SfH TVDOT3PV

TheSWL

CONTEXTS

O/ Many Things 2

Ancient Chinese Recipes 5

Sfaley Girl Sees England 12

Bowling Averages Creep Up 15

Altitude Means Nothing 21

Old Journal Files 3 0

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANYManufacturers of Corn and Soybean Products

D E C A T U R ILL.

Editor: Ruth E. Cade • Cartoonist: W. R. Van Hook

Volume XXII • Number 6

CHRISTMAS— 1 I I I N

Christmas—when we were children itnever came unt i l the middle of the win-ter. And winters were much, much long-er then. There were always weeks andweeks of very cold weather beforeChristmas came. During those weeks wetalked and planned, whispered and triedto get peeps into forbidden cupboards.It was fully three months, in those years,between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

But suddenly something happened.Christmas was moved up, evidently, tothe first part of winter, and the time be-tween Thanksgiving and Christmas wasshortened to just a few days. Unless wedo our planning and shopping now alongin the fall we simply are not ready at allwhen the big holiday arrives.

Without at all longing for any "goodold days' we like to remember thoseChristmas seasons. Somehow we feel thatthose Christmases—the way we plannedfor them, and the way we observed them—meant more than just passing holi-days. They have woven themselves intoour background and stand there firmlyeven after more years than we may careto admit. They give us something pleas-ant to look back to and something t rueto believe in.

The build-up for the holidays in ouryouth was fostered in the old Presby-terian Sunday school, the small towngrade school which started us on our edu-cational journey, and by a family of fondgrown-ups at home. Clustered aroundthe little old "parlor" organ at Sundayschool groups of us sang lustily, at least,Luther's lovely old "Cradle Hymn'', "ItCame Upon the Midnight Air" and other

PAGE 2

of the old Christmas hymns. In that lit-tle chapel we learned not only the lovelyold songs, but we learned so that it willalways be real to us, the story of thatBirth in the Manger.

At school as we remember it now, allour time for weeks was spent in gettingready for the Christmas program. Everychild had a "piece" to learn. JamesWhitcomb Riley was favored by the chil-dren because his poetry had a touch ofnear-rowdy humor which we could ap-preciate, but almost any poem would doas an excuse for us to dress up in ourbest clothes and stand up before the vis-iting parents that last afternoon beforeChristmas and "recite".

At home everything moved with an ex-cited undercurrent of mystery. As wewalked into room packages were hastilyshoved out of sight. Life became increas-ingly easy for the junior members of thefamily. We couldn't be sent upstairs toget needed articles because we might getinto this or that forbidden bureau draweror closet. We had our secrets too, andhad gloriously anxious moments hidinggifts which we had planned and madeourselves.

There was at least one week, along inNovember generally, which we alwayslooked forward to. That was the weekthe mincemeat and fruit cakes were be-ing made, and our part was to help cutthe fruit in the evening. Spelling andarithmetic lessons for the next day weredashed through as hurriedly as Grand-mother's watchful eye would permit, andthen armed with bowls and knives, tiedup in big aprons we joined the circle ofchatting elders about the base-burner

THE STALEY JOURNAL

and cut citron, or seeded raisins. Thelatter task was not such hard work andhad its own reward in sticky fingerswhich could be licked when no one waslooking.

And there was a peculiar aroma whichwe still associate with the approach ofChristmas—spicy and sweet—of bakingfru i t cakes, and cooking mince meat andsyrup being boiled for candy. By thetime Christmas actually arrived we werenot only thoroughly steeped in the spiritof the season, but the aromas as well.

Ours was a community settled almostentirely by Germans—our Irish ancestryrather set us off by ourselves—and inthe homes of all of our friends the en-tire celebration centered about the ever-green tree with its lighted candles, andits colorful little creche beneath. Thedecorations were simple and traditional—a silvery angel for the top, some stringsof tinsel and colored ball, loops of cran-berries, and from many of the branchesfacing the room, cookies cut in the shapeof birds, or angels or children, all icedwith some bright color and studded withcolored sugars.

We called around on our friends agreat deal during that week betweenChristmas and New Years, and at allthose jolly German homes we were servedcookies of every size and shape. But we,being without anise-loving ancestors,early discovered that generally the mostluscious looking ones were flavored withthat greatly disliked seed.

Perhaps the reason one remembersthose Christmas seasons of years ago isbecause the holiday was never markedin our young minds as the time whenwe were to receive gifts, particularly. Wedid, of course, not wildly extravagantones, but the little things dear to ourhearts, if not necessary to our existence.Rather we always looked forward to itas the season of the year when we pausedin the regular round, when we visitedDECEMBER, 1938

with our friends, remembered the ChristChild, and tried to think up surprisesthat would please those we loved best.And we must not forget, in our shop-ping trips, to buy things for the childrenof the woman who happened to be ourcurrent household helper. There wereno Good Fellow movements in our smalltown, but few families went unremem-bered at Christmas time. The churches,the schools, and kindly housewives sawto that.

SMOKE

SmokeOn the windFrom a high factory stackWas yesterday coalDug by menHoisted by cranes and paid forTodayIt floatsOn the wind.

By John J. Anonymous.

WELCOME—REPEATED

Two months ago when we threw widethe doors to this new department, wetried to make our invitation to all tocontribute as cordial as we meant it.Evidently in our usual clumsy mannerwe muffled our meaning. Either we havenone in our midst who are burning with.a desire to see their writings in print,or the burning ones are concealing theirfires under bushels, or something.

The invitation still stands, and pleasebelieve* us, it is cordial. We make it be-cause we have the interest of the read-ers at heart. To read an entire publica-tion written only by one person may boreour readers, and bored readers soon ceaseto be readers. We cannot lose our public.

Some few have accepted this invita-tion and they have delighted our soul.Their contributions have been of the in-spired sort and we hope that inspirationreaches out and draws others in.

PAGE 3

Lights andshadows canpaint lovely pic-tures of com-m a n thing s.This spiral isreally 11 in <> s Iuseful circularstairway on themill house rooj,to tin- sulphurt o w >' r. TedThreljall sawits beauty oneday when heliad his camera.

Ancient Chinese RecipesUsed in

Modern American BuildingAmerican cities are unions of contrasts.

Because of the nature of their popula-tion—gathered for the most part from allcorners of the world—they are meetingplaces of the very ancient and the mostmodern. Customs and manners, archi-tecture and food show the influence ofthis meeting of extremes.

In Detroit there is an outstanding ex-ample of this. In this city, which isknown the world over as the center of themost modern industry, food productswhich are reminiscent of one of theworld's most ancient civilizations are be-ing packed for American homes in oneof the most up-to-date factory buildingsof the century.

New Building

The foods, from but not particularlyof, ancient China, are being packed inLa Choy's ultra-modern glass and brickbuilding. Sunlight pours in to the fac-tory through walls made almost entirelyof glass, and employees work in air-con-ditioned rooms. The clear glass wallsnot only admit light and sun, but frameviews of well planted lawns which sur-round the building.

There has always been considerablediscussion in America as to just howgenuinely Chinese is the food served inChinese restaurants in this country. Peo-ple who are most interested, the Chineseand Americans, who make and pack andserve La Choy products, insist that, whilemany essential ingredients originate inChina, the dishes are an American adap-tion. In other words, we understand, thefoods bear the same relation to ChineseDECEMBER, 1938

cookery that many English words bearto their Latin roots.

What We Mean

Americans who speak of Chinese foodsgenerally mean chop suey, chow mein,fine crisp noodles, water chestnuts, bam-boo sprouts, and that tantalizing condi-ment, soy sauce. These, and a few otherdishes, have been artfully adapted byChinese and American cooks from theoriginal Chinese food into concoctionswhich are delightful to the Americanpalate.

When people migrate to far corners ofthe world there are times when they longfor their own people and their nativefoods. American cities are full of restau-rants which have grown up because ofthis desire. Chinese restaurants sprangup all over the country a number of yearsago but because no effort was made toattract American trade, they were "un-discovered" for a long time.

Strange Dishes

Americans who did start patronizingthem were divided in their opinion of thefoods served. The Chinese ate strangemixtures with a relish, but their combina-tions were foreign to the steaks andbaked potatoes to which Americans wereaccustomed. Not only were the finisheddishes different from any served in Amer-ica, but the ingredients were very evi-dently not native grown.

Chinese as a race are wise merchantsand when they discovered that Ameri-cans were inclined to like their food, butfound the dishes a bit strange, they be-

PAGE 5

I - - ul- * -* // ,' . '.7" - — - j ' - ' ; " S ' v -~M

TVie prepared chop suey, which is sold in cans, is packed in this room shown above.Below is shown the room where soy sauce is bottled.

PAGE 6 THE STALEY JOURNAL

gan experimenting with changes. Tosome extent American-grown vegetableswere substituted for imported ones, andthe dishes were modified in other ways,which made them more appealing to theAmerican appetite. Although the firstChinese restaurants were probably start-ed with no thought of attracting Ameri-can customers, later this became one oftheir big aims. It was at least a quarterof a century before Americans hadreached the point where they were highlyenthusiastic about Chinese food. Theyreached this point because of the persist-ence of the Chinese cooks who changedand adapted their recipes, without givingup the characters and taste of their na-tive dishes.

Gaining Popularity

By the opening of the Twentieth cen-tury there were Chinese restaurants inevery city of any size in this country, butthose restaurants were the only placesone could find the dishes which were be-coming popular. Even as late as 1920Americans regarded chop suey and chowmein as mysterious concoctions, and fewAmerican restaurant owners, or house-wives ever considered serving them.

This worried the Chinese restaurantmen not at all, since all they had everbeen interested in was attracting the pub-lic to their places of business. Other busi-ness men, both American and Far East-erners, had a bright idea on the subject,and fifteen or more years ago decided topromote the preparation and serving ofthese Chinese foods in American homes.

Evidently the idea occurred to dozensof individuals about the same time forany number of firms started importingsoy sauce and Chinese vegetables and of-fering them for sale. These small import-ers passed through the usual stages of anew enterprise, and many of them passedinto the land of business failures beforethey realized that while Americans likedChinese food and were ready to cook it inDECEMBER, 1938

their own homes, they had no idea howto go about it. No amount of importedsupplies could be consumed unless thehousewives knew how to use them.

LaChoy AppearsOne firm which came on the scene at

this time was the present LaChoy com-pany. The organizers first had the ideaof selling the prepared chop suey andchow mein, and then of instructing thehousewives of America in the use of thevarious ingredients so that there will bea sale for them also.

It was a long struggle. Because thebusiness was so entirely new, there wereno pioneers' mistakes by which to profit.LaChoy was the pioneer. At first theimported soy sauce was bottled in glassbut all other ingredients were packed inpaper cartons. Because they would notkeep in such packages, daily deliverieswere necessary. Not to disappoint anypossible customers, the company's supplyalmost daily exceeded the demand, andthis excess came back on LaChoy as re-turned goods, highly perishable.

ExperimentingThe next step was to try packing in

glass. This was a step forward, but evenit did not take the new company anyplace near the top, and success. Aftertwo years or more of intensive research,and a great deal of experimental work inthe LaChoy factory, a satisfactory meth-od was found for packing preparedChinese foods and their ingredients.

While working on the packaging prob-lem LaChoy was also creating a demandfor the ingredients. The nation had theappetite, but were completely in the darkabout preparing the dishes. LaChoysolved the problem by printing bookletsof tested recipes and giving them awaylavishly. Newspaper advertising wasused sparingly until the products andthe recipes were well distributed over thecountry, then newspapers and magazinesbegan telling the story of LaChoy prod-

PAGE 7

M shown an interior view oj one oj the rooms where the celery is cleaned and cut,while below shows part of the large warehouse. Shipments are made direct from this roam.

PAGE 8 THE STALEY JOURNAL

ucts to the American housewives. It isestimated that during the last six yearsLaChoy has distributed more than eightmillion copies of its booklet of Chineserecipes.

No amount of printing and advertis-ing could make a success of a productunless that advertising is backed by re-liable goods. LaChoy spent all of itsearly years in making sure that its foun-dation was firm enough to hold up itswide and continued advertising cam-paign. This meant that imported in-gredients must be of the best grade, andthe American grown vegetables usedmust be first class.

Moves RecentlySeveral months ago this company

moved out of its old building into thisnew, ultra-modern studio type factory.The walls are of smooth white concrete,and glass, letting floods of sunshine intoall the work rooms. In the thoroughlymodern manner the building is set backfrom the street, and is surrounded bysmooth green lawn, well planted withshrubs and trees. That in itself is a de-cided contrast to the settings usuallygiven the manufacture of these foods intheir native land.

Inside one finds offices and factoryall under one roof, but so cleverly ar-ranged that two separate buildings aresuggested. In the offices are soft tonedfloor coverings, chromium and leatherfurniture, and walls hung with old Eng-lish prints and autographed photographs—and floods of sunshine. Down a stair,and through a glass door—and one en-ters the factory.

In spite of its rather complex list ofproducts the LaChoy factory is quietlybusy, but not seemingly hurried. All ofthe ingredients for the prepared chopsuey and chow mein, as well as the othervegetables which are packed separately,are brought in from the rear, passthrough the cleaning and sorting depart-DECEMBER, 1938

ment, packed with automatic equipment,then pressure cooked, labeled and casedby machinery and conveyed to the ship-ping department with no confusion andfuss.

Carloads of CeleryCelery seems to the visitor to present

the biggest cleaning problem, not becauseof the time it takes to do it, but be-cause of the quantities which are re-ceived at one time. In car-load lots thefragrant white stalks are unloaded andtrucked into the room where the onlyhandling they get is when the heavy buttend is chopped off. Then into a magicmachine it is dumped and there it isthoroughly washed, cut into the propersize and the leaves discarded. The dicedcelery, untouched by human hands, goesinto the vats to be mixed with meat andthe other ingredients of chop suey andchow mein, and the whole, when prop-erly mixed, is put into cans and steamprocessed and sealed.

In addition to this ready-to-servepackage of chop suey or chow mein, La-Choy also packs separately fine Chinesenoodles, bean sprouts—and thereby isanother tale—mixed vegetables, brownsauce and soy sauce. Then in a separatekitchen chop suey and chow mein aremade for immediate use. In this kitchen,spotless and bright like the rest of thefactory, two Chinese cooks preside overa huge range. There is made all the de-lectable Chinese food which this com-pany sells to local hotels, clubs and res-taurants for immediate use.

Miles of NoodlesIn this factory they tell you that chop

suey and chow mein are basically thesame. About the only difference is thatchop suey is served with rice, while chowmein is served with crisp, fine Chinesenoodles. Seeing those noodles beingmade and packed wins the visitors defi-nitely over to chow mein. Followingmuch the same recipe that grandmother

PAGE 9

did, these noodles are made with a goodqua l i ty , hard wheat Hour and eggs, butthey are mixed scientifically- and themix is not touched by hand. After mix-ing it goes under the electrically operatedrolling pin where, on a moving belt, it isrolled, and rolled again, until it is tissuethin. Still moving, for nothing seems tostop after the process is once started,the belt carrying this long thin sheet ofdough passes through sharp knives whichcut it into narrow ribbons. Still the beltmoves on to the cooker, filled with hotpure corn oil.

The controlled temperature of the oilis constant, so that the noodles, whenthey emerge, are an even golden brown.They do not appear in the open again.Instead they travel on an enclosed beltwhich drains and cools them to an auto-matic weighing and filling machine andthe cans are then vacuum sealed to as-sure enduring freshness.

Bean Farm

In all this unusual factory, nothing isquite so out of the ordinary as the beanfarm. "Farm to consumer" movementshave been started, but this one is a goingconcern, and a most unique one. Bean

sprouts are those cool, not too crisp l i t -tle white sprouts which add so much toall Chinese dishes. But bean sprouts donot grow wild, or even under cultivation,on Michigan farms. In fact the Mungbeans, from which they sprout, are a na-tive of the Orient, although now grownfor LaChoy in America.

A scientifically controlled germinatingroom has been developed by LaChoy.This is the "bean farm" where the beansprouts are grown from the Mung beanin five or six days, and are harvested atthe end of that time, when they are threeor four inches long. The bean sproutsare grown in a dark room to keep theproduct white instead of the naturalgreen color which would prevail if ex-posed to light. Xo soil or synthetic nu-trients are employed in LaChoy's meth-od of hydroponic culture.

Use Clear GlassLaChoy's soy sauce and its very neces-

sary brown sauce, are the two productswhich are now packed in glass. Brownsauce is used in cooking, as a sweeten-ing agent. Because of its composition itimparts a distinctive flavor which noother sweetening agent will give. Soy

Modern in line and structure is this building where LaChoy products an- packed.

PAGE 10 THE STALEY JOURNAL

sauce is used both in making variousChinese dishes and as a sauce to servewith them. It also is being used moreand more as a condiment with othermeats and vegetables. As made by La-Choy this salty sauce is clear and de-lightfully flavored. Incidently in pack-ing this in clear glass bottles LaChoy de-parted from the well-worn path of mak-ers of that sauce, who had always usedbrown glass.

Xow a well established business, La-Choy can well regard itself as the pioneerof one of the most unique manufacturingventures in this country. To be able toadapt a food as unlike American dishes,as are these Chinese delicacies, to perfecta method of preparing them so that theywill keep for long periods of time, and toeducate American cooks to the use of theforeign ingredients, have been accom-plishments meriting praise.

Big Club PartyFellowship club members who have

reached the fifty year mark were guestsof the club at the first big party of itskind, in the club house, Dec. 5. Although250 members were eligible not all wereable to attend, but at that there was agoodly and a jolly gathering.

A. E. Staley, one of the original mem-bers of the club, was not able to be pres-ent, since he had already gone to hiswinter home in Florida, but he wrote aletter which was read at the party.

The party was purely a stag affair, butthe few women members who weVe elig-ible were not forgotten. Each one wassent a big box of candy and two theatertickets.

The chief speaker of the evening wasHoward File, technical director. WhileMr. File was not with the Staley com-pany when the club was formed he hadbeen with the company before that timeand returned soon after, so he knows,and is known by, all the old timers. ADECEMBER, 1938

great many of the club founders werepresent, including C. A. Keck, who wasthe first president and is president thisyear.

Repairing Toys

The Staley Handicraft club is againrepairing toys for the club to give awayat Christmas. Under the leadership ofthe club president, Paul Simroth, theclub asks each year that Staley peoplebring in all old toys and if possible, theclub members will restore them so thatsome children may enjoy them. Eachyear they take toys that look like per-fect wrecks and make them over.

Start Physical ExamsThe regular physical check-up of all

employees was started late in November.Mrs. Lucile May, plant nurse, and Dr.M. \V. Fitzpatrick, plant physician, arein charge. The examinations are beinggiven this time in the third floor of theadministration building.

A regular schedule is being followed,with Mrs. May giving preliminary exam-inations in the morning, followed by thedoctor's examination that afternoon.Every employee is being notified in am-ple time of the day and hour when he isto appear for his examination. Since theschedule is close it is important thateveryone be there at the time specified.

Lyman Jackson wasall set to ride a buck-ing truck evidently.Lyman works in theKaraxe, but maybe hewas on vacation whenlie wore tliis hat.

PAGE 11

STALEY GIRLSEES i ; \« .r \ \ CRISIS FROM INSIDE

By RUTH POWNALL

(Editor's Note: When Miss Pownall,of our traffic office, arrived in Englandlast September with three other youngwomen from Decatur, she stepped intothe midst of history in the making. Weasked her to give the Journal readers apicture of that anxious week in Eng-land, and she has done it perfectly.)

Although news of the September crisisin Europe is now over two months old,people still seem to be actually more in-terested in what we observed in thosefew tense weeks in England apropos ofthe war scare than in any of the cathed-rals, art galleries, theatres, and generalsightseeing that we did.

We landed at Plymouth September 12.That night Hitler gave his fiery Nurem-burg speech in which he set forth so em-phatically his views on the Sudeten situ-ation. We were so completely vacation-minded that we only skimmed over thenewspaper reports of this, and proceededleasurely on our way toward Liverpool,where we were to stay with some cousinsof mine.

Heard British View

As soon as we had spent some time inthe home of the Laws and listened totheir views, however, we realized to someextent the seriousness of the situation.The British government sent news broad-casts over the wireless at certain timesduring the day, so it was easy for us tokeep informed in that way. The secondnight we spent in Liverpool there camethe news that Chamberlain had flownthat day—September IS—to Germanyto meet Hitler at Berchtesgaden. Be-cause it was such an unprecedented thingPAGE 12

to do, it served to emphasize the grave-ness of the situation.

It was not until we arrived in London,however, that we saw actual evidencethat the English were alarmed. Our firstday there we walked down Whitehall, ingeneral to get our bearings, and in par-ticular to see No. 10 Downing Street,the residence of England's Premier andthe focal point of the British Empire atthis time. Just before we turned intoDowning Street we stopped at the im-pressive Cenotaph, monument to thedead of the World War. Apparently dueto the fact that war was uppermost ineveryone's mind just then, the foot ofthe monument was covered with flowersranging from great wreaths offered inmemory to entire companies to severalsingle flowers with notes attached, writ-ten in childish handwriting. It seemedparticularly ironical to us that we werestanding before a very potent reminderof the futility and pathos of the lastwar, while within a few hundred yardswas an ever-present crowd standing si-lently outside No. 10, waiting for newsof steps taken for the presumably imme-diate next war.

Prepare for Raids

Everyone assumed that London wouldbe the first target for enemy planes inthe event that a state of war should bedeclared, and preparations for air raidswere being carried on at a feverish pace.Scores of buildings all over the city hadbeen evacuated to make room for thefitting and distributing of gas masks. No-tices were posted in every conceivableplace directing people to their gas mask

THE STALEY JOURNAL

stations, and circulars were sent aroundwith instructions for individual proced-ure in case of an air raid. Sandbags werevery much in evidence, piled high againstbuildings, and packed into windows, andone day we saw anti-aircraft guns beingset up on top of one of the governmentbuildings.

Many plans were being considered forthe evacuation of those living in London.The school children were the chief con-cern, and during the last few days of thecrisis, train after train left London carry-ing children out into the country awayfrom danger, where temporary homes hadbeen provided.

Theater Incident

One night at the theatre we sat nextto a Russian boy who took it upon him-self to explain to us why war was in-evitable, and how wise we would be totake the first possible boat home. Be-cause his attitude was so convincinglypessimistic, we became quite excited andsat nervously in our seats, waiting for thefirst bomb to fall. At one point in theplay we were seeing, the Blue Danubewas played and mentioned in the lines,at which point our Russian friend leanedover and whispered in a sinister tone,"It's full of guns!" It took all our self-control to keep from fleeing screamingout of the theatre.

To add insult to injury, on the wayhome from the theatre that night we werestopped, along with what seemed to usall the traffic in London, by a paradeof thousands of men and women march-ing on to Whitehall chanting "Save Brit-ain, Help the Czechs, Chamberlain MustGo." This completed our demoralization,and the next day we spent our time run-ning from one steamship office to an-other, seeing what passage might beavailable.

No BookingsThe steamship offices were filled to ca-

pacity with very anxious-looking Ameri-U E C E M B E R , 1938

cans. The war scare seemed to furnisha common bond to us all, and we talkedwith innumerable strangers, all conversa-tion being prefaced with the question,"What are you going to do?" It wasimpossible to get anything on a neutralboat for weeks ahead, and the Britishand French boats had only emergencyaccommodations available.

We had noticed how many people werein the churches during the week, and onSunday the twenty-fifth all the churcheswere filled in a united prayer for peace.The Archbishop of Canterbury had des-ignated that Sunday to be set aside par-ticularly for that purpose.

Trenches in ParksThe following night was an important

one to everyone, for Hitler was to speakagain. We went to a Promenade Concertat Queen's Hall, and it was obvious thatthe audience there was extremely onedge. At the intermission, everyone left,anxious to read in the late newspapereditions what Hitler had said, and weeven imagined that the orchestra racedthrough the first half of the programme.We soon learned that he had reiteratedhis demands. We also learned that nightthat Hyde Park was being dug up fortrenches. Someone pointed out to us thenthat when an Englishman begins tearingup his beloved parks, he is really serious.

On this same day, September 26, Pres-ident Roosevelt's message came, and itwas extremely interesting to us to seethe effect it had on the morale of theBritish. Everyone to whom we talkedregarded his cable as definite backingfrom the United States should war bedeclared, and for a day or two he wasmore the man of the hour than Mr.Chamberlain.

Plan to ReturnThe next day we went to our Consul,

who advised us to either leave Londonimmediately, or be fitted for gas masks.That night Mr. Kennedy spoke over the

PAGE 13

radio ordering the evacuation of allAmericans immediately. We felt nowthat we really must take steps to leave,but were able to make only tentativereservations since our other tickets werein Boulogne.

On the twenty-eighth Mr. Chamber-lain spoke in the House of Commons,giving a resume of past negotiations, andended dramatically with news of Mus-solini's intervention. Here was the firstglimmer of hope, and when the newscame the night of the 29th that war hadbeen averted, and confirmation of thisfollowed the next morning, London—andcertainly the four of us—relaxed andbreathed a collective sigh of incredulousrelief.

Buy Christmas Seals

This year again the Christmas Sealsale is being stressed, as one of the mostpotent weapons in the fight against tuber-culosis. Staley people have always boughtthese small silent helpers because it hasbeen brought home to us time and timeagain how much good the fight againsttuberculosis is doing.

In Decatur, which is fortunate in hav-ing an outstanding tuberculosis hospital,much of the money from the sale of theseals goes toward preventing the disease,or catching it in its early stages. A greatmany Staley families have been sparedmuch grief and suffering, because the dis-ease, or its fore-runner, was discovered inthe early stages by school, visiting ortuberculosis nurses.

Under the supervision of these nursesmany patients never reach the activestage. Others are cured in a shorter timebecause of an early diagnosis. Much ofthis is made possible because Decaturpeople buy one or two or more sheets ofChristmas Seals. If you did not receivea sheet of seals through the mail call theJournal office and you may buy as manyor as few as you desire. Every pennyhelps in this fight.

Father Dies

The father of Edward and ElmerLashinski died suddenly in his home inDecatur, Xov. 9. Edward is an electri-cian in the plant and Elmer is in thepipe shop. The other three children areall daughters, who live at home.

Red Thornborough, who should know,says that even J. H. Galloway can beavoided if one knows how, and circum-stances are such that a meeting with theplant superintendent does not seem wise.He says the way he did it for a few daysrecently was just to figure out whereMr. Galloway was going, and then haveurgent business in the opposite direction.

PAGE 14

John McDonald Back

John McDonald returned to his workin the sales service laboratory in No-vember. He has been ill for many monthsbut now is recovered and delighted to beback at work.

THE STALEY JOURNAL

Bowling Averages Creep UpAs Season Advances

SENIOR LEAGUE. NOV. 2 :t

Team

Research

Yard Dept

Print Shop

Millwrights

Executives . .

Starch Shipping

Name and Team

B VVoodworth Yard

L. Doxsie, Yard

VV Stewart, Research

W Brumaster Mill-W

G Leaser, Starch-S

R Alverson Print-S

G Garrett Research

A Trierweiler Starch-S

H Litz Executive

L Davis Executive

Won Lost

25 8

20 1.3

20 13

17 16

12 21

5 28

TEN HIGH BOWLERS

Games

3033303330292727

. 3333

Pet.

758606606515364152

Pins

578161125367

575152134996

4652

464156515629

Aver.

849853822833827808

Aver.

193185179174174172172172171171

//;' Game

1024971922927957907

Hi Game

266254232223223223207225210250

High Team Series High Team GameResearch 2897 Research 1024Executives 2723 Yard Dept 971Millwrights ....2696 Executives 957Yard Dept 2687 Millwrights ........ 927

Laboratory League, Nov. 26Team Pass. Pts. Pts.

Monskers .. .. 72

High Team Average

Yard Dept 853Research 849

High IndividualSeries

B. Woodworth .... 693\V. Brumaster .... 608

Millwrights 833 w. Stewart 608Executives .. .. 827 H. Sims 606

Cats Eye ? 72Jeeps 72Demons 72Liberals ... . 72

4240363131

High Individual GameB. Woodworth 266L. Doxsie 254L. Davis 250E. Lents ... .. 242

StewartBergandine .HeislerBrixC. WilliamsTroliaCorrington .

JEEPSGames

23129

212114

. 14

Pins4290197112482736270017471 fifiQ

Aw.18716413913012912511Q

DECEMBER, 1938 PAGE IS

These bowlers uphold the honors oj M. &• L. in the Departmental League. Back row,K. Roberts, V. Roberts, F. Carson, D. Dayton, M. McKown. Front row, N. Owens andD. Nolan.

The Office team in the Departmental League is composed of this group. Back row—Tom Longbotis, H. Winings, D. Ball, C. Cox, I. Bauman. Front row—Bill Potter andR. Dash.

PAGE 16 THE STALEY JOURNAL

DEMONSGames Pins Ave.

Long 24 3944 164Baker 18 2788 155Martini 21 3186 152File 10 1437 144Hettinger 12 1699 142Smith 11 1414 128Coffey 21 2299 109

CATS EYEGames Pins Ave.

Bowman .. 21 3553 169Sherman 21 3508 157Falk .. 22 3324 151Casey 11 1451 132Marmor 20 2303 115Olson 16 1803 113

LIBERALSGames Pins Ave.

Larson ... .. 18 2949 164Roberts 21 3232 154Lewis ... . 18 2718 151

MoverMitchell . 18 2635Brobst .. - I S 1970

Bishop ...Young 24Rogier 21M. Williams ...Dustin ... . 14

MONSKERSGames Pins

36533998328930391720

McCubbin 17 1787

HIGH FIVEGames Pins

Stewart 23Bishop ... . 21Bowman 21Young 24Sherman 21High Team Single Game—

Cats EyeHigh Team Series—

Jeeps

42903653355339983508

149146131

Ave.174167157132123105

Ave.187174169167167

. 854

.2407

Millwrights are represented in the Departmental League by this group. Back row—F.Despres, F. Ryan, M. Eagan, M. Brumaster, J. Hilberling. Front row—R. Baer and TedShondel.

DECEMBER, 1938 PAGE 17

Laboratory bowlers in the Departmental League are—Back raw—H. Baker, W. Folk,M. Bergandine, F. Lewis, S. Bowman. Front row—R. Sherman and Corrington.

Staley Depart mental LeagueNovember 2». l ! » : t ! t

STANDING

Team Won Lost Pet.

Laboratory .. .. 24 12 66712Pipefitters 2.5 13Millwrights 19 17Office .. .. 18 18Tinners 17 10Painters 16 20M. & L 15 21Boiler Room .. 12 24

Name Team Games

I. Cox Tinners .. 33C. Koshinski Pipefitters 26R. Sherman Laboratory .. 32D. Ball . ....Office . .. 26F. Despres Millwrights 26\V. Barter Tinners 27H. Winings ... Office .. 28V. Roberts .. ...M. & L .. 30P. Mart in ....Painters .. . 12C. Yonikus Pipefitters 30

PAGE 18

639528500472444417333

/'ins

581445175369435643474485

462449481Q684911

Avg.

772791759747771729746721

AVK.

176174168-7168-12167166165+4165-2164164-9

'Hi-Game

926892839839905867853834

Hi-Game

225244224224228200220240237208

THE STALEY JOURNAL

Men Hi-GameJ. Grossman 255C. Koshinski 244V. Roberts .. 240P. Martin 237M. Bergandine 237

Men Hi-SeriesC. Koshinski 612V. Roberts .. .. 609F. Despres 597J. Grossman 590

Team Hi-GameLaboratory 926Tinners .. .. 905Pipefitters ... .. 892Painters 867

Team Hi-SeriesLaboratory 2591Tinners ....2545Pipefitters ... 2525Millwrights ....2511

Adams Causes More TroubleO. O. "Stormy" Adams has done it

again. In his capacity as package divi-sion sales supervisor in Xew England,he travels about quite a lot and lately ithas been noticed that he trails disasterin his wake. The most recent calamitywhich appeared just as he came into thecommunity was the dense fog whichwrapped Boston and vicinity Nov. 17.

Stormy was in Boston that day whichBoston papers said brought the heaviestland fog ever seen in that city. He wasin Boston in September when the >bigstorm hit there, and he was in Louisvilletwo years ago when the flood ruined thatcountry. He admits he has been in otherstorm centers too—but he always es-capes.

We like Mr. Adams but we would notbe at all surprised to find his name postedup in some of our bigger cities as a gen-tleman without whom the city couldstruggle along.

DECEMBER, 1938

> l i . Zion TerrorAccording to certain peaceful citizens

of the decidedly peaceful village of Mt.Zion, chickens from their flocks are miss-ing again. Earl Stimmel, Staley mill-wright, and one of the owners of a flockof white chickens there, said everythingwent well those few months that EddieEckhoff, Staley Machinist, was in Cal-ifornia. But Eddie came back and thechicken raids started all over again. Earlsays the reason he mentioned Eddiechiefly, was that, while all the chickensin Eddie's yard were all gray barred—in bright weather—some of them wereplain white when they got good and wet.

Robert Parkinson, a Decatur High schoolstudent, had . the original idea of usingStaley Starch Cubes as stones in construct-ing the castle to illustrate some work in oneof his English classes. He made small fig-ures in clay and gave the castle a realisticappearance with ivy. It was shown at astate meeting of educators where it createdquite a sensation. R.obert is the son of Mr.and Mrs. N. P. Parkinson of Decatur.

PAGE 19

ALTITUDE .MEANS \ I H I M . TO I I l l - S i ;

HIGH BOYSTall stacks against the sky are lovely

pictures; long poles piercing the cloudsare things of beauty; tanks rising intothe blue are inspiring. All of these thingswe have at our own plant—and we sel-dom see them unless they are called toour attention by some visitor with an eyefor the beautiful in this every-day world.

All of these lovely, high structureshave another and practical side too.They must not only be built—they mustbe kept in perfect condition. That is an-other thing we seldom think about. Thereis a little group of Staley workmen whodo think about it, because they climbabout on high places as easily as we walkabout on the ground.

At the left are shown two views of oneof our tall stacks. These stacks, two ofthem, stand side by side, reaching upinto the air 335 feet. Ordinarily they rise

OF THE STALEY PLANT

straight and smooth, but during the lastfew weeks one of them—the one we showhere—has worn an ever rising girdle. Thegirdle is a working stage for the steeplejacks who are making routine repairs onthe stack. The smaller picture gives aclose up view of the top of the stackshowing the stage more distinctly.

When work was started several weeksago, two Staley men were put on the job.While they were from the regular yardcrew, both of them are experiencedsteeple jacks and are quite at home inhigh places. The men are Homer Hansenand Steve Quinn.

Otto Grolla, Staley electrician, seemsto be playing a game of crack-the-whipwith electric wires up a-top a tall pole.He was, in reality, pulling a wire intoplace on top of the big power pole whichstands just east of the tool room. Alsohe seems to be balanced without guardbut he has assured us that he is too oldin this business to trust his footing ontop of any electric pole. He always wearshis full regalia of guards and life belts.

In the center we find our two steeplejacks again, and again they are up in theair. This time they are repairing the topof one of the big tanks at Elevator C'.They are also well girded up in life beltsand in this case both are wearing pro-tective goggles.

Below, Otto Grolla, almost hidden,and Art Watkins, also an electrician, areseen on top of a tall pole. Probably theboys knew their picture was being takenfor they are giving their life belts achance to show what they can do.

All of these pictures were taken in theplant by Ted Threlfall, yards foreman.

Cooky ideas forChristmas 1*uvsts

Unless yours is an unusual household,a jar of cookies and some small cakes arehandy things to have about (luring theholiday season. Most modern house-wives do not follow the old-country cus-tom of baking dozens and dozens ofcookies weeks in advance, but below arethree recipes which can be baked a fewdays before the big holiday, and are wellworth the time spent on them.

Oat Meal CookiesWhite Sugar—y\pBrown Sugar—J4 CUPStaler's Sorghum Flavored Syrup

—2 tablespoonsLard—% cupButter—Yn cupEggs—2Cream—X> cupSalt—-,'4 teaspoonFlour—2 cupsCream Corn Starch—J4 CUPOatmeal—1/> cupBaking Powder—2 teaspoonsNut Meats—1 cup (chopped)

Cream butter and lard together. Mixsugars and syrup; add. Sift flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt. Add this drymixture alternately with beaten egg yolks.cream, and oatmeal. Add stiffly beaten eggwhites, folded in. together with nuts. Dropby heaping teaspoonfuls on baking sheet.Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 25 min-utes.

BrowniesShortening—!/! cupSugar—1/2 cupStaley's Sorghum Flavored Syrup

—1/2 cupChocolate—2 squares (melted)Egg-1Flour—-)4 cupCream Corn Starch—2 tablespoonsSalt—Y< teaspoonPecan Meats—?4 cup (cut)

PAGE 22

Cream shortening and sugar together.Melt chocolate in double boiler. Add syrup,beaten egg and melted chocolate. Sift flour,corn starch and salt; add nut meats and J4extra teaspoon of salt if unsalted shorteninghas been used. Add to creamed mixture.Bake in greased shallow pan in moderateoven (350° F.) 30 minutes. Cut into 4-inchsquares while hot. Makes 16.

Aunt Chloe's Ginger CakesButter—1 cupBrown Sugar—1 cupEggs-2Staley's Golden Table Syrup—1 cupSour Milk—1 cupSoda—1 tablespoonWater—1 tablespoonFlour—2-)4 CUPS

Cream Corn Starch—J4 cupSalt—'/2 teaspoonGinger—1 tablespoonCloves—1 teaspoon

Cream butter and sugar to a smooth, fluffymass. Add eggs and beat them in. Beat insyrup and sour milk. Dissolve soda in wa-ter; add. Add dry ingredients, well mixed.This dough will keep a week in a covereddish in the refrigerator. Hot ginger cakescan be baked for dessert while the maincourse is eaten. Bake in greased muftin tinsin moderate oven (360° F.) for 20 minutes.

Keith Talbott, millwright, insists theyare not twins but they are just a year apart.Thomas Keith, Jr., was three in Septemberand his sister, Florence Anne, was two inOctober.

THE STALEY JOURNAL

.•<• Tuketf\\in-t.

In November Dr. K. J. Seulke, whohas been with the company for severalyears, was transferred to a newly creat-ed position. He is now director of re-search development, a department which,briefly, will coordinate the work of theresearch department and that of the salesdepartment.

It will be the mission of Dr. Seulke totake new products developed by the re-

Dr. K. J. Seulke is staying with the com-pany but changing jobs.

search department and, working with thesales department, introduce them to thetrade. He will be closely in touch withthe technical director, Howard File andthe research laboratory, and often in hisintroductory work will have to go intothe laboratories of customers for his newjob is to be what is known among manu-facturing firms as missionary work.

While Ur. Seulke has not previouslyknown most of the customers he will nowmeet, he has been with the company sinceJanuary, 1934, as director of our feednutritional department. With his head-quarters in Albany, N. Y., he has trav-DECEMBER, 1938

eled through all of New England and theMiddle Atlantic states introducing Staleyfeeds, and working with salesmen, feeddealers and stock breeders on variousnutrition problems.

Before taking up promotional workDr. Seulke was teaching. After his grad-uation from Purdue university in 1913he taught in Indiana University and lat-er, with a fellowship at Penn State col-lege he taught while working on hisMasters degree. From there he went toCornell University as an assistant pro-fessor, and there he took his work forhis doctorate. At the granting of thatdegree he was raised to a full professor-ship at Cornell.

Since his new work will necessitate hismaintaining an office at the plant he ismoving his family from Albany to De-catur. Mrs. Seulke will arrive early inDecember and their son will come tospend Christmas from California wherehe is in school.

Winning TeamIf the Staley basketball team can hold

up all season as it started, it will comeout on the top of the Industrial leaguewith flying colors. The team, coachedthis year as in former seasons by LeekRuthrauff , is playing some interestingoutside games which are attracting largecrowds.

The team won its first two Leaguegames, but went into its first outsidegame, late in November, without beingtoo sure of victory. The reason for thiswas that it was playing the strong NewYork Shamrocks. However, when thegame was over, Staley's had won 27 to20. Last year this was the only travel-ing team to defeat the Staley boys.

Next on the books for an outside gameis that with the Sioux Warriors. Thisgame will be played Dec. 11, in St. Jamesgym and, according to the manager, willbe a game worth seeing.

PAGE 23

When repair work on this vacuum pan steam chest was finished in our machine shoprecently, the yard gang, under Jack Slover, was assigned the task of raising it into place.Since it is made up of 1136 copper tubes weighing ll]/2 pounds each, raising it was nosmall task. It weighs 1500 tons but was raised 35 feet to its home in the feed house with-out much confusion.

Morris McK.ouvt, garage, insists he has this elaborate electric train for his daughterImogene to play with, but the boys in the garage say Imogene seldom gets to touch it.Enough track to fill one side of his basement, with electric switches and lights and completepassenger and freight trains. He is continually adding to his rolling stock he tells us.

PAGE 24 THE STALEY JOURNAL

M I / / I ./. it. Hustonfor Fifty

Mr. Liebe is a well known figure aboutPhiladelphia business districts.

Fifty years ago, in November, 1888,a bright eyed little chap started work asoffice boy for the J. H. Huston Company,in Philadelphia. This year, in Novem-ber, 1938, that boy, now still bright eyed,but larger and older, celebrated thatevent. He is still living in Philadelphiaand he is still with J. H. Huston Com-pany, but now, instead of being the officeboy he is the senior member of the firm.He is Edward Liebe.

Mr. Liebe was born in the Tioga sec-tion of Philadelphia and went to schoolin that city. When he was still quiteyoung he took this job with the Hustoncompany, and he has never left that firm.In 1900 he became a partner. The Hus-ton company was established in 1875and even when he became associated withit, was well known as one of the largeand well established sugar brokeragehouses. When Mr. Liebe joined its forcesDECEMBER, 1938

the Huston company had its offices inSouth Front street. As the business hasgrown it has moved with other broker-age houses away from the water frontand now is settled in the classic PublicLedger building, overlooking Philadel-phia's lovely Independence Square.

A good many years ago Mr. Liebemoved too, establishing his home inVentnor, N. J. While this is within easycommuting distance of Philadelphia andit also makes it easy for him to followhis hobbies, deep-sea fishing, and yacht-

ing-Associated with Mr. Liebe in the firm

now are Clifford S. Bailie, and his son,Edward Liebe, Jr. The tie between theHuston company and the Staley com-pany is a close one of long standing, forthe J. H. Huston company has been theStaley company broker in Philadelphiasince 1916. Besides being business as-sociates, many Staley people are closepersonal friends of Mr. Liebe.

George Smith returned to his work inthe machine shop late in November afterbeing off for several weeks because of abroken foot.

Luther Hiser, accounting, wants to provethat he really did some deep sea fishingwhile he was in Florida this summer.

PAGE 25

At tin' right arc lour generations of the Folk familv. Otto, Stahy pipe niter, his mother,who is 88 years old, his daughter, Mrs. Agnes Longbons, and his grandson, Loren Longbons,6 years old.

In the other picture is shown Mr. Folk's other daughter, Hilma, who with her husband,Ralph Baldwin, and their daughter Barbara, live in Pottstown, Pa.

Wht'ii lovely Irene Rich, of movie and grape juice f a m e , visited Omaha she was greetedat the air-port by William Sachse, our broker, who is shown at her right. At her left is themayor. The man in the dark hat is Sam Rosenblltm, grocers' president, and the man in thelight hat is Louis Kavan, secretary.

PAGE 26 THE STALEY JOURNAL

1 liilili-1'ii's l*ai'tij«:i 7th

Carr-O'Doiiaghue

Childen of Staley employees — andchildren only — are to be special guestsof the Fellowship club at the annualChristmas party Saturday, Dec. 17. Theparty this year is to be in the morning,at 9 o'clock, and is to be in the LincolnSquare theater. Six acts of professionalvaudeville, including a number of trainedanimals, will provide the entertainment.

Admission will be by ticket only, andthe tickets will be distributed, as in for-mer years, through the foremen. NOADULTS will be admitted. The entirestaff of the Community Play Groundassociation will be present, each workerhaving a small section of the theater un-der his supervision. Grown-ups maybring the children to the theater, and callfor them, but because of the large num-ber of children to be entertained no par-ents or other adults can be admitted tothe theater.

While the show will begin promptly at9 o'clock, the doors will open at 8:30,but not before. In order to prevent con-fusion at the theater mothers are request-ed to keep their children at home untilnearly that time. There will be plenty ofroom for all the children, and all will getgood seats.

The show will last two hours, closingpromptly at 1 1 o'clock. Parents who wishto meet their children after the show willnot be kept waiting if they 'plan to ar-rive at 11. Special police, as well as playground workers will be at the theaterto see that children leaving the theaterdo not come to harm.

The mother of Frank Starbody, elec-trician, died in her home in Decatur latein November. She leaves two other sons,Otto and Herman.

Lorene Carr was abride this jail.

Miss Lorene Carr and James M.O'Donaghue were married Oct. 25 in thehome of Rev. Ivor Johnson, pastor ofthe Grace Methodist church. They wereattended by Lena Piraino and IrvinHedden. The double ring ceremony wasused.

After a short trip they went to house-keeping at 346 Central Avenue. Thebride works in our packing house and thebridegroom works for the Wabash.

Scattered This ChristmasEarl Leek, engine room foreman, and

his wife are not looking forward to muchof a family reunion this Christmas. Oftheir three children, only one, Bob, whoworks in the plant, is in Decatur. Dor-othy is in San Francisco where she workswith the Baptist Home Mission board,and Donald is in the Navy. Probably hewill spend Christmas in Chinese waters,for the Blackhawk, his ship, has beenin the Orient for some time.

DECEMBER, 1938

Catherine Taylor,daughter oj E. E.Taylor, table house,was graduated jromMt. Zion High schoollast spring and is nowa student at Sue Ben-nett college, London,Ky. She has as herroom-mate there herKentucky cousin.

PAGE 27

Visiting laundrymen at the national convention in St. Louis recently found this Staleybooth a good place to stop.

Collins-Long

Neva Marie Collins and Luther Longwere married in the study of the Centen-ary Methodist church in St. Louis, Nov.23. Rev. Charles Crow performed theceremony.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. Elmer Collins. She was graduatedfrom Decatur High School in 1932 andmost of the time since then has workedfor the Staley company. At present sheis employed in the packing house. Thecouple will live at 649 East Clay street.

Roy Hartman killed at least onepheasant — at least he brought in theband from one and showed it about theoffice. He says he gave away most ofthe quail he shot to the boys who wentwith him. Nice.

PAGE 28

Injured in Accident

Espie Grolla, of the print shop, suf-fered a broken hip when the car in whichshe was riding with her husband, OttoGrolla, Staley electrician, was hit recent-ly. While on their way home from workone evening early in November their carwas hit by another motorist as they madethe turn off the hard road into their ownstreet in Long Creek. Thejr car was com-pletely demolished and Mrs. Grolla wasbadly hurt but Otto, who was driving,was not injured, and their son, in theback seat, was only slightly hurt.

John Weatherholt returned to work inthe refinery in November after being inthe hospital for some time. He had aknee infection and was forced to undergoan operation on his knee.

THE STALEY JOURNAL

Rube Comes BackRube Hill and all of his many friends

at the Staley plant, are glad that he iswell enough to be back on the job at thebone black kilns again. Rube has beenwith Staley's a good many years and hasbecome such a well established fixtureabout here that when he is ill, as hap-pened this fall, things didn't seem justright. Rube says he feels the same wayabout it, and no matter how glad wemay all be to have his blackened, smilingface with us again, he is still more gladto have it here.

Joe Pygmans MethodJoe Pygman and Cy Martin, of the

scale house, went hunting but Joe cameback without a rabbit. He said that thelittle things were so cute he couldn't bearto shoot them. But Cy's story was dif-ferent. He said that Joe tried hardenough, used up seven boxes of shells,in fact. He said the rabbits would stopin front of Joe and beg him to shootthem and he tried to do it, but his gunwas jinxed.

Audrey Wood and Marion Skelley, ac-counting, spent a November week-endin Chicago seeing plays and having ageneral good time.

This little darlingno longer wears thisquaint Dutch bob nordoes she appear indraped frocks. Nowshe is grown-up andj,or some time hasbeen a Staley stenog-rapher. She is LoisVan Deventer, andprobably the reasonthis arty picture wastaken in her extremeyouth was because her grandfather was De-catur's leading photographer then.

DECEMBER, 1938

Billy Adams, Jr., isthe grandson of Wal-ter David, machinist,and the nephew ofVirgil David, kilnhouse. His parents areMr. and Mrs. WilburFranklin Adams. Billyis not quite threeyears old, but evenhis grandfather ad-mits he is a most re-markable child.

Year's Bride

Mildred Farthing, one of the nursesin our First Aid hospital, is to becomethe bride of Willard Fisher on NewYears Day. The ceremony will be per-formed in Mansfield, 111., the bride'shome. Mr. Fisher works in Monticellobut the couple will live in Decatur andthe bride will continue with her work inour hospital.

Mildred Farthing is to be married NewYear's Day.

PAGE 29

Jfrom d£lb Journal JfilttiTHE STALEY JOURNAL

December, 1923—Ruth R. Cade, Editor.

Pictures were used showing the newcinder removal method recently put intouse at the boiler house. Shown in thepictures were Bob Quillen, Carl Watsonand Ed Coffey.

Walter H. Cooley had joined the Sta-ley sales staff. He was working in theNew York city territory.

Louise F. Scheu joined the New Yorkoffice forces. She succeeded Alice Meek-er, who resigned to be married.

Ralph Whitsitt and Wilma Perry weremarried.

Ella Hehir (Yates) joined the ac-counting department forces.

THE STALEY JOURNALDecember, 1928—Ruth E. Cade, Editor.

The first of a series of articles on pa-per making, written by Howard File, ap-peared.

A portrait of A. E. Staley, painted byRobert Root, had just been completedfor the new Masonic Temple.

Norman Hayes, who had been work-ing in our offices, returned to his homein England and resumed his work in ourLondon office.

Claude Cox, accounting, and MildredReeder, mailing, surprised their friendsby going to St. Louis and getting mar-ried.PAGE 30

Marjorie White, sales, went to Chi-cago to work in our office there whileone of the girls there was ill.

There was no Journal published twen-ty years ago this month, December,1918. The editor, C. E. Murphy, had re-signed and the new editor did not takecharge unti l the January, 1919, issue.

Bob Calls Our BluffBob Urfer, fisherman de-tops of the

purchasing department, proved to mostof us, late in November, that he reallydid get that big muskie when he wason his vacation in September. (Noticewe say GET instead of CATCH.) Heproved it by putting on display in hisoffice a very husky muskie, all mountedin the most approved style. Aside fromthe fact that it is slightly sway-backedand seems to have lost some of its teeth,it has been pronounced a pretty goodspecimen.

Anyway, Bob is proud of it, and sim-ply lapped up all the nice things said tohim by Frances Wheeler and Roy Hart-man, John Kuhns and Howard File, AlCrabb and Cy Cobb, Kermit Shively andTed Threlfall and all the other fisher-men who came in to admire the fishand envy Bob.

Sammy Martina ReturnsSammy Martina is back at work in the

oil house where he is foreman. For sev-eral weeks last fall Sammy was desper-ately ill and doctors felt that it was onlya matter of time until Sammy would beworking no more. But they did not knowSammy and his wiry lit t le body, for earlyin November he was back on the job andhe says he is feeling better every day.

THE STALEY JOURNAL

Carol Spitler is asmiling little lady, billshe reserves a specialsmile for her father,J. D. Spitler.

One expects Bill Kossieck, club housecustodian, and Louis Kossieck, elevatoroperator, to go hay-wire most any timenow. Their nephew has been elected sher-iff of Macon County and the Kossieckboys are naturally all set up over thefact. They are grateful to all Staleyfriends who helped elect him, they say,but they have made no offers to inter-cede for such friends who may get intotrouble.

Dickie \Yond was 8months .old when thispicture was taken ashort time ago. He isthe grandson of KarlWond, mill house, anda nephew of Mrs.Margaret Klaus, sew-ing room. His fatheris Henry Wond.

MAKE IT NORTH

It seems we made a typographical, orgeographical or at any rate an error lastmonth which may seem trivial to somebut, according to keen-eyed contributorW. S. Walden might be fighting wordsin some sections. We referred to Mr.Staley as a South Carolinian, while he isactually a North Carolinian. We knowthat, and Mr. Staley knows that we knowit, but as Mr. Walden says (he lives inNorth Carolina) there are those whomight think we were trying to take anhonor away from North Carolina. Headds that honor is the right word to use,too, for the whole state of North Caro-lina claims A. E. Staley.

Lucile Schulz, secretary to Dr. Kutsch,spent the week-end of Nov. 26 in Chi-cago attending the theater and generallyenjoying the big city.

Father Is KilledHarry W. Reynolds, father of W. G.

Reynolds, our director of personnel, waskilled near his home, Bluffton, Ind., Nov.21. He was riding along the hard roadon a bicycle about 6 o'clock in the eve-ning when he was struck by a motoristwho did not see him. He was killedinstantly.

—For—

BLACK HILLSMERCANTILE

CO.

STALEY'SSYRUP

STALEY'S OILSTALEY'SSTARCHES

Deadwood, S. D

This is the way the Black Hills Mercantile company, of Deadwood, S. D., announcesits shipments of Staley's products. This picture, printed on a large card, is mailed tocustomers.

DECEMBER, 1938 PAGE 31

Thomas NelsonCasley is 19 monthsold and the darling ojthe Casley household.His father, HarryThomas Casley, worksin the sugar house.

Frank Rucker denies this—but wehave heard that he actually begged someof the Republicans to let him vote theirticket in the last election. They remem-bered some of the things he had saidabout them in former years and refusedhis plea.

When Frank Kekeisen, package sales,tells you about the rabbits he shot lookhim straight in the eye and make him re-peat the story. We have it on good au-thority that Frank shot two rabbits allright, but they were tame ones raisedon a friend's farm.

Arthur Isaacs returned to work in theoil refinery in November. He is com-pletely recovered from his recent opera-tion.

Eloise Dixon, sales office, has enteredMacon County Sanitorium for treat-ment. She probably will be a patientthere for several months.

Jim Browning isnot really a cook buthe was all dressed upin a cook's hat theday the photographermet him. Jim hasbeen a familiar figureabout the plant foryears.

PAGE 32

Marion Trow, personnel, spent theThanksgiving holiday in Chicago attend-ing opera, a symphony concert and thetheater.

Charlie Ellis has the right idea. Whenhe goes hunting he takes a dog and nogun. Charlie sits down under a tree withthe dog beside him. Presently a rabbitpops up, Charlie gives the word, the doggives chase, and almost before he knowsit, Charlie has another rabbit in the bag.Quite simple and a perfect method forone of Charlie's inclinations.

He had walked miles and it was quitedark when he finally saw a farm house.The family had retired but he knocked.

A head appeared at an upper window,"What do you want?"

"I want to stay here all night.""All right—stay there"—and down

went the window.

When the June heat wave in Califor-nia warmed up the cables on San Fran-cisco's suspension bridges and droppedthe roadways about two feet below nor-mal levels, it produced one of the bestnewspaper gags of the year. Here's theheadline in a San Francisco daily: ''Heat\Vave Catches San Francisco With ItsBridges Down."

Kelley and Cohen were having dinnertogether. Cohen helped himself to thelarger fish and Kelley said:

"Fine manners ye have Cohen. If Ihad reached out first I'd have taken thesmaller fish."

Cohen: "Veil, you've got it, haven'tyou."— Type-Graphic.

"Your wife is a blonde, isn't she?""I don't know; she had an appoint-

ment at the beauty parlor this after-noon."

THE STALEY JOURNAL

Tuleremia Victims

At least three Staley families have suf-fered from the epidemic of tuleremia, orrabbit fever, which has been prevalentthis winter. Leroy Foreman, extra boardman, was taken to St. Mary's hospitalDec. 3 seriously ill as a result of infec-tion from a rabbit. He was running anexcessively high temperature.

Judy Heisler, sheet metal worker, wasrecovering early in December. He hasbeen ill for three weeks, and as is thecase generally with tuleremia, had beenseriously ill for some time.

Another patient who seems on the roadto recovery now is Mrs. Lola Smith,mother of Albert, Harvey, Lewis and EdSmith. She has been a patient in St.Mary's hospital and for a time was in aserious condition.

According to medical authorities tule-remia can be contracted from diseasedrabbits by getting the blood on the hands,or by touching the fur. Even gloveswhich are used in handling the rabbits,can carry the disease if they are handled

Hezi Roberts, watchman at the Ele-vator C gate, has been seriously ill forthe last few weeks.

Fred Young, fireman in the feed house,is seriously ill. He was taken home earlyin the morning of Dec. 1 and later takento the hospital in a serious condition.

I wish to express my sincere thanksto the many Staley friends who were sohelpfully sympathetic at the time of thedeath of my father.

VV. G. Reynolds.

The expressions of sympathy shown byStaley friends at the time of the death ofour mother were truly appreciated.

Otto, Herman and Frank Starbody.DECEMBER, 1938

The many expressions of sympathy re-ceived from our Staley friends will al-ways be remembered.

The Feltcher Family.

We know these girls will love this pub-licity, but did you know that they are allnamed Mary—

MARY Katherine Adams—MARY Eloise Rice—MARY Adeline Doherty—MARY Frances Grove.

Clyde Williams, laboratory, has beenoff the job for a few weeks, having hisappendix removed. He is recovering welland probably will be back at work earlyin December.

The prime example of the golfing"dub" must be the man who braggedthat he had hit the ball in one.

The Department of Taxation receiveda typed income tax return from a bache-lor who listed one dependent son. Theexaminer returned the blank with a pen-ciled notation: "This must be a steno-graphic error."

Presently back came the blank with anadded pencil notation: "You're tellingme."

Mose, who was working night shiftwas laid off and came back to his shackabout 8 p. m. to find Liza arrayed in herbest bib-and-tucker, and the table bloom-ing with luscious, steaming vittles. Helooked about in wide-eyed wonder.

"Dis am a mos' pleasant surprise,Mose," said Liza nervously.

"Yeah," said Mose, his suspiciongrowing, "but ah has a feelin' dat dey'sa niggah in de woodpile."

"You'se wrong fo' once, Mose," pipedup young Eph, the neighbor boy, peeringover the window sill, "dat Pullmanpo'tah am hidin' in de pantry."

PAGE 33

V^MEN ON VACATIONIN MICHIGAN THE

MEN SENT MERL.TOt3ATFi-E CREEK WITH

TME LADIES TOSEE THEYGOT BACK SAFE-AND ME GOTLOST AND HAD TO THOMO HISV-A.N- BACK TO Q6ETI-E LAKE-

The irate father was storming at hiswayward son, "Mark my words, somedaythe worm will turn.' '

"What's the dif," asked the indifferentson. "it's the same on both sides."

Traveler: At last! I have been wait-ing here a long time—didn't your mastertell you how to recognize me?

Chauffeur: Yes, but there were sev-eral gentlemen with large stomachs andred noses.

"Are you the new life guard here?""Why yes, who are you?""Oh, just the gal who's about to

drown."—U. S. S. West Virginia ^Moun-taineer.

"Zeke played a mean trick on our par-rot."

"What did he do?""The parrot was sound asleep in its

cage, so Zeke got a big candy Easter eggand put it inside. Then he woke the par-rot up. The parrot took one look at theegg and said: 'That's a lie.'"—Wood-bury Program.

PAGE 34

The president called his office managerin and thrust a letter under his nose.

"Look at that! I thought I told youto engage a new stenographer on the basisof her grammar?"

The office manager looked startled."Grammar? I thought you said glam-our."

Burglar: "Please let me go, lady. I'venever done anything wrong."

Old Maid: "Well, it's not too late tolearn."

America has more cars than bathtubs,but no wonder. Getting into a bath tubdoesn't make you feel like a big-shot.—Buffalo Evening News.

The pupil was asked to paraphrase thesentence: "He was bent on seeing her."

He wrote: "The sight of her doubledhim up."

Clerk: "Well, Johnnie, what do youwant—chocolate?"

Johnnie: "Yes; but I have to getsoap."

THE STALEY JOURNAL

A negro preacher had pestered hisbishop so much with appeals for helpthat the bishop finally told him in a toneof finality that he didn't want to hearany more appeals from him.

The next week there came a letterfrom the preacher as follows: "DearBishop: I assure you this is not an ap-peal. I assure you it is a report. I haveno pants."

Gent: "It's no use. My girl and I justdon't click."

Gal: "What's she like?"Gent: "Another guy!"

A man told a friend that he was run-ning for an undertaker as his wife wasseriously ill.

"But," remonstrated the friend, "it'snot an undertaker you want, it's a doc-tor."

"No, no," was the reply. "I canna af-ford to deal wi' middlemen."

"Do you think late hours are good forone?"

"I don't know about one, but I thinkthev are fine for two."

"I wonder why women pay more at-tention to beauty than brains?"

"Because no matter how stupid a manis he is seldom blind."

The teacher was explaining the differ-ence between the stately rose and themodest violet.

"You see, children," she said, "a beau-t i f u l , well-dressed woman walks alongthe street, but she is proud and does notgreet anybody—that is the rose. But be-hind her comes a small creature withbowed head—

"Yes, miss, I know," Tommy inter-rupted. "That's her husband."

He had long outstayed his welcome."Tell me," said the host at last, "howlong was the fish you caught the otherday?"

"Oh," said the guest, holding hishands wide apart, "so long.''

"Well, so long," returned the host, "ifyou really must be going."—Exchange.

"Did you say your girl's legs werewithout equal?''

"No; I said they know no parallel."

WHERE'b I3EAMIC GOOD PLACE HlCT" BOY SOME

CANDY

,v,~ MIGHT/FIND SOMEI An-A CANDYV STOY5E. -

'(/I I fl 6*>EN JOHNNY ANDERSON!/\ || ^-^MG t3iLu l_OweN WEN

N/AN HOOK*

WENTTo CHICAGO TO >3UY CAMDY-

DECEMBER, 1938 PAGE 35

/ I NEVER? THOUGHT )THE BOYS tOOOLD )

\T ME /

THE TIME THEYRAN AW/VY FROM

LECK ON THE WAYHOME. FROM CHICAGO

They were sitting at the shady end ofthe cotton gin during the noon hour, andgot to swapping yarns.

"Boy," said Bigfoot Sampson, "didyou evah walk five miles to git somechicking meat, and when you got to dehencoop you fine de white folks isplanted a bear trap, a spring gun, an' abitin' dawg?"

"No, Suh," replied the other, "Ahnevah has nuthin' lak dat happen to me.But Ahse had a heap sight wuss thingshappen."

"Whut?" demanded Bigfoot."Onct in de Ahmy Ah done talked

back to a Fust Sarjint."

"Now, Jimmy, we're going to take upwords. I want you to use the word 'mis-cellaneous' correctly in a sentence."

"Franklin D. Roosevelt is the headman in this country and miscellaneousthe head man in Italy."—Punch Bowl.

PAGE 36

A lawyer said to a doctor witness:"Doctors make mistakes sometimes,don't they?"

"Just as lawyers do sometimes," wasthe reply.

"But doctors' mistakes are buried sixfeet under ground," persisted the lawyer.

"Yes," agreed the doctor, "and law-yers' mistakes oftentimes swing six feetin the air.''

"Are you the celebrated lion tamer?""No, I only comb the lions and clean

their teeth."—Barnes and Mortlakc Herald.

Mrs. Ripsnort: "I want you to get mea divorce. My husband treats me cruelly.Only last night he threw a pillow at me."

Lawyer: "Hasn't he apologized for hisconduct?"

Mrs. Ripsnort: "Not yet. The doctorsays the miserable little shrimp won't beable to speak for several days."—Ex-change.

THE STALEY JOURNAL

"She'll come along soon, without adoubt."

"Yeah? She'll come doubtin' my so-briety, my veracity and my fidelity."

Someone digging around War Depart-ment records in Washington recentlydiscovered the following orders issued totroops at Fort Riley, Dated October 25,1842:

(1) "Members of this command will,when shooting at buffalos on the paradeground, be careful not to fire in the direc-tion of the C. O.'s quarters.

(2) "The troop officer having the besttrained regiment for this year will beawarded one barrel of rye whisky.

(3) "Student officers will discontinuethe practice of roping and riding buf-falos.

(4) "Attention of all officers is calledto Par. 107-AR in which it provides un-der uniform regulations that all officerswill wear beards."

"I suttinly hopes I'se sick,'' groanedRastus. "I'd sho hate to feel lak dis whenI'se well."

The feminist orator had waxed veryindignant over the universal treatmentof her sisters.

"Just as i f , ' ' she screamed, "all menwere perfect. Why, there's not even oneperfect man! 1 dare anyone to name aperfect man!"

A meek looking man in the backarose.

"What?" demanded the speaker. "Doyou claim to have known a perfect man?"

"Well, I never really knew him," thelittle fellow said apologetically, "but I'veheard a lot about him!"

"Who was he?" shrieked the speaker."My wife's first husband!"

He: "You are always wishing for whatyou haven't got."

She: "Well, what else can one wishfor?"

Suitor: "There isn't much I can sayfor myself. I'm just a plain citizen anda taxpayer."• Prospective Father-in-Law: "Taxpay-er, eh? Income or dog?''—WashingtonStar.

ATJ3E.KOUD A,

SPECIMEN//

DECEMBER, 1938

STALEY'S 41% PROTEIN

Pea-Size Soybean Oil Meal Pellets

SIZE: 3 16 inch diameter andabout 1/4 inch long.

SHAPE: Round and smooth toprevent 'fines' frombreaking.

INGREDIENT: Soybean OilMeal.

Analysis:

Protein -Fat - -Fiber -N.F.E. -

- not less than 41%- not less than 4%-not more than 7%- not less than 29%

STALEY'S 37% PROTEINPea-Size Soybean Oil Meal Pellets

SIZE: 3/16 inch diameter andabout 1/4 inch long.

SHAPE: Round and smooth toprevent 'fines' frombreaking.

INGREDIENTS: Soybean OilMeal, molasses, cal-c i u m c a r b o n a t e ,steamed bone meal.

Analysis:Protein - not less than 37%Fat- - - not less than 31/2%Fiber - -not more than 7%N.F.E. - not less than 31';

The reports we have received on these two new products from ourcustomers have been unanimous.

Many have said, "Great".

The rest have said, "Wonderful".

Those are two strong words, but we believe you will say the samewhen you see them and try them. ,

These two products are available for shipment now. Be sure to orderyour requirements on these two items immediately.

WRITE OR WIRE FOR SAMPLES AND LITERATURE

A. E. STALKY MANUFACTURING CO.DECATUR, (Feed Division) ILLINOIS

KEEP QUIETYOU KIDSVU'LL WAKE

TH' BABY/NO WE W/OlsJT

VOO

THE KIDSTHROWING

HALLOWEEN ON TWE PORCHOF BOBBY SIWECK- «

A Kansas City man visited his credi- ' "What does the bride think when shetor the other day and asked, ''Are you walks into the church?"worried about whether T can meet my "Aisle, Altar, Hymn."note next month?"

"Yes, I am," confessed the creditor."Good," said the client. "That's what rhe modern woman's idea of hardship

I'm paying you six per cent for." is to buy a ioaf of bread and then find it—Montreal Star. unsliced.

_ HAD TO DRESS'ON THE Vv/*Y TO Vvot^K, THE OTHER

. _i-WHEN BOGGY SJVVECK.CAME ©V For? HIM - ^

DECEMBER, 1938 PAGE 39

He used to be aGROUCH-

In plain u'ords, he used tobe a helly-acher. Now lookathini! Pepto-Bismol helpshim ward off the grouch—and ouch — oj acid indi-Seitiuu!

A dose oj Pepto-Bifinol at the first signof acid indigestion is a %.tH>d precautionthat's easy to take!

Take Pepto-Bismol! It has been tested by more than35 years of medical, hospital and dispensary expe-rience in the relief of indigestion due to over-indul-gence in food or drink, hasty eating, nervous excite-ment and improperly prepared or selected food.

Pepto-Bismol helps soothe, calm, quiet the stomach--doesnot agitate it. And its taste is as pleasant as its action ismild. 50<' at all druggists. In the distinctive three-corneredNorwich bottle. The Norwich Pharmacal Company,Norwich, N. Y., makers of Unguerttine.

P T^" T>* 1epto-Dismolwhen your stomach is out of order'

PAGE 40 THE STALEY JOURNAL

WHITE HOUSERICE FLOUR

Makes d e l i c i o u swaffles and nan-

cakes

There are more than200 ways to sorveWHITE BOUSE RICEFret Recipe Book tells fcow

WHITE HOUSE Natural Brown

R I C EWhole grain with allthe bran and Vita-min "B" content.

W H I T E H O U S ER I C E N A

Granulated and processedrice; Cooks readily in fiveminutes. Delightful break-fast and luncheon dishesalso bread items.

Upon request we will send free of charge, a most complete recipe book

detailing delicious waffles and pancakes — as well as breads, muffins,

cookies, cakes, etc., — to be readily 'prepared from WHITE HOUSE

RICH FLOUR.

The STANDARD RICE COMPANY, Inc.EXECUTIVE OFFICES: HOUSTON, TEXAS

he business world imposes defi'nite tasks on each of us. Yourtime and ours must be devoted

to getting our jobs done. But,once a year, happily, we pause

to wish our business friends, ourcustomers, our sales forces, ourmanufacturing divisions, and

our supporting staff the best ofall good things.

We do so again, in all sincerity.

Jfflerrp Cfmstmag anb a jWosit ^rosperous J2eto ©ear

A. E. STALEY MFG. COMPANY