The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 1, No. 13 (December 2, 1912)

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'ren years o i f:litlifill serviee is one
to be l'roud of, arid wlie,1 it i».capped
ivitli a re•·ord of Iievel' having a ser-ioits
breakcloFT'n of the inaellinery in
,•011 r ellarge, you eoillil wear a size ten
Ii:it :ixid no one wozild sub' a word. Such '
:i record • belongs to 11-r/. H. Garman,
4,11ief engineer of tlie ( loodyear power
I )]ailt, and lie doesti 't rrear a ilizillber
ten liat, eitlier.
After the plll('e liad gone begging for
4·igliteen itiontlls, 1\ir. Gui·ilian came on
tlie job ilist tell .yeai's ago last August,
:ind lias been liere ever sinee. Away
1,ack in a diiii distatit past, shrouded in
tlie mists of lio:irb' ailtiqilitb", M,. Gar-
111:111 first sair tlie liglit of.day in Wayne,
Coltilty, near Dalton, Ohio. A sturdy
(:011 litry bob*% lie eiijob'e,1 1111 the pleas-lir('
S ilricl Sort'O,VS tliiit *·oinitionly f:ill to
" 1(,t. fle werit to tlie coriti' ry
• iii 1%'iliter litid iIi slinlilier liel ( l
·i ii: he• 1,layed • • hoolc•' "
'11 i lig Wileit he sliozil(1
corn ; * • swiped "
H. H. GARMAN
THEWINGFOOTCLAN
DINNER FOR 750
OFFICE FORCE FEAST
OPENING NEW G. 0. RESTAURANT
C'elei'3. Queen Olives
Chielten Consomme
Broiled IIalibut Steak, Maitre de Hotel
Potato Chips
Roast Bdef Tenderloin with Mushrooms
G reen Peas Mashed Potatoes
FIend Lettuce Salild
Orange Ice Crearn
CofFee Cake Fruit
Candy
On the evening of December 7th the
spacious fifth floor of the new' general
oilice will be the scene of a long-to-be
remernbefed banquet. Seven hundred
and fiftyiof- the employees- of-the-Good--
year will be fed to over•owing-as may
1 1 be readily surmised from the foregoing
:ilid waterilieloils and lived the zisual
happy-go-lucky care-free ·life of the
country boy. But one can not ''always
r•lin a youth, and the time came for
h irn to go out into the Tvorld to battle
ior himself and seek his fortune.
His first position was tending the
boilers and pumps at a one-horse coal
mine, seventeen  0n3l6iles from nowhere,
and here he stayedt froill five o 'clock iin
the evening untir six in the morning,
never seeing a soul save the night
Lvatehman and the inspector who en-tered
the mine iit. four o'clock in the
inop«ing. Tiring of the lonesome work
h e came to Akron twenty-three years
ago and secured work grinding clay at
a local pottery. 'rhe love of machinery
had, however, takdn posession. of him
so that he soon looked bout for. a
liosition in an eligine r in. . Eyer since
he has stayed with e engines. For
71 ine y,ears he worked for the.B. F.
Goodrich Company and then for two
Bears with the N. 0. T. & L. Company.
Since 1902 he has been with the
Goodyear.
About fifteen years ago he enrolled '
in a correspondence school for a com-idete
course in Htationary engineering.
'1'his was at 'tliat time n neiv · type of
sc,hool, having been started but a year
or two before. Mr. Garman says, ':I
h:ive many times been nsk6d what I
tliought of this style of schools and
Tvhat you could learn through them. I
only know th fit when T .started the
•:ourse I thought I knew about alI there
zvas to know about engineering; before
1/ienti.
For soine tillie tlie inanagement has
1,een considering ways and means of
oI,ening the new General Office lunch
roorn in an appropriate manner; and
li:is, at last, deeided upon a banquet to
tlie office employees. By utilizing the
t wo rest rooms upon the fifth floor, 750
i,titployees can be seated at the same
tiine. The rooms are all furnished in
ritission oak, and will be decorated with
i,otted plants and the Goodyear colors,
1,1 tie and white. An orchestra will pro-*
ride music for the evening.
R. 0. Huffman, the chef, will have
charge of the culinary end of the affair,
and that it is in competent hands goes
;vithout saying. A fine program of
speeches and toasts is also being ar-ranged.
Monday, December 2, 1912
Girls' iii,rvartmrut
CONVICTIONS
Wliell all opinion · has been serutin-i
ze<1 froni e,dry side and sized up from
every angle, tlien it becomes a convic-tion.
Stielc to it!
For ive :ire apt to eliange our opinion
to eoincide wrth the girl's td' whom we
are talking; the next girl thinks diEer-ently;
and ( after we talk a while to
her ) so do we; a third-girl takes still
another view' of>.the matter, and,itis 9
not long bet'ore we see things her #vay-ilg,rf
-and not much longer before' we ·
tremble lest tliese tliree girls get to.
gother-and label us untruthful, unre-liable
:.nd not dependable.
It is our convictions not our opinions
which make up a recommendation for
a liigher place in life.
-Elsie Heck. 1
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A ineeting WllicA will be of great
iIiterest to :111 young women will be
held at the Grand Theatre on Sunday
afternoon, December * Ist, at three
0'eloek. AIiss Sara Wray, of New
York City, a woman of wide experience
and of great force and personality,
will giz'e her interesting and inspiring
lecture on 4 4 Tlie Lights and Shadows
of a Great City. " Mrs. F. A. Seiber:
ling will sing at the meeting and music
zvill be furnislied by Welling's Orehes-tra.
The regular business meetirig of the
Goodyear Braneli will be held at tlie
In order to serve such a large number Y. W. C. A. oii JIonday evenin(r De- el
of·persons preparations will have to'be (:ember 9th.
Illade several days ahead of time. In 1
addition to the regular staff of nine, Departinent No. 6 is enjoying a
there will be eight extra men· in th6 period of rapid growth and expansion.
1citelien and forty-five or fifty waiters. There are now in this department about
-- --- forty Iiiore girls than usual and nearly
t
and out how little he really does know. " • twenty five more than at any previous
When Mr. Garidan first came to the I time. The growth has been so great
Goodyear the power plant consisted of I that fifteen of the girls who made the
a 500 h. p. Hamilton engine; since then I patelies and spi*eaders . were recently
he has seen it grow to nearly fourteen | givell new qliartors in• the old cereal
times that capacity and •tren the addi- • tilill purchased bs the Company a short
tions that are being made are < •om- i time ago. This change made room for
pleted it will develop over 9,000 horse ' iiiore tables .in the department and will
power. In the ten years that he has permit an increase of approximately
been here he has made inany friends 1,000 inner tubes a day. *.
all over the factory, and the easiest
way to recognize him is by the big, It is understood that the Britisli Prirrie
black cigar stuck in the corner of a Minister looks under. his bed every night
cheerful grin. Most chief engineers in to see if there is a sufTraget ltiiding there.
a plant of this size would be content
to wear white eollars and give out He elasped her to his breast and ran
orders from behind a desk. . Not so Straight to the train-a stirring scene,
with Mr. Garman, you always see him He was a poor suburban man,
with his overalls on, ready to Jump in And she, the maid
wherever necessary and show how to That sat displayed
do it, no matter how disagreeable the Upon the eor'er of a magazine.
work. · That this policy has not  c03o6st
him any popularity may be seen from A woriian eaii go into tlie biggest de-tlie.
fact that, one of the charter mem- .partment store on tlie face of the earth
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bors of the Goodyear Relief Ass.ocia- and ask for *soiitetli izig tliat tbey
tion, he has been the first and only 11:lven 't got ivithollt 11:ilt' trying.
president of that organization; and
under his administration it has grown
from I less than one hundred to nearly
a thousand members. I.
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DOWN ON THE FARM
Ah, that dinn 254Ar!nd the others like
them that Aunt Debbie and Cousin
Afate cooked.and served! The yellow
leg pullets fried with a crisp sheathing
of · cornmeal, the heaps of smoking
bakea pertaters-ouch ! You had to
'leggo o' that one pretty· quick; nearly
burned your fingers · off-the Bpareribs
and hickory.smoke.cured ham, the hot
eornbread and new head cheese, the
green tomatter pickle, the golden-drip-
T was half way through, I became aware • ping comb honey, some of which went
t hat I had only a foot-hold on the bot. • down your sleeve if ypu didn't watch
tom of the ladder, and bver since then, J out, and-oh, never mindi I'm hungry
tholigh I have,lieen constantly climbing, l enough now as it is.
' I nt,1 far froin-·lcnowing all that there 18 1
1.0 1<now nholit ellgines. I eertainly I Because yori have done it.for forty
zvoxild advise a foiing man to ttike a 1 3'ears is I'robably the best reason for
•·otirse, if for no other reason than to I changing your inethod. 4
NIGHTINGALES
A movement is on foot among the
girls of the various departments of the
fat:tory, to organize a glee club and if
possible ali orchestra. To this purpose
a meeting was held in the new Employ-ment
Office Saturday noon and marked
enthusiasm was shown.
There is no reason why an organiza-tion
of this..kind. should not be ef-feet
d. Out of the large ndmber of
s employed here, it should be possi-ble
to find eighteen or twenty girls
who have the musical talent to make
the thing worth while. It is not neces-sary
to be a grand opera singer in orr
der to make .;the thing a success; all
tliat is required is a slight knowledge
of reading music and a willin•ness .to
try. So if you have these qualifica-tioiis,
hand in your name at once, either
to ·Miss Ella Brunswick of Department
No. 22, or to Miss Lillie Murphy of
Department No. 6, who will look after
the club until an organization can be
perfected.
The advantag-e of a glee club may be
readily seen. A competent direkitor
. eould be obtained and no one would
ever regret the time and trouble spent
in rehearsals. It goes without saying
tliat by joinihg you will let ·yourself
in for both pleasure and profit, will be-come
better acquainted-witlribrour fel-low
employees, and gain much that is'of
T-alue, socially: and inusically, to girls.
AT THE SIGN OF THE SMILE
\Ve 're weary a-walking the highway of
life;
I\'e 're fretted .and·iluttered with worry
and strife,
Let us drop by the wayside the heavy
old load,
A 11 d rest at the inn at . the turn of the
road-·
Let us tarry awhile .
At 4 4 The Sign of the Smile."-
Let us tarry awhile at 4 4 The •Sign 02
the Smile"-
Forget all our griefs in the joys that
beguile; 4<.4 '. . 1 4 .../: 00"!.*,r- . .
Let us pleasure the noon till it changes
to night,
Then up with our loads and we'll End"
they are light-
Let us tarry awhile
- At 4 4 The Sign of the Smile. "
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After a man grows up he can never
understand how he could have been so
afraid of a woman school teacher.
A leol,ard cannot change his spots,
1,lit A i'rectl•led girl ean.
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