June 10. 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



29 





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Dear Jim: 



Well, Jim, I got your letter and was glad to hear from 

 you. It's another rainy Sunday and 1 will try to ans your 

 letter. You will notice some improvement in my spelling 

 caws I got me a dictionary and look up lots of words. 

 I wood look up evry one only 

 I wood be all day writing a 

 page. Tell Min she can mind 

 her own bizness and I can go 

 with any girl I want to. She 

 dont have to make any in- 

 sultin remarks just becaws a 

 girl works in a city and puts 

 powder on her face and lets 

 a feller pick her up. Where 

 does Min get that stuff any 

 how? Taint such a heluva- 

 iong time since she made 

 pickups herself, and the last 

 time I saw her she had a 

 shamis skin rag that she used 

 pretty often. Sues one queen 

 of a girl and I see her evry 

 time I get a chance and write 

 a couple a times a week. We 

 got so we dont go to dances 

 no more. She says a movie 

 is a good place to go, and 

 she helps me to talk right and 

 spell and I dont get sore caws 

 a guy otter try to know some- 

 thing. We spent the 4th of '^- 

 July over in the sand dunes 

 a ways out of Chicago and had a grate day 

 going to tell you any more about my girl, 

 may be youll see her. 



Well Jim, I dont know if I can help you out or not. 

 ^'ou say theres lots of trubel in the finishing room that 

 they are trying to shove onto you, and I gets a letter 

 from Steve Murray saying the old man is jumping him 

 for rotten work that he knows he isnt to blame for, and 

 from what I can get from the letters both of you is redy 

 to lick the daylites out of the other on site. Looks to me 

 like neither of you got the sense you was born with. If 

 you had youd be loving each other like me and my gal 

 instead of working up to a fitte. You dont find me an 

 Phil Johnson scrappin none. When one has any trubel 

 he talks it over with the other and we get to the bottom 



But I aint 

 Some day 



of it. 



I got the letter from Steve about the time I got yourn 

 and as I git it the trouble is that when goods git to the 

 rubbers the tops show up uneven. Have sort of places 

 like valleys and hills, or are wavey like, and no matter 

 how many coats of varnish 

 are put on the rubbers cant 

 make the tops even. You 

 sed it wasnt your fault and 

 that Tom Briggs the machine 

 room boss swore that he had 

 inspected them after they left 

 the scraper and sander and 

 that they were all rite when 

 they left him. Steve sed they 

 looked all rite when they left 

 the cabinet room and came to 

 the finishing room, and Steve 

 admited that he was stumped 

 becaws neither he or any of 

 the men noticed any depres- 

 sions when they started to 

 finish them. Steve says that 

 the lops look worse with 

 three coats of varnish than 

 with one, yet he knows the 

 varnish is all rite and is put 

 on even and Jim, you can take 

 it from me Steve is a good 

 finisher. 



When I got to thinking 

 over your two letters I recaled 

 some short cuts the old man 

 wondered if he hadnt started 

 some of them on you. So I wrote to Shorty Hayne and 

 asted if you were doing work any different now from 

 when I was boss there, and Shorty wrote that rite soon 

 after I left the old man came around with a new scheme 

 for layin the crossing and face veneer at the same time. 

 Shorty said it was a whale of an idea and you all could 

 do more work in less time, and that Tom Briggs was 

 happy to becaws it cut out the work of sanding the three 

 ply stuff before the face veneers were put on. And Jim, 

 when I read that I thought that the whole bunch of you 

 would be half wited if you had a little more brains. 



The old man is progressive, but he wants to be to 

 progressive about some things. He goes to lots of fac- 

 tories and sees them doing things faster that in his place 



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