THE

STALEY JOURNAL

CONTENTS

Vacations Can Be Xear Home.. . 3

Stenographic Department GoesModern 9

Credit Unions Proving Worth. . . 10

High School Grads 13

Committees Plan Club Program. . . . 15

Ten Years Ago 17

Soda Fountain Popular Year'Round . ..22

Editorial ....................... 24

Bowling ........................ 28

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING CO.DECATUR, ILLINOIS

what is so rare

as a day in (June

VACATIONSCan Be Near Home

Illinois Just Waking Up to Fact That It Has as Much to Offerin Way of Playgrounds as Any Other Part of the Country

X the grand old days (any time earlierthan ten years ago) a vacation meantspending two weeks or more at a placereached after a long hard trip, and cost-

ing a lot of money. Mountain country andseaside villages advertised widely as thenation's playgrounds and we saved all yearto be able to play in them for a week ortwo. Generally we found, after having ex-erted all sorts of effort to get there, thatthey were having most unusual and unsea-sonable weather, and deep in our heartswe were glad to get home again.

Then simultaneously every state in theL'nion discovered that it had good vacationpoints i t se l f—that it had playgrounds of itsown, and that many of its own people knewlittle or nothing of them. Automobiles helpedout these discoveries, and have been a greataid in developing the vacation centers. Peoplewho couldn't possibly take two consecutiveweeks for a vacation, or who would be boredto death at the idea, now skip around overtheir own state and enjoy thoroughly two orthree day trips.

When the state fathers and travel bureaupeople started hunting around for interestingparts of Illinois they were rather surprisedat the richness of their finds. Situated asthis state is, on the borderland between eastand west, it has never been highly esteemedas a scenic part of the country. Easternersregarded this as a wild, prairie state, withoccasional fields of corn breaking in on thescene. Westerners looking at it from theirmajestic mountain heights saw in it only aflat country with hot summers and coldwinters. Illinois people developed an in-feriority complex and thought maybe theirneighbors were right.

Hut I l l ino is is recovering from that lapsenow, and this year, more than ever before,people within the state are going to enjoythe variety of vacations it has to offer. It hasprairie land, to be sure, but to the northand the south of that rich flat land lierolling hil ls and broad rivers, and one of thewonder lakes of the world. And the state

has an historical background which is closelyidentified with some of the most beautifulparts of the whole territory. These pointsof beauty and of historical interest aregradually being set off and developed asstate parks and any of them are ideal placesfor spending short vacations.

Settled Near RiversIt is not queer that the very early French

who visited this Illinois country and leftromantic historical memories, spent most oftheir time along the rivers and lakes whichare the most beautiful in the state. Thebluffs along the Ohio and Mississippi andparts of the whole territory. These pointsalong the Illinois river in the central part,the palisades along the Mississippi to themirth—all harbored very early settlements,and are today still beauty spots of the middlewest.

I l l inois now has eleven state parks,scattered throughout the state and all spotsof beauty. Practically all of them are close-ly connected with the early history of thestate. These parks are, in the order oftheir size. Starved Rock, Giant City, WhitePine Forest, Black Hawk, Fort Massac,Cahokia Mounds, Mississippi Palisades, FortChartres, Old Salem, Cave-in-Rock, andBuffalo Rock. In addition there are anumber of historical sites about the statewell worth visiting, and reached by scenicdrives.

That the state of Illinois has been de-cidedly backward in discovering and ap-preciating its most valuable historical pos-sessions is well illustrated in the case of theCahokia Mounds, near Kast St. Louis. Al-though geologists and archeologists agreethat these mounds probably were built aboutthe same time that the famous pyramids ofFgypt were constructed, the I l l inois Moundsreceived l i t t l e notice except locally, unti lrecently.

Mystery of MoundsThese mounds, between forty-five and

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fifty smaller ones surrounding the onelargest, were built in some pre-historic dayfor some undetermined reason, in the famousAmerican Bottom — that fertile territorywhere the Illinois, Missouri and Mississippirivers meet. The big mound, which standsin the center, and is still in a fairly goodstate of preservation, rises a hundred feetinto the air and at its base measures 1,000by 800 feet. This is larger than the largestof Egypt's famed pyramids. This moundalone, a curious earthwork structure of re-ceding terraces, is of such tremendous sizethat engineers figure it must have taken2,458 men working every day for two yearsto complete it. Probably it was built by thepre-historic people as a place for the burialof their dead and as a temple of worship.There is little doubt but what these people, asother early mound builders in Egypt andMexico, were sun worshippers.

Off in the southeastern part of the state,on the Ohio river near Shawneetown, thereare other evidences of pre-historic habita-tion. This district centers around a big caveand has been set aside as Cave-in-Rockpark. Mounds in this district, and flint andstone implements which have been dis-covered near the cave, support the pre-historic theory. The cave itself has alwaysbeen prominent in the history of that rivercountry.

The bluffs along the river there are steep,great rocks piled upon each other, in fan-

tastic shapes and colors. The cave, an idealplace for the hiding place for robbers andoutlaws with which history credits it, ishalf-way up the side of this great rockybluff . It, and the lovely park surroundingit, promise ideal entertainment for a day.

Those people who are inclined to regardIllinois as a new country have forgotten oldFort Massac, that now peaceful hill overlook-ing the broad Ohio river near Metropolis.Just fifty years after Columbus discoveredAmerica bold Fernando De Soto occupiedthis fort. This was in 1541, when De Sotowas breaking through the silent forests of theNew World, discovering the Mississippiriver and claiming this vast territory forSpain. Later this fort was a stronghold forFrench missionaries. It was here also thatGeorge Rogers Clark and his "Long Knives"set forth against the British and Indiansduring the Revolutionary war. Mad AnthonyWayne and Aaron Burr stopped at the forton their way to establish their dream re-public in the south.

Xothing of the fort is left now but a well-kept park is ever open to the public. Thisspot of ground which has belonged to theIndians, the Spanish, the French, the Britishand finally the United States, is now apeaceful place to visit.

Come from North

The FYench, who followed the Spanishinto the central part of the Xew World,

One of the Indian Trails in Black llaizk Park.

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One of the rock formations in Giant City.

entered Illinois f rom Canada, and first wereattracted by the high b lu f f s along the Illi-nois river. Although Starved Rock park,near LaSalle is best known for the legendof a tribe of Indians starving on its heights,its historical introduction comes throughthat famous French pair, Father Marquetteand Louis Joliet. On a commission fromthe French governor of Canada in 1673 theyhad gone by canoe down the Mississippi tothe mouth of the Arkansas, then returning,had, upon advice from fr iendly Indians,started up the Illinois river in an effort toreach Lake Michigan quickly. Part way upthe river they saw directly in their paththe rock which they named the Rock of St.Louis, but which we know as Starved Rock.Here, later. Father Marquette established

the first mission in Illinois.Later LaSalle, of the broad vision and

imagination, saw in this rocky point anideal location for the center of a flourishingfur-trading community. He visioned a vastFrench empire in the New World and se-lected Starved Rock as its center, callingit Fort St. Louis. But politics and treach-ery stepped in, and his vision never cametrue, although Tonti held the fort and car-ried on a fur trade with the Indians forseveral years after LaSalle was killed. In1702 the French abandoned the fort.

I n 1911 the State of Ill inois purchasedthe land surrounding this famous rock andit now stands as one of the country's mostfamous parks. Deep canyons, winding In-dian trails, the steep b luf fs along the river

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Marker at Port Crcve Coenr near Pcoria.

offer scenery which is equal to any. Inaddition there are amusements of variouskinds, and a hotel and automobile camp.

Fort Creve Coeur

Xear Peoria the name Creve Coeur is socommon that the average person seldomstops to remember the significance of it.The story goes that La Salle gave that nameto the fort which he built near Peoria, be-cause his heart was actually broken by thelosses he suffered there, l i e had landed atthe Indian village near Peoria Lake in 1680,but unfr iendly Indians made much troublefor him, and two vessels of valuable furswhich he had sent to France were lost.

Xothing is left of the old fort, hut amarker has been put up on the site whereit stood.

Early French Forts

About forty-five miles south of St. Louis.on the Mississippi river, is another statepark which cherishes memories of earlierdays—Fort (."hartres park. In the early

eighteenth century the French centered theactivities in the middle west, in the Ohioand Mississippi river bottoms. Fort Chartreswas the hub of this activity. Fort Kaskas-kia, farther down, at the mouth of the Okaw(then Kaskaskia) river, was another suchcenter. The most interesting thing lef t tosee here now is the home of Pierre Menard.near Chester. He was a trader and govern-ment agent who was friendly with the In-dians, and was first lieutenant governor ofthe state.

The second largest park in the state, andone of the last to be acquired, is that freakof nature known as Giant City. This col-lection of rugged hills, miniature mountainsand queer rock formations is in the foot-hills of the Ozarks, about nine miles southof Carbondale. Rock formations which rivalthose in the famous Garden of the Gods,rise to giant proportions. Anyone who hasalways called Illinois a prairie state shouldspend a day wandering in those canyons andbecome acquainted with this part of this won-der territory. (Concluded on Pa//e 20)

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Three Steps in the Process

Left—Russell Dash collects andshaves the records.

In Circle—E. M. Bailey, exportmanager, dictates a letter.

Belov;—A general <vieiv of the de-partment. Mrs. Wheeler, at extremeright in jrunt.

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Stenographic Department Goes Modern

SINCE our sales stenographic depart-ment went modern last year, thephrase "take a letter, please" is athing unheard in that department.

Not that our sales department is writingfewer letters, but the change came intobeing when dictating machines were putinto use.

In the old days the process of writing aletter in the sales department was often onewhich involved a great deal of arrangement.The man who had letters to write mustcall the head stenographer. If there wassome particular girl whom he wished tohave take his letters, he often had to waitwhile she finished some other work, or may-lie the girl had to leave some work unfinishedwhile she took a new lot of dictation.

After she got back to her desk ready totranscribe her notes the girl sometimes dis-covered that there was part of the dictationwhich was not clear, and she had to makeanother trip to the office. Xow that is allchanged. The girl sits at her desk, theexecutives dictate into a machine. Tlu1

young man in charge collects the records,in the stenographic department they aredistributed and after the letters are typed amessenger returns them to the writer forhis signature.

New System an Improvement

I t all works so smoothly, according toMrs. Frances Wheeler, in charge of thesales stenographic, that it almost runs itself.

Long before the general installation wasmade in the sales department some of theStaley men were using dictating machines.

Dictating machines were first inventedabout fifty years ago, but until the typewritercame into general use there seemed to be noparticular need for these other machines.Xow they have come into common use inoffices, for taking straight dictation and eachyear more and more new uses for them arebeing found. Some time ago men who foundthe office day too short were having dictat-ing machines installed in their homes, intheir automobiles, their private cars andyachts, and recently an airplane companyannounced their installation in their ships,for the use of busy executives.

Scientists have been using them, too, formaking notes on experiments. By the useof long extension cords students in agricul-ture walk about the fields and dictate their

observations. Army observers in captiveballoons have done the same thing, and havefound that there can be no doubt as to areport so made.

So far the Staley company has found onlythe ordinary use for these machines, butwith modern business making the progressit is, it is entirely possible that here in ourown company we may see some new usefound for this thoroughly modern machine.

Eavesdroppers seldom hear anything totheir own credit, as (ieorge Leonard graphi-cally pointed out to one of the girls in theplant cafeteria the other day.

Says Fred Klumpp, "I'd like to knowwho was with Henry Dubes that day liehung me up out here until 3 o'clock."

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Scherer,May 14, in St. Mary's Hospital, a son.Mr. Scherer is chief auditor.

Lorene Buehler, file clerk, underwent aminor operation in Decatur and MaconCounty Hospital late in May.

She: "Mother, may I go to the masqueradetomorrow as a Milk-maid?"

Ma: "No, you are too small."She: "Then may 1 go as a condensed

Milk-maid?"•

"How much for this big dog?""Five dollars.""For this smaller one?""Ten dollars.""For this tiny one?""Fifteen dollars.""Heavens; how much will it cost if 1 don't

buy a dog at all ?"•

"Where's old Bill been lately? I haven'tseen him for months."

"What? Haven't you 'card? He's gotthree years for stealin' a car."

"What did he want to steal a car for?Why didn't he buy one an' not pay for it,l ike a gentleman."

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Credit Unions Proving Worth

Editor's Note: The follmi'inii article writtenIn' Kr>\ Berycnyren, is taken from TheBridye, the official publication of the CreditUnion National Extension Bureau. Mr.Bcryenyrcn is the editor of the publication.

THE STORM FROM THE BRIDGE

WHEN I christened this sheet theBRIDGE ten years ago I had thenotion that the credit union was asort of bridge affording the average

man safe passage to a hetter economic lot.Such I know now to be the fact!

I did not then realize ful ly that a terriblestorm was brewing; that soon banking andbusiness and government would be stormtossed all the world around, and that allfolks, big and little, institutions grown richand powerful through years of development,and other institutions (like our o w n ) , young,inexperienced, and still in their preliminarystages, would be swept from accustomedmoorings into a sort of vortex, a whirlpoolof crashing values, a storm of frightful in-tensity, long duration and world-wide scope.

Unprepared for the Storm

In 1928 and thereabouts we were sleep-ing comfortably in a feather bed (bought,incidentally, on the installment plan) ; therewere signs enough of the approaching storm,hut ours was a philosophy of living themoment, heedless of the morrow. When thestorm broke it caught us all pretty muchunprepared.

Then I came to appreciate the BRIDGEin a new significance; it was my job to getinto my oilskins and climb up onto the bridgeof this great, fine ship which we call thecredit union; there I have remained for overtwo years, watching the storm, wonderingas to its duration, contriving, in humble andoften ineffective fashion, to circumvent it,to keep our particular ship on its course.

Storm's First Lesson

So far we have proved our durability andour worth to endure. That is the first lessonof the storm; operating as we do in thirty-five states, in thirty-three of which we aresupervised by the same state banking de-partments which have had occasion to close

thousands of banks as insolvent, we haveestablished a record for honest and efficientmanagement never approximated by anyother form of banking under conditions ofsimilar severity; that fact should be enoughto keep every hard pressed credit uniontreasurer courageously on his job—that thisextraordinary record shall be continued tothe end. When the storm hit us we were themost recent experiment in banking; thatperiod of experimentation is over. We havewon our place—proved our value—demon-strated in over a thousand credit unions ourworth to endure. Every credit union member,whether his membership be in Portland,Maine, or in Universal City, California, orat any point in between, has a right to beproud of the credit union. Recently whilebanks have been failing all about us, over ahundred and fifty new credit unions havebeen organized. In many communities thecredit unions are the only form of bankingwhich have survived. We are entitled to therespect so long denied us. Let every creditunion member mark that—and mark it well.

Further as we have watched banks andhanking during the storm, it has been nor-mal for some of us to overestimate thewreckage. Many banks have come throughwith honor; most banks in fact. But itseems to me from the bridge that banks havea tremendous responsibility—a responsibil-ity which involves winning back public confi-dence. Our greatest credit union losses havebeen from bank failures; I have a reportbefore me from two hundred and seventy-five credit unions, ten per cent of which havehad to absorb losses resulting from bankfailures. Our next greatest source of losshas been from the depreciation of securities.As I write this I have on my desk the re-port from a credit union in distress becauseits bank sold it three months ago investmentsecurities which have since depreciated sixtyper cent. If the bank made an honest mis-take, we could wish greater banking skill butaccept such an incident (and there havebeen many such) as a part of the price wemust pay for the conditions which made thedepression. If the bank deliberately tradedmi the investment inexperience of the creditunion treasurer and deliberately unloadedon the credit union some of its depreciatedsecurities—such action should rank with allother forms of stealing and be punishable

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as a crime. Some credit unions have lostmoney through the depreciation of mortgageinvestments, and of one thing I am verycertain: the credit union which has stuckto its job and used its money for shortterm loans to its memhers has most easilyweathered the storm—and the credit unionwhich has been afraid to make loans to itsown members and has accumulated too largehank balances and has tried to become aninvestment company or a building and loanassociation, has suffered the most and hadthe greatest difficulty weathering the storm.

When the storm is over—let's not forgetthe lesson.

If we heed it and the credit union sticksto its job, the splendid job to which it owesits organization, it will weather the nextstorm much easier than it is weatheringthis one.

Lessons of the Storm

The greatest loss of all resulting fromthis depression will be found in the failureto learn the lessons contained in it. TheUnited States Government is doing a greatand very proper job using the pulmotorof Federal legislation to pump the oxygenof federal credit into the banking system; itis right to do everything in our power toovercome hoarding, even though the man-agement of banks has encouraged hoardingin many, many places by losing public con-fidence. It is very right that the depositorsof banks and the general public and the statelegislators and the federal government shouldall come to the help of the banks; when thehouse is on fire the business immediately inhand involves getting the fire out—notspanking the baby for playing with matches!But there is a terrible responsibility restingon banks and bankers, a debt they owe toall of us who have so unanimously helpedto put the fire out; namely that they realizethat banking is a quasi-public function andthat they so reform their methods that theywill be better able to cope with the next fireand to put it out without quite so much callfor fire extinguishers, the pulmotor andfinally, all the neighboring fire departments.Meantime it behooves all credit union mem-bers to help every movement designed tokeep the hanks functioning effectively with-out further failures. A bill pending beforeCongress to authorize credit union organi-zation in the District of Columbia is beingbitterly opposed by the District of Columbia

Tins is Skiftfiy Mennel, ii'/io is officiallyktioii'n as George Francis. He is the year-oldsun of Mrs. George Mennel, formerly Mar-garet llehert, head of our cost division ANDthe nep/ieii' of Gertrude Hehert, sales.

Bankers' Association. There are over sixtythousand Federal employees in the Districtwho will benefit from the enactment of thisbill. The banks admit that there is muchusury in the District, that small loans reliefis greatly needed. They have argued thatthe problem can be met by enacting the 42%law for residents of the District. It is thiskind of thinking by bankers (a sort ofthinking which, fortunately, is not often en-countered ) which makes one pause in themidst of the storm and wonder whether thelessons of this difficult period will be heeded.

The credit union is consistent with whatwe have always been trying to produce inAmerica; institutions which shall he truly ofthe people and for the people and by thepeople. Abraham Lincoln would have ap-preciated the credit union. The first bill heoffered in the I l l inois legislature, where hehad his first political training, was a billagainst usury. The next ten years willwitness much readjustment in America, muchself searching, much testing of true values,much reassessment of national purpose.

When Oscar Knoebel opens his hotel(and from the size of his garden he surelyis going to open a hotel) he will feed hisguests chiefly onions and kohlrabi. Wevisited his garden the other day, out nearthe elevator, and wanted to gather in someof his onions for our own use, but Hank1'otrafka says it simply isn't done.

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All Graduating This Year

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HIGH SCHOOL GRADSSonic of the Staley employees' relatives

who are being graduated from high schoolthis spring are shown in the picture on theopposite page. Four in the group are beinggraduated from the Decatur, 111., HighSchool. The girl at the extreme left, atthe top, is Neva Collins, daughter of E. L.Collins, night superintendent in the officebuilding. The girl in the circle is MarieWillis, daughter of Ed Willis, pipe fitter.The boy in the center, on the right, isThomas Clark, son of John Clark, of theyard forces, and the boy in the circle isJoseph Grossman, brother of Frank Gross-man of the pattern shop.

The boy in the lower left corner is PaulParker, son of Judge Parker, of the boilerhouse, and the girl at the bottom of thepage is Margaret Heer, daughter of WilliamHeer, syrup mixer. These two are beinggraduated from St. Theresa's High Schoolin Decatur, 111.

At the top, at the right, is William Ran-dolph, son of our southern manager, W. H.Randolph, Jr., of Atlanta. Young Bill isbeing graduated from the Decatur, Ga.,High School.

Johnny Shyer has something in his gar-den that no one else has—a nest of chick-a-dees. The birds are living very happilythere in the sun, but they make a greatdeal of noise when anyone comes neartheir home. •

Raymond Marshall has just as good agarden as any of the men even if he didplant much of it after night, by the lightof his car headlights. His work as windowwasher in the office keeps him busy allday, but he didn' t let that prevent him fromhaving a garden.

CLARK GIDEL SAYS

Minor Decisions of Major Importance

Every mile of driving an automobile re-quires the operator to make some little de-cision that often means the difference be-tween life and death or serious injury.

The driver is called upon to decidewhether, under the circumstances, the carahead shall be passed; whether to insist ontaking the right-of-way at the intersection orcrossroad, even though another driver maybe bent also on assuming the right-of-way;whether to slow down on a road because ofthe hazards of traffic—an approaching curve,hill, or crossing; whether to try to getanother thousand miles out of old tires; alittle more service out of present brake ad-justment, or other faulty mechanism.

Every time a pedestrian is on the streetor highway, he, too, is called upon to makesome minor decision that often means thedifference between life and death or seriousinjury.

The pedestrian, too. must decide whetherto cross the intersection against the light;whether to hurry across the middle of theblock, rather than at the crosswalk; whetherto risk his life by appearing in the streetfrom behind a parked car; to walk along acountry highway after night without a light.

What mere trifles, these decisions. Buthow tremendously important they may be.The consequences of the accidents whichmight, and do, happen with too persistentregularity—painful injuries or even death—not only to the drivers themselves, but alsoto their passengers, occupants of other cars,and pedestrians who may or may not haveplayed a part in the accident.

If minor decisions of such major import-ance were made as they should be made byevery motorist and every pedestrian, auto-mobile accidents would practically cease.

We don't know how soon Jane Nicholsis getting married but she is doing a lotof buying right now.

Scotty Butler says, "I won't need thehoe tonight, Hank, my wife doesn't wantto work in the garden."

Three fishermen sailed away on LakeDecatur one day not long ago and whenthey landed they seemingly had no fish, butlater they displayed proudly to their friendsa string which would make any fishermanhappy. Questioned, they said that theyused dough balls for bait—well, anyway,dough of a kind. The men? Oh, TomEdwards, Jack McMi l len and Red Owens.

Rolla Randall. 16 building, has beenseriously ill for some time.

Jack Segrest, 16 building, has been illfor a time.

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\ot lour/ af/o this papoose was awardedthe ['rise at an Indian baby show at theChippewa reservation, Bemidji, Minn., butthe baby wouldn't pose until tins can of syrupu'as handed over. The syrup, it seems, ii'astlie price the baby's mother demanded forthe picture.

Sunday School Party

The High School department of theFirst Methodist church had a party in theStaley club house May 18. Harriet Gil-bert, daughter of Carl Gilbert of ElevatorA, was one of the hostesses.

Ever see Bob Pattern's favorite picture ?We would be willing to bet that you haven'tfor he keeps it hanging under another pictureon his office wall.

Karl Hettinger, they tell us. runs like aslow motion picture. Occasionally he givesexhibitions when he is going across thecourt from one laboratory to the other.

We just want to warn Walt McClurethat it is never too late. Even if it didhappen a year ago we have heard allabout that trouble he had with that fish-ing line.

The family of Mrs. Amanda Snelsonextend their heartfelt thanks for kindnessat the time of her death.

Prank Rucker, cooper, is now at homeafter having been a patient in Decatur andMacon county hospital for some time.

SPRING TRAININGPeople who saw Walt Morenz sprinting

through the plant court the other daydecided he was out for spring training ofsome kind. In reality Walt was chasingthe fire truck. Walt, being a good memberof the garage fire department, made a sud-den dash from 16 building the other after-noon when he heard the whistle and sawhis company truck go past. His dash,while sudden, was not sudden enough andthe truck went gaily on with Walt runningand yelling behind it. And then, after allhis trouble, it was only a fire dril l .

If Frank Roderick, garage, had been ableto bring about the story he told recently,Cliff Carroll would be enjoying severalthousand dollars. A few days after theDerby Frank told Walt Morenz that Cliffhad won quite a lot of money on the bigrace. Walt was so tickled that he proceededto flag every car that passed and spreadthe news—until Frank decided he had bettertell the truth.

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Cap Enlows says he thinks a good manypeople in this plant would be terribly un-easy if they learned that he was deliriousand had started talking. But he insists thatthe secrets are still safe with him.

Puss Williams says that he has heardsome good ones in his time, but he thinksone of the best is this: He overheard LutherHumiston say to Doc West the other day,"Well Doc, see you are putting on a littleweight. I was just your size when I wasyour age."

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While Hank Potrafka talked (talkingbeing one of the things Hank does well) acouple of honest thieves took his new road-ster, enjoyed their ride and brought it back-to anchor without Hank even knowing itwas gone. Later they told him about theincident.

We wonder if they play favorites aroundthat lunch counter sometimes. Anyway wehave never had a bottle of beer there thatmade us walk as our well-known cartoonistwas walking one day after he had boughtone there.

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Committees Plan Club Prosram

SOON after taking over his new dutiesas president of the Staley Fellowshipclub, in May, C. W. Thornboroughannounced plans for the coming year.

Work is still in progress on the budgetfor the year, changing conditions makingseveral alterations in this part of the clubbusiness necessary. Because this task isnot finished much of the year's programcannot yet be completed.

This year the dull work will be dividedaim nig four committees and will be carriedcm tinder the direction of those men. Allgovernors of the club, and some additionalmembers, make up these committees with theclub president, vice-president and secretaryas ex-officio members of each one.

The four committees are finance, social,athletic and benefit, and work of each groupwill be handled under the budget system.

Committee ChairmenThe finance committee is headed by E. C.

I.arsen, chief engineer, who is a past presi-dent of the club, and at present a governor.Serving on this committee with Mr. Larsenare Frank Moore, millwright foreman,Andrew J. Percival, personnel director, andJ. H. Lahme, auditing department. One ofthe first duties of this committee has beento work out the budget, after conferring witheach of the other committees.

During the year this committee will putits stamp of approval upon all bills beforepayment is made, after the bills have beenproperly certified by the committee underwhose jurisdiction the account was origi-nated. Any accounts of a doubtful characterwill be referred to the Board of Governorsas a whole before payment is made.

The chairman of the social committee isC. A. Keck, retiring president, and memberof the Board. Serving with him are Jay L.Johnson, table house foreman and P. E.Wills, foreman of 16 building. This com-mittee will have charge of all social ac-tivities of the club including the picnic,dances, and all club house affairs.

The athletic committee will take over allarrangements having to do with any sortof athletics. Charles Fitch, sheet metalforeman, former president and now a Govern-or, is chairman. With him are Jack Mintun,millwright, Robert Hinton, foreman in thetable house, and R. A. West, foreman inthe refinery. This committee will have chargeof bowling, baseball, golf, soccer, basketball, indoor baseball and any other like activ-ity which the club decides to sponsor.

The benefit committee has Andrew J.Percival, personnel director, as its chairman.Members of the committee are Ralph Whit-sitt, laboratory, and P. F. Wills. This com-mittee has the task of taking care of allrelief work which the club has under itscharge, it takes care of sick benefits, ofhospitalization and of sending flowers.

This committee has already got a goodstart by putting in a garden. Potatoes,onions, cabbage and beans to be used nextwinter for needy families, are now undercultivation on a tract of land donated by thecompany for club use.

Lester Carter is home from HinesMemorial hospital, and is able to get outto the plant hospital every day for a treat-ment.

Charley Noble, our paper mill salesman, top row left, brought some of hisfriends in the business to Decatur for a visit in May. In the front rozv are theguests. They are C. Goetz, River Raisin Company, Harry Lamb, River RaisinCompany, Bill Clements, Bryant Paper Company, and Norman Cou-ie, Haw-thorne Paper Company. F. If. Knoixlton, our paper sales manager, is the tallman standing beside Mr. Noble.

May BreakfastThe Sodality of St. James Catholic

church had a May pajama hreakfast in theStaley club house May IS. There wereforty girls present. Elizabeth Heer, ofthe syrup house office, is president of theSodality.

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Dizzy Wills says we are to use ourimagination for he can't tell us what it ishe wants printed about Ed Smith. AndEd won't help a bit.

Walter Hansen, mil lwright helper, hadinfluenza early in May and is now sufferingfrom a relapse.

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Earl Holmes, engine room, is a patientin Barnes Hospital in St. Louis for a while.

John's Getting Thin

John Harris says we can no longer referto him as "that fat salesman of oursin Alabama" for John says he is getting thin.Well, anyway he has lost 22 pounds. Hesays,

"My weight is decreasing and I now weighonly 188 pounds. You might pass the wordon to our Journal editor. This is 22 poundsunder what I have weighed for the lastfifteen years. You might also tell the editorthat I have once more found my boyishfigure and that I am not saying this to makeanyone jealous, either."

Mrs. Nell Hackley Huchison, of Pontiac,visited at the office building one day in May.Several years ago she worked in our audit-ing department.

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TEN YEARS AGOTliese items appeared in the Journal for

June 1922.•

Announcement was made by the Staleycompany of the installation of a soy beanplant. Oil expellers and bean dryers werebeing put in and storage capacity was ready.A. \V. Beemer wrote an article on thehistory of soy beans for that issue of theJournal.

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Joe McGinnity, Iron Man of baseball andformer Staley man, was honored when theteam he was then managing, Danville, playedDecatur on Staley Field. Before the gamestarted (j. F. Chamberlain and J. H. Gallo-way led a large group of Staley men to thecenter of the field and there presented Joewith a basket of roses and a purse of gold.Later the Decatur Fans' association present-ed Joe with a gift.

Crystal B. Fall wrote an article onchemistry of candy making.

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Visitors at the plant were W. Kumagaiand S. Fujinami, of the South ManchurianCorn Products company.

While the editor of the Journal, EdnaCoyle, was ill, some of the friends under-took to publish the Journal and incidentally"put one over on" Edna. They devoted apage in the publication to a picture of Kdna,skirts held high, shoes and stockings off,wading in the lake. The appropriate storywith the picture was signed with theinit ials G. E. C.

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George Dean got himself into print as"Stonewall" Dean, when he attempted todrive through a stone wall on his territoryin South Carolina.

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John Kuhns was taking a leave of absenceto recover his health. His work was takenover by Leonard Smith.

A bunch of Staley office men joined theCommercial Baseball league, and a Staleybaseball team was organized. John Warrenwas named playing manager, and Howard

Winings business manager. The men onthe team were John Warren, R. C. Scherer,Carl Waltens, A. S. Crabb, V. R. March,P. D. Rollins, A. S. Lukey, Vernon Shannon,Frank Collins, Clell Kcdnion, K. D. Peni-well, M. B. Jones, C. L. Walker, 1C. K.Scheiter, Tom Hildebrand, Carl Russell, RayBass, Luther Hiser, Louis Brand, MelvinLongbons, Guy Chamberlin, Ed Smith andH. L. Winings.

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D. K. Buzzard took the position as Staleyprinter.

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Al Crabh and R. C. Scherer were drivingnew Fords.

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Dudley Boren had decided to put his life'ssavings into a Ford and enjoy himself.

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Breakfast PartyThe tray room girls had a May Day

breakfast in the club house on Sundaymorning, May 1.

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J. H. Galloway drove to Missouri latein May to meet his son James, who is astudent in the Rolla School of Mines.James returned to Decatur to spend hissummer vacation. •

We can't imagine why Lucile Schulz andKathryn Sheehy have taken such a sud-dent interest in sand and gravel.

I'irahiia and Stun Randolph are upholdingthe family record this year by graduating.I'irginia finishes tlie Junior High School inDecatur, Ga., and Sam the eii/hth grade in theAvondale Estates, Ga., school. They are theyoungest of Bill Randolph's three children.Hill, or rather II'. H. Randolph, Jr., is oursouthern manager icit/i offices in Atlanta.

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Harry Burner, civil engineer, needs no rear virtx mirror tin tinstruck the rnt/ineers use "on location." He just stands ;//>, sticks his/lend through the hole in the top, and looks around.

MRS. DAVID M. WHITTEN

Mrs. David M. Whitten, wife of "Cap"Whitten. watchman at the plant, died in thefamily home May 4, after a long illness.Mrs. Whitten had undergone an operationearly in March and had never recovered.She was born in Bayle City 111., in 1859,and was married to David Whitten in 1883.Until they moved to Decatur twenty-sixyears ago, she lived in Vandalia.

Mrs. Whitten leaves her husband andthree children. Charles of Indianapolis. Fredof Decatur and Mrs. J. E. F.asterday, ofRamsey.

MRS. EDWIN KILPATRICK

Mrs. Edwin Kilpatrick died in St. Mary'shospital April 30. after a month's illness.She leaves her husband, her father, W. H.Barnes, of our grain department, and foursisters, Mrs. Margaret Corman. Mrs. SueDouglas, and Ruth and Mary Anna Barnes.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gates want all theirStaley friends to know how much they ap-preciate all the kind and thoughtful thingswhich have been done for them since Mr.(iates was first taken ill.

Kollie Randall, 16 building, has been ill forsome time, following an attack of influenza.

OTTO KLAUSOtto Klaus, who had been in poor health

for some time, died suddenly in his homeMay 11. Until recently he had workedin our mill house.

He was born in Germany in 1900, andserved with the German army during theWorld War unt i l taken a prisoner by tin-French. In 1923 he came to America,coming directly to Decatur and the Staleyplant, where he had worked ever since.

Mr. Klaus leaves his widow and twosmall sons, Raymond and Robert, andthree brothers. Two brothers, Karl andWill iam, work in the mill IKHISC. Theother brother. Rudolph, s t i l l lives in Ger-many. His father-in-law, Carl Wond, alsoworks in the mill house.

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MRS. DEWEY JOHNSONMrs. Ethel Johnson died in Decatur and

Macon County hospital May 17 a f te r along illness.

She was born in Missouri in 1898 buthad lived in Decatur eight years. Beforeher marriage she was Ethel Xotter. Sheleaves her husband, who works in theplant, and four ch i ld ren , her father, onebrother and two sisters.

•\Ve acknowledge with deep grat i tude the

kindness shown us at the time of the ill-ness and death of our wife and mother.

Dewev L. Johnson and children.

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GARDENS ARE GROWINGIf you are not one of the 230 persons

who has one of the Staley gardens thisyear, take a few minutes some afternoonand visit those garden plots east of theplant. FYom the first street east of theoffice building to Brush College road,the country is covered with fresh greenrows of cabbage and corn, radishes andtomatoes, spinach and peas.

Engineers laid out the plots, each 45by 150 feet, so they are perfectly straight,and the rows upon rows of growing thingsare also so straight that it looks as if anengineer had assisted in the planting.White stakes mark the border lines, andfoot-paths divide the tracts.

H. R. Potrafka, who has had generalcharge of this project from the start, saysthat without exception the people who havetaken these plots—all Staley employees—are delighted with them. His only regretis that company officials cannot hear, ashe does, the first-hand comments of ap-preciation made by the people as theywork in their gardens.

All ground, seeds and tools are furnishedby the company, and where it was neces-sary the ground was specially prepared forthe seeds. Now that the crops are in, thecompany continues to lend assistance, inthe form of tools for pulling weeds, andfurnishing a crew of men to spray po-tatoes.

So far every person who has a gardenhas given every minute possible to it, andthe plots show this attention. They arein fine condition, and promise large re-turns.

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We wish to express our sincere thanksto all Staley friends who showed suchkindness during our recent sorrow.

Ed KilpatrickThe Barnes Family.

We wish to acknowledge the kindnessof the Staley Fellowship club and otherStaley friends at the time of our sorrow.

The Whitten Family.

I want to thank the tin shop for theflowers sent me while I was in the hos-pital.

Leo Provine.

PLAYING THE PONIES

Just as a father who buys his son anelectric train, must play with it, so thefather who buys his sons ponies must playwith them. Only Hank Potrafka said hewasn't playing—he was showing the boyshow to ride. Hank recently moved to afarm and decided that what his childrenneeded most of all were ponies, so he boughtsome. Then the boys didn't know how toride (Hank says) so he had to ride aroundthe pasture all one Sunday afternoon. Hepaid for his big-heartedness the next week,whenever he tried to move. He finds onecan get just as stiff and sore from riding apony as from riding a horse.

Someone must have told Joe Pygman thatsparrow pie was good to eat for he hasbeen seen gathering sparrow eggs in thewest yard.

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And now they call Joe Pygman "Rosie".

Harry Casley says he wears those brightred suspenders so that Harry, whose right-ful property they are, will not wear them.That is trulv a fatherlv sacrifice.

Arch Spears, who works in the newpacking house, is in Hincs Memorial Hos-pital for a few weeks.

Spring is here. Brad Bean felt its call,went out to play baseball at the Pines, andnow is nursing a broken ankle.

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L. E. Ward and Wallace Belton, of thefeed house, are both back to work afterbeing home because of illness.

Jerry Dclaney is expecting to return towork soon after having been ill for severalweeks.

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Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Wieland,May 19, in Decatur and Macon CountyHospital, a daughter. Mr. Wieland is inthe sales department.

If you would like to be satisfied with yourlot in life, build a service station on it.

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Vacations

(Continued front Pnye 7)

Those persons who love the quiet andcoolness of a. pine forest should include intheir short vacations this year a visit toWhite Pine Forest, a state park which isnear Oregon, 111. It is the only white pineforest in the state and has all the charmthat such a forest could boast. Motoristswho visit this park can plan their route sothat it includes a trip over the scenic RockRiver route from Dixon to Oregon. Hereone sees Castle Rock, and, north of Oregon,Lorado Taft's famous Black Hawk statue.

On the MississippiI'Yir pure scenic heauty Illinois is wi l l ing

to put up Black Hawk and MississippiPalisades state parks against any others.Roth of these parks have the advantage ofthe broad upper Mississippi with its bluffsand wooded background, and both are welldeveloped as ideal vacation places.

Black Hawk park, at the edge of Rock-Island, is really on the Rock River, butnear the place where that river runs intothe Mississippi. It is the former capitalcity of the Sank and Vox Indians and itwas here that the famous chief, BlackHawk, made his headquarters. The park isstill in its natural state, the same old Indiantrails wind through the white oak groves.It was always a pleasure resort in Indiandays, and is still used for that purpose.

Palisades park, near Savanna, offers aseries of views of the river, the bluffs, androck formations, which is equalled nowhere.

Through the center of the state the sceneryappeals chiefly to those prairie bred folkwho love the broad flat surfaces as thewesterner loves his mountains. Evidentlythe earlier folk—French and Indians, didnot care for such territory and our historicshrines have mostly to do with that famousIllinois man—Lincoln, whose memory isguarded in shrines in Springfield, Charles-ton and Old Salem, particularly.

That Illinois is not lop-sided—that itoffers other vacations than visits to pointsof historic or scenic interest, is evidencedby the many little resorts and vacation cen-ters which are springing up each year. Thisis particularly true of the region of smalllakes near the Wisconsin line. These dis-tricts offer all the pleasures of far-off vaca-tion lands, with the added advantage ofbeing inexpensive and easy for Illinois peo-ple to reach.

WORSE THAN WAR

According to statistics, 50,510 members ofthe A.E.F. were killed in action and diedof wounds during the 18 months that theUnited States was in the World War, with182,674 members of the A.E.F. wounded,but not mortally, in action during the 18months of the World War.

53,650 were killed in automobile accidentsin the United States, for 18 months endingDecember 31, 1931. 1,576,840 were injured,but not fatally, in automobile accidentsduring the same period.

A Fast Bunch

The treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Societyof a Church made a deposit for her organi-zation in a bank. At the deposit windowshe spoke to the teller whom she knew. Thedeposit was a considerable one for a churchorganization and as she passed in the money,she said: "Here's the aid money."

The teller understood her to say "Here'sthe egg money." Then came the break.

"Well it looks as if the old hens had beenlaying pretty good lately," was his comment.

He Soon Learned

Wife (to husband who has returned fromthe first game of golf) : "Well, dear, howdid you get along with the royal and ancientgame ?"

"Oh, it was great fun, although I was allat sea at first. Do you know, when the protold me to address the ball, 1 couldn't forthe l i fe of me think of a single word. ButI soon learned all of them."

Where This Air Stuff Started

The visitor had been talking of aviation,when little Jane interrupted: "I was up inthe air once myself, but I forget now how itfeels."

"Why, Jane," spoke up her mother, "youwere never in the air in your life."

"Mother," corrected Jane, "have you for-gotten that the stork brought me here?"

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Party for Bride

Marjorie White assisted at a party givenby Martha Beaver in the club house May 19for Dorothy Auer, who is to be a Junebride.

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Staley office cafeteria patrons are profit-ing by the fact that Henry Dubes raiseslovely iris. He has been supplying flowersfor that dining room for the last two weeks.

The Saving Clause

"Yes," said the commercial traveler, "wehave had letters of appreciation from Eng-land, Wales and Ireland—and a postcardfrom Scotland."

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"He used to kiss me every time our trainpassed through a tunnel before our marriage,"said the little woman, with sad reflections.

"And doesn't he do so now ?" asked herbosom friend.

"No; he takes a drink."

Mr. Dadmore: "Mother won't be hometo dinner this evening, honey, so you willhave to take her place."

Little Ethel: "Do you mean I won't haveto be polite and respectful to you?"

And Plenty!

Two colored boys were having an argu-ment about ghosts. One of them claimed tohave seen a ghost as he passed the cemeterythe night before.

"Whut was dishere ghos' doin' when youlas' seen him?" asked the doubting one.

"Jes fallin' behin,' mistah; fallin' behin'rapid."

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The man's nerves appeared to be wornto a frazzle. He consulted his physician."The thing for you to do," said the doctor,"is to stop thinking about yourself—loseyourself in your work."

"Gosh—And me a cement mixer?" boomedthe patient.

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"A Los Angeles woman is reported to haveleft her husband six times and returned tohim again in less than a week in each in-stance. It is this sort of thing that is apt todiscourage the average husband."

Probably it won't be necessary to tell any<>/</ timers ii'ho this one is, so we ivill letyou (/ness, li'c'll say this for her—she looksyounger today.

Absent-Minded

A young woman who had studied in oneof the modern universities met a professorwho was noted for his absent-mindedness.

"Don't you really remember me, profes-sor?" she inquired. "You once asked me tomarry you, you know."

"Ah, yes," replied the professor, display-ing sudden interest: "and did you ?"

"Is there any truth in the report that An-gus MacTavish bought the filling station?"

"Well, I don't know for sure, but the 'freeair' sign has been taken down."

I've just heard the story they tell aboutMark Twain during his early days as a SanFrancisco news-hound, when things werepretty lean. Mark, holding a cigar-box un-der his arm, was standing gazing into a shopwindow.

A lady friend approached and said: "Ialways see you with a cigar-box under yourarm. I'm afraid you're smoking too much,Mr. Clemens."

"It isn't that," retorted Mark. "I'm mov-ing again."-—Neiv York Mornini/ Telegraph.

JUNE, 1932

ODA FOUNTA NJUST as an American drug store is often

described as a place where one can buyanything but drugs, so a soda fountainmight be said to be a place where one

could get anything but sodas. Owing to therather widespread American habit of over-estimating many things, both statements are abit off. One can buy drugs in a drug store,and ice cream sodas are still popular and soldin great quantities at all soda fountains,even if many other cooling drinks havecome onto the market in the last few years.

There lias always been a longing at ourrather isolated place of business for a sodafountain. In the days before the administra-tion building was completed we made ourown substitute for the great summer drink.We took a few minutes off occasionally torun up to the old lunch room, and therehad the waitress put a dipper of ice creamin a glass and give us a bottle of our de-sired flavor of soda water. By pouring thesoda over the ice cream we had a prettygood substitute for the drink we craved.

Fountain Is Innovation

When we moved into the new buildingone of its outstanding virtues, we soondiscovered, was the fountain, open all day.The enthusiasm for this attractive corneron the ninth floor increased when welearned by actual experience that the sodasand other products of that fountain werejust a little better than we were accustomedto buying any place else. Naturally theywere infinitely better than the home-madesodas we had been making ourselves.

While our soda fountain comes under thedirect supervision of Miss Case, who hascharge of all our dining rooms, MarjorieAllman is the one who presides over thisparticular department. These two with theassistance of Bill Heer. our world famoussyrup blender, see that we have a sodafountain which does a business which evencommercial places might envy. They dividethe honors and the duties in this manner.Miss Case, as general supervisor, buys onlythe freshest of fruits and syrups, creamsand flavors, the best of chocolates andcoffees and cakes.

popular year 'rowBill Heer, one of these behind-the-scenes

workers, is seldom even in the buildingwhere the fountain is located, but he blendsthe syrups for the various sodas and drinks,using fresh fruits whenever possible, andgiving careful attention to all detail. Bill,whose chief duty in l i fe is blending Staley'stable syrups, is just as painstaking withour soda fountain syrups as he is with thetable syrups he has been blending so long.

The third person in this important group—Marjorie Allman—is always on the job, inevery sense of the word. Marjorie makes ither business to be a good saleswoman aswell as a mixer of good drinks, and thecombination wins. She evidently has dis-covered that a lot of five and ten cent salesin a day beat a few fifteen cent ones andshe makes every effort to keep the drinksup to perfect so that there are no salesslump in her department.

Rush Business in ForenoonEarly in the morning her great rush is

for coffee and chocolate, orange and tomatojuice and toast. Then comes the lull whena few of the regulars wander up for "cokes"and cigarettes with an occasional call for anice cream soda. During the luncheon hourher business isn't so rushing although somegirls wishing to gain weight take a maltedmilk with their lunch and others, feeling abit over-weight, want orange juice or to-mato juice.

It is toward the middle of the afternoonthat her business reaches its peak. That 'middle-of-the-aftcrnoon period, when a fewminutes at the soda fountain rests and re-freshes wonderfully, keeps Marjorie busymixing sodas and other drinks.

Originator of SodaA Detroit firm, the Fred Sanders company,

claims to have originated the ice cream soda,for which so many thousands of Americansbless them. The story, as they tell it inDetroit, is something like this:

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Frederick Sanders, founder of the establish-ment which still hears his name, was bornon July 1, 1848, in Biehl, Baden, (jcrmanybut the year after Frederick was born thefamily moved to America.

The first job in the new land was inPhiladelphia—but he must go west, so toChicago he went to work and in 1870, hestarted a small shop of his own and wasprogressing nicely, but one day in 1871 analarm spread through the streets—The citywas burning and his shop was in ashes.

In 1875 he established a shop in Detroit.Along in the summer of 1880, just when

the District Telegraph Company had com-pleted a few installations of telephones andthe city was agog over the demonstrationsof a new fanglcd electric arc lamp, thepopular refreshment after the evening strollwas a sweet cream soda, consisting of fruitjuice, soda water and ordinary cream. Asthe story goes, the ice cream soda wasushered into existence by an electrical storm.The air was close and sticky, while thebreathless calm preceding the storm, waspunctuated periodically by blinding flashesof lightning and crashes of thunder.

The store was crowded with dapper youngbounders and their ladies awaiting the blow-ing over of the storm before proceedinghomeward up the Avenue. The swains were

up to all sorts of didos, twirling theirmustaches, spending their nickels like waterand banging their canes, demanding instantservice.

Why the delay? Refreshments must behad for the sweet young thing! But—thestorm had soured the cream.

What to do? Amid the "shouting andstamping" Mr. Sanders had an idea—whynot use ice cream? There was an abundantsupply of ice cream, but before it had onlybeen sold simply with fruit syrups, orchocolate sauces, never mixed with sodawater.

Mrs. Sanders frowned upon the idea, butsomething had to be done, the folks in thestore were demanding cooling refreshments.So, without explaining the change to thecustomers, Ice Cream was substituted forsweet cream.

The crowd went wild. The new drinkhad a refreshing coolness that the sweetcream soda had never had. It became aninstant success. The fame of the new drinkspread rapidly and it wasn't long beforeevery soda counter throughout the countrywas selling Ice Cream Soda.

And because it stormed in Detroit we havea delightful soda fountain in our officebuilding.

Marjorie Allmuna/ways greets cus-tomers li-il/i a smile.

JLM;, 1932

The STALEY JOUHNALPublished Monthly

in the interest of the employees of the

A. E. S T A L E YMANUFACTURING COMPANY

D E C A T U R • I L L I N O I S

Vol. XV No. 1 1

EditorRUTH E. CADE

CartoonistW. R. VAN HOOK

Happy and Ambitious

I f we are to believe most of thewriters of "success" articles, there arejust two highways open to mankind.One must either be satisfied and con-tent in his present position, and there-fore never reach any higher plane, orhe must be dissatisfied and ambitiousand always be striving for more power.This rather leaves one in the same pre-dicament in which the little girl foundherself when she discovered that if shemarried she would have to have a hus-band, as her mother did, and if shestayed single she would be an old maid,like her aunt. Neither appealed.

Just so neither of the two extremesoffered by the "success" writers appealto the general run of people. Mostpeople really want to be happy and con-tent on their jobs, and at the same timethey want to believe that the futureholds something of interest for them.There seems no reason why a man wholikes his job—is happy in his work—cannot have ambitions which will bestrong enough to l i f t him higher. Per-haps one trouble with our "preachers"is that they cherish a foregone conclu-sion that a happy man is a lazy man.Maybe all lazy people are happy, butit is just as certain that all happy peo-ple are not lazy. Maybe many ambi-

tious people are not happy, but isn't itjust as certain that many happy peopleare ambitious ?

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That Extra Hour

\Yhen announcement was made latein April that on May 1 we would goon a daylight-saving basis of our own,here at the Staley plant, there was,surprisingly, not a voice protesting.Coining a half hour earlier in themorning, and taking a shortened lunch-eon period meant nothing when oneconsidered that extra hour at the endof the day. Offices closing at four in-stead of five mean many things to manypeople.

It means plenty of shopping timefor those girls who love to shop. Itmeans several more rows of the gar-den weeded in good daylight. It meansa comfortable eighteen holes of golfinstead of a hurried round. It meanstime for a trip to the lake and anhour's fishing before dark. It meansample time to take the family out to apleasant picnic ground for supper.

Later in the summer, when Illinoisbegins to favor us with its famousscorching heat, it is going to meaneven more. It is going to mean thatthe day, beginning at 7:30, will be wellstarted while the air is still fresh andcool. In fact, indications are that allStaley people on the daylight-savingplan are going to have an unusuallypleasant summer.

Whittlers

One who signs himself the OldCynic says that one of the big dis-advantages of a free country is thatthe only people who know how torun it haven't time to do anythingbut whittle. That man may be a

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cynic, but he seems to have an ac-curate way of wording a sentence.Did you ever listen to the conversa-tions of the busy men sunning them-selves in the park, or supporting theweak brick walls on some of ourdowntown corners? They alwayshave one topic of conversation—howthings are run; and they always aresure that if those in power wouldtake their advice the world wouldtake a sharp turn for the better.

These same whittlers are foundaround every place of business, too.Generally they are holding a routinejob kept there, as they will explain,by jealousy of some higher-up. Theyare the ones who know much moreabout business conditions than thedirectors of the company, and theyare quite free to say that they couldrun things much better than thosein charge.

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Read a BookFor that bored, tired, spring-fever

feeling we suggest you try readinga book. Many Staley people seem tohave no idea that we have a rathergood fiction library in our midst, thatthe books are as new as any libraryin town offers, and they are free.The books are sent us every fewmonths by the Decatur Public Li-brary, and we have the satisfactionof knowing that we always get afresh lot, books just new or just backfrom the repair shop.

This library of ours is housed inthe Journal office, but it is run onthe honor system so it makes no dif-ference whether or not there is any-one in the office when you want abook. Help yourself and leave thecard, with your name on it.

Do not forget, in taking a book,that this honor system extends be-yond taking the book. It includes

returning the book after you haveread it. None of the books are sodeep that a great deal of time is re-quired for reading them. All of usshould be able to finish one in atleast two weeks. If we keep themlonger, we are depriving someoneelse of the enjoyment he might getfrom reading them. If you do notreturn your book at the end of twoweeks you will get a big pink cardasking you to do so. If you do notlike to get these pink cards, returnyour books promptly.

It DoesA Canadian magazine recently

listed a number of things which re-quire a lot of courage to back up. Inthis list were things such as livingup to your own convictions, sayingno when everyone else says yes, re-fraining from gossip and such things.

Then it listed: "To live honestlywithin your means." Perhaps mostof us who are struggling along tolive "honestly within our means" donot realize that it does take courage,but when one thinks about it he israther surprised to learn that it does.

It takes an extra lot of courage justnow when salesmanship is bendingevery effort to make us buy, andwhen advertising men are offeringsuch attractive displays that we aremade to want and feel that we needthings that we formerly never feltany necessity for.

What an adventure life is, if youkeep yourself alert and alive.

The tire-makers are discoveringthat there are more miles in theirtires than they ever claimed.

JUNE, 1932

Hill llmck. Jr.. up. if thai is the way theysay it in polo. Bill is the son of IV. S.Ifmck. one of our salesmen in the RockyMountain division. Bill Jr., is on the secondpolo team at AVtt1 Mexico Military Insti-tute, and an "I" man in the school, a liii/hhonor there.

YOUNG-NUEHS

Jewel Young and Charles Nuehs weremarried Saturday, May 7, in the MaconCounty court house. The bride, the daughterof Dudley Young of Decatur, works atOsgoods. The bridegroom is employed inour tin shop. The young people are livingat 103 North 18th Street.

He Killed HerHe—Look, our captain is going to kick

the goal!She—What did the goal do?

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"I want a box of cigars for a birthdaypresent."

"Strong cigars, Madam?""Oh, yes, very strong. My husband

bites them so."-—Soo Line Topics.

Confident of His Destination

Speed-loving wife (in auto)—Why do youkeep harping on the way I drive?

Husband—I want to postpone my harpingsomewhere else.—Boston Transcript.

Farewell PartyThe What-so-ever class of the First

Baptist church gave a farewell party forone of its members in the club house May24. Mrs. Floyd Hazenfield is one of themembers.

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Mrs. Bing—Oh, I wish these recipeswould be more definite.

Mr. Bing—What's the difficulty, mydear?

Mrs. Bing—This one tells how to useup old potatoes, but it does not sayhow old the potatoes must be—ProgressiveGrocer.

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Timid Householder (resourcefully, afterdiscovering two burglars at work):"D-d-don't take any n-notice of me—I'monly walking in my s-s-sleep."

Clerk—I'd like to go to my mother-in-law's funeral this afternoon.

Boss—So would I.

Doctor (after bringing victim to) — Howdid you happen to take that poison? Didn'tyou read the sign on the bottle? It said"Poison."

Ebcnezer—Yassah, but Ah didn't believeit.

Doctor—Why not?Ebenezer—'Cause right underneaf it was

a sign dat said, "Lye."

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GOLF TO THE FRONTThe matches in the Class Golf Tourna-

ment have been coming along regularly; thewinners in the matches that have l>een playedare as follows:

1st Round Class A : Owens beat H. Litch-enberger 2-1, Barnes beat Bishop 1 up.Brown beat Threlfall on a forfeit , Yochuniheat P. Wills 3-1, Owen beat File 1 up on20 holes.

2nd Round Class A: Heisler beat L.Brown on a forfeit, Yochuni beat Knowlton1 up.

1st Round Class B: Lahme beat Starkson a forfeit, Watkins beat L. Hettinger 4-3.Bergandinc beat Bailey on a forfeit, Torrebeat (iray 8-7, Ivens beat Talbott on a for-feit, Boren beat Luster on a forfeit, Trentheat Kekeisen on a forfeit, Durkee beatMorenz on a forfeit.

2nd Round Class B : Lahme beat Watkins3-2, Torre beat Bergandine 2-1, Boren beatIvens 1 up, Trent beat Durkee on a forfeit.

Semi-finals Class B: Lahme beat Torre6-5.

1st Round Class C: Waltens beat Fulleron a forfeit, March beat Hufnagle 4-3,Michel beat Knobel 1 up, Wilbur beatShively on a forfeit, Lukey beat J. Mintunon a forfeit, Woodworth beat Fd. Smith 6-5,Howell beat Kuhns 3-1, French beat I l ise ona forfeit.

2nd Round Class C: Waltens beat Marchon a forfeit, Michel beat Wilbur 9-7, Wood-worth beat Lukey 2-1, French beat Howellon a forfeit.

There has been only one thing wrong withthe above matches and that is that there havebeen too many forfeits. Fd Yochum, incharge, hopes more men really play thematches in the next tournament.

The next tournament will be a I laiulicapMedal Play Tournament for the llaines &Essex cup. This cup is a rotating trophybut a permanent trophy also goes to thewinner each year, plus additional prizes ofclubs and golf balls for the other placeswon in the tournament.

A number of trades have been made inthe soft ball league already this year, oneof the most important being the deal wherebyThe Messengers traded Grey "What-a Man"Ryan, and Bowers, to the Traffic for Dashand Baer, and an old broken bat. In an-other trade The Messengers swapped Si weekto The Auditors for a second-hand sponge.

The Traffics have a very promising youngrookie by the name of "Chief" Larsen, who

Al Lukey dinl Blanche MacDonald jivmfirst prize in the mixed doubles howHiiiitournament.

appears to be quite a flash around theinitial sack. With the veterans Lukey,March, Crabb, Litchenberger and Starks,it looks like Manager Winings is going tohave his team right in there this season.

•

Staley Men PlayingStaley's is represented, as usual, in the

newly organized City Baseball league. EdSmith is manager of the Johns Hill Athletics,and Charles Xuehs and Buster Woodworthare members of the team. Red Smith willalso play with that team when he returnsto Decatur from South Carolina where hehas been in school this winter.

There are six teams in the league, andthe games will all be played in Johns Hillpark. The other five teams are the DecaturIndies, Wabash Freighters. Decatur Grays,Rath's Blackhawks and Miners Sons.

•Xoah Webster compiled his famous book

long before the advent of radio. Conse-quently, it was a positive inspiration whenhe defined C R O O N I N G : "To make a continuoushollow sound, as cattle in pain: to lamentor wail with low monotonous sound."

•

A fat woman elbowed her way throughthe crowd, jabbing first one person, andthen another. Finally she gave one near-byman an unusually hard thump and asked:"I say, does it make any difference whichcar I take to West View Cemetery ?"

"Not to me. Madam," he replied.•

Reformer: "Wine, beer, liquor, and ginhave been the cause of many being inhell!"

Husky Voice: "Well, I'll he damned!"

JUNE, 1932

FINAL STANDING —STALEY FELLOWSHIP CLUB —SENIOR BOWLING LEAGUETeam Standing Won Lost Average High Game Prize Money

1. Executives 58 41 850 1,019 S41.002. Pipe Gang 57 42 827 !l(i() 30.003. Starch Shipping SB 43 838 997 .'Jl.OO4. Sales Dept 51 48 841) 1,017 -1.505. Syrup Shipping 51 48 844 980 21.50(i. Tinners 51 48 840 1,003 21.507. Machinists 51 48 829 980 21.508. Electricians 49 50 830 966 14.009. Elevator 45 54 833 1 037 11.50

10. Garage 45 54 824 979 11.5011. Traffic 41 58 841 989 10.0012. Millwrights 39 00 842 971 8.50

TEN HIGH BOWLERSTeam

1. Mintun Sales2. Morenz Tinners3. Gepford Electricians4. Talbott Garage5. West Tinners0. May Elevator7. Woodworth Millwrights8. N. Smith Traffic!). l.itz Starch Ship.

10. Torre Sales

High IndividualGame Prizes

(1) Talbott 300 $3,00(2) West 2U7 4.00(3) G.Smith2«ti 3.00(4) Morenz 205 2.00(5) Min tun 25X 1.00

Barnes93819995999599999993

(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)

Pins18,21(1l15,41518.00517,84718,57917.79018,51918,07417,98710.718

High TeamGame

ElevatorExecutivesSalesTinnersStarch Ship.

1,0371.0191.0171,003

997

Average190190181)1SS1X81871X71X31X21X0

Prizes$5.00 1

4.003.00 12.001.00 i

High Game Prize Money25820525530(1207230245252244251

$9.509.00S.OO7.OII0.005.004.003.002.001.00

High TeamAverage

(1) Executives(2) Sales Dept.(3) Syrup Ship.(4) Millwrights(5) Traffic

850849844842S41

Bowlers Who Rolled EveryGame

( D A . West(2) H. Litz(3) C. Waltens(4) P. Rostek(5) H. Gepford(0) N. Smith(7) P. Wills(8) W. Stewart(9) R. Woodworth

League Average

164 (1932)

101 (1931)

154 (1930)

154 (1929)

High IndividualSeries Prizes

(1) Min tun 082 $5.OU(2) Woodworth 073 4.00(3) Morenz 070 3.00(4) May 007 2.0U(5) Talbott 000 .50(3) Lukey 060 .50

IndividualPrizes (1) J. Mintun 190$5.00 (2) W. Morenz 190

4.00 (3) H. Gepford 1893.00 (4) K. Talbott 1882.00 (5) A. West 1881.00 (6) C. May 187

(7) R. Woodworth 187(8) N. Smith 183(9) H. Litz 182

(10) P. Torre 180(11) C. Walker 179(12) A. Lukey 179(13) A. Crabb 179(14) J. Lahme 179(15) J. McDonald 178(10) W. Grant 178(17) F. Koshinski 178(18) H. Brix 177(19) C. Butler 170(20) P. Wills 175(21) R. Siweck 174(22) H. Dunlap 174(23) H. Potrafka 173(24) O. Knoebel 171(25) T. Gogerty 171(20) W. Stewart 171(27) H. Lents 170(28) G. Smith 108(29) Wm. Bishop 105(30) N. Owens 100(31) E. Lents 100(32) S. Ivens 105(33) C. Waltens 105(34) V. March 104(35) A. Watkins 104

High TeamSeries Prizes

(1) Sales 2.910 J5.002) Elevator 2,859 4.00

(3) Executives 2,849 3.00(4) Starch Ship. 2,813 2.00(5) Pipe Gang 2,797 1.00

Averages(30) N. Young 103(37) L. Davis 103(38) P. Rostek 102(39) A. E. Staley, Jr 102(40) L. Spicer 102(41) Wm. Lowen 102(42) G. Garrett 100(43) G. Leonard 100(44) C. Fletcher 100(45) A. Ballance 159(40) W. Bowman 159(47) C. Fitch 159(48) J. Wyant 158(49) E. Eckhoff 158(50) C. Koshinski 157(51) D. Beal 157(52) E. Smith 150(53) R. Alverson 150(54) L. Brown 155(55) H. File 153(50) A. Harris 153(57) W. Meinert 153(58) M. Durkee 152(59) T. Threlfall 148(00) E. Scheiter 147(01) M. Williams 140(02) R. Kitch 145(03) A. Deibert 144(04) R. Hartman 142(05) E. Larsen 141(OU) B. May 140(07) E. Roberts 139(08) F. Moore 137(09) C. Keck 129(70) J. Kuhns 124

No Horse on Her

Grocer (to bride) — How about somenice horseradish?

B. B. B.—Oh, no, indeed; we keep acar.

•

"Never go in a motor car that isn't welloiled—or with a driver who is."—Laffngaz.

A man who could not sound the "r's"was telling a neighbor of a "wow" thathe had witnessed.

"A what?" said the neighbor."A wow," replied the man."What is a wow?""Why, don't you know, a wow—a wiot—

a wunipus—a wacket!"—Boston Herald.

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TRAFFIC PAIR WIN STALEY FELLOWSHIP CLUB

High scores were not much in evidencethe night the Staley office bowlers had theirbig mixed doubles event, but in spite of thatthe affair was a success. Twenty girls andtwenty men from the office signed for theevent and the girls drew for partners andalleys. It was a handicap affair, but evenwith that assistance some of the bowlers didnot make much of a showing.

It is significant that the traffic departmentwhich has always harbored good bowlers,had the winning team — Blanche MacDonaldand Al Lukey. The scores follow :

Main Office — Mixed Doubles

Actual Handi- draiulPins cap Total

Blanche MacDonald (423) + 69 = 492Al Lukey (609) + 18 = 627

1,119Delcie Mintun (384) + 78 = 462Carl Waltens (563) + 51 = 614

1 i\7(tfVlv

Jean Ball (365) + 90 = 455Joe Lahme (587) + 18 = 605

1,060Frances Mines (473) + 36 = 509Dick Beat (468) + 69 = 537

1,046Faye Brausen (364) + 69 = 433"Hank" Collins (520) + 84 = 604

1 037Mary Doran (420) + 60 = 480Art Harris (476) + 78 = 554

1,034Helen Harder (406) + 42 = 448H. P. Dunlap (554) + 30 = 584

1,032Ruth Cade (331) + 111 = 442Howard File (511) + 78 = 589

1,031C.ertrude Hebert (461) + 0 = 461Glen Smith (524) + 42 = 560

1,027Augusta Walter (470) + 54 = 524"Bob"Siweck (471) + 30 = 501

1,025Vivian Pierce (445) + 51 = 496Warren Ichler (409) + 120 = 529

1,025Amelia Torre (364) + 96 = 460Harry Lichtenberger (552) + 12 = 564

1,024Margaret Lukey (381) + 96 = 477"Andy" Percival (435) + 75 = 510

987

Actual GrandPins Handi- Total Position

Name Av. Rolled cap Pins Finished"Al" Lukey 179 661 31) 700 1st PrizeWalter Morenz 190Keith Talbott 188"Baldy" May 187Neil Young 163"Hank"Potrafka 173Norval Smith 183Maurice Durkee 152Harold Lents 170Geo. Leonard 160Dick Beal 157Cecil Walker 179Roy Hartman 142Chas. Koshinski 157

675 15 690 2d658 18 676 3d646 21 667 4th "589 75 664 5th "611 51 662 6th '624 30 654 7th "552 99 651 8th "583 !>0 643 9th "559 81 640 10th '551 87 638 l l th588 39 627 12th '503 123 626 13th '538 87 625 14th '

Standing of Bowlers — Unplaced in Prize MoneyNo.

"Al" Crabb 179Jack Mintun 196Tom Gogcrty 171Wayne Stewart 171"Ted" Threlfall 148Chas. Fitch 159Frank Moore 137Lloyd Spicer 102Gail Garrett lf!0Noble Owens HidArt Deibert 144Paul Torre 180John McDonald 178Harry Gepford 18!)Frank Koshinski 178Oscar Knoebel 171Eli Lents 160Harry Litz 182Wayne Bowman 159H. P. Dunlap 174Lynn Davis 1(53Art Watkins 164"Milt" Williams 14(iB. \Voodworth 187"Svl" Ivens 165Gene Roberts 139Claude Fletcher 160Hugo Brix 177Wm. Lowen 162Chas. Butler 176"Phil" Wills 175Carl Waltens 1(15Ralph Fitch 145Byron May 140"Bob" Siwock 174"Doc" West 188Eddie Eckhoff 158"Bus" March 164Howard File 153John Kuhns 124Ed. Smith 156Art Harris 153

Pauline CableKenneth Shively

Nita WisherCecil Walker

F.leanor MillerR. Woodworth

Javais CochranClaude Cox

Mary HefTernanRoss Alberson

583 39 622 15616 0 616 16558 57 615 17555 57 612 18 —504 108 612 18-525 84 609 19474 132 606 20 —528 78 606 20 —521 81 <J02 21!)9(l (IQ SQI 22

477 117 594 23555 36 591 24547 42 589 25573 15 588 26—546 42 588 26—531 57 588 26—519 69 588 26—551 33 584 27496 84 580 28525 51 576 29—501 75 576 29—501 72 573 30—459 114 573 30—ce-i i>] H7'J Q1OO1 £\. O i — ol

500 69 5fi9 32439 129 568 33484 81 565 34522 42 564 35480 78 558 36512 45 557 37504 48 552 384S2 69 551 39-437 114 551 39 —412 126 538 40485 51 536 41517 18 535 42—448 87 535 42—462 72 534 43437 fl(i 533 44364 162 526 45435 90 525 46423 96 519 47

(429) + 33 = 462(383) + 123 = 506

968(266) + 150 = 416(533) + 15 = 548

964(284) + 120 = 404(554) + 0 = 554

958(359) + 45 = 404(446) + 105 = 551

955(352) + 75 = 427(450) + 69 = 525

952

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Bus March and Bcrnice Martin were al/lie end of the line in the mixed doublestournament and have been busy ever sinceexflaininn their scores.

Minor League — Sweepstakes

Handi- Grd.PLAYER

OwensCampbellI. CoxfCoBhlnikiTreadwayPcrcivalWhiteLeaserBroadbearJamesSchikowskiLashinskiBrandtSimsSharlockC. CoxKalbChevneWiningsCoonChaneyThornboroughOylerLinneBarterTrowbridgeSimrothBauchBarnes

1stISO105105100137130133iau14215418010010814X131572421580429202520

130127100130113

2d14XliiO220ISO10217920S13813020414710313310910S12011017013!i15212013211413314797

113125

97

3d123203104214145ISO14517914413017018116710X13414412410717911412710013214S107140125120123

Total4515285555004445014804774224944975104084854334273584044734303X2304371407390304344375333

cap1414812

ids425100

11439331848240972

13887IX4287

10590540081995793

Total592576567500549543537537536533530528516509502499490491491472409409401401450445443432420

Sweepstakes Prizes ReceivedFrom I eag IIP29 players at 40 cents eachDonated b v Ra\l .

$18. 11

000040

$30.00Paid Out

Owens $18.00Campbell 3.00I. Cox 2.00Ivoshinski, Treadway, Percival, White,Leaser, Broadbear & James $1.00 each 7.00

$30.00

Katherine SheehyHoward \s

Bernice MartinYernell March

(369) + 45 =(462) + 51 =

(295) + 51 =(513) + 51 =

414513927346564

TELL 'EM BIGHere is an idea which isn ' t our own,

Imt we, being broad-minded, t h ink it'sRood anyway. All summer long, and lateinto the fall, the general run of Staleypeople are made the v ic t ims of theirfriends who play golf and fish, and thencome hack and tell about it.

Now the suggestion has been made, hya man who neither fishes nor gulfs but doesa lot of listening, that we pit the two sportsgroups against each other to see who cantell the tallest story. Can some fishermancome in and tell about a catch which willsound even more fanc i fu l than the ap-proach or put t or drive that some golfercan tell about?

Anyway the Staley Journal office isready for all comers. Come in and tellyour stories, or send them in letters, withyour name signed, and maybe next fallyou will win the grand prize. Now all youfamous fishers and golfers and story-tellersget busy. •

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Clan-ton, 1912 East Prairie street, May 21, adaughter. Mr. Clanton is an electricianat the plant.

•

A gentleman at the Symphony was an-noyed by two women back of him whopersisted in conversing continuously abouttheir heart trouble, appendici t i s operation,rheumatism and tonsils. Finally the exas-perated gentleman broke f o r t h :

"Pardon me, ladies, I came to the Sym-phony , not to an Organ Recital!"

A man called his wife Peggy, when hername was Mary, and a friend asked himwhy.

"Well, you see i t 's th i s way—Peggy isshort for 1'agasa; Pagasus: immortal steed— I'egasa: eternal nag!"

•

"I got a letter from the college that saysour Xell's been stealin'."

"What?""Savs she's takin ' home economics."

910

Mr. Grutnp: "In a few years more you'be just like your mother."

Mrs. (irump: "I hope so. She'swidow."

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Group EntertainsMrs. Rutli Kail) , sales stenographic, and

a group of friends had a party in the clubhouse May 1.

•Hardly in Her Line

Friend—Say, there's a bunch of peopleoutside waiting to see you. Among them isa bishop who says he married you some timeago.

Film Actress—Gee! I'm practically cer-tain I never married a bishop.—MontrealStar.

•

An Unexpected Flight

A dub golfer had lost his ball and notunnaturally was inclined to be annoyed withhis caddie. "Why the deuce didn't you watchwhere it went?" be demanded angrily.

"Well, sir," said the boy, "it doesn't usu-ally go anywhere, and so it took me unpre-pared-like."—Boston Transcript.

l>nil/fy liorcn. electrician, cniildn't iaiiluntil his t/rainlsini could sit uf to hare hispicture taken, ll'ilhiirn Darrell. son of JackHi'i-cn, is just three months old.

Jane: "I went to the Dentist yesterday.'"H i l l : "Does the tooth still ache?"Jane: "I don't know, he kept it."

A'o/vr/ Aswan. Philadelphia salesman, hits,/ t i '<» swimming stars in his family, (iretehen.V, is a (j'n/tl Slur .fn'iiiiiner al tlie Y. W.,ami Anne Marie. II. is <r /'V.v/i. (,'rctchcn isthe yi-Kiii/i'st Gold Slur in Deculur.

The Peace of Ecclefechan

A Scotch woman was dying in Dunferin-line. She expressed the wish that her bodybe carried back to Kcclefechan, where shehailed from, because she felt that she could"not lie quiet in a grave in Dunfermline."

Of course, her husband could do nothingbut acquiesce, and assured her "Xae matterwhat the cost will be, if ye canna lie quietin your grave in Dunfermline, we will takeyc back to Ecclefechan, but I think we willtry ye first in Dunfermline."

"What do they mean by 'nip and tuck?'""One nip and they tuck you away for the

night."•

"Why do they call Rrown 'Skipper'? Washe a sea captain once in his l i fet ime?"

"Xo, he was an embezzling bank cashier."— Pathfinder.

•

"I've had a hard day," said the tired busi-ness man aboard the evening train for home."One of my office boys asked the afternoonoff to attend his aunt's funeral. So, beingonto his scheme, as I thought, I said I'd goalong too."

His friend chuckled. "Good idea! Was ita good game?"

"That's where 1 lost out," sadly admittedthe man of business. "It was his aunt 'sfuneral."

JUNE, 1932

The youngest Van Hook boy—Sam RothVan Hook, ^vill soon celebrate his firstbirthday. His father, W. R. Van Hook, notonly U'orks in our stores department, butdraws our Journal cartoons.

Party for ParentsA group of former high school students

entertained their parents in the Staleyclub house May 26. Arley Morris, son ofH. T. Morris, feed sales manager, wasone of the group of hosts.

Curious: "I wish I could find out justhow many relatives I have here on thisearth."

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

Baptist Party

Members of the Riverside BaptistB. Y. P. U. had a party in the club houseMay 23. Cecil Taylor, consignments, isa member of the society.

"Yes," said the boastful young man,"my family can trace its ancestry back toWilliam the Conqueror."

"I suppose," sneered his friend, "you'llbe telling us that your ancestors were inthe Ark with Noah?"

"Certainly not," said the boaster. "Mypeople had a boat of their own."

Betty: What's on the outside of a tree?Klizabeth: I don't know.Betty: Bark gal, bark."Klizabeth: Bow wow.

A woman walked into a certain store andasked for a package of Limburger cheese.She was not satisfied to buy sight unseenso the grocer unwrapped it for her to sniff."It doesn't smell as strong as the kind Iused to get," she complained.

"Well ma'am," drawled the proprietor,"it's hard to distinguish the odor nowadayswith business so rotten!"

"Hi there, you; didn't you tell me younever got tired?"

"Dat's right, boss, ah allus stops an' restsbcfo' ah gets tired."

"Mrs. Upton's pet dog has been run over:she'll be heartbroken."

"Don't tell her abruptly.""\o, I'll begin by saying it's her husband."

•

"Pilot," said the timid female passenger,"what do we do if we are in the air and theengine fails?"

"Open parachute and drop.""Suppose the parachute fails?""Flap your arms and say 'I'm a dicky

bird.' "—Notenkraker, Amsterdam.

"I'm not thin-skinned. I am the first tolaugh at my faults."

"What a merry life you must lead."

Mrs. Mearl Yount, of the print shop, pointswith pardonable pride to this young lady asher grand-daughter. Dionr Lee Burnett isthe 10-months-old daughter of Mrs. Vaunt'sdaughter, Mrs. Thelma Burnett, ivho onceviorked in our mailing department.

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WRONG AGAINIf you want to attract attention, and

bring comments storming down upon you,make a mistake IN PRINT! That, dearreaders, gets you before the general pub-lic sooner than anything else. Don't weknow? Since the letters we have receivedhave been legion it seems almost unneces-sary to say that the mistake concerneda mythical watch about which some trou-ble-loving soul was enqui r ing the price.

Watches, it would seem, have gonedown in price since we bought time-pieces,and instead of costing $45 as our innocentlittle paragraph said, the watch in questioncost only $13.50. That was good news forthe man buying the watch, but if we hadharbored any illusions that we were of amathematical turn of mind it would havebeen a death blow to us.

With that as a background, then, it iswith great timidity that we submit thesupposedly correct answer to the fish prob-lem. We will just whisper it—and thenrun—the fish weighs 12 pounds (somefish, we'd say and we gallop off in thedistance).

Teacher--What is it that pervades allspace, which no wall or door or other sub-stance can shut out?

Willie—The smell of onions.

"Look, here, you're cheating !""I am not. I had that ace long before

the game began."

//. A. Cone, southern syrup salesman, sur-prised us by sending this charming picture,and telling us that they are his grand-children. They are Warren //., Jr., I'irginiaClaire and William Macon, the children ofMr. and Mrs. W. H. Bradley of Atlanta, Ga.

She Knew Her Lesson

Jeanne, age 9, had a bad cold. Her mothermixed her a gargle, while the child lookedon.

"Mother," she finally asked, "what is inthat large bottle without a label on it?"

"That," answered her mother, "is distilledwater."

"Oh, I know," cried Jeanne, " 'He leadethme beside distilled water." I learned that inSunday School in the 23rd Psalm."

Ifciiry Jr., and Patricia Ann arc the chil-dren of Henry Meyers, who works at thefilter house. Patricia Ann, by the way,claims that Slti/i-y's Syrup is one reason sheis so hcalthv.

Many a man calls a spade a spade — untilhe falls over one in his garden.

There was a discussion denouncing theevils of prohibition.

First toper: If the Lord had meant us todrink water, l i e would never have put fishesin it.

Second toper: Yes, and think of this, ifwater rots your boots, what will it do toyour stomach.

•

Dad: "When I was your age, Son, myparents never had any trouble with me."

Son: "Well, 1 can't say I've had any realtrouble with you either, Dad."

JUNE, 1932 t 3 3 ]

It's too flood to he true! ( . U'tish Tuhbsis a salesman in our laundry starch division.And lie's scl/ini/ it. too, out west. "Sticky,"as his chums call him, it'as once on theslaf/c and sinus a wicked tenor.

Informal Dance

Hollis Hise, purchasing, and Mrs. Hisc,entertained a few friends at an informaldance in the club house May 4.

One freezing night, the suburban police-man had emptied his little flask an hourpreviously. The cold increased, and he for-sook his beat, wending his way homewardto get his overcoat. Throwing some gravelat the window, he roused his wife, askingher to throw his coat down to him. Thisshe did, also throwing him a kiss. Return-ing to his beat, he met a brother policemanon point duty.

"Cold night, Bill, isn't it?" he said to hispal.

"Ain't it?" Then, looking at him curiously,he observed: "Hut, Jim—er—how long haveyou been a sergeant?"

Grades A and B

Sign in a small Ghetto restaurant in NewYork City:

"Coffee three cents.""Coffee, live cents, but coffee."

Just Promising

"You say, Tillie, you were engaged to apromising young lawyer?"

"Yes, but he didn't keep his promise."

"Bobby, you should be polite enough tooffer your cousin the larger orange."

"I would if I thought he'd be politeenough to refuse it."

Why He Was Late

Burglar (to belated assistant)—You'relate. I told you 'arf past one.

Young Burglar—I forgot the number ofthe 'ouse, so 1 had to break into every 'ouseon the street.—Passing show.

"I beg your pardon, sir, but what is yourname?"

"Xamc?" echoed the indignant man."Don't you see my signature on the regis-ter?"

"I do, sir," replied the clerk. "That'swhat aroused my curiosity."

"I'm engaged to be married and I'veonly known the girl three days."

"What folly!""Ziegfeld's."

A wealthy society lady had just engageda new maid and was instruct ing her in theduties of waiting on the table.

"At dinner, Mary," she explained, "youmust remember always to serve from theleft and take the places from the right. Isthat clear?"

"Yes, ma'am," answered the girl con-descendingly. "What's the matter, super-stitious or something?"

A printer in "making up" a countrynewspaper lacked one line to fill the col-umn. The column contained the descrip-tion of a wedding, also the death of aprominent c i t izen. Hastily the pr interset the needed line, but put it at the bot-tom of the wrong article, and the descrip-tion of the wedding ended: "And he hasjoined the great silent majority."

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Wrong Unwritten Work

Traffic Officer—Hey! what's the idea?Didn't you hear me whistle to you?

Pretty Girl Motorist—Certainly I did,and if you try it again I'll report you.

Customer: "What does this mean?There's a fly in the bottom of my tea-cup!"

Waitress: "How do I know? I'm awaitress, not a fortune-teller!"—PassingShow (London). •

A new service station salesman of a fewdays' experience approached a customerdriving into a station, and the followingconversation took place.

Customer: "I had a hard time gettingmy motor started this morning. I guessit must have been the oil. What oil do youhave?"

Alert Salesman : "The finest motor oilin the world."

C: "Is it free from harmful wax?"A. S.: "You bet."C: "Will it congeal these cold morn-

ings?"A. S.: "Certainly. Why, Mister, this

motor oil is the best congealing oil you'llever use."

And he sold the oil change!—SohioNews. •

Rastus—Ah's sure advanced in de pas'couple ob years.

Mose—How's dat?Rastus—Well, two years ago, Ah was

called a lazy loafer, and now Ah's listedas an unfortunate victim ob de unemploy-ment sitcheeyashun.—Life.

The Bishop of London, speaking at ameeting, recently, said that when he wasin America he had learned to say to hischauffeur, "Step on the gas, George;" butso far he had not summoned sufficientcourage to say to the Archbishop of Can-terbury, "O. K., Chief."

Wrong Flavor

A Bishop had been speaking with somefeeling about the use of cosmetics by girls.

"The more experience I have of lip-stick," he declared warmly, "the more dis-tasteful I find it."

Dear Old Lady: "Captain, would youplease help me find my stateroom?"

Captain: "Have you forgotten whatnumber it is, madam?"

Lady: "Yes, but I'll know it if I see itagain; there was a light-house just outsidethe window?"

Mandy married a worthless chap, whoeven refused to deliver the washing shetook in. One day she was talking to awhite woman about the shiftless man shehad.

"Is he older than you are, Mandy?"asked the lady.

"Yassam, dat no account am twelveyears older den ah am!"

"Then," sympathized the lady, "it mustbe a case of May having married Decem-ber."

"No, ma'am, it ain't dat. I am mo' likeLabor Day done married to April Fool!"sighed Mandy.

"So your fr iend became wealthy througha sudden movement in oil. What oil stockdid he buy?"

"He didn't buy any. A rich old aunttried to start a fire with a can of it."

On the old-fashioned, narrow highways,just wide enough for two cars to pass,many a time a couple of cars would collide.But now they're building highways muchwider, enabling three or four cars to smashat one time.

J U N E , 1932 [ 3 5 ]

An Advantage

Skinny Flapper: "It's rotten to have towait for a seat, ain't it?"

Heavy Ditto: "You're lucky;! gotta waitfor two."

•

An Optional Course

A f ra t e rn i ty had sent its curtains tobe laundered. It was the second daythat the house had stood unveiled. Onemorning the following note arrived from asorority across the street:

"Dear Sirs: May we suggest that youprocure curtains for windows. We do notcare for a course in anatomy."

The chap who left his shaving to readthe note answered:

"Dear Girls: The course is optional."

The Hard Luck

"Clorine," said Clorine's mistress, "I'veheard about your hard luck, and I'm ter-ribly sorry."

"Deed, ma'am, Ah ain't had no hahdluck."

"Why—wasn't your husband killed in arailroad accident yesterday?"

"Oh, yes, ma'am—but dat's his hahdluck—not mine."

•

"She thought no man was good enoughfor her."

"Yes, she was right, but she was left."

"You are divine," he whispered."It's damn nice of you to say that,

answered the maiden.

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Losing a Customer

An offended customer, as every businessman knows, is a menace to be dealt with,especially if that customer cannot be wonback.

A branch railway in a rural part of Ire-land was a novel sight to most of theinhabitants. One morning a man enteredthe ticket office and asked what a ticketto a town ten miles distant would cost.On hearing the amount, he told the clerkit was too high, and asked him if he"could lower the

The little grocer's shop had been in theSmith family for untold years. One daya notice was displayed on the window.It read: "Under New Management." Thevillagers were at once curious to find outwho the new proprietor was.

Some time passed and Smith was stillbehind the counter, and the notice wasstill in the window. Eventually one of thebolder villagers decided to ask Smith thereason for the notice.

"When are the new people coming?'she asked the shopkeeper.

"New people?" echoed Smith. "Whatnew people?"

"Why, you've got a notice up saying,'Under New Management," " said the vil-lager.

"Oh, that!" exclaimed Smith. "Whydidn't you know? I've been married."

He was sitting with a girl in the rumbleseat. Some guy threw a rock and hit herright in the small of her back. When askedif it hurt her much, Bruce said, "No, butit nearly broke two of my fingers."

A little boy who swore very badly wasinvited to a birthday party. His mothertold the lady who invited him to send himhome if he swore.

The boy went to the party and at oncecame back. His mother grabbed him andgave him a whipping; then she said: "Nowyou tell me just what you said."

"Boo-hoo—I didn't say anything—theblankety blank party isn't till tomorrow!"

•

"I could lend you five shillings, but lend-ing money only breaks friendships."

"Oh, well, we were never very goodfriends."—Everybody's Weekly.

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AutobituaryLeft on the road

Was Major Bott;He was full—

His tank was not.

The "Two Fort"Sandy: "What did you think of that

two for a dollar cigar I gave you?"Andy: "I thought you kept the 95-cent

one." •

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder,"murmured the sentimental youth.

"Oh, I don't know," remarked the mat-ter-of-fact girl, "did you every try pres-ents?"

•

"Two bandits hold up a poker dive."Here is a case on record of a pair beatinga full house.

•

Al: "I see where you are putting up anew building."

William: "Sure, we put up only newbuildings."

Wrong When RightHarriet—Ain't that cow got a lovely

coat, Arthur?Arthur—Yes, it's a Jersey.Harriet—There, now! And I thought it

was its skin!•

So Long

Gushing Clerk—That coat fits you likea glove, sir.

Purchaser (dryly)—So I see. Thesleeves cover my hands.

Diner—Is this beef or is it mutton,waiter?

Waiter—Can't you tell by the taste?Diner—No.Waiter—Then what difference does it

make?•

The custom of a man allowing a womanto precede him on leaving a building, dates,I think from the Middle Ages. A manwould send his wife out in advance in caseanyone was waiting for him with a dagger.

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Reason Enough

The kindly old lady who was visitingthe penitentiary looked in upon a melan-choly convict who sat on his bunk withhis head in his hands.

"And why are you here, my poor man?"she inquired.

The convict raised mournful eyes."They've got all the doors locked," he saidsimply.

•

A bleary-eyed man entered a savingsbank and hurried up to the teller's win-dow. "Lemme have two cases rightaway," he said, pushing a $50 bill throughthe grating.

"What do you mean? Two cases ofwhat?"

"Hanged if I know what name you giveit," was the reply, "but I saw a sign out-side that said '4 per cent,' and I'll drinkit whatever it is."

•

Passerby (running into house a f te rhearing screams) : "If you don't stopbeating your child I'll call the police."

Man's voice from wi th in : "This is nochild, it's my wife."

Passerby : "Oh, pardon me, I'm sorry Iintruded." •

Bobby: "Mamma, did you buy me fromthe stork?"

Mamma: "Yes, dear. Why do you ask?"Bobby: "I was wondering why you

didn't pay a few dollars more and get ahoy without any freckks."

The pianist: "Do you like music?"The lady: "Yes, but go right on."

Retort Courteous

Hubby—Don't let the baby put that(|uarter in his mouth, there are germs onit.

Wifie—Nonsense! Germs could not liveon the monev vou make.

Ben Birdoff: "Have you a rubber bandyou can loan me?"

Ralph Sens: "What do you want it for?"Ben Birdoff: "One of the tires on my

Austin is giving out."•

A colored pastor announced to his con-gregation the following subject : "Breth-ern and sisters: I'se gwine to preacli apowerfu l sermon dis mornin' . I'se gwineto define de undefinable. I'se gwine toexplain de unexplainable, and I'se gwineto unscrew de unscrutable."—The Oil Can.

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CROSS THAT NAME OFFA man who had evidently been indulg-

ing a li t t le too strenuously in forbiddenbeverages walked into a crowd of menwho were talking on a corner. "What'syour name?" he said to one after an-other, and marked it down on a paper.A big strapping fellow said, "What doyou want our names for?" "Those arethe names of the fellows I can lick.""Well, you can't lick me," said the bigfellow peeling off his coat. "Oh, well,"hastily said the other lad, "if that's thecase I'll scratch your name right off."

•

The hired girl had been sent down tothe brook to fetch a pail of water, butstood gazing at the flowing stream, ap-parent ly lost in thought.

"What's she waiting for?" asked hermistress, who was watching.

"Dunno," wearily replied her husband."Perhaps she hasn't seen a pai l fu l shelikes yet."

•

The newly-elected president of a bank-ing institution was being introduced tothe employes. He singled out one of themen in the cashier's cage, questioning himin detail about his work, etc.

"I have been here forty years," said thecashier's assistant with conscious pride,"and in all that time I made only oneslight mistake."

"Good," replied the president. "Let mecongratulate you. But hereafter be morecareful."

•

Green gives you the right of way. It isespecially true of the long green.

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Eddie Cantor, the comedian, tells thisstory. He was standing one evening at thedoor of a theatre where he was playing.All the seats had been sold. A lit t le manand his wife were turned away, greatlydisappointed.

"Here," said Eddie, "I'll let you have acouple of my seats." He gave the littleman two tickets.

The little man was delighted. He gaveEddie his card. "Some day, I hope." hesaid, "I may be able to do something foryou."

Eddie looked at the card. He was anundertaker.—Forbes Magazine.

Engineer: "What do you mean by flag-ging the Limited?"

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Mrs. Lallapoosa approached the glovecounter in a fashionable clothing store."Let me see some of your black kidgloves," she said to the girl behind thecounter.

"These are not the latest style, arethey?" she asked, when the gloves wereproduced.

"Yes Madam," answered the clerk. "\Vehave had them in stock only two days."

"Well, the fashion notes in last night'spaper say black kids have tan stitches andvice versa. I .see the tan stitches, but notthe vice versa."

"Oh, you see," explained the salesgirl," 'vice versa' is French for 'one button'."

And thereupon Mrs. Lallapoosa boughtthree pairs.—The Pathfinder.

Bill: I heard today that you were toget married.

Laura: Sure, I've had my mind madeup a long time that I was.

Bi l l : Well, what are you waiting on?Laura: A chance, what do you suppose?

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The Golfer: "They're all afra id to playme. What do you t h i n k my handicap i s?"

The Girl: "Oh, I don't know. It maybe vour face."

Aun t Maria was without a peer amongXegro cooks. Her specialty was molassescookies. One day she was asked her re-ceipt.

Wi thout hesi tat ion she repl ied: "Ahtakes a cup of flour, but Ah don't use allof it, and Ah adds two gullops of mo-lasses—

"But," asked the guest, "what are 'gul-lops'?"

"Chile, don't you know? Well, whenyou has a jug of molasses, and tu rns itup, the molasses say 'Gullop.' and then runa little more and say 'Gullop' again. Ahtakes two."—Exchange.

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