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IEPTEMBER MORNJ

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C O N T E N T S

Our Light So Shines That ItBrightens All Corners 3

Two Anniversaries for EugeneMorrow 9

John Anderson New Manager of Cluh 11

From the Files of Old Journals 12

Departmental Safety Contest Closeswith 11 Perfect 14

Editorial* . 22-23

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A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING CO.DECATUR, ILLINOIS

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OUR L I G H T SO S H I N E ST H A T IT B R I G H T E N S A L L

CORNERS

Looking touard the viailurt. nhich in note a brightly lighted itlleyifay at nil times.

By J. (.. Kl HNS,

For many years it has been realized thatour yard l i - h i i i i L ; was inadequate. There havebeen many compla in t s on account of poorlyl ighted roadways and dark passages betweenbuildings.

Attempts have been made to ameliorate t h i scondit ion, which have consisted mostly of in-stal l ing common incandescent lamps in theworst places and in a few places floodlightshave been installed. The ordinary incandes-cent lamp makes a small br i l l iant spot and ittakes a great many to l ight an area of anysize. A floodlight is of such high intensitythat it must be mounted at a very high posi-tion in order that the projector itself doesnot fal l in the field of v i s ion , b l i nd ing one.

I'ontT Engineer

W i l h high m o u n t i n g much of the intensity islost on account of the distance of the l ightsource from the area to be illuminated. Bothfloodlights and ordinary incandescent lampsare rather ineffective in rain, snow, or fog.

• a new lampLast fall the safety committee called atten-

tion again to the need for adequate yardlighting. About this same t ime our at tent ionhad been directed to the newly introducedsodium vapor luminare, which was developedpr imar i ly for highway l ight ing, and whichon account of its specfal characteristics isextremely well adapted to l i g h t i n g large areaswith comparat ively small power consumption.

/. /•.'. I ndennioil. garden super visor, not only helps the men ichu hare Staley gardens, irithadrii-e, hut he sets them an example. Jnsl to shoir hoit lorely fresh vegetables can be, Mr.I nilernood took these out of his own garden in the Stidey tract one <l/i\ summer. He ishonest though, and admits he did not raise the peppers in one of the baskets. Someone gavethem to him.

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Illustration No. 2. The plaza lights up well noic. The deep shadow at the lejt is shownhere by purposely turning out the lights in that part of the yard.

Illustration No. 3. This shows how well lighted is the portion o/ the plant north of theplaza, which in No. 2, was in darkness.

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One of these uni t s was purchased for experi-mental purposes, principally for an investi-gation to determine whether a row of these onthe viaduct would pierce dense fog sufficientlyto provide a solution for the di f f icul t ies en-countered on the viaduct when steam from thefire dryers hlows across it.

Experiments in a steam-filled room wereconvincing that no lamp could overcome suchextreme conditions satisfactorily and that someother solution would have to be found forthat problem. However, while we had thelamp we decided to try it out for lighting ourroadways. Accordingly it was hung at aboutthirty feet height from the bridge betweenthe packing house and No. 16 building andwe were pleasantly surprised to find that itwould i l luminate the whole width of the road-way between these two buildings from thestarch packing house to the American filterbuilding.

• prove successAs a result of this experiment it was decided

to install a number of these lamps at variouspoints around the plant. We now have fifteenof these sodium luminares installed at strategicpoints around our grounds and the improve-ment is startling. The yard is now well lightedand these lamps have displaced many timestheir number of incandescent lamps which areno longer needed.

• what pictures showIllustration No. 1 shows the area lighted

by one of these lamps hung from the bridgebetween the American filter building and thepacking house. The installation of this unitmade it possible to dispense with the usualstring of 100 watt incandescents around theedge of the new welfare house which shows atthe right of the roadway. This one sodiumvapor lamp lights the roadway from the timeoffice to well past the merco building to thewest. Another unit can be seen under the via-duct which lights the roadway from the timeoffice to the front of the new chemical labora-tory. Directly to the right of the intersectionwhere the camera is placed is hung the unitdescribed previously as our first experimentwith these lamps.

Turning left around the corner of the Ameri-can filter building to the left front of this

photograph, and then facing right you will bein the position of the camera in the next il-lustration, No. 2.

This un i t is hung from a bracket on the southside of the table house and l ights the entireplaza and faces of all the adjacent buildings.To the left front of this photograph you willnotice a dark area. This is not normally darkbut the unit which lights that roadway wasturned off while No. 2 was taken so as todefine sharply the field of lighting of thisparticular unit .

Photograph No. 3 shows the once dark road-way between the machine shop and the tablehouse with illumination from a sodium lumi-nare hung from a bracket on the walls of themachine shop. The photographer secured thisremarkable picture by lowering the awningof the First Aid room so that it hid the unititself from the camera, thus preventing theoverlighted spot which always appears arounda lamp in the field of the lens. You will findupon examination of this picture that youcan pick out innumerable details and thateven the tanks of the feed elevator are sur-prisingly well illuminated in spite of theirdistance from the lamp.

• many advantagesOur experience with these new lamps has

shown their many advantages for this type ofapplication. The effectiveness under adverseweather conditions is especially noteworthyas they have remarkable penetration throughrain and fog. Being able to light a large areawith a single unit simplifies the wiring and al-though the complete fixture is rather expensive,it is much cheaper than the number of fixtureswhich would be necessary with the ordinarytype lamps to give equal lighting effect.

Another advantage is the freedom fromglare, the lamps being mounted high do notcatch the eye as does a low mounted fixture.Then, too, the lamp itself is long and the lightis emitted uniformly from this long tube sothat although an enormous amount of lightis emitted, the intensity at the source iscomparatively low. On account of this freedomfrom glare, the pupil of the eye does notcontract and good visibility is secured withfairly low intensity of illumination. One'sfirst impression is that the area served byone of these lamps is dimly lighted but upon

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observation, it is apparent that everythingis distinctly seen.

• reasons for efficiencyThe high efficiency of these lamps is due

to several factors, among which is high lightemission per watt, which results in severaltimes the candle power being secured for thesame current consumption as compared withan incandescent lamp. Another factor is theefficiency of the reflector surface which is dueto two things. One is the material and finishof which they are made. The reflectors aremade of a luminum with alzak finish—an elec-tro chemical process that gives a coefficientof reflection of more than 809r.

The finish is durable, weather resisting, andeasily maintained at i n i t i a l brightness by wash-ing wi th soap and water. The other is thedesign of the reflector, which is adapted to thecharacteristics of the lamp? so that the specialpattern of light distr ibution desired for high-way l ight ing is obtained and this pattern ispart icularly adapted to our needs.

• monochrome resultsWhile the advantages mentioned above

make th is lamp excellent h>r highway and forarea lighting, do not be misled into thinkingthat it is a solution for all outside l ightingproblems. The characteristic orange yellowsodium vapor l ight, being only one band of thespectrum, renders it worthless for any purposewhere color perception is necessary. Forinstance, the women would probably object ifit were extensively used for street l ighting oraround gasoline filling stations; particularlybecause their cosmetic aids to beauty wouldonly render them more ghastly looking by themonochromatic l ight from the sodium vaporlamp.

This characteristic, which the sodium vaporlamp shares with its mercury vapor relative, isenough to keep it from being used except inplaces where aesthetics do not matter.

However, for an economical method ofl i g h t i n g dark roadways and areas so that ob-structions and s tumbl ing blocks are clearlyshown, they provide an adequate answer.

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This shoirs a small portion of the west yard, taken in daylight. It gives an ideaof the vast area which must be lighted here at night.

Lucile Schulz says she learns over and overwhat queer ideas men have. When AndyNeureuther was planning his wedding tripit sounded so a l l u r i ng that Lucile begged tobe taken along, although she was not the ladywho was planning the altar walk with Andy.But he perversely refused to consider it.

E. C. Larsen, chief engineer, modestlyadmits having caught one fair sized muskiewhile on his vacation in Wisconsin in August.We have known the chief for years but wenever knew before that he spent his vaca-tions fishing. Eventually the fever gets themall, it seems.

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S H E R M A N J O I N S

VETERANS

K. D. Sherman hasbeen with the companyalmost since the firststarch Has shipped.

To say that K. D. Sherman and his job asstarch shipping foreman have grown up to-gether would be wrong. They have been to-gether for almost twenty-five years and theyhave developed, as all worth-while things do,in that time, but Kay practically had hisgrowth when he came to Staley's. In Septem-ber, 1912 when he first started work for thecompany he already was three or more inchesover the six feet which in most men is con-sidered tal l .

He came to the young starch plant fromrailroad offices where he had already had afew years' experience. Because he was fami l ia rw i t h rates and rout ings and the general rout ineof loading and switching cars, he was given ajob as shipping clerk. Since most of the n u t -going shipments from Slaley's at that t imeconsisted of starch he had his desk in thestarch packing bouse. And, although the de-partment has grown and a newer and finerhouse has been b u i l t , he s t i l l has his office inthe starch packing bu i ld ing .

• gone short timeWhen the well remembered shut-down came

along, soon af ter he joined the Staley staff,he stayed on for a while, and when there wasno more work in the shipping department, heworked as a watchman in the plant . Later,for a few months, he worked for a competitor,but as soon as Staley shipments started againhe was back helping start them on their way.

When business was resumed everything wason a larger and growing scale and Kay Sher-man was one of the men who was able to takeup his duties and go on wi th them, keepingpace with the growth and advancing with it.

In almost no t ime at all he had the entirestarch packing and shipping department underhis supervision.

• old tray room

In the old starch packing house this in-cluded a large tray making department, anoisy busy place. Later the tray room wasmoved when this building was out-grown, andnow it is a much smaller department, but hest i l l supervises it. But the starch packing andshipping has grown rapidly in those same years.

The new packing house, to which his de-partment moved a few years ago, is spaciousand clean and quiet , but it is busy and thescene of such a variety of act ivi t ies that onlya man who knows starch packing and ship-ping thoroughly could be expected to under-stand all its ramifications. In this one build-ing starches of all kinds, for both bulk andpackage sales departments, are packed, andfrom it they are all shipped.

• many dutiesThe ta l l quiet man in charge must approve

all containers—bags, barrels, cartons or boxes—he must know that the starch is ready forshipment , and he is responsible for its propershipping. He must sense the pulse of the starchtrade through the country. If a sudden whimfor starch cubes develops he must be readywith cubes and cartons ready for packing andshipping. If the publ ic abrupt ly swings fromdemanding paper-makers starches to thosemade for t ex t i l e mil ls he must be ready to fillthe demands wi thou t long preparation.

Unt i l a long and very serious illness a fewyears ago, Kay's avocation was hunt ing .Every a u t u m n he took a vacation when I l l inoisprairies were the happy hun t ing grounds forquai l and rabbit lovers, and the big gamedinner which he and his wife gave at theclose of the season, was famous. His illnessrather interrupted his bun t ing , but he is betternow, and probably wi l l be back in the fieldsome a u t u m n day—providing the starch busi-ness is not too demanding just at that time.

Dr. K. J. Seulke, Albany, feed nut r i t ionspecialist, and his family, spent their vaca-tion the last of July and first part of August,at a camp in Maine.

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J O H N H A R R I S

D I S T R I C T

MANAGER

John Harris hits recently been nuitle ntrict sttles manager.

John A. Harris, a Staley salesman of manyyears' experience, has recently been promotedto the position of district manager in the Ohio,western Pennsylvania and West Virginia ter-ritory, in the bulk division. He went therefrom North Carolina where he has been forseveral years. Previously he was in Alabama,and before that he was in various other ter-ritories.

John started his Staley career in Decalurand because he worked in the sales office forsome time, is well known to most Staley peoplein Decatur. Because of his wide sales experi-ence he has hundreds of friends throughoutthe territory.

He and Mrs. Harris and their son have al-ready moved to Columbus where they plan tomake their home, and where John will makehis headquarters.

Mrs. Betty Grinstaff , office cafeteria, visitedrelatives in Kentucky for two weeks in August.

Taylor-LentsFrances Taylor and Norman Lents were

married in St. Patrick's Catholic church Aug.11. at 6:30 in the morning. Rev. Kr. Muldoonread the service. The bride wore pink lacewith a Juliet cap and carried an old fashionedbouquet of roses, asters and gladioli. Heronly attendant, Mrs. Harold Lents, wore pinkmarquisette, with a head hand of pink roses.Harold Lents was his brother's best man.

Following the ceremony a wedding break-fast was served in the home of the bride'sparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Taylor. Thebride is a sister of Cecil Taylor, of our ac-coun t ing department. The bridegroom, whoworks in our M. & L. department, is a son ofMr. and Mrs. Eli Lents. His father is a Staleymachinist and his brother, Harold, is one of themen in charge in our credit office.

After a wedding tr ip the young couple wentto housekeeping at 245 South Twenty-SecondPlace.

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From all indicat ions Charley Ellis and LloydSpicer are expecting big things from thatjointly-owned pop corn crop of theirs. Wehave learned on excellent authority that theyhave let a contract for husking pegs.

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Ross Alverson, New York office, and Mrs.Alverson spent their vacation in August visit-ing relatives in Decatur. When Ross returnedeast he drove a new car which Otto Sutlernow drives around his New York territory.

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Some of us never grow up. When HarryReavis, hulk sales in Philadelphia, was on hisvacation in August he got his greatest t h r i l lwhen he saw Admiral Byrd in the hotel lobbyis Boston.

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l .ncl le Schulz took >a week's vacation inAugust to move into a new cottage she and hermother have just purchased in the Elms.

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Bertha Gowdy has asked that we express,through the Journal her sincere thanks to allher Staley friends for the various kind thingsthey have done for her. Friends have senther flowers and food and hooks and have takenher riding, and done any number of things tomake her convalescence pleasant.

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T W O A N N I V E R S A R I E SFOR E O C E N E

Eugene and Mrs. Morrow, with a daughter and two granddaughters, takenon their wedding anniversary.

Eugene Morrow celebrated two big eventsin his l i fe this summer. On August 8, he andMrs. Morrow celebrated their 48th weddinganniversary, and a month earlier he celebratedhis 25th year with the Staley company.

He and Mrs. Morrow were married inSheldon, Iowa, in 1889, but later lived forsome t ime in I'axton, 111., before Gene tookthat job wi th Staley's which has lasted twenty-five years.

• here since July 1912As he tells it, he rather got his job wi th the

Staley company on a dare. The generalsuperintendent was te r r ib ly upset over someinferior brick work and plastering that had

been done and rather dared Gene, when heapplied for a job, to show him that it couldbe done right. Gene says he rather suspectshe did it right, for no mention was ever madeof his leaving, af ter that day in July, 1912.

He has stayed on in charge of Staley brickmasons and plasterers ever since, and in thatcapacity has had a hand in much of the plantconstruction.

A l t h o u g h brick construct ion is not as com-mon in factory b u i l d i n g as it was twentyyears ago, Gene still has plenty to do. Hiscrew does much less new construction thanwas necessary for them to do when the plantwas being b u i l t , but there is an endless lot ofrepair work which must be done by expert

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hands. Since Gene was present, supervising,when most of the bricks around here were putin, he can tell the hoys how to go about theirrepair work.

• son works here

Associated wi th Gene in his work at theplant now is one of his sons, Billy. The wed-ding anniversary dinner was held in the homeof one of their daughters, Mrs. Leonard Smith,whose husband is in charge of all plant lubri-cation. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow have fivedaughters and two sons.

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I wish to express my sincere thanks to theStaley Fellowship club, packing house em-ployees and all other Staley friends who re-membered me at the t ime of my son's death.

MRS. MARCARF.T KI.ATS

Ella Yates, fifth floor, spent her vacation inFaducah, Ky., where her husband was workingfor a while.

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Howard Bromley, power house, his wife,Jane, secretary to Mr. Bass, spent their vaca-tion in the north.

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A. S. Lukey, assistant to the traffic manager,took his family for a vacation tr ip to a resortnear Rhinelamler, Wis., in August .

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Al Pierson and his wife went to the westcoast on their vacation, spending much of theirt ime v is i t ing in Seattle.

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Kathryn Sheehy. secretary to Mr. File,spent part of her vacation at the House ofDavid, in Michigan, if one is to judge bythe cards she sent back.

Gertrude Scherbarth. plant cafeteria, spentthree weeks in August, in her old home town ofDenver, and returned to work s t i l l t h i n k i n gtha t city in the mounta ins the garden spot ofthe earth.

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Bert Crutchley, reclamation, is recoveringfrom an operation he underwent in August.

T A Y L O R T O B U L K

SALES

//. !•'. Tinlur has jumped from package salesto bulk.

August 1, H. F. Taylor Jr., took over hisnew job as sales representative in the bulkdivision, working in part of North Carolinaand Virginia. Mr. Taylor, known to his hun-dreds of friends as Smiley, has been con-nected with the Staley company for severalyears, but th is is his first connection wi th theb u l k division. In his new position he willhandle texti le starches, corn syrup unmixedand other bu lk products.

A native of Monroe, N. C., he was graduatedfrom North Carolina State College at Raleigh.He majored in textiles. He has a wide ac-quaintance throughout the south, and hisfriends have been congratulat ing him uponhis promotion.

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Wylma Hawkins, daughter of Dave Hawkins.Elevator A, is teaching a class in economics inthe Y.W.C.A, this year, and also has someprivate classes in dramatics, which meet inthe Charles Johnson home.

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J O H N A N D E R S O N

NEW M A N A G E R O

A new venture for the Staley Fellowshipclub as announced hy the clnh president, C. A.Keck, was the appointment recently of a man-ager who will have charge of all club business.John Anderson, an employee of the companyfor the last ten years, was named for the joband took over his new duties Sept. 1.

During the twenty years the club has beenin existence it has carried on a big business.The officers and directors who have alwaysmanaged the various activities, often foundit took too much lime from their regular jobs.Now with more than 1,600 members scatteredall over the I'niled States and activities in-creased in number the club has come to be abusiness organization of no mean size.

• one office

All of this business now will pass throughJohn Anderson's hands. This will includeinvestigation and passing of all sick, reliefand hospital benefits, purchasing for reliefcases, taking charge of athlet ic expenses, man-agement of the club house, the club dances andclub activit ies in connection with Boy Scouts.

Funds will be handled as they always havebeen through the financial department butMr. Anderson will investigate all claims.All club members who are ill wil l report tohis office before returning to duty, and uponhis recommendation the sick benefit will bepaid. All requests for relief will also go firstto him.

• investigate requestsIt w i l l be part of Mr. Anderson's job to

investigate these relief requests before anypurchases are made. All such purchases wil lbe made by him, with the aid of the per-sonnel department, and he will see that theyare delivered to the famil ies making the re-quests.

Because he will work closely with the per-

sonnel and financial departments his officewill be in the west wing of the first floorof the administration building. In all of hiswork he will be in close touch with the clubofficers and committee members, and will ad-vise with them, but his job will be to take careof the various jobs which they had time foronly after working hours.

John came to the company ten years ago, andfor a while worked as office boy in the audit-ing department. Later he worked as a clerkin that same department, a position he heldu n t i l he was transferred to the time office afew years ago. He leaves the time office to takethis new position.

• annual budgetThe club business is controlled through a

yearly budget. The budget for 1937-38, re-cently published, is given here:

Sick Benefits $14,000.00Hospital Benefits 2,000.00Relief Benefits 1,500.00Visiting Nurses 600.00First Aid Expense 500.00Flowers and Funeral Expense 200.00Insurance 19,000.00Athletic Expense 2,500.00Donations 500.00Club House Expense 200.00Boy Scout Expense 300.00Handicraft Club Expense 300.00Election Expense 75.00Stationery and Supplies 200.00Dance Expense 900.00Entertainment 600.00Manager's Salary 1,365.00

$44,740.00

Ruth Lake, advertising office, visited friendsin Iowa in August and with them motored toMinnesota.

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From the Files of Old JournalsSeptember, 1917, C. E. Murphy. Editor

Alma Robb, sewing room, and Gale Garrett,millwright, were married in St. Louis. Their'swas the first marriage between two Staleyemployees.

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Kay Sherman was on a fishing trip.•

Joe Pollock was passing cigars in honor ofthe birth of a daughter.

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John Reynolds was winner of the monthlysafety prize.

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Fifteen hundred persons attended the first

Fellowship club picnic held in Faries Park.A feature of the day was the baseball gamebetween the married men and single men.Otto Falk coached both teams.

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In a big patriotic parade in Decatur the 238members of the Fellowship club marched ina body, headed by the club president, C. A.Keck.

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Staley's won the flag in the first year of theCommercial Baseball League. Two of theStaley players were Charlie Dressen and AveryMcGlade.

September, 1922, Edna Coyle, Editor

In an article on "The Men Who Keep theWheels Turning," G. E. Chamberlain wroteabout men in the mechanical department. Menmentioned who are still with the companywere C. D. Fletcher, Erney Gentry, FrankMoore, Adolph Hansen, Charles Fitch, C. A.Keck, R. E. Willis, Nate Smith, W. H. Broad-bear, W. D. Boren, Eugene Morrow, W. R. VanHook, Joe Pollock, E. G. Leaser, Albert Hoff-man, Newt Simpson and Joe Kanarien.

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L. O. Gill wrote an article on the uses ofcorn starch.

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One of the new salesmen with the company,who had joined the forces in the Boston officeduring the year, was Frank H. Knowlton.

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Guy Chamberlain, for two years a Staleyfootball player, left the company to coach theCanton Bull Dogs.

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Ruby Kiely resigned from the accounting

department to take a position in the office ofBright Brothers.

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Frank Starbody, formerly an electrician withthe company, returned to work at the plant,this time wi th the pipe fitters.

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To show the community's appreciation ofwhat Mr. Staley had done for baseball andother sports in the city, the Association ofCommerce presented him with a diamond andplat inum Elks pin.

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Dr. J. K. Dale was a new addition to thelaboratory staff.

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J. H. Galloway and his family moved intotheir new home at 1852 E. William street.

Lowell Gill announced the birth of adaughter and Hank Potrafka announced thebi r th of a son.

September, 1927, Ruth Cade, EditorLocal industries which use Staley products

were the subject of an article.•

Doc West finally took up golf, under theguidance of Lisle Brown.

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George Walker and Harry Reavis spenttheir evenings shooting rats on the city dump.

A campaign was on in the plant to geteveryone calling other plant phones to callby number instead of by the name of the partywanted.

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Staley's baseball team won the IndustrialLeague championship for 1927. Art Watkinswas manager of the winning team.

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L A T E R E P O R T S

R E S U L T I N

INFECTIONSAll infections following plant accidents in

Ju ly resulted when accidents were reportedlate, according to a report recently issued byacting safety director, Roy Rollins. Of the 344accidents reported to the First Aid d u r i n gthat month one was reported three days af terit happened and another five days late, andthese were the only two resulting in infection.

Six departments had perfect records forthat month—Sewing Room, Elevator A, Watch-men, Print Shop, Office Cafeteria and CivilEngineers. Departments having only one ac-cident each dur ing the month were Oil House,Brickmasons, Plant Cafeteria, Garage, GrainInspectors, Office Janitors and Manufac tur ingOffices.

Only six of the 344 accidents were losttime. The time lost in these cases varies froman actual 10 days in two cases, to an estimatedsix weeks in the case of one man who frac-tured a knee cap.

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Henry Sims, millwright, and Mrs. Sims,spent the last two weeks in August visitinghis mother and other relatives in Colorado.They made the t r ip in their new car.

•Herman Herbert, millhouse foreman, planned

a complete rest for his vacation late in August.Most of the time he and Mrs. Herbert spenton the Illinois River, but emphatically notfishing Herman told everyone interested. Hespent one vacation that way and says heworked harder and spent more money thanhe does when he is at work at the plant.

•Bernice Martin, telephone operator, was on

her vacation late in August and as a specialtreat her husband, Homer Martin, took heron her first eastern trip. Going by motor theyvisited Washington and New York.

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Leone Holt, accounting, and her husband,Jack Holt, are spending the first two weeksin September on a motor trip through theTennessee and Missouri mountains.

Nita Wisher and Clyde Kilburn surprisedtheir friend* by announcing their marriagein August.

Wisher-Kilburn

Nita Wisher and Clyde Kilburn surprisedtheir friends early in August by announcingtheir marriage Aug. 8 in Covington, Ind. Ac-companied by Vivian Pierce and SylvesterQuintenz (now Mr. and Mrs. Quintenz) theydrove to Covington where they were marriedSunday noon by Rev. Mr. Green, pastor of theCovington Baptist church.

The bride wore a suit of dark blue sheer,with hat and shoes to match. After the wed-ding dinner the couple left for Chicago. Forthe present they are l iving in the bride's homein West King street.

The bride has been employed in our printshop for ten years and plans to continue herwork there. Mr. K i lbu rn is a Wahash freightconductor.

It's funny how these stories do get about.While she was in Boston on her vacation thissummer, we hear that Gertrude Hebert, sales,parked her car double on Broad street (whichis NOT) while she called at our office there,and got by without a reprimand from any ofthose handsome Boston police.

SEPTEMBER. 1937

DEPARTMENTAL SAFETY C O N T E S T

C L O S E S W I T H 11 DERFECTWhen the ten weeks' safety contest closed

the last of August there were eleven depart-ments with perfect records out of the th i r ty-six into which the entire plant had beendivided. While this was a good showing theHealth and Safety committee, which spon-sored the event, had hoped for even betterresults.

Because the committee is sure that some ofthe departments can run on almost endlesslyw i t h o u t accidents, it has announced that thecontest will be carried on now in a sort of agame of "freeze out." Only the eleven per-fect departments wil l be entered th is t ime andthe contest will last until they are all elim-inated. As a department has a reporlableaccident, or reports an accident late, it wil lbe dropped from the contest. The other 25departments will simply sit on the side lines,and try to keep their records clear during thisexcit ing l i t t le game.

• perfect departmentsThe eleven departments having perfect rec-

ords were Engine Room, Reclamation, Watch-

men, Cafeterias, Printers and Grain Inspectors,Oil House, Feed Elevator, Elevator A, 16Bui ld ing . Starch Loading and Shipping, andElevator C. This represents 250 men. TheBrick Masons had a perfect report u n t i l then i n t h week.

To say that a department has a perfect rec-ord means tha t no one in that department hadan accident serious enough to he reported byFirst Aid to the doctor or insurance company,and that no one in that department reportedlate with an accident to First Aid, no matterhow small it was. The object of this contestis not to prevent employees from reporting toFirst Aid, but rather to urge them to reportthere with the slightest injury at once. Oftensuch a report wil l keep the records clear forprompt a t t en t ion by the nurse often preventsserious results. One department had a perfectrecord un t i l the tenth week when two menreported slight accidents a day late to thenurse.

Below is the complete report week by weekw i t h the points scored against each depart-ment each week:

STANDINGS IN 1937 SAFETY CONTEST(Shows points lost per week)

Department

MECHANICAL GROUP

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10thweek week week week week week week week week week Totals

Mi l lwr igh t sElectriciansBrickmasonsMachinistsTinners

* PipefittersYard

SERVICE GROUPBoiler RoomEngine RoomM & L DeptStoreroom

2 6 2 2 124 2 • 6

6 6

6 2 2 4 1 4

4 2 2 82 2

1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 3

6 6 2 2 4 2 0Perfect

2 23 3

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1st 2nd 3rd 4lli 5th 6th 7th 8lh 9lh 10thDepartment week week week week week week week week week week

SERVICE GROUP (Continued)

Cont. & Res. Labs 2 2_Reclamation ,if..^..Garage 2WatchmenCafeteriasOffice Janitors .',Printers & Grain Insp...

PROCESS GROUP

Mill & Steep House 6Table House & Merco... 2 213 & 21 Bldg 1~ 2Feed House 2 f > 2Oil HouseFeed ElevatorElevator A „17 Bldg ~2 2 2 25 & 10 Bldg 216 Bldg20 & 26 Bldg 2 _J 2 1Slch. Ldg. & ShpgSoy Bean Exp. & Driers 3S o y Bean Warehouse.... 6 3 6Soyflour & Sauce 3Elevator B 3Oil Refinery 6 3Elevator C

"The Pipefitters, with a loss of only two points, are winners in the Mechanical Group.

Totals

Perfect2

PerfectPerfft-t

Perfect

10PerfectPerfectPerfect

Perfect

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At the Wyoming Wool Growers Association meeting this summer the Staleycom pain ii'ii.i represented by an exhibit of feeds made particularly for sheep.K. J. Maltas. feed nutrition specialist in the it-extern territory, took these pic-tures. The information booth icas none other than the governor's trailer.

Doc West, with his wife and son, spentmost of their vacation in August at EagleRiver, Wis.

Mrs. Mamie White, tray room, spent hervacation in Iowa visiting relatives. She wasgone the last part of August.

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J A C K D I L L O N

G O E S T O

ATLANTAAnnouncement was recently made by the

Bulk Sales division of the p r o m o t i o n of L. A.(Jack) Dillon to the position of assistantsouthern sales manager. I l l s headquartersw i l l be with W. H. Randolph. Jr. SouthernD i v i s i o n Sales Manager at 1710 Rhode--Haverty building, Atlanta, where the office hasbeen for some t ime.

Jack is a nat ive of Lynchburg, Va., and hasbeen wi th the Staley company in sales workfor a number of years. He started sellingStaley products twenty years ago in Cincin-nati and has been at that work continuouslysince. During the last few years he has beendistrict sales manager in the Ohio, WestVirginia and western Pennsylvania territory.He has a large acquaintance through the south,however, and already feels at home in his newterritory.

Mrs. D i l l o n , t h e i r daughter Betty and theirsou John, have already moved from theirformer home in Cleveland to At lanta wherethey have taken a house.

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Charles Ellis Jr. (Jed to you) may not havematr imonial intent ions, but he has bought ahouse. "For investment" he says. Jed worksin the traffic office, but a f t e r hours he enticeshis fa ther away from the scale house, and theyare get t ing Jed's house fixed up.

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Mr. and Mrs. C. A. May—oh well, Baldyand Lncile—spent their vacation t r a i l i ngaround in the north woods of Michigan, w i t han occasional t r i p over into Wisconsin.

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A new messenger is Irene Newman, sisterof Henrietta Newman Mi-Henry, accountingdepartment.

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1 wish to express my sincere thanks to thegreat number of friends in the Staley organiza-tion who remembered us at the t ime of thedeath of our mother,

MALINDA W. JOMKS

Rodney Thomtu, Stttlc\s London managingdirector, uith Mrs. Thomas, find tin the right at'ixilor jriini Decatur, E. Nattkemper. Mr.Nattkemper, of the Decntiir Milling company,accompanied by his grandson, Natt Hammer,spent the Fourth of July tts fluents of .Mr. andMrs. Thomas in England. They motored toBrighton and Idler returned to London jortea.

Hornback-Gentry

J u l i a Hornback and Harold Gentry weremarried in St. Peter's Catholic church in St.Charles, Mo.. Aug. 23. They were accom-panied to St. Charles by the bridegroom'scousin, John Gentry.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Roy Hornback of Decatur and is a 1936 gradu-ate of Decatur High school. The bridegroomis a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Gentry. Heis employed in our soybean plant. His fatheris the machinist in the reclamation plant.

For the present the young people are livingw i t h Iris parents.

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Flossie GrinslafT, office ca/eleria, was busymuch of August get t ing settled in the newhome she and her husband h a v e jus t boughtin the Elms.

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Harold Baker, chemist, has .never forgottenhis much publicized sheep herding days itseems. When he was on a vacation with hisdaughters recently in Wisconsin he visited azoo where there were lots of sheep, and sentpictures of them back to Staley friends.

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R E Y N O L D S A T

CONFERENCEW. G. Reynolds. Acting personnel director,

will leave later in the month fur Princeton,N. J., where lie wil l a t tend the five day Indus-t r i a l Relations conference held each year ulI'rinceton University. He will drive east, ac-companied by Mrs. Reynolds, and they wil ltake a few days sight-seeing in the east l ieforer e t u r n i n g home.

Late in August Mr. Reynolds a t tended themidsummer conference of the I l l inois Manu-facturers association, at Grand Beach, on LakeMi ch i gan . The discussions in t h i s two dayconference were given over almost entirely torecently enacted legis la t ion which direct!)concerns i n d u s t r y .

Mary .lane Ives, daughter ( i f Roy M. Ives,manager of the package division, and DorothyJane Kuhns. daughter of J. C. Kuhns, powerengineer, entered the I niversity of I l l inoisth i s year.

Ernest Dnritl did not raise just onions inhis Harden this year, hut he did raise a lot ojthem. Rather a fine crop, we should say, if iceknow our onions.

Martin Trillin was all bundled up for a coldsimp, so evidently this picture was taken severalmonths ago. Incidentlv Martin is not entirelybald, although it does looli so here.

Mother DiesMrs. Kathryn E. Jacobs died suddenly in

her home in Decalur, Aug. 10 af ter an illnessof only a few hours. She was the mother ofMrs. Mal imla W. Jones, of our filing depart-ment. She also leaves another daughter, Mrs.Ina W. Stringer, of Gary, her hu-hund , GeorgeJacobs and her mother.

Funeral services were conducted in Decaturw i t h bur ia l in the L i t t l e Flock Baptist churchyard, south of Decatur. As a girl she hadbeen baptized in the Li t t l e Flock church.

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The man in the dark glasses, who dashes inand out of t h e b u i l d i n g , is not a detective ina disguise , nor an escaped convict t ry ing toavoid identification. I t is our purchasingagent. C. M. Cobb. trying to protect his eyesfrom the b r igh t summer sun. So he says.

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Red Thornbnrough. garage foreman, andTed Threlfall. yard foreman, are planninganother of the i r famous Canadian t r ips t h i smonth . They wi l l drive up into the Canadianwoods for late fishing and some hunt ing andprobably both raise fierce beards again thisyear.

SEPTEMBER, 1937

B I G C R O P F R O M

GARDENSSlaley gardens probably never bave been

better than tbey are this year. Weather con-d i t ions bave been almost perfect, and the con-stant fight which has been waged by J. E.I nderwood, garden supervisor and all of thegardeners, lias kept the n u m b e r nf pests down.An early season fight on grasshoppers isprobably the only th ing which saved the crop-fro m tha t hungry horde.

There have been 275 garden plots of com-pany land under cu l t i va t ion by employees t h i ssummer. Most of these plots measure 45 l>>150 and in almost every case they have pro-duced p l e n t i f u l l y . While most of the menplanted a wide variety of vegetables so theywoidd have plenty all season w i t h o u t anover-abundance of any one th ing, a few p lan tedfewer things.

Ralph Renlfro. Elevator C said he did notcare for corn and planted potatoes instead.Now he has 23 bushels of potatoes, and hasdug u n t i l he wishes they grew on trees andcould be picked. K i l Huechle r hail a bumpercrop of tomatoes, as did Gene Rhodes. J. N.Armentront, night timekeeper, gardens simplyfor the love of it, and always has a great sur-plus of vegetables. Me hauled many bushelsof big red tomatoes to the Day Nursery t h i ssummer, and presented them to the small lotswith his compliments.

Doilil Freeman, retired jrom active irork be-cause of poor health, smiled when he and hiswife came out In meet Marion Trim; per-sonnel, one day. Marion had her new and everpresent camera, and these good pictures werethe result.

Since our acquaintance with If alter (.ooleyhas always been in the garb oj a New Yorksalesman lie were startled to see him as he looksat his camp in the mountains. IT e kneic it ivasin the icilds. but we didn't know If alter jeareditild Indians or animals or nhaterer otherwild thing he may be trying to scare off.

SISTER IS DROWNWhile wading with a friend in shallow water

in Lake Decalur R u t h W i l l i a m s and her com-panion were both drown. Miss Will iams, 14years old, was the sister of Oman Williams,who works in the packing house. Her com-panion he was drown at the same time, was11 axel Turley.

In addition to her brother Oman, Ru thleaves her parents, Rev. and Mrs. BenjaminWilliams, two other brothers and six sisters.

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Mrs. W. R. Van Hook, *vife of our car-toonist, is hack in her home in Decatur re-covering from an operation she underwent inRochester. Minn . , in A u g u s t .

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When our adver t is ing manager. R. K. Hol lo -way, got his beloved cocker last spring henamed him Duke of Windsor. So it was per-fectly natural when a k i t t e n attached herselfto the l lol loway household tha t she he namedWally.

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Bob Quillen, boiler room, and his old pal,Gene McCracken, now icith Shell Oil, as theylooked when all ready to start for a visit tothe World's Fair in St. Louis. One wondersdid suits all come in one size at that lime, sothat tronser legs were adjusted by rolling themup? And observe, please, the button shoes, andpork pie hats. Quite killing, the boys icere.

Mother Dies

M. M. Durkee, who has charge of our oilrefinery, was called to Binghamton, N. Y.,Aug. 27 by the death of his mother. She hadbeen ill for several months. Mr. Durkee'sfather died in Binghamton earlier in the sum-mer, the result of being hit by an automobile.

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Alice Jane Johnson resigned her positionin the accounting department Sept. 1, to enterJames M i l l i k i n university. She has worked inthe Staley offices ever since her graduationfrom Decatur High school three years ago.

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Mrs. Mollie Hodgins, mother of Mrs.Frances Wheeler and Mrs. Marjorie Muir-heitl, is recovering from a serious illness whichhas kept her in St. Mary's hospital for severalweeks.

Tuschhoff-Neureuther

When Mary Tuschhoff and Andrew W. Neu-reulher were married Aug. 28 the bride'sfather, Rev. J. E. Tuschhoff performed the cere-mony. The marriage took place at 4 o'clock inthe afternoon in St. Paul's Methodist church,of which Mr. Tuschhoff is pastor. Before theceremony Mrs. Harris Dean, a sister of thebride, sang.

The bride wore starched white lace overwhi te satin, and a fingertip veil. A sister,Klsye Tuschhuff , her maid of honor, worewhite swiss embroidered in pink. KathrynStacy, the bridesmaid wore blue. WalterKlass, of Ottawa, was best man, and theushers were James Galloway Jr., George Gal-loway, G. A. Schlick and Harris Dean.

The bride has attended James Mil l ik in uni-versity and is a member of Theta I'psilon. Thebridegroom, the son of Mr. and Mrs. AndrewII. Neureiither, of Peru, 111., has both hisbachelor's and master's degrees in engineeringat the University of Illinois, where he was amember of Delta Sigma Phi. He has been w i t hthe Staley company for several years, and isassistant to the chief engineer.

Mr. and Mrs. Neureuther left for New Yorkand from there they went by boat down theAtlant ic coast to New Orleans. Upon theirreturn they will live at 2133 East North street.

•Ira Cox, 17 bu i ld ing office, spent his vaca-

tion, in A u g u s t , v i s i t i n g home folks in Ken-tucky and Tennessee.

Claude and Hob Stogsdill are the smallbrothers of Charlotte, that willing and uireylittle messenger in the offii'e building.

SEPTEMBER. 1937

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A . E . S T A L E Y M A N U F A C T U R I N G C O M P A N YEditor: Ruth E. Cade • Cartoonist: W. R. Van Hook

Volume XXI O Number 3

"Higher" Education

Within the next few weeks a largenumber of men in the organization willstart that rather mysterious process of"educating" their sons and daughters.By that most of them will mean thatthey and their wives and perhaps someof the younger children will wear theirold clothes another season, will cutdown on the little money they generallyspend on pleasure, and worry abouthow the bills are to be met to send ason or daughter to college. And in somany cases they and their families aremaking a useless sacrifice.

That sounds like a bald statementand perhaps a heartless one, but con-sider it from this angle. Quite oftenwhen the parents are dead set on a col-lege education for the son or daughter,the youngster is only mildly interested.If the parent insists, and is willing tomake the sacrifice the youngster will go,for college, in the offing, always seems analluring place of big games and fra-ternities and love affairs.

After a year or two he may give upthe struggle and take some job at home,or he may catch on, get his degree andmake the sort of a success his more-than-earnest parents hoped he would make.But it is a big gamble and we often wishfewer parents suffered from the illusionthat the college education, which wasdenied them, is the magic key whichwill open all doors for their children.

A college education is a wonderful

thing. We would be the last to deny that,but unless the youngster is willing tosacrifice some to attain it, unless he iswi l l ing to carry some of the financialload if necessary, unless he is reallyanxious for the advanced training, par-ents of average or less than averagemeans would do better to help that sonor daughter get a good job doing somework for which he is adapted. At leastso it seems to us, after having observedparents sacrificing and sons and daugh-ters so often coming out with such indif-ferent success.

Enjoying LifeWhen we remark, as we sometimes

have been known to do, that many ofthe best things in life are free, we bringan avalanche of comment down upon us.Most of our friends can be seen thinkingthat we are simply giving an alibi forour penniless state. Only a few knowthat we mean what we say—that wethink many of the most lasting pleasuresof life really cost little or nothing inactual cash.

We say this in the face of friends whomaintain, and firmly believe, that theonly way one can have a good time in—say Chicago, or New York or Philadel-phia, is to stay at expensive hotels, eatat high priced restaurants and go totheaters or swank night clubs. But weremember an enjoyable Sunday after-noon in Chicago when we poked abouton foot into strange quarters where thestreets were narrow and shop and restau-

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rant were filled with people from oddparts of the world. We recall one grandafternoon we spent nosing about in lowerNew York, reading inscriptions on OldTrinity grave stones, and watching theships off the Battery. We cherish longsummer afternoons dug into the sand,just watching Lake Michigan roll in andout, and we have even enjoyed—althoughour feet hurt later, whole days in artgalleries, and visiting market districtsin various American cities.

We get to theaters, and we have had,and hope to have, more grand timesat night clubs, but we still maintainthat we can thoroughly enjoy those lessstrenuous and certainly less costly pas-times. In fact we—a little group of us—rather brag about our ability to enjoythoroughly those things which cost uspractically nothing. We are not urgingyou of the other school to embrace ourbelief, but we feel that if people justfound their pleasures instead of tryingto buy them, they would really enjoythem more. •

Who to Blame"The art of losing is a great art,"

says William Lyon Phelps. This of howyou act when you lose—in a game, inthe markets, or even your job. Do youblame yourself and try to find the rea-son? Or do you lay .the blame on some-one else?

Phelps continues—"If a man behavesbadly after he is rejected in any com-petition or ambition, then he proves byhis conduct the wisdom of those whorejected him." If a man blames every-one but himself when he loses his job.then it is a pretty safe bet that he is theone to blame.

It is hard to take blame, and only abig man can shoulder it. That is whywe find so many little men, with snarls

on their faces crawling about blamingthe other fellow when they lose.

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The CornetistIn the southeast corner of the office

building we have had a good example ofperseverance set before us. A smallboy—we suppose he is a small boy be-cause no other human would have thenerves to stand up under it—in theneighborhood is evidently taking les-sons on the cornet and each morningwhile we open the morning mail andponder the day's problems facing us, hetries to reach a certain high note. Forseveral weeks now he has been trying,each day he gets nearer, but he alwaysslides off, just a second before he quitegets it.

The tune—"America" goes pretty wellnow through the first bars. There wasa time, about two weeks ago last Thurs-day at 8:30 A.M., when he was havingtrouble with "of thee" in the first phrase.He wobbled terribly on that but bycareful going over and over, he finallygot a good strong and practically steadytone there. The next few bars wentwell, but that last one is a sticker. Hav-ing never played a cornet and knowingnothing of the technique we would saythe young man is doing pretty well. Hetries hard but we would suggest, partlyfor the sake of the nerves of his forcedaudience, that he vary his program abit. One morning he tried "Nearer MyGod to Thee" and it seemed that whenhe went back to "America" he had morevim in his attack and a bit more ac-curacy on certain notes.

But the way he keeps at it, the wayhe has practically beat down that tune,bar by bar these hot mornings, hasshown a number of us, that even seem-ingly impossible things can be done.

SEPTEMBER, 1937 PAGE 23

S E A S O N S T A R T S

F O R S T A L E Y

BOWLERSBowling, which has been a popular and

organized sport at Staley's for almost tenyears, wil l soon get under way again. As usualthere wil l be two leagues, each bowling onenight a week. The eight team Senior leaguewi l l bowl nn Wednesdays start ing Sept. 15.The twelve team Departmental league wi l lbowl on Monday nights. Both leagues wi l lbowl In Hill 's alleys.

Harry Lichtenberger is president of theSenior league and Charles Fitch heads theDepartmental league. Buster Woodworth andRussell Dash are the league secretaries.

Teams in the Senior le-gue are as follows:

(1)Print Shop

1. N. Smith2. F. Despres3. V. March4. R. Dash5. H. Schultz6. D. Buzzard

(3)Mi'lwrights

1. F. Grossman2. H. Sims3. E. Kaskey4. C. Koshinski5. F. Moore6. Mylo Roberts

(5)Research

1. W. Stewart2. L. Davis3. R. Long4. N. Lents5. F. Rogier6. H. File

(7)Starch Shipping

1. AI. Trieweiler2. Gail Garret3. Ralph Whitsilt4. Joe Grossman5. John Anderson6. W. Moyer

(2)Machinists

1. W. Koshinski2. G. Leaser3. E. Lents4. C. Deetz5. A. Deibert6. C. Miller

(4)Yard Dept.

1. R. Woodworlh2. E. Lashinski3. L. Doxie4. 0. Hinton5. B. May6. E. Miller

(6)Executives

1. H. Lents2. H. Litz3. C. Waltens4. E. Smith5. Roy Larson6. R. Rollins

(8)Syrup Shipping

1. I. Smith2. C. Butler3. S. Kens4. F. Ryan5. R. Fitch6. G. Horton

Plan Big GameA. J. Percival, personnel director of Westclox

plan ts in IVru-LaSalle, and John Anderson,Staley Fellowship c lub manager, are arrang-ing for a soft ball game between teams fromthe two organizations. The first game, at theWestclox invi ta t ion, is to be p:ayed in LaSallebut probably a return game will be playedlater in Decatur.

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Louis Brand, paymasler, packed his f a m i l yinto his trusty car and drove around variousparts of I l l inois and Missouri during hisAugust vacation. And for those who th inkit can't Louis announces tha t his car passeslots of others on the road!

Why is it that on pay day Claude Fletcherappears at the plant clad in overalls? Henever was known to wear them at any othertime.

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Danny went to school for the first t ime and.like many other l i t t l e boys' fathers, Danny'sdad asked him how he liked his teacher.

"All right," was the reply."Is your teacher smart?" teasingly per-

sisted the questioner."Well, she knows more than I do," admitted

Danny. -Louisville Courier-Journal.

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"Tell your boss I've come to see him,"growled the tall, broad-shouldered man to theslim l i t t l e office-boy. "My name is Daniels."

The boy looked at the visitor wi th awe."So you're Mr. Daniels," he said. "How veryawkward."

Daniels: "What do you mean—awkward?"Office-Boy: "I've got orders to throw you

out."—New York Post.»•

Old-Fashioned Mama (to her d a u g h t e r ) :"Be a good girl and have a good lime."

Daughter (on way to par ty) : "Make lipyour mind. Mother."

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Stranger: "In what direction does the vil-lage lie, my fr iend?"

Flagman: "Well, sir, it's likely to lie in anydirection that comes handy, but at this t imeof the year it's mostly about the size of fish."

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Vivian Pierce returned from her mention inAugust Mrs. Sylvester Qnintenz.

Pierce-Quintenz\n Pierce, of our purchasing department,

and Sylvester Ouintenz were married in thechapel of Mount St. Francis, Floyd Knobs,Ind., on the morning of Aug. 16. The cere-mony was performed by Father AmbroseFinnegan. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brinkoelter,of Decatur, were the attendants. Followingthe ceremony a wedding breakfast was servedin the seminary at Mount St. Francis.

The bride, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.James Pierce, wore a white crepe dress w i t hwhi te accessories, and carried white roses.She has been witli the Staley company, in thepurchasing department, ever since her gradu-at ion from Decatur High school fifteen yearsago.

Mr. Quintenz is the son of Mrs. AnnaOuintenz, Decatur. He attended St. Jamesand Decatur public schools, and is a car-penter. Tlie couple has already gone to house-keeping in their own home north of Decatur,on R.F.D. 5, and for the present Viv ian plansto cont inue her work w i t h the company.

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Teacher: "Willie, do you know what abat is?"

W i l l i e : "Sure, my pop is on it."•

MrGin ty : "I've a terrible corn on the bot-tom of my foot."

Pat: "That's a foine place to have it.Nobody can step on it but you."—DetroitNews.

Larsen-Kepler

Jane Larsen, daughte r of K. ('. Larsen, ourchief engineer and Mrs. Larsen, and HarryN. Kepler were married in the Larsen homeSaturday af te rnoon Aug. 28. at 3 o'clock.Rev. C. W. Flewelling read the service in thepresence of sixty i n t ima te friends and rela-tives.

Miss Wilma Moffett , of the Mil l ik in con-servatory facul ty , played preceding the cere-mony. The bride wore a gown of whi te laceover satin, made with a f u l l train, and acircular veil. Her maid of honor. MarionMcClelland, wore dusty pink net over ta f fe ta .Richard Walter of Oak Park, was best man.

The bride, who was graduated from JamesM i l l i k i n universi ty this spring, is a pianistof a great deal of abi l i ty . Mr. Kepler, the sonof Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Kepler, of Decatur, waseducated at St. John's Mil i tary Academy, theI'niversity of I l l i n o i s and the Universi ty ofAlabama.

They wil l l ive in Chicago.•

Curious: "I wish I could find out how manyrelatives I have."

Cynic: "Why that 's the easiest thing inthe world—just buy a summer collage."

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"I don't often eat such a dinner as I've badtoday," complimented the important guest.

"We don't either," rejoined the small sonof the house.

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She: "If wishes came true, what would beyour first?"

He: "I would wish—ah, if I only dared totell you."

She: "Go on, go on. What do you suppose Ibrought up wish ing for?"

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During a sale in a Milwaukee store lastmonth one of the salesgirls told a buxom ladyin front of her counter tha t there was anextra special reduction in the price of sachet.

"Sachet?" said the lady. "Just what issachet?"

"Well," explained the girl, "it's a sort of al i t t le bag of perfume. You put it in yourchest and drawers to make them smell sweet."

"I understand what you mean," said the lady."but isn't it a w f u l l y uncomfortable?"

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Collins-MitchellWith only members of the immediate f ami l i e s

present Ruby Collins, of Anniston, Ala., andH. A. (Hank I Mitchell , of Birmingham, weremarried Sept. 1. The bride is the daughterof Mrs. T. H. Collins, of Anniston.

The bridegroom is a salesman in the bulkdivision, out of our Atlanta office but hisheadquarters are in Birmingham. He is wellknown through our southern territory and hismany Staley friends who have had the pleasureof meeting the bride t h i n k he showed excellenttaste when he decided to get married.

"I wish thai you'd show a l i t t l e more tact,"said the restaurant manager to the leader ofthe orchestra. "Here we've got the ImperialSociety of Umbrella and Raincoat Manufac-turers having dinner, and you go and play 'ItAin't Gonna Rain No More'."—Pearson's.

Pacific Coast WeddingA recent issue of the Pacific Laundry &

Cleaning Journal carries two pictures takenat the marriage of Anne Hickey and James C.Sheridan, which took place at high noon June12 in the Star of the Sea church in SanFrancisco. Many Staley people are interestedin the account because of their f r iendship wi ththe bridegroom's father, J. T. Sheridan. Mr.Sheridan Sr., is a prominent laundry supplydistr ibutor in San Francisco.

First Westerner: "My podner and I are goin'on a trip through the desert next week andhcV takin ' along some whiskey for rattle-snake bites."

Second Westerner: "Is that so? And whatare you takin' along?"

First Westerner: "A half dozen rattle-snakes!"

Hugh Mare, renter, our St. Louis broker, appears in a neic role here at the PresbyterianC.hureh Men's club dinner in Hellerille. III. The event icas a Father and Son dinner. Inthis group are Si Johnson, ('.ordinal pitcher, a speaker at the dinner; Rev. D. C. Boyd,C.larence Streck, C. C. Dreman, Mr. Mace, Jim Ault, Dizzy Dean, the big moment of thedinner, the radio announcer, France Laux and in front, Hugh's son David, probably theproudest boy in Belleville that night.

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ft hen the Imperial (.otton Mills, of Ealonton, (>(i., hail their annual barbecuein July, our Atlanta manager, W. H. Randolph Jr., teas very much present. He isshoifn at the left icith his host, C, G. Voss, superintendent of the mill, al /heright in the panama hat. In the rear is one of the big barbecue pits, a purelysouthern institution. They hail everything in the ii'orlil to eat. Hill it'rites, andnhen the 2.000 people all got there it looked as if all the people in the nor/du ere there to cat it.

NEW ENGINEERAI Foley was recently named as assistant

to W. L. Davis, superintendent of the mechani-cal department. Mr. Foley was graduated lastspring from Rose Polytechnic in 1'eoria.

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He: "I'm t h i n k i n g of asking some girl tomarry me. What do you th ink of the idea?"

She: "It's a great idea, if you ask me."•

Prof.: "If the President, Vice-President. ani lall the memhers of the Cabinet died, whowould officiate?"

Pupil: "The undertaker."•

A fashionably dressed woman approachedthe flower-seller and asked for a shilling'sworth of blooms. After the purchase she in-quired:

"Will you be here next Wednesday, as Ishall want some flowers for my daughter? She'scoming out that day."

"She shall have the best on the market,ma'am," the woman answered. "What's shein for?"—The Periscope.

Leaves CompanyJohn McClure resigned his position in the

personnel office effective Sept. 1, to go to theIn te rna t iona l Harvester Company. He will bein a Chicago plant of that organization, inindustrial re la t ions .

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J u n i o r (saying his prayers): "And pleasemake Peter give up th rowing stones at me.By the way, I've mentioned this before."

•

I I n - k i n d : "Have you ever wondered what\on would do if you had Rockefeller's income?"

Wife: "No, but I have often wondered whathe would do if he had mine."—Whitewright(TexasI Sun.

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Local Woman: "My husband is the onlyman who e\er kissed me."

Neighbor: "Are you bragging or com-pla in ing?"

•

" \ \ h a t du t h e three halls in front of apawnshop mean?"

"Two to one you don't get it back."—Farm & Ranch (Dallas, Tex.).

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The North of Irrlanil 1'nper Mill, in Iliilly/ lure, lends itself lieiiiitifully to 11 photograph fromthe air.

Eastern TripFew if any interesting points in Delaware.

Pennsylvania and Maryland escaped F. J. Parr,time office, when he and Mrs. Parr went eastthis summer to visit the i r son. Arnold and hisf a m i l y in Wi lmington . W i t h tha t as the i r basethey motored to most places of interest in thesurrounding country . Among: others theyvisited the grave of Benjamin Frankl in , inPhiladelphia, of especial interest since Mrs.Arnold Parr is a descendant of his.

In the two weeks they were gone theyvis i t ed 28 stales, three of which Mr. Parr hadnever been in before.

•

We have heard of men who avoided pub-l ic i ty , but we never knew one to sneak up analley w i t h a big fish he had caugh t .

•

The young couple sat at a n igh t club tableand cooed heavily.

"We could get married easily," whisperedthe boy. "My father's a minister."

"Okay." returned the gir l promptly. "Let'stry it. My father's a lawyer."—New YorkMinor .

To Georgia SchoolFour boys from Staley famil ies will be at

Georgia Mili tary Academy this year. Ray-Bass Jr.. B i l l y I l i ser and John Leaser are allre turning there having been there in schoollast year. Donald Durkee is entering for hisfirst year. The boys are sons of R. S. Bass,Luther Hiser, Mrs. Eva Leaser and M. M.Dnrkee.

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Man (rushing excitedly into crowded polices t a t i o n ) : "I want to report the murder of asaxophone player."

Police Captain: "Well, get in line."

Exasperated Wife: "The night before lastyou came home yesterday. Last night youcame home today. If you come home tomorrowtonight, I'll go straight home to mother." •

Mr.: "I've just had my life insured for$5,000."

Mrs.: "That's nice. Now I shan't have tokeep tel l ing yon to be careful every placeyou go."

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Choir BroadcastsSt. Peter's A.M.E. famous Jubilee Choir

has been broadcasting a program of NegroSpirituals over WJBL each Sunday evening.Tom Waggoner, office janitor, is the directorof the choir, and has been for several years.Charles Long, laboratory porter, is a memberof the choir.

The programs are broadcast between 8 and8:30 every Sunday, directly from the churchin Greenwood avenue.

"This book of Universal Knowledge willte l l you everything you ought to know," de-clared the agent at the door.

"Don't need it," growled Mr. Grouch, "mywife tells me all that—and a lot more be-sides."—Cincinnati Enquirer.

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"Daddy!" exclaimed the l i t t le boy."One more question, then," sighed the

tired father. "Only one.""How far is it," inquired the tot, "between

'to and fro'?"—The Catalina Islander.

Shirley Nadine Hailey is tin- small, and veryspecial niece of Pauline McCoy of the packinghouse. She is just a year old, and is thedaughter oj Pauline's brother.

Barber: "What's the matter? Ain't the razortakin' holt?"

Vict im: "Yeah, it's taking holt all right,but it ain't lett in ' go again."—U. of I'. PunchBowl.

A traveling salesman was handed a mes-sage from his wife, which read as follows:"Twins arrived tonight. More by mail."

Rushing to the telegraph office, the sales-man replied: "If any more arrive by mail, sendthem to the dead-letter office."

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Giant: "When I told my wife I was goingaway on this fishing tr ip she heaved a terriblesigh."

Cub: "You're lucky. Mine heaved a brick."•

Economy—A way of spending money withoutget t ing any fun out of it.—Reader's Digest.

•

Every year college deans pop the routinequestion to their undergraduates: "Why didyou come to college?"

Tradit ional ly the answers match the ques-tions in triteness. But last year one Uni-versity of Arizona co-ed unexpectedly con-fided: "I came to be went with—but I ain'tyet!"—Los Angeles Junior Collegian,

•

Jackie Lee Stuart was two years old when "Was your bride's father violent when youthis picture uas taken. He is the son of Homer toij nim yoll na(j eloped with his daughter?"Stuart, of the yard department, and a nephew um; i •> w/u T .1. u. u u i i,. ' ,:• i i • j f \ Was he: Why. 1 though he would shakeof Margaret (,irl, plant cafeteria and Orville „ "/(c//. who also icorks in the plant. m>' arm °n-

SEPTEMBER. 1937

Marge Muirheid, sales, said this was afavorite picture of her ilog I'ntsy, who died thissummer.

WESTERN MISSION WORK

Dorothy Leek, daughter of Earl Leek engineroom foreman, Sept. 1. took up her new workas supervisor of children's work in the Baptistchurches of Northern California and Utah.Her headquarters wil l he in San Francisco.Dorothy, who at one t ime was a stenographerin our m a n u f a c t u r i n g department, was gradua-ted last year from Moody Bihle Ins t i t u t e inChicago. She has done mission work in Chica-go but this is her first regular assignment.

On her way west she v i s i t ed in Los Angeleswith her brother Donald, who is in the Navy.Another brother, Robert, is a junior electricianat the plant .

•

Sugar Daddy: "Aren't you afraid of thepolice when you appear in just tha t s t r ing ofbeads at the n igh t club?"

Dancer: "Not a hit . They're not stolenbeads and I can prove it."

•

"My home town is so tough," boasted thebold, bad man to his crony, "that the canariesall sing bass."

"Huh, that's nothin'. Where I hail fromthey had to shout a man to start a graveyard."

•

"The doctor persuaded me to show him th-'leg which has been bothering me so."

"Well, May, is it better now?""Yes. But now it's bothering him."

FAMOUS FISHERS

A fishing t r i p about which we expect tohear much dur ing the coming months is tha twhich was taken by R. C. Scherer, JohnAnderson, Kermit Shively and Mark Acker-man. We do not expect to get the whole storyat once, nor all from one man, but eventual lywe expect to hear--well not all but a greatdeal about the expedition.

•

"I used to sell underthings to Nudistcolonies."

"What k ind of nnder lhings?""Cushions, Dodo, cushions."

•"I wonder if I could make you melt in my

"No; I'm not that soft and you're not thathot."

•

Teacher was ins t ruc t ing the juvenile class inthe story of Lot's flight, and said:

"Lot was warned to take his wife and fleeout of the city, which was about to be de-stroyed. Lot and his wife got away safely. Now,children, have you any questions to ask?"

At last, a little boy ventured to inqui re :"i'lease, teacher, what happened to the flea?"

•

"Sophisticated! My dear, that child wouldn'teven believe that the stork brought babystorks!"

H/ii'ii K. HahloH- mill his ii-ife visited in theirest this summer they look several pictures onC.atalina. Mr. and Mrs. liahlow are shoun nlthe right.

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Bert Doore, 17 building, is a grandfather.The young lady is yirginia Lee Smith, yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis 0. Smith.

RETURNS TO SCHOOL

May Hawkins returned to Champaign latein August to prepare for the opening of theLawhead school. She is principal of thatschool, a position she has held since hergraduation from college. She is the daughterof Dave Hawkins, Elevator A.

"It's so hard to find an honest maid," shecomplained. "The last one I had left withoutnotice and took with her six of my best towels—those lovely ones we brought back from theWaldorf-Astoria last summer."

—Friendly Contacts.

A traveler in the Ozarks stopped at a moun-tain cabin close to the road to ask for adrink of water. The man who answered hiscall and brought him a big dipper of coolwater, hobbled badly as he walked. Thevisitor stared unbelievingly at the feet of theother man, and finally said to him:

"Mister, you know, don't you, that you'vegot your right shoe on your left foot, andyour left shoe on your right foot?"

"The Hell I have!" exclaimed the moun-taineer, and they both stared at his feet.

"Why, certainly you have!" said the visitor."Well, I'll be dad-gummed!" said the moun-

taineer. "You know I've been wearing myshoes that way for twenty years and I alwaysthought I was club-footed."

IT'S RED

What we want to know is why did LynnDavis buy a red shirt? Did he like the color,or did he like the style and could get it onlyin red—or did he want one of what TomGogerty calls the thousand mile variety?Whatever the reason he got the shirt—and itis RED.

•

When (or if I Bob Urfer and Frank Rogierand some of the rest of the Southdowners bringin their oil wells, in the new Southern Illinoisfield, they will be more popular than ever.

•

Lady 'at par ty) : "Where's that pretty maidwho was passing out cocktails a while ago?"

Hostess: "Oh, are you looking for a drink?"Lady: "No, I'm looking for my husband!"

•

"Did you go on a honeymoon, Suzabelle?""Ah suppose you might call it dat, ma'am.

Henry done help me wid the washin's de fustweek."

•

"I enjoy living on a farm because the cows,ducks and chickens don't come in and urgeyou to play bridge when you want to read."

•

Johnny, ten years old, applied for a job asgrocery boy for the summer. The grocerwanted a serious-minded youth, so he putJohnny to a l i t t le test. "Well, my boy, whatwould you do with a million dollars?" heasked.

"Oh, glory, I don't know—I wasn't expectingso much at the start."

•

"What shall I do for insomnia, Doctor?""Every evening keep repeating to yourself,

'I am a night watchman'."•

A golfer had lost his ball, and not un-naturally, was inclined to be annoyed with hiscaddie. "Why didn't you watch where itwent?" he asked angrily. "Well, sir," said theboy, "it don't usually go anywhere, and so ittook me unprepared like."—Pepper and Salt.

•

"What's the row over at the carnival?""Oh, a fake dentist sold the fire-eater a set

of celluloid teeth."

SEPTEMBER, 1637

CALL THE ROLL

When Morris Fisher, watchman, and hisfamily went on their vacation this year, theyheaded for Florida. Down there they had aglorious time and started home with justenough time to get back on the job. In factthey evidently left in a hurry, for they weretwenty-five miles along the road to Decaturwhen they discovered that all of the familywas not present. One of the boys was playingwhen the family started and in the generalconfusion he was left behind. Oh yes, hisfather went back and got him.

A l i t t le girl was seated on the front porchwhen the salesman approached the gate. Hetried to open it but it stuck.

"Mother at home, little one?" he inquiredbefore making further attempt to enter theyard.

"Yes, sir, she's always at home," said thechild.

The agent jumped the gate and rang thedoorbell. There was no response. He rang itseveral times more, and waited. The doorremained closed. Somewhat vexed he turnedto the child and asked "Didn't you say yourmother was home?"

"Yes, sir, and I'm sure she is," replied theyoungster.

"Then why doesn't she answer my ring,I wonder."

"I think she will, sir, when you reach ourhouse," came the prompt reply. "We livefour doors down the street."

Lady in restaurant: "Why don't you shooyour flies?"

Proprietor: "Well, you see it's hot today, soI thought I would let them run around bare-footed."—Puppet.

•

"What would you say if I asked you for akiss?" leered the handsome fellow, as hesat out the dance with the sweet young thing.Her answer was, "Nothing at all. I can'ttalk while I'm kissing."

•

"I'm half inclined to kiss you." "How stupidof me! I thought you were just roundshouldered."

AL CRABB HERE

Al Crabb, now a real farmer in Texas,visited in Decatur for two weeks in August,and it was a hectic fourteen days for Al andall his old friends. Al was assistant to ourtraffic manager for a number of years, andwhen he resigned last fall to take up vege-table farming in Texas, his old group realizedit had lost its leading spirit. When Al cameback this summer, the old gang realized anewjust how quiet things had been since he left.

•

Young Brown got a job in a shipyard. Thefirst morning the foreman gave him a two-footrule and told him to go and measure a largesteel plate. Brown returned in twentyminutes.

"Well," inquired the foreman, "what's thesize?"

The youth displayed a satisfied grin."It's just the length of this rule," he said,

"and two thumbs over, with this brick, and thebreadth of my hand, and my arm from here tothere, bar the finger nails."

•

"Miss Alice ain't home," said the coloredmaid. "She's gone down to de class."

"What class?" asked the caller."Miss Alice she fixin' to git married, you

know," said the maid, "an" she's takin' lessonsin domestic silence."

•

"I suppose all this talk about a college man'slife being all wine, women and song is ex-aggerated."

"It certainly is; you very seldom hear sing-ing in the dormitories."

•

Deacon Johnson surprised the church con-gregation at an entertairynent by making thefollowing announcement:

"The next piece on the program will be asong by Miss Tabintha Thompkins entitled,'Put Me In My Little Bed,' accompanied bythe minister."

•

My roommate made inquiriesAbout my sweetheart, Bess;He asked me: "Is she a nice girl?"And I answered "Moralless."

—The Battalion.

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Two business men met the other week ina lorry-bus.

"Do you ever buy your type-writer ribbonsat the stores?" asked one.

"No," came the absent-minded reply, "butI bought her some cakes there yesterday."

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Taximan: "I'll have a job findin' the othernickel change for yer."

Caledonian: "Ah, weel, the nicht's young."

•

Three sailors were spending their leave inthe country, presently two of them got into anargument over what kind of animal a heifer is.

"It's a sort of a pig," said one."Not on your life," replied the other. "It's a

kind of sheep." Finally they called in the thirdsailor.

"Bill," said the first sailor, "What's a heifer,a pig or sheep?"

"Well, to tell you the truth, shipmates," hesaid, "I dunno much about poultry."

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Nervous Passenger: "Don't drive so quicklyaround the corners. It makes me frightened."

Chauffeur : "Do what I do—shut your eyeswhen we come to a corner."

Returned Missionary: "In Africa many ofthe natives wear almost nothing."

Miss Prude: "Mercy. It's a good thing Africais a Dark Continent."

Professor: "Man belongs to the highestorder of animals. What is the next lowest orderthat always comes after man?"

Pupil: "Woman."

•

"Good morning," said a stranger to a womanwho had answered the door bell where a roomwas advertised for rent. "Would you like to buysome insect powder?"

"No," she snapped. "I have no use for thatstuff."

"Good," replied the stranger. "I will takethat room you are advertising."

•

During the World War one of the transportswas on her way across with a cargo of coloredtroops, when a submarine was sighted. All onboard lined up on the decks with life-preserverson. There was a deadly hush for an instant,when suddenly from down the line rang a voice:"Is dere anybody heah dat wants to buy a goldwatch and chain?"

SEPTEMBER, 19'7

SALES DILEMMA

Things were coming to a terrible pass inthe sales department for one by one the menin the bulk division had stopped smoking.That is they had stopped smoking except foran occasional cigaret, and since it seemedsilly to buy a pack when one smokes onlyoccasionally they just borrowed one from some-one else.

This system worked fine at first, when Mr.Dunlap was the only one who practised it.Then Ivan Wieland decided to stop and thenBill Starks got tired of buying for the gangand he "stopped smoking." By that t ime thesituation was serious, for Marge White haddeveloped a complex about borrowing for theentire crew, and then Frank Knowlton theonly buyer in the gang, went out of town.With no one left from whom to borrow, andMarge worn out from making the daily beg-ging rounds, the boys had to break down andstart buying again.

Doctor: "I don't like to mention it but thatcheck you gave me has come back."

Patient: "Well, that sure is funny. Doc, sodid my lumbago."

Father: "Now, you've been fighting again.You've lost your two front teeth."

Son: "No, I ain't pop; I've got 'em in mypocket."

Young Brown got a job in a shipyard. Thefirst morning the foreman gave him a two-footrule and told him to go measure a large steelplate. Brown returned in twenty minutes.

"Well," inquired the foreman, "what's thesize?"

The youth displayed a satisfied grin."It's just the length of th is rule," he said,

"and two thumbs over, with this brick; and thebreadth of my hand, and my arm from here tothere, bar the finger nails."

A mil l ionaire 's b e a u t i f u l daughter was drown-ing at the seashore, when a young man plungedin and rescued her. The father was so gratefulthat he signed a check and said: "My dearsir, will you fill in your name and write anyreasonable sum you care to indicate?"

The young man smiled modestly and replied:"I wish no reward. I did what any other self-respecting gentleman would have done whena lady is in distress."

The father was so insistent that the hero, tosave an embarrassing situation, said casually:"Well, if you insist, just give me a golf club."

A week later he received a telegram from thefather: "Have bought for you the West-endGolfers' Club."

poison'If you were my husband, I'd give youson."'If you were my wife, I'd take it."

KNOIMS HOOJ-T-STOP A^CA.R.VvH

HOP ON.N IT

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SLAUGHTER IS BETTER

B. L. Slaughter, feed house, is recoveringfrom a serious brain operation he underwentin St. Mary's hospital several weeks ago. Hisdaughter-in-law. Betty Slaughter who hascharge of the founta in on the n in th floor, saysthat he greatly appreciates the flowers hisfriends send him, and the calls concerning hiscondition.

•

First Reminiscent angler: "Last summer Icaught a fish so big that my fr iends wouldn'tlet me pull it aboard for fear the boat wouldsink."

Second same: "I had a similar experiencein fishing, when coming over on the Norman-die."

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"Why do you go wi th Mary Jones? Every-body says she is a horse's neck. She laughslike a hyena, is as big as an elephant, andtreats all boys like dogs. Why are you sointerested in her?"

"I don't know. I guess it is because sheappeals to the animal in me."

•

A priest offered 25 cents to the boy whocould tell him who was the greatest man inhistory.

"Chris'opher Columbus," answered the Ital-ian boy.

"George Washington," answered the Ameri-can lad.

"St. Patrick," shouted the Jewish boy."The quarter is yours," said the priest, "but

why did you say St. Patrick?""Right down in my heart I knew it was

Moses," said the Jewish boy, "but business isbusiness."—Erie Railroad Magazine.

•

"Why did you tell Joe you married me be-cause I'm a Wonderful Cook? I can't boilwater."

"It was this way, I had to give some reasonor he would have thought I was crazy."

•

Office Manager: "So you want to get offthis afternoon, eh?" snorted the boss, sarcas-tically. "I suppose your grandmother died,eh?"

"No, sir," the office boy replied. "She eloped."

Philo Budget: "Grandma Smith is very lowas we go to press. If she dies she will beburied Sunday."

•"I don't know what to do with our son. His

mother wants him to be an admiral, I want himto go into business with me, while he insistson being an airman."

"How old is he?""He will be five next May."

•

A tramp called at a wayside cottage andasked for a l i t t le food to help him on his way.

"But you're a big, strong, healthy-lookingman." said the cottager. "Why don't you dosome work?"

"Well, madam," said the tramp, w i t h a shrugof his shoulders, "I'll tell you my trouble. I'mwhat they call an unhappy medium."

"Unhappy medium!" echoed the other."What do you mean by that?"

"I'm too light for heavy work and too heavyfor light work," was the reply.—New ZealandRailways Magazine.

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"And when Mrs. Gubbins sez you wasn't nolidy, wot did yer say?"

"I sez, 'two negatives means an infirmary,'and I knocks 'er down. She is now in the"orspital."—New Zealand Railways Magazine.

•

Office Manager: "Before we can engage you,you will have to lake an intelligence test."

Girl Appl icant : "Intelligence test? Why,the ad said you wanted a stenographer."

•The banker asked a man who was trying to

borrow money, "How much have you in the wayof immediate liquid assets?"

To which the customer cautiously replied,"About a case and a half."

•

The teacher had wr i t ten 92.7 on the black-board, and, to show the effect of mul t ip ly ingby 10, had rubbed out the decimal point.

"Now, Alfred," she said, "where is the deci-mal point?"

"On the duster," replied Alfred, withouthesitation.

•

"Do you th ink that the radio will ever takethe place of the newspaper?"

"No, you can't swat flies wi th a radio."

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DISCOUERED ITTogECNLYT*M 6eLT=O-wteLji.?/'

•

Prosecutor: "Now, tell the court how youcame to steal the car,"

Red: "Well, the machine was standing infront of the cemetery and I just naturallythought the owner was dead."

•Lady ( to guide in Yellowstone Park) : "Do

these hot springs ever freeze over?"Guide: "Oh—yes. Once last winter a lady

broke through the ice and burned her foot."

If men can be misled, then they can be led.•

The exasperated judge finally banged hisgavel and said, "Silence in the court! Half adozen men have been convicted w i t h o u t thecourt's being able to hear a word of testimony!"

•An electric shock from a defective lamp

caused a woman to lose her speech completelythe other day. We thought husbands mightlike to know.

•"Why does a woman say she's been shopping

when she hasn't bought a thing?""Why does a man say he's been fishing when

he hasn't caught anything?"•

Sandy: "I wish I knew who put that jokein the paper about the Scotch being so tight."

Lassie: "Why don't you phone the editor andask?"

Sandy: "Whist! And who'd pay for thephone call?"

•A blotter is something you spend your time

looking for while the ink is drying.—Punch Bowl.

•

A monologue is a conversation between astudent and a professor.—Varieties.

•

A mother's love is greater than a wife's.His mother believes him.—Drexerd.

Madeline: "I know he was ta lking to youabout me. Now, wasn't he?"

Dorothy: "Well, yes."Madeline: "I thought I heard him remark

tha t I had a th ick head of hair."Dorothy: "Partly correct. He didn't men-

tion your hair, however."

•

A writer in the New York Journal remarksthat a college boy's definition of a male parentis "The Kin you love to touch." They don'thave to get up to college to get that definition.

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Stranger: "In what direction does the villagelie, my friend?"

Flagman: "Well, sir, it's likely to lie in anydirection that comes handy, but at this timeof the year it's mostly about the size of fish."

A newly married couple had just lef t theirparents and had gone into a home of their own.A few weeks afterward the husband lost abutton off his shirt, and asked his wife to sewone on.

Later he found that she had not sewn onthe button, so he decided that he would remindher. He got the lid of the boot polish tin,bored two holes in it, and sewed that on theshirt.

When he came to put the shirt on againhe found, to his amazement, 'that his wifehad made a buttonhole big enough to fit the lid.

—Tid-Bits.•

"Dad, it says here that a certain man was afinancial genius. What does that mean?"

"That he could earn money faster than hisfami ly could spend it."—Exchange.

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EXCELSIOR SODA C R A C K E R S

Besf on

urnWhen you want crackers

and cakes that are right

Remember the Baker man

for he's always in sight.

KLOTZC R A C K E R F A C T O R Y , L T D .

N E W O R L E A N S , L A .SEPTEMBER, 1937

"Edison once said that four hours of sleepis enough for any man."

"Thai's exactly what my baby thinks."

•

Teacher: "Now all of you take your seatand draw a picture of Plymouth Rock."

Alex: "Do you want it to be a hen or arooster?"

•

A six weeks old calf was nibbling at thegrass in the yard, and was viewed by the citygirl.

"Tell me," she said, turning impulsively toher hostess, "does it really pay to keep assmall a cow as that?"

•

"Do you want to buy a ticket to our dance?""No; I don't like dancing.""Why not?""It's merely hugging to music.""What is there about that you don't like?""The music."

•

Sam: "Listen heah, boy, jes' what kind o'life you been livin'?"

Rastus: "Oh, ordinary, jes' ordinary."Sam: "Well, if yo' pulls any mo' aces out o'

yo' shoe, yo' ordinary life is goin' to mature."

•

"On my trip to South America I saw a lotof beautiful panoramas."

"I thought you told me you wouldn't runaround with those native girls!"

•

"I saw the doctor you told me to see.""Did you tell him I sent you?""Yes, I did.""What did he say?""He asked me to pay in advance."

•

"Do you remember the old saying, 'A friendin need is a friend indeed'?"

"Yes, Stranger."•

Mrs.: "Did you kill all the germs in thebaby's milk?"

Mr.: "My, yes; I ran it through the meatchopper twice."

•Every man must have some achievement to

boast about, if only the fact that he wearssummer undies all winter.

"Everything that's bought goes to the buyer;doesn't it?"

"Some things, such as coal, go to the cel-lar."—Pathfinder.

•

A big buck Indian had just ordered a hamsandwich at a drug counter and was peeringbetween the slices of bread when he turnedand said to the waiter—"Ugh, you slice 'emham?"

The waiter replied, "Yes, I sliced the ham.""Ugh," grunted the Indian. "You damn near

miss 'em."—Pipe Line Pipings.

•

We are all manufacturers—making good,making trouble or making excuses.

•

Horse sense behind the steering wheel ismore important than the horse power underthe hood.

•

Judge: "You're charged with killing yourbest friend."

Prisoner: "He hit me, sir."Judge: "I should have thought that that

would have been the last thing he would do."Prisoner: "It was, your honor."

•

Tombstone Dealer: "How would just a sim-ple 'Gone Home' do for an inscription?"

The Widow: "I guess that would be allright. It was always the last place he everthought of going."

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Visitor: "Oh, look, that sailor is washing hisface with his hat on. Why does he do that?"

Sailor: "Yes; you see, he's bald, and thehat gives him an idea where his face ends."

•

Baby Ear of Corn: "Mama, where did Icome from?"

Mama Ear of Corn: "Hush, dear; the stalkbrought you."

•

"What kinda guy is your roommate?""Well, last night he barked his shins on a

chair, and said, 'Oh, the perversity of inani-mate objects'."

•

"John, I'm sure I heard a mouse squeak!""Well, do you want me to get up and oil

it?" •

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pure cane—cleanFull weightGranulated, Crystal Domino Tablets,

Superfine Powdered, Confectioners, Old Fashioned Brown,Yellow, Pressed Tablets, Crystal Domino Squares,

Dainty Lumps, Domino Dots;Domino Syrup.

SEPTEMBER. 1937

A small boy was asked to write an essay inas few words as possible on two of life'sgreatest problems. He wrote: "Twins."

"Don't tell me you insisted on tbat band-some saxophone player kissing you!"

"Of course. It was the only way I couldmake him stop playing his darned saxophone."

"Can you tell me what happened afterNapoleon mustered his army?"

"Yes, sir. He peppered the enemy and tookthe citadel by assault."

A newspaper once offered a prize for thebest recipe for making the hands beautiful.There was a deluge of answers from whichthe following was chosen:

"Soak the hands three times a day in dish-water while mother rests."

"Has your husband a good ear for music?""I'm afraid not. He seems to think that

everything he hears played in church is alullaby."

•

"And you say these lifebelts are guaranteedby the company?"

"Absolutely, Madam.""But supposing I wore one and went down

for the third time?""In that case, Madam, the belt would be-

come your own property."

Maid: "I'll bet you were startled when youheard that the master and his wife were goingto separate."

Butler: "I'll say. I nearly broke my headon the doorknob."

•

"You didn't take a vacation this year, didyou?"

"No; I thought I needed a rest."

He: "There's something about you that ap-peals to me."

She: "My Goodness!"He: "Don't be absurd."

Jones was at a dinner party. He was shyand could never summon up courage to speakbecause of his inability to say anything neat.All the evening he had been trying to thinkof something nice to say to his hostess. Atlast he thought he saw his chance.

"What a small appetite you have, Mr. Jones,"said his charming hostess with a smile.

"To sit next to you," he replied gallantly,"would cause any man to lose his appetite."—Watchman-Examiner.

•

Contractor Bronson died very suddenly andan important business letter was left unmailed.

Before sending it off, his secretary, who hada passion for explanatory detail, added thefollowing below Mr. Bronson's signature:

"Since writing the above, I have died."

Mrs.: "Ray, dear, you run ahead and holdthe train."

Mr.: "Yeh, and what particular hold wouldyou like me to use, the head-lock, scissors orhalf-nelson?"

•

Mrs. E.C.J.: "I got big-hearted this morningand gave a bum a dollar."

Mrs. H.F.: "What did your husband say?"Mrs. E.C.J.: "Thanks."

Gornto: "I want a present for a younglady."

Clerk: "Sister or fiancee?"Gornto: "Well, er— she hasn't said what

she would be yet."•

Youth: "That girl you picked up at thedance last night was from Ireland, wasn't she?"

Chum: "No; from Iceland."

•

Money is made in the same way it is lost—by taking chances.

•

A pious and uncommonly homely spinsterwas accosted by a staggering drunk.

"Lady," he said, "you're the homeliest per-son I ever saw."

"And you, sir," replied the spinster, "arethe drunkest man I ever saw."

"Mebbe so, lady," countered the drunk, "butI'll be okay tomorrow."—Random Notes.

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