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CONTENTSSEPT.

1930

PageCONTENTS

The Picnic 7

Laundry Owners Successful Experi-

ment 20

Mill Villages Blossom 23

New Appointment 28

Our Tower 30

Bowling Starts 32

Man in the Moon . 38

A-E-EDITQfRJ

m.ont'hltf in the, interest of the employes of the

" N MANUFACTURING CO.~ ATUli-ILLI N O I S

RUTHCARTOONIST

W. R.Van HOOK

See theMistaken Identity

Early one summer morning, a south-ern gentleman was taking a ride in thefirst aeroplane to he seen in those parts.The Darkies working the cotton fieldshelow watched in superstitious awe as theplane landed nearby and the white cladfigure emerged. An aged darky ap-proached him in fear and trembling to in-quire politely "Good mawning, MarseJesus, how's your pa?"—Kreolite News.

A Fair Request"Well of all the nerve," she said, as she

slapped his face. "Don't ever try to kissme again."

"All right," he replied meekly, "If'sthat's the way you feel about it, get offmy lap."—Selected.

Shocked Old Lady—On my way uphere I passed about twenty-five peoplein parked cars.

Young Hostess—Oh, I'm sure you'remistaken. It must have been an evennumber.

The circus strong man rode out onhorseback to challenge a farmer whosegreat strength had gained him a reputa-tion. He entered the farmyard, tied uphis horse and approaching the farmer.

"Hey," he said. "I've heard a lot aboutyou, and have come a long way to seewhich is the better man."

Without answering the farmer seizedthe intruder, hurled him bodily over thefence into the road and returned to hiswork.

When the loser had recovered hisbreath the farmer growled, "Have youanything more to say to me?"

"No," was the reply, "but perhaps you'llbe good enough to throw me my horse."

Poor SapWith Violet in his arms,

He drove his car—poor silly-Where once he held a violet,

He's now holding a lily.

Cheerio!An Englishman was visiting this coun-

try for the first time, and as he was driv-ing along the highway, saw a sign "DriveSlow. This means YOU!"

The Englishman stopped in surpriseand exclaimed, "My word! how did theyknow I was here?"

A Lesson in LatinA student in a New England school had

flunked in Latin. In the quiz the studentwas called upon to give a written trans-lation of the verse below. There are Latinscholars reading this who will be movedto tears:

"Isabili, Heres ago.Fortibus es in aro.Noces, Mari, Thebi truxVatis in em pax a dux."

After weeks of effort, the student cameforth with the following. It is not surpris-ing that the instructor read it to the class:

"I say, Billie, here's a go,Forty busses in a row.""No," says Mary, "they be trucks.""What is in 'em?" "Packs o' ducks."

—Epworth Herald.

"Abie !ABIE! Come from de shade vityour new sun suit on!"

Ann—Why did you buy that referee'swhistle?

Doris—I have a date with a footballplayer tonight.

Point 7Horse Sense

Young Lorclling (in Alberta)—Myword! There goes the Prince off a horseagain. And he was traveling incognito,too.

Puncher—Yep! But you can't fool ahorse.

"Do you and your wife ever think thesame. John?"

"When I stay late at the club we do.She keeps thinking of what she'll saywhen I get home, and so do I."—Ex.

"Is your wife having any success inlearning to drive the car?"

"Well, the road is beginning to turnwhen she does."—Toronto Goblin.

Burglar (to his wife)—I've tried blast-ing and I've tried a sledge-hammer, butstill can't get this safe open.

Wife—Don't give up; let the baby playwith it.—Life.

He Started OneA college professor and his wife were

entertained at dinner a few weeks ago. Inthe midst of the gayety at the table achild's voice was heard coming from thefloor above.

"Mother!""What is it, Archie?" she asked."There's only clean towels in the bath-

room. Shall I start one?"—Fyr-Fyter.

Playing SafeA nurse informed the surgeon, whom

she just learned had operated on a manfor appendicitis, that the man had an ap-pendicitis complex, and that he was thesixth physician she knew of. who hadoperated on him. \Vhereupon, the sur-geon tattoed on the patient's abdomen,"No appendix here."

Many people are virtuous merely be-cause they lack imagination.—Sun Dial(New York Sun).

HealthA farmer and his son were working in

a field when the old man tripped on thestump of a tree and fell. He got up andsaid, "Gosh darn that stump! I wish itwas in hell."

"Pop. I wouldn't say that," said the boy,"you might stumble over that stump againsome day."

Professor—Have you done any outsidereading:

Student—No, sir, it's been too cold toread outside.—Exchange.

•»Roger Babson lists 70 ways of becoming

a millionaire, but, just as we suspected,there's a lot of hard work and thinkingin every one of them.—The Kodak Maga-zine.

"Are you John A. YanDorky?" askedthe young man beside the cloak rack.

"No," was the surprised reply."Well, I am," came the frosty rejoinder,

"and that in his slicker you are puttingon."—Texas Longhorn-Ranger.

Policeman (to intoxicated man who istrying to fit his key to a lamp post)—I'mafraid there's nobody home there tonight.

Stude—Mus' be, Mus' be. Thersh alight upstairsh.

If all the autos in the world were placedend to end, 98 percent of the drivers wouldimmediately get out of line to pass the carin front.

EditorialDON'T BE JUST A TIME

FILLERIs your daily work an enthusiastic

pleasure or merely a "job" to you?And do you hold the job merely forthe money it brings in? Do you putyour whole heart, body and soul intoyour daily work? Isn't it true thatyou often think of the man aboveyou in business as a fool for puttingso much energy, so much thoughtand so many hours when he mightget along with less effort?

And at the same time you wonderwhy you do not progress.

Well, if the truth were known itwould indicate that you shirk re-sponsibility sometimes from fear ofdisplaying ignorance and sometimesto avoid doing something whichwould make you think hard andfaster than you wish.

You may be better fitted in manyways to fill the job of the man higherup, but it is pretty clear to your em-ployer that you are just holding ajob and the man they put in theplace of trust must be dependable,enthusiastic and an energetic work-er, not a time filler.—Work.

"Asking God on our knees tobless everybody, isn't half as manlyas reaching down and helping some-body."

CLEAN UP!The finest evidence of good cit-

izenship is a clean body, a cleanhouse, and a clean shop.

Clean up!Wastebaskets should be made

larger and storerooms smaller.Half the attics and basements in

the United States are filled withjunk!

The drawers and pigeonholes ofmost desks are crammed with junk!

The workrooms, storerooms, andyards of the average factory containenough junk to sink an ocean liner.It occupies floor space that costsabout 50 cents a square foot a yearto maintain. It slows up production ;gives the shop an appearance of dis-order; lowers the quality of theproduct.

"It might come in handy." Yes,but in the meantime it will eat youup in charges for rent and handling.

We might take a tip from theabove article in Bagology, and cleanup. Go through your desk—evenyour filing cabinet. Remember allthat stuff you threw away when we

Pretend that weand you will be

moved last spring :are moving again,surprised at the stuff you can throwaway.

Hell for garage mechanics will bea land of abundant grease and nosteering wheels to wipe it on.

TOO EXPENSIVEIt was once anounced that the

Devil was going out of business andwould offer all his tools for sale toanyone who would pay the price.On the night of the sale they wereall attractively displayed, and a bad-looking lot they were. Malice,hatred, envy, jealousy, sensualityand deceit, and all other implementsof evil were spread out, each markedwith its price.

Apart from the rest lay a harm-less-looking and wedged-shapedtool, much worn and priced higherthan any of them.

Someone asked the Devil what itwas.

Comment ^^"That's Discouragement," was the

reply."Why have you priced it so

high?""Because," replied the Devil, "it is

more useful to me than any of theothers. I can pry open and get in-side a man's consciousness with that,when I could not get near him withany of the others, and when once in-side, I can use him in whatever waysuits me best. It is much worn be-cause I used it with nearly every-body, and very few yet know it be-longs to me."

It hardly need be added that theDevil's price for Discouragementwas so high that it was never sold.He still owns it and is still using it!—Anon.

"A good hearty laugh—a merrygame played with zest and abandon—may cure ills that pills and po-tions can never reach."

GOOD SPORTSIn any athletic contest, or any

other sort of a contest for that mat-ter, it is natural for spectators tohave their favorites. They wanttheir favorite to win. But the goodsportsman does not wish to see himwin at the expense of fair play. Hewants to see him win fairly andsquarely. "May the best man win"should be something more than an

empty phrase. Unfortunately thereare some, although they are in theminority, who want to see their manwin regardless of everything else.—I. M. A. News.

"The man who does his best todaywill be a hard man to beat tomor-

r!"row!

ANOTHER KIND OF INJURY

(Reprinted from The Safe Worker)Harsh words rankle. And the fel-

low who utters them usually re-grets his mistake if he is answeredby an eloquent silence.

Harsh words hurt. Injured feel-ings are just as real as injured fin-gers. Unwarranted criticism has noplace in any plant. Justifiable critic-ism has no place either, if it is givenin an outburst of temper.

Meet criticism with patience. Inthe long run it's the best way. Whenyou get stung by a bee you don'trush out and try to destroy the hive.

The wise man doesn't argue muchover harsh words. The fellow wholoses control of his tongue and hissenses is hardly worthy of an an-swer.

When necessary to defend yourposition do it calmly and withoutrancor. That's the quickest and bestway to bring your critic to hissenses.

"—A note of Gothic delicacy"

THESTMEYJOUJQMLAnother Picnic Voted Huge Success

Staley Fellowship Club Members and Friends, More Than Five ThousandStrong, Have Annual Celebration in August

Thirteen may be unlucky for some but for the Staley Fellowship clubthis year it looked mighty lucky. This was the thirteenth year for Staleypicnics and the one held Aug. 21 was pronounced bigger and better thanany. The weather had no small part in the success of the affair, for it wasnot only a bright day. but delightfully cool. For the first time in our Staleypicnic experience a coat was comfortable in the morning and evening, in-deed the poor golfers who appeared at 6 o'clock that morning withoutsweaters were a shivering lot.

During the last few years it has been estimated that at least five thou-sand people have attended each Staley picnic, and experts in countingcrowds said that the number was even larger this year At any rate thehi l l s of Nelson Park fairly bristled with people during the entire day, andmost of that time there was an over-flow on two big lake boats.

For sonic t ime Mr. Staley Sr. has beenplanning a visit to his old home in NorthCarolina and business reasons demandedthat if he went at all he must go just atthat time. He hesitated a long time, andalmost gave up his trip, but finally waspersuaded to go, although the picnicmissed him.

During the afternoon events reachedtheir high point. It was then that boatrides were in greatest demand, ponieswere ridden by eager kids unti l they al-most dropped, and bands played for thosewho wanted a more restful time.

Men in the refreshment stands werejust as busy as any hive of bees and themen who conducted the various gameswere almost going around in circles.Then off to one side, where it would becomparatively quiet, was the nursery.Here our nurse, Lucile May, presidedwith an efficient corps of helpers. Thetent was arranged to care for about twen-ty baliies. but dur ing the day she oftenhad as many as fourteen extras parkedabout on chairs and boxes. During tin-day she cared for 72 babies.

Picnic events always start with the golfgames, probably because no one but anardent golfer or fisherman will get upearly on a holiday. Golf for both men andwomen was held at Southside CountryClub. H. P. Dunlap again walked off withthe men's cup and Frances Hines tookthe women's cup. Frances won only aftershe and Kathleen Starks had played offa tie.

The rest of the day was devoted tovarious events in Nelson park, with thegrand wind-up dance in the evening in theFlks COunt ry Club. This year the Staleycompany and Macon county got togetheron a celebration which helped finish offpicnic day in a decidedly brilliant manner.The county decided to open the new LakeShore drive from Xelson Park to the FlksCountry Club that night, and Mr. Staleyofficially lighted the tower of the new of-f i c e bui lding for the first time that samenight. The three big events brought allof Decatur to the east end for one even-ing, at lea.-t.

The only off note during the en t i re daywas the fact that the big boss was gone.

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Golfers Were the Early Birds

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THE BASEBALL GAMENo Staley picnic is complete without

the baseball game which is played in themorning. The game this year will nodoubt go down in the history of picnick-ing as one of the most outstanding, dueto the fact that it was more than a base-ball game. It was a race track and a cir-cus combined with cycling and acrobaticartists of rare ability. Clowns, too, heldsway even to the august and serious-minded umpires. These two teams, cap-tained by Wm. Lynn Davis and Ed Smith,did themselves proud. Oh, yes, the namesof the teams—Lynn Davis elected to callhis team the Sells-Floto team and EdSmith called his team the Tubalcains.The names speak for themselves.

It became very apparent, early in thegame, that the Sells-Floto left-fielder, thecaptain of that team, was going to needmechanical help if the two blocks of JohnsHill was to be fielded, and the opposingteam retired. One of the umpires, sensingthe delicate situation, promptly came tothe rescue by confiscating some smallboy's bicycle and riding across the dia-mond to the rescue.

In the box score you will notice thatthe columns "put-outs" and "errors" havebeen omitted. We assure you that theyhave been left out intentionally, becauseof the difficulty of determining who putthe man out, and of the number of errorsmade. Claude Luster, in that respect, hada perfect day, making sixteen errorscoupled with the strike-out record of theday.

"Red" Smith attempted to brow beatthe umpire and chief, Baldy May. "Red"found out to his embarrassment who wasthe boss. Just as soon as a decision wasquestioned, Doc West, the other umps,would rush out to the mound to offerBaldy moral support but the crowdthought otherwise.

The game was called in the fifth inningbecause they ran out of bicycles.

BOX SCORESells-Floto AB R H

L. Davis, If 4 0 1G. Vermillion, c 3 3 1J. Howley, Ib 3 2 2W. Lowen, p 2 3 2C. Taylor. 2b 2 0 0P. Wylie, 3b 3 1 1B. Cornthwaitc, cf 3 2 3

C. Luster, ss 3 0 0L. Jackson, rf 2 0 0

Tubalcains AB R HClyde Smith, c 5 2 2Claude Smith, p 5 2 2R. Bridgewater, cf 4 2 2R. Fields, 3b 4 2 1D. Hall. Ib 4 4 3A. White, If 4 2 2T. Moran, 2b 2 2 0I. Cox, ss 4 0 0L. Barnes, rf 3 2 0

Score by innings: TotalSells-Floto 2 1 4 3 1—11Tubalcains 0 1 4 10 3—18

Home runs—Clyde Smith. Bridgewater,D. Hall, J. Howley, W. Lowen 2, B.Cornthwaite; three base hits. D. Hall, A.White, J. Howley, B. Cornthwaite; twobase hits. Claude Smith, R. Fields, D.Hall. A. White, B. Cornthwaite.

Umpires—May and West.Scoreman—Andy Percival.

SOME PICNIC GOSSIPIf anyone else except Helen Harder had

made a mistake in counting up her golfscore it wouldn't have been so funny.

Walt Morenz almost ruined his picnicpicture because he wanted to remind oneof his foursome that he owed him anickel.

Fred Klumpp had a beaut i fu l child atthe picnic — but the little girl didn't callhim anything all afternoon.

Edna Coyle Moody, former Journal edi-tor, had both her babies at the picnic.

Karl Simroth took a day off on picnicday and took his grandson to the parkfor the big events.

•••Hardly anyone recognized Mr. Gallo-

way when he appeared at the picnic witha hat on instead of the usual cap. Thathat, we hear, is a result cf his trip toChicago earlier in the summer.

*Mayor Smith, City Attorney Carey and

Commissioners Hill and Van Praag cameout to the park to enjoy the fun with usfor a while in the afternoon.

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Some City Officials Were Guests

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Everyone Seemed in Good Spirits

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Women Golfers Were Out Too

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There Were Plenty of Children There

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Ice Cream Eating Was a Popular Sport

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Smiles Seemed the Order of the Day

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Ponies Put In a Full Day

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Family Groups Are Always Present

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Some Prominent Club Characters

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The Weather Helped Perfect the Day

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Laundry Owners Try Successful ExperimentWhen a man undertakes to transact

business with women, he often finds trou-ble. This is especially true if the businessis one which women have always regard-ed as being exclusively their own. Womenthemselves admit this.

Such a problem confronted the pioneerlaundryman, and the tradition has beenhanded down the years. For centurieswomen always did the family washing,and it was natural for them to feel thatno mere man could step in and deal withthe problems of suds and blueing andstarch and rinsing as it should be dealtwith. It has taken this mere man manyyears and cost him a great deal in timeand money to overcome this prejudice.He can now count the victory his, with,oddly enough, both he and the womanas winner—he because he has succeededin a new business and she because shehas been relieved of housekeeping's hard-est job.

In Joliet has recently been opened a

million dollar building, proof of the suc-cess of man in the laundry business. Thisis the American Institute of Laundering,a modern plant, unique in its dual pur-pose, and architecturally one of the out-standing business buildings in that partof Illinois. The location is delightful—just at the edge of the city, where sun-light and air add their share and wherean extensive planting program can becarried out. From its simple, yet impos-ing, entrance through the spacious, dig-nified lobby and on through offices, classrooms and laundries, the building is amodel of modern architecture.

This building is also the silent answeras to why man has succeeded in the laun-dry business. He has gone into it on alarge scale and he has gone into itscientifically. From the pleasant, wellstocked library, through the laboratories,the big laundries and the class rooms thevisitor soon learns that the laundry busi-ness today is no haphazard affair. The

Interior of the big laundry at the Laundry Institute in Jolift.

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Laundryowners National Association hasbuilt this plant, and is backing it, simplyfor the advancement of their profession.Not only are the laundry owners them-selves learning more and more abouttheir business under this new plan, butthey are able to teach their profession tomen and women who wish to take it upas a life work.

Very few other lines of business havegone into their profession with the thor-oughness of the laundry owners. Hardlyany other business can take you into itsplant, show you its working process, thena training school for executives, and lab-oratories where tests of all kinds, relatingto the business, are carried on. It isunique and is proving extremely worthwhile.

In years past laundries were managedby men who had to feel their way. Untilhe had tried various kinds of soaps andstarches for various materials and waters,the laundry owner did not know whichwas best suited to his needs. It was along process sometimes, and generally anextremely expensive one. Now manylaundry owners have adopted a differentplan. They have associated themselveswith this organization which runs alltests for them, helps them out when puz-zling situations arise, and even give themspecial training if they want it.

The Institute does things thoroughly ornot at all, as is proved by the way itmakes its tests. Well equipped labora-tories and trained chemists and engineersare constantly running tests. One labora-tory takes care of all materials sent in bymembers from all over the country. Heremay be found a sheet from Texas, a frockfrom New York, a shirt from the westcoast and various other articles fromwidely scattered districts. Something hashappened to them in the washing and thelaundry owner wants to know why. Hewants to know if it is the soap, the tem-perature of the water or something elsethat he used, or if the blame goes backfarther to the maker of the cloth or thedye.

If the tests show that the laundry is toblame the Institute sends along instruc-tions as to how the trouble could havebeen avoided. If the blame is placed onthe manufacturer the laundryman iswarned to look for those conditions again.

In visiting the big commercial laundry

which is run in connection with the In-stitute one is tempted to borrow fromAmos and Andy, for here the "checkand double check" method is followed.Tests are run in the laboratories, thenthey are put into practical use in this biglaundry. For that reason when the Insti-tute answers a laundryman's question, itis sure of the answer.

This big commercial laundry is not aplace where students are trained, but itis a model for laundry owners. It is aslarge as most laundry owners wish theirplants could be, it runs up full two stories,the entire east side and much of thenorth and part of the south are in win-dows which let in plenty of light andfresh air, and there are no partitions toclog up the atmosphere. All water, drain,steam and gas pipes are under the con-crete floor and there is no steam in theair of the room. During the hot daysthis summer the temperature of thislaundry was lower than the temperatureout of doors—this while all washers,driers and ironers were going.

That laundry owners may see how vari-ous systems and machines work out prac-tically, the Institute uses a variety ofboth in this big laundry. Several systemsof identification are in use, several typesof driers and ironers are used. Here thelaundryman can see these things in actualuse and decide which is best suited tohis needs. All workers in this laundryare experienced and expert, for no stu-dents work in this department.

In the training school there is a ful lyequipped laundry but the students prac-tice there on their own clothes or gar-ments kept for that purpose. This train-ing school promises to be one of the bigthings in the laundry world for it givesa thorough training for executives. Thenine months course gives training inpower plant engineering, production, tex-tiles and wash room practices, accountingand office administration and sales, serviceand advertising. Experts in each line arethe instructors.

Students in this school, which wasopened last year, are not only young peo-ple who wish to enter this particularfield, but they are older men who havebeen in the business but want to learnmore about some particular branch. Biglaundries are learning its value and aresending heads of various departments in

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for courses in the particular branch inwhich that man is most interested. Suchtraining should be of untold value to themen and to the owners.

After the visiting laundrynian lias seenthe whole plant, or after the student'swork for the day is over, he goes backthrough the swinging doors into the quietcorridors and clown the broad stairs intothe restful lobby or cheery library. Com-fortable chairs, well stocked book shelvessuggest a club rather than a place ofbusiness, and the visitor realizes againthat modern business is making its appealto all sides of man's nature.

MRS. ANNA WALMSLEYMrs. Anna Mary Walmsley died in St.

Mary's hospital Aug. 7, after an illness ofmore than 10 years. She was the motherof Harry Walmsley, superintendent of oursyrup house, and of Carl R. Walmsley,president of the Leader Iron works. Shewas the widow of William Walmsley.

She was born in Germany, April 9. 1870.She married William Walmsley Aug. 19,1891, in Terre Haute. Mr. Walmsley diedMay 10, 1929. Mrs. Walmsley made herhome in Decatur for 36 years, havinglived with her son Harry Walmsley sinceher husband's death.

The Artistic Side of Laundries

Abm-c is the exterior of the Laundry Institute,the main stairway.

of the lobby and

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ill Villages Blossoming Bowers Most of YearNote—This article is the second in a

series on the textile mill districts of theSouth, which has been written for TheStaley Journal.

Sociologists have been particularly fondof referring to what they are pleased tocall the paternalism of the mill ownersof the South. Any ills of the industrythey are likely to blame on that condition.In return, the mill owners, when theyhave replied at all, have explained thatany suggestion of paternalism which mayexist is necessary because of conditionswith which one must live to understandperfectly.

The village system, totally foreign toalmost all other American industries, ispractically universal with the southerntextile mills. Although some mills havenever had villages and a few others aregiving theirs up, the majority are continu-ing with the system for they feel that it,better than any other method, solves theirbiggest problems.

This village system is neither perfectnor ideal. There are mills in the South,with a few villages which are all that somewriters say they are—ugly, dirty, run-down and crowded. The people in thesevillages look hopeless and draggled, over-worked and under-fed. One sees thesethings in the textile South just as he seestumble-down villages in prosperous north-ern coal mine districts.

But for one of these hopeless villagesthe visitor sees many, many more of theother type—clean, well kept and attrac-t ive l i t t l e towns filled with normal busypeople. It is not at all strange that themills which put out the best goods, andhave the best reputation in the' businessworld are the ones which have the bestvillages.

\Vorkcrs manning the mills come forthe most part from isolated mountainfarms where environment has not fittedthem for life in an industrial community.To give them employment and turn themout onto the world as unfitted as they areto cope with its problems would be justshort of criminal, mill owners feel.

'It is no sentimental eye which sees injuill owners and presidents a deep andsincere interest in the welfare of their

When a mill owner speaks of

"my folks" he means his employees andit is the rule, rather than the exception tofind these southern mill executives devot-ing more time to the care and welfare of"the folks" than to the actual mill pro-cesses. He feels that he can hire peopleto do that.

Recently it was our privilege to meet anumber of such mill executives in thesouth—most of them southern born, butsome from the far New England states,and almost to a man the one subject inwhich they were most interested was thesubject of the mill workers and their wel-fare. Just like everything else connectedwith the textile industry the executivesare different. Generally they are like otherbig business executives in class and educa-tion, most of them are college men andquite often they are from the finestschools in the country. They are menwho have traveled widely, read broadly—but they have something which manyother business leaders lack. It is an all-enveloping love of their fellow men. Talkto a mill president ten minutes and at theend of that time your conversation willhave switched over to the folks who workin the mills.

This interest is not something that isassumed. It is the real thing, and to themill owner, the big thing. There comesto mind a visit to one of the Soilth's larg-est mills where the executive duties areshared by brothers, sons of the founder.They are proud of their mills, of the highclass merchandise they send all over theworld but during our visit their conversa-tion swayed ever toward the people.Their products are good, and they knowit. but these two men are really moreproud of the fact that they bui l t the firstmodern school for mill children than theyare of a famous trade-marked productthey have put on the market.

In another state our ramblings took usinto the office of an entirely different typeof man—much younger, much more pre-cise in actions, speech and dress, moremodern in business methods. Here, sure-ly, we thought , wilt l)e an executive whosechief a t t en t ion is given to m a n u f a c t u r i n g—one who turns over to a personnel man-ager the matters pretaining to the em-ployees. But again we found our mistake.Everything in the mill was run like clock-

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work, each department under its own ef-ficient head, with the young presidentkeeping a keen and intelligent watch overall, but especially over this matter of "thefolks." He knew, without calling in ayoung clerk with the figures written down,how many families were in the village,how much rent they paid, when the nextbaseball game was to be played and whatchurches his people preferred. He seemedmore proud of the fact that his peoplecome to him with their troubles than of anew branch of the mill which had recentlygot successfully under way.

On the other hand, the employees feeltoward their executives as people gener-ally feel toward an influential and helpfulfriend. He often lives in or near the vil-lage, he and his family attend the villagechurch and his children attend the villageschools. If there is a feeling that he hasunlimited finances, there is also a feelingthat he has even more influence and whenthings go wrong the mill hand's bestfriend is his boss.

As one drives about through the textilecountry these villages are easily distin-guished from the average small towns.

At top and bottom arc community buildings in two mill villages. The building inthe center is a club where mill operatives live.

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Even when a village is just at the edge ofa larger town or a city, it can be pickedout at once. This is not, as might begathered from some literature, becausethere are rows and rows of identicalhouses in narrow straight streets. It is be-cause the villages are so much more at-tractive, so much cleaner, the houses somuch better built and better kept, thanthose in any industrial section or smalltown. Even the streets are seldom laidout in straight lines, but often curve aboutthrough the village, allowing plenty ofroom for small, well kept parks. Whenthe straight street system is used thereis generally space left down the center fortrees and shrubs and grass.

It was this careful attention to beautywhich first impressed us, whose precon-ceived idea of mill towns had been cleanhouses but nothing lovely. Southern peo-ple are great lovers of flowers. Verymodest homes have beautifully laid outand well kept gardens. In districts wheregrass will not grow well, one often seessome hardy, well-blooming plant, over-running the whole yard, detracting fromthe otherwise bare surrounding.

The bill people have made the mostof this love of flowers, and their villagesbloom during a large part of the year,thanks to their climate. Roses, which arenowhere as lovely as in our southland,climb over all fences and transform thevillage streets into fairy lanes in spring-time. Each home has its flowers, and inpractically every mill village there is agreenhouse. This is always owned by themill but the village people keep there allplants which they cannot keep in theirown homes in winter.

Vegetable gardens, too, simply over-runall villages for the people like them andthe owners encourage them. We calledat one mill worker's home, attracted bythe beautifully kept vegetable garden withits unusual but very lovely border ofblooming pansies. A man and womanwalking about the garden seemed to bejust enjoying its beauty. Our companionintroduced us and as the woman gatheredpansies for us (they adore giving awaytheir flowers) she mentioned that she andher husband were just home from the millfor the noon hour but they loved the gar-den so they always walked there much ofthat hour.

If she had not been so busy with the

pansies she would have seen our surprisefor we had supposed, from her out-doorlook, that she did all the garden workwhile her husband "slaved" at the mill.As she chatted on it developed that bothwork in the mill because they enjoy thework and like the money it brings in, andin between times, work in the garden. In-cidently, too, both she and her husbandare ardent Sunday School workers, find-ing time in their busy weeks for meetingsof various kinds.

While each family puts in and cares forits own garden the mill helps in everyway possible. If the individual wants alarger garden than his own lot will ac-commodate, the mill generally will givehim another piece of ground somewherein the village, free of charge. The millwill furnish the team and the plough forbreaking the ground and through the millpurchasing department he can buy seedsand plants at very low cost.

But while the gardens, the bits of park-ing, and the profusion of flowers add tothe beauty of the village, it would all beas nothing without the houses. Whilemost of the employees in the mills havenever known any homes better thanflimsy houses in the mountains, they findin the mill villages well built, and wellcared for cottages. Generally these housesare frame, but in some of the newer vil-lages they are of brick or stucco. Theyare not cheaply constructed wooden-boxaffairs, but attractive little cottages, inmany instances with foundation and porchpillars of native stone. One village, justcompleted, is built entirely of brick, eachcottage with its white columns giving theappearance of a real estate division justopened. As the country in that district ishilly, houses streets are often on differentlevels, but this has been made an assetand yards are terraced and retaining walls,when they are necessary, are nearly al-ways covered with vines.

In the homes where most of the peo-ple formerly lived, even in the homeswhere their friends live who are not con-nected with the mills, there are no mod-ern necessities, such as plumbing, runningwater or electricity. Every mill villagehas these things in all its houses now.As one superintendent told us "We put abath tub in every house. If they prefer touse it for coal storage, of course, that is

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their business, but we always suggest thatit is for bathing purposes."

Rental on the houses is so small that itmakes outsiders want mill jobs. The usualcharge is twenty-five cents per room perweek. Often electricity and water are fur -nished free, and when a charge is made itis a small, flat rate, with no reservationsas to the amount which may be used.Radios, electric irons and other electricalappliances appear in many of the homes,but no extra charge for the extra currentis made.

Heating problems are not great in thatwarm climate but there must be coal, andthis is furnished at a very small cost. Ifthe family has a car—and many of themhave—they can rent a garage from themill for about fifty cents a month. All ofwhich brings the family living expensesdown to an extremely low level. As mostof the adult members of the families pre-fer to work in the mills their income isbetter than the world at large has beenled to believe.

One of the striking differences betweenmill villages and other towns of two orthree thousand inhabitants is that the for-mer have no straggling, ugly business dis-trict. There may be a general store, or abuilding housing the bank, post office, andtelegraph office, but there is no street oframshackle frame or brick buildings,which is the blot of so many small towns.

If there is a store, or a building forbusiness offices, it is generally next to themill offices. That leaves the entire vil-lage for homes, churches, schools andcommunity buildings. These last are gen-erally, next to the schools, the largestbuildings in the villages, because in themtake place a large and varied number ofactivities. They are generally quite im-posing affairs and would be a credit tomuch larger communities. In them areheld school and church parties, movies,big suppers, basketball games and a greatnumber of other affairs.

Always one is impressed by the way inwhich needs have been thought of andcared for in these communities. There isthe matter of homes for unmarried peo-ple, or couples who do not wish to keephouse. Practically every village lias ahotel or club, owned and managed by tin.1

mill, for such people. Every indust r ia lcommunity lias its boarding houses, butthe si- are not of the average factory town

type. They are, instead of dull framedwelling house, specially built buildings,often of brick or stucco, and look morelike clubs or resort hotels. They are un-der mill management and the charges forboard and room are small. If a luncheonwe enjoyed in one such club is a sampleof all meals there, we envy rather thanpity the people who live there. Therewas not only plenty of seasonable food,but it was well cooked, and served bywhite coated negro waiters.

Xaturally there are villages which arcoutstanding because of their nice homes,well kept streets and lovely parks. Onesuch comes to mind in which the streetsare so laid out that there is a broad parkbetween each drive. Trees, shrubs andgrass are under the constant care of agardner. In another a lovely open-air the-atre is used for all school and other vil-lage entertainments during the summermonths. This built on a natural slope nearthe river, is quite as beautiful as any openair theatre any place. At the back andtop, where one enters for the seats, asemi-circular pergola is covered withroses. The stage, one smooth green ex-panse, has as a back ground, pines andclose-growing shrubs, clipped to a mod-ernistic design.

Even the mills themselves, which arealways just at the edge of the village, arenot just bare grimy brick walls. Theyare seldom very tall buildings, nearly al-ways of brick construction, and quiteoften are mirrored in a river which runsclose by. Vines soften these walls andfences, which surround them, nearly al-ways are covered with roses. If the millyard is not big enough to be used as aloafing place at noon, there is generally apark just across the street, where theworkers can eat lunch or lounge aboutduring their lunch hour.

This lunch hour is an important eventin the lives of the mill people. It is nota matter of a sandwich eaten in fifteenminutes, and then back to work. Schoolsin most of the mill towns close at 11:30and just before 12 there is a steady pro-cession of youngsters, carrying bucketsand baskets, arriving at the mil l gates forthose who do not go home. These millpeople are good eaters and they want ahot meal at noon. The man or womanwho conies to work in the morning carry-ing a cold lunch is the rare exception.

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After the meal arrives they like to taketheir time about eating it, and for thatreason an hour is always allowed at noon.The half-hour periods in force in mostfactories would not suit here at all.

It is in showing consideration for theselittle likes and dislikes of their peoplewhich have made the mill executives thepopular men they are among their em-ployees. It may slow up plant efficiencya little to give long noon hours, it runsup plant overhead to furnish water andelectricity and garden plants and ploughsfree, and it may even brand the executiveswith showing too paternalistic an attitude,but it is getting results. People who neverknew anything but hard work on farmswhich even then gave only a meager liv-ing, are learning to enjoy life, and aretasting the pleasures of seeing their chil-dren receiving educations which fit themwith greater earning capacity.

THE STALEY CREDIT UNIONMonthly Statement ending July 31,

1930.Receipts

Shares ........................ $2,860.50Interest ........................ 21.65Entrance Fees . 73.00

Total $2,955.15

DisbursementsLoans $2,800.61Expense 2.25

Total $2,802.86Cash July 31, 1930 152.29

Total $2,955.15

Number of members at the close of themonth 432. Borrowers 40.

This is a splendid showing in view ofthe fact that the Staley Credit Union wasorganized June 6. 1930, with 25 incorpor-ators, and was granted a charter by theState Auditor on July 7, 1930. As we goto press no doubt the membership hasgone over the 500 mark. The directors areparticularly appreciative of the fine sup-port of the foremen in the plant in theirefforts to sell the Credit Union to the em-ployees.

Slip—This is a rare treat.Slap—Sal, I know I don't treat very

often, but please don't rub it in.

New AppointmentOn August 1 E. K. Scheiter, president

of the Staley Sales Corporation, an-nounced the appointment of H. P. Dun-lap as assistant general manager of theStaley Sales Corporation.

Mr. Dunlap has been in the company'semploy since August, 1926 as manager ofthe bulk division. He will retain super-vision of the Bulk division, but will alsoact in a supervisory capacity in connec-tion with the various other sales divisions.

Due to the many new developments ofour company Mr. Scheiter requires an as-sistant, especially in view of the fact thatit is necessary for him to be away fromthe office a considerable part of the time.As Mr. Scheiter's direct assistant, Mr.Dunlap will have full charge during hisabsence.

To relieve Mr. Dunlap of some of hisduties in the bulk department, William W.Starks, Jr., formerly head of our order de-partment, has been promoted to a posi-tion in the bulk division, working with I.F. Wieland, assistant manager of the bulkdivision.

SURPRISE WEDDINGOne of those weddings we have been

expecting, but which surprised us when itcame, was anounced late in August. Jen-nie Cochran and Norval Smith wrote fromChicago that they were married in Clin-ton, 111., Saturday noon, Aug. 23, by Rev.Mr. Boyd. They left immediately for Chi-cago and a northern motor trip.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. A. O. Cochran, 1598 North Morganstreet, and for the last five years has beenin the sales stenographic department. Shewill continue with her work. The bride-groom came from St. Elmo, 111., but foreight years has been with the Staley com-pany, most of that time in the traffic of-fice where he now works.

They have, furnished a house at 433North 19th street.

Although W. R. VanHook has had anice cream freezer for 2 months some of hisfriends and relatives are still waiting foran invitation out to eat home made icecream. Van's excuse has been that theweather has been too hot.

"The man who does his best today willbe a hard man to beat tomorrow!"

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DIVISION HEAD WEDSMargaret Hebert set a new style for

Staley girls when she spent her Augustvacation honeymooning. Margaret, headof the cost division of the auditing depart-ment, and George E. Mennel, were mar-ried Aug. 18. The ceremony was per-formed in St. Mary's church in Assump-tion, at 7 o'clock in the morning, but evenat that hour a number of the bride'sfriends from the office motored clown forthe service.

The bride was lovely in white chiffonwith a ful l length veil caught with awreath. She carried sweetheart roses.Her bridesmaid was her sister, Gertrude,of the sales department. She wore acharming frock of yellow satin with a hatto match. For her traveling costume thebride wore dark blue. The best man wasFrank Mennel, brother of the bridegroom.

Mrs. Lewis Huffer of Decatur sangthree solos during the mass, "Hold ThouMy Hand O Lord," "O Lord I am Un-worthy of Thee" and "Ave Maria."Guests were present from Decatur, Pe-oria, and Quincy.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. Theodore Hebert, of Assumption.For the last ten years she has been in theauditing department, and for the last fewyears has been in charge of the cost divi-sion, a position which had never beforebeen filled by a woman. She plans to con-tinue with her work.

Mr. Mennel is a foreman at the IllinoisPower & Light Co. substation in Decatur.

BARNES-DOUGLASThe marriage of Sue Barnes and Hubert

Allen Douglas took place in the Cathedralin Springfield Tuesday afternoon, Aug.19, at 4 o'clock. Father Fox performedthe ceremony in the presence of the twofamilies. Immediately following the serv-ice a wedding dinner was served and laterthe couple left for a motor trip. Theywill live in Decatur.

The bride is a daughter of W. H.Barnes, of the grain department. Sinceher graduation from Mil l ikin universitytwo years ago she has been teaching inthe Decatur schools. Mr. Douglas, also aMillikin graduate, is in the engineeringdepartment of the Illinois Bell Telephonecompany. They will live in Decatur.

FORMER CHEMIST WEDSAnnouncements have been received in

Decatur of the marriage of Miss CrystalFall and Emery Roth. The marriage tookplace Saturday, Aug. 9. The bride, untila few years ago, wras bacteriologist in theStaley laboratory.

Walter McClure, of the print shop, withMrs. McClure and daughter, spent thefirst part of August on a motor trip inthe Great Lakes district in the UnitedStates and Canada.

This is the way our Margaret looked asa bride.

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OUR TOWEROn the night of our anual picnic, Aug.

21, two other important events took placein Decatur. which were of particular inter-est to Staley people. One was the openingof Lake Shore Drive, from Becker Under-pass east to the Elks Club, and the otherwas the first official l ighting of the towerof our new office building. They weretimed so that the parade of cars passingover the new road turned toward the Sta-ley tower just as the newly installed floodlighting system was turned on. The fol-lowing story of the affair was taken fromthe Decatur Herald of Aug. 22:

All Decatur saw the Staley adminis-tration building floodlighted, and standingout like carved marble against black velvet.

It was a fairy thing; a shaft of w h i t elight surmounted by colors t h a t glowed,melted, and changed; and a beacon swing-ing rhythmically.

A nearer approach revealed the blackshadows of window and cornice, and high

aloft the detail of cupola suggestive in itsdelicate tracery of rare old lace.

Through the evening they came andwent "seeing" the visual tones of a colororgan as up in the control room of thvtower delicate mechanism played upon aclavilux more wonderful than that whichThomas Wilfred exhibits, the richest har-monies.

Frozen music would hardly describe it.There was too much warmth and bril-liance. The wings of the great b u i l d i n gdark, not a light showing, were lost inshadow. Only the main shaf t stood outgloriously. Without the colors this wouldhave been satisfying in itself. But the eye-was drawn to the ever changing shades—crimson, orange, yellow, blue, cerise andbrown, which flowered from the tower.

Beaut i ful as it was from a distance, tin-display lost nothing with close approach.From the viaduct and from Fldoradostreet architectural beauties, never beforerealized, s t ruck the eve.

Our nu'ii mitl some General l:leetric engineers mid representatives, looked happy afterthe toiler flood lit/his urn- in tiood u'tirkiiii/ order. In this picture are J . A. Crary, W. A.GrecHlmv Jr.. ('. I I . AY.r, nil of General lUectrie: John Knlins and J . W. l-l'inini/s, ourot*.'n cn;/ineers; (/. II . Column and G. /:. Simons.

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TO BERMUDAMarjorie Kobh of the sewing room

simply walked all over all other candi-dates in a popular i ty contest in Dccaturthe last week in August, and as a resuit l e f t the last of the m o n t h for a twoweeks trip to Bermuda. The contest wasconducted by the Decatur Herald andPublix theaters, and Marjorie was win-ner by a big majority.

The trip, which will be taken by agroup of ten girls from Publix towns inI l l i no i s and Indiana, includes visits inNew York and Washington before thegirls sail for Bermuda.

All of Staley's was delighted whenMarjorie won, for everyone felt that shewas the right one for the trip. The con-test was open only to girls who are work-ing. Ever since her graduation from highschool Marjorie has worked in the sew-ing room at the plant, under her mother,Mrs. Ethel Robb, forewoman there. Sheloves travel but has had opportunity forlew trips. Because she is the type of girlwho will enjoy the trip thoroughly, andbecause she deserves the honor as well asthe pleasure, her Staley friends were morethan pleased that she could have it.

Everyone was disappointed when JoeKanarien didn't appear to keep a walkingrace date with a well known walker abouttown. Later it was learned that Joe hada singing date that evening and couldn'tenter the race.

E. C. Larsen, chief engineer, and hisfamily, and Robert Patton, store keeper,and Mrs. Patton, spent their vacations to-gether in northern Wisconsin. They madethe tr ip in the Larsen car.

DIES SUDDENLYGrant A. Yount, fireman on one of the

company switch engines, dropped dead onhis engine, Aug.12. his death be-ing caused by aheart attack. Hehad s e e m i n g l yb e e n in goodhealth when hes u d d e n l y f e l lfrom the seat ofthe cab. He wasr u s h e d to St.Mary's hospitalb u t n o t h i n g

f J| could be d o n eI . for him.

Mr. Yount wasborn in Decatur forty-three years ago andhad lived here all his life. He had workedfor the Wabash, but for the last five yearshad been a fireman at the plant. He waswell liked among the people with whomlie came in contact and his death cameas a distinct shock to Staley people.

He leaves his widow, two daughters,Margaret Yount and Mrs. Lloyd Burnet t ,both of Decatur, and a son, John, ofSpringfield. He also leaves two brothers.

Euneral services were conducted in De-catur.

Some day a big discussion is to be set-tled. That will be when Charles Ellisand Kay Sherman meet Jim Galloway. Jr.,and Bob Sherman on the horse shoe court.The elders insist they can spot the young-sters 20 and still beat them. We await theresults with interest.

We strongly suspect that Ed Smithspent his vacation down in old Kentucky.

CLAUDE THOHINQOROTEACHES THE LADIESTHE SVvAN

DIVE DOWNAT THE ^J//r •»_- DONT YOU

i WORRY Ll-rruEI CHICKEN I OSEOT

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BOWLING STARTSLife in the sports world, as in any other,

is just one thing after another. Here atthe Staley plant the golf season is justover in time for bowling to begin. Boththe men's and the women's bowlingleagues will get under way the secondweek in September. The women will starttheir season Tuesday night, Sept. 9, andthe men start their's the next night, Wed-nesday, Sept. 10. Both leagues will againhowl in Hill's alleys.

The four teams in the women's leaguewill bowl each Tuesday night from 6 un-til 8 o'clock. The men's twelve teamleague will bowl in two shifts, from 7 to9 and from 9 unt i l 11, on Wednesdays.

Helen Harder is president of thewomen's league and Marjorie Robb issecretary. Jack Mintun and Eddie Lar-rick are president and secretary of themen's organization.

Women bowlers have been divided intofour groups of seven each, for the fourteams. They are, Gertrude Hebert, MaryHeffernan, Vivian Pierce, Kathryn Shee-hy, Bessie Neyhard, Maxine Bon and LoisSagstetter; Jennie Cochran, MarjorieRobb, Rubymae Kiely, Mable Payne,Ruth Cade, Ella Yates and Jeanne Ball;Helen Harder, Kathleen Starks, BerniceMartin, Frances Hines, Grace Bales,Viola Hoeschler, and Fay Brausen;Javais Cochran. Roxie Walker, MaryDoran, Eve Leaser, Doris Hill, EleanorMiller and Elizabeth Heer.

Mary Heffernan and Gertrude Hebertleft late in August for a two weeks' vaca-tion in Michigan. Jennie Cochran, whowas to have gone with them, double-crossed them at the last minute by marry-ing Smitty and going on a honeymoon.

STALEY FELLOWSHIP CLUBANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

South Side Country Club, August 21,1930.

MEN

Low Gross—Staley Fellowship ClubCup—$5.00 Club—Dunlap.

Runner-up—$4.00 Club—Barnes.Blind Bogey—1st 9—(between 38-47)—

6 golf balls—Heisler.Blind Bogey—2nd 9—(between 35-45)

—6 golf balls—Larrick.Blind Bogey—18 holes—(between 77-

86)—6 golf balls—Morenz.Least number of putts—6 golf balls—

Hadfield.Least number of putts—2nd—1 golf

balls—Litz.Greatest number of putts—2 golf balls—

Connard.Low on blind holes—4 golf balls—Rol-

lins.2nd low on blind holes—3 golf balls—

Glenn Smith.High on blind holes—2 golf balls—

Kuhns, L. Smith.2nd high on blind holes—1 golf ball—

Durkee, Shively.

WOMENLow Gross (9 holes)—Cup—$4.00 Club—-Hines.

Runner-up—$3.00 Club—Starks.Blind Bogey 1st—(between 45-55)—3

golf balls—Cable.Blind Bogey 2nd—2 golf balls—Long-

bons.Low on blind holes—6 golf balls—Har-

der, White.2nd low on blind holes—4 golf balls—

Jennie Cochran.High on blind holes—3 golf balls—Hill,2nd high on blind holes—2 golf balls—

Heffernan.

The flowers sent me by the Fellowshipclub during my illness were greatly ap-preciated.

Alex Clarkson.

. CHAMPION PBANUTOF THE. Ill LE^C-UE -

I wish to thank the Staley FellowshipClub and the Visiting Nurses for the callsand many other thoughtful things thatwere done for me while I was ill.

Mike Campion.

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LANE-FISHERMary E. Lane and Edward Fisher were

married Aug. 9, in the home of the bride-groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E.Fisher, 1630 East Marietta street. Rev.Verne Oglesby performed the ceremony.Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bowman, brother-in-law and sister of the bride, were the at-tendants. The bride wore a dress of lav-endar lace and carried pink rose buds.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. Jay Brown. Mr. Brown is foremanin the table house. The bridegroomworks in the reclamation department ofthe plant.

I wish to thank the Fellowship club forthe flowers sent me while I was ill.

Jesse Anderson.

I want to thank the Fellowship club forthe flowers I received while I was ill.

George H. Smith.

George H. Smith, of the machine shop,was ill for a while in August.

Jesse Anderson, 16 building, was ill inAugust.

- * --I want to thank the Fellowship club for

the flowers sent me while I was ill.A. J. Housel.

I wish to thank the Staley Fellowshipclub and all other Staley organizationsand individuals who showed such kind-ness at the time of the death of myfather.

Charles Ellis.

I wish to thank the Staley Fellowshipclub for the flowers sent me dur ing my ill-ness, and the nurse for the attention shogave me.

John Karr.«•

We greatly appreciated the kindnessshown in our recent sorrow.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Shyer,Harry M. Slner,James D. Shyer.

We wish to thank the Staley Fellow-ship club, the auditing and financial de-partments for the beautiful flowers sentat the time of the death of our father.

Bernice Martin.The Scott Family.

GEORGE ELLISGeorge E. Ellis died in Macon County

Tuberculosis sanatorium Aug. 3 after alingering illness. He had been in the sana-torium for 14 months and had been infailing health for about two years.

Mr. Ellis had lived in Decatur for about12 years. He was a blacksmith in the Wa-bash shops here for that time and beforethat had been in the same work in Mon-ticello for 27 years.

He leaves his wife, his son Charles, ofour starch shipping office and two daugh-ters.

Funeral services were conducted at St.Patrick's church.

The family of Mrs. William Walmslcygratefully acknowledges the kindness ofthe Staley people, and their many expres-sions of sympathy.

I want to thank the Fellowship clubfor the flowers sent me while I was ill.

Charles Johnson.

Thomas Clanton of the electrical depart-ment, says they arc great kids — and weat/rec Zi'ith him. Harold is five this monthmid 1'hyllis ^vill be four in November.Look well worth knowing, don't they?

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The Whole Family Was Home

Bill Ooton, foreman of the feed house, has been wanting to hare a picture of hisentire family taken, and on picnic day he yot them all together. You tount 'em, wehaven't the time. Mrs. Ooton's mother, Mrs. Smith, who had her picture taken withthem, was 73 years old that day.

When Bob Urfer was motoring throughChicago on his way home from Michigan(and motoring through Chicago is stilla fu l l time job for Bob) he heard himselfhailed, by name, from the sidewalk. Hewas startled but game, and he drew upto the curb, only to find John Warren,of our Chicago office, offering him theglad hand. John was just in the act ofpacking his own car for the Minnesotacamping trip he and his wife took late inAugust.

MARJORIE SAYS "THANKS"I never can express my thanks to the

entire Staley group for the help I receivedin w i n n i n g my t r i p to Bermuda. I feelthat the ent ire success of the campaignwas due to the way my Staley f r i endshelped me, and I shall enjoy the trip allthe more because of your kindness.

Marjorie Kobb.

We wish to extend our sincere t hanksto our Staley friends, and especially theStaley Fellowship Club, the MachineShop, Switchmen, and Starch ShippingOffice for the b e a u t i f u l floral offerings aswell as the many kindnesses shown usdur ing our recent bereavement.

Mrs . Grant Vomit and Family.

I want to thank the Fellowship club forthe flowers sent me during my recent i l l-ness.

A. R. Staley.*•

I wish to acknowledge the flowers sentand the k indness shown at the t ime of thedeath ot my wi te .

.1. I . . Johnson .—*—

Albert Hoffman ac tual ly took two hoursoff from work on picnic day, to enjoyhimself. He wi l l work two hours longersome night to make up for it, however.

September 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 35

BIRTHS!Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lahnicrs,

Aug. 8. in Decatur and Macon Countyhospital, a son. Mr. Lahniers works inthe auditing department.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mc-Crory, Aug. 5, in St. Mary's hospital, adaughter. Mr. McCrory formerly workedin the audi t ing department. Mrs. Mc-Crory was formerly June Foster, daugh-ter of Mrs. Edna Foster, of the sewingroom. This is Mrs. Foster's first grand-child.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Han-sen, Aug. 6, in Decatur and Macon Coun-ty hospital, a son. Mr. Hansen is a mill-wright.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bur-gener, Aug. 18, twins, a son and a daugh-ter. The son has been named Harry andthe daughter Marjorie Lee. Mr. Bur-gener is a draftsman in the civil engineer-ing department.

Happy Shaw has a grand new pair ofreally red suspenders but he doesn't wearthem to work any more. He wore thema few times and then decided to keep themfor Sunday.

George Hinton has a "shiner" and isusing Cap Whitten's alibi.

Mrs. Walter Kent returned to her workin the employment office late in Augustafter a two weeks vacation. She, with Mr.Kent and their daughter, motored to vari-ous places of interest in Wisconsin, Mich-igan and Indiana.

"look HIS DO6-TbTHE. PICNIC

MORE GOLF!To Henry Trent, of 17 building, goes

the credit for put t ing the northeasternpart of Decatur on the map of the minia-ture golf world. He has recently openeda course on North 27th street, near Cas-sell's Crossing, and is enjoying a goodbusiness.

While he was busy talking in the cafe-teria k i tchen one day. Charley Long for-got and sat down on a stove to rest. Hedidn' t rest long, nor well.

Ray Wallace, of the refinery, lias sud-denly decided to stop chewing tobacco.

Hetty June llinton really should be culledHob jr., for she looks as much like herf a t h e r as any little fi'irl could. She ?»•/// benine years old in November. Her father,lloh Ilinloti, is kiln house foreman.

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Hill Heer threw a party at the fountain in the cafeteria one summer afternoon. Hiswife and Iris daughters made up most of the party.

Bert Muthersbaugh, grain department,and Mrs. Muthersbaugh, motored to Co-lorado in August.

••Cap Enlows. our fire chief, spent his

vacation in Tulsa, Okla., with the oilmagnates.

Frank Rucker, syrup house, and hiswife, drove to Chicago during August fora short visit with their son, Fred, and hisfamily.

Ed Brindle. track foreman, said thatJuly and August this year reminded himof summer.

There are some who attribute NateSmith's popularity to the fact that he hasa radio in his car.

It is said that anyone looking fortrouble can find it by calling John Rossa Democrat or Andy Percival a Repub-

Slella Lou Hcdrick celebrated her eighth birthday with a party in the family home.and the photographer caught the children right in the midst of their f u n . Stella J.mi is thedaughter of J. M. Hcdrick, who works in the yard at the plant.

September 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 37

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Lisle Brown, of the laboratory, wentdown into Missouri and Kansas for hisvacation the last two weeks in August.He said he expected to play golf and fishfor two solid weeks.

Mike Campion, locomotive engineer, re-turned to work late in August after amonth's illness.

Frank Riber says there are various de-grees of unt ru thfu l people, but he has de-cided that Harve Thompson is in the leadwith all.

A. J. Housel, elevator man in the officebuilding, has been unable to work for sev-eral weeks because of ill health. He isbetter now and able to be about, but isstill unable to work.

Ed Myers is the ring master in DougWilliams' show which is open dai'y. Thestar performance is a contest between thetwo old stand-bys—Joe Daley and OpieReed.

Nita Wisher, of the print shop, literallylet the cat out of the bag the other daywhen she brought a black kitten to the of-fice in a paper sack.

»Jack Mintun took a few days away

from the millwright shop in August tohave his tonsils out.

John Seibert, starch packing, took hisvacation the middle of August so that hecould see the greatest number of horseraces during that time. He attended theraces at the State Fair, in Springfield, andalso in Chicago.

Look as if_they mil/lit he lnnkiiii/ ut the sput where Ilic b,nl\ found—but rcal/vthey were looking ut a ditch dui/ in the new manner—with explosives. We recognise RedThomborougk, Dr. Greenfield, J. I I . Galloway, Dr. Kutsch, Roy Hartman, Slim Mullisand the sporting gentleman in the bathing suit—Buck Scherer.

lheMan in the MoonI Hear In the Moon1—•Tliat the annual Staley picnic held Aug. 21, on a bright and sunny day in

Nelson Park was the best ever;That the worries and troubles of the past were forgotten sociability, fr iend-

ship and good natures were the ruling spirits;That Charles Keck, the Boss President, and every person participating,

men and women, boys and girls, are entitled to unl imited praise furtheir contribution to the good conduct of a gala day.

That your plant Hawkshaw admits he has a problem he cannot solve;That he tells his wil l ing listeners about a beautiful lady who requested him

to show her where John Doe's car was parked ;That as the story goes it seems she had left a pair of shoes in his car.

Hawkshaw would like to know all about the shoe mystery.That the antics of humans living on Mother Earth are bewildering to the

inhabitants of the higher regions.That during the past two months the static in the heavens created by the

wets, and drys on earth praying to the Supreme Ruler for rain wasdeafening.

That if the \Yets and Drys can get together and pray for rain why not gettogether and pray for a settlement of the Wet and Dry problem.

That Hurwell. the big boss of traffic department, is also a promoter of amatrimonial bureau.

That all of his assistants with one exception have taken unto themselveswives. Happy husbands unmarked by rolling pins are his favorites,

That Al C'rabb is the only last rose of summer left blooming alone and hesays he has been proposed to by thousands of fair maidens in hisyouthful days.

That judgment day will hear only one horn blown, and the aged ( labrielwill be the proud possessor of that horn;

That now-a-days so many humans blow their own selfish horns, forgettingthat their friends and neighbors get tired of the man who is alwaysblowing his own trumpet.

That telling the world what you have done is a bad practice (better let(ieorge do it).

That Henry Duhes and Bill Morrison are will ing to be candidates in themost lovable man contest, if only Staley employees are allowed to vote.

That Dubes is willing to spend at least thirty cents on the campaign.Morrison being an enemy of bribery and corruption, will not spend acent, but is wil l ing to make the race.

That Dubes is an orator. Morrison a story teller, Dubes an expert at cast-ing out devils, while Morrison gives them the third degree after Henryis through with them. Vote your choice.

Yours truly.T i l l ' : M A N I N T i l l - : MOON.

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"Oh, yes," replied the storyteller. "He'sdone nothing else ever since."

The insurance company's doctor was avery jovial soul, and liked to "kid" themen whom he examined for policies.Once he had before him a midde-agedman—one of the hen-pecked kind, withmutton-chop whiskers: "Do you drink?"asked the doctor.

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