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Contents This Number• B

Past and Present Campaigns 4

Notes on Canadian Trip 5

I'm Tellin' You 6

November 7

Less Money in Bulk 8

When the Proof Reader Slept 9

Texas and the U. S 1 1

The Auto Line 13

Mueller Built Auto 14

No, Not a Park 17

Jonesboro, Ark. Water Works 20-2!

Thanksgiving 23

Gas and Its Uses 24

Deceiving to Autoists 26

Saranac Inn, N. Y 27

History as Written 30

Darktown Stuff 34

Factory News and Miscellaneous 35-40

The Record CoverThe cover of this Record portrays a French

woman doing her laundry work just as they have doneit for centuries. Imagine an American woman carry-ing the family laundry to a nearby stream. She'rinever think of it. Even the old fashioned tub is passewith her. She has stationary laundry trays in thebasement or an electrically operated machine. TheAmerican woman, however, is simply the legatee olthe gradual development of water works. Whilesome sections of France still hold to primitive methods,the French have had their share in the progressive de-velopment of water distribution f rom a central loca-tion to the home. According to authorities Paris hada crude system of water distribution as far back as1 608, and in 1 624 increased the supply by buildingan aqueduct , which provided 200,000 gallons oiwater daily. London adopted advanced methods ofdis t r ibut ion in 1 6 1 9 by the organization of the NewRiver Company incorporated in 1619 . The supplycame from New River, and is credited with being thefirst company supplying homes "with water. Thiscompany or its successors is still in existence andsupplies a portion of London. London first usedsteam pumps in 1 7 6 1 and Paris followed about 20years.

The control and distribution of water runsabreast of civilization throughout the ages primitiveand inadequate in early history owing to the absenceof proper power. Control and limited distributionwere the great stumbling blocks. Ancient pioneersin the work lacked a controlled pressure which wouldforce the water to any point desired. Steam and thesteam pump solved this problem, and led to the presentday modern water works plant.

THE MUELLER RECORDVol. XVIII NOVEMBER • 1928 No. 195

Well, did you vote or bolt?

Lots of indigestion ahead Thanksgiving,

Christmas and New Years.

Well we've got tha t election out of our

ty stern now let's forget it, get busy and

make things hum.

It's on the way and will soon be here.

There are not now many shopping days left.

You know—better begin thinking about it.

Divorces are simple and easy in Czecho-

slovakia. There are 1 4 grounds including

insul t ing behavior. But why so many

grounds. One and Reno is all that's neces-

sary in America.

And now the election "1 told you sos" are

having an inning and bat t ing 1 000. After

all the election of a president is nothing to

worry about it's the after-election "1 told

you so" that makes you conjure up avenue.-;

of escape or suitable methods of to r ture .

TELEPHONES AND TELEPHONERS

Every now and then it seems to be a sort

of a duty to say something about telephone

courtesy. Nothing so expedites business

and saves so much time. And there are but

few things that you can get madder at

quicker than a telephone—or rather at the

"telephoner."

The telephone transmits the voice. Be-

ing mechanical it can t be polite. That de-

pends entirely on the user. The telephone

now in use, does not let you see the face of

the person using it. This may be a good

hing for some faces it might f r equen t ly

-ave them a bat on the jaw. Nothing can

be more i r r i ta t ing in business which compels

cal l ing for informat ion than to get back a

surly hel-lo with the accent on the * hel.

It carries a tone of disgust and irri tation

as much as to say "why do you want to

bother me?" Or the equally discourteous

"What do you want?" It's a safe bet that

nine out of ten such persons eat mashed

potatoes with their knife. They always

make you want to reach for a br ick.

Perhaps telephone users are not all to

blame. At least its charitable to think so.

Some voices are unpleasant na tura l ly and are

made so by the telephone, but this is a good

thing to remember. It is an extra reason for

an effor t to be polite and agreeable when

using the telephone.

THANKSGIVINGWell, let s see have we anything to be

thankful for this Thanksgiving—no, not

much. Never succeeded in getting rich

never had a car that showed 70 miles—never

had any good luck never had' a fair chance

of gett ing ahead never Whoa, back up

there, where you going? Don't enumerate

your "nevers", list your "haves" if you'd be

thankfu l . Let's try it .

We've always had good health—sufficient

good clothing have never really known

what hunger is have a good home where

happiness reigns have a good soft bed

clean sheets and covers a nice warrn room

lots of good books and a lot of good fr iends

—a good appeti te and a digestion to take

care of it a keen love of life and the joys

it holds, and a good job one of man's grea t -

est blessings, that welcomes us each day with

enough agreeable tasks to make the hours

pass pleasantly and happily, and a wife and

a pal to greet us with a smile when the day's

work is done oh, what's the use of enumer-

ating—nothing to be thankfu l f o r ? Why, so

many things that one can't find thanks

enough to go around and never got rich

why, our riches are countless, inestimable.

Money does not buy that brand. Now give

thanks and don't ever try to do it again by

thinking of things not realized. That's l i t t le-

ness and jealousy. Always begin with the

known blessings and they will quickly swamp

the foolish, unrealized petty aspirations

which would mean nothing if they'd all come

true.

MacGregor Are youma hair last t ime?

Barber 1 don't thinkbeen here six months.

the mon who cut

sir. I ve only

T H E M U E L L E R R E C O R D

THE MUELLER RECORDPublished at Decatur, 111., by MUELLER CO.,

Manufac turers of Vital Spots Products for thePlumbing, Water and Gas Industries.

C. N. WAGENSELLER, Editor.

HOW JOBS ARE MADE

PAST AND PRESENT CAMPAIGNS

Presidential Elections Seem Tame ComparedWith the Old Time Whoopees.

Have we lost interest in politics? Look-ing back over the campaign just closed theanswers appears to be in the negative. Al-though few surface indications appeared toindicate the progress of a great national cam-paign. We have seen elections for townconstable which stirred up more local ex-citement than the last election. We re-member Bryan's first campaign which madea bedlam of the whole country. Street cor-ner orators, park bench warmers, profes-sional men and merchants, waged a terribleverbal warfare pro and con, on the " 1 6 to 1issue raised by Bryan. Few people under-stood what it was all about but everybodytalked it, argued it and fought for it. Streetfights were an almost hourly occurrence.And political orators rushed wildly throughthe country in a frantic attempt to saveus from national disaster.

Rallies by day, parades by night, yardsof pamphlets and storms of leaflets, scream-ing orators, flaming bill boards and blaringbrass bands. First Voters Clubs, YoungMen's Clubs and Old Voters Leaguesmarching, talking, arguing and defendingtheir beliefs by physical emphasis if neces-sary, kept America in a seething turmoil forthree months—and all about nothing, as theNovember vote burying "16 to 1" beyond re-demption proved. But it was a campaigna real live up and at it contest. And nowwe mark the difference a deep inter-est perhaps, but no one excited, no onearguing, no marching, no fighting. Thestreet corner orator is passe, and the parkbench warmer is too wearied to be botheredby any campaign. Business is on the humwhile the bands and torchlight parades andgaudy uniforms are a memory only. Notso much fun, but a good deal more of quietand peace. It is presumed that the sovereignelector thought it all out without the aid oforators, pamphlets, leaflets and brass bandsand parades. Some of them do, we are told,while others just vote from habit or a senseof obligation to citizenship.

Nobody GwineA mountain school teacher corrected a

boy who had said, "I ain't gwine thar.""That's no way to talk. Listen:"1 am not going there; thou art not going

there; he is not going there; we are notgoing there; you are not going there; theyare not going there. Do you get the idea?"

"Yessur. They ain't nobody gwine!' —Hardware Age.

Get the Right Slant on Capital—It is YourFriend.

It has been roughly estimated that $5,000of invested capital suffices to give permanentemployment to one worker. Assuming,then, that a man has an annual income of$65,000 of which he spends $ 1 5,000 on him-self, reinvesting the balance of $50,000, theconclusion is that he supplies tools for theproductive employment of ten additionallaborers each year.

The popular notion once was that the richman who consumed, or dissipated his incomewas serving the public interest. It was saidthat he was getting his money into circula-tion.

Since the beginning of the industrial era,however, the demand for capital has been sourgent that surplus funds can be put in cir-culation without wasting them on livinghabits.

Under present economic conditions itmakes little difference who the capitalists areor how much capital they control, providedonly that they use their funds productivelyand constructively.

If rich men do not eat their profits but usethem to promote production, the outcome ismore jobs and therefore higher wages, andmore goods and therefore lower prices.

This is the most important single thoughtin the science of economics. The obscurityof this truth has been the source of envy andeven hate when neither was justified.Through the Meshes.

THE DAILY BATHIf you want to live to be 98 years or more

old take a cold bath every day. That's therecipe for a ripe old age given by Mrs.Susan Dubois of Marble town, N. Y., accord-ing to the New York World.

Mrs. Dubois still does her own houseworkand until two years ago did her own laundrywork.

This testimonial adds nothing new to awell known factor in the maintenance ofhealth and longevity, but is nevertheless aninteresting contribution.

No doubt a daily cold bath has been acontributing influence to the long life of thisgood woman. The healthfulness of bathingis unquestioned. It does not necessarilyhave to be a cold bath. There are manypersons to whom cold water is a d-istinctshock, but that's no reason for not bathing.There are in between temperatures that arejust as effective cleansing agencies.

Cleanliness is the desired result of bath-ing, and cleanliness is health

"A bath a day keeps the doctor away."

Only One of the Kind

Real Estate Agent: "Well, what do youthink of our little city?"

Prospect: 'Til tell you, brother, this isthe first cemetery I ever saw with lights."


Notes on Canadian TourWhen we crossed the river to Windsor on

the way to Quebec, we were happy as kidsat finding ourselves in British possessions.Our first duty was to settle with the customofficers. There is a large fenced enclosurethrough which you could not drive a ma-chine, unless you drove through the fenceor over a uniformed guard. Neither alter-native was necessary. All we heard was"Thank you, sir", "Very kind of you, sir","You are welcome to Canada, sir", "We wishyou a pleasant trip", "You can't miss yourway, just consult this reliable guide book I'mgiving you". He was so gentle and courte-ous we'd have kissed him if he had notworn whiskers. He looked at our state au-tomobile card, which is necessary to secureentrance and filled out our blank, "becauseI am accustomed to it" and we were on theway.

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Looking back across the Detroit river thesky line of vigorous Detroit stood out in im-pressive relief. And looking down the riverone saw the massive suspension bridge incourse of erection, which will span themighty channel and join Canada and theStates closer together in ties of social andcommercial life. It's a gigantic structureand a gigantic engineering enterprise.

* * *

That reminds me. Coming down Detroit'scelebrated Woodward Avenue, which leadsdirectly to the Canadian ferry, we wishedto turn aside, but how? "No turn to theleft*" "No turn to the right," read everycorner sign. Finally a man told us it wasSunday and we didn't have to heed thesigns. We concluded Detroit was trying tomake it impossible to miss getting into theland of dampness.

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About the first mistake a tourist makes,is getting straightened out on eating. Partlythrough curiosity and partly to oblige afr iend who made the suggestion, we droveout to a popular road house not far into thecountry and feasted. After paying the bill,we balanced the cash and figured that byeating hot bow-wows, hamburger and fruitwe had money enough left to buy gasolineto Montreal. But it was a good dinner.

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Further up the road we fumbled the ballagain. "The house that Jack built wel-come tourists" was the enticing sign. Webit. The lady seated us and told us thewall paper was hand-painted—all the fash-ionable people came hundreds of milesto eat 1 26 chicken dinners and 30 duckdinners served last Sunday. "My food issimply marvelous," she added, "and I knowyou'll like it." We swallowed the baittwo slices of bread, no thicker than a win-dow glass with a piece of roast beef fully

as large as a two cent stamp, but no thicker;a piece of pie no bigger than a 24 point "V"and a cup of what may have been coffeewe could not dispute that because we'veswallowed many an atrocity masqueradingunder that name, and all for 60c each butnot without complaint.

"Your cream is sour," said our party ofthe second part. "Just stir it and it willbe alright," cooed the big self-booster,

"But I won't," said the determined partyof the second part. "1 want sweet cream."The landlady got it. She went across theroad and borrowed it from a neighbor whosecow gave sweet cream.

Again we counted up our resources. "I'llsay Jack built that house," moaned theparty of the second part.

"Yes," we answered, "the lady learned hertrade in that road house we visited," special-izing on prices but not on preparing food.

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But it wasn't and isn't always thus. Com-ing back we read a sign at the entrance toToronto. "Ford Hotel—$1 and $2.50—nomore, no less". A bobby with a white hel-met and the inevitable strap crossing hischin just under his lower lip vouched forthe hotel being first class. We asked theclerk to make good on his sign he did, andmore. We felt there must be a catch some-where and there was 25c for a pitcher ofice water "because you know, this comesfrom the restaurant—the hotel serves noth-ing to rooms," said the waiter. A.t that, it'sa fine new hotel of perhaps 800 or I 000rooms opened in June and always full.

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Taking a street car for a short trip inQuebec, two hod carriers in their bespat-tered clothes left at the next corner. Amotorman off duty, took one of the seats.Under his arm he carried an unwrappedloaf of bread 2 feet long and in the otherhand a can of goods nicely wrapped. Helaid the bread on the seat which had beenoccupied by the hod carrier and carefullyheld on to his canned goods. Merciful Godsof Sanitation defend us 1 The average Amer-ican scientist could figure out a world wideepidemic from eating that loaf of bread, butthe motorman had been following this habitfor years and was happily and ignorantlyhealthy.

* * *

"Penny, Madam! penny, madam! penny,madam!" without cessation a horde of beg-ging kids boarded the rubber neck wagon inSt. Paul street in Quebec, and with the shrill-ness and persistence of the cicada sang thatrefrain as a solo, duet and chorus. Suchpersistent little beggars are no where elseto be found. It's always the same when-ever a vehicle stops and the assault is so

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Pm Tellin' You

As an event of real interest, I'm tellin' youthe voyage of the Graf Zeppelin had thepresidential campaign backed into the laststall.

From the reports it appears that the biggas bag carried something in cargo thatVolstead doesn't approve. Supposing anyone of the crew had got all "lit up" on thetrip he might have been described as in-dulging in a genuine "high lonesome".

That incorrigible Mencken with his usualpolished satire says "seriously" that he likesthe Americans for the same reason a smallboy likes a circus. Laff clowns, laff, Mr.Mencken wants to be amused.

The sea going vessel and the air goingdirigible are alike in one particular it takeslots of "tugging" to land them successfully.

We have outlawed war and we have out-lawed liquor, and our blessings now shouldgrow much thicker. If we don't have tofight and don't have to drink, we will someday be angels 1 don't think.

I'm tellin' you I've scratched my head baldtrying to remember the name of that quaintlittle city where I got that drink of waterduring a two weeks tour of the Canadianprovinces.

A returned traveler tells of a Hindu asceticwho has kept his hand in the air for twentyyears. That's nothing—we know an Amer-ican Christian woman who has kept herhand in her husband's pocket for forty years.

Boulevard originally meant the flat top ofa bulwark or rampart. Then, its meaningaccording to lexicographers, became a pub-lic walk or street occupying the site of de-molished fortifications, hence a broad ave-nue in or around a city, especially one decor-atively laid out with trees, belts of turf, etc.It appears from this that there are compar-

atively few real boulevards. But it remainedfor the irresponsible automobile driver to givethe true meaning to the word an unbridledlicense to drive an automobile at terrificspeed through a populous city regardless oflife and limb of those less fortunate citizensstill compelled to walk. In the next diction-ary we shall be disappointed if a new andup-to-date definition of boulevard is notforthcoming.

Some statistician has figured that if all themotor cars were placed end to end they•would reach around the world. Maybe so.Those we have seen end to end, did notreach anywhere but the scrap heap.

Let 'em put the picture of any warrior orstatesman they chose on the new $1000 billd

all we want to do is to put our hands onthem.

There will soon be enough women mem-bers of Congress to make up a respectablebridge party. Why not? The congressmenplay cards—casino, old maid, solitaire, andanother game a silent one, in which con-versation is limited like this:

I'll open.How much?Tilt it two.Not in.Raise it.Cards?One.Three.Mine's still good, bet one.Raise it.Call.Then comes the biggest conversational ef-

fort of the evening."Well I'll be d . A pair of Jacks

takes the pot."The conversation is curtailed because con-

gressmen have exhausted themselves hurlingfervid words at each other on farm reliefduring the day. Recreation without wordsis therefore necessary andi they've adoptedthis queer game so they may recuperatetheir vocal powers and save their vocabularyfor greater forensic efforts on the followingday.

Gene Tunney's avowed admiration forShakespeare's works brought the great poet'sname back to public attention. It had beenall but forgotten in the clatter of Babe Ruths,Tex Rickards, Jack Dempseys and Holly-wood.

A Raleigh paper in "Question and An-swers" column says:

Q. What does the eagle on United Statescurrency symbolize ?



November s Cold andDark and Dreary

November is not what it used to be. Weare not lamenting as grandma used to whenshe looked back sweetly melancholy over by-gone years, and thought of happy days. No,we are just stating a fact. Formerly in theRoman calendar it was the ninth month.Other busy-body calendar builders camealong and made changes, notably Augustusand Gregory whose calendar is now gener-ally adopted. Along with various changesNovember became the eleventh month with30 days.

Every four years it becomes of supremeprominence and importance because of thepresidential election, when "chill" Novem-ber's surly blast that makes field and forestbare is drowned in the roaring and moaningemanating from good, bad and indifferentpolitical spellbinders, who with solemn mienand lugubrious wailing, predict disaster, ruinand destruction unless their candidate iselected.

Otherwise, for three years, November ismerely a month of pumpkins, poets, pies andThanksgiving.

Generally, poets view it with sad andmelancholy thoughts, but not all of them.If your heart and mind responds to themuse you can get almost any kind of a kickout of November poetry.

Of it sets my heart a clickin* like the tickin*of a clock,

When the frost is on the pumpkin andf thefodder's in the shock.

James Whit comb Riley.

This sunlight shames November where hegrieves

In dead red leaves, and will not let him shunThe day, though bough with bough be over-

run.But with a blessing every glade receivesHigh salutation.

—Rossetti.

Shout now! The months with loud acclaim,Take up the cry and send it for th ;May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,November thundering from the North.With hands upraised, as with one voice,They join their notes in grand accord;Hail to December 1 say they all,It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!

—J. K. Hoyt.

On my cornice linger the ripe black grapesungathered;

Children fill the groves with the echoes oftheir glee,

Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shoutingwhen beside them

Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black wal-nut tree.

Bryant.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind iswailing,

The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowersare dying;

And the yearOn the earth her deathbed, in a shroud of

leaves dead,Is lying.Come, months, come away,From November to May,In your saddest array;Follow the bierOf the dead cold year,And like dim shadows watch by her sepul-

chre.Shelley.

BACK FROM THE WESTPhil Reab who was given a trip west at

the company's expense and on full pay, inrecognition of thirty-five years service ishome accompanied by his sister. Their tripcovered forty-seven days and was full of in-terest. They visited all points of interest inthe west and on the coast, and came homewith many pleasant memories.

A Dollar Down

The only reason a great many Americanfamilies don't own an elephant is that theyhave never been offered an elephant for adollar down and easy weekly paymentsNashville Banner.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skillis being able to do it and Virtue is doing it.


Less Money In BulkWe are not to have as much

money next year as we had thisyear. But don't worry about it—we will have just as much in value.The loss is to be in size only. Thatroll in your trouser pocket will notbe so bulky but it will buy just asmuch.

Next year the new bills which Un-cle Sam is now working overtimeto print will be put in circulationand all the old bills will be recalledand burned. Figuratively speaking,some of us now have money to burnbut we never do it. Uncle Sam isthe only boy who actually does that.Bills of all denominations are to besmaller. All old bills now in circu-lation are 7x3 inches. All newbills to replace them are to be 65/16x2 1 1 / 1 6 . The accompany-ing diagram shows the difference insize.

Denominations Unchanged

The denominations will remainunchanged. Until we got this in-formation we never knew there wasanything bigger than a $10.00 bil!,which denomination -we rememberbecause we were once given one toget changed for a rich friend whohad two of them.

The new currency "will be printedin the following denominations:$1, $2, $5, $10 , $20, $50, $100,$500, $1000, $5000, and $10,000.The last named is for the use ofbootleggers and millionaires. Thereare only a few of these printed.

All the new bills under $100 ex-cept $ 1 's will have pictures of build-ings engraved on the back. The$l ' s and bills of higher denomina-tions than $100 will have originalbacks.

No Inconvenience at All

The treasury department makesthe change in size in the interest ofeconomy and greater conveniencein handling paper money. Goodand sufficient reasons, no doubt.However, if they had consulted uswe would have assured them thatwe have never yet been inconveni-enced by the size of the old bills.

About one billion of the new billswill be issued. Fifty-three per centof these will be $l's.

When the time comes to issue thenew currency the exchange will bemade through the banks and whenthe old bills get back to Washing-ton they will be destroyed.

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WHEN THE PROOF READER SLEPT

Walking on the WaterThe report which is

unconfirmed, and there-fore, unworthy of toomuch credence, saysthat the plane camedown in open water ata spot where some ofthe members of No-b i l e ' s p a r t y w e r emarching. — New YorkHerald Tribune.

It Was Unavoidable

vas explained that Mr. s retire-ment was due entirely to his death. DuluthNews Tribune.

Sugar DaddiesThe bodies of a young woman and two

701 -year-old men, each with a bullet drilledthrough the left temple, were found Fridaynight by the woman's husband. Billings(Mont.) Gazette,

Respectable Now

Though retired now from active missionwork, he is "doing the work of the Lord onthe side" while following his earlier andmore respectable trade as a boss bricklayer,—Washington Star.

Where Girls Are Safe

There will be no open season on prairiechickens and the season on all other uplandgame girls is closed. Oregon Daily Journal.

Get An AmendmentWhat is needed now worse than anything

else is a warm dry rain. New York DailyNews Record.

Reports His Own Murder

Green wait later staggered into a road-house nearby with a story of having beenattacked and killed by bandits.—Pennsylvaniapaper.

Such Boldness

The young people of the First BaptistChurch will have a little pet-together at thechurch parlors on Friday evening. A lightlunch will be served afterwards. Iowa pa-per.

Matron's Property Identified

The matrons, many of whom were women,were released after being questioned.—NewOrleans dispatch in a Utica (N. Y.) paper.

Elijah's Outside Saved

residence and all the contentsThElijah Gabbard, was(Kentucky paper).

completelyof

burned.

They Generally AreMr. and Mrs. Howard B have as

veek-end house pests Mr. and Mrs. Lyle-, Jay and Miss Gertrude

Hoosick Falls (N. Y.) paper.

Hot Stuff!Three bathing beauty contests will be hell.

—Yakima (Wash.) paper.

Whoopees for Bible School

The Bible school made a nice advance lastSunday. Now just a little boosing and wecan add another hundred to the attendanceevery Sunday.—From a Spokane (Wash.)church bulletin.

Called the Wrong Doctor

Both men were examined by veterinaries,and immediately shot by Humane Societyofficers. Toronto Globe.

No CounterfeitsJohn D. Rockefeller recently gave a chil-

dren's party. A good dime was had by all.—New York Sun.

MEXICO CITY TO LOS ANGELESAn International highway is to be built

from Mexico City to Los Angeles. Construc-tion work has been commenced on the firstlink from Nogales, Arizona to Guaymas,Mexico, a distance of 285 miles. The statelegislature of Sonora, Mexico, recently ap-propriated 2,250,000 pesos—one million dol-lars, for the work. This will doubtless pro'veone of the most popular highways in thecountry.

CALLERSAmong our callers during October was

Mr. S. Becker of the Becker Plumbing Sup-ply Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. He had beenin Chicago attending the meeting of theCentral Supply Co. It was his first visit toDecatur. The city and the size of the Muel-ler plants therefore proved a big surpriseto Mr. Becker.

IMAGINATION FAILED

Teacher—But, Willie, that's not a good excuse forlying away from school yesterday!Willie—Well, it ain't my fault!Teacher—It isn't? Why?Willie—'Cause I did my best to think of a good

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well organized that it would seem to befor a purpose. St. Paul Street, the lecturersaid, was "the oldest, narrowest and dirtieston the western hemisphere." After lookingat it, smelling it and riding through it, wevoted aye. It is just wide enough for anautomobile to go through. On one sideopens the rear of stores the kind thatemits large odors. On the other side weredoors and windows of "homes". Children,of both sexes, block the "street" and fillthe doors and -windows with their bodies and

the air with their shrill little cries "PennyMadam, Penny, Madam." There may be amore uninviting section in New York or Chi-cago, but someone has got to prove it tous and after seeing St. Paul street we willtake their word for it. We have no desireto verify it by personal, visual or nasal in-vestigation.

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Louiseville, P. O. is a quaint little villagewithout much to excite the traveler, but twothings to arouse interest one Lefleur's Hotel—the other the church. This is a noblestructure. It would be an ornament to anycity. The original cost was over $300,000.The interior had been gutted by flames andwas being repaired at a cost of over $ 1 00,-000. When one looked about the sleepylittle town of 1,600 people the first thoughtwas where does the money come from. Thealtar in this church, the gift of a member,

was $25,000. The hotel was a surprise be-cause of its excellence both as to sleepingaccommodation and cuisine. It enjoys a finepatronage from travelers and tourists be-tween Quebec City and points south. Aneatly printed card with a picture of theSavior was displayed on the walls of thesleeping rooms. It read:

NE BLASPHEMEZ PAS!

Coeur Sacre de Jesus,j 'ai confiance en vous.

(300 jours d* indulgence chaquefois).

Association Catholique des Voy-ageurs de Commerce du Canada

1043 Est, rue Rachel, Montreal.

And then the pleasant memory of a littleshopping trip, which included a lesson inpipe buying. Entering a tobacconists store,the first impulse was to beat a retreat. Itlooked the part of a first class jewelry store.There was a row of handsome small tablesand chairs. Before we had a chance to beatit, a salesman stood before us and said:"May 1 serve you, sir?" "Yes, please, Iwant a pipe.'

Now here is where I got my post graduatecourse in pipe buying. Up to this momenta pipe was a pipe differing only in mate-rial cob, clay or Briar.

"Yes, sir, and what kind of a pipe?""Why, just a pipe, of course"."I know, sir, but do you want it for your

den, office, hunting, fishing, golf or yacht-ing? "

Overwhelmed by ignorance I feebly an-swered, "Oh, yes, to be sure something likethis," picking up one that I wouldn't wearin my mouth to a dog fight andt thereby get-ting deeper in the mire.

"Pardon," he said, "I do not think youwould like that, sir it's the kind teamsterssmoke. Be seated please, until I show yousome different styles".

And then with as much care, thoughtful-ness and interest as a diamond salesman, hecarried over tray after tray of pipes. Therange of prices was terrifying as the finerstyles came out.

Picking up a good looking pipe -with afairly long stem. "This is something like it,a pipe to read with comfortably."

"Very well, sir, except the stem is justhalf an inch short for a reading pipe, butI'll get you a duplicate with the correctstem." We made up our mind that if heasked us "to try it in our mouth" and standbefore a looking glass to see general effects,we'd strike for our liberties.


T H E M U E L L E R R E C O R D 11

Texas and the U* S,We have liked Texas from that day of

happy memories when Mr. Flannigan stoodup in the National Democratic Conventionand bawled:

"What are we here for if it isn't the of-fices."

Each delegate knew this to be true, butthought it was a secret, and that no oneelse knew it, not even the other delegates.

Consequently everybody was properlyshocked when Flannigan spilled the beans,honestly and truthfully like any good Texan.And Flannigan was not only t ru thful butprophetic as well. Cleveland was electedthat year and the democrats got the offices.

Now appreciating this Texas trait we takegreat pleasure in printing the following it'spropaganda, maybe, but you'll enjoy readingit:

Texas

"Texas occupies all the continent of NorthAmerica except a small part set aside for theUnited States and Canada. Texas owns thenorth half of the Rio Grande, the only dustyriver in the world; also the only one, with thepossible exception of the Trinity, which isnavigable for pedestrians and mud cats.

"Texas is bounded on the North bytwenty-five or thirty States, and on the eastby all the oceans in the world except thePacific, and on the south by the Gulf of Mex-ico and South America, and on the west bythe Pacific ocean, the milky way, and theSidereal Universe. If Texas were choppedloose from the rest of the United States andthe Panhandle, it would float out into theocean, for it rests upon a vast subterraneansea of fresh water.

Texan Pursuits

"Texas is so big that the people inBrownsville call the Dallas people Yankees,and the citizens of El Paso sneer at the cit-izens of Texarkana as being snobs of theeffete East. Jt is 150 miles fur ther from ElPaso to Texarkana than it is from Chicagoto New York; Dallas is nearer St. Paul, Minn.,than it is to Brownsville, Texas. The UnitedStates with Texas left out would look like athree-legged Boston terrier. The chief oc-cupation of the people of Texas is tryingto keep from making all the money in theworld. Chief pursuit of the Texans was for-merly Mexicans, but now it is land buyers,steers and Texas crop records.

Day's Journey to Front Gate

"Texans are so proud of Texas that theycannot sleep at night. If a Texan's headshould be opened, the map of the state wouldbe found on his brain. Unless your frontgate is at least eighteen miles from yourfront door, you do not belong to society, asconstituted in Texas. Mrs. Kleburg's gate is

150 miles from her front door, and she isthinking of moving her house back so thatshe won't be annoyed by the passing auto-mobiles. Other Texas landlords have "wholemountain ranges and rivers on their ranches.

All He Needs is SteamboatOne Texan has 40 miles of navigable river

on his farm. If the proportion of cultivatedland in Texas were the same as Illinois, thevalue of Texas crops would equal that of theforty-seven other states combined. Texashas enough land to supply every man, womanand child in the whole world, with a tractof 5x20 feet, and have enough left over forthe armies of the world to march around theborder abreast. Texas grows enough alfalfawhich, if baled and built into a stairwaywould reach to the pearly gates. If all thehogs in Texas were one hog, he would beable to dig the Panama canal m three roots.

Some SteerIf all the Texas steers were one steer, he

could stand with his front feet in the Gulfof Mexico, one hind foot in the Hudson Bayand with his horns punch holes in the moon,and his tail brush off the mists from theAurora Borealis."

As Texas is to the Universe, so Dallas isto Texas. Come to Dallas. "The CityWhere Conventions Always Like to Return."

MARRIEDA matrimonial event \vhich proved inter-

esting to our organization was the marriageof Miss Marjorie Smeathers, secretary toGeneral Salesmanager Simpson, to Mr. Wil-lard Tatman. The ceremony was performedby Rev. Ingvoldstad, pastor of the FirstMethodist Church in the presence of a smallcompany of friends. After a honeymoontrip of a week or ten days Mr. and Mrs. Tat-man began housekeeping on West Northstreet, in a cosy little apartment which hadbeen prepared for them.


A FAIRY TALEIn the house organ of Pitcher-Hamilton

we came across a little fairy tale of muchinterest because in a reasonable number ofyears' living we unsuccessfully tried to findJocelyn, and gave up the search. DonaldBochart tells about her.

I love to take Jocelyn to lunch. She isnever too hungry to dance when the orches-tra plays.

She never orders planked steak withmushrooms.

She does not insist that the banjo playeris cute.

She does not persist in talking about herwild time at Bert Kelly's Stables last Sat-urday night.

She never says, "Don't you just love to sitand study people's faces?"

She is not planning to "write a popularsong.

She dances divinely with or without a pintof gin.

When I am broke, she signs the check.I love to take Jocelyn to lunch.Try and find her!

PRIDE OF THE PACIFIC


enough, being of the smallest value, the kindthat most of us use and are familiar with.Each of the new denominations will bear aportrait of men who have been famous inthe nation's history, as follows:

One dollar WashingtonTwo dollar JeffersonFive dollar LincolnTen dollar HamiltonTwenty dollar JacksonFifty dollar GrantOne hundred dollar FranklinFive hundred dollar McKinleyOne thousand dollar ClevelandFive thousand dollar MadisonTen thousand dollar Chase

Editor's Note: Why not have a "usedcurrency sale" and give us all a chance toget our wallets lined at a bargain. We'veheard successful men say the governmentdoesn't know business. This proves it. Nogood business man would throw that oldmoney away even if he could get only 50%for it. The government in this particularis wrong—all wrong.

Get WiseQuestion All last summer I was troubled

with poison due to biting insects. Whatwould you suggest as a remedy?

Answer: Why not quit biting them andgo on a vegetarian diet?

Blow the WhistleCaller Mr. Smithson in conference?Sporting Office Boy Yeh, the old boy s

gone into a huddle. Life.

"This is a pretty snappy suit," remarkedthe baby as he was put into his rubberpanties.

S. S. Malolo Has More Private Baths ThanAny Liner Afloat.

The largest and fastest steamship everbuilt in America is the Malolo. It was builton the west coast and was only recentlyplaced in service between San Francisco andthe Hawaiian Islands.

It is of interest to the trades which weserve because of the advanced ideas of con-struction prevailing in this pride of the Pa-cific.

The Malolo has more private baths thanany ship yet built. Brass pipe and copperwere extensively used. Strength and coro -sion from salt water were two vital reasonsfor this, but durability was also a factor.About I 0 miles of brass piping of varioussizes for conducting hot and cold water tobaths, radiators and the galley cookers werenecessary.

The Copper & Brass Bulletin says:"Copper and its alloys assure dependable

service in the mechanical details of this ship.The starting gear and all pipes in the engineroom are brass. Many thousand rustproofturbine blades turn superheated steam intomotive power. The boat is driven by twobronze propellers each measuring nineteenand a half feet across, with a combinedweight of 78,000 pounds. There are aboutsix miles of copper condenser tubing in theMalolo."

SUICIDE ADDICTSPrussians seem addicted to suicide. In

1926 there were reported 9,746 cases. Thisis the last year for which statistics are avail-able. Prussia first began compiling recordsin 1876. And 1926 shows the greatestnumber of cases of self-destruction since thatyear. The rate per 100,000 population isnearly twice that of the entire state.

In severing all earthly ties the greatestnumber, 3,002, preferred hanging, 1,733shooting, 1,507 drowning, 1 ,187 domesticgas, 572 poisoning, 386 by jumping fromtrains and 247 by jumping from high places.

In the matter of religion self destructionwas rarest among Catholics and greatestamong Jews, being about equally divided inthe latter race between men and women.

These figures seem appalling to us in thiscountry where self-destruction is not un-common. Evidently it takes smaller causesfor Prussians to start the journey to thebourne from whence no traveler returns, aswitness this.

A young girl had her hair bobbed in theface of parental objection. Upon reachinghome her father soundly berated her, muchto the injury of her proud spirits. She didnot waste time or words about the matter,but withdrawing to a near-by pond pro-ceeded to drown herself.

Don't cross the bridge until it's finished.


THE AUTO LINE

Rarin' to GoFor quick sale late model Ford touring

car in first clash condition. Saskatoon(Canada) paper.

Pugilistic

Cars driven by the two men collided nearthe fair grounds Sunday night and afterwardhad a fist fight which officers stopt. Spo-kane Spokesman-Re view.

To Err is Human

They're picking up the piecesWith a shovel and a rake

Because he used his horn,When he should have used his brake.

Babe Walked

"I see by the paper that Babe Ruth walkedtwice today."

"Gosh, she should be more careful aboutwhom she rides with."

one-arm

Up-to-Date Sheik

Maize Is your boy frienddriver?

Mamie—Not him. He takes a taxi anduses both arms.

Economy Forgotten by Drivers

It costs the average railroad companysomething like $5,000.00 a year to blow itslocomotive whistles when approaching gradecrossings, but it doesn't cost the motorista cent to stop, look and listen."

Mistake Intentional, Perhaps

"There's something wrong. This gear-shift doesn't work."

That isn't a gear-shift, Jack. It's er—it's my knee."

No Escape

Auto Tourist 1 clearly had the right ofway when this man ran into me, and yetyou say I was to blame.

Local Officer—You certainly were.Autoist Why?Local Officer Because his father is

Mayor, his brother is Chief of Police, andI go with his sister. Trindl Tips.

Couldn't Go Two Ways

Cop Hey, where are you going? Don'tyou know this is a one-way street?

Abie (in new car) Veil, I'm goin* vonvay, ain't 1 ?

Named After "Lindy"

"Did you know that a Chinese baby wasnamed Lindbergh?"

"No.""Yes, indeed, 'One Long Hop'."

Ignorance is Costly

Druggist What will it cost to have mycar fixed?

Garage Man What's the matter with it?Druggist 1 don't know.Garage Man Fifty- two dollars and fifty

cents.

Just Like the Car

"How's your car running?""Not so good; can't get her throttled

down.""How's your wife ?""She's the same, thank you."

WHEN THE REPORTER CUT LOOSEWhen the rural reporter cuts loose on a

wedding look out for a verbal showerbouquet. Many such have come to our no-tice, but we are rather inclined to pass thecrown to a writer on the Ogle County Re-porter, who thus describes a recent matri-monial event, and by lucky chance remem-bered to mention the bridegroom in theclosing lines:

Verbal Nosegays"Arboreal environment, azure sky, hal-

cyon quiet, the softened hues of approachingsunset, with the background of green foliageshading gently into the more somber tints ofearly autumn fashioning, all bestowed theirmete of beauty upon the event of last Satur-day afternoon, when at the home of thebride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A.Laughlin, "Heather Grange," just north ofthis city, occurred the wedding of the onlydaughter of the home, Miss Lysbeth, toGeorge S. Mix, only son of Mr. and Mrs.George H. Mix of Oregon."

GROUP INSURANCESalt Lake City master plumbers have

adopted group insurance. It is stated that46 masters and their wives have availedthemselves of this very desirable protection.The policies are for $1000 each.

Our company adopted this plan nearly ayear ago and it has proven very satisfactory.Our policies are from $500 to $2000. Sinceits adoption several holders of policies havedied and prompt payment was made to thebeneficiary named in the policy.

Little courtesies are the flowers of life.


Mueller Built AutoYou may talk of your

autos as they tear down thestreet, your Rolls-Royce,Packard or Lizzie petite,but say, they are nothingc o m p a r e d t o t h i s c a r ,which kept the mob jump-ing both near and afar.When she tore down thestreet at 20 per hour,horses reared and cavortedand then ran away, whilethe crowds on the walksyelled, "Say, but she'sgay." W ith her h i g hbuggy wheels and hardr u b b e r t i r e s s h e t o r ethrough the streets like aa demon in flight while thegasoline odors could besmelt from afar, just asthey now can f rom a bigmodern car.

And in that particularno car had anything on theMueller built car. It wasa nine day wonder wher-ever it appeared and theonly one in the west. Infact automobiles were notbeing built commerciallywhen this Mueller carclaimed attention and in-terest. No one gives passing automobiles pensing with horses, man's chief aid througha thought nowadays they haven't thoughts all history was regarded as little short ofenough to go around. One thing of a kind preposterous. Mr. Mueller was so thorough-

ly convinced of the auto's wide field as apleasure car, that he was planning to be-come a manufacturer on a large scale, but

In this auto built by the late Hieronymus Mueller, over 30 years ago are;Adolph Mueller, now president and general manager, Christy Goshert, atthat time a Mueller bookkeeper, now practicing law at Seattle. On the rearseat is Anton Schuerman and Toddy Vest, while standing are Jake Yoelckerand Fred Reab, all Mueller employes.

is a curiosity but when that thing growsinto millions it ceases to be a center of in-terest.

This home-made automobile is a striking his untimely death thwarted his plan.example of the progressive spirit and inven-tive genius of the late Hieronymus Mueller.Any thing new, especially in a mechanicalline aroused his curiosity and interest. Hehad imported a car from Mannheim, Ger-many. It was known as the Benz gasolinewagon. Before he ever used it Mr. Muellersatisfied himself that it was defective me-chanically in several particulars and at oncerebuilt it. He used the car about a year. It

PERSONAL JOURNALISMThey say that personal journalism passed

out with Henry Walter son and some moreof the old time editors whose personalitystood out in every line. This is true of mostpapers - big papers — but personality is not alost art in "the sticks." Some of those boyswho edit, print and deliver their own papersget down to brass tacks yet. Here's a sam-

is famous in automobile history for having pie from a Wagon Mound, New Mexico pa-won the first auto race ever run in America.

The car above pictured is from an oldphotograph which was so faded that it didnot reproduce as clearly as we should haveliked.

While it is along the lines of the Benzwagon in exterior appearance, the similarityends there. Mechanically it followed Mr.Mueller's ideas. It was used on the streetsof Decatur for several years.

Capital was not showing any great par-tiality to the "horseless" carriage back in1894-6. Few persons could see any greatfuture for the business. The idea of dis-

per:"Ten cents straight will be charged for all

obituary notices to all business men who donot advertise while living. Delinquent sub-scribers will be charged fifteen cents a linefor an obituary notice. Advertisers andcash subscribers will receive as good a send-off as we are capable of writing, withoutany charge whatsoever. Better send in youradvertisements and pay up your subscrip-tions, as hog cholera is abroad in the land.

A judicious silence is always better thantruth spoken without charity.

Heavy cutsare easy...

when this husky machine is used. Stripped of everypound of metal that can be spared without reduc-ing its wearing qualities, the Mueller "C" DrillingMachine can be handled easily by two men withoutstraining and one man can operate it if necessary.All working parts are encased in dust-proof housingand run in heavy grease. It gives clean cut serviceon lateral or branch connections from 2" to 8" inpipe 4" to 48".


AN APOLOGY IN VERSESeveral months ago Edgar A. Guest had

a little sport with plumbers in one of hispoems. It was along the lines of fun in-dulged in by prose writers at the expense ofthe plumber. Mr. Guest stepped on a hor-net's nest as he found out later. The plumb-ers opened up on him with machine gunsand heavy artillery. Mr. Guest, like all goodwriters, wants to be fair, and is. He wroteanother poem "Apologizing to the Plumb-er," which we reproduce here with his per-mission :

JUST FOLKSBy Edgar A. Guest

(Copyright, Edgar A. Guest)

APOLOGIZING TO THE PLUMBER

Time was that 1 was moved to -writeAbout Ye Plumber's Friend;

No harm 1 meant, with gay intentThose merry lines I penned;

I did not think those drops of inkSo many would offend.

Now from the kindly Murray SalesAnd others of his kin

Come letters sad and boiling mad,Each day brings new ones in;

And everywhere the plumbers swearThat I am black with sin.

"Oh, creature foul," they shriek at me,"To strike us such a blow I

How dare you pen of honest menSo black a lie, and oh,

How does it come that you're so dumb,Such ignorance to show?"

And so to win the plumber's loveOnce more I set it down;

His hands are clean, 1 did not mean to tar-nish his renown.

The truth is this, 1 think he isThe whitest man in town.

'Twas but a playful thought I wrote,Not fashioned to offend;

To all our clan, ye plumber manHas been a faithful friend,

And once a week, when faucets leak,For him 1 always send.

1 would not harm his tender skinNor cause one nerve to wince,

That merry quip was but a slipWhich I've regretted since.

In white and black 1 take it back:The plumber is a prince I

Sure Cure"Lady," said Mike, "would you lend me

a cake of soap?""Do you mean to tell me you want soap?""Yes'm. Me partner's got de hiccups an'

I want to scare him."

EARLY DAYS OF AUTOSIn these degenerate days when the horse

is almost forgotten this comparison of anauto with a fast horse, as made by a writerin a Decatur paper 25 years ago, is inter-esting:

"A man who has had an automobile forthe last two years says that it is much moresatisfactory to run an automobile than tohave a fast horse. For one thing, it requiresless attention. One can go away for amonth and leave an automobile standing inthe house without attention or care. Usedin an ordinary way on city streets withoutany attempt at speeding or fancy stunts ofany kind, the cost for repairs is small anddoes not begin to amount to as much as thecare of a horse. Even if a machine isspeeded on all occasions, with rapid stopsand quick turns, one can get more excite-ment for small expense than with a faststepper. The automobile can be stopped inmuch less time than a fast horse can bestopped, thus avoiding accidents more easily.There is no danger of the automobile run-ning away and smashing itself to pieces un-less the driver gets wild, pulls the wronglever and fails to put it back."

ENGLISH ESTIMATE OF LONGFELLOWSome times Longfellow is called the chil-

dren's poet. Many persons do not look uponhim as a great poet although they will con-cede that he is good.

An English lecturer recently asked for avote on American poets, selecting nine wellSknown Americans. Longfellow lead with218, Poe 130, Whitman I 19.

Emerson, Whittier, Lowell, Bryant,Holmes, Bayard.

ScotchWednesdays Edinburg Times carried an

account of the finding of a shilling in thestomach of a herring caught in the NorthSea. The Aberdeen fishing fleet has put tosea.

READY FOR HIM

Hubby—Can yoWifey—I can, but you tell YOUR story.


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Beautiful Grounds Surround-ing Fall Riwr Gas Plant

Remember when the writers used to referto the "Gas House Gang" ? Sure you do.And you remember the mental picture thatimmediately framed itself in your mind—asmoky, smelly building, old pipes, and con-nections, cindered earth and ash piles anda "gang" that talked through their teethand leered at you with a menacing eye asmuch and more as to say, "none of your lipkid, or I'll knock your block off." You didnot consider the gas house as an adjunct togood society, and never went near it, espe-cially if you had on a white collar and awhite flannel suit. The temptation wouldhave been too strong for the gang to resistrolling you in tar. Besides, the surroundingsdid not harmonize with white collars andwhite flannel suits.

It's Changing Now

But that is all changed, or is changing.What better evidence can be offered than

these beautiful grounds of the Fall River(Massachusetts) Gas Co.?

They immediately suggest white collars,white flannel suits and outdoor social gath-erings. The environments are not those in-viting a "gas house gang." Quite the con-•"•ary they are of a character to make anyp-called group aspire to the better things

of life. The surroundings are elevating, up-lifting—an influence for good. They reflectat a glance the character of the men who

are back of this indispensable public uti l i ty.These beautiful grounds with well kept

lawns, trees and flowers speak with nature'svoice of men who see beyondi the narrow-ness of those whose thoughts never riseabove a dollar of full 1 00 cents. They be-speak men who love the beautiful in life.

Worthy of Emulation

Fall River sets an example worthy ofemulation by all public utilities. Pretty sur-roundings do more than attract the eye ofthe visitors to the plant or to the casualpassers-by. They create in the mind a fa-vorable and friendly impression and goodpublic opinion. They invite friendship.

Just as good gas can be made in a plantwhose grounds are filled with cinders, ashpiles, broken pipe and barrels but it does notmake as good or as friendly an impressionas the plant with park-like surroundings. Afriendly community spirit is what every pub-lic utility craves. We think the Fall Riverplant has taken a long step in advance increating this feeling.

Water Works Have Parks

There are many water works in the UnitedStates that have made parks out of thegrounds about their plants, and there shouldbe more. A closer contact with the publicis a most valuable asset of a public utility.



Chicago's Greatest Building

Left to right, Ernest R. Graham, architect of Merchandise Mart of Chicago; Fred Sargent, president ofChicago & North Western railroad; John Griffiths, builder, and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field& Company.

Construction of Chicago's gigantic Mer-chandise Mart, the largest business buildingin the world, is now under way. The firststep toward the erection of this great cen-tral market, which will house hundreds ofthe foremost manufacturers, wholesalers andimporters of the United States was theground breaking ceremony. Surrounded bymany of the city's prominent business men,John Griffiths, octogenarian builder of fa-mous buildings, and James Simpson, presi-dent of Marshall Field & Co, turned overthe first spadesful of dirt.

Among the other notable persons who wit-nessed the formal ground breaking for this$30,000,000 structure, which is to occupy adistinctly conspicuous position just acrossthe Chicago River from Wacker Drive atWells street, were Fred Sargent, presidentof the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad;Ernest Graham, of the architectural firm ofGraham, Anderson, Probst & White, who de-signed the Mart; James E. Pole, chief engi-neer of the Northwestern Railroad; GeorgeGriffiths, another of the members of thebuilding contractors; C. A. Welles, generalmanager of the Mart; C. E. Callender and F.W. Boy den, who have charge of the leasingof the Mart's space.

An idea of the magnitude of the building,which is to rise from one of the most romanticsections of Chicago's pioneer history, maybe gained from the fact that it will requireten miles of caissons. There "will be 450of them, which will go down 1 10 feet tobedrock. It is estimated that these caissonswill require 2 ,000,000 cubic yards of con-crete.

The site of the Mart was formerly thatof the Chicago & Northwestern RailroadCompany's passenger station. The buildingwill extend 724 feet on Kinzie Street, 5 7 7feet on the river front and 324 feet on Wellsstreet, with a diagonal frontage facing Or-leans and Franklin streets. It will be setback from the river about 80 feet to accom-modate upper level extending from Wells toFranklin streets. The main entrance of thebuilding will face the river and the Drive.The Mart will have a total floor space ofabout 4,000,000 square feet.

Out of OrderSmart Guy—Hello, newsie, look at your

nose and tell me what time it is.News Boy Ak, look at your own; mine

ain't running.


WINDMILL AIR PLANE

Invention of Spanish Engineer Gets EnglishApproval.

It was not to be expected, of course, thatthe present type of airplanes was the omegaof man's ambition to make air navigation safefor pleasure and commerce. Few of usknow anything about it now except profes-sional aviators and the frequency of acci-dents leads to the thought that few of themknow much about it.

Now we have a new type of airplane, theinvention of a Spanish engineer, Senor Juande la Cierra. The machine has flown acrossthe English Channel in 20 minutes. It wasdemonstrated before the British Air Ministryand so favorably impressed the members thatan immediate order was placed for six ofthe planes to be used experimentally.

The new invention is a curious looking"contraption" compared to the planes wenow see. Instead of wide wings it has acouple of paddle like affairs extending fromthe sides. The outstanding feature that givesit the name of "Windmill" plane, are thefour narrow wings above the body of theplane. The area of the four blades is about160 square feet and they make 135 revolu-tions per minute.

The great advantage claimed for this typeof plane is that in landing it settles to theearth softly and easily to a selected spot.It does not have to circle about to make alanding or make a run before coming to astop. The same is true in rising as the ma-chine takes to the air almost vertically.

These are advantages which even the no-vice can see and appreciate. Of courseSenor Cierra's invention is still in the pre-liminary and experimental stages, and eventhough it may prove superior to the presenttype, it is in itself susceptible to improve-ments and refinements.

AIR PORTSWhile America is still feeling the way re-

garding air ports, foreign countries are solv-ing the problem in advanced fashion. Oneof the most outstanding efforts in this par-ticular is the new port building at Pau,France, fifty miles from Bordeaux.

The port is of immense dimensions, glasslighted. It is 370x260. Passengers are pro-tected from the weather just as they areunder train sheds, now in use at all import-ant railway stations. Incoming planes landon a well prepared field outside of the build-ing and then taxi inside, while outgoingplanes start in the building and rise f romthe field upon reaching it. Powerful beaconlights serve as landing guides at night. Ad-jacent to this giant building are machineshops, rest rooms and other conveniencesand comforts for both travelers and em-ployes of the air line.

ANNUAL ROLL CALLThe twelfth annual Roll Call of the Amer-

ican Red Cross will be launched ArmisticeDay, November 1 1, and continue untilThanksgiving, which this year is November29. It is an invitation to every American tojoin and by membership help support theyear around activities in behalf of this wholecountry.

The two outstanding demands on RedCross service are disaster relief, and assist-ance to disabled veterans, men still in thevarious armed services, and their families,along lines not otherwise provided for by thegovernment, or other agency.

In the fiscal year closed June 30, last,the Red Cross served in more than 1 00 dis-asters over the country. In this same period,it assisted in various ways, an average of40,333 disabled veterans each month.

There are other services of the Red Cross:First Aid instruction by its experts is indemand in every important industry; waterrescue methods are taught all year, through-out the United States, to curtail drowningaccidents; its health services are found atwork in isolated communities as well as inpopulous cities. Thousands of people rendervolunteer service in many fields of Red Crosswork.

It is the greatest single organized force forhumanitarian purposes in the world.

CAN YOU AFFORD TO BE SICK?Can you afford to be sick? Health stat-

isticians show that sickness costs the averageperson 31.08 cents a year or 138.68 perfamily. The total annual bill of sickness forthe country is figured at 13 billion dollars.It costs money to be sick, a lot of whichmight be saved by ordinary precautions. Inthe first place live sanely and abjure any-thing tending to make you feel badly. Layoff any food or drink that upsets the system.And better still don't think sickness. Lotsof sickness is imaginary, or the direct resultof fear, and a whole lot more is cultivated.Many people acquire the sick habit. Theyseem to enjoy it. A day in bed or on acouch or even just in a room seems prefer-able at times to a hustling day's work orsport.

Father (to young suitor) Why, youngman, you couldn't even dress her.

Suitor Zat so I Well, it "won't take melong to learn.


A. aOshrdlu eta shr mfwy taoi nu nup.We do not know what the eagle symbo-

lizes, but we are fairly good at puzzles, anduntangling complex situations having taken along reading course in Sherlock Holmes.Our solution of the above problem is simple.The answer as given above, indicates that theeagle screamed for not less than one quartof hootch and the man making the answernever missed a round.


Jonesboro, Arkansas—A SmallINVESTMENT IN PLANT AND

PROPERTYDec. 3 1st1906 $177,755.621907 184,433.651908 189,676.061909 197,550.611910 208,341.191 9 1 1 21 1,027.141912 218,574.471913 227,908.451914 235,945.351915 252,923.361916 270,220.091917 293,194.211918 299,637.551919 320,425.001920 347,012.511921 417,698.391922 447,287.751923 493,815.341924 533,686.761925 538,052.281926 600,546.52

When you wise crack "Arkansaw" don'tget gay with Jonesboro some one is apt tocall your hand and you might be embarrassedand unable to come clean. Not so big inpopulation, bxit in achievement something ofa prodigy. Look at Jonesboro's City, Water,Light oc Power Co. It is municipally owned.The city has a population less than 12,000but it has the ambition of a city twice thatsize. It got that way when it was a townof some five thousand and has never lostthe habit.

Those familiar with the history of the plantplace much of the credit with Mr. J. F.Christy, manager.

A Justified City Pride

Speaking of Jonesboro, Carl D. Thomp-son, of the Public Ownership League ofAmerica, said in a recent article:

The city water and light plant is todayfurnishing electric light and power to 2,600users in Jonesboro and Nettle ton. It is of-fering the protection and convenience of un-interrupted water service to 2,800 customers.It is providing 1 85 hydrants for fire protec-tion. It is furnishing 251 street lights, oneat the center of every cross street as wellas extending out and lighting the entrancesof all highways into the city, and 86, four-light, white ways posts on important busi-ness streets. It is insuring the health ofevery inhabitant of Jonesboro through careof sewerage and refuse. It is doing all thesethings at a cost that makes water and lightand their attendant conveniences the lowestpriced necessities on earth.

The city is justly proud of this wonderful

valuable property, it hasdone more than anythingelse to insure the growthof the city, provides lowerwater and light rates thanany other city of nearits size in the State; hasbeen the greatest factor inincreasing the value of realestate; and through its freesystem of street lights, fireprotection and maintenanceof the sewerage system, hasgiven the public an in-estimable benefit, allowingthe city authorities to usetheir revenues for othercivic purposes- u**-

For the past twenty years the serviceof the Jonesboro plant has been un-equalled by any public utility. Thepower has not been off during daylighthours, one hour during the past tenyears. Reports from other townswhere plants are operated by the largepower companies, say that often poweris cut off f rom one to three hours dur-ing the busiest time of the day.

Such service, unrivalled in any cityof the size of Jonesboro, has not beenbuilt overnight. It is a result of twentyyears of solid growth, twenty yearswhich have been characterized by theconstant watchword "Service First."It is a tribute to Jonesboro's citizenswho have made improvements in lightand water always the first step in build-ing a more prosperous, a more pro-gressive community. Mr. J


lunicipality With Big Town Ideas

Chr i s ty

THE CITY WATER ANDLIGHT PLANT OF THECITY OF JONESBORO

By Lloyd M. Rebsamen

The development of apublic utility is both acause and an effect of thecity it serves. As a publicutility improves its servicein advance of current re-quirements by providingmore and better facilitiesit stimulates the develop-ment of business enter-prises and the home lifein its territory. Then as

these activities expand and the excessof public utility is reduced, there de-velops a need for more and better serv-ice \vhich in turn stimulates fu r the rutility development.

The public utility must, therefore,consider both the present and the fu -ture of the territory it serves, andshould endeavor to serve on the lowestpossible rate consistent with the actualnecessary expenditures and investment,and not on a rate based on inflatedvalues obtained through a speculativepyramiding of properties and values.It must at all times anticipate the de-velopment of its territory, provide fa-cilities and service to encourage suchdevelopment and be prepared for itwhen it materializes.

The history of the City Water andLight Plant illustrates this point.

GROWTH IN CONSUMERS

Light and Power1906 3721910 4561914 8201918 1,0441923 2,0341924 2,2171925 2,4441926 2,600

Water1906 8531910 1,3011 9 1 4 1,7471918 1,9461923 2,4491924 2,5761925 2,7441926 2,800

Twenty years ago the City Water and LightPlant, if judged by present day standards,was a primitive plant, more of a dream.

Two decades have witnessed great changes.Facilities of all kinds have been vast I1

proved.astly im-

Jonesboro's Development

The City of Jonesboro has likewise de-veloped during these two decades. Businessand social life have improved. Industry andcommerce have thrived. Jonesboro is trulya substantial and progressive city, and thewater and light plant has not only keptabreast of the times but has set the pace.It has met every need for service extendingits water, light and sewerage systems in andout of the city in advance of current re-quirements. The City Water and LightPlant has extended its lines to the nearbycity of Nettle ton, lights fou r and a halfmiles of state highway between the twocities, lights the highway to the State Agri-cultural and Mechanical College and fur -nishes the street l ighting and whiteway sys-tem of the City of Jonesboro without costto the property owners.

The continuous development of this util-ity has called for the investments of largeamounts of money and this uti l i ty to whichthe citizens of Jonesboro point with prideis owned outright by them, having been ac-quired not through taxation but through aneconomical and efficient operation.

It was in 1903 that Mr. J. F. Christy, man-ager of the City Water and Light Plant cameto Jonesboro and consolidated the then1

privately owned water and light plants. Twoyears were spent in this work, day service


was installed, and through increased patron-age, caused by better service the plant beganto grow and show a profit.

Private Company Sells

About this time the people of Jonesboro,feeling the need for a sewerage system, andrealizing the necessity of owning the waterand light plant to be operated in conjunc-tion with the sewerage system, began nego-tiations for these properties. The corpora-tion, now making a profit and preferring notto sell, offered $ I 0,000 as a donation, to-wards the construction of the sewers. How-ever, when the citizens insisted, the owners,who were practically all Jonesboro people,laid aside their selfish interests and offeredtheir properties to the city, the price to bedetermined by engineers representing bothparties.

In accordance with an Act passed in theLegislature authorizing the three improve-ment districts, for water, light and sewers,the Mayor of the City appointed three com-missioners. These commissioners formedthe districts, purchased the plant, issued thebonds and contracted for the constructionof the sewers. They deserve a great dealof credit and special mention on account oftheir unselfish service.

The Water and Light Plant was turnedover to the commissioners July 1 , 1 906;Mr. Christy being retained as manager.Jonesboro at this time was a town of fivethousand people, with eleven saloons, nostreet paving and only brick walks in thebusiness and better residential districts.

Fine Lighting System

In 1909 a new street series lighting systemwas installed, locating a 1 00-candlepowerlamp center span at every street crossing.This system now has about 300 lights, Awhiteway system in the business districtlights all the business streets. It is proposedto extend this system in the near future totake in more of the streets near the businessdistrict. The plant receives no compensa-tion for the lighting of the streets and white-way but maintains them out of the earningsof the plant. Several years ago when thecity paved many miles of its streets with anasphaltic concrete paving the water depart-ment re-laid all service lines from the mainsto the curbs with new material. This hasbeen a large factor in reducing maintenancecosts of the streets. At about the same time,the water department, realizing that an enor-mous amount of water was being lost throughleaking services began the metering of allservices. This has resulted in a 50% de-crease in the amount of water pumped intothe city's mains. Metering of the remainingflat services will produce further savings,estimated at several thousands of dollarsyearly, which can be turned back to the con-sumers in lower rates and increased service.

The record of the earnings of the CityWater and Light Plant is such that in 1925,when $200,000 was needed to build and

; The Power Plant

equip a, new power plant, the bonds weresold without the forming of an improvementdistrict, the property alone being security forthe bonds an unusual piece of municipalfinance in this state.

The plant, now complete, is constructedof brick, steel and concrete, and is one ofthe finest and most modern in the state. Itis entirely fireproof and of a size sufficientto meet the demands for service for manyyears to come.

Equipment

Two of the latest type 500 horsepowerboilers, with 1 00 degrees superheat, 200pound steam pressure and an overload rat-ing of 250% are now in operation. Theseboilers are fired by a set of mechanical stok-ers, equipped with dual drive and controls.All coal handling is done with an electricallyoperated monorail system which delivers coalfrom the cars either to storage or to thehoppers above the stokers. This monorailalso handles the ashes. A new 1500 K.W.turbine driven electric generator was in-stalled and operates in connection with a750 K.W. steam turbine and a 500 K.W.Corliss engine giving the plant a capacity totake care of the normal growth for severalyears. The plant is so built that additionalboilers and turbines may be installed fromtime to time as needed. The new plantbuildings also houses a complete machineshop for the repair and maintenance ofequipment.

It is a notable fact that the entire con-struction work of the new power plant washandled by our own engineering departmentand that the labor used on the plant wasmostly common labor under the direction ofour skilled superintendent and foreman.

New Sewers

During the last two years the City Waterand Light Plant, always endeavoring to keep



ThanksgivingAh I on Thanksgiving day, when from East

and from West,From North and South, come the pilgrim

and guest,When the gray-haired New Englander sees

round his boardThe old broken links of affection restored,When the care-wearied man seeks his mother

once more,And the worn matron smiles where the girl

smiled before.What moistens the lips and what brightens

the eye?What calls back the past, like the rich

pumpkin pie ?

By Whittier "The Pumpkin."

In Plymouth in162 I , the Pilgrimscelebrated the firstThanksgiving withno thought thatit would becomea permanent cus-tom in the greatnation destined toarise f rom their

invasion of a country entirely new.Pilgrims by nature and training were pre-

disposed to an acknowledgment to the Al-mighty for blessings bestowed. They hada fewer things to be thankful for than thepeople of today but those few things wereof immense importance to the little settle-ment. A bountiful harvest meant plenty toeat through the long dreary New Englandwinter. And the fact that no lurking In-dian had gotten away with his scalp was initself good and sufficient caurse for a wholecar load of thankfulness.

Limited blessings that lighten a burdenof hardship and suffering arouse one to adeeper sense of appreciation than do innu-merable blessings and limited hardships.

Makes a Difference

This marks the difference between thosehardy adventurers and the present dayAmerican to whom Thanksgiving has moresporting than religious significance. Whilea few, comparatively, go to worship, thehorde tears out for a football game afterthe noon-day feast. If necessary the aver-age football fan would not permit the din-ner to interfere with his football. He letit go with religious observance to have hisfun.

The original proclamation addressed tohalf-hundred pilgrims got a 1 00 per centresponse. The present day proclamationaddressed to 120 million people may regis-ter 1 0% there is no way of judging ex-cept by football, movies, auto trips, etc., andby these tokens it would seem 10% may betoo high.

Indian Boyish Bob

"Of course," says one sweet young thing,"the Pilgrims all went to service becausethere was nothing else to do and who wouldwant to remain alone with Indians snoopingaround to give you a boyish bob. It's dif-ferent now, you see there is more than onething for the people to do and anyway, theydon't do mass thinking and acting theythink and act as individuals!"

It about tells the story. What a few peo-ple did in 1621 has no bearing on what 120,-000,000 people do today. The Pilgrims hadnothing much to distract them, and theywere not much given to amusements. Ifthey were they had to devise their own.There were no thousands of active brainsdensing and building amusements appealingto young and old alike.

Not Unmindful

The thing about Thanksgiving is this, atleast with thoughtful people. The spirit andthe real purpose of the day has come downto us through 307 years years distraughtby wars, divisions of opinions, religious be-liefs and changed conditions, to a people ofmixed nations, who are not really unmind-ful of the deeper significance of the day.

Under such conditions it is not so badafter all. It is one of the greatest of Amer-ican holidays and we all like it in every de-tail and while we may not unite on any oneparticular form of observance we will allvote aye on one phase of its celebration asumptuous Thanksgiving dinner.

MORE

"Another helping of turkey and dress-ing please. Oh, yes, sweet potato and somegravy. Thank you, I can reach the squashand celery—and I think I'll be able to re-.serve a space for the pumpkin pie, but itwill be something of an effort."

Well Carleton does not miss the truth farin his poem "Captain Young's Thanksgiv-ing."

"Thanksgiving day, I fear,If one the solemn truth must touch,Is celebrated, not so muchTo thank the Lord for Blessings o'er,As for the sake of getting more."


The Record is always pleased to recog-nize and applaud enterprises of this char-acter, and in so far as we are able, to en-courage them.

We have never had the privilege of seeingthe Fall River plant, but the beautiful photog-raphic re-production makes us hungry to doso.

Extending the glad hand is better thanpointing the finger of scorn.


Gas and Its UsesGas had a great deal to do with the mak-

ing of the new Ford. While a great dealwas used in the making of old models, theconsumption was more than doubled whenthe new machines went through the factory.The factory now uses in its plants about threemillion cubic feet a day.

About The Causes

That the American farmer is vitally inter-ested in the abolition of smoke in large cities,and that the gas industry is today of greatassistance to him in crop development, isseen in a recent bulletin of the AmericanGas Association. This bulletin states thatthe ammonium sulphate by-product of gas-making is an extremely valuable fertilizer,and that the burning of raw soft coal inhomes is absolutely contradictory to thedictates of conservation in that the valuableby-product is lost.

The Association quotes Samuel S. Wyer,consulting engineer, as saying that bitumin-ous coal is more than mere fuel, and theburning of it in the raw state is little shortof barbarous waste. To turn the 66 mil-lion tons of bituminous used in the homesin the United States into gas and coke andother by-products, there would be saved1 65,000 tons of nitrogen for fertilizer pur-poses, he says.

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The Pennsylvania Natural Gas Men's As-sociation is now affiliated with the AmericanGas Association, according to announcementby Oscar H. Fogg, president of the A. G. A.

The Pennsylvania Association is the sec-ond natural gas association to become af-filiated with the A. G. A. since the amal-gamation of the Natural Gas Association ofAmerica with the A. G. A.

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Gas burners have replaced coal as fuelto be used in the San Angelo electric plantof the West Texas Utilities Company.

Proximity to a plentiful supply of naturalgas war ranted the discontinuance of the useof coal in the plant, and equipment was in-stalled so that oil may be used in case of anemergency.

The unit is the second to be added to theSan Angelo plant within the last year, workon the first 8500 h.p. unit having been com-pleted last summer. The new addition hasdoubled the capacity of the San Angeloplant, raising it to 1 7,000 h.p.

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One of the greatest single conservationunits in the country in 1927, according toS. W. Meals, president of the Carnegie Na-tural Gas Company, Pittsburgh, was thePittsburgh coke plant which produced morethan sixty million cubic feet of gas by recov-ering the gas and tar which formerly wentup in smoke in the beehive ovens.

James P. Howe, "who writes for the Chica-go Daily News, has recently described a visitto the kitchen at Buckingham Palace, Lon-don. One of the most celebrated chefs inthe world commands the king's kitchen, andhe told Mr. Howe: "We still use wood firesat Windsor, but not here. Gas answers thepurpose best.

John F. Weedon, of Chicago, editor of thePeople's Gas News, makes this interestingcomment:

"If the London Gas Light and Coke Com-pany does not capitalize on this statementand proclaim themselves as Purveyors to hisMajesty the King, they are overlooking agood opportunity."

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The Merchants' Association of New YorkCity, working in cooperation with Dr. LouisI. Harris, health commissioner, has beenmaking war against the smoke nuisance.

The Association credits the estimate of$100,000,000 a year lost to New York mer-chants because of the economic loss causedby smoke. The annual loss in the UnitedStates due to the smoke evil has been esti-mated at seventeen dollars per capita.

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The American Insurance Union buildingin Columbus, Ohio, is the fifth tallest build-ing in the world, and is the largest buildingheated exclusively by gas.

The structure is fifty stories high and tow-ers 555.5 feet above the street.

The tremendous size of this building pre-sented no obstacles to satisfactory heat.Even during the past winter, when Columbussuffered from several days of sub-zero weath-er, and unusual demands were made uponthe Columbus gas companies, the heat neverfaltered.

The plant is equipped with three 400 h.p.boilers. After the successful manner inwhich two gas-fired boilers passed the severetests to which they have been subjected, itis planned to put the third boiler on gasalso. Under each boiler are three entrainedburners. The heating and power plant islocated 40 feet under ground, being on thesecond level below the street floor of theskyscraper.

The contents of the huge building total4,980,192 cu. f t . , more than twice the size ofthe next largest building heated entirely bygas. The radiation surface in the Columbusbuilding totals 48,200 sq. ft. An averagewinter day's gas consumption in the A. I. U.building was 293,000 cu. ft. The flow ofgas into the boilers is controlled by steampressure.

The Boston Consolidated Gas Company'snew building had heretofore been the largestgas-heated structure. The cubic content ofthe A. I. U. building is more than twice thatof the Boston building.

Or-11187 with nutsand tailpieces

Mueller Rigid Bar Meter Connections are the resultof years of experimenting. Compare this improvedunit with those you are using. Gas men everywhere

welcoming the MUELLER RIGID BARMETER CONNECTIONS.


Deceiving To AutoistsAs all autoists know you have to take the

bad with the good on a trip. It's not allsunshine, neither is all luxury skimmedmilk often sells for cream. A hotel invitingoutwardly and a chamber of horrors on theinside, or as our old German friend was sofond of saying "wice worser."

Deciding not to drive any further thatnight we stopped at Jonesville, Michigan forthe night. No one in the party knew any-thing about Jonesville beyond what the signboard told us, and the halt was made withmany misgivings. However, a perfect littletraffic system gave rise to small hopes.

The hotel keeper whose hostelry climbed3 stories into the sky was willing to carefor us. He showed us a choice room withtwin beds also it was twin rooms dividedby a big arch in the center running waterand bath—all for $5.00.

Room for Babe's BattingYou could have played a world series in

either room and Babe Ruth would haveplenty of distance for his home runs.

The next specter was the eats, but thatrestaurant could make a million on Statestreet so far as service and food are con-cerned. The only drawback would be thelow price and the Chicago appetite. Mealswere ala carte or regular the ala cartemenu had just as much poor French as anymetropolitan restaurant not strictly French.

But who wanted to tinker with an alacarte menu when the "regular" offeredchoice of three kinds of meats, potatoes,eggs, two or three other vegetables, coffee,milk or tea and several kinds of dessert at50 cents.

Just how he does it no one could guess,but the owner said he did a fine businessand he looked prosperous.

Puts Up Good FrontOur second surprise over we took a look

at the town. The five of six blocks of storeslining either side of the street as wide asa Salt Lake City thoroughfare were neatand clean, good displays in the windows,electrically lighted, radios and phongraphsgoing—just like the board walk. News to res,drug stores, confectioneries, dry goods andcolthing stores many of the buildings 3stories high with upper floors occupied.

Jonesville is a town of 1,500 to 1 ,600.We did not know it existed, until we drove

up and pulled rein at the hotel, but you can'tforget it after being there. It may not bea good place to live permanently if you areused to larger towns, but it's a good placeto stop over night.

Jonesville's Main Street

SAFETY IN THE HOME

That is the Place Where Prevention of Acci-dents Should Begin.

The cobblers* kids, we've been told f re-quently, are poorly shod. We've also heardrumors that some safety workers forget topractice safety principles at home. Theidea that home is a place where you don'thave to watch your step is responsible forseveral thousand deaths in American homesevery year and an untold number of injuriesranging from slight bruises and scratches tobroken bones.

New Devices Not Responsible

Some claim that the increasing use of me-chanical equipment in the home is respon-sible for the high rate of accidents. Homeaccidents, however, are as old as the homeitself, but nobody thought much about themuntil insurance companies and the NationalSafety Council began collecting and publish-ing statistics. Our homes, in spite of electricwashing machines, toasters and vacuumcleaners, are probably safer than those of1 00 years ago when weaving, soap makingand other jobs now confined to the factorywere done at home.

The power wringer on the washing ma-chine is not the safest device imaginable butthe shaky stepladder, the icy pavement andthe broken stair tread cause far more acci-dents. Electricity lags far behind the matchas a cause of fires.

A home inspection carried out with thesame thoroughness as a factory may reveala surprising number of hazards. In toomany homes nobody feels the responsibilityuntil someone gets hurt.

Some furniture dealers use the slogan"Your home should come first." Twistingit to our own use, the safety of our familiesshould be first with us.

One: "Did you fill your date last night?"More: "I hope so. She ate everything

in sight."

Darling: "Mamma, I have a surprise foryou.

Mother: "Yes, darling; what is it?"Darling: "I've swallowed a nail."


Saranac Inn, New York

Saranac Inn, one of the most delightfulof summer hotels, is situated on the shoresof upper Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacks,is a magnet which attracts people of all sec-tions, especially the eastern portion of theUnited States when they seek rest andrecreation. Here they find del ightful en-v i r o n m e n t s , a n dagreeable social at-mosphere and recre-ations of all kindsto suit varying tastes—golf, tennis, bath-ing, saddle horses,f i s h i n g , b o a t i n g ,movies, and musiceverything in factthat contributes to aperfect holiday.

The i l l u s t r a t i o nsaccompanying thisarticle speak unmis-takably of the com-for t , the pleasure, quiet restfulness and con-tentment of the guests of Saranac Inn.

How could one think of a dreary momentin a place so perfectly endowed by naturalsurroundings and so efficiently developed bymen who know the secret of catering to crea-ture comforts ?

When evening brings the outdoor amuse-ments to a temporary end the guests haveleft to them indoor entertainment to claimtheir attention. A superb orchestra, danc-

ing and movies in a room that seats 600 per-sons.

The hotels proper are commodious andluxuriously furnished structures, and sur-rounded by some fifty cottages.

Mr. Harrington Mills is president of thecompany operating this hotel. His knowl-

edge of hotel man-agement is visible inevery detail of theconduct of this popu-lar resort.

His wide experi-ence as a hotel man-ager, his years ofcontact with the pub-lic, has given himan intimate under-standing of what hisguests desire in theway of accommoda-tions- surrounded byan atmosphere of ele-

gance, restfulness, contentment and pleasure.Saranac Inn is the epitome of all these

essentials which accounts for its popularityand makes it a summer mecca for large num-bers of those who seek a change from thebustling city to the soothing quietness ofmountain, wood and lake, without depriva-tion of the everyday sports and pleasures towhich they are accustomed.

Many people mistake activity for efficiency.

2 8 T H E M U E L L E R R E C O R D

SOUTH POLE TRIP mands of the city. Both of these sceptictanks with their connecting lines and also

If You Expect to Make the Trip Be Sure all sewerage extensions to the existing systemYour Trunk is Well Packed. have been installed and are operated without

If you contemplate a trip to the south pole, a penny's cost in taxes to the property own-take time to think over the necessary prep- ers of tne Clty- They are maintained en-arations, because if you pack an overnight tirely from the operating profits of the Citybag and hit the trail you will be out of water and Light Plant.luck when you get there. It's no small task ln ' 923 a complete water pumping sub-getting ready for an undertaking of this kind. station known as the Culberhouse PumpingThe trip calls for genuine preparedness. It Station, with a reservoir of 320,000 gallonsreally appears to be the big end of discover- capacity was built. 1 his station is equippeding the south pole. Commander Byrd has Wlth two motor driven centrifugal pumpshad experience and he should know. He wltk a capacity of 700 gallons per minuteputtered around New York for a year or each' and ls tied in wlth a11 the importantso getting his baggage and supplies together malns leading from the power house to theuntil we began to think he was stalling. standpipe. This statxon has caused the re-After having read up a little on what he is duction of insurance premiums by abouttaking with him, we changed our mind and 207°- Water equipment at the power housegrant that he was not only busy but that consists of one 2 million gallon compoundhe did about the biggest job of shopping in steam pump; two motor driven centrifugalhistory. It took two ships to carry the out- pumps of one and a quarter million gallonsfit. Here are some items from the shopping eacn' and hve wells which deliver 1 600 gal-list, as enumerated by Popular Science: lons Per minute to a large reservoir.

-r • i r In 1924 , an office building and storeroomTwenty-e.ght tons of meat. ^ hased at a cost> including fixtures,Twelve tons of potatoes. of $45 O Q O from the earn; of the plant

Seventeen tons or Hour. r • -ru • Y M J - • ..u. mn n r - rrom previous years. 1 his building is the070 pounds of onions. home of the offi the testi department,

I Z j U cases or cheese. i ,1 1 - 1 . j '" T-I, nnr. -. r , and the consolidated storerooms. 1 he m-o U U U pounds or beans. . - i T - j j ,i_ i_OA.- IA i r i • 1 1 • vestment is paying; large dividends through3000 pounds o f kippered herring. rr • 1 - 1 • ci /\/4 11 P I efficiency and service by savins; in waste or100 gallons of honey. • i j i • ,-Af\r\r\ r i material and employees time.Innn PT t i l " The terms of the original bond issue for000 packages of gelatine. ^ hase of the jant ;ded for aI UUU pounds or cookies. • T , 1T , _ , _ ! ,O A A A i r i special assessment against all property in the2000 pounds or salt. ,-T. f i i 7 - j r ., ,. ^ City or lonesboro tor a period ot twentyoU pounds or pepper. r • r i -.u, TJ j r • years, as a means or securing runds \vith^nnP°Un j° fPICLeS ' which to retire the bonds. After eleven?nn nnPn° tobacco. g ̂ earnin of the jant had ;ncreased

84 ne clgfsretteS- to the point where the Commissioners fel t•?n f\n^ P.1?63* . justified in suspending further collections, as70,000 sticks of chewing gum. J, c. l rr^. . , - j ' ,, C A A , , i the prohts were sufficient to provide a sink-4,!>OU pounds or candy. r i r .1 , - r .1 i j i, « * J ing tund ror the retirement or the bonds and. nnn i r i i i at the same time to take care of all improve-I , U O U packs or blades. i -pi . . i , n , j«>. i 1 1 1 ments a n d expenses. 1 h e total t a x collected30 dozen tooth brushes. aggregated $263,707.31 which represents-j -I r the city's investment in the water, light andi phonographs. sewer tems. The carrying of the bond is-

50mreVls P1CtU1"e ̂ sue from 1903 to 1923, inclusive, amountedO A r v A ' , ,. . to $2 I 3, 1 06.20, which if applied to againstZOOO pounds medicine. . n t- i L itax collections leaves an investment or onlyThe outfit contains innumerable articles $ 5 0 , 6 0 1 . 1 1 . By applying this balance

for both the pleasure and the comfort of against the cost of the sewers, it will bethe explorers. seen tnat the earnings of the water and light

You see Commander Byrd is going to be plant have liquidated the cost of the plantaway for a year or so and there are no 5 anj $48,096.27 of the cost of the sewers,and 1 00, cowboy drug stores or mail orderhouses in the antartic circle. Management

The manager of the plant is appointed byContinued from Page 22 a Board of Commissioners, who are elected

the sewerage system in the best possible by the property owners, each property ownershape and ample at all times to care for the having one vote for each dollar of state andneeds of the city, has built at a cost of $45,- county taxes paid. That this is a most suc-000 two large modern sceptic tanks with con- cessful method of managing a municipalnecting lines from the present mains for the' plant is attested by the splendid record of thecity's sewerage disposal. This provides a plant under the period of municipal owner-capacity for sewerage disposal ample for a ship, during which time the plant has beencity of about 30,000 people and will take under the continuous management of Mr. J.care of quite an increase in the present de- F. Christy.


POPLAR BLUFFSTREAT 'EM ROUGH

This pumping station at Poplar Bluffs,Mo., is housed in this building, but it is notwhat Poplar Bluffs wants. The people thererather feel that a change is necessary anfipreliminary steps have been taken in thisparticular. On December 6th a vote willbe taken on the proposition to spend $225,-000 for a new and complete purificationsystem.

The equipment of the present plant con-sists of two pumps. One is a Laidlaw DunGordon Steam Pump 1500 GPM. and theother is a Dayton Dowd Centrifugal MotorDriven 1 000 GPM. The present pressure inthis city is 65 $ domestic to 125 fire pres-sure. Only about one-half of one percent

of the water pump is now metered, but withthe installation of the new plant which isexpected to follow in about twelve months,the meter will be 100%.

Under present conditions approximatelyone million gallons of water per day ispumped. The city has fifteen miles of mainswhich range from 4" to 1 6 /r, serving a popu-lation of 9000. The first plant was built in1894.

Recently, several Mueller men visited theplant which is under supervision of Mr. A. E.Hecker. The photograph of the plant andMr. Hecker together with visitors is shownabove in the picture. Reading from rightto left the party of visitors are: WalterCoventry, J. M. Wilkins, A. E. Hecker andW. C. Heinrichs.

DID THEY KNOW HE WAS DRY?New York Col. John Q. Tilson, Eastern

director of the Republican Speakers' Bureau,announced today that he had received infor-mation from the drunkards in Ohio that allof the 200,000 drunkards in the UnitedStates had decided to vote for Hoover.

He said he was advised the decision wastaken largely because of Hoover's stand onthe dry question. The director said he alsohad been informed that drunkard women -willvote in the coming election for the first time.

The drunkards live largely in Ohio, In-diana, Illinois, Kansas and Pennsylvania.Bradford (Penn.) paper.

Chinese Take Their Sporting Events VerySeriously.

We do not look on the Chinese as verygreat sports. Most persons form their judg-ment of Chinese from contact with theirlaundry man.

But the Chinaman is a real humdingerwhen he goes in for sport. At Shanghairecently the first national boxing and wrest-ling tournament was held. Two hundredand sixty entrants took a chance of increas-ing business for the undertaker. Accordingto the following dispatch from China a sport-ing event is no pink tea affair:

Need For Red Cross"Preparations for possible casualties were

made today when the first national Chineseboxing, fencing and wrestling tournamentsponsored by the government to encouragethese sports.

"In view of the fact that in China boxingcontestants are permitted to kick or hit theiropponents in any part of the body and thatgenuinely sharp swords and spears are usedin fencing, preparations were made to com-pensate relatives of contestants who may bekilled or seriously injured."

TRACING THE STORMSThe weather bureau has for some years

been giving out each Saturday a forecast ofthe weather for the succeeding seven dayswithout promising too much accuracy. Nowthe system has been improved and theweather bureau promises much greater ac-curacy. It is explained that after spottinga storm the forecaster will be able to giveits location each succeeding day until thestorm wears itself out. This has been doneexperimentally for a year past with suffici-ent accuracy to justify its adoption. It isclaimed that the first storm to make a triparound the world so far as government rec-ords show was discovered by Mr. Mitchellof the Weather Bureau.

It brewed in Montana on February 23,1 925, and after traveling 21 ,379 miles inencircling the globe, dissipated over the Gulfof St. Lawrence on March 23. A recentstudy of weather data revealed this -world'srecord."

SIGN BOARDSArizona has ordered all sign boards re-

moved from the main highways. Californiais working toward the same end. Kansasaccomplished the result by carrying a caseto the supreme court.

Good PrayerNow I get me up to work,I pray the Lord I may not shirk.If I should die before tonight,1 pray the Lord my work's all right.

—Toledo Blade.


HISTORY AS WRITTEN

Is Different When Analyzed by the Pains-taking Searcher After Truth.

History is accepted as the truth by read-ers in general. Few ever question the ac-curacy of statements of historians. Theyare accepted, because the reader is inclinedto admit "without argument that one whowrites history knows his subject and has in-vestigated and proved up all of his facts.The reader seldom stops and questions astatement; never thinks that a historian ishuman, and frequently prejudiced. He toooften writes of persons and events as hewants them, to appear, and not as they reallyare. He is not immune f rom the commonfraility of all writers to put in a dash ofcolor here and there. Again he frequentlystrives for dramatic effects which the cold,unrelenting facts do not provide. Also inreaching these climaxes he sometimes, eitherthrough lack of data or by acceptance ofsome tradition, misquotes or distorts utter-ances credited to great men.

Reader Easily Pleased

On his part the reader takes up a historywith more or less previous knowledge of thesubject and wants his heroes and heroinesserved to him seasoned to his taste. Everyschoolboy acquires some historical knowl-edge and forms immature judgment of char-acters he likes. This judgment is accentuatedby reading semi-historical novels by writerswho do not pay so much attention to factsas they do to situations and effects. Theyhave a broader license than historians andwork to the upbuilding of a character whois their own particular idol. Not many ofus pursue history after our school days.

If in later years we pick up the work ofa student, a patient, painstaking investigatorwho refuses to dodge facts, we are surprisedand shocked at his manner of kicking ouridols from their pedestals.

A Student's Judgment

If you have never read Wm. Matthew's"Hours with Men and Books" you can cer-

ALL, BUT—

tainly do so with pleasure and profit. Anunquestioned authority, and a most enter-taining essayist, you will find after an hourthat you have accepted history as truthwhich at least is only partly truth. Throw-ing light on historians and their methods hesays in "Illusions of History":

"So hard is it to get the facts touchingwhat is going on today, and almost beforeour eyes! It is probable, says an able Scot-tish writer, that not one fact in the wholerange of history, original and derived, is trulystated."

Two instances among many recorded byMatthews are given here because they upsetlong cherished ideals of nearly every one whohas read history. He says:

Napoleon's "Charger" a Mule

"What Napoleon-worshiping disciple ofHeadley or Abbott ever dreams of doubtingthat the hero of Lodi and Austerlitz reallydid scale the Alps on a fiery, high-mettledcharger, with 'neck clothed with thunder,' asDavid, the French artist, has painted him?But let us hear the great Corsican himself:"The First Consul mounted, at the worstpart of the ascent, the mule of an inhabitantof St. Peter, selected by the prior of the con-vent as the surest-footed mule of that coun-try." Such is the difference between realityand painting, truth and declamation. Againand again has it been denied by historicalcritics that the Russians burned Moscow toprevent Napoleon from making it his win-ter quarters; and in vain do they assert whatMr. Douglas, at one time our minister toRussia, has confirmed, that hardly more thanthe suburbs, where the French were quar-tered, were set on fire, to cover the Russianattack. Maelzels and other showmen stillrenew the infandum dolorem of the conflagra-tion in paintings and panoramas."

Our Own Farragut

"Leaving France, and coming nearerhome, need we cite Commissioner Quids' de-fense of Wirz, the pious jailor of Anderson-ville; how he proved him to be a hero of thenoblest type, whose only foible was an ex-cess of tenderness, and gave as a reason forhis revelation 'a desire to vindicate the truthof history' ? Are we not all familiar withthe thrilling story of Farragut, who, at thebattle of Mobile Bay, lashed himself to themast-head of his battle-scarred flagship, andthence signalled to his fleet as he sailed byForts Gaines and Morgan vomiting flame ?The simple fact is, that the Admiral was notat the masthead, was not lashed,—did notgo aloft to encourage his men or to signalfrom his position, but simply stepped intothe main rigging to get a good view of thesituation."

Aunt Hetty—Well, has your wife found a housethat suits her?

Torn—Well, yes, it suits her—all but the kitchenrange, the closets, the cellar, the drawing room, thehall, the electric lighting, and the bedroom wallpapers!

We wonder why the young husbands incurrent plays always gasp on learning theywill soon become papas) Aren't they sup-posed to know anything?


AIR MAILThe air mail is no longer new; neither is

it old. Many persons have not yet used itand perhaps do not understand it. Busi-ness men have used it more or less eversince it was inaugurated because of thenovelty at first now because of a greatsaving in time.

Contrary to a somewhat general belief aspecial air mail stamp is not necessary.An ordinary stamp answers all requirements.However, if you use ordinary stamps markthe envelope "AIR MAIL". It is better ofcourse to use a special air mail envelope andair mail stamps. These aid in the correctsorting of the mail.

The air mail rate is five cents for the firstounce and 1 0 cents for every ounce there-after.

Letters stamped and marked as above arenow carried to any part of the United Statesat a saving from four hours to two and ahalf days.

Air mail may be posted at any post officeor in any regular mail box.

Postmasters furnish air mail schedules onapplication. Air mail is now a regular partof the postal service.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

VISITOR FROM CANADA

Mr. S. J. Frame of Toronto, Canada, wasone of our recent distinguished visitors. Hefills the important position of secretary ofthe Canadian Brass Manufacturers' Associa-tion with headquarters at Toronto. Mr.Frame was shown over the Mueller proper-ties in Decatur and met many of the headsof departments. In company with J. W.Wells, office manager and private secretaryof the company he was photographed asshown above.

It Offers You Opportunities to Sell PlumbingGoods for Presents.

The full page national advertisement ofthe plumbing and heating industries in theSaturday Evening Post for November I 0 pre-sents to the public in an attractive mannerthe idea of giving plumbing and heatingequipment for Christmas. The ad will reach9,000,000 readers and tell its story in a fu l lpage of four colors. This commanding adin the most widely read publication in Amer-ica will have a real effect on the millionswho are already planning to think about theChristmas gif t problem.

For 12,000 Show Windows

The Bureau is sending out to 12,000 mas-ter plumbers and heating contractors whohave show windows or sales rooms, copiesof this ad in original colors, for display intheir stores. Every copy displayed in a win-dow or sales room will help call the public'sattention to plumbing and heating equip-ment for Christmas gifts.

"Only in recent years has the publiclearned to buy and give worthwhile house-hold conveniences for Christmas," says H.L. Wood, advertising manager of the Plumb-ing and Heating Industries Bureau.

"A few years ago the average gift-giverwould have laughed at the idea of presentinghis wife or mother with a water-heater, amodern kitchen sink, or new, ornamentalradiator equipment throughout the house.

Useful Gifts Gain Favor

"But the constant plugging away at theidea of giving useful, lasting conveniencesinstead of something that will be soon forgot-ten or discarded is beginning to have its ef-fect. Thousands of housewives have beenmade happy through the installation of hand-some, modern heating and plumbing equip-ment for Christmas. They never tire ofshowing this equipment to their friends andtalking about it, so the idea spreads andtakes hold."

The Bureau has prepared three tie-up adsfor use in local newspapers. These ads alsoemphasize the idea of giving plumbing andheating equipment. Those contractors whotake these ads to their newspapers and havethem put in type and published will beidentifying their own personal business withthe national advertising. They will be lay-ing the groundwork for profitable selling.

Mr". Wood Gives Reasons

"The only reason that the clothing,candy, flower, and jewelry merchants areable to sell so much of their merchandise forChristmas gifts is that they have educatedthe public on the idea," says Mr. Wood."There are more good reasons for makinga Christmas gift of new bathroom or kitchenplumbing equipment, or a radiator heating



Three Interesting Pictures\:

Here are three pictures of more thanpassing interest. The first is Lincoln Me-morial, Washington, D. C., the second of theairplane from which it was taken, and thethird the Memorial Monument marking thespot on Gettysburg's battlefield where Lin-coln delivered his famous address.

The pictures were taken last May duringa visit to the National Capital and vicinityby Paul Jacka, Joe Cheatham and L. E.Clark who went there to attend the conven-tion of the American Foundry men's Asso-ciation as representatives of our company.

During the visit there was considerabletalk of a ride in an airplane- and finally thetrio mustered up sufficient courage to makethe trip. While in the air, supposedly 1000feet high, Paul Jacka took a "shot" at theLincoln Memorial. The plane was photo-graphed on the ground. In the photo of theMemorial Monument at Gettysburg, Messrs.Clark and Jacka may be seen in the fore-ground.

It is rather unusual that an amateur shouldtake such a good picture of the Lincoln Me-morial at Washington from the air. The re-markable feature, however, is the camerawith which this was done.

Mr. Jacka says it is a small Eastmanwhich is received from the Saturday Even-ing Post fifteen years ago as a reward forworking up a list of subscribers.

A JOINT CONVENTION

Choice of Terms

The track supervisor received the follow-ing note f rom one of his track foremen:

"I am sending in the accident report onCasey's foot when he struck it with a spikemaul. Now, under 'Remarks,* do you wantmine or do you want Casey's?"

Central Supply and P. & H. Industries Meetat Chicago.

The Central Supply Association and theAdvertismg-Salesmanager convention washeld at the Palmer House, Chicago, October24, 25 and 26th. The sessions were heldin the Red Lacquer room, the C. S. A.meeting in the morning and the advertisingand salesmanagers of the Plumbing and Heat-ing Industries meeting in the afternoon.The interests of these two organizations areclosely related and the joint meeting madeit possible for the members of both organi-zations to attend all sessions.

This arrangement proved very profitableto all the delegates, and speakers of prom-inence in both organizations were greetedwith large audiences.

Among the speakers at the C. S. A. meet-ing were the following:

Mr. Stephen I. Miller, executive manager,National Association of Credit Men spokeon "Credits."

Russel G. C re vis ton, general manager ofthe Plumbing and Heating Industries Bureau,told of the activities of that organization,giving especial attention to the Saturdayevening Post, Advertising Campaign andthe plans for 1929.

"Home Modernizing" was discussed by H.S. Sackett.

Prof. Malcolm P. McNair, assistant direc-tor of Business Research, Harvard Univer-sity, gave an analysis of the Harvard Sur-vey, illustrating his remarks with statisticsand diagrams. This was a prominent feat-ure of the C. S. A. meeting, and the dis-



THE MELANCHOLY DAYS

October Brings Them But Without Any Goodor Sufficient Reason.

Why is it that the golden haze of Octoberdays makes so many people melancholy ?Why is it that when this month of plenty,when this rewarding time for toil arriveswhy is it that so many seem to reflect athoughtful and rather remorseful season?

In Spring, when all things are promisinglybeautiful, and in Summer, when we taketime to play, we seem to be happy. But isit not true that, all sweet, and the samenesswould sicken that Summer sunshine theyear "round would become as a plague?

Changing Seasons Necessary

The changing seasons, each in their turn,are necessary to man's welfare; and Octo-ber, with its invigorating winds, its mild butglowing sunshine, its glorious coloring, itsharvest activities and atmosphere of prepara-tion, brings to humanity an example and amessage that are not equalled by any othermonth in the man-made calendar by whichwe measure mortal time.

Perhaps the writer can suggest a reasonfor this Autumn-alone feeling, the sadnessthat so many experience.

When the fading leaves fall, like ouryears; when the birds fly away, like ourhappy hours; when the swift-changingclouds go passing by, like our illusions;when the sun grows colder, like ourblood current; when the frost comes onthe vine and on the hair; when the daysare shorter and the impenetrable nightis longer, perhaps we can find the realsecret of all this seeming sadnessperhaps we can establish an alliancewith destiny.

Cheerful Aspects

But I see no reason (even at my age) tobe sad in the Autumn alone. I can seem tosee many cheerful aspects about Autumn,for Autumn is a season of preparation, ofrest from work well done. Perhaps it isknowledge of work neglected, of opportuni-ties lost, that makes for sadness in October.

The saddest life lived on earth is thatwhich is incapable of sadness. The sweet-est songs ever written are woven around thestory of sadness. Sadness sobers; and whenwe stop to sober up, we can more clearlyunderstand the full meaning of Life. Likethe flowers, we have, during the chill, dreardays of Winter, to prepare for the blossom-ing time.

When Spring unlocks the beautiful blos-soms, paints the picture-valleys and sendsthe songbirds to us, we are so filled with thelove of living that we forget what we mustall face some day—and this is well.

School All Go ToSadness is a school we must all attend,

else we will never graduate in the gentleart of being kind here to the folk on earth.

Sadness should make us serious, not morbid.Sadness should make us thoughtful, not fear-M.

It is first necessary to be a little sad be-fore we can be truly glad. Without themeans to make comparisons we are like arudderless boat but drifters useless anddangerous, with good reason to be sad.

Be It Ever So Humble

The burglar had entered the house asquietly as possible, but his shoes were notpadded and they made some noise.

He had just reached the door of the bed-room when he heard someone moving in thebed as if about to get up, and he paused.

The sound of a woman's voice floated tohis ears.

"If you don't take off your shoes whenyou come into this house," it said, "there'sgoing to be trouble, and a whole lot of it.Here it's been raining for three hours, andyou dare tramp over my carpets with muddyshoes on. Go downstairs and take themoff."

He \vent downstairs "without a word, buthe didn't take his shoes off. Instead, he•went into the night again, and the pal whowas waiting for him saw a tear glisten inhis eye.

"I can't rob this house," he said. ' It re-minds me of home."—Pitt Panther.

And Why?

Little Johnnie, seeing his mother nodpleasantly to the minister passing by, in-quired, "Who's that, mother?"

"That's the man who married me, dear,"she replied.

"Then if that's the man who married you, 'sadi Johnnie, "what the thunder is pa doingat our house?"

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plant, water heater, or other accessory thanthere is for giving candy, flowers, or jewelry.

"November is the month in "which youshould go actively after Christmas-gift busi-ness. It is well to get your proposition be-fore the prospective purchaser before theother Christmas merchandise competitionbecomes too keen."

GIFTS, F'RINSTANCE

Bert—I love you more than words can teli.Bess—Well, there are other ways.


DARKTOWN STUFF

Dinah, crying bit-terly, was c o m i n gdown the street withher feet bandaged.

"Why, what onearth's the matter""she was asked. "Howdid you hurt your feet-Dinah""

"Dat good fo' noth-in' nigger (sniffle)done hit me on de

haid wif a club while I was standin* on dehard stone pavement."

As Rastus was reading the sport news inthe paper, he was interrupted by his huskywife, thus: "Listen heah, yo 1 Ah didn'tbuy you dat paper for entertainment. Jestconfine yoself to dem help wanted ads, nig-gah."

A negro roustabout who had never beenon the Illinois River before, took a trip dur-ing the fall apple-moving time. The steamerwas loaded to the guards with Ben Davisapples for St. Louis. Each barrel had thename "Ben Davis" stencilled on it. The"rouster" spelled out the name a number oftimes and then said to the negro "dean" ofthe roustabouts on the boat: "Say Henry,this yere Mr. Ben Davis—he suah must haveSOME orchard. I done toted his apples infrom fif teen landin's today, already!"

"Rastus, I understand that you have be-come the father of twins. Have you namedthem yet?"

"Yassuh, Ah done call the fust one AdagioAllegro, and Ah'm goin' t* call the secondone Encore."

"Musical names, all right. But why doyou call the second one Encore?"

"Well, sur, you see, he wasn't on the pro-gram at all."

"Hy, bo! Where you been? Ain't seenyou for thirty days."

"Ain't nobody seen me for thirty days.""What a been doin'?""Thirty days."

Sambo Did Brudder Brown gib de brideaway?

Rastus No, sah; he gwme let de groomfin* her out for hisself. Hardware Age.

Sam sat on the sunny side of the tree, theperspiration running down his face. "Boy,why don't you-all seat yo'self on the shadyside?" his friend asked him.

"That's all you knows 'bout nature," re-plied Sam. "By and by sun's goin' to beon that side, and then Ah won't hab tomove." Christian Register.

During the war the officers frequently haddifficulty in getting the proper salutes fromthe negro recruits. One bright morning anegro private met the colonel of his regi-ment and greeted him with "Howdy, boss."

There followed a long tirade from the of-ficer on the correct way to salute. The otherlistened in silence, scratching his head inperplexity. Finally he interrupted longenough to say: "Land's sakes, boss, if Ah'dthought you was goin* to feel so bad aboutit, Ah wouldn't have spoke to you a-tall."

Down at Camp Taylor in 1 9 1 7 a Negrooutfit was lined up before the cleric forpreliminary paper work.

"Name and address," demanded trie clerkof one husky recruit.

"Huh?""What is your name and address?""Yo' ought to know," said Rastus. "Yo

sent fo* me."

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tinguished speaker had the undivided atten-tion of a large audience.

There were two very notable addresses inthe sessions of the Plumbing oc Heating In-dustries Bureau. One was that of CharlesCoolidge Parlin, statistician and business re-search expert for the Saturday Evening Post.The fund of information this gentleman hasat his command, and his thorough under-standing of his subject which he developedin perfect continuity without the least hesi-tation or pause, held the undivided atten-tion of the audience. He closed with astrong argument in behalf of the P. & H. In-dustries efforts to educate the public in sani-tation and modern plumbing. When hefinished the audience rose as one man andgave him a splendid ovation.

Mr. Rentje who has had charge of the P.& H. Industries campaign in Philadelphia,was another speaker who pleased and satis-fied his audience by his excellent and famil-iarity with his subject.

If present plans are carried out a similarjoint meeting of the C. S. A. will be heldnext fall.

Today's unfinished tasktomorrow.

is a mortgage on

SOME TRUTH IN IT

Mother—Jimmie, do you know what happens to badlittle boys?

Jimmie—Yes; they have more fun than good lit-tle boys.


A Bend In the Okaw

Here is a beaut i ful summer photo byMarie Eagles ton of the telephone desk. Itis one of the best pictures of the Okaw thathas been submitted to The Record. All ofour organization knows the Okaw and casualreaders have doubtless read about it at d i f -ferent times.

Across 'the river, just about oppositewhere the boat is being held to the bank isthe cabin, with kitchen, dining room andsleeping accommodations for about 20 per-sons. It's the place where we all go whenwe want an outing of a few days. Ownedby Mueller Co., it is open to all employesunder certain very reasonable restrictions.At the point below the boat the river makesa sharp turn to the west on its way to theMississippi. Flowing swiftly between highbanks the Okaw is as a rule a very wellbehaved stream, but heavy rainfalls in thespring and fall it becomes a turbulent floodof rushing water overnight. This is theOkaw's only bad trait.

This particular spot is one of the prettieston the river, -which one may readily be-lieve from the picture.

The subjects are Mrs. W. T. Mason andchildren, Doris, Mae and Junior were hav-ing a holiday with W. T., superintendent ofmaintenance and buildings.

WEEK END GUESTS

The Usual Fish StoryTommy Do fish grow very fast?Billy—I should say. Father caught one

once and it grows six inches every time hementions it.

Happiness is a by-product. Think it over!

Two Uninvited, Help Themselves to About$5,000 Worth of Jewelry.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Cruikshank, mem-bers of the Mueller Company, entertainedweek-end guests at their home Saturday andSunday, October 27th and 28th, includingMr. and Mrs. Mell French, friends of Mr.and Mrs. Allen F. Moore, Jr., of Ottawa.The party came over from the Illinois-North-western football game for the week-end withMrs. Moore's parents.

There were other week-end guests, how-ever, who waived the formality of an invita-tion. Professional burglars dropped in atabout 4:00 o'clock a. m. Monday, October29th. Mr. Cruikshank had arisen at 4:00o'clock for a hunt with his son, Philip, whowas expected at 4 :10, but was fortunatelydelayed until 4 :30. Mr. Cruikshank wasmet at the door of the bath room by theburglars and looked down the barrels of 4"gats" with a curt invitation to "put themup". He was forced into the bath room andafterwards ordered into the room with Mr.and Mrs. Mel French and locked in with themwhile the burglars relieved Mrs. Cruikshankof money and jewelry. Mr. and Mrs. Frenchwere then visited and a similar proceedingtook place.

When the burglars left, they carried awaysome $5,000 in jewelry and cash. Mr. andMrs. Allen F. Moore, Jr. were undiscoveredby the burglars and therefore escaped rob-bing. The burglary was a climax of a num-ber of houses broken into during the preced-ing week.


Buffalo ConventionPla for the exhibit of plumbing and

Mr. Jeremiah Sbeehan,St. Louis, President of Xa-tional Association of Mas-ter Plumbers.

heating goods and entertainment for the con-vention of the Na-tional Association ofMaster Plumbers tobe held at Buffalo, N.Y., next June, werediscussed at a meet-ing of the Conven-tion Committee heldat the Palmer Housein Chicago on Octo-ber 26th.

It is the aim of thecommittee to hold avery elaborate expo-sition of plumbingand heating fixturesand accessories, morepretentious even thanat the MinneapolisConvention, w h i c h

will be open to the public as well as to thedelegates and visitors to the Buffalo Conven-tion.

New FeaturesAs an additional fea ture of interest, the

Home Modernization Bureau will be askedto form part of the exhibit with the sugges-tion that Walter Kohler serve as chairmanof the committee which will have charge ofthe Bureau's exhibit.

The Statler Hotel has been selected asconvention headquarters, and the BroadwayAuditorium, formerly the 65th RegimentArmory, a short distance away, "Will housethe exhibit. With some 53,000 square feetof space, it is the largest Exhibit Hall everused by the National Association of MasterPlumbers in connection with a NationalConvention. The Auditorium is especiallyadapted for exhibit purposes, as there areno pillars or posts to interfere or obstructthe view. The layout of booths preparedby Chairman George H. Drake> in collabora-tion with Wm. J. Lang of Chicago, was ap-proved by the committee.

Dick Wanger of Philadelphia was ap-pointed chairman of Educational features atthe exhibit.

Short SessionsOne of the recommendations of the Con-

vention Committee to the Board of Direc-tors is that the National Convention at Buf-falo remain each day in continuous ses-sion until 2:30 p. m. and then adjourn forthe day to give the delegates and membersof the National Association an opportunityto visit the exposition hall. Literature andplans showing floor space will be in thehands of all prospective exhibitors not laterthan January 15th, 1929, according to Mr.Drake.

Much valuable information regarding ex-hibits at previous conventions was furnishedby Wm. J. Lang of Chicago, who has beenappointed advisor to the chairman of thecommittee.

EntertainmentWhile the plans on entertainment have not

been fully worked out at this time, we areauthorized to state that a boat trip on theWednesday evening of the Convention willbe one of the principal features. Luncheon,theatre and automobile parties "will be ar-ranged for the visiting and local ladies, anda trip to Niagara Falls is tentatively underconsideration.

The members of the Convention Commit-tee in attendance at the conference wereChairman George H. Drake, J. J. Bresnahan,Geo. W. Frank, Henry J. Ritter and Secre-tary of the Committee; R. H. Mattison, ofBuffalo, N. Y., National President; Jere Shee-han and National Secretary, Ed. Penfraseof St. Louis, Dick Wanger of Philadelphia,Frank Lasette, New York, John J. Vogel-pohl, Cincinnati, Wm. J. Lang, Chicago,Wm. K. Glen of Crane Company, Chicago,Harold Maddock representing Archie Mad-dock of Trenton, N. J., Vice President, JohnQuinn of Philadelphia and E. D. Hornbrookof Kansas City, Mo., were also in attend-ance.


Picking up a squat pipe with a bowl thesize of a tea cup and a very short stemwe asked:

"What kind of a pipe is this?""That, sir, is an office desk pipe used by

gentlemen who do not wish to be annoyed byconstant refilling while working."

Going out we said to the "party of thesecond part" there is a good reason why wecould not buy that office pipe, namely, wehave not the price to pay for filling it.Must be very rich men that smoke that style.

QUICKLY ANSWERED

Mother—Eddie, do you know your alphabet ?Eddie—Yes, mother.Mother—Well, what letters come after "A"?Eddie—All the rest.


The Camera Club

The subject for the Camera Club contestfor October was "Vacation" and broughtforth some very good work by members ofthe club. The judges had more difficultythan usual in selecting the winners, and fin-ally agreed on the three reproduced here.

first prize was awarded Mrs. Ollie Spring-er's picture of her husband.

Second prize went to Mrs. Marie Eaglestonwhose subject was Mrs. W. T. Mason andMrs. Margaret Miller.

Third prize "went to Clarence Rubicanwhose subject was a park scene taken atKissel Park, Pana, Illinois. Readers will per-haps be inclined to believe that this is thebest of the three photographs and on thisthey \vill agree with the judges, who heldthat it was not true to the subject—Vacation.

GIVEN A SHOWERHonoring Mrs. Willard Tatham, Mrs. Win.

F. Brannan and Mrs. Arthur T. Watkins en-tertained in the former's home at 1245 N.Pine St. \vith a miscellaneous shower. Threetables of bridge were at play. First prize:Miss Ruth Ross; second prize, Miss MarieYonkers; consolation, Miss Vivian Scholes.Many beautiful gifts were received.

VISITORSDuring the past few weeks we have had

a number of visitors from branches of theorganization:

R. W. Baugh, manager of the Los AngelesBranch who was unable to attend the Sales-man s meeting in August, came on for a con-ference and remained for a "week.

W. L. Jett, manager of the Southern Divi-sion, was here accompanied by his wifewho remained several weeks to visit whilehe went on to Atlantic City to attend theannual convention of the American Gas As-sociation.

Tom Leary, manager of the Pacific Coastterritory, was here during the week of Octo-ber 29th for a conference.

Frank Odell and Frank Huntley of theChicago territory were here during the sameweek.

Craved Action"When Jack broke off the engagement did

you take it to heart?""No, to court!" Everybody's Weekly.

The smaller the man the more apt he isis be satisfied with himself.


PROMOTEDREMEMBER CHRISTMAS SEALS

ASSISTANT SUPT.At a recent noon day lunch the announce-

ment was made that Martin Stratman, fore-man of department 30 (machine shop) hadbeen made assistant general superintendent.Hearty and sincere applause greeted the an-nouncement and Martin arose and in hisquiet natural way, which is that of modesty,expressed his appreciation of the recogni-tion. He assumed his new duties on Mon-day, October 22nd.

Honors ripen thick and fast for Martin.At the last meeting of the foreman's club, hewas elected president.

Mart has been with the company for quitea few years and was promoted from theranks several years ago to the position offoreman of the machine shop.

This last advance is in strict accordancewith the Mueller policy of making promo-tions from within whenever possible.

Obstacles should mean no more to youthan an invitat ion to take off your coat andget busy.

LETS HIM OUT

And Help in the Fight Being Carried onAgainst Tuberculosis.

Flying smoothly over the spray tossedwaves, writes Elizabeth Cole, the ship of

health is coming intoport. Full sail, withp e n n a n t s f l o a t i n gagainst the blue sky,she is homeward boundwith her cargo of price-less treasre. On hermailsail is the emblemof her successful trip—the double-barred crossShe is a Roman galleonand her oarsmen maynot rest in their effortst o b r i n g h e r s a f e l y

home. She is an argosy, sailing with favor-able winds, and she is symbolic of the happi-ness that can come from perfect health.

Twenty-four Years Ago

Twenty-four years ago the ship of healthwas launched the educational campaign tocontrol tuberculosis was started. Duringthose years in both rough, unsettled weatheras well as on fair, smooth seas, the ship hassteadily kept to her course. Men with visionhave been at her wheel and her crew hasbeen made up of hundreds of partners whohave come aboard to help in making thevoyage prosper.

Old Pirate Sickness

And these are some of the ways by whichthe crew has been successful in overcomingsea monsters, buccaneers, hurricanes andtyphoons in other words the old pirate,sickness. Organization of the voluntaryhealth agencies that carry on the educationalcampaign under the leadership of the Na-tional Tuberculosis Association has been en-larged f rom five states, who in 1 904 activelyworked together against tuberculosis, toforty-eight states with anti-tuberculosis asso-ciations. Affi l iated with the states there aretoday 1 ,400 associations and societiesthroughout the country. There are now 608sanatoria and hospitals with 72 ,723 beds fortuberculosis patients in the United States. InI 904 there were only 1 00 hospitals withless than 8,000 beds. There are over 3, -500 especially trained tuberculosis nursesand thousands of others who are doing tuber-culosis work. There are 600 tuberculosisclinics, where persons may be examined tokeep track of their health. At preventoriaand at summer health camps and in the hun-dreds of open air schools, malnourished andsubstandard children are being built up inorder to resist disease. Coordinated researchwork is being conducted in the best labora-tories in the belief that some day a curewill be found.

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Office Girls Enjoy Outing

Boys will be boys and girls try to some-times. They have boyish bobs, boyish coatsand hats and sometimes they resort to aboy's outf i t . Nearly all girls at some timeor another have a consuming ambition todress in boy's clothes. Here is where thedesire became epidemic.

A bunch of office girls decided on an out-ing at the Mueller cabin in the Okaw bot-toms. That's no place for a skirt, and itwas voted to go as "boys."

One Saturday after lunch the girls donnedtheir clothes, and climbed into waiting carsfor the 80 mile ride down the slab, a bigtruck with the necessary provisions for atwo day's outing having preceded them.

Before going they were lined up for a"shot and Here you see the result seven-teen happy, healthy girls ful l of fun andcertain of the good time awaiting them. Theouting occurred several weeks ago, but thegirls are still talking about it.

EASTERN VISITORSO. J. Hawkins and J. T. Sutliff went to

Atlantic City early in October to attend theannual convention of the American Gas As-sociation, which was held on the Million Dol-lar Pier. We made quite an elaborate dis-play of our gas goods at this convention.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mueller also attendedthis convention. They drove east and wentf rom Atlantic City to New York where theyspent several days. They journeyed backhome by easy stages, visi t ing various pointsof interest on the way.

Mr. Adolph Mueller spent several days inChicago the latter part of October and thenwent east for a visit to the New York division,but got back in plenty of time for the elec-tion.

When a man can find nothing else on earthto laugh at, there is always himself.

Education Necessary

One of the most forceful and permanentmethods used in controlling tuberculosis iseducation in the ways of health. The con-tinuous plea for people to get plenty of rest,exercise, fresh air and nourishing food andthat they go to their doctors for periodicphysical examinations is really the keynoteof the campaign. In the spring the tuber-culosis associations will conduct an EarlyDiagnosis Campaign with the slogan "EarlyDiscovery, Early Recovery. Let Your Doctor Decide". Then in December during theannual Christmas seal sale, a big publicitycampaign is carried on to teach the publicthe importance of sickness prevention. AIthis time the work of the associations isgreatly aided by the cooperation of newspa-pers, magazines, house organs and tradejournals who contribute editorial and adver-tising space for the Christmas messages ofhealth.

The Evidence

The ways by which we measure the suc-cess or fai lure of any venture is to view theaccomplished result. And the fact that dur-ing these years the death rate f rom tuber-culosis has been reduced from 200 per 100,-000 in 1904 to 87 in 1926 seems to be evidence enough that the work has been worthwhile.

The saying, "When my ship comes in" isa happy motto for tuberculosis workers.That day will come when tuberculosis is aswell controlled as smallpox, plague and yel-low fever. For the present, however, it isnecessary to keep the ship of health con-stantly plying its course toward the desiredport. Everybody has a chance to "comeaboard" in December when the tiny sealsare being bought and sold.


THE INSECT PEST OUR LYCEUM COURSE

If They Didn't War Against Each OtherEarth Earth Would be Uninhabitable

Summer is over and winter gives us tem-porary respite from the annoying assaults ofa multitude of insects of various genera,ranking in size from an almost invisiblemite to a mammoth moth. If left to multi-ply without interruption or destruction theseinsects would shortly make the world un-inhabitable. No lesser authority than Hux-ley tells us so.

Writing in the Rural New Yorker, GlennHerrick says:

"Insects are so numerous on the earth andincrease at such an enormously rapid ratethat the food of man would soon be entirelyconsumed, and man himself would becrowded off the earth, if there were notsome natural effective checks to hold thesetiny animals within reasonable bounds."

Aphids Would Outweigh Chinese

One might even discredit or disbelieveMr. Herrick did he not summon to his sup-port the great Huxley and his declarationconcerning the aphid, the insect plant lousethat is wingless as a female, but has wings ifa male. Huxley makes a startling statement.He says if all aphids for ten generationswhich might develop from one mother start-ing early in the spring should live and bepresent on the earth at one time they wouldweigh more than the entire population ofChina, which is something like 500,000,000people.

It's plain from this deduction that if theoffsprings of all mother aphids reinforced bythe offspring of all other kinds of insectsshould live, the earth would be no place forman, especially one who is tortured by onefly or one mosquito.

More Astounding Statistics

Continuing his subject, Mr. Herrick says:"It was then easy to find that the enor-

mous number of aphids (from one originalmother) would weigh over 822,000,000 tons,more than the entire population of China ifeach person weighed 200 pounds. I wasastounded and "went over my figures againand again and had a friend go over them tobe sure they were right. There is no doubtabout it. Huxley's estimate was far too low."

Man alone could not combat such apest. He'd literally be in the bug house.The insects themselves save him. Everyspecie of animal l ife is an enemy of someother specie. It's an endless war of exter-mination. Practically all insects are canni-bals, and fortunately for us it is so.

How AbsurdJane 1 want some insect powder.Clerk Do you want to take it with you"Jane Of corse not. I'll send the bugs

to you and you can give it to them. TheCrescent.

Good Start Made With Opening Entertain-ment October 19th.

The gymnasium was well filled on theevening of Oct. 1 9th to greet the AccordionNovelty Company, the first attraction in theRedpath Lyceum course, which has beenprovided for the entertainment of employesduring the winter season. Under the lead-ership of Miss Dorothy Dyer, the accordionplayers gave a very acceptable entertainment, which was greeted with much ap-plause. In addition to the accordion playing, which gave a new interest in the musi-cal possibilities of this instrument, therewere recitations, readings and solos to givevariety to the program. The success of theopening number promises a greater interestin the remaining attractions.

The next number will be Henry in Mystery,Magic and Mirth. He will appear on theevening of November 23rd, and promises afine program.

Spectacular magic, sand painting and orig-inal drawings are featured in the artist icprogram offered by Henry and Company, il-lusionists extraordinary. Stage settings andelectrical equipment are elaborate and highlyeffective, including new and striking drap-eries, suited to any stage, as well as flood-lights and spotlights, with a variety of coloreffects. The brilliant costuming of the com-pany is a rare treat to the eye.

Assisting Henry in his artistic program ofmagic, mirth and art, are Mrs. Henry and anexpert stage mechanic who handles thenumerous intricate properties. Incidentally,more than a thousand pounds of equipmentare carried by the company. Their "mena-gerie" includes a trained assemblage ofpigeons, doves, rabbits, guinea pigs andducks.

Those who did not get a season ticket forthe course should provide themselves withtickets for the remaining three attractions.

The average person is not thorough, andeven a little thoroughness will surpass him.

A CHANGE OF TREATMENT

Willie—Say, Joe, how can I teach a girl to swim?Joe- -Why, you goes np to her gentle-like, take-

her hand gentle, leads her gentle down to the writer ,puts yer arm gentle around her waist and--

Willie—But, say-—she's my sister!Joe—Yer sister? Oh, shove her in!

When Caesar took a bath

When i m p e r i a lCaesar used hisbathroom therewas a lot of hur-rying and scurry-ing to prepare forthe cleansing ofhis majestic body.How much betteroff you are! Themere turning of afaucet handle andyour lavatory andbath awaits you-no fuss-no worry.The one thing you must becertain of, and that is guar-anteed by Mueller PlumbingFittings, is that faucet handles

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