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seem clumsy work In this kind of
machine-tooling there is a require
ment for precision comparable only
to that of laboratory of physics.
Women, with their deftness and
patience, are superlatively good at it.
Clayton R. Burt, president of the
company, has been busy with such
details of precision for more than
40 years He knows the variables
of steel and seasons" it in the open,
SO 1t will stay put, before he sub
mlts 1t to the microscopic findings
OF his gauges. Human and political
variables are less measurable.
Mr.. Burt is asking for more pre-
cision in the Governments plans. He
| thinks there should be a proper
analysis of defense requirements"
He wants definite program and.
statement of the order of i'm.
portance for deliveries"
Had World War Post.
Mr.. Burt is former president Of
the National Machine Tool Builders
Association and is now chairman
OF its Defense Committee. He is
one Of many reminders that, in the
field of industrial defense personnel,
and administrative and technical
sklIls, this country is richly endowed.
From 1914 to 1919 he supervised the
manufacture of munitions for
Britain and the United States of
/ America at Toronto, Canada.
Sixty-six years old, a native Of
Lynn, Mass, he has spent his adult
life in -tooling work, or
| allied industries. Soon after his
graduation from the st. Johnsburv
(Vt0 Academy he was apprenticed as
a machinist in a Providence (R. -
plant. He was advanced to executive
posts in several machine-tooling
and munitions companies. including
the presidency of the Pratt & Whit.
ney Co. of Hartford.
He makes it clear that the tool.
builders are all set and "rarin' to
CO. if the Government will Just
make up its mind what it wants
and when.
MargessOn Is Like Farley.
Tall handsome. elegant Capt,
David Margesson, who becomes
Britaln's war secretary. to succeed
Anthony Eden. frequently has been
called the Jim Farley of the British
Conservative party"
AS the party whip since November.
| 1884. he has disclosed extraordinary
political finesSee as an ally of the
late Mr.. Chamberlain, and strategist
for the still dominant Conservative
group in Parliament. He has been
In Parliament since 1922.
In 1916 he married Frances Leg.
gett, daughter of the late Francis II.
Leggett of New York, and divorced
her last June. They have two
daughters. Years ago, "iust as
lark" he worked for a few months
IN Chicago department store. He
was educated at Harrow and Cam
bridge and fought with the 18th
Hussars in the World War. He is
famed as cricketer and tennis player.
Song War" Truce Seen.
We dare not sing the old songs
we sang long years ago. The alpha
betical tangle between the A. S. C. A.
P. and the radio possibly becomes
due for adjustment before the New
Year deadline. Prof. Douglas
Moore, heading a committee of 10
educators, is out in front, asking
song lovers to back it in its appeal
to the Federal Communication Com
mission to straighten things out.
There seems to be hope for an
armistice
Prof. Moore was appointed execu-
tive officer of the music department
of Columbia last August. He is a
distinguished composer, a pioneer Of
the American idiom in music and a
bachelor of music of Yale Univers-
ity of the class of 1917. He is
native of Cutchogue, Long Island
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