CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Starch Gets New Home 7

Ten Years Ago 13

Picture Contest 14

Best Fish Story If

Goes Fishing 19

To The Northwest 21

Picnic Program 22

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A negress was charged wi th assaultinganother negress.

"Luella Washington," said the magis-trate, "what have you to say for yourself?"

"Your worship," replied Luella, "Ahnevali struck dat woman. Ah nevahtouched her. Ah had reprimanded herfob throwin' rubbish out back, an' shekept on doin' it. an' this mawnin' Ah re-primanded her again. Ah was holclin' upniah right hand jes' like the Statute ofLiberty, jes' like Ah'm holdin' up mailright hand now. reprimandin" dat woman,an' as Ah come close to her, dat womanjes' jumped head first ovah de railing. Ahnevab touched her."

"What did you have in the hand whichyou were holding up like the Statue ofLiberty?" asked the magistrate.

"A hatchet."

Our Own VaudevilleHarry—I'm forgetting women.George—So am I. I'm for getting a

couple as soon as possible.—Pure OilNews.

An old lady noticed one of those menwho go around jabbing a pointed stickinto scraps of paper to gather them up.Stopping beside him she said, kindly:"Don't you find that work very tiring?"

"Not so very, mum." he replied. "Yousee I was born to it—my father used toharpoon whales."—Boston Transcript.

Business Man (after interviewing hisdaughter's suitor)—I regret I cannot seemy way to allow you to marry mydaughter at present, but give me yourname and address; then, if nothing bet-ter turns up in the near future, you mayhear from us again.

Instructor in University Bible Class—•We will now read a chapter in unison.

Krosh (whispering to his neighbor)—Tell me, is Unison in the Old or NewTestament?

Ad in paper—Large, lovely tapestrylove seat; will sell or exchange for twooccasional chairs.

SweetEnglish version.

Mrs. Kent—Is your tea sweet enough,Mr. Southern?

Mr. S.—-Well, not quite, Mrs. Kent.Mrs. Kent—Here is a lump of sugar.

Irish version.Mrs. O'Brien—An' how's yer tay, Mrs.

Murphy?Mrs. Murphy—Sure oi cud be da'en wi'

some more sugar, Mrs. O'Brien, thankye.

Mrs. O'Brien—Here's the bole, helpyersel'.

Scottish version.Mrs. Macdonald—Phat's wrang wi' ye,

Mr. M'Pherson, ye're no drinkin ' yer tea?Mr. M'Pherson—It's no sweet eneuch,

Mrs. Macdonald.Mrs. Macdonald—Have ye stirred it?

—Edgar Allen Magazine.

Customer—Do you really think sardinesare healthy?

Grocer—Well, madam. I never heardone complain.

Wanted a ChaserFirst Boaconstrictor—Whadja swallow

that dog for? Didn't yah just have a rab-bit?

Second Boaconstrictor—Yeh, but I feltlike I wanted a chaser.—Pure Oil News.

A high school examination paper re-quired a student to translate the Germansentence: "Allah gab ihm die Kraft,"which means "Allah gave him strength."The student translated it "Everyone gavehim cheese."—Not so much of a "boner"at that!—Cheese Kraft.

••"Can you tell me a well-known date in

Roman history?""Sure, Anthony's with Cleopatra."

•••Back in the old days when a man

reached back under his coat-tail, it was athreat. Now it's a promise.

Famous FeetOld Uncle—You must do something to

become famous, my boy. Just think ofCharlie Lindbergh's great feat.

Tommy—And Charlie Chaplin's.

Point 7Fair Today—

Mother—Take that dress off right away.Daughter—Why ?Mother—When you stand in the sun I

can sec your whole body.Daughter—Well, it doesn't look as if

it were going to be cloudy today, does it?

The story conies from a doctor so itmust be true. The scene is laid at tlu-breakfast table where the nursemaid islaboring with two small children.

"George, eat your oatmea!.""George, you must eat your oatmeal.""George, if you do not eat your oatmeal

you cannot have your cod liver oil."

About FaceCounsel—Do you realize that you are

facing the electric chair?Prisoner—I don't mind facing it. It's

sitting in it I don't like.

"I suppose," queries the finicky cityboarder, "that you hatch all these chick-ens yourself."

"Nope," retorted Farmer Penfield. "wekeep hens to look af ter them details."

The girl who keeps her make-up onstraight, her shoulder straps concealedand her knees comparatively unwrinkledmay well say with mother and grand-mother: "A woman's work is never done."

He Would Say It AgainA little boy was walking in the garden,

when a neighbour called him and handedhim over the hedge a jam tart.

"Thank you, madam," he said.The neighbour was delighted. 'How

well brought up you are!" she exclaimed."I like to hear a little boy say 'Thankyou' to me."

"Then give me another jam tart," an-swered the li t t le boy.—Edgar Allen Mag-azine.

"Rastus, why do you call that mule ofyours Circumstance? That's a queer namefor a mule."

"Well, sah, ah done hearn so muchabout dis huh circumstances oveh whichyuh hab no control, ah thought dat wuha good name for dis huh mule."

Not Exactly Intended.They were exchanging gossip ;ifter a

long looked for re-union."Do you know, my dear, we've got a

new doctor now instead of Old Saw-bones, as you used to call him."

"Really, and is he a nice man?""Just delightful , my dear," she replied,

"a simply charming man. He's always socheerful, you know, and he takes life soeasily."

Doctor—I suppose, Mrs. Johnson, thatyou have given the medicine according todirections.

Mrs. Johnson—Well, doctah, I donemah bes'. You said give Sam one o' desepills three times a day ontil gone, but Idone run out o' pills yistiday an' he hain'tgone yet.

Must Start SomewhereTwo business men who were partners

discovered an office boy tampering withthe petty cash. One of them wanted tosend for the police, but the other took amore humane view.

"No," he said, "let us always rememberthat we began in a small way ourselves."

CarefulIn the American advance during the

final days of the war, a sergeant orderedan unbleached private to go into a dugoutand clean out any Germans that happenedto be there.

The colored gentleman blanched a bit,swallowed his Adam's apple, and thensaid huskily, "Ef yo' sees three or fo'men cum a runnin ' out of dat hole, don'tshoot de fust one!"

Driver of collegiate car—Do you dorepairing here?

Garage Owner—Yeah, but we don't domanufacturing.

*Irate Golfer—You must be the worst

caddie in the world.Caddie—Hardly. That would be too

much of a coincidence.

"My Gawd," cried the drunk as hecrashed into the gas station, "I've struckoil."

EditorialThe Picnic

There is a well known advertisingslogan—"It had to be good to getwhere it did"—which we might ap-propriate for the Staley Fellowshipclub picnic. This year we are hav-ing the fourteenth picnic, and, whilethe first one was good, they are get-ting bigger and better each vear.

For fourteen years this picnic hasbeen the high light in the year forStaley people, and never has theactual event failed to satisfy. It isthe one day in the year when every-one connected with the companymeets on common ground, and wheneveryone's first thought is enjoy-ment.

That first picnic was attended byfifteen hundred pepole, and from allaccounts was a huge success. Theone this year probably will be at-tended by five or six thousand, andthere is no doubt of it's success.Whether or not it is a success de-pends chiefly on the people who go.So far those people have done theirpart.

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Singing HeartGrant us, O Lord, the grace to

bear the little, pricking thorn; thehasty word that seems unfair; thetwang of truths well worn; the jestthat makes our weakness plain; thedarling plan o'er-turned ; the carelesstouch upon our pain; the slight wehave not earned; the rasp of care,Dear, Lord, today, lest all these fret-ting things make needless grief, Ogive, we pray, the heart that trustsand sings.—Clipped.

Slop and ThinkIf it were not for this favorite oc-

cupation of the world at large, ofmaking mountains out of molehills,how peaceful our lives would be.Out of the very smallest misunder-standings and incidents the biggestsort of squabbles can arise. A chainand the most insignificant happen-ings can result in a near war, if themental atmosphere is just right.

Think back over any average day.Probably you have been annoyed,maybe angered several times. Ifthings were just right these annoy-ances lead in the end, no doubt, toa break of some sort. Either yourtemper gave way and the unfortun-ate people at hand at the momentsuffered, or you nursed all the littleills until the whole world seemedagainst you and you were a pest tothe entire population.

Maybe the deadly calm would getit, but it seems, on the surface, as ifa few days and letting little thingsgo as such, would be a good thing.If we could learn to take tiny inci-dents at their face value, and not tryto make important matters of themhow much wear and tear we wouldsave on our nerves. If we wouldhold in our tempers until somethingreally big came along to set themoff, how seldom we would have ex-plosions.

Self-AdvertisingAfter having dealt with people in

the business world for nearly fiftyyears our Big Boss says he hascome to this conclusion: Thosepeople who have the most goodthings to say about themselves do

so for a purpose. In order to havethose things said they have to saythem themselves. No one else will.And speaking from a businessijian'sviewpoint, he says he has learned toavoid just such folks.

If a man is thoroughly capable hisactions will speak for his ability. Ifhe can do some things better thanmost of his fellows the world willfind it out, and believe it sooner, ifhe doesn't talk too much about ithimself.

Simple Religion"My religion is a pretty simple

sort of thing. To be happy is mymain job. Experience has taught methat I am happiest when I am doingmost to add to the happiness ofothers.

Such help, of course, must be ren-dered not as a duty but as a pleasure.There's a dickens of a lot of differ-ence, you know, between being hate-fully helpful and lovingly helpful.Has your experience taught you thisor hasn't it?—Clipped.

Certain insurance companies willnot lend money on apartments overeight years or on houses more thantwelve years old.

In construction, in design and inconveniences, living quarters be-come so obsolete in those periodsthat they are of doubtful value, ac-cording to these money lenders.

Families today are dissatisfiedwith one bathroom. They desiretwo, three or even four—one foreach member of the family. The callis for a spacious clothes closet inevery room. Windows must be

large, lighting fixtures must bemodern and electric sockets mustbe everywhere. Styles change infurnaces and fireplaces, and hard-wood floors give way to softwoodfloors.

One wonders where the Americantemperament is leading us. Thewaste seems terrific, yet apparentlywe thrive on it. What was goodenough for the father does notsatisfy the son. What was all rightten years ago won't do today.

After all, why should it?—Bancroft Dye-Jest.

Driver Not PassengerMany of us can remember the

days when going more than 15 milesan hour was speeding—even oncountry roads. Going at that dizzyspeed through a village meant beingpinched by the constable andassessed a fine by the local squire.

But now anyone who loiters on apaved highway at less than 35 milesan hour is likely to receive unkindwords from fellow-travelers. Speedsof 45 miles an hour or more are usualon the main roads and the sight-seeing motorist is likely to blocktraffic.

That means that driving has be-come a serious business. When 15miles an hour was fast driving andhalf the population wasn't out onthe roads there was opportunity toobserve the scenery. At 45 miles theonly landscape the driver can watchis the strip of concrete ahead of him.Anything is liable to happen if hisattention keeps wandering to the dis-tant hills or to the billboards wherea gorgeous female advertises corsetsor coffin nails.

VacationI'm bitten by gnats and mosquitos,

I twitch and I itch and I scratch:My face is all blistered from sunburn.

My shoulders are blistered to match.I haven't a cent in my pockets

(Though that's not a new situation),I'm broke and in debt and my stomach's

upset:I'm back from my two weeks' vacation.

I lived on potatoes and bacon,I slept on a rickety cot;

The nights were exceedingly chilly.The days unbelievably hot.

We spent half our time washing dishes,The other half cooking the food:

Our lives, you'll concede, were quite sim-ple indeed;

In fact they were fearful ly crude.

I'm lame and I'm blistered and bi t ten,I'm shy on my sleep and my rest,

I suffer all forms of discomfort,My outing was rough at the best;

And now that I'm here in the city,Where beds and the eating are good,

Think you I'd go back, if I could, to ourshack?

OH BOY, you can be sure that I would.

—Delco Doings.

THE

STALEYJOVKfMLStarch Gets a New Home

Left—A viciv dotvn the long loadingplatform i/iirs an idea of the size ofthe ii'/jo/c building.

Right—Starch comes downthe winding chutes or goesdirectly to the loading plat-form.

If the industrial world made a customof erecting buildings to honor its founda-tion products, the corn products indus-try could well put up extravagant tem-ples to honor starch. While the grainof corn now results in an infinite andever-increasing number < > t " p roducts , flu-original product, and still a big depend-able one is starch.

When the Staley company first openedits plant in Decatur the original provi-sions were for refining, packing andshipping starch. These processes wereperformed in one big building, whichgrew bigger each year as the business in-creased and as new methods and machin-ery were put into use. The business keptincreasing, but the possible space for ex-

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pansion of the building was all used, andlast year a new home was erected forthis highly important part in the busi-ness of our company.

A site was selected which gave notonly plenty of room for the large build-ing planned, but left room on two sidesfor railway tracks, and space at one endfor motor truck delivery platform. In-stead of being buried in the center of theplant, as was the old packing house, thenew one stands off from the other build-ings at the east entrance, changing andbalancing the entire outline of the plant.

While space, efficiency and safety werethe first considerations, appearance wasnot sacrificed. The plain straight walls,rising a hundred feet are cut through withso many windows that from a distanceone almost gets the effect of a buildingof crystal with only corner columns ofconcrete. While the glistening glass wallsattract the eye of the beauty loving, itmust be confessed that their primary pur-pose was for safety and efficiency. Be-cause of the almost solid walls of glassthe rooms are bright and airy. In-side the building is as pleasing to theeye as it is from the outside, for prac-tically all metal equipment, of whichthere are great masses, is gleaming withsilvery aluminum paint.

As near as it is possible to make it,this building is fire-proof. It is construct-ed entirely of steel, glass and concrete,with dust collecting systems and air wash-ing apparatus which keeps the air freefrom any starch which might be flyingabout. Electrical equipment is all speciallyconstructed for the building and is of themost modern type.

One is first impressed with the sizeof the building. It is seven stories highand long enough to accommodate sevenfreight cars at each loading platform.These fourteen cars can be spotted with-out any crowding, and loading facilitiesare such that they can be loaded andmoved out without any confusion or de-lay. The location of the building is suchthat cars can be switched to and fromthis building without passing through therest of the plant yard. Instead under ournew railroad system cars are switcheddirect from the new packing house to Bur-well yards, where they are turned over tothe roads which are carrying them ontheir way.

This same note of efficiency has beencarried throughout the entire building.From a physical viewpoint the buildingis as near perfect as it could be made.At each end, near the entrances, arestairways, elevators and manhoists. Oneis given his choice of the manner inwhich he ascends and descends in thisbuilding. The stairs are unusually easyto climb, and the elevators are the mostmodern electrically operated automatictype. There are also large wash rooms,and those for both the men and womencontain shower baths. The office, on thefirst floor, is a well lighted, airy room.

This entire building is given over tostarch. The fluffy white product uponwhich we put so much dependence is re-ceived from the starch grind, also a new,but smaller building, to the south.Electrically controlled pumps and pipelines convey the starch from the starchgrind and direct it into the proper chan-nels. For the most part the starch re-ceived in this building is the finished prod-uct, although some part goes through afinal process, modifying it for special uses.

Perhaps the processes in this buildingcan be divided roughly into three classes—packing bulk goods, packing packagegoods, and packing specialties. Bulkstarches of all kinds are packed in bar-rels, drums and bags and the rapidity andaccuracy with which it is done leaves thevisitor gasping. Standing on scales thecontainers are automatically filled, andthen carried slowly, on an endless beltflush with the floor past the packer whoinspects them, on to the sewing machine,if they are bags, and then, still withoutstopping, dropped down a winding chute.

This chute can be diverted to suit theimmediate destination of the package. Ifthe bags are being loaded in cars theygo direct to the overhead carrier belt onthe loading platform, and are dumped intothe car. If they are not for immediateshipment the chutes from the packingfloor are diverted so that the bags landon small trucks on the first floor, and arethen taken to the warehouse or to theirimmediate destination.

Packing and packaging package goodsis almost an entirely automatic pro-cess. It is here that edible and lumpstarch for home use and packed, in amanner which can truthfully be said isdone "without the aid of human hands."

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Some of the New Equipment

Left—The starchconveying systemis controlled bythis board.

Below — This isone of the manysets of reels.

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Aboi'e — Rcdriers forspecial starches.

A'i'.<//i/—A wew in thestarch grind building.

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Packing and Sewing the Bags

Above and to the nglit are views ofthe automatic filling machines.

Below—The other end of the con-veyor sliou'ing the sewing machineand chute dump.

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The cardhoard packages, in flat stacks,are placed in a machine which, withoutany lost motion, opens, glues, fills, shakesdown, weighs, closes and delivers themat the rate of sixty a minute. Girls feedin the flat boxes, and pack the filled onesin cartons, which in turn pass on downcarrier belts to chutes to the shippingfloor.

The special starches, those which needan added touch, are piven this attentionin the part of the building devoted to thatwork. A small laboratory in the west endof the building keeps a trained eye onthese processes, and the manufacture iscarefully controlled through the finalstages, as it has been earlier in the otherparts of the plant. In this department arefinished the laundry starches, adhesives,textile starches and products fcr papermills.

The entire building has been arrangedso that there is as little lost motion aspossible. Even the roof, a really delight-ful place, by the way, has it's quota ofpipes for conveying starch, and for wash-ing air. On the seventh, or top floor, arethe receiving bins, where the starch enters.There are three units here, one for thickboiling, one for thin boiling and one forspecial starch. On this floor also are thedust collectors.

On lower floors, as the process re-quires, are reels and mixers, redriers andblenders. One small ins t rument board onthe sixth floor occupies little space, butis highly important. It is the switch-board which controls the Fuller-Kinyonconveying system—that network of smallpipes which carry the starch from itsearlier processes to the starch grind, andthen into the packing house, always get-ting the right starch into the right bins atthe right time.

There is one large department givenover entirely to coopers and stencilers.Here the big starch barrels are given thefinishing touches and bags are stenciledready to be filled and shipped.

Much of the east end of the building isdevoted to the lump starch department.

Sun and light, plenty of space and cleanair, with modern equipment make this adelightful place to work, as well as anefficient unit of the plant.

BROKER'S SON KILLEDThe many Staley friends of F. W.

Underwood, of Memphis, were grieved tohear of the death of his son, Fred W.Underwood, Jr., July 17. The young manwas injured in an automobile accident ashort time before, and failed to rally.

Young Mr. Underwood was associatedwith his father in the brokerage businessof F. W. Underwood and company, andwas known to a number of Staley peo-ple. The firm are Staley brokers in Mem-phis.

Funeral services were conducted inMemphis, July 18. The Staley companywas represented by X. F. Smith, ourSoutheastern manager.

COLLEGE TRUSTEET. C. Burwell, our traffic manager, has

recently been named a trustee of Eurekacollege, at Eureka, 111. Mr. Burwell isprominent in laymen work in the Churchof the Disciples of Christ, and this col-lege is the only one in Illinois maintainedby this church.

Lynn Davis is having so much fun r.v ^rthe troubles some of his friends have Iv.drecently in getting out of Canada that \vewonder if he is trying to throw out nsmoke screen. He and Bill visited Can-ada on their vacation, it must be re-membered.

Harry Walmsley, superintendent of thesugar house, and his wife, Alice, secretaryto Mr. Staley, spent most of their twoweeks' vacation in July, at home enjoyingtheir garden.

*Charles Fitch, tinner foreman, left the

last week in July for a two weeks vaca-tion trip. With his family he motored tothe Ozarks and Southern Illinois.

Helen Harder left the middle of Julyfor a short vacation in the northern partof Wisconsin.

Nothing will ruin an interesting intel-lectual argument quicker than the arrivalof a pretty girl.

John Kuhns, electrical engineer, had hisvacation in July, and spent most of thetime in Decatur practicing up on his golfgame, and catching lots of fish.

Everyone is anxious for Mary Doran,of the laboratory office, to come backfrom her vacation to find out if she didget married while she was away.

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Three Views of Packaging Machines

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Ten Years AgoDr. Fitzpatrick wrote an article on

typhoid fever.

Art Watkins was having trouble withhis new Ford.

Evelyn Grant resigned to take a posi-tion with the Decatur Brass Works.

Subby Kolb carried water all morningto the elephants to earn a ticket to thecircus.

Even ten years ;:go it was reported tha tFrank Moore was th ink ing of gettingmarried.

It was reported that L B. Hunmtonhvd lef t for a business trip to GraniteCity, with a gun and a fishing rod.

Southwestern MeetingSalesmen in the Southwestern Division

had an enthusiastic meeting when theymet for their semi-annual conference inDallas in June. Package starches werediscussed and general sale problems werebrought up for solution.

At noon a luncheon was served in theBaker hotel. Those at the luncheon wereG. A. Gabbert, division manager, withMrs. Gabbert and their son, C. A. Moore,southwestern division bulk salesman, H.E. Oliver, broker, A. P. McMahon, as-sistant division manager, Ruth Alston,office secretary, and the division salesmen,R. P. Durham, George Faucette, GeorgeMitchell, F. H. Hawkins, G. W. Milhoan,Frank Jones, and J. O. Hewitt.

Morgan O'Brien, safety engineer, wrotean article on the intercepting sewer beingbuilt in Decatur. He wrote from the anglewhich most interested the Staley com-pany.

G. A. Johnson was made general salesmanager, succeeding J. L. Anderson, whoresigned, and T. C. Biirwell was pro-moted to traffic manager to succeed T. L.Wolf. Mr. Burwell had been Mr. Wolf'sassistant.

FATAL ACCIDENTMrs. George H. Hughes, wife of the

superintendent of the Bordon Mills, waskilled during an electric storm July 18.Mrs. Hughes, whose home was in Kings-port, Tenn., was attending the dedicationof a new highway near Johnson Citywhen an electrical storm broke. A treenear her was struck and in falling itstruck Mrs. Hughes.

Mr. Hughes has many friends amongStaley people all of whom were deeplygrieved at the news of his wife's death.

*Pat Mathews, plant B, had his vacation

in July.

Our Texas bulk salesman, C. A. Moore, got into his home town, Dallas, in time tospend the Fourth with his family. To celebrate the holiday, lie and Mrs. Moore had thisfamily group taken. Mr. Moore's territory includes Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma andLouisiana,

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Entered In Picture Contest

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Picture ContestWe are getting some good pictures in

for the contest but we want more. Youhave one more chance at those cash prizes.Enter your pictures before Aug. 22. Thiswill give you a chance to get in somepictures taken at the picnic, if you wantto enter any of them.

Vacation is a fine time to take pictures.When you go on your trip take yourcamera, with The Journal contest in mind.And when you return don't forget to sendin the pictures.

Kenneth Higdon, messenger service,spent his July vacation motoring in Wis-consin. According to the other boys inthat department he was disappointed forhe wrote back that the girls up theredidn't compare with some of those heknew down here.

Pony Wins PrizeLowell Beilsmith and his tiny pony,

Dazey, again won first prize in the De-catur Day Pony Parade, because Dazeywas the smallest pony entered. Last yearthey took the same honors in this parade.

Lowell is the seven year old son ofErwin Beilsmith of the laboratory. Dazeyis four years old but shows no signs ofgetting any bigger.

*Jim Carter, night office gang, got quite

a thrill on his first visit to St. Louis re-cently. When he saw the safety zonemarkers standing by the street car tracksdown town he remarked. "Well, if theydon't have their peewee golf courses onthe business streets here."

The boys in the packing house saidthat was a poor picture of R. K. Lenovertaken the other day, because when it wastaken he was standing.

Bill Bishop, research chemist, has re-cently moved his family into a home theyhave just built in Riverview avenue.

Bud Bresnan has found that he can'tbeat Frank Despres. When he thought hehad Frank in a corner where he wouldhave to pay for the drinks in the oldhome town, Frank pulled a ten dollar bill—and the village storekeeper couldn'tchange it.

Guest From ChinaOne day late in July, Mrs. C. L. Walker

brought her house guest. Miss ErvaMoody, out to the office cafeteria forluncheon. Miss Moody is a Lutheranmissionary in Tsing Tao, China, but hasbeen in this country on a year's furlough.Most of that time she has been doingpost graduate work in New York.

Miss Mood}- and Mrs. Walker grew uptogether in Fillmore, 111. For five yearsMiss Moody has been in this missionwork in China, and she is planning toreturn to that country in the late fall.

Since finishing her course Miss Moodyhas returned to Illinois to remain withher family in Fillmore unt i l time to re-turn to the Orient.

Bob Quillen, of the boiler room, spent afew days in July helping Claude Thorn-borough catch fish in the Okaw.

Very few big jobs are held by men whohonk and honk in a traffic jam.

This wasn't meant fur an appeal for helpfor the blind but we will leave it to ourreaders to decide upon a better title for it.Of course you recognize the gentleman?

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Best Fish Story of Them All

Above — Bill, on extreme right, thother fishermen and THE FISH.

Right—Mrs. Randolph, prob-ably listening to a fish story.

Right—Bill and the kids, Bill theTliird, Virginia and Sam.

BILL'S FISH STORY"I don't expect that Decatur gang to

believe me," writes Bill Randolph, ourSouthern manager, "but while I was onmy vacation I landed a 450 pound seabass." Since he accompanied the letterwith some pictures and a newspaper tell-ing of the big catch, we believe Bill.

With Mrs. Randolph and their threechildren, W. H. the Third, Virginia andSam, our Southern manager spent thefirst two weeks of July in Daytona Beachand it was here that he brought in thebig catch. There were seven men in theparty and they brought in not only Bill'sbig sea bass but another which weighed500 pounds, and about 300 pounds ofsmall fish. All the hospitals and charitableinstitutions in Daytona Beach feasted onfish for a few days after this trip.

DAUGHTER IS BETTERRuth Urfer, daughter of R. E. Urfer,

assistant purchasing agent, is recoveringslowly from a serious illness. She had anoperation for appendicitis late in June,and for several days her recovery wasdoubtful.

One morning recently our well-knowncartoonist -was seen smoking a cigaret,and then someone saw him throw awaythe stub which was still at least a quar-ter of an inch long. Such extravaganceis being discouraged by his friends.

Gene Morrow, brick mason foreman,returned early in July from a two weeksvacation. He spent most of the time onshort visits to his children in near-bytowns.

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JLoVv/E-M HAS XHABIT OF CARRYING

PIPE. ON HIS HE.AD-

T HE. PIPE. F I T T E R S 3A~r THISv HV HIJ> NECK LOOKE.D UIKE.THE. OTHER DAV- N' HE. HAD T'

OLD FRIENDS BACKFour girls who came to work in the

plant tray room H July felt right at homewhen they started in. Two of the girls hadworked in the tray room before. Theyare Mrs. Mable Rickey and Mrs. ClaraPrell Stern. The other two are Mrs.Mamie White and Mrs. Anna Sablotni.Mrs. White's husband was John White,our yard foreman unt i l his death, and Mrs.Sablotni's husband, August, was workingin the garage at the time of his death.

Three of the tray room girls have beentransferred to the packing house. Theyare Mary Smith, Bertha Gowdy and Espi jYork. ^

Some of his f r iends on the second flocrmade it perfectly plain to cur chief chem-ist, Howard File, that they were gladwhen he returned from a protracted busi-ness tr ip to the south in June. Flowers(of paper and wax) decked his desk andthere were plenty of telegrams from thelaboratory.

Maye Baugher has resolved never tosit down in the messenger headquartersagain unt i l she has carefully looked overthe seat of the chair. The fact that thepin wasn't meant for her didn't blunt thepoint any.

W. R. Van Hook, store room office,took his vacation in July, spending mostof the time at home with his newest son.

He—Would you marry a spendthriftShe—How much has he got to spend?

FRATERNITY OFFICIALLynn Hettinger, of the process lab, was

elected grand vice-president of DeltaAlpha Epsilon, at the annual conventionof the fraternity in the Lake Shore Ath-letic club in Chicago recently. Lynn is amember of Gamma Chapter, at Mil l ikinuniversity. This chapter will entertain thenational convention next year.

Earl Mathews, kiln house, took hisvacation late in July, but planned nodefinite trip.

// you called "John Harris" to this trio,all three would answer, for the fjroup \n-chtdes our Alabama bulk representative,John A. Harris, his father, John W. Har-ris, and his son, John D. Harris. The pic-ture was taken while the younger Harrisfamily was visiting with Air. and Mrs. Har-ris, Sr., at their summer home at VirginiaBeach, Va.

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Dunlaps Have Northern Vacation

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Goes FishingH. P. Dunlap, assistant sales manager,

with Mrs. Dunlap and their small daugh-ter Shirley, left early in July for a vaca-tion in the Canadian woods. They spentmost of their time at a camp where thefishing was all that anyone could desire.

Although he is a little shy about the to-tal number of pounds of fish they caught,Mr. Dunlap admits that they all got theirshare, even Shirley, and has brought backa number of pictures to prove it. Theymade their headquarters at the big Can-adian-Pacific camp at Lake Nipigon, butwent out from there with an Indian guideinto the wild country for their three-dayfishing trip.

They caught some pike, but most oftheir interest was in lake trout, of whichthey got a number. Just to prove to theirdoubting friends that they really did getthem, they sent back the two Mr. Dunlapis holding in one picture to Mrs. Dunlap'sfather, Mr. Staley, and he vouches forthe fact that they were first class trout.

The pictures on the opposite page showthe Dunlaps with their guide in theircamp on the shores of Lake Superior.

LOIS COMES EARLYFor some reason, not yet discovered,

Lois Sagstetter arrived at her desk in thegrain department one July morning at6:30 instead of 7:30. Several people havespeculated as to why this happened. Somesaid she came to the office direct from theparty, while others think it was becauseshe was trying to make up for time prev-iously lost.

-*The clay the transformer blew up—A number of people discovered they

could walk from the basement to theseventh floor.

Bill Delahunty and Bart Wilson gotstuck on the n in th floor and decided tostay there near the food supply.

Either Kathryn Sheeny has a doubleor she has been keeping something fromus. Bernard Riddle first made the discov-ery when he saw a picture of Rudy Valleeand his bride in a paper. The bride issuch a dead ringer for our Kathryn thatwe are all wondering if she is keepingsomething from us, or really has a double.

C. M. Cobb, our purchasing agent, hadhis vacation the last of July.

New Safety DirectorAnnouncement has recently been made

of the appointment of Alfred Rosenau,safety engineer, to assist in the safetyprogram at the plant. Mr. Rosenau hasbeen detailed to this work by the Metro-politan Casualty Insurance company,through Durfee, Clark and Nicholson.

Mr. Rosenau has had several years ex-perience in the field of safety work. Inaddition to that he has had a thoroughmechanical training. He enters his workhere highly enthusiastic about the oppor-tuni ty presented, and asks the cooperationand support of everyone in the organiza-tion.

His headquarters at the plant will bethe old insurance office, in the manufac-turing office building, just opposite theforemen's room.

TO HOSPITALEd Myers, reclamation plant, has en-

tered the Veterans Hospital in Danville,111., where he will take treatment for aneye trouble. Before entering the em-ployment of the Staley company Ed wasin the navy.

The women in the office are circulatinga petition asking Andy Percival to dressup in his white linens for them occasion-ally, instead of wearing them only whenthere is a visiting delegation of AmericanLegion wives.

E. C. Larsen, chief engineer, left themiddle of July for a month in the pineforests of northern Wisconsin. He andhis family made the trip by motor.

Oscar Knoebel, superintendent of Ele-vator C, was ill in July.

Frances Wheeler, sales, was ill throughmost of the month of July.

Someone said that Frank Collins, audit-ing, was mistaken for a waiter at theOrlando recently.

-•Blanche Longbons is again working in

the stenographic department in the salesoffice.

It is the biggest mistake in the worldto think that you are working for someone else. Try to realize that some oneelse is paying you to work for yourself.

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Where Lynn and Bill Went

August 1931

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To the NorthwestNote: W. P. Delahunty has written this

story of the motor trip he and W. L.Davis recently took.

On a cool cloudy morning in July westarted on a vacation trip, with an inde-finite objective. The Black Hills, Yellow-stone Park and Lake Louise were to becovered in that order, provided we hadsufficient time for a trip that long.

Going northwest across Illinois toBurlington, Iowa, we turned due westin the distance. From Council Bluffs wecrossed the Missouri River and drovenorthwest across Nebraska to the south-ern entrance to the Black Hills at HotSprings, South Dakota.

The roads through the Black Hills windaround the valleys, over the mountainstreams, with a dense growth of variousevergreen and birch trees covering thesteep slopes arising from the streams.Viewed from a distance, the green of thetrees looks almost black.

From Deadwood in the Black Hills, westarted west for Yellowstone Park. Theroad followed the Powder River northuntil a suitable crossing point could bereached and then turned back south onthe opposite side to cross through a passin the Big Horn Mountains. The TenSleep Canyon on the west side of the passwas our reward for the trying drivethrough the pass. This canyon, so namedby the Indians because it was "tensleeps" from some place, has wonderful lycolored rock walls which stand as sen-tinels to guard the sides of the valley. Theroad was a succession of hair pin turnsto drop down from the pass to the valleyat Ten Sleep. From here we followeddown the valley of the Big Horn Riverand then west, suddenly arriving at Cody,Wyoming, nestled in the valley of theShoshone River and so completely hiddenthat the town is not visible until the citylimits have been reached.

The road from Cody follows the Shos-hone River to Yellowstone Park. A shortdistance out of town Rattle Snake Moun-tain and Cedar Mountain form ShoshoneCanyon. No less interesting than theworks of nature is Shoshone Dam. TheUnited States government constructed itbetween the two mountains. To get mate-rial for it, a road was blasted from solid

rock. The dam itself is higher from itsfoundation to the top than the FlatironBuilding in New York. Water from thelake which the dam forms is used for thegeneration of power and for irrigation.The road skirts the shore of this lakethrough Shoshone National Forest and acanyon with high mountains on each side.

Leaving the park, we drove north downthe valley of the Yellowstone to Liv-ingston, through a pass in the Little BeltMountains, to Great Falls on the MissouriRiver, and on northwest past Glacier Na-tional Park with its many glaciers andinto Canada to Calgary. Calgary wascelebrating the last day of its "Joy Week,"the Calgary Stampede. All the performerswho had survived the preliminary trialswere eligible for the final events to de-cide the champions. Bronchos and steerspitted their bucking and twisting againstthe skill of the cowboys to ride them—mostly without success. Calves wereroped as for branding in a fraction of aminute. The night session saw the cham-pions crowned and the festivities closedwith a mammoth display of fireworks.

Northwest of Calgary in the Bow Val-ley is the Banff National Park. The townof Banff, with its Banff Hotel overlookingthe white capped Bow Falls and beautifulBow Valley, makes an ideal resort. Ani-mals, formerly wild in that region, arepart of the park's attraction. Farther upin the mountains is Lake Louise, generallyconceded to be the beauty spot of thecontinent. The spacious Chateau LakeLouise, with its large poppy beds, over-looks the lake with a grass covered terraceleading to its shore. On either side themountains rise quite steep until they arelost in low hanging clouds or resplendentin the sunshine. From the opposite end,the mountain forming part of the Con-tinental Divide rises more gently. Snowcapped nearly all the year and havingnumerous glaciers, it rises higher than theothers. Most of the year it is in the clouds.With its peaceful, harmonious effect, it isalmost beyond description. Both Banffand Lake Louise are the mecca of honey-mooners.

From Lake Louise we started home,southeasterly across Alberta, Montanaand North Dakota. We again foundpretty spots in the numerous lakes ofMinnesota. We followed the MississippiValley to LaCrosse, across Wisconsin.

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Thursday/ August 20-The biggest and best picnic we have had in the whole fourteen years

that the Staley Fellowship club has been having these events, is plannedfor this year. Every minute of the day, from five o'clock in the morninguntil midnight, will be filled, and there will be such a variety of entertain-ment that every one will find something he likes.

This year the biggest change will be in the plans for the dance. Sincethe completion of the new pavilion in Nelson park it will not be necessaryfor us to go some place else for the crowning event of the day. The newbuilding is quite large enough to take care of the big Staley party, and thedance will be held there, in Nelson Park. This change will work out betterfor practically every one concerned. People who go to the park for theirsupper can remain for the dance, and the park, being on a regular busroute, is much easier reached than most other large dance halls. Therewill be ample parking space for private cars. The colored members willdance at the Coliseum.

For the most part, the program carried out the last few years will befollowed this year. Golf and baseball will occupy most of the morning,with contests, band concerts and boat rides in the afternoon. All day therewill be bingo games in the park and of course the ice cream and cold drinktents will do their usual rushing business.

Golf, for both men and women, will be played on the Southside clubcourse early in the morning. Baseball later in the morning, will be playedon the Johns Hill diamond.

Bingo has proved such a popular game at other picnics that this yearthere will be two games going during the entire day. One hundred fivepeople will be accommodated at each game. Prizes this year will be muchmore worthwhile than in former years, according to the committee. In-stead of the trinkets formerly given, the prizes in Bingo this year will besmall baskets of groceries, small hams and small sides of bacon.

This year the ice cream cones and the iced drinks will be given awayin different stands. Iced drinks will be in the one big stand, while twotents, in different parts of the park, will be put up for the dispensing ofice cream cones. No brick ice cream will be given away in these tents. In-stead there will be four big ice cream trucks stationed in the park at noonand again about five in the evening, and all brick cream will be given outfrom these.

The first thing to do upon arriving at the park is to visit headquarterstent and register. Here the tickets for the ice cream, the drinks and theBingo game will be given out. Everything during the day will be free butnothing will be given out at any of the booths or tents unless a ticket ispresented.

There will be a first aid tent with nurse in charge, but for a numberof reasons there will be no nursery tent this year. Mothers are requestednot to ask the nurse in the first aid tent to take care of their babies, becausethey will not be able to do so.

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That's the Big Day 1PROGRAM

Ruth E. Cade, C. M. Cobh, \V. H. Walmsley, Daniel Buzzard.

COLORED DANCE COMMITTEEHappy Winston, Joe Holston, Harry Sanders, Joe Johnson.

REFRESHMENTSSam Seibert, Robert Hinton, Buck Mathews, Robert Urfer, H. Tread-

way.PRIZES

R. C. Scherer, Ray Bass, C. M. Cobb.

GOLFEddie Larrick, Harry Lichtenberger, Lisle Brown.

DANCE AND MUSICBernard Walker, Cecil \Valker, V. R. March, Eddie Smith.

TICKETSEd. Smith, H. R. Potrafka, L. M. Banning, Dan Buzzard.

LAND EVENTSA. J. Percival, C. A. May, Charley Ellis, Max Jagusch.

FIRST AIDMrs. Lucile May.

STANDS AND BUILDINGSFrank Moore, Jack Fletcher.

TRANSPORTATIONMikey Sheehy, Frank Roderick, Win. J. Thornborough.

CHECK ROOMWm. Heer, Charles Potter.

RECEPTIONA. E. Staley, Sr., A. E. Staley, Jr., Dr. AN". A. Kutsch, J. H. Galloway,

E. C. Larsen, E. K. Scheiter, C. M. Cobb, Lynn Davis.

ARRANGEMENTSC. A. Fitch, W. H. Broadbear, H. Hollis l l ise.

AMUSEMENTCharley Ellis, W. J. Thornborough, Phil Wills, Jack M i n t u n , T. J.

Gogerty,

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Carry Off Honors In Golf

Marjorie White below,and Pauline Cable right,tied for third and fourthplaces.

Above —Joe Lahmcrunner-up.

Right-Jean Balltook firsthonors.

Below —Carl Wai-tens tookfourth prise

Left—FloyStanley icasrunner-up.

Below—Bill Dela-liunty, men'swinner.

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Bill Delahuniy WinsThe Men's June handicap golf tourna-

ment is over and the July tournament iswell under way.

Waltens and Delahunty came downfrom the upper bracket and Lahme andThrelfall came up from the lower bracket.Carl and Bill played their match onThursday, July 2nd, after work, Bill be-ing the winner. Joe and Ted had alreadyplayed their match, Joe being the winner.Bill was going away on his vacation Fri-day so Joe and he played the next morn-ing at 5 to decide who was the champ,Bill getting the upper hand of Joe andwinning the tournament. Ted and Carlplayed for third and fourth places, andfinished their match even up. They flip-ped a coin and Ted won.

The July tournament has been dividedinto three classes. Men who have shotscores from 80 to 90 are in the first class,from 90 to 100 second class, from "100thereon third class. The first round offirst class finished as follows: Lahmedrew a bye, also Yochum, File beatMarch, Rollins beat G. Smith, Bishopdrew a bye, also Threlfall, Barnes wonfrom Heisler, Brown beat McDonald.

Results of second class, first round:Torre won by default from Watkins, Lar-rick won from Trent, Waltens won by de-fault from Hise, Litz beat Hettinger,Morenz won by default from Starks, alsoHufnagle from Knoebel and Boren fromOwens. Wills won from Delahunty.

Third class, first round: Ed Smith drewa bye, also Kuhns, Ivens beat Lashinski,Lukey won by default from Bresnan,Crane drew a bye, also Bailey, Durkeewon by default from Shively, Wilbur wonfrom Depres.

Charles Perrill, of Elevator C, has beenill with rheumatism for two months, andduring most of that time has been unableto work.

Harold Wilbur, elevator C, jumped intoa vacation without any plans and says heenjoyed himself wonderfully. He visitedrelatives for a while (selecting those whohad the best frying size chickens) andthen came on back to Decatur and playedgolf.

Jean Ball WinnerThe girls' June handicap finished with

Jean Ball the winner and Mrs. Floy Stan-ley runner up. Mrs. Pauline Cable wasthird, and Marg White fourth. I can'tvouch for this story, but I've heard thatwhen Jean Ball played Ruby Keily, some-one told Ruby that winter rules could beplayed, so every time Ruby came up tothe ball, the caddy set it up on a tee andshe drove off with her driver until shegot almost to the green, then used heriron clubs. Rubymae won easily butwhen she learned her mistake, insistedthe match be played over. This time Jeanwon. At least we have one honest golfer!

JOHN GOES FISHINGThis is the season of tall fish stories so

John Harris sent us this one from Birm-ingham. He insists that while he wason his vacation this year at a resort be-tween Norfolk and Old Point Comforthe brought in about fifty pounds of fishone day. He insists they were Spots andCroakers, too, and that he caught themabout a mile from shore. We have al-ways found John fairly t ruthful , but wealways will suspect that he stuck in thatbit about Spots to make us jealous.

Carl Waltens, we hear, has gone Puri-tan and does not approve of the newfashion some of the girls have taken upof wearing pajamas in public. Bathingsuits are all right though.

Mark Beck, of the starch shippingoffice, spent the week end of July Fourthon a motor trip to Osage river district inthe Ozarks.

We don't know how it happened butwe do know that Gertrude Hebert hada badly sprained ankle for a while. Sev-eral people have suggested ways in whichit might have happened.

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RESEARCH CHEMISTArthur H. French came to the com-

pany in July as a research man in thepaper mill division. Mr. French comes tothe Staley company from the Johns-Man-ville Corp. laboratories in Manville, N. J.,where he was chief chemist. He is agraduate of the University of Maine.

••St. Louis knew it when a quartet of

Staley men drove down for a doubleheader baseball game one Sunday in July.In the crowd were E. L. Collins, nightbuilding superintendent on the general of-fice, two of his men, Steve Holmes andJim Carter, and Phil Bateman, messenger.

Our advertising ntanayer, G. BernardKiddle, beiny thoroughly modern, selectedthe day upon which his son ^i'as twomonths old to initiate that young man asan air traveler. And did young George en-joy himself? According to Iris fond parentslie liked it so well that the next day at thesame hour he cried to go again. Just be-fore the trip, Mrs. Riddle posed with herson.

Baseball TroublesBy Eddie Larrick

Well, our baseball team is still pluggingaway having had some tough breaks ingetting beat out by one run in the lastinning.

We played the Wabash twice in oneweek, one a postponed game and oneregular game, both ending by a score of5-4 and 7-6 for Wabash.

However, our team has made a verygood showing again this year, taking intoconsideration that our boys, especially thepitchers, work all day in the plant thengo out and pitch six or seven innings,while most all of the other teams in theLeague besides our good friends, the I.T. S. Shops, have pitchers from outsideof their plant or factory. The other play-ers of our team also put in a good days'work so when you go over and root forour boys don't expect to see them run-ning around f u l l of the pep like our ThreeEye League players are. We also havehad this year some very nice service fromplayers who do not work in the plant , in-cluding Walker Wilcott , Walter Koshin-ski and Owens. This is the first timethat this has ever had to be done as wehave always had plenty of ball players,but each year Old Father Time cuts downwith his scythe a li t t le more.

The Industrial League will finish inanother week or so, and no doubt we willfi ish in a tie for third place.

R. C. Scherer, chief auditor, took oneweek of his vacation in July, and spentit at a cottage on Lake Decatur.

Howard File is an ardent believer insigns, and takes them at their face value,particularly traffic warnings. He thinksAndy Percival would make a great l i t t letraffic cop.

It was a nice hot day—more than 100in the shade—when Bob Urber found thathis gas tank was empty. Only Bob wasabout six miles from the office and notin the shade.

John A. Harris, our Alabama repre-sentative, spent his vacation with his par-ents in a cottage at Ocean View, Va. Thisresort is near the elder Harris' home, Nor-folk. John's wife and young son accom-panied him on the trip.

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Soft Ball LeagueBy Eddie Larrick

After some very harsh and hard talkingwith my good friend, Ed Smith, a softball league was started, play getting underway July 6 to run up unt i l the first weekin September.

Quite a good bit of interest has beentaken and it wasn't very long before 7teams were in the field. It has been im-possible for one poor human to keep trackof all the wins and losses but the Audi-tors, Messengers and Electricians havenot lost a game. Also Traffic has notwon a game. All the games are very in-teresting, lots of fun and comedy all ofthe time, so any time you have a few min-utes to spare just drop over to the dia-mond just east of the Office building.Plenty of good soft seats for everybodyand always in the shade. The games areat 5:30 in the evening.

Ed Smith has been in charge of theleague and is doing a very good job of it.He always is ready to help out on theumpiring and usually whenever he calls aplay it stays as he calls it, for after solong a time he slaps on a fine or puts theplayer out. You know he can do that too,being the Judge Landis of the League, sobeware, boys!

FITCH-JONESAnnouncement has recently been made

of the marriage of Thelma Fitch andPaulis Jones, which took place in Newton,111., recently. The bride is the daughterof Ralph Fitch, tinner. The couple willlive in Newton.

When they want to frighten KathrynSheehy now they tell her to be carefuland not eat too much or she will get asfat as Doc West.

Maurice Armentrout spent his vacationhere in June with his father, J. N. Ar-mentrout, night time keeper. Maurice iswith a contracting firm in Texas.

Russell Baer, sales, insists that wemoved him bodily into Warrensburg inlast month's Journal, while he has livedmost of his life and still lives, one stationfarther east—Harristovvn. We are sorry.

GLORIOUS FOURTHFloy Stanley celebrated the Fourth in

a glorious manner which included playing36 holes of golf, being hit in the head bya golf club in the hands of her husband,getting a hole punched in her leg by awire fence she tried to climb, by gettingmixed up with poison ivy, and by acquir-ing some painful sunburn. But she insistsshe had a grand time.

So many people are wondering whereJohn Dougherty got that bad eye.

While we arc on the subjects of grand-daughters and nieces, the Fosters wouldlike a word. This is Archie Foster makingpretty (?) faces to amuse his lovely niece,Patricia Louise McCrory. Patricia Louiseis the granddaughter of Mrs. Edna Foster,sewing room. Her fattier, Ralph McCrory,formerly worked in the auditing depart-ment.

30 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1931

AUNT FANNIE

Says Frances Hincs, aitditiny, "This isme and my baby," only the baby is reallyher young niece, Mary Ann Lees. MaryAnn is the only niece in the family, inci-dcntly, but aside from that anyone couldsee that she is a thoroughly cliariiiint/young lady. She scons to love liariny herpicture taken wi'//i her adoring auntie.

VACATION IN NORTHWESTJ. W. Morrison, assistant plant super-

intendent , and Mrs. Morrison, spent themonth of July in Vancouver, B. C., wi ththeir son-in-law and daughter, Mr. andMrs. Karl Haspel. As they wished tospend as much time as possible with theHaspel's they were not planning to domuch sight-seeing either going out or ontheir return trip.

Kathryn Sheehy and Frances Hincshad a perfectly good vacation handed tothem, and a terrible time finding someplace to go.

You'll be as surprised as we were whenyou see this—Harry Lichtenberger th inksthe girls should wear pajamas to the of-fice.

Please Return BooksEarly last month a new policy was

adopted regarding the return of books tothe plant library. Persons who have notreturned the books borrowed will, at theend of three weeks, receive a card remind-ing them that the books are due. In com-parison with the number of readers wehave our number of books is small, andit limits the circulation terribly if any-one keeps a book more than three weeks.

Please bring your books in promptly sothat the other fellow may have a chanceat them.

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Charley Long—I sure got sick on thatwatermelon I had last Saturday night.

Tom \\agner—That's the first time Iever knew they put watermelon up in bot-tles.

Bernice Martin, our telephone operator,took one week of her vacation in July,and spent most of the time, as so manyStaley people have been doing this year—playing golf. ^

M. B. Jones, telegraph operator, hadhis vacation in July.

Gail Garrett has been put in charge ofthe starch packaging machinery.

ll'alter Franklin Meincrt is only /ii'«\enrs old but he Itus a smile just like Wal-~ter Sr.

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VACATION IN NORTHMarjorie Mui rhe id . of the sales depart-

ment, is taking her vacation in northernWisconsin this year. She and her hus-band went with her sister and her hus-band. Mid and John Warren of Chicago,for two weeks of back-woods life.

Louie Kossiec't, elevator operator,would give a lot to get something goodon Marj White and Gertrude Hebert. Thelast one they got on Louie was good. Askhim about it—lie will ho glad (?) to tellvou.

A REAL FISHERMANA friend of his has suggested that when

Decatur gets ready to appoint a Secre-tary of Fisheries, John Kuhns be namedfor the job. While John was on his vac'i-tion he dragged in so many fish that hi.;wife couldn't use all of them, and theydistributed them among the neighbors.Of course it is taken for granted that Johncaught all of them himself, although it iswell known that his son, Jack, has a com-plete fishing outf i t . John says he fishedout in the neighborhood where he wasraised so he probably knows where allthe fish hide in that neighborhood.

Al Lukey, traffic, motored to Keokukwith his wife and children the middle ofJuly. Mrs. Lukey and the children re-mained in Iowa for a short visit, while Alcame on back home and spent the rest ofhis vacation at Faries.

Claude Thornborough, foreman of theboiler room, spent his vacation in July,fishing in the Okaw river.

SOME PARTYHill Lowen, pipe shop, and Baldy May,

blacksmith, took their wives on a Fourthof July party which woke up Indianapolis.The party of four drove over to Indianato spend the week-end and while theywere there did everything that ore c'indfi in that city and a few things that arenet allowed—for instance they took a ridearound the race track at the Speedway.

He:;ry Scherer took one of Hs goodlooking cousins to the Wayne King dance,but this wasn't the same cousin he hadvisit ing him the week before.

John Dougherty, first floor messenger,spent most of his two weeks vacationmotoring about central Illinois.

Oscar Knoebel. superintendent of E'e-vatcr C.. le f t the middle of Ju ly for hi;annual vacation i:i ()c inomowoc. \.

Roy M. Ives, package sales manager,spent his vacation on a eastern motor trip.

Eva and Marjorie Matlieu's brouyht theirjollier's lunch one day when the camerahappened to sec them. They are the daugh-ters of "Buck" Matlicws of the kiln house.

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WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. John Saloga had this pic-ture taken on their sixth wedding anniver-sary. They celebrated this event June 11with a party in the Staley club house. Johnworks on the pipe gang.

Everett Wright says some things do gethis goat, but as he remarks that is easyfor he never keeps it tied.

Chester Arney, of the oil refinery, tooka vacation in July but he didn't say muchabout his plans.

Jennie Smith, sales, had her vacation inJuly, but spent most of the time in De-catur.

Jay Brown, table house, had his vaca-tion in July. Part of the time he spentin St. Louis.

DURING THE HOT WAVEFor the first time in history Mr. Staley,

Sr., appeared around the office without acoat and vest.

Ed Smith took off his hat in the office.Bart Wilson, it is rumored, shed his

shirt.Rubymae put a towel down the back

of her blouse to keep cool.Ella Yates wrapped a wet towel around

her throat.Marj White tore the sleeves out of her

dress.Dr. Kutsch took off his necktie.Mary Doran expressed a desire to come

to work in a bathing suit.Dorothy Dayton's thermometer regis-

tered 115 and then burst.Nobody wore the usual amount of

clothes except Lucile Schultz and B. Case.Margaret Girl and Irene Talbott found

corn starch a great relief from the heat.

H. J. Kapp, gr;:in manager, spent twoweeks vacation in the north woods fish-ing-

Bob Rosebery, from all indications,bought an electric fan during the secondhot wave of the summer.

Eddie Larrick, traffic, spent his Julyvacation working in his garden and at-tending baseball games.

Carl Waltens, Kermit Shively and GlennSmith, all of the auditing department, hadtheir vacations in July.

Lige Leaser, night millwright, had both of his California granddaughters with himthis summer, and was very happy. With him are shown his daughter-in-law, Eve, of ourgrain department, his daughter, Mabel, and his daughter, Mrs. Kay Judy, of California.The two granddaughters are Dorothy Jean Judy and Patsy Rhae.

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PETERSON-SMITHLola E. Peterson and Clifford E. Smith

were married in Lincoln, 111., June 28.The ceremony was performed by the Rev.Mr. Hooe in his home. Attendants wereLouise McKinney and Sherman VanWin-kle. Following the ceremony a weddingdinner was served to 25 guests. Later Mr.and Mrs. Smith left for a motor trip toWisconsin.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. George Peterson, of Bowen, 111.,and has been teaching in Bethany, 111.,since her graduation from Eureka college.

Mr. Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs.P. L. Smith of Greenville. He also taughtin Bethany before coming to the Staleycompany a few years ago. He is a chem-ist in the process laboratory.

They have taken a house at 1160 EastCantrell street.

ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENTAnnouncement has recently been made

of the engagement of Evelyn Strausbaughand Glen Moran, the marriage to takeplace in the fall. The bride is the daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. K P. Strausbaugh,600 East Lawrence street, Decatur. Thebridegroom, the son of Thomas A. Moran,has been employed in the millwright shopat the plant for several years, and is muchbetter known to his Staley friends asSpud.

GUILD HAS PARTYThe Otterbein Guild of the Third

United Brethren church had a breakfastin the club house July 23.

JUST MARRIED

According to one of the men with whomhe works in Elevator C, this is Harry Belland his 98%. Harry was married tliis sum-mer.

BAGGOTT-BELLHelen C. Baggott and Harry D. Bell

were married July 4 in the TaylorvilleBaptist church. Rev. J. R. Hastings per-formed the ceremony. The bride is thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E.Walker and has been working at theNightingale shop. Mr. Bell is the son ofMrs. Elizabeth Bell. He works in Eleva-tor C.

When Cecil Walker, our credit manager, has a family forty lie has the wholecrowd. In this group, which made u[> a luncheon party at the office one day, arc HelenWalker, Mrs. Walker, Miss Erna Moody, C. L. himself, Bill and Nina Lou.

34 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1931

PICNIC GOLFThe picnic golf tournament for both

men and women will again be played atthe South Side Country Club.

The men will tee off as soon as thelast foursome of girls has started. How-ever, any of the men who wish to startearly may do so, leaving their handicapwith the caddymaster before starting.

It has been suggested that the girlsget started at 6 o'clock or as soon there-after as possible.

All members of the Fellowship Clubhave the privilege of playing the wholeday.

The prizes for the girls, who will playthe first nine only, are as follows:Low Gross (9 holes) Journal Cup—$4.50

Club.Runner Up—$3.00 Steel Shaft Iron Club.Blind Bogey (between 45-55)—6 Balls.Blind Bogey, 2nd—4 Balls.Low on Blind Holes—3 Balls.Low on Blind Holes, 2nd—2 Balls.High on Blind Holes—3 Balls.High on Blind Holes, 2nd—2 Balls.High Gross on 18—2 Balls.Guest—Low Gross—2 Balls.

The prizes for the men for eighteenholes are as follows:First—Cup—$6.50 Club.Runner Up—$4.00 Club.Blind Bogey—1st 9 (between 38-47)—

$3.00 Knickers.Blind Bogey—2nd 9 (between 35-45)—

$3.00 Knickers.

Blind Bogey—18 holes (between 77-86)—$3.00 Knickers.

Least Number of Putts—6 Balls.Least Number of Putts, 2nd—4 Balls.High on Blind Holes—2 Balls.High on Blind Holes, 2nd—1 Ball.High Gross on 18—4 Balls.Guest's Prize—Blind Bogey, 18 holes (be-

tween 77-86)—6 Balls.Any player, either man or woman, can

have only one entry (score) in the tour-nament for prizes, also o::ly in mbers cfthe Fellowship Club are eligible for theprizes.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Dale Tish, 1003East North street, July 23, a son. Mr.Tish works on the yard gang.

Eibo Frerichs, of the millhouse, had hisvacation in June.

Omer Nafziger, who formerly workedin the garage, is now working in the pack-age department of the packing house.

Together at LastTimothy Hay—Yes, Old Man Skinkcr

lit the kitchen fire with gasoline. It wa.;the strangest thing I ever heard.

Al Falfa—What did it do?Tim—It blowed him and his wife out

through the roof an' they ain't never beenheerd from since.

Al—They wan't nuthin ' so strangeabout that, was they?

Tim—Yes. They hadn't been out to-gether for twenty years.—Pure Oil News.

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August 1931 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L 35

Spread of Credit Unions(This is the sixth installment of "The

Spread of Credit Unions" by Edward Fi-lene.)

As to how the credit unions shall em-ploy the great financial power which iscoming to them, I find myself a mosteager observer. I believe that they willuse this power in line with the develop-ment of mass production and mass distrib-ution, and that will develop thr i f t amongtheir members by the encouragement ofprocesses which would have seemed any-thing but thr i f ty twenty-five years ago.I believe, for instance, that they will en-courage wise spending; that they will notdevelop competitive cooperatives af ter themanner of the old-time European organi-zations but will help to finance consump-tion of all sorts of comforts and evenluxuries, such as automobiles, radio sets,electric refrigerators and household ap-pliances, even domestic and foreign travel,wherever the production of these thingsis carried on according to the most scien-tific mass production principles and there-after at the lowest possible prices. Theywill encourage their members to borrow,I believe, not merely to tide themselvesover emergencies but to maintain a rea-sonably high standard of living. For con-sumption must be financed if there is tobe general prosperity. The union whichenables a member to finance the purchaseof a radio or refrigerator will be givingemployment to radio and refrigeratorworkers; and these, through being em-ployed and thereafter retaining their buy-ing power, will be giving employment toothers.

This process is still a mystery to theancient type of financier; it is difficult forhim to see that mass production demandsnot merely an extension of buying power,but that this buying power shall be ex-tended to the masses generally. But thereis no other answer. There is no othereconomy. It is the economy of highwages instead of low, the economy of lowprices instead of high, the economy ofsteady work with more and more leisureto use the ever-increasing volume of bet-ter things which we are cooperativelymanufacturing. It is the reverse of thepractice of frequent shut-downs and longperiods not of leisure but of desperatefutility.

There can be no human society with-out some sort of financial and creditsystem but how to democratize it has beenone of the baffling problems of politicalhistory. Attempts merely to curb the ever-present "money-power" did not pan out,for they usually ended in curbing thecredit upon which the social structure waserected. Democracy said that one manwas as good as another and decreed there-fore that one man's opinion should be asgood as another's; but social evolutionwould not accept the dictum and reactedto the facts instead. We are beginning tounderstand in these days that one man'scooperation is as necessary as another's,and to look for our democracy not amongthe opinions of those who do not know,but in the constructive participation byeverybody in a society built for all.

(Last of the serial.)

MONTHLY STATEMENTJune, 1931

Balance Sheet Accounts

CashBondsPersonal Loans .SharesEntrance Fees . .Reserve Fund . .Undivided Earn-

ingsInterest

Debits$ 476.37

259.02. 16,902.03

Credits

$ 16,439.3521.75

227.77

9.26939.29

Total $ 17,637.42 $ 17,637.42

CAP-

36 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1931

J. 13.POL.ICELCOAN

Arthur Dougherty was guest of honorat a surprise party on his birthday July21. The party was given in the Staleyclub house. He is a brother of JohnDougherty, messenger service.

NOT SO GOODHarry Bell made a fatal mistake when

he told the gang at Elevator C in ad-vance about his wedding. The event wasset for six o'clock in the evening, andHarry figured that he would have plentyof time between his regular 4:30 quittingtime and 6 to get ready. But he figuredwithout the gang. While he was prepar-ing to take a shower someone beat himto it, and instead of getting a shower ofwater he got a bath in tar. The drycleaning process was slow but he finally"came clean" and the wedding was car-ried through as scheduled. Harry stillfails to see the joke, however.

Gertrude, of the plant cafeteria, haslearned never to pay for a dozen eggsunt i l she has the eggs in her possession.The last time she paid in advance Armytook them home when he found them inthe time office.

The sons and daughters of WilliamSchultz wish to express their sincere ap-preciation to the Fellowship club and theloading gang for flowers sent at the timeof his death.

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

Franz Saloga.

We are grateful to the Staley Fellow-ship club for the flowers and kindness atthe time of our sorrow.

Mrs. E. C. Wilson,Helen E. Boone,F. W. Wilson and

Family.

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Mark Beck enjoyed a week end trip to this big dam in the Ozark mountains re-cently.

August 1931 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L 37

JOHN SEES TRAINBy the Tatler

The honorable Johnny Martin was bornin the viciinty of Dover, Tenn., the coun-ty seat of the county and situated sixteenmiles from a railroad. It is a prominentriver town in that part of the state butis entirely without railroad service.

It is the custom in that vicinity thatwhen a person of either sex becomes ofage they are taken or sent to see a train.In John's particular case it is said thathe was cautioned by his relatives andfr iends that a train was a big roaringthing that was ful l of steam and noise andwhistled and rang a bell and went quickerthan scat and would kill you if it hit you.He was also told that it stayed on thoseiron things and would not chase one outinto the field or out into the timber.

On John's twenty-first birth anniver-sary he, with the help of his savingsand some of his mother's butter and eggmoney, negotiated the purchase of asplinter fired new buggy. In order to dohonor to the occasion he escorted a prom-inent young lady to the town sixteenmiles away where the train could be seen.After a long tiresome wait without see-ing a train they decided to return homeand come back some other day. John hadunhitched his horse from the buggy nearthe railroad tracks and led him away to athicket where he would not be frightened.The young lady suggested that John goget the horse but Johnnie demurred say-ing that it was down grade and for her tosit still and he would pull the buggydown to where the horse was. As hestarted to do this the train came around a

CLAUDE'S FISH

Claude Thornborongh wanted the worldto see just zvliat big catfish he could catch,so he had his young daughter stand up be-side it. The fish, u'dghing 42 pounds, wastaken from the Okaw river while Claudewas on his vacation. Bob Quillen was fish-ing with him at the time and vouches for it.

curve and bearing down on John fright-ened him so that he ran away and torethe buggy all to pieces and tore down aquarter of a mile of fence.

38 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1931

YOUNG WOMAN DIES

Ruth Perjanie died this spring after along illness. She uias the daughter of Mrs.Martha Perjanic, of the tray room.

SEWARD B. TROWBRIDGESeward B. Trowbridge, former Staley

tinner, died from a throat infection July13. He had been ill only a few days. Heleaves his widow, his mother, Mrs. J. B.Trowbridge, two brothers, Chase, of St.Louis, and Russell, a t inner at the Staleyplant , and two sisters, Mrs. L. C. Mun-son and Mrs. Charles A. Fitch.

He was a member of Stephen DecaturLodge No. 979 A. F. and A. M. and ofthe American Legion. After leaving theStaley company he was on the policeforce in Decatur.

We wish to thank the Fellowshipclub, the tinners and the mechanics forthe flowers sent at the time of our recentsorrow.

Mrs. Elsie Trowbridge,Mrs. Elizabeth Trowbridge,Chase and Russell Trowbridge,Mrs. Fay Munson,Mrs. Vera Fitch.

MRS. HONORA GOGERTYMrs. Honora Ciogerty died in the home

where she had lived for sixty years, June28. She was 93 years old. Mrs. Gogerty,grandmother of T. J. Gogerty our ship-ping inspector, was born in Ireland, buthad lived in this country most of her life.

When a young woman she came toDecatur with her husband, the late JohnGogerty. and they built the house inwhich she lived for the next sixty years.I t was the first house built in Decaturcast of the Illinois Central railroad. Mrs.Gogerty was a devout Catholic, a memberof St. Patrick's congregation, from whichchurch funera l services were conducted.

MRS. ELVA LAURA SHEETSMrs. Elva Laura Sheets, wife of How-

ard Sheets of the packing house, died July1.5. after an illness of nine months. Shewas born in Vandalia 31 years ago buthad lived most cf her l ife in Decatur.She and Howard Sheets were married in1918.

Mrs. Sheets was a member of the EastPark Baptist church and the Tribe of BenHur. She leaves her husband and threesmall children, Bernadine Mae, EstherImelda and Howard, her father, B. F. Pas-chal and two sisters and two brothers.

WILLIAM SCHULTZWilliam Schultz died suddenly in his

home in Decatur, July 13, after havingbeen in poor health for a number of years.He was 71 years old. He leaves five sons,William, who works in the starch ship-ping house. John, Fred, Julius and Sam,and four daughters. A grandson, HenrySchultz, works in our print shop.

Mr. Schultz was born in Germany buthad lived in America since young man-hood. He was a coal miner in Decaturfnr 42 years.

We wish to thank the Fellowship cluband the M. E. department for the flowerssent at the time of the death of our sonand 'brother.

Mrs. Ella Emert,Mr. and Mrs. Fred Emert,Mr. and Mrs. James Emert,Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Emert.

We wish to thank the Fellowship cluband the packing house gang for thebeautiful flowers sent and the kindnessshown during our recent sorrow.

Howard Sheets and Family.

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A man was stranded on an unknownisland. He was afraid of cannibals, so hemoved very cautiously. As he was climb-ing up a small hill he heard a voice: 'Whoin hell trumped my ace?" The man liftedhis eyes to the sky above and said:"Thank Heaven, there are Christians onthis island."

Husband (to wife in front of hat shop)—My dear, it's no use your looking atthose hats. I've only 50 cents in mypocket.

Wife—-You might have known that I'dwant to buy a few things when we leftthe house.

Hubby—I did.

His ReferencesWould-be employer—Have

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handed him the following letter:"To Whom It May Concern: John

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Tourist—This seems to be a very dan-gerous precipice. It's a wonder they don'tput up a warning sign.

Native—Yes, it is dangerous, but theykept a warning sign up for two years andno one fell over, so it was taken down.

Teacher (who had found Tommy outbefore)—Did your father write this essayon "Why I love teacher"?

Tommy—No he didn't; mother stoppedhim.—Boston Transcript.

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"You say that you have driven a carfor ten years and never had a back seatdriver?" inquired the w e a k - c h i n n e dgentleman.

"Yeah," asserted the sad-faced man. "Idrive a hearse."

Artist—My next picture at the Acad-emy will be entitled "Driven to Drink."

His Friend—Ah! some powerful por-trayal of baffled passion, I suppose?

Artist—Oh, no; it's a cab approachinga watering-trough.

Cop—Madam, didn't you see me holdup my hand?

Woman at the Wheel—I did not.Cop—Didn't you hear me blow my

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"That's nothing," writes old Ben Hibbs."Put the flowers in a quart of bootlegand they will burst into song."

"Do you drink?" asked the prosecutingcounsel.

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In the EmbryoAt a fancy dress hall for children a

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An excited woman came running up tothe door and demanded admission.

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"But my child is dressed as a butterfly."exclaimed the woman, "and has forgottenher wings."

"Can't help it," replied the policeman."Orders is orders; you'll have to let hergo as a caterpiller."

A group of men at the club were dis-cussing the colour of their wives' hair,and Jones was the only man who couldn'tremember. He decided to rush righthome and find out. Dashing into the liv-ing room he found his wife sitting on thedavenport; he looked at her hair, andcried:

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surprised voice:"Now, how did you know I was here."

Ronald was staying with an aunt whoheld strong views on how little boysshould behave. He was obviously un-happy.

"You're homesick," said the aunt."No, I'm not," was the answer. "I'm

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The little son of a minister had beenvery naughty and as punishment he wasnot allowed to eat with the rest of thefamily, and a small table was set asidefor him. On being given his food at thistable for the first time, the little chap saidvery solmenly: "Lord, I thank Thee.Thou hast spread a table before me inthe presence of mine enemies."

Should Flap FirstMr. Crowe was a devout church-goer.

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