J/A turkey boiled

Is 0 turkey spoiled,

A turkey roast

Is 0 nation's boost,

But a turkey braised,

The Lord be praised./I

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THE SOH 10.1 N for November, 1940

FRANCES KENNEY ", Editor

~50HIOQnPublished monthly by and for the em­ployees of The Standard Oil Company ofOhio, to whom it is discribuced free ofcharge. Addre.s all news items,correspond.ence and exchange to the Editor, TheStandard Oil Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

(Copyrighted by The Standard OilCompany of Ohio - 1940)

route somewhere between Flo­rida, Nebraska, and Massa­chusetts. There's a reward onthe head of each gang leader,and a raft of scientific infor­mation in:thestoryof what hap­pens to him. The researchersare interested in what happensto Aies because they are thetoughest of bugs. Cockroaches,moths, mosquitoes, ants, sta­ble Aies, and others perish be­for the spray gun loaded withinsecticide, but a house fly willstand up and fight. The flyfarm, operating to produce

J 2,000 Aies daily, is also equip­ped with an elaborate labora­torv. Some Aies are markedand I'eleased fOl' tracing, whileothers spend their Iives undera barrage of insecticide. FallenAies are given every chance torecover. The objective is toconcoct an insecticide that willkill house Aies with the firstsquirt of the spray gun. Andthe researchers are going todo it if it costs 1,000,000,000,­000,000,000,000,000 Aies.

.... With the emphasis on na­tional defense, synthetic rub­ber manufacture has gone onapace in recent months.Recently developed catalyticrefining processes have is­olated from petroleum an.organic chemical known asbutadiene, considered thecheapest and best source ofsynthetic rubber of the Bunatypes. Butadiene is made bycracking gas oil. Another sub­stance, acrylic nitrile, is madeby cracking gas oil and com­bining it with nitrogen. Buta­diene and acrylic nitrile thenare combined by polymeriza­tion and the combination isemulsified with water. Theemulsion, after being sub­jected to temperature andpressure, is converted into asuspension of synthetic rub­ber in water, resembling thelatex from the rubber tree. Aplant with a capacity of 2,000tons of synthetic rubber an­nually is under construction.It is claimed that automobiletires, into which goes some 75per cent of the consumption ofrubber in this country, have a20 to 30 per cent longer lifewhen made from the syntheticproduct. Rubber manufactur­ing plants now existent canhandle the synthetic materialin the same manner as thenatural product with onlyminor adjustments to equip­ment. Cost of making thesynthetic product is said tocompare favorably with pricesnow paid for crude rubber.With a gradual expansion offacilities, it is believed, thesynthetic product can be man­ufactured at slightly less than20 cents a pound.

No.11Vol. 12 NOVEMBER,1940

DEPARTMENTAL NEWSREPORTERS

Akron . c. B. SearsCan Factory PhillipL. GarvinCanton __ . . . _. _Chester PowellCincinnati . .. Mildred WendtCleveland • • _. . Ruth BenesColumbus . F. Solon ButcherDayton .. S. S. WingHome Office . __ . .Ann NeubauerLatonia Refinery . Lee BruceLima H. B. KRtterMansfield . .Conrad Ein wachterlvlilrion .H. L. ArbogastNo. I Refinery _. _. George D. SmithNo.2 Refinery W. D. TwitchellPipe Line

Sohio Corp. -Eastern Oiv. __ L. C. WathenSohio Corp.-Wesrern oiv._.H. J. TurnerSohio Pipe Line Co. W. E. McKee

Portsmouth ._ .. _. L. E. RydmanSales Accounting .Ruth FarmerSolar Refinery .R. A. BishopToledo Stanley Van KarsenToledo Refinery -J oseph Mihalkoyoungstown W. I. Smith,Jr.Zanesville . -J. W. Stewart

.... An amateur F-man in Oma­ha simultaneously made theheadlines and $500 by puttingBig Butch No. I on the Spot­and now he spends his timetrying to catch up with fanmail. Other fugitives arewanted, dead or alive, andF-men from Florida to Oregonare keeping both eyes peeledand packing guns - sprayguns, loaded with petroleuminsecticides. Big Butch No. 1was the first of 2,000 fugitivesfrom an oil company Ay farm.To the average person he wasjust an ordinary house fly, butpetroleum researchers who hadraised him on jelly rolls tobuild up his strength and re­sistance thought of him affec­tionately as Big Butch. Theyhad painted him gold to iden­tify him as a major publicenemy. At regular intervals anew Big Butch and his gangare released from airliners en

.... lVlany romantic tales havebeen told in and about the oilindustry. From fabulous for­tunes to strange methods andproducts, there is ever newglamour in the industry. Thereis also much romance in theoldest stories of the uses ofpetroleum. It is said that anexperiment performed uponStephanus, Alexander theGreat's talented singing at­tendant, led Plutarch to be­lieve that the lake of naphthain Mesopotamia which inter­ested Alexander was the"drug" used by the fabled en­chantress Medea to poison theveil she gave to Creon's daugh­ter, her rival for the love ofJason. No sooner had Stephan­us been rubbed with naphthato prove the "invinciblestrength" of this strange liquidthan his \vhole body broke outin such a Aame that Alexan­der's other attendants hadgreat difficulty in extinguish­ing the fire. In recalling theGreek myth, Plutarch pointsout that the maiden's veilcould not have caught fire "ofits own accord," and thar. un­doubtedly it had beenanointed with naphtha tomake it inAammable whenbrought near the altar fires.

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Cootnbe, former president, until 1926, when he was trans­ferred to the sales departtnent. In 1930, Mr. Mauk becatnecredit manager, and continues in that capacity today.

For the past five months he has been on leave of absencebecause of illness. However, he is greatly improved andreturns to the office November first.

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AMOS G. MAUK

T HIRTY-EIGHT years on the job is the record of A. G.Mauk, of the Horne Office. His first job was a clerk­

ship in the Toledo Office. Five years later the Clevelandand Toledo Offices were consolidated and Mr. Mauk wastransferred to Cleveland as a ledger keeper. He served in sev­eral capacities in the accounting office and as clerk to A. P.

THE SOH 10 /i IV for November, 1940

]kitl c=l-nnua! keuni(}n

~(}ki(} 0uadet Centuty C!u6Surpasses All Previous Gatherings

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IN the warm clear sunshine of abeautiful October day, 300Sohioans stood at attention at

Solar Refinery, Lima, while a hugeAmerican flag was raised to the topof the largest flagpole in the county,to the accompaniment of the Shaw­nee School band and in the presenceof the Edward J Veasey Post,V.F\\!. color guard.

And thus were the Quarter Cen­tury Club members off to a whirlof events, that lasted from highnoon until midnight Saturday, Oc­tober 12, to celebrate together theirproud distinction of being asso­ciated with Standard Oil for 25years or more.

It was most fitting that theQuarter Century Club gathering beheld at Lima during this year inwhich Sohio is celebrating its 70thanniversary. The location was par­ticularly appropriate for this sig­nificant Sohio get-together because

it is practically on the site of thediscovery of crude oil in Ohio. Thefirst Ohio well was brought in atFindlay in 1884 (the month wasOctober) and the following May,oil was struck in Lima

It \vas also most appropriate tobegin the festivities with a patrioticcelebration this year when allAmericans are so acutely consciousof all the things Old Glory sym­bolizes. Everyone of the 300 personswatching the great flag slowly ap­proach the tip of the flagpole, andthere unfurl its full expanse in thebrilliant sunshine, felt a quickeningof his pulse, and every face revealeda renewed appreciation of theprivilege of living under its gloriousprotection.

Upon a platform erected on thegrounds of the refinery, Charles CCleveland, in the name of the Solarunit of the Quarter Century Club,presenced the flag to the refinery.

It was accepted by M. G. Ball,assistant superintendent. The Rev.R. O. Petersen, of Lima, offered abeautiful invocation, which wasfollowed by an address by Congress­man Robert F. Jones, of Lima, whotraced the history of our Americanflag. With pronounced feeling thisrepresentative of his people said:""The flag of our country repre­sents the strength and the courageand the other fine moral qualitiesof the American people woven incoits colors. Yes, the flag signifies thelaw of the land, the Constitution ofour country. In its folds we find theheart-throbs of our forefathers togive us the heart of the nation­the Declaration of Independencewhich made us free. It stands forthe great Magna Charta of Amer­ican liberty and our flag trulyrepresents the love of religious andpolitical liberty that was first pro-

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claimed in the Declaration of Inde­pendence.

"Where on all the face of theearth does the flag that flies overfree men stand for the tolerance ofone man for the religious liberty,the political liberty, the economicliberty of other men, whether theybelong to the majority or theminority.

"A nation is made great, not byits fruitful acres, but by the menwho cultivate them; not by themines, but by the men who' workthem; not by its railways, but bythe men who built and run them.America was a great land when theIndians were here, but Americanshave made it a great nation.

"Born during the nation's in­fancy, the flag of our country hasgrown with the stars, increasing innumber as the country expands. Thedomain over which it waves hasexpanded until the sun never setson her flying folds.

"There is no limit to the positionof greatness and happiness of thepeople of our nation so long as wekeep right in the character of ourpeople, so long as Americans keepon the alert to combat withoutceasing all subversive influenceswhich may threaten our nationallife. The American flag representsthe freedom of the soul for the mosthumble among us to grow to posi­tions of greatness and strength ofsoul and character. It representsthe lighthouse of personal freedomand liberty that is the last strong­hold for free men in the world ofblack-outs.

"May God grant that the flag ofthe United States will always con­tinue to represent the high idealsof human kind. May it represent apeople willing to work, day andnight, for the preservation of ourDemocratic form of governmentand the freedom for which it stands.May God grant that our sons anddaughters may make the flag standfor the highest attributes of char­acter, for character \Vas the rockupon which our forefathers builttheir house, the Republic, now ourhouse for which this Rag waves."America must continue .to be andwill continue to be the land ofopportunity and the place for thegrowth of the soul. Our flag willwave forever over our brave, con­scientious, tolerant people."

J. U. Pelton

C. C. Cleveland

FOLLOWING the flag raising,members of the club and their

guests made a tour of the plantunder the guidance of AssistantSuperintendent M. G. Ball.

The afternoon was devoted to allmanner of diversions. A golf tourna­ment was played at the ShawneeCountry Club. For the non-golfersthere were horseshoe pitching, plugand fly casting, and trap shooting.Ralph S Marshall, of Lima, inter­nationally known marksman andOlympic champion, gave a shootingexhibition which thrilled the shoot­ing enthusiasts. Those who did notcare for such strenuous activities

spent the afternoon at the refineryclub house, where they renewed oldacquaintances and talked over oldtimes.

Special entertainment was pro­vided for the wives of members ofthe Quarter Century Club Theywere escorted on a sight-seeing tourof the city, after which bridge anddinner was provided at the HotelArgonne, followed by a theaterparty in the evening.

At 6:30 the dinner and meetingfor club members was held in thebanquet hall of the Argonne Hotel.S. S. Wing, President of the Clubfor the past year, presided at thespeakers' table. Fifty-four newmembers were individually inductedinto the fraternity follOWing thedinner. The group included 19 fromthe ten sales divisions, eleven fromSolar Rennery, ten from the HomeOffice, nine from the Sohio PipeLine Company, two from NumberOne Works, one from the Litho­graph Can Factory, one from ToledoRefinery and one from the SohioCorporation. Each was presenteda certificate of membership.

These formal ities were followedby the introduction of PresidentHolliday, who delivered the onlyaddress. Mr. Holliday welcomed thefreshman class, recalling that eachof them began his service to Sohioin 191 5. He pictured the world atthat time, when the principalnations were embroiled in a WorldWar. He likened it to the presentday when the world is again em­broiled in war, and when the princi­pal democracies have been wipedout, except England and the UnitedStates.

Mr. Holliday recalled that ateach of the two previous QuarterCentury Club meetings he hadspoken. about security - in 1938about personal security, because itseemed to be the predominatingemotion of people at that time­and again in 1939, he spoke aboutsecurity pointing out that personalsecurity was not possible withoutnational security. At this thirdannual meeting Mr. Holliday dweltat length on the subject of nationalsecurity and the way in which per­sonal security has been subordi­nated to national security becauseeveryone realizes that he cannothave the former without the latter.He clearly pointed out that thesecurity we as a nation of individu­als yearn for is the security of ademocracy where political freedom,

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E. M. B. A. Election Next Month

religious freedom and economic free­dom is the only kind of security.

Mr. Holliday called upon Sohio­ans to have faith and courage inthese troubled times and assuredthem of his belief that Americanpeople can be depended upon topreserve their freedom at any cost.

FOLLOWING Mr. Holliday"s ad­dress, the business meeting was

conducted at which ) ess Pelton,superintendent of construction inColumbus Division, was namedpresident for the coming year;Charles Cleveland, cost accountantat Solar Refinery, was elected vice­president, and Charles Milton, Can­ton Division salesman, was votedtreasurer. I. S. Payton was againchosen secretary of the organiza­tion.

Charles Milton

The following men were electedchairmen of the fourteen units ofthe Quarter Century Club at theirregular meetings in September:N A. Nabal, Sohio Pipe Line;). 0Tice, Home Office; H. K. Cronen­wett, Mansfield-Marion Divisions;E. F. Moore, Toledo Division andToledo Refinery; William Jrven,Lithograph Can Factory; B. F.Hanna, Cleveland Division; A. D.McAtee, Lima. Division; C HMilton, Canton-Youngstown Divi­sions; Emil Loeffler, No.1 Works;C H Margraf, Dayton Division;S. H. Davis, Cincinnati Division;Charles E. Cleveland, Solar RefIn­ery; T. \'1./. Dunn. No.2 Works;

1. S. Payton

and). U. Pelton, Columbus Divi­sion.

After the dinner, the membersof the club attended a minstrelshow and jamboree at the refineryclub house. The program was pre­pared, directed and acted by Sohio­ans, and everyone pronounced itexceptional entertainment.

Everyone who attended the partyat Lima pronounced it not only thebest of the three celebrations, but

THE biennial election of membersto the Board of Trustees of the

Employees Mutual Benefit Associa­tion will take place on Thursday,December 5.

All nominations for the office ofmember elected trustee must be bypetition, and each petition must besigned by not less than twenty-five

HospitalizationAt press time 25 persons had

availed themselves of the provi­sions of the new HospitalizationPlan.

It is of interest to note that15 of the 25 cases were depend­ents of employees, and ten wereemployees.

The benefits ranged from$5.00 to $200.00.

one of the finest affairs in theirmemories. Credit for the planningand arrangements belongs prin­cipally to Charles Cleveland, whowas chairman of the committeewhich arranged the event. He wasassisted by W. H Miller, OscarBowersock of the refinery, A. D.McAtee, of Wapakoneta, and RoyMarshall of Lima, who completedthe committee, and many othermembers of both the Lima Divisionand Solar Refinery.

No detail for the comfort and'enjoyment of the guests was over­looked. From the moment he en­tered the city limits and foundmarkers directing him to the refin­ery, until he left the city, no visitorwas without attention of somekind. Transportation was providedto and from the refinery for thosewho wished to avail themselves ofit, during the entire day and even­ing. This service was provided bymembers of the refinery as well asthe Lima-Solar unit of the QuarterCentury Club. Everyone was per­sonally welcomed at the hotel aswell as at the refinery. The hospi­tality was so hearty and personal­ized that everyone was happy to bethere and sorry to leave.

It was decided at the businessmeeting to hold the Quarter Cen­tury Club meeting next year atColumbus.

and not more than thirty employeeswho are members of the E.M.B.A.No member may sign more than onepetition. All petitions must be filedwith Mrs. Susan Widdows, secre­tary of the association, not laterthan November 7 in order for thenominee to be eligible.

All candidates must be citizensof the United States, at least twen­ty-one years of age, and must havebeen members of the E.MB.A. forat least one year.

There will be thirteen memberselected - one from each of the fiverefineries, one each from SohioCorporation and Sohio PipelineCompany, one from each of the fiveelectoral districts into which thesales organization is divided, andone from the Home Office-Sales Ac­counting unit.

The election results will appear inthe) anuary issue of The Sohioan.