobs Required Of All Pu-
pills In The Course

Week after week our editor has
been sending boys down to the man
ual training department to get a
story on the activities going on
there, and invariably these suppos-
edly bright-eyed people have come
back saying, give me something
else to do, for there is nothing to see
down there" Nothing to see!" we
groan. So this week a Sirl who was
credited with having some imagina-
tiOn (myselD was put on the job.
Suppose that you were a taXpay-
er wondering what the school board
did with your money; suppose you
were a fond parent who wondered
why your child didn't like all his
lessons as well as manual training;
suppose that you were a boy think
ing of taking the course; suppose
you were a carpenter or cabinet
maker looking for an apprentice;
suppose anything-but for goodness
sakes open your eyes and see what's
going on down in that shOp!" Such
were my instructions.
And this is what l saw. Opening
the door which is in the center of
the shop, l stood for some time
quite unnoticed by Mr.. McGee and
the fourteen or fifteen boys. Every
body was so very busy that pressed
close to the wall in an attempt to
become as incOnspicuous as possible
for suddenly was seized with the
notion that just as soon as 1 Tor
anybody else) was caught standing
idle there would be paint brush,
plane, a hammer or something
thrus into my hands. And what
would l "a mere girD do with any
of those mysterious looking tools"
AS leaned against the wall, 1 no
ticed a bulletin board at my left.
Slipping along sOftly-althOugh why
/ don't know, for the place was
NOISY with the sounds that signified
work being done-I got ih position
to investigate and find out what on
earth would be on the bulletin
board of mechanical arts shop. The
first thing that caught my eye was
a very important typewriter list of
seventy-seven items. As l scanned
the page / found that most of the
words I knew to be everyday Eng
lish terms, except for some like da-
do, rabbet, bradawl, and chamfer,
which were Greek to ne, yet the
whole was more or less unintelli-
gible to meh Just then Mr.. McGee,
the instructor, appeared at my side
to ask if l wanted any particular in
formation. "Yes," l said, what is
this list?" "a work sheet, or outline
of ground to be covered" he explain
ed.
1t seems that all of the items on
the list are things that the all round
boy should know how to do. Fifteen
of the proposed jobs must be done
satisfactorily each month.
This was the list:
Read working drawing.
Make out bill of material.
3-Plan the procedure in doing
given job
4-Check material when received.
5-Use rule in measuring and di-
Viding spaces.
Clay out pattern on stock.
7--Check the layout.
S-Use dividers, or compass. for
laying out curves and dividing
spaces.
9-Gauge with a pencil.
1O-Gauge with a marking-gauge.
ll-Use try-square for testing.
l2-Use try-square for laying out
square cuts.
13-Adjust a jack plane or a smooth
plane.
l4-Adjust block plane.
15-Plane a surface true.
lG-Plane an edge square with an
adjoining surface.
l7-Plane end grain.
l8-Square up board.
19-Saw to a line with crOsscut or
rip saw.
2O-Use back saw.
21-Use a coping saw for inside or
outside curves.
22-Use a compass saw.
23-Use a turning saw.
24-Round edges.
25-Finish outside curves.
inside curves.
27-Drill holes with an auger bit.
holes.
29-BOre holes with an auger bit.
3O-Fasten with screws.
31-Use bradawl for making holes |
for screws or nails.
or pare with chisel.
a gouge for gouge work.
a scTaper.
35-Use sandpaper properly.
36-Use a wood rasp for shaping |
ends, edges. and curves.
37-Drive and draw nails.
32--Spf a nail OT brad