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''Tramp Iron" 



Prior to the smelting and refining of certain materials a device is 

 used to remove what is known as "tramp iron" — bits of scrap, nuts, 

 broken bolts, rusty washers, nails, all the wandering riffraff of machinery, 

 that comes from no one knows where. If it should remain, it would, 

 at the best, lessen the purity of the finished product; at the worst, it 

 would do irreparable damage. 



To extract all this harmful foreign matter, simply and thoroughly, 

 requires — merely a magnet in the right spot. Placed above the crusher 

 feed it draws aside all the dangerous bits of metal and drops them into 

 the scrap heap where they belong. 



In the process of every human institution and of every mind, there 

 is "tramp iron." Its effects are the slowing up of business, errors, 

 human explosions; at the best, waste — at the worst, disaster; and the 

 remedy is as simple as a magnet. It is the use of a mechanism with 

 which we are all equipped. The human will, given its chance to control, 

 can eliminate the "tramp iron" in our characters and in our daily work. 

 Give it its opportunity to "pull," and the tricks of thought and action, 

 all the trifling bad habits that lessen the value of our finished product, 

 will promptly and automatically go where they belong — into the scrap 

 heap. 



A great capitalist and business man — Andrew Carnegie — v,'SiS 

 recently asked what he considered to be the most important factor in 

 modern industrial life, the contribution of labor, of capital, or of brains. 

 He answered the question with another: "Which is the most important 

 leg of a three-legged stool?" 



Reprinted by courtesy of The Guaranty Xews. 



THE NEWS 



The Swedish scientific expedition to Canada and the United States, 

 composed of Baron de Geer, his wife and two other of his most ex- 

 perienced assistants, Drs. Ernst Antevs and Ragnar Lidcn, was con- 

 ducted through the Museum by President Osborn shortly after their 

 arrival in this citv. 



