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PHILIP WAIN. EDITOR JANUARY H> ESTABLISHED \ Maintenance Is Booming TWO cats could not agree on fair division of a tasty cheese. "Lot's go to the monkey," said one, "He is all-wise and can divide our cheese fairly." So to the monkey they went. The monkey immediately broke the cheese evenly and judicially put the two pieces on the pans of his balance. But one was slightly heavier. He shrewdly nibbled that piece a bit and put it back on the scales. Now it was the lighter piece. So he bit off some of the other piece only to find it the lighter. Thus while the two hungry cats watched, the monkey kept taking bites of the cheese, first one piece, then the other, until finally the cheese had almost disappeared. "What's left Is too small to divide," sagely pro nounced the monkey, as he popped the remaining fragments into his mouth. Observers of the American scene see a,direct! parallel between the record of federal taxational and this ancient parable of the trusting cats, thejl greedy monkey and the cheese. Business and the! individual citizen hove been content to trust! government to rule on the disposition of their! earnings. And Uncle Sam keeps taking bite afterjl bite out of the shares of both individual citizen! and business. it Already government bites are so large as to* severely penalize .citizens and business alikM If allowed to continue, it will seriously impede^ further Industrial progress and growth, stifle^ initiative and threaten the strength of our freej enterprise system. Beware the day--goal of the? sociolists among us--when the monkey sayM "What's left is too small to divide." 1 .i n TUB week ol January 19, Cleveland will welcome ihe As our readers are well aware. Power has been I fourth annual Plant Maintenance Show and Confer hammering away at practical maintenance for nearly ence. Lost year's in Philadelphia set a world record, yet three-quarters of a century. Every month how our Plant the 1953 Show and Conference will be bigger and better Operation and Maintenance Section carries many articles in every wpy. Number of exhibitors will grow from 276 and items showing better ways to maintain all kinds of to over 300,' Conference registration from 2000 to 2500, and.total attendance at Conference and Show from 14,000 to. 16,000. This year there will be 61 conference sessions power equipment. And this month, to tie in still closer with the Show and Conference, every article in (his sec tion is focused on some practical maintenance' problem. plus the banquet Starling on page 103, you will find a great variety of The general conference sessions, in particular, are an useful methods and suggestions: Coating condenser tubes smasing demonstration of industry's practical concern and pump impellers with neoprene to cut corrosion-- with maintenance. Last year 2000 engineers sat down revamping a feedwater system--a better way to remove together in one session to discuss lubrication. And 2000 sludge from fuel-oil tanks--on amusingly ingenious way gathered again to debate preventive maintenance. to regrind a sprung diesel crankshaft in place--how to These are startling etatistics. Yet it now seems likely that some of the individual sessions at Cleveland this year will bring together as many as 2S00 engineers who are vitally concerned with doing a better maintenance job. Nothing like this Iias ever happened before. For this booming evidence of interest in maintenance there are many reason*. One is the fact that mainte nance men ore si Inst finding a time and place to get together. Another la the present inflated hourly cost of maintenance labor. Still others are the growing com plexity of industrial machinery and the increasing insistence on reliability and on continuous operation. tell just when to overhaul a pump--how to ground portable electricol tools--tips that will get you out of tight spots with electrical equipment--maintenance tips for refrigeration--check list for the maintenance of heat ing systems (steam, hot woter, hot air)--and many other maintenance ideas in the regular departments. Yet, all in all, this is just a little more than our usual monthly diet of maintenance material, for as we said at the start, Power's interest in this subject is continuous. Telling the story of practical maintenance is a year-round job for an editorial team broadly experienced in every phase of power-service generation end opplication. The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company General Offices-Youngstown 1, Ohio Export Oflices-500 Filth Avenue. New York MANUFACTURERS OF CARBON ALLOY AND YOLOY STEELS j 1 j ; RAILROAD TRACK SPIKES . CONDUIT . HOT AND COLD FINISHED CARBON AND ALLOY BARS . PIPS AND TUBULAR PRODUCTS - WIRE . ELECTROLYTIC TIN PLATE . COKE TIN PLATE .' RODS . SHEETS . PLATES. ' i U POWRR JANUARY JANUARY 1953 A&S evfl- 67