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Building
Cantonments
with Disston Saws

Where hours press, where every sweep of the saw must count, the experienced carpenter rightly depends upon Disston

Saws.

That is why you would have found Disston saws in the hands of about three out of every four carpenters who built the cantonments for the National Army.

Disston cross-cut saws have felled and bucked much of the pine, fir, spruce and hemlock for the 16 great army cities. Great power-driven Disston circular and band saws figured largely in milling it into proper lengths.

Every Disston saw embodies precisely the design, hang, temper, rigidity, pitch,

set and polish, that help produce the best work. You will save much muscle-taxing labor by sawing with the easy-cutting, well-tempered Disston hand-saw Disston saws and tools are made from the highest grade of crucible steel, made in the Disston Plant, under Disston direction. So well-ground is the Disston steel in Disston saws that the need of setting is reduced to the minimum.

When you buy your next saw, follow the example of experts, and get a Disston. Send today for the Disston Handbook of Saws. Disston saws and tools are sold by all progressive hardware dealers in your vicinity.

DISSTON

DISSTON FILES are as famous for quality and performance as Disston Saws.
We manufacture all our files from the best quality File Steel, made in our own
steel works. We use more than 35,000 dozen Disston Files annually in our own
shops Every Disston file is marked with the name "Disston." Ask your dealer

HENRY DISSTON & SONS, Inc., Philadelphia, U. S. A.

Canadian Works: Toronto, Canada

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THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRA-
TION asks you to get behind our soldiers, sailors and asso-
ciates by sending them now the most food possible in the
least shipping space.
Every man, woman and child in
America can help by eating less wheat, beef, pork, fats and
sugar, more of other plentiful foods which cannot be shipped,
and by avoiding waste.

EAT PLENTY, WISELY, WITHOUT WASTE,

AND HELP WIN THE WAR

Reprint from material furnished by the

UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

HELP WANTED

Good, responsible man, to file, take care of and operate 4-inch

and 6-inch Band Resaws.

Permanent employment for right man.

THE KEYSTONE LUMBER Co., PGH..

Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Our Davie of Seattle, poking fun at us, sends this in as "A MODERN SAWMILL IN PENNSYLVANIA." Thus do our children spring up and away and seemingly think they have outgrown us. It won't astonish us a bit, Dave, if you tell us that in Seattle you attach a Disston Circular Saw to a flying machine and saw down forests as you swoop along. Once we had that same youthful enthusiasm, too, about reaching the stars. But it's a funny cartoon just the same, David.

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I want to give the factory an idea how the 12-inch band saws that you are putting out at the present time stand up. I have spent twelve years in the filing-room steady putting up saws for all kinds of wood, hard wood and soft. This is the first winter in this country that the filers have had frozen timber cut as I remember. I used to have lots of it in the State of West Virginia, and it was no stranger to me, and glad to say I had my filing-room supplied with Disston best-grade band saws, and we made our regular cut every day during the freeze without any trouble whatever. The North Carolina pine, when frozen, is the hardest timber I have ever tried, and as the company timber is loaded on barges and has to be towed a long distance of 40 or 50 miles on water, they are never in the water long when dumped at the mill. These logs were some hard, believe me, but not too hard for a Disston saw when in shape. I am proud to say that in all the freeze I did not lose a corner and haven't in a long while on account of the saw steel.

Some few days ago I was working a saw at the bench wher the bell rang for me to go down stairs, as my fitting-room is overhead. I went down to see if my saws had jumped off the mill or run in the head block or killed a man. The bell rang so long I just knew something great had happened, but, to my surprise, they were taking the saw off, getting ready to send it up stairs. The sawyer said she was ruined. I know they showed me a log dog that she had split from one end to the other, which length was about 9 inches, width 1⁄2 inch.

When the saw was placed on the grinder, I found one tooth gone, and one light swaging and grinding put her in shape for her next trip. Now that is all I can say for the Disston saws. They are more than better than any saw I have ever used. They have no equal.

I hope the man who tempers them can read this letter. I would love to shake his hand, for, believe me, a good tempered saw is the mainstay of a filing-room. If this is worth publishing in your little pamphlet, do so. If not, throw it in your waste basket. I expect to send you the picture of my filing-room socn.

Yours truly,

A Friend of the Disston,

G. L. LITCHFIELD,

C/o Dare Lbr. Co.,

P. O. Box 407,

Elizabeth City, N. C.

"MY REGGAMENT"

Had a major wus a loyer and a lute that wuz a bloke,
Wat toted dynamite around and blew bridges up in smoke;

The captains they was "L" road guards an' football stars, an' such,
As peddled real estate to boobs that never would know much;
An' the curnel, he came from the Point an' later was a scribe,
An' the band conductor he cum from some wild Egyptian tribe;
The adjutant raised dogs and hell, and knew the latest fads
In wimmins linjerie and stuff from writin' all their ads.
An' then the lutes were everything from movie stars to mayor,
An' three cum from the reglers an' two o' them wuz fair.
The personnel was rah rah boys an' lots of other guys
Like what hang around election time to vote agin the drys;
An' sum was travelin' salesmen, an' sum wuz poolroom sharks,
An' sum just saved their room rent by sleeping in the parks,
An' sum was he-stenographers, a few wuz engineers,
A lot was foot rail polishers an' free lunch conisseers;
Sum slung hash and biskits, an' them not broke wuz bent,
But take 'em all together, they're a damn fine reggament.

(Written by an American officer now serving in France.) Reprinted from the May Issue of National Service.

A CURIOUS ACCIDENT

E. L.

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To the wearing of these eyeglasses, Mr. Morehouse, of the Northern Woodenware Company, Island Falls, Me., owes the fact that he still retains his eyesight.

Melting a ladle of babbit metal at a forge, he picked up another bar of metal to add to the quantity already molten, and this either had a piece of ice clinging to it or had been wet in some way. At any rate, when put in the ladle the lot exploded, burning Mr. Morehouse considerably, but owing to the glasses, his eyes were uninjured.

The illustration shows how the glasses were splattered with the hot metal and the great protection they afforded.

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