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an immense milling- machine that turns out the material 

 fashioned in the desired shape for grinders to smooth the 

 rough edges, while the workman looks on at the several ma- 

 chines doing the work, ready when occasion demands to lend a 

 helping hand. In many of the larger American plants, there 

 are automatic machines for making nuts, screws, bolts, and va- 

 rious other necessary parts, that are merely fed with metal and 

 do the work without any attention or direction from the man 

 who watches over them, merely ringing a bell to call his atten- 

 tion when more raw material is needed. 



Nowadays the world moves more rapidly than ever before. 

 Nations are willing to pay large prices for bridges, railways, 

 and machine shops that can be delivered and erected quickly. 

 Orders will continue to be placed with those who can turn out 

 satisfactory v/ork most rapidly. America has demonstrated 

 her al^ility to accomplish every kind of skilled work more 

 speedily and more cheaply than any other nation. Her ideas 

 are original, and while the fight for their recognition abroad 

 still goes on, the fact remains that the world turns to America 

 for almost every manufactured commodity known to com- 

 merce. 



That part of this continent known as the United States 

 has becomes the workshop of the world. What matters the 

 protest of the old countries against the introduction of our 

 system abroad? Already thorough and complete— mother 

 earth turns to us for the improvements that help her to go 

 round the faster. 



The vast and seemingly limitless resources of America 

 make her prominently the land of promise for all time, and 

 when to this is added the intelligent, almost divinely inspired 

 population we possess, always ready to keep both brawn and 

 brain in perfect working condition by constant exercise from 

 the moment our little men begin their march toward the public 

 schools to the day they reluctantly lay down the tools of their 

 chosen craft to enjoy eternal rest — can such a country produce 

 any other than a race of master workmen? The superiority 

 and finally world wide triumph of the American idea is in- 

 evitable and must last until a younger and greater nation is 

 l3om, grows, and attams its vigorous majority. 



Vol. 7—14 



