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New Bakery Is Well Equipped 5Call of Defense Jobs Heard Here 9Garage Force In New Quarters 10Feed Department Bulletin 13British Railway Problems 75Has-Bccns Show Younger Players 18Painesrillc Holds Christinas Party 20Wiir in Sin He Won Many Friends 22A. R. Sfalcy Gii'ot Award 27Make Safety Record 29

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

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

DECATUR, ILL.

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

Volume XXIV • Number 8

LONDON STALEY FORCEWRITES OF BOMBING

After reading some letters which havebeen coming in from our British office inLondon I am resolved never again tocomplain if I have a night occasionallywhen I don't sleep well. L. C. Ambrose,who is carrying on in charge of our officethere, does not dwell on the disadvan-tages of managing a business with death-dealing Nazi flying over-head, but hesketches brief, clear pictures of them.For instance, in December he cabled De-catur,

"My House Badly Damaged AirRaid."

Later, in January, he commented onit—

"We further greatly appreciate the re-marks contained in the last paragraph ofyour letter and would like to write you afull detailed report of the experienceswe have undergone these last few months,but have not done so as we were underthe impression that the American news-papers give full publicity to the air-raidson this country and furthermore any-thing we write might be subject to cen-sorship.

"Concerning my own house I ampleased to tell you that this has beenpatched up temporarily although thedamage has been assessed at £117. This,presumably, will have to be put rightwhen the war is over."

In October he had written E. K.Scheiter sketchily of the conditions un-der which they work there:

"Also very much appreciate your re-marks concerning the efforts we are put-ting in over here to keep things going andPAGE 2

can assure you that everybody in theLondon Office without exception has al-ways worked for Staley's interests. Asyou can imagine, and as I have writtenMr. Bailey recently, the conditions underwhich we have been working during thelast few months have been very tryingindeed and in spite of the fact that all themembers of the staff have not been get-ting proper sleep due to the continualnightly raids, they have all been turningup the next morning and getting theirwork done well and efficiently."

Just recently Mr. Ambrose wroteagain, and again we wonder how it wouldseem to have to out-think—day after day—those perverted minds bent on ruiningthe world. This time he tells of damagesnear our London office:

"We thank you for your cable of yes-terday concerning the duplication of theEnglish Company's records.

"In view of the danger of these beinglost through enemy action we had al-ready arranged to take copies of every-thing, the idea being that our own officerecords are kept in a fire proof safe in theoffice, one copy in the strong room of Mr.Tomkinson's bank and another copy inthe strong room of the writer's bank.

"We do not think there is any harm intelling you now that when the fire raidon London took place the other Sunday,the whole block of buildings adjoiningour office was burnt out, our own build-ing luckily being undamaged. Incident-ally, this is the fourth very narrow escapethe office has had from b:>mbing and firedamage.

"Concerning the duplication, we hadthis in mind a long time ago but have

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been unable to get clown to it due to pres-sure of other work, but the duplication isnow going ahead and should be com-pleted shortly."

It is such letters which bring this thingever more clearly before us than imper-sonal news stories can. Mr. Ambrose isone of us. He has worked for the Staleycompany for years. He has written manyof us letters time and again, and he isknown personally to a number of ourpeople here in Decatur. We know Lon-don has suffered terribly in air raids—but somehow it makes it even more ourpersonal fight when we realize that someof our own people are braving it throughday after day, and particularly nightafter awful night.

* * *HISTORY STARTS GOINGIN CIRCLES AGAIN

People given to profound sentenceslove to roll over their tongues the oneabout history repeating itself, but fewof them ever remember having seen thatthing actually happen. Unfortunatelythere are a great many of us, still, we liketo think not near our dotage, who areseeing it happen.

It was brought home to me vividly lastevening when I picked up a magazine andsaw two ads in quick succession usingpictures of men in uniform as their eye-catchers. And the cartoons in the week-ly publications now are beginning to pickout the funny side of camp life—and theyoung sweethearts are bringing up againthat age old debate—shall we get mar-ried before he goes to the army?

The best thing we can hope for is thatjust about there the repetition will stop.We can hope, at least, that all these boysnow going into service, will get just ayear's training and then come home againto the comparatively peaceful life of busi-ness. We can hope that when a peacedoes come, it will last. We can even hopethat it will come soon. It doesn't do anyharm to hope.FEBRUARY, 1941

FEW FADED PICTURESTELL VIVID STORY

Those who are inclined, if there areany such, to take this big busy factoryfor granted, should see as some of us didrecently a little bundle of home-madecamera shots which Mr. Staley had keptfor thirty years in a corner of his desk.These little pictures, evidently made byan amateur, showed the Staley plant asit looked through the summer of 1910when the sale to Mr. Staley had beencompleted, his plans for rebuilding hadbeen drawn up—but not nearly all thenecessary cash was on hand.

These pictures no doubt were made forthe purpose of showing interested invest-ors what they were putting their moneyinto. The fact that, in spite of those pic-tures, he did sell the stock proves as con-clusively as anything that Mr. Staley wasa top-notch salesman in a class by him-self.

There were only a few buildings, buthe overcame this by showing variousviews of them. They were in bad repair,but work of rebuilding had been started.The result resembled news pictures to-day showing English towns after a visitby Nazi bombers. But Mr. Staley hadsuch a clear idea of what he was going tomake of those wrecks that he was ableto paint in a bright future rising from afew old brick walls.

To try to sell stock with such a feebleshowing would seem like a heart-break-ing task to most peopje, but somehow Icannot think that Mr. Staley ever so re-garded it. He knew that he could makethe plant a success and he was so con-vinced that he needed no elaborate booksof colored illustrations to help him.

Reformer: "Young man, do you realizethat you will never get anywhere bydrinking?' '

Stew: "Ain't it the truth? (hie) Istarted home from this corner five timesalready."

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AT LEAST ONE STALEY PRODUCT WENT INTO EACH

OF THESE BEAUTIFUL AND DELICIOUS ARTICLES

NEW EXPERIMENTAL BAKERY WELL EQUIPPED

TO MEET ALL PROBLEMS OF MODERN SHOP

The appetizing odor of freshly bakedbread or the unmistakable perfume of ahot mince pie which greets surprised vis-itors to the Staley laboratory does notmean that the chemists are now cookingtheir own meals. Rather the odors areescaping from the experimental bakeryinstalled a short time ago as a part ofthe sales service division.

Establishment of this model bakery isjust another step forward in sales service,which in itself is one of the big steps for-ward which modern business has taken.When the Staley company first startedmanufacturing corn products the sales-men knew for what purpose the custom-ers bought them but little further thoughtwas given as to just how the customerused them, or just how they could be bestadapted to his use. That was a condi-tion which was not peculiar to the Staleycompany. It was universal until scienceand keen competition entered the busi-ness world on a big scale.

Work Together

Now practically every manufacturingfirm has a technical department whichworks exclusively with customers whobuy the products for use in another man-ufacturing process. Together the twofirms can iron out difficulties which arise,but often they can even prevent difficul-ties. Many new products are perfectedby this method of co-operation, and newuses for old products are often discov-ered.

Almost as long as it has had a labora-tory staff of any size the Staley companyhas offered special sales service. A num-FEBRUARY, 1941

ber of years ago a division of that de-partment was set aside for that purpose,with L. O. Gill in charge. Technical menin that department are for the most partspecialists in the particular fields inwhich they work.

Baking Industry

A great deal of work has been donewith the baking industry over a long pe-riod, but until recently all of the workexcept laboratory tests was done in thecustomers' bakeries. While this planworked very well, it offered limited pos-sibilities for extensive work on new prod-ucts. Because of a need for these facili-ties it was decided to install a small, butcompletely equipped bakery in the lab-oratory.

Late last fall such a bakery was opened.A large room in the sales service wing ofthe laboratory was taken over and herethe equipment was installed. Becausepractically all of the baking companieswith which the Staley company does bus-iness are thoroughly modern, all of thenewest type equipment had to be includedin this laboratory to meet properly theproblems to be solved.

With the exception of one oven theequipment is all electric. One of theovens is electrically heated, but one isheated by gas. Refrigerator, mixers, fer-mentation cabinet and moulding machineare electrically operated.

Baker in ChargeTo have charge of this laboratory R. T.

Billings was brought to Decatur. Mr.Billings is a practical baker who for anumber of years has been working with

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flour and yeast manufacturers doingmuch the same sort of work for them thathe is doing here. He knows the scientificreasons but he arrives at his conclusionsover the route the baker himself wouldtake.

Because the Staley company has anumber of different products in whichbakers are, or may be, interested, Mr.Billings is constantly turning out a widevariety of bakery items. The discourag-ing thing to visitors, all eager to taste atempting bit, is that everything bakedin this laboratory must pass through somany tests that it is generally stale be-fore it can be released for consumption.

Various Tests

When bread tests were being made, thebaker turned out a number of loaves ev-ery day, but he seldom had any to spare.He sliced it to see the grain and color

and texture. He examined the crust fordepth and color. He even photographedslices. Some was cut on a commercialbread slicer, some was cut with a knifeand some loaves were not cut into slices,but were cut in half through the lengthof the loaf. Bread, which to the untrainedeye looked perfect, was often rejected byhim as being too dry or too coarse, or notacceptable for some other reason.

Pies, rolls and cakes must all undergosimilar rigid tests with the bakery him-self as the most heartless critic. Ingredi-ents are of the finest, his equipment is thebest, and he tries for only perfect re-sults. If a good bread can be made by agiven formula he is not satisfied until hehas made an even better product, usinga Staley product.

A Clock WatcherThere are several things he must watch

After being weighed the bread dough is moulded in this machine before being put intothe pans to raise for the last time.

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constantly. He must watch the clock, forhe times each step in everything he does.He must watch and record the exactamounts used in each batch. He mustwatch and record the reaction at varioussteps in the process. What he is tryingfor generally, is a better piece, made witha Staley product, at a saving for thebaker.

Guesswork has been eliminated entire-ly from his bread and pie and cake mak-ing. He may be able to tell by dentingit with his finger when the bread is readyfor the oven, but he cannot rely on thatmethod in making a written report. In-stead he puts the loaves to raise in theproofing cabinet in which heat and hu-midity are electrically controlled andwhen the proper time has expired heknows they are ready for the oven.

His MethodWatching him make a cherry pie filling

is a revelation to one of the "taste andtry" school. Using a new formula oneday he measured and weighed every-thing, but reserved his taste test until thepie was out of the oven. Then he cut thepie and examined it from all angles. Didthe crust color correctly? Did it shrinktoo much from the pan? Did the lowercrust soak? Did the cherries hold colorand shape? Was the juice too thin—and was it sweet enough? After reachinghis decision he started all over again withan entirely new pie, altering the formula—but again keeping close check of every-thing that went into it, and the next piewas much more to his taste. Before longhe will have that formula so perfectedthat he can with all confidence send itout to other bakers who are anxious toimprove the cherry pies they make, butdo not want to increase their cost.

On a small scale the baking laboratory is as well equipped as a modern bakery, and isfitted to meet practically all baking problems.

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A cherry pie is made even more inviting when made with Staley products. R. T. Billingputs the "lid" on one he has just finished.

Staley Broker Dies

Homer C. Cassels, Jr., broker, died inhis home in Greenville, S. C., Jan. 24.Death was caused by pneumonia. Mr.Cassels, who had many friends in theStaley organization, worked as a sales-

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man in our package division about tenyears ago, traveling in a southern terri-tory. Later, when he opened a broker-age business in Greenville, he took overthe Staley account and has handled itever since.

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CALL OF DEFENSE JOBSBEING HEARD HERE

\Vithin the last few weeks a numberof Staley men have left to go into defensework of one sort or another. Some haveenlisted or been drafted for army service,some have gone into the navy and a fewhave gone into ship yards.

Some time ago Keith Talbott, mill-wright, left the company to take a job inthe navy yards at Mare Island. Later, inthe autumn, Max McFadden, sheet metalworker, went to Hawaii to follow histrade in the navy yards there. His wifeleft recently to join him there. She is thedaughter of Clarence Lyons, night fore-man in 16 building, and a sister of LeeLyons, analytical laboratory.

Northern Fort

Already well established in the army,and finding it not at all bad, is DeanGreenwood, who went with an earlygroup of draftees to Fort Snelling. Hewas working on our extra board when hewas called.

Three from the extra board have en-listed in the aviation corps. Jim Keating,one of the group, is already in Hawaii.Carl Jeschawitz, another hopes for. radiotraining in this branch of the service, andCharles Rinehart, the third, would likesome technical training. He is the son ofWalter Rinehart, who has worked in theplant for years.

Into the Navy

Ray Ridlin, also from the extra board,enlisted in the navy recently. He has al-ready been assigned to a Pacific station.Robert Potrafka, who has also recentlyenlisted for a six year hitch in the navy,has not been working at the plant, but isthe son of Henry Potrafka, mechanicalsuperintendent's office. When he enlistedFEBRUARY, 1941

in the navy young Bob was only follow-ing in his father's foot-steps for duringthe World War Hank served his time inthat branch of service. Bob at present isat Great Lakes.

While several men in the offices havelow draft numbers none of them havebeen called, but Maurice Askins has en-listed. He left Feb. 12 for Fort Sheridan,to await further assignment. He has beenworking in the treasurer's office for sometime.

Entire Family InvitedTo Painesville Party

Painesville Staley people celebratedChristmas with a big party on the eve-ning of Dec. 23. As they did last year,the people in the Ohio plant gave a gen-eral invitation to all employees and theirfamilies for the party, and from the sizeof the crowd it would seem that prac-tically all eligible ones attended. Abouta hundred persons were present.

The party was given in the Odd Fel-lows hall in Painesville with a committeefrom the Fellowship club in charge. Onthe committee were William S. King, R.W. Morton, William E. Evans, JamesCreel, Paul W. Jennings and ClarenceWright. A program entertained theguests early in the evening and thenSanta Claus arrived and took charge. Hewas in high spirits, and proved extremelyentertaining—and later very popular forhe distributed gifts to all the children.

Later in the evening the older peopleenjoyed dancing until the supper com-mittee announced that their part of theparty was ready. Mrs. Paul Jenningsand Mrs. James Creel were in charge ofthis very popular part of the party.

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Qcrtce. MOVES INTO NEW

Q U A R T E R S IN NEW N E I G H B O R H O O D

When the garage moved into its newhome in January it left "temporary"quarters which it had occupied for fif-teen years. The temporary garage wasbuilt after the tornado early in the sum-mer of 1927 blew down the old one.The emergency building was in a goodlocation and served well its purpose sothat construction of the new permanentbuilding was postponed until this year.The new building is just east of the lab-oratory.

Because of the importance of trucksin the running of the plant, the garagehas always been in a central location.Through the years this center has shifted.The building which blew down in 1927was on the cite of the present 21 build-ing. At that time the main drive en-trance was on Eldorado street, and therewere few factory buildings between thegarage and the gate.

After the 1927 storm, since new build-ings were being planned for the ground

Two views of the new garage. In the one at the top the laboratory can be seen in thebackground. The picture below shows the entrance to the office.PAGE 10 THE STALEY JOURNAT.

then occupied by the baseball park, thegarage was put up near the south gateon Eldorado street. Now, through theyears, another shift has come. The planthas spread, not so much south, as east,so the logical new location for the garageseemed to be the present one, betweenthe laboratory and the oil refinery.

This new building is compact andthoroughly modern, and has all the fea-tures for which W. J. ''Red" Thorn-borough, foreman, has wished for it. Onebig storage room, high, and open on theeast, houses the big trucks. The entirecenter of the building is given over tothe garage mechanic, Morris McKown,and his various activities. This room,large, well lighted and heated has allthe equipment necessary for the regularmaintenance of a fleet of trucks such asthe company runs. Perhaps the chief joyof Mac's heart is the grease pit. Deepenough for a man to stand upright as heworks under a car, it is cemented andlighted.

Proud of Office

The northwest corner of the buildingis given over to the office. Here are desksfor Red Thornborough, the foreman, andhis assistant, Lyman Jackson. The tele-phone is in this room and here the driversreport for orders. There are severalthings in this room to which Red pointswith lots of pride. The big windows onthe west and north are favorite features,and the new enclosed steam radiators.His desk, while almost a museum pieceamong modern office pieces, is some-thing no visitor can pass by, for it is aroll-top of unusually large proportions.It was at one time the desk in the officeof E. K. Scheiter. When the old officebuilding was wrecked Red marked thatdesk for his own, and had it stored care-fully against the day when the new ga-rage was built. When the day arrivedthe desk was installed in a place of honor.

All of these features are enjoyed byFEBRUARY, 1941

Red Thornborough now directs the garageactivities from a well fitted office in the newbuilding.

the entire staff but the one thing whichthe drivers appreciate most is the lockerroom lavatory which has been includedin the building. There are 21 on thegarage staff, which means there were 21broad smiles of appreciation when themove was made into new quarters.

Ernie Welker, southeastern packagedivision sales manager, is recovering,slowly, from a serious operation. He isat home now, in Atlanta, from the hos-pital but still unable to be out on theroad.

Marguerite Doane Betzer, sales steno-graphic, spent most of the month of Jan-uary in the hospital and later at homerecovering from injuries received in anautomobile accident. Most of her in-juries were about her head and face.

Home From Orient

Harold Wisher arrived in Decatur inJanuary for a visit with his mother, Mrs.Nita Kilburn. For the last four years hehas been in the Navy and most of thattime has been spent in the Orient. He isa naval aviation radio operator.

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"A progressive company with a modern building" is what our feed salesman, C. M. Kietli,said when lie sent in this picture above. It shows the front of the Coe Seed company, ofTopeka, Kan. The other shows an attractive window display in which Staley productsseem to play an important part.

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FEED DEPARTMENT BULLETIN TELLS

ADVANTAGES OF SOY FLOUR IN DIET

Feed dealers in all parts of the countryare showing an increasing interest in"News from the News", a monthly bulle-tin which our feed sales department ispublishing. The January, 1941, issue.No. 1 of Vol. 2, appeared in new dressand new size, and printed on letter presswith a three color cover. The size hasbeen changed to a six by nine page, andthis, together with the new make-up,adds considerably to its attractiveness.

This publication, sloganed a Staleyfeed division service, contains articleswritten not only by Staley technical men.but others by government, state and va-rious university authorities on crop con-ditions and feeding and nutrition prob-lems. Feed dealers from all parts of thecountry have written praising its value.

Uses of Flour

Typical of its articles was the one usedin January on soybean flour. This arti-cle, written by J. A. LeClerc and L. H.Bailey for the Bureau of AgriculturalChemistry and Engineering of the U-. S.Department of Agriculture, was con-densed for the News. Because soy flouris a subject in which there is a great dealof lay interest, parts of that article arebeing reprinted here:

When judged by the amount of pro-tein, minerals (especially calcium), vita-mins and energy units contained, flourmade from soybeans from which the ma-jor portion of the oil has been extractedfurnishes one of the cheapest sources offoods available to man. It is also an ex-cellent source of vitamin B, a fair sourceof vitamin G, and contains some vitaminFEBRUARY. 1941

A. The amount of calcium is 20 timesgreater than that in potatoes, 12 timesthat found in wheat flour, five times thatfound in eggs and about two times theamount present in liquid milk. Milk hasalways been regarded as the calcium-food par excellence.

High in Protein

Flour made from soybeans processedby the solvent method runs as high as54 per cent protein. That protein is ofespecially high quality. Less than 2 percent starch is contained in the averagesoya flour, whereas starch is the mainconstituent of cereal flours, in which asmuch as 60 per cent is found.

Experiments conducted by the Bureauof Economics of the U. S. Department ofAgriculture and by home economics de-partments of agricultural colleges indi-cate that well-risen bread can be madewith as much as 20 to 25 per cent soyaflour mixed with wheat flour. A 20 percent mix contains 40 per cent more pro-tein and 150 per cent more of the salt-free minerals than are found in whitebreads.

The decrease in carbohydrates as a re-s"ult of using 20 per cent soya flour and80 per cent wheat flour is approximately17 per cent. The soya flour contains twiceas much calcium as" is found in wheatflour. The amount of calcium in a 20per cent soya flour bread is more than 50per cent greater than in white bread.

Deficiency of Calcium

As is well known by students of humannutrition, calcium is one of the elements

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that is most likely to be deficient in thediets of the lower income groups. Hencea small addition of calcium to breadshould be regarded with greatest favor.At present prices it is difficult for millionsof our population to secure the minimumrequisite of calcium, not to mention vita-mins and high quality proteins. Soyaflour is one of the cheapest knownsources of calcium. One hundred gramsof soya flour costs about 1/15 as muchas it costs in wheat flour and !<? as muchas it costs in milk.

Johns and Fink of the Bureau ofChemistry of the U. S. D. A. found intheir experiments with rats that soyabread made from 75 per cent wheat flourand 25 per cent soya flour contained aprotein mixture and a sufficient amountof water soluble vitamins to be adequatefor normal growth without fortificationfrom outside sources. The protein fromsuch bread was from two to three timesas efficient as that from ordinary whitebread.

Soya flour is receiving widespread useas a component of diabetic foods. Thisis due largely to the low starch content,running as low as 1/30 of the carbohy-drates content of cereal flours which itwill replace in the diet. The high con-tent of lecithin also makes soya flour aparticularly valuable food, the phos-phorus being an essential constituent ofall the vital organs and nervous tissuesof the body. Lecithin plays a favorablerole in baking because it permits moreeven distribution of the fat or shorteningused.

The possible potential use of soya flourin United States is tremendous. Nearly100 billion pounds of bread are bakedeach year by commercial bakers. An evenlarger total amount of bread is bakedeach year by housewives, railroad andsteamboat companies, hotels and institu-tions. Over 500 million pounds of maca-roni are manufactured each vear. The

biscuit and cracker manufacturers usesome 5 million barrels of flour. Another5 million barrels are used in making aself-rising and pancake flour. Ten mil-lion barrels are used in the manufactureof sweet goods. For most all of theseproducts as much as 20 per cent soyaflour could be used to advantage. The to-tal potential usability of soya flour onour present population basis is well over15 million barrels.

Additional amounts of soya flour canbe used in the production of sausage, andin the brewing industry where it is usedas a stabilizer. Even further use will befound in the production of soya milk, insoups, and in any number of other foodproducts, some of which are already onthe commercial market.

Soya flour contains a greater concen-tration of the essential food elements sonecessary for human nutrition than anyother one common food. Further, it ispractically free from starch, the one ele-ment that is found in abundance in thediet of masses of people. The high cal-cium content of soya flour and the alka-line reaction of the ash are added reasonswhy soya flour should be classed with theprotective foods.

Soya flour and wheat flour are naturalallies—not competitors. The use of thetwo flours together for most purposes willbenefit not only the consumer but alsothe miller, the baker and the farmer. Itsuse in such products as cakes, cookies,bread and other pastries will result infoods much richer in high quality pro-tein, minerals and vitamins, and thus inbone and muscle building qualities. Atthe same time they will be low in carbo-hydrates—a very desirable feature fromthe standpoint of the average Americandiet.

Co-ed: "What position does yourbrother play on the team?"

Sister: "A sort of crouched, bent posi-tion."—The Recorder.

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TELLS OF BRITISH RAILWAY

PROBLEMS IN WARTIME

Railroads, the vital lines of modernliving, are being kept as near normal aspossible in war-time England accordingto Arthur L. Stead, well known Englishrailroad writer, in a recent article hewrote for the Illinois Central Magazine.He says, in part:

For many months now, large sectionsof the British railroads have been oper-ated under active service conditions, andeverywhere railroad employes, standingfirm against assault and making light ofdangers and difficulties, have kept trafficmoving. Just as our gallant sailors andairmen maintain the freedom of the seas,so our more than half million railroademployes keep vital inland transportationservices going smoothly, backing up thedefense forces and enabling industry toat ta in peak outputs.

Looking back on the experiences of thepast months, one cannot but marvel atthe calmness and confidence with whichrailroad men throughout Britain haveclay by day set about their respectivejobs, quickly adapting themselves to allsorts of peculiar situations, and nevertlinching, however hard or however haz-ardous the duty. London is, of course,one of our greatest railroad centers, and Iwish you Illinois Central folk could see,as I have seen time and again during re-cent months, our gallant London railwayworkers coolly pursuing their allottedtask in the face of every Nazi attack. Andthis splendid devotion to duty, this ex-treme heroism of railway employes highand low, is common to the whole ofBritain. Stories could be recounted bythe thousand of rare railroad gallantrythese days. Let us put on record twoFEBRUARY, 1941

typical achievements as representative ofthe daily heroism of British transporta-tion employes.

At the time of writing, some 50,000employes of the British railroads havebeen released from their normal dutiesfor service with the military, air or navalforces. In addition, about 8,000 skilledtradesmen have been released to engagein munitions manufacture and similartasks; while 100,000 railroad employesvoluntarily serve in the Home Guard,that fine body of men who, in their leisurehours, keep watch over Britain.

For our railroad women, and theirstupendous efforts, there can be nothingbut the highest praise. Large numbers offemale workers have been brought on tothe British railroad payrolls, and in amultitude of jobs on the road women areperforming splendid service. Wives andmothers unable to take up regular em-ployment because of their household tiesspend long hours daily assisting in serv-ice men's rest rooms and canteens, inhospital activities, and in knitt ing com-forts for the troops.

Let me close this brief picturejjf Brit-ish j-ailroads in war-time by saying that,broadly speaking, there is little outwardsign to the traveler that we are in themidst of war. Long-distance expressesrun much as usual, dining and sleeping-cars -still operate, railroad hotels andrestaurants still function, and lighting bynight in the interior of cars while meet-ing black-out needs is adequate andcheery. Cheery, too, are the railroadstaffs throughout the length and breadthof Britain.

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Like Father

After hearing Frank Rogier sing at theChristmas party no one wondered anylonger where his son, Francis, gets hislovely voice. Frank, appearing with thenow-famous Quavering Quartet, justwalked up and took the tunes right awayfrom the other boys whenever the notionstruck him. He did this chiefly because,(1) of his superior height, (2) of thegreater volume of his voice, and (3) ithas been suggested by his desire to shinein public.

In an ordinary quartet this might notbe such a feat but this is no ordinaryquartet. Consider its personnel. Thereis Al Lukey robust and blond and an ar-dent singer; Al Crabb, the little man whocertainly IS there when there is any sing-ing; and Bus March, the happy mediumwho makes up with volume what hisvoice may lack in tone.

Even the management of this quartetis unusual. Tom Gogerty, man of affairs(many) and politician par excellent, andHarry Walmsley, busy executive andclever wielder of words, are the men whohave charge of this famous singing group.

Kathryn Sheehy wishes she had been aGirl Scout when she was a child. Thenshe would know how to pick up a trailwhen she gets lost. She certainly got lostone night not long ago—in the ladieslounge of a local theater when the lightswent out. She escaped—with her luckshe would—but a little knowledge of trailbrazing would have come in handy.

"What are you doing here, dear?""Looking for a husband.""But you've got one!""That's the one I'm looking for."

MACHINERY. CHEMICAL K SUPPLY CD.. LTD.E39

In Hawaii the Machinery, Chemical and Supply company handles Staley's Starches forlaundries from this modern building. The tall man in the light suit in this picture is VernV. Gittigan, manager of the company. The man third from the right is our own S. S. Snellwho recently visited Hawaii in the interest of laundry starches.PAGE 16 THE STALEY JOURNAL

Grand Champion CalvesFed on Staley Pellets

Staley's Soybean Oil Meal Pellets fig-ured prominently in the daily ration ofthe young feeder calves which sold for an11-year high in the recent NationalWestern Stock show in Denver. Thegrand champion TO Ranch calves weresold to P. H. Postel, of Mascoutah, 111.,for $25.25 cwt. In all probability theywill continue to find Staley's pellets intheir diets because Mr. Postel is presi-dent of the milling company which bearshis name, and is an enthusiastic distrib-utor of Staley's Soybean Oil Meal prod-ucts.

When Mr. Postel pushed his bid up to$25.25 he was just slightly under the all-time high, which was $26 paid in 1929.The TO calves averaged 428 pounds andwere May calves.

These grand champion feeder calvescame from the TO Ranch, Raton, N. M.There they have been fed all the nativehay they would eat and in addition adaily ration of ground corn, ground oatsand Staley's Soybean Meal Pellets, No.1 and No. 3.

Bidding on the grand champions at-tracted much attention for the sale tookplace in the new $25,000 sales pavilionof the Denver Stockyards. The big pa-vilion was packed but after bidding onthe grand champion feeder calves gotinto the money, bidders were few.

A. O. Tow, Staley feed salesman, wasone of the interested people who packedinto the big sales room.

Muleady-Kearney

Elizabeth Ann Muleady and W. W.Kearney were married in St. Patrick'sCatholic church in Decatur, Saturdaymorning, Feb. 1. The bride, daughter ofMrs. T. F. Muleady, was given in mar-riage by her brother-in-law, Edward A.Hayes. Her attendants were Mary HayesFEBRUARY, 1941

and Ella Boland. The bridegroom, who isa Staley package divison salesman, hadhis brother Bernard F. Kearney as hisbest man, and his ushers were RogerBrinkman, and Henry Scherer, whoworks in our mechanical superintendent'soffice. Mr. Kearney is the son of Mr. andMrs. B. F. Kearney of Decatur.

The bride wore white slipper satin,with a veil caught with a rose point lacecap. Her maids wore blue chiffon, andcarried deep red roses. Rev. Thomas A.Muleady, of Chenoa, brother of thebride, performed the ceremony. MissWilna Moffet was at the organ and thebride's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. andMrs. Edward Hayes, sang.

After the ceremony there was a wed-ding breakfast for the family in the De-catur Club followed by a reception in theMuleady home. Later the couple left forNashville where they will live.

Henry Bork and his wife and childrensent this card to their friends at Christmas.Mr. Bork, who works in the post office, is ason of Ed Bork, of our yards department.

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HAS-BEENS SHOW YOUNG PLAYERS

SOMETHING ABOUT BASKETBALL

During the latter part of January signsbegan appearing in the office building ad-vertising a so-called basketball game tobe played between the ''Mailing RoomRats" and the ''Has-Beens". Quite a fewrumors spread thru the office that one ortwo of the boys on the "has-beens" wouldappear in either wheel chairs or oncrutches—but the night of the game—the young squirts were the ones thatneeded the impedimenta crippelia.

According to predictions—the "has-

beens" should have lasted about oneshort quarter, (with the aid of the maxi-mum number of time-outs) but at theend of five minutes play, the ''MailingRoom Rats" had to call time to catchtheir breath and figure out why theywere on the short end of a 10 to 2 score.It might be said that they didn't figureit out, as the "Has-beens" kept on pour-ing it in, winning an easy victory, 29 to17. The only trouble the winners reallyhad was in trying to hold back and keep

In a sensational upset the Iron Men, or Has-Beens (the seven men on the left) defeatedthe young upstarts (Rats) from the mailing room (the six on the right) in a basketballgame that will go down in history. The men standing are Dick Livers, Jed Ellis, Jim Carterand Bob Bur dick, all Iron Men; and Robert Lighthall, Glen Bowman and Kennie Buechler,Mailing room. In front are Norvel Grain, Harold Sapp and Stanley DeJanes, Iron Men;and Bill Morrison, Bob Magill and Harold Craig, mailing room.

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the play slow enough to keep the ''Rats"in the game—avoiding a runaway thatwould have spoiled the fun.

The beautiful evening star was noneother than Dick Livers—the Texas whirl-wind, as can be attested by the ''Rats''.Dick not only outscored all the playerson the floor, but also led in defensiveand offensive play.

Substitutions were quite frequent withthe Rats, keeping Coach Kennie Buech-ler busy trying to find a combinationthat would stop the Iron Men from run-ning away with the game. The Iron Menfound it necessary to take only one timeout and there were no substitutions, thestarting five completing the game. CoachDejanes and non-playing substitute Car-ter helped the boys on the floor withsuggestions and warnings to save theirstrength for the last quarter.

A case of beer was to be the winnersprize but the Rats were so frazzled asa result of their efforts to keep up withthe Has-Beens that the victors took pityon them and gave it to them.

The day after the big game most ofthe mailing room boys were too tired towork, but with the exception of JimCarter the Has-Beens were in excellentform. The case of Jim was a puzzlingone. He had not played a minute, buthe jumped from the bench and ran outonto the floor so many times during theevening, that he was stiff and sore thenext day.

Where Shildneck Failed

Chemists, theoretically, are quick-thinking people. Research chemists arenot only supposed to be quick thinkers,but they are popularly supposed to beable to see an idea and an opportunityahead of the average man. Generallythey do, but in our midst we have an ex-ample of a research man who failed.

Paul Shildneck, Ph.D., and researchFEBRUARY. 1941

chemist of outstanding ability, came outof the laboratory door the other day justas a pretty little bit of young femininityhesitated on the steps. Being ever thegallant he inquired if he might be of as-sistance. And this is where he failed.When she answered that she had beensent over from the main office to take aphysical examination, he told her she wasin the wrong building, and pointed outthe location of the hospital to her. Hedidn't even learn her name, to the ever-lasting disgust of some of the unmarriedchemists who were witnesses of the affair.

It's all right now—Bob Urfer can goahead and be his own self. He has hisLiars Club license for another year. Hesays that he has a list of people to whomhe is going to send club membershipblanks for he is sure there are a numberhere who are as eligible as he to mem-bership.

Xorman Harlhi had objections to-havingliis picture taken but Richard Yocom usedall his powers to get him to pose. It canhardly be called a pose, but the picture wastaken. Both men work in starch packing.

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PAINESVILLE CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS WITH A

PARTY FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY

Santa Clans was putting onan act when the camera caughtthese wide-eyed youngstersabove. The packages clasped totheir bosoms had just beenhanded out by the aged saint.

After the music started danc-ing was general, meaning therewere no age limits. Among thedancers at the left notice Mor-ris Egan, whose partnerkeeps her jace away fromthe camera.

The little girl on the rightfound the dancers interest-ing but certainly not enter-taining.

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Instead of dancing around the maypole these young people from thePainesville plant danced around theChristmas tree, and found it lots offun. Paul Jennings, right, refuses tobe led into unconventional steps.

Below Bill Postman decided it waslots more comfortable just watchingthe dancers. Here he seems to be try-ing to make up his mind whether tostay sitting or get up and try it.

Although he is not at all that way.in this picture Lee Taylor looks likethe kind of a man who would say."\Vliat in the world are those sillypeople doing all those crazy thingsfor?" It was just that the photog-rapher caught our Painesville elevatorsuperintendent when he was a bitpuzzled by a modern dance.

WARM SMILE AND GOOD DISPOSITION

HAVE WON MANY FRIENDS

Ask anyone who has worked aroundthe plant fifteen years or so if he knowsTom Tackelson and almost always youwill get the same answer—"Sure I do andhe's one of the best natured men I eversaw". Which is not at all a bad reputa-tion to have in the plant where one hasworked for twenty-three years.

When Tom came to the Staley plantin 1918 he had no particular profession,but he was strong and capable and hewas sent over to the starch packing housewhen good dependable help was alwaysneeded. There he was given a stout handtruck and put to work wheeling bags ofstarch to the loading platform. Thatsounds simple enough—and according tothe men in charge all too many truckersthought it was. But Tom, running trueto form, had been given a job to do andhe was going to do it to the best of hisability.

Knew How

A load consisted of four 140 poundbags of starch. They were loaded so thatwhen they were tipped off they were allready for the car loaders to pick up ontheir trucks. Tom saw to it that his werealways tipped off just right. Recentlytwo men, who worked with Tom in thosedays, commented on the fact that a carloader never had to stop to straightenbags that Tom had placed. They werealways ready to slip right onto theirtrucks.

Reputation for Honesty

Tom has another reputation about theplant too. Sam Seibert, who was his bossin the old starch packing house, remem-bers the many times when Tom came to

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Tom Tackelson is a well known and wellliked plant character.

him and reported some mistakes he hadmade. One incident, particularly, Mr.Seibert remembers vividly. Sam had insome way, mixed up some starcfi. Thegeneral procedure, according to Mr. Sei-bert, was too often for the mistake toride unmentioned by the trucker, untilit had gone so far that it caused realtrouble. But that has never been Tom'sway. He realized that he was responsibleand as soon as he discovered his mistakehe rushed over to the boss to report it.

When the new starch packing housewas built Tom did not go with it, chieflybecause they needed him and his ability

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more in 16 building, to which he wastransferred. There he worked until a fewyears ago, when he was made a gateman.Xow he dispenses his good humor andequally good stones to patrons of thewest gate.

Sales DepartmentAnnounces Changes

Preparatory to giving up his old terri-tory H. A. "Hank" Mitchell visited thehome office in February bringing withhim his successor, W. X. Dulaney. Mr.Mitchell, who has been a salesman in ourindustrial sales division for six years, isbeing sent to Spartanburg, S. C., as as-sistant manager of the office there. Mr.Dulaney is taking over his old territoryin Alabama, Mississippi and westernTennessee.

Mr. Mitchell, a Georgia Tech product,came to the Stalev company in 1935 afterhe had just about decided to go to SouthAmerica. He has grown up in the textilebusiness and has worked in it in variouscapacities most of his life. Since he hasbeen with the company he has built uphis territory to such a point that, whilehe is pleased about his promotion, he re-grets terribly leaving his old friends. Heis a native of Macon, Ga., but for sev-eral years has been making his home inBirmingham. He and Mrs. Mitchell willsoon move to Spartanburg, where he willtake over as assistant to George Dean.

Mr. Dulaney is a new comer to theStalev company but he is not new to thetextile industry, his territory or 'mostStaley customers in that district. Al-though born in Kentucky he has livedmost of his life in Atlanta and Birming-ham, in which city he has lived threetimes. At present he lives in Atlanta buthe and his wife plan to move to Birming-ham, again, soon.

Also a Georgia Tech product, Mr. Du-laney has worked in textile mills in va-rious technical capacities. For the lastFEBRUARY, 1941

H. A. Mitchell is turning his territory inAlabama and Mississippi over to a new manwhile he joins George Dean in the Spartan-burg territory.

several years he has been selling oil prod-ucts to the textile mills of that territory.When he is not selling he is probably outwith a gun looking for birds or anythingthat will make a good target. He is an ex-cellent shot, and when he can't find anyhunting, he is just as good a fisherman.

When Albert Yocum, manufacturingdepartment janitor, heard that there wasa 'possum down in the packing house,he lost no time getting down there. Theboys had told him he could have it, butthey neglected to add "if you can catchit", and they didn't mention how it gotthere. Albert went down armed with aneat little crate in which he proposed tocarry home his catch. He found the preyin the basement, but did not stay longto contemplate it. The 'possum turnedout to be a fighter, and it had strong sen-timents about being captured by Albert.So after a short time Albert left—hur-riedly and without dignity or 'possum!

Mrs. Hazel Weatherford, office cafe-teria, returned to work early in Febru-ary after an illness of several weeks.

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J?rom ©Id Journal filesIn the Staley Fellowship Journal for

February, 1921, the editor, NathalieHankemeyer, paid tribute to the staffartist, H. X. Stadler, who was also thecompany purchasing agent. Drawings toillustrate the story were made by Mr.Stadler, and a poem in his honor waswritten for the occasion by C. M. Cobb.

That year indoor baseball was popularin Decatur and the Staley's Starchwork-ers were piling up a no-defeat record. Onthe Staley team were the Watkins broth-ers, George and Art, Walt Meinert, Ran-ny Young, Buster Woodworth, LeftyPahlman, Ray Demmitt and others. Forthe coming baseball season, it was an-nounced that Joe McGinnity would bethe Staley manager. There was a rumorthat Windy Lotshaw would go to the St.Louis Cardinals as trainer.

In the Staley Journal for February,1926, Ruth E. Cade, editor, Lowell Gill,chemist, wrote an article on the use ofcorn sugar in leather tanning. There wasanother story in the same issue about abig gathering in Grundy County inNorthern Illinois, in an effort to promotea wider use of corn products.

Harry Reavis, of the sales office, wasthe winner in an ad writing contest puton by a local newspaper.

Mr. Staley was the subject of an arti-cle in the American Magazine, writtenby John Kidder Rhoades.

A new addition to the technical staffwas J. A. Wilson, textile expert.

In connection with the company's soy-bean promotion program, F. A. Wandspoke at the International Live Stockshow in Chicago, and, with a group ofUniversity of Illinois faculty men, con-ducted a five day soybean institute inLogan county.

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Hollis Hise had taken a job in the pur-chasing department, and Otto Sutter wasworking in the laboratory again. FredaSeitz was the newest addition to the NewYork office staff. Leone Booher was thenewest addition to Mr. Augur's officestaff.

Helen Tilinski, tray room, and OttoHertrich, feed house foreman, were mar-ried.

The Staley Journal for February.1931, Ruth E. Cade, editor, carried astory about the new dining rooms in thenew office building. Bessie Case had re-cently taken charge of all company res-taurants.

Announcement was made of the ap-pointment of H. W. Galley as oil salesmanager.

Karl Pansch, who had been workingin our personnel office, returned to hishome in Germany to live. He was ac-companied by his wife and their smallson, born in Uecatur.

The Staley basket ball team again wonthe city championship. Gene Robertswas the coach.

John McDonald got a lot of publicityby rolling a perfect bowling game.

H. B. Taylor Dies

H. Bertrand Taylor, who died in thefamily home Jan. 9, was the father ofCecil W. Taylor, of our order depart-ment. Mr. Taylor also leaves his wife,and two daughters, Mrs. Norman Lents,whose husband works in the plant, andMrs. Jane Hartwick, his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Taylor, twobrothers and four step-sisters.

Funeral services were conducted inMoran's chapel with burial in Fairlawncemetery.

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American Maize PlaysStaleys Here Mar. 1

Staley basketball fans who really en-joy a good game will do well to reserveSaturday night, March 1. That is thenight the Amaizo team meets Staley's inDecatur. Rivals in business as well asin sports the American Maize Productscompany team and the Staley team meetevery year—and the Amaizo boys alwayswalk off with the victory. This year wehope it will be different.

The game is to be played at 8 o'clockin the gym of the Third United Brethrenchurch, Jasper and Locust streets. Sincea crowd of fans are coming with theAmaizo team from Roby it is hoped thatplenty of Staley people will turn out, notonly to cheer on our own team, but toact as hosts to the visiting starch work-ers.

This year's Amaizo team is no excep-tion. It is as strong as any of thosewhich have met Staley's in the past. TheStalev team, which is now reinforced

with some of the best of its old mem-bers, has been winning lately and feelsconfident that it can break the Amaizocharm. But it will take a big crowd ofnoisy Staley fans to help.

Before the big game of the eveningthere will be a curtain-raiser with theCane and Crutch team playing any gangthat is willing to take them on. Thisgame will be called at 7 o'clock. Ad-mission to this double header will beonly 20 cents.

To Feed Sales

Lyle Weigand has recently moved overfrom the standards office to the feed salesoffice. For the present his work on hisnew job will be chiefly clerical.

Coming to the Staley company soonafter finishing a business school course,Lyle worked first in the mailing room,but more than a year ago went into thestandards office. Ward Ellison, alreadyin the standards office, has taken Lyle'splace there.

This is the Staley basketball team that will play the Amaizo team March 1. Standingare John Anderson, manager, C. Smith, V. Rusk, D. Cox, J. Cozad, Smith, R. Lighthalland Bill Brumaster, coach. Front row are M. Craig, L. Withrow, S. Page and R. Magill.FEBRUARY, 1941

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This bowling team, the Daubers, should smile, for they were at the top of the list thenight this picture was taken. The men standing are R. Brix, H. Oyler, Walter Lichten-berger, E. Smith and A. Boulware. Those seated are 0. Hinton and Syl Ivens.

The Kilowatts almost hit the bottom of the bowling league when the picture was taken,but they can take it. Standing are W. Ellison, Bateman, Buechler, B. Hufer and H. Baker.Seated are C. Hanson and K. Kruse.

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. R. Staley, QiuenF O R O U T S T A N D I N G C I V I C S E R V I C E

"For a fine piece of devoted and suc-cessful community service'' A. RollinStaley was awarded the Junior Associa-tion of Commerce civic service award for1940. The presentation was made at theannual dinner given by the group in theSt. Nicholas hotel in January. Dr. J. A.Melrose, of the James Millikin Univer-sity faculty, presented the award andmade the talk of the evening.

.Mr. Staley was honored by the JuniorAssociation chiefly because of his out-standing work when he headed the Com-munity Chest drive last fall. When hepresented the award Dr. Melrose said,"The award will symbolize a communityservice well done." In accepting it Mr.Staley said, "I would feel better about itif it were possible to divide the award

into many pieces so it could be sharedwith Chest officials and campaign work-ers whose co-operation made the Chestdrive possible."

Each year the Junior Association ofCommerce selects some business or pro-fessional man about town who, in the es-timation of a committee has done mostfor the community at large during theyear just past. Mr. Staley is the secondman from our organization to be so hon-ored. A few years ago E. K. Scheiter wasgiven the award.

Mr. Staley, who is head of our specialproducts sales division, worked tirelesslyon this Community Chest drive and itwas largely through his efforts that thelarge sum was pledged.

Dr. J. .1 Melrose, left, presents the Junior Association of Commerce award to A. RollinStaley.

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Doane-Betzer

Marguerite Doane, sales stenographic,and Gilbert Betzer were married in thecountry home of the bride's parents, nearCisco, 111., Jan. 12. The ceremony wasperformed at 2:30 in the afternoon withRev. Mr. Blimline, of Argenta, offici-ating.

The bride wore a blue crepe afternoon

Mrs. Gilbert Betzer was MargueriteDoane be/ore her marriage.

dress, and carried a shower bouquet ofwhite carnations. Her only attendantwas Virginia Mills, of Decatur, who worea two tone brown frock, with a corsagebouquet of carnations and sweet-peas.Before the ceremony Virgil Miller, uncleof the bride, sang, ''I Love You Truly"and "Always". Miss Leoria Weddle wasat the piano.

Following the ceremony a receptionwas held in the Uoane home, and laterthe couple left for a honeymoon in Iowabefore returning to their farm home nearArgenta.

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The bride is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. C. Homer Doane. Since her gradu-ation from Cerro Gordo High school shehas been working in the Staley offices.Mr. Betzer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Betzer, of near Argenta. He was grad-uated from Argenta High school and latertook a course in a technical school inIowa. They will live on a farm.

Kermit HUNTS Rabbits!

When a Sunday morning broke cloudyand blurry recently it had nothing onKermit Shively. The night before hav-ing been Saturday he was as cloudy asthe morning when he finally struggledawake and realized that he had promisedsome of the boys to go rabbit huntingwith them that day. The promises onemakes in thoughtless moments!

But a promise is something to be kept,resolved the heroic and martyr-like Ker-mit, and, all personal desires suppressed,he went off to meet his pals. Severalhours later he returned, doubting, amongother things, that these men were his pals.He also doubted that he could ever takethe last few steps up the porch, that hewould have strength enough to open thedoor, that he would last until he got overto the bed.

Finally these things were accom-plished—but his shoulder was so sore—from a kicking gun—that his wife spentthe rest of the night putting hot applica-tions on it.

Rabbits—oh yes, be did go after rab-bits. He shot 18 times—and broughthome three rabbits.

Subby Kalb has announced that thenext time the Foremen's club has a pro-gram he is going to take part in it, again,but this time it is to be no thinking part.He is going to talk—and maybe he willtalk about some of those fellows whohave talked about him.

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Room

MAKE SAFETY RECORD

On the first day of February the boilerroom completed the best safety record ithas ever made. On that day the boilerroom men had gone 414 successive dayswithout a lost-time accident. Not onlyhad they gone since Dec. 13, 1939, with-out a lost-time accident, but they werejust getting off to a good start for a long,long record, they announced.

In this department, where some menhave service records of more than 23years, length of time with the companyseems to make no difference in a man'saccident record. One of the last lost-timeaccidents was reported by a man whohas been on the job for years. On theother hand a man who had three withina year had been in the department onlyseven years.

Perfect Records

Another item of interest on this boilerroom report was the list of names of menwho had not been late to work nor hadany time off, except regular days off.Two men in that department have hadsuch a record for three years. They areJohn Ricketts and Franklin Wade. Threemen have taken neither time off nor Ijeenlate to work for two years. They areWalter Rankin, Huey Wickiser andJames Franklin. Four men, who havesuch records for a year, are WilliamStorey, Clarence Roderick, Robert Ros-tek and Lawrence Stratton.

This means that these nine men, in ad-dition to being careful workers, have evi-dently taken care of their health, so thatthey need not be away from work be-cause of illness. They also take theirFEBRUARY, 1941

jobs seriously enough that they are al-ways ready when the whistle blows.

Stress Early Reports

In this department, as in all others,stress is being laid on cutting down thenumber of late reports of accidents toFirst Aid. The safety office, and depart-ment heads continually preach—"reportall accidents, no matter how small, toFirst Aid at once." In spite of all thesewarnings, this boiler room, with its excel-lent lost-time record, had ten late reportsto First Aid in two years.

Perfect Safety

After jumping out of the range of someheavy barrels and boxes lately JohnnyKing finally decided to make the L. C. L.department of the starch packing house100 percent safety shod. Murl Shull, theother 50 percent of that department, hasbeen wearing those shoes ever sincesomeone converted him a few years agoby rolling a barrel of syrup uncomfort-ably near one of his feet. Those two boysare nimble and want to stay that way.

The family of John R. Davis wishes tothank the Staley Fellowship club andStaley friends for expressions of sympa-thy, kindness and for flowers.

Mrs. William Jaske,Mrs. Earl Yetter,Mrs. Jay K. Brooks.

The kind expressions of sympathy ofour many friends were greatly appreci-ated.

Mrs. H. B. Taylor and Family.

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Men Entertain Bride

Reversing the usual order, a recentStaley bride was entertained by a groupof men. The bride was Betty Muleady,of Decatur, who in February became thewife of W. \V. Kearney, one of our sales-men in Tennessee. Until her marriageMrs. Kearney had been secretary in thelaw offices of Hayes. Downing and Ros-enberg. It was the members of the firmand a few other men who have consider-able business with the office, who enter-tained Mrs. Kearney.

The entertainment took the form of aturkey dinner served in the EdwardHayes home. Later the bride was show-ered with gifts which she' can use now—and later in her married l ife.

Mrs. Randolph Dies

Mrs. Myra L. Edmonds Randolph,who died in the family home in Rahway,.X. J., Jan. 27, was the wife of one Staleysalesman and the mother of another. Herhusband is W. H. Randolph, who hasbeen in the corn products business forsixty years and has been a salesman inour New York office for more than 20years. Her son, \V. H. Randolph, Jr., ismanager of our industrial sales depart-ment's southeastern division, in Atlanta.

Mrs. Randolph was born in Rahway,a community which her ancestors hadhelped settle and develop. Her grand-father, Randolph Ross, owned a largecarriage factory there before the CivilWar.

On Jan. 1, 1881, she and W. H. Ran-dolph were married in Rahway, where hisfamily had also lived for several genera-tions. Their companionship had startedwhen they were small children.

After their marriage the Randolphscontinued to make their home in Rah-way, where for many years Mrs. Ran-dolph was prominent in the activities ofthe Second Presbyterian church and theAthenian club. She was well known to a

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Mrs. W. H. Randolph, who died in herhome in New Jersey in January, has manyfriends in the Staley organization.

number of Staley people, many of whomshe has entertained in the big house onJacques avenue.

In addition to her husband and her sonin Atlanta, Mrs. Randolph leaves anotherson, Lester Reed Randolph, of Rahway,and a daughter, Mrs. Ray Lanning, ofElizabeth, N. J., six grandchildren andone great grandson.

Funeral services were conducted inRahway, Jan. 30.

Eloise Rice, purchasing office, is leav-ing late in the^ month to spend a shorttime in Miami and Cuba.

R. M. Ives, package sales, and_ Mrs.Ives. went to Florida lor a short vacationin January while their daughter, MaryJane, a University of Illinois student,could go with them.

Lucile May, nurse, took the advice shehands out to others, and had a ton-silectomy early in February.

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grandchild for she has a brother, ArthurWavne, 7 years old.

These two attractive youngsters are thechildren of Byron May, tool room, and, Mrs.Muy. Mary Virginia is fourteen and herbrother, James Bvron, is 16.

Local Talent

If anyone in the Staley organization,or in the community for that matter,plans to stage a circus, there are a fewacts we might suggest. One which shouldscore a hit would be Ruby Kiely's acro-batic stunt which she was seen practicingone day recently. Another would beKathryn Sheehy's act. She can be lockedin a perfectly strange, dark room, andfind her way out (with considerable dif-ficulty sometimes). Marge White, too, isworking up an act. She needs only a verysteep hill, with a curve in it, some hard-packed snow and her young nephew'ssled. Her act is hair-raising.

New Granddaughter

D. \V. Rundell, feed sales field super-visor, has done a lot of boasting since thebirth of his first granddaughter, CarolLee Smith. She was born in Jacksonville,Fla., Jan. 8. Her parents are Mr. andMrs. Melvin Smith. She is not the firstFEBRUARY, 1941

Strange Things Happen

Two hours after Harold Hinds, ac-counting, had his appendix removed, thenurse looked in his room and saw youngMr. Hinds si t t ing there fully dressed, ina chair. Frantically calling for help shedashed in, and while trying to find outwhy he did it, was taking off his clothes—or trying to—preparatory to gettinghim back into bed. Then—she lookedaround and saw another Harold in bed.Speechless, then, she listened while theyoung men explained that Harold has atwin brother and it was he, and not thepatient, who had been sitting quietly inthe chair.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kurr .Jan. 7, in Decatur and Macon Countyhospital, a son. He has been named Wen-dell Dean. This is their second son. Mr.Kurr works on the electrical gang.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. TheodoreCrabb, Jan. 12, in Uecatur and MaconCounty hospital, a son. Mrs. Crabb, for-merly Marie Yonker, worked in our orderdepartment. Al Crabb, of the traffic of-fice, is an uncle of the new baby.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. EugeneRhodes, Jan. 16, in Decatur and MaconCounty hospital, a daughter. She hasbeen named Xancy Janice. She is thethird daughter. Mr. Rhodes is in the pay-master's office.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. NormanLents, Jan. 21, in St. Mary's hospital, ason. Mr. Lents works in the M. & L. de-partment. This is their second son.

H. T. Morris, feed sales manager, andMrs. Morris, left late in January for avacation in Florida. They had plannedto go earlier in the season but Mrs. Mor-ris has been seriously ill for severalweeks, and was not able to travel sooner.

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Mr. Kapp has recently been elected to aBoard of Trade membership.

H. J. Kapp ElectedTo Board of Trade

Announcement was made in Januaryof the election of Horace J. Kapp tomembership on the Chicago Board ofTrade. Mr. Kapp, a director of the Stal-ey company, is manager of the grain de-partment, a position he has held eversince coming to the Staley company in1930.

Until his death Mr. Staley, Sr., held amembership on the Board. Mr. Kappwill use his membership for the benefitof the company.

When Mrs. E. P. Ecklund was electedto the Uecatur school board last year herhusband thought it was fine. Now, afterseveral months, he finds that he has to dohis share too. In her official capacityMrs. Ecklund must attend many publicdinners, and her husband is drafted formost of them too.

Speaks at Institute

K. J. Maltas, assistant feed sales man-ager, was one of the speakers at the Ma-con County Farmers Institute in Decaturin February. Mr. Maltas talked on soy-bean products and their uses.

As usual the Staley company offeredfive prizes for the best peck of yellow-soybeans entered in the institute.

No Art Interest

Although Maurice Uurkee denies thatit is he, Bill Bishop and John Kuhns andsome of his other good friends insist thatit could be no other. They are referringto a picture recently published in a maga-zine. The picture shows Maurice (or histwin) standing in open mouth wonderbefore a statue of the Venus de Milo.

Dale Eriah Hintonis practically makinghis first public appear-ance here, for he isjust three months old.His father. Kid-wellHinton, works instarch shipping.

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The two children at the right, taking partin a hair-raising thriller, are grandchildrenof Ed Bork, yards, and Mrs. Bork. They areBarbara and Rollin Buiiman, who live inPeoria.

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\Ve are deeply grateful to the garageboys, the Fellowship club and other Stal-ey groups which did so much for us dur-ing our recent sorrow.

Mrs. Frank Roderick and Family.

John rushed 'round looking for hiscoat. ''What do you want it for, dear?"asked his wife.

"That fellow Smith across the roadjust telephoned to ask if I can lend hima corkscrew."

"Well, what do you want your coatfor? Surely there's no need to go out?You can send Mary with it."

"My dear,'' he said, "your last re-marks sum up the whole reason whywomen cannot lead armies, control na-tions or take anything but a subordinatepart in the affairs of the world."

Lawrence Trolia sent this picture home tothe folks soon after he got well establishedat Great Lakes. Lawrence is the son of Mar-tin Trolia, starch department.

Barbara Anne Ball celebrated her tenthbirthday Christinas Eve, but she has alreadydecided to try to get a job at Staley's whenshe has finished school. Her fa-ther is J.Kenneth Ball, of the refinery. She is theonly grand-child of L. A. Ball of 16 build-ing, and aunt is Kathryn Ives of the packingplant and two uncles arc Juv Ball and RavHnffer.

Amateur Magician: "Now are thereany little tricks of mine you'd especiallylike to see at this show?"

Voice (from the audience): "Howabout those two you were walking downthe street with this afternoon?"—Cap-per's Weekly. .

FEBRUARY, 1941

''That guy is too much of a high pres-sure salesman for me. He just sold me apiece of land and I discovered it wasthree feet under water."

"Didn't you go back and complain?''"Yes, and then he sold me a motor-

boat."

Joe: "Will your wife hit the ceilingwhen you come in at this hour?"

Jim: "Probably. She's a rotten shot."PAGE 33

GOSM . ...=>IE DIDNT

ALL OF MY CHICKENHALF

MOOK-'-

MIS VvlFE WAS IN-vi=THE HOSPITAL-THE NEIGHBORNEXT DOOR COOKED AcHICKEH I

Housewife: "If I give you a dime, willyou spend h on drink?''

Tramp: "If you insist.''

''Old Doc Curem has given his youngwife two days to live."

"Is that so?""Yeah, he went out of town for a cou-

ple of days."

The managing director of the gas com-pany was making a stirring address. Infact, he began to wax positively poetic.

"Think of the good that is done in thisworld by the gas company!' he ex-claimed. ' 'If I were permitted a pun, Ishould say, 'Honor the Light Brigade'."

A customer, who could quote a littlepoetry himself, immediately shouted,"Oh, what a charge they made!"Watchman-Examiner.

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A life insurance agent approachedMose Taylor, a very much married Xe-gro.

''Better let me write you a policy,Mose," he suggested.

"No, suh," said Mose emphatically."Ah ain't none too safe at home as it is."—Fusion Facts.

Two English wash-women were dis-cussing the German bombings of theWar. One said, "Any night now we maybe blown into maternity!''."Yes," saidthe other, "and with these black-outs wewill never know who did it!"

"What are you doing at a Klan meet-ing, Ikey—you can't join."

"I don't want to join, I want to talkto the fellow that buys the sheets andpillow cases."—Ex.

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Traffic Patrolman: "You've been do-ing 60 miles an hour. Don't you careanything about the law?"

Sweet Young Thing: "Why, officer.

Wife: "I was a fool when I marriedyou."

Husband: "I guess you were, but Iwas so infatuated at the time that I

how can I tell? I've only just met you." didn't notice it.''—House Dope.

Seaman Sam says: "Wallflowers withnice stems are worth cultivating."—U. S.Sub-Base Control.

Teacher: ''What do you think JuliusCaesar would do were he living now?"

Pupil: "Draw an old-age pension."

Gunner: "Your wife is very broad-minded, isn't she?"

Boatswain: ''Oh, yes. She believesthere are two sides to every question—her own and her mother's."

A man called on the news editor ofa local paper and announced that hisuncle had been taking the paper for 55years.

''That's fine," said the news editor. ' 'Ihope he'll continue to do so."

"Oh, yes, he will. I want to tell youabout him. He has always been a modelof propriety. He has never been mixedup with women. He indulges in no vicesand no excesses. And tomorrow he willcelebrate his 80th birthday."

''How?" asked the news editor.

"Did that sailor attempt to kiss youlast night?"

"Why, mother, you don't think hecame all the way from the battleshipSaratoga just to listen to our radio, doyou?"—Santa Fc Magazine.

"I know that soldier is the man forme, Mother. Every time he takes me inhis arms I can hear his heart pounding."

"Better be careful, daughter! Your pafooled me that way for almost a year,with a dollar watch!"FEBRUARY, 1941

An old-timer is one who rememberswhen he could buy a pound of good beef-steak for a dime, but forgets that hehad to work an hour to earn the dime.—Patterson Evening A'cws.

Mrs. Dinocan: They say the war iscausing a great increase in the numberof marriages.

Dinocan: I thought we had agreed notto keep dragging up the horrors of war.

HE BOUGHT ̂ NE.U/HORN-AND THE.BOYS SAV-HE. IS STOCK ON CENTER.- AS

MlSPLAVING AI3H-ITY STOPS AT ^'-LE-Hl-LO-

- CAREFUL. WORKER-

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POT THIS D^TTE- ON-TOMBSTONE.

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®HORN^OftO - CROWD&D THE"TRAFFIC AMTTL.E BIT ON NO*TH

STRE.ET THE. OTHEf? DAY-

How times have changed: to say thata man is as happy as a king is downrightsarcasm.

Doctor: "Did the patient take themedicine I prescribed for him religious-ly?"

Nurse: "No, sir; he swore every time."

Motorist: "I met my wife a peculiarway—ran over her with my car, andlater married her."

Pedestrian: "If everybody had to dothat, there wouldn't be so much recklessdriving."

Abner says, "It's the news that isn'tfit to print that makes a lively evening."

Marriage registrar (to youthful bride-groom) : "The young lady is not a minor,is she?"

Bridegroom: "Oh, no; she works ina beauty parlor!"

"Jane is troubled with growing pains.''"What are you talking about? She's

in her thirties!""Exactly. Growing old gives her a

pain.""Son, why don't you play circus? It's

great fun. First you make a sawdustring."

"But where would I get the sawdust,dad?"

"Here's the saw. Just cut some of thefirewood into fireplace lengths. And youcan have all the sawdust you make."PAGE 36

Those who can't take a vacation thisyear, but would like to feel as if theyhad one, might try the following: Playgolf two hot afternoons wearing a gymshirt; shave every morning and wearyour coat all afternoon, and give every-body you meet a dime.

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HOW THAT MAN WILL

RAVE ABOUT THESEGLADIOLA DINNER ROLLS!

1 c milk 1 t salt2 T shortening 2 T sugar1 T lukewarm water

J/2 cake compressed yeast31/2 c sifted GLADIOLA FLOUR.

1. Scald the milk, add shortening, salt, sugar;allow the mixture to cool to lukewarm.

2. Dissolve yeast in tablespoon of lukewarmwater; add to milk mixture, stirring well .

3. Add Gladio la F lou r to liquid gradually,stirring after each addit ion, unti l a softdough is formed.

4. Turn out onto lightly floured board; kneaduntil dough is smooth and elastic.

5. Place dough in lightly greased bowl, coverlightly, leave in warm place until it doublesin bulk.

6. Knead dough again unti l it can be easilyhandled. Mold into rolls; place in well-greased pan.

7. Let rolls rise again until double in bulk;bake in h u t oven 15 or 20 minutes, untildone.

FEBRUARY, 1941

— AND, Mmmmm! ARE THEY LIGHT!You'll get a new thrill out of baking when you start usinga PREMIUM GRADE flour —and that 's exactly whatGladiola is — a premium grade flour at the price of regularflour. Remember, next time, get. ..

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"Does your wife play c o n t r a c tbridge?"

''Well, judging by what it costs her, Iwould say she plays toll bridge."

"I have played on some of the mostbeautiful courses in the world," says agolfer. "But golfers, as a rule, are notmoved by scenery."

No indeed, the reverse is often true.—Montreal Star.

The C.O. was annoyed because he'dgiven the Tommy leave to go to his moth-er-in-law's funeral. And now he'd learnedthe old lady wasn't dead. He demandedan explanation.

"Sorry, sir," said the private, ''but Ireally didn't say the wife's mother wasdead. I just said I'd like to go to herfuneral."

And there's the one about the Britishaviator just returned from a raid intoenemy territory.

"Why are you so late in getting back?"asked the commanding officer.

"I misunderstood instructions, sir, andpushed the leaflets under people's doors."—American Legion.

"He may preach against card-playingand dancing, but I have nothing butpraise for the new minister."

"Yes, I noticed that when the collec-tion plate was passed around."

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Director: "In this scene, my dear, theyoung man rushes into the room, grabsyou, binds you with rope from head tofoot and then smothers you with hugsand kisses."

Actress: "Is the young man tall, darkand handsome?"

Director: "Yes, why?"Actress: "Then he won't need any

rope."

Robert Louis Stevenson got marriedand went on his honeymoon. It was thenthat he wrote "Travels With a Donkey."

Milton was a blind poet who wroteParadist Lost. When his wife died hewrote Paradise Regained.

The laws of the United States do notallow a man but one wife. This is calledMonotony.

The epistles were the wives of theapostles.

The three chief races of men aresprints, hurdles, and long distance.

"A man's good looks are often spoiledwhen he sneers," says a woman writer.

Especially when he sneers at a biggerman.

Mr.: "Darn it, this motor is heatingup worse than ever."

Mrs.: "Isn't it provoking—and I hada man come in only this morning and dis-connect the radiator."—Farm Journaland Farmer's Wije.

A good club member didn't know howto explain the late hour of the last meet-ing. So he calls up his home and whenthe little woman answers the phone,shouts: "Don't pay the ransom, I'mback."

Clerk: "Say, this war in Europe hasstarted me to thinking."

Boss: "If that's true, I'll never say aword against war again."

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White Overalls Made of

DRILLSJiock Rette* Jta&t

The Pacolet Manufacturing Company specializes in

white heavy duty fabrics for work clothes. All

Pacolet's vast experience and equipment are con-

centrated on this one job. That is why Pacolet is able

to make a clecmer, whiter, stronger fabric than mills

making drill as a sideline. Look for the Pacolet label

before you buy white overalls;

P A C O L E T M A N U F A C T U R I N G C O .

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The Reverend George WashingtonHepzibah told his Deacons that he want-ed every member of his colored flock tobe present Sunday. "Sum'body donestole mah ovahcoat. Ah's gonna burn deyears down. Ennybody ain't present isguilty."

Everyone was there—even down toMoze, the log turner. The Reverendstarted off with a bang—preached on"Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou ShaltNot Kill"—really burned them down toa crisp . . . suddenly, a lull, and then hechanged to one of the sweetest sermonshe had ever preached. His flock leftpuzzled. Deacon Brown went back andasked the Reverend why he changed sosuddenly about someone stealing hisovercoat. The Reverend said, " 'Memberabout dat 'Thou Shalt Not Steal?' 'Mem-ber 'bout dat 'Thou Shalt Not Kill,' wellwhen ah got down to dat Commandment'bout Coveting Thou Neighbor's Wife, ah'membered where mah overcoat waz!"

A young girl at a university recentlywrote her mother, air mail special de-livery, as follows:

"Please send me money for a new dressimmediately. Have had several dateswith Jimmy, and have worn each of mydresses once. We have a date tomorrownight, and I must have another dressright away. If you don't send the money,send a new dress.

"Thanks, Ruth."Her mother answered:"Dear Ruth: Get yourself a new boy

friend and start over again."

Applicant: "And how soon are you re-tired in the air service?"

Recruiting Officer: ''Generally afterabout two years."

Applicant: "Really? And what areyou retired as—a colonel?"

Recruiting Officer: "No—an angel."

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In a certain western town a beautifulchorus girl sued a rich banker for breachof promise and was awarded $10,000.Shortly after leaving the court she washit by an automobile and had eight ribsbroken. The same judge awarded hereight dollars.

Moral: Never play with a woman'sheart—kick her in the ribs.

"You, in the back of the room, whatwas the date of the signing of the MagnaCharta?"

"I dunno.""Well then, can you tell me what the

Tennis Court Oath was?""I dunno.""You don't! I assigned this stuff last

Friday. What were you doing lastnight?"

"I was out drinking beer with somefriends."

"You were! What audacity to standthere and tell me a thing like that! Howdo you ever expect to pass this course?"

"Well, I don't, mister. Ye see, I justcame in to fix the radiator. I'm thejanitor."

Breathes there a man with soul sodead, who never hath turned his headand said, "Hmmm, not bad!"—LujkinLine.

Slowly the raft drifted with the flowof the sea. One of the shipwrecked sailorslooked into the sky.

"Cheer up," he called; '*we can't befar from civilization, 'cos a couple ofbombers have just gone over."—LondonDailv Mirror.

White Friend: "Mose, do you think itright to leave your wife at the washtubwhile you spend your time fishing?"

Mose: "Oh, yassuh. Mah wife don'tneed no watchin'. She wuk jes as hard asif 'n Ah wuz dere."

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