JOURNALFEBRUARY, 1943 DECATUR, ILL.

MCATUR/ILUN01SPU3LIC

EB 2 0 1984

CAL HISTORY

If he is in the service —

A letter a day keeps the blues away-

WRITE HIM TODAY.

History often repeats itself. Remember when we wereKids, Teacher used to make us write: "Now is the timefor all good citizens to come to the aid of their coun-try"? NOW IS THE TIME!

C O N T E N T S

FEBRUARY, 1943

Silk Stockings at War 5

More Grounds for Gardens 9

Rationing in Meal Planning 11

Levulinic Acid—What It Means 11

Service Men Get Bonus 19

War Workers Clothes 20

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The-Employees Of

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Manufacturers of Corn and Soybean Products

DECATUR, ILL.

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

Volume XXVII • Number 8

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EVEN MAGAZINES HAVE TO REDUCETO GET INTO ARMED SERVICES

Beginning this month the Staley Jour-nal will come out in two forms. You peo-ple at home will continue to get the Jour-nal in its usual form. The men in theArmed forces will continue to get it, wehope, but in a reduced form. It's likethis. We have to reduce—cut down ourweight.

The Army and Navy have both urgedthat all industrial plants in the country,who publish magazines, mail them totheir men in the service. BUT becauseof the mountains of mail that go into ev-ery camp every day, will we please cutthe weight. And down to 2 ounces! (Thatplease we put in ourselves.)

At any rate the whole Staley organiza-tion is only too glad to do anything toease the burden so that all the mail cango through. Also we are extremely an-xious that the Staley men continue to re-ceive the Journal. They write us fromthe most impossible corners of the worldto tell us that they get and read and en-joy it.

So—you people here at home may no-tice a peculiar make-up for the duration.That is because we have figured out thatabout the only way to get this not-so-bulky book down to two ounces is to takeout 16 pages. Printing being a funny sortof business that means that we must takeout 16 pages that are printed at one time.After it is decided which 16 it will be, allthe stories which probably do not inter-est the boys in service, will go into thosepages.

To you service men let me say youwon't be missing much. I will see to itPAGE 2

that all the tiresome stuff about using ra-tion books and collecting grease, and rais-ing money for various causes and similarstories will go into the pages you won'tget. I will not put on those pages anyplant or company news, news of theother men in service, nor pictures ofpretty girls, nor cartoons and jokes. Allthose things will be in the edition youget. And we are not going to tear off thecover to reduce weight. You will get justas complete a magazine as it is our powerto send you, and it will be mailed, asusual, first class mail every month.

Now do your part by keeping this ad-dress list up to date.

WE AT STALEYS WORKON U. S. "SECRET WEAPON"

As it never was before food is castin a leading role in this war of many na-tions. The men and women who workin food producing factories such as oursare just as important in the complex pic-ture as those who work in any other warplant. Very definitely food is alreadyhelping to win the war, and just as sure-ly it will help write the peace.

It is the starch and syrup from theStaley plant that goes into the absolute-,,ly necessary foods shipped to our fight-ing forces and to the starving peoples inthe countries fighting beside our ownsoldiers. The products from our. soybeanmill right here in Decatur are going toother food plants to be incorporated inneeded foods, or shipped direct to beused here and abroad. That the food-stuffs shipped to overseas forces are help-ing win the war and write the peace—read this I clipped the other day:

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"It is night on the desert. Americanboys lie crouched on the sand, helmetspulled low on their heads, machine gunsready. Less than half a mile distant theFrench fortress stands dark and forbid-ding in the African moonlight.

"But the order to fire does not come.Suddenly an American supply truckraces toward the French fort, white flagsof truce flapping in the desert night. Thefortress gate swings open. The truck dis-appears inside.

"An American general steps down fromthe truck, exchanges salutes with theFrench colonel commanding the desertoutpost.. Then the American commanderpresents his terms: "Immediate sur-render to the army of the United States."

"The French colonel hesitates, thenrefuses. He will fight!

"But the American commander has inhis possession, a secret weapon — aweapon stronger than guns and planesand tanks. He turns and barks an order.Quickly the American soldiers unfastenthe canvas covering, revealing the truck'scargo—canned goods! Beans, meat, frui t ,vegetables of all kinds—food!

"A French soldier staring at the truck—forgets his soldier's discipline. Food!

"Food. The word runs through theranks of hungry French troops.

''The French colonel glances at hishungry men, hesitates, then at lastshrugs. 'I accept your terms, Monsieur 'he says. 'The fort is yours.'

"Half hour later the American columnis entering the gates of the desert fort-ress. There are smiles on the faces of theAmerican troops. There are smiles, too,on the faces of the French. The kid fromIndiana grins at his companion. 'Whata pushover!' he says as they march in.'The sergeant said we'd lose at least twohundred men, taking this fort. 'FEBRUARY, 1943

" 'Yeh,' replies the kid from Texas,'and to think, the General captured thewhole works wtih one truck load of goodold American food!'

"A sack of flour, a can of beans, apackage of dried milk—with these weap-ons the American army has taken posi-tion after position in North Africa. Andevery time a fortress surrendered to a'bombardment' of canned goods, Amer-ican lives were saved—the life, perhapsof your neighbor—perhaps of your ownson.

"And all Americans agree we mustkeep on using our food supplies as aweapon to win victories—and save lives.We will use the promise of food againstItaly in the battle for Europe. We willuse it to purchase the friendship of na-tives on tiny Pacific islands when wemove northward to smash the Japs.

"We will use it to help the Red Armydrive out the invader and to keep R.A.F.raids crippling the Nazi war machine.

"By feeding our allies we are savingAmerican manpower. Manpower for warproduction. Manpower to produce thetools of war. We are saving Americanlives, too. Every time a Russian soldierstorms a Nazi pillbox, some Americanboy is spared the necessity of fighting theGerman squad that manned it. Everytime an R.A.F. pilot shoots down a Mes-serschmitt, there is one less Nazi planealoft to turn its guns on American pilots.Every time a Chinese soldier kills a Jap,there is one less Jap that will have to bekilled by an American soldier, sailor, ormarine.

"Thus we lessen the number of ourboys who must go to the front and in-crease the number who can turn outweapons and food. Thus we shorten byweeks, months—perhaps years—the dur-ation of the war."

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"This nation's enemies are still trying to sabo-

tage our war efforts by subversive activities. Dis-

believe every story calculated to spread dissension

between the United States and its allies, and be-

tween creeds and races at home. Get ALL the facts

first. Challenge these statements, because they are

strictly enemy propaganda. Be civilian com-

mandos and help win the war."

BENJAMIN WHAM

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SILK STOCKINGS FIND WAR USEAmerican ingenuity has scored another

triumph. It has found an importantplace in the machinery of war for dis-carded silk stockings. Until someone dis-covered that powder bags (gun, not face)could be made of the reclaimed silk, oldstockings served their last days as dust-ing cloths or as strips to be braided intohome-made rugs. But now they are goinginto a worthier cause. They are madeinto powder bags for guns.

Woven from reclaimed silk, powderbags are used to hold explosive matterto generate the power to discharge shellsfrom major caliber guns. Since silk burnscompletely and leaves no embers, henceeliminating the necessity of cleaning thebarrel during action, these guns can berecharged without loss of valuable time.

Collection points have been estab-lished in retail stores where women'shosiery is sold, and many women's clubs Removing the cotton parts from discarded

silk stockings before processing into powderbags.

After emerging from the picking tender and a subsequent operation which dyes thematerial, old silk stockings are fed into the Garnet machine which prepares the material forbleaching and spinning.

Here's what comes from your old silk stockings. Silk thread to be used in making powderbags is produced from discarded hose which have been subjected to various processes.Here, the silk thread emerges from a breaker machine which spins the bleached materialinto this form.

Layers of silk cloth, processed from discarded silk stockings, are cut to specifications witha power knife at a government arsenal where the cloth is made into powder bags.

throughout the United States are collect-ing silk stockings. Any stockings madeentirely of silk or containing mixtures ofsilk are useful for conversion into powderbags. They should be washed beforethey are turned in for reclamation.

From collecting points, discarded hos-iery is shipped to government warehousesand repacked into 1,000 pound bales forreshipment to processing plants. Herethe stockings are subjected to variousmethods of shredding, breaking, dyeing,bleaching and spinning into thread whichis woven into powder bag cloth. This

cloth is then sent to government arsenalsfor making into bags.

American women already have re-sponded to the call for worn out hosiery.In the first month of the collection cam-paign, they turned in approximately 2,-500,000 pairs of discarded silk stockings.Thanks to their contribution, the Navy,which is the principal user, has built upa substantial reserve of powder bags. Asa double conservation measure, womenshould wear their silk hosiery as long aspossible before turning them over for sal-vage.

It takes husky men to lift the heavy powder bags which are placed into big guns to throwthe projectile.

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Can-Openers and the War

After thirty months of active service, aBritish soldier concluded that the mostuseful bit of equipment at the front wasa good can-opener. Even $2 was a smallprice for a sharp tin-slicer, he said.

Writing in the American Magazine,this chap revealed how important littlethings become in war, and how resource-ful the soldier must be. He uses the ex-haust manifold of his truck to heat hiscans of food. He drains hot water fromthe radiator for shaving. He mixes gaso-line with desert sand when he needs afire. When his trousers need pressing heputs them between two boards and runsover them with the truck.

"Take plenty of cigarettes," he wrote,"even if you have to blow in a month's

pay to lay in enough. I've seen more menmade nervous and irritable by lack ofcigarettes than I have by bombs."

George Frank Roberts has recentlybeen added to the paymaster's officeforce. He had been working in 5 and 10building but for a number of years wasa teacher in the Shelby county schools.Ghel Tucker who had worked in that of-fice, was inducted into the Army in Feb-ruary.

Johnny King, who worked with MurlSchull in the starch shipping office, istaking over Murl's job there, now thatMurl is in the Army.

Rubye Phillip, 4-H Club Minnesota state champion in giving meal demonstrations, also•won the Staley prize for demonstrating uses of "Sweetose".* Her award was a trip to theInternational Live Stock show. *R=g. u. s. Pat. off.

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M O R E G R O U N D A D D E DF D R E M P L O Y E E S G A R D E N S

Urge That All Sign Soon

"Raise vegetables and help win thewar" might well be the aim of Staley peo-ple next summer, Claude Thornboroughthinks. As chairman of the Fellowshipclub garden committee he has been busyfor some time making plans for an en-larged garden program. Under his direc-tion arrangements have been made forconsiderably more than the 300 gardensusually planted by Staley employees.

As in years past most of the prelimin-ary work and expense of the gardens areborne by the Fellowship club. Theground is prepared under the direction ofthe garden supervisor, Howard Peverly,and he is available all during the grow-ing season to help or advise. One thingboth he and Mr. Thornborough arestressing is the importance of signingearly for a garden. Mr. Peverly is at hisdesk in the personnel office every after-noon from 1:30 until after 4:30 for thatpurpose.

A Patriotic Duty

Both men realize that more people willhave gardens this year than ever before.Says Mr. Thornborough, "It seems to bethe patriotic duty of all to raise as muchof their own food as possible this year.We at Staley's who have this opportunityto use excellent garden plots seem espe-cially called upon to raise all the vege-tables we can.

"I realize," he said, "that everyone isvery busy at the factory, but most of thepeople who plant vegetables have a childor children who would enjoy working inthe garden. I think to let them do thatFEBRUARY, 1943

would be helping in more ways than one.It would not only be a great aid to thefather, but it would keep the youngstersoccupied during vacation period and letthem feel they had an important warwork to do."

A Year's Supply

There is no mistake about gardens be-ing important in the war effort, Mr.Thornborough feels. ''We have been toldwe must keep fit and eat the right foods.It is going to be next to impossible toget all the vegetables the average familyneeds unless that family has a garden. Inplanting it is well to keep in mind thatwe are raising food for next winter as wellas for this summer. Vegetables must beplanted with the idea in mind of canningthem for future use."

While there is no charge to Staley em-ployees for the use of these garden plots,the restrictions there are surprisingly few.Crops are suggested but for the most partthe gardeners may raise about what theyplease. It is understood that the gardensare for the use of employees only, andthat each man raise only what his familyneeds. If insects or other pests infest thegarden Mr. Peverly will advise and assistin getting rid of them.

Sign Now

The first rule of these garden plots isthat they must be kept well cultivated.It is easy for weeds to spread from oneto another, so far the good of all, everygardener is urged to keep his plot weedfree at all times.

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Although it will not be possible to plantanything for several weeks, it is not tooearly to sign up. Any Staley employee iseligible, but if he wants his choice ofgardens it is advisable that he see or callMr. Peverly at once.

Grew Warns Americans

Of Japanese Treachery

Note: In the eyes of the Japs, we are"a nation of weaklings, demanding ourdaily comforts and unwilling to make thesacrifices demanded for victory," saysour former Ambassador to Tokyo, Jo-seph C. Grew. In the following short ex-cerpt, from a recent radio address, Mr.Grew shows that the war lords of Nipponare counting on our failure to give ourutmost to the war effort to enable themto overrun and subjugate the UnitedStates as they have so many other landsand peoples of East Asia.

"In the year since the act of treacheryat Pearl Harbor the American peoplehave learned much about our enemy,Japan. I do not believe we have yetlearned enough. I should like to reportto you my own observations about theJapanese, based upon ten years of first-hand experience. I know the Japanesepeople and I know the Japanese militarymachine, that utterly ruthless machinewhich, like the car of Juggernaut, is rid-ing roughshod over peaceful lands andinnocent peoples—today over the landsand peoples of East Asia, tomorrow, if itspower it not utterly destroyed, over thelands and peoples of our own America.For that is its definite goal and de-termined ambition.

"The Japanese will not be defeatedeasily. Defeat them we shall, but onlywhen every American understands themagnitude of the task. I have no wish tooverestimate a people who are ourPAGE 10

enemies, but I must in the interests ofour very survival list a few of theirf o r m i d a b l e characteristics. They areunited. Theirs is a unity of solidarity.Foolish and criminally responsible astheir war government is, they support it.They believe in the divinity of theirEmperor, and through him, in the right-ness of their war leaders. They aretrained. They have submitted to years ofenforced discipline.

"The Japanese are frugal. The empirehas almost thrived on shortages, and inthe midst of poverty they have built anenormous military machine. They havenot done this with wastefulness. Theyhave done it with care and thrift andeconomy and conserving of materials.

"They are fanatical. They believe intheir war, in the government which ledthem into it, and in their destiny ofworld domination.

"Finally, the Japanese rely on theirbelief in our willingness to sacrifice. Theyhave put great store in what they thinkto be our softness. They look upon usas weaklings, demanding our daily com-forts and unwilling to make the sacri-fices demanded for victory. The Japaneseattach great importance to what theythought was our disunity over the warissue and they mistakenly supposed thatwe would be slow in developing a fight-ing spirit.

"Japan is counting on you, on each ofus, individually, to hold back and holdup the American war effort long*enoughfor "Japan to consolidate her conquests.Japan needs your hesitation, your partialeffort, your doubt. It is up to everyAmerican at home to prove Japan wrong.Our gallant soldiers in New Guinea andGuadalcanal are already proving Japan'smistaken judgment.'1

A man's intellect is judged by hisability to disagree without being dis-agreeable.

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RATIONING PRESEIVTS JVEW PROBLEMSTO WOMEIV WHO PLAN MEALS

By GERTRUDE S. SMITH, Nutrition Director

Corn Industries Research Foundation

What can we doabou t p rov id ingnourishing meals forour f a m i l i e s whenrationing goes into

effect? The first thing to do is to becomethoroughly familiar with the rules andregulations of the new rationing system.Read the newspapers and magazines;listen to the radio; watch for changeswhich there will be from time to time. Itwill require planning ahead—but therewill be plenty of food.

Have in mind the kinds of food whichyour family needs. Following is a list ofthe daily food requirements, in case youdon't have them at hand:

Milk—3 to 4 cups for children. 2 cupsfor adults. This may be used forboth drinking and cooking.

Eggs—an egg for each child; 3 to S aweek for adults.

Meat, poultry, fish, cheese, dried peasand beans or lentils—one serving.

Citrus fruit or tomatoes or raw cab-bage for vitamin C, and at least oneother fruit.

Vegetables—2 or more, stressing green(especially leafy) and yellow ones,besides potatoes.

Wholegrain cereals or enriched orwholegrain bread.

Butter and vitamin rich fats, includ-ing peanut-butter—2 tablespoons.

Some of these foods are slated to be onFEBRUARY, 1943

the ration list—canned foods especially.

Milk

We can use either evaporated or bot-tled milk. If there is a scarcity, we shouldsupply as much as possible for our fam-ilies, with the children receiving theirquota, even though it may be necessaryto cut down on the grownups. The mainthing is to purchase as much of the quotafor both as we can. If we prefer, we canuse the evaporated milk for cooking andthe bottled for drinking. There is no dif-ference in food value.

Eggs

Eggs should be served as such: poachedor soft cooked for breakfast; creamed orscrambled for lunch; and in simple cus-tards. Fried eggs have lost some of theirvitamin A in the cooking fat.

The color of the shell makes no dif-ference in the food value, but in some*parts of the country, where one color ispreferred over the other, there may be adifference in price. The whole egg shouldbe eaten, since most of the food value isin the yolk.

Meat

Meat can be stretched by using it withother foods. When it is necessary to cutdown on the amount of meat used, it isimportant that we use more wholegraincereals and bread; dried peas and beans;

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green leafy vegetables and molasses sothat we will be sure to get the mineralsand vitamins that meat usually supplies.The other types of food listed with meatsupply protein, as will the variety meatslike liver, heart, ox-joints, etc.

Fruits and Vegetables

We should eat these fresh and raw asmuch as possible, to save on the cannedvarieties, and to get ALL the food value,which is lost if they are improperlycooked.

We should grow as large a variety ofvegetables as we have space for. Any sur-plus beyond our immediate needs shouldbe canned. We should plant and canfoods as we never have before.

Potatoes should be used at least oncea day. They are valuable for mineralsand vitamins as well as energy, if theyare baked or boiled with their jackets on.

Cereals and Bread

There will probably be plenty of thesefoods. We shall probably have to usemore of them to make up for some of theother things we may not be able to get.

Butter and Other Fats-

Butter is not plentiful and probablywon't be for some time. Margarine shouldbe of the fortified variety—to supplymore Vitamin A. Peanut butter suppliesprotein and Vitamin El—thiamin—aswell as fat for energy, and should be usedfrequently. The other types of fats that

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Confectioners Headaches

Writes our colleague, H. C. Nuss, edi-tor of "Sweet Meets", of PhiladelphiaRetail Confectioners Association:

"You got headaches? If it's not choco-late, its sugar. If it's not help, its cornsyrup. And we remember when it wasonly a few years ago, when the head-aches were a mere matter of bucks or thelack of 'em. Time marches on—or doesit?"

W. H. Randolph, ST., of the New Yorkoffice, is a great-grandfather again andnot excited, but Bill, Jr., southeasternmanager, is delighted at the arrival of hisfirst grand-daughter and second grand-child, while W. H., Ill, the father, is asproud as can be of his first child. Thelittle girl was born in Pensacola, Fla.,where W. H. Randolph III and Mrs.Randolph live.

That is not a new employee one seesabout the soybean plant. It is just thesame old Neal Young who has, after care-ful diet and a lot of exercise, lost a lot ofpoundage.

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IIVIIIINIC ACID-HUM IT MEANSAND WHAT IT HAY MEAN LATER

By W. W. MOYER, Ph.D., Director of Research

"What is levulinic acid?''"How is it made?""What is it used for?"These questions were asked through-

out the Staley organization early in 1940,when the company launched a new prod-uct, levulinic acid, on the market. Thenew and pleasant-sounding name at-tracted attention. People wanted to knowthe why and the wherefore of this prod-uct, how it fitted into the picture of thecompany's operations and what its po-tentialities were.

At the time, the answers that couldhave been given to the questions wouldhave been disappointing. A long tech-nical description of the chemical natureand properties of levulinic acid couldhave been presented, but it would nothave made exciting reading. With ourpatent application under considerationin the patent office, a release of informa-tion on the manufacturing process wasinadvisable. And when it came to uses,there weren't any! Levulinic acid was aproduct without a market. Uses had tobe found and developed, and work alongthis line was just getting underway.

This article is not of the "now it canbe told" variety. Assuming the generalrule that it requires ten years to takea new chemical from the research lab-oratory and place it on a profitable man-ufacturing scale, it will be many yearsbefore a complete story can be told. Theinfant project is now three years old andit is possible to preview some of thestages of its growth.FEBRUARY, 1943

Levulinic acid was not a newcomer inthe chemical markets. It had been pro-duced previously at various times on asemi-commercial scale both in this coun-try and in Germany. The contributionof the Staley Company was to developan improved process and place it on themarket in volume at reasonable prices.Levulinic acid was taken out of the classof rare organic chemicals and put in thatof bulk chemicals.

Exactly seventy years ago, in 1873, aGerman chemist by the name of Tollensannounced that he had isolated in pureform a new organic acid from the mix-ture formed by heating cane sugar withdilute sulfuric acid. By analysis he foundthat the acid contained 5, 8, and 3 atomsof carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, re-spectively, and hence had the formulaCSHSO.,. Tollens christened the new acidlevulinic acid because he believed that itoriginated from levulose, which, com-bined with dextrose, is a part of the canesugar molecule.

Within a few years it was found thatdextrose, and in fact any simple sugarcontaining six carbon atoms, served asa source material for making levulinicacid. The point that Tollens overlookedoriginally was that dextrose was muchmore resistant to decomposition by acidand that the conditions he used were toomild to affect appreciably the dextroseof the invert sugar mixture. Levulose re-acts so rapidly and dextrose so slowlythat it is possible to make pure dextrosefrom cane sugar by destroying (convert-

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ing to levulinic acid) the levulose byheating it in mineral acid solution underthe proper conditions. As a matter offact, the proper conditions for decom-posing dextrose had not been worked outbefore the problem was attacked in theStaley research l a b o r a t o r y . Oddlyenough, in the early days of research onlevulinic acid, a chemist published apaper describing the preparation oflevulinic acid from starch. The yield ofproduct was very low, and the results didnot foreshadow the future industrialproduction based on starch as a rawmaterial.

The structure of levulinic acid, that is,the arrangement of the different atomsin the molecule, was soon determinedand it was found to be beta-acetylpropionic acid. The organic chemist rep-resents the formula as follows:

CH:i- CO - CH.,- CH2- COOH

The -COOH group at the right end isthe carboxyl group that is responsiblefor the acidity of the substance. It is thesame kind of a group that is in aceticacid, CH:1COOH, the acid in vinegar.The group, -CO-, second from the leftend, is a carbonyl group, the same kindthat is in acetone. The presence and posi-tion of this group in the chain is re-sponsible for many of the remarkableproperties of levulinic acid.

Levulinic acid in the pure form is awhite, crystalline solid, having a melt-ing point just above normal room tem-perature at 33° on the Centigrade scale.It boils at about 245°C., which is a tem-perature of 473° Fahrenheit. This is sucha high temperature that the acid is dis-tilled both in the laboratory and in theplant in a low vacuum in order to lowerthe boiling point. It is very soluble inwater and is also miscible with all or-ganic liquids with the exception ofparaffin hydrocarbons such as gasolineand kerosene. It is completely non-toxic.

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The Staley Company sells levulinicacid in four grades:

Grade A—A distilled levulinic acid offrom 98 to 99% purity. This is a yellow-colored liquid at summer temperatureswhich partially solidifies at lower tem-peratures.

Grade B—A 90% aqueous solution ofthe same quality as Grade A. The pres-ence of the water prevents the acid fromfreezing at lower temperatures.

Grade C—The chemically pure, solidcrystalline levulinic acid. This productis not made on a commercial scale atthe present time, but is prepared in thelaboratory, primarily as a special serviceto investigators who require the purestmaterial for experiments.

Deodorized, a technical grade, espe-cially processed for the removal of thetypical maple-like odor of Grade A acid.A patent on this process is pending.

The chemical equation which repre-sents the transformation of starch tolevulinic acid is written as follows:

C0H1005+K,0=CH3COCH.,CH,COOH-|-HCOOH-fH20.

The second formula on the right side isthat of formic acid which produced alongwith levulinic acid. Under the conditionsof reaction most of the formic acid isdecomposed to gaseous products. Wateris placed on both sides of the equationbecause the starch must first be hydro-lyzed to dextrose, which is actually theprecursor of levulinic acid. Unfortunate-ly, »the reaction does not proceed assimply as the equation indicates. A seriesof complicated changes take place andthere are by-paths from the main coursewhich lead to the formation of complexcondensation products which are in-soluble in water and separate from thereaction mixture. Humin is the collectivename given to these by-products. Huminrepresents a loss of levulinic acid-produc-ing material and hence a loss desired

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product. The prevention of excessiveamounts of humin and means of handlingit in the process are important featuresin the process for the manufacture oflevulinic acid.

The process used for manufacturinglevulinic acid is disclosed in UnitedStates Patent No. 2,270,328 which wasissued on January 20, 1942. The processembodies certain very important im-provements over the method that hasbeen used for seventy years in makinglevulinic acid, namely the heating ofsugar in mineral acid solution. The con-ditions are particularly controlled for theconversion of dextrose, and they wouldnot be optimum for any other simplesugar such as levulose. The process isequally applicable to starch or hydrolyticproducts of starch such as corn syrups,crude corn sugar or dextrose. The hotacid rapidly converts starch or dextrinsto dextrose which in turn breaks downto levulinic acid.

A slurry of starch and dilute hydro-chloric acid is charged into a corrosion-resistant pressure vessel equipped withan efficient agitator. The mixture is thenheated under pressure by injection ofhigh-pressure steam, to a temperature inthe range of 175° to 200° C. with con-stant stirring. The rate of heating andspeed of stirring are carefully controlledin order to obtain the best results. Mostof the reaction has occurred by the timethe maximum temperature is attained.After holding the batch for a few min-utes at the high temperature irj order tocomplete the reaction, the contents ofthe digester are discharged into an opentank. The inso lub le humin is thencentrifuged and the liquid containinglevulinic acid is concentrated by distilla-tion of water in an evaporator. The re-sulting crude levulinic acid is then puri-fied by distillation at low pressure inspecial still. Grade A levulinic acid ismade in this way.FEBRUARY, 1943

The process as described above ap-pears to be relatively simple, and so faras the number of operations are con-cerned, it is. However, it should be keptin mind that the process involves hightemperatures, pressures, and corrosivematerials. Many difficult problems hadto be solved by the chemical engineers,before a smooth-working operation wasobtained.

In effect, the process takes starch andconverts it in one step into levulinic acid.Of all the carbohydrates available, starchis the best raw material from the stand-point of purity, suitability, cost andavailability. The reason a corn process-ing plant should be interested in themanufacture of a chemical product suchas levulinic acid is obvious.

As mentioned previously, when themanufacture of levulinic acid was startedon a pilot plant scale, there was not onemarket outlet known, discounting thesmall quantities in demand for researchpurposes. However, since news does getaround, information was received thata large company was developing a newkind of coated wrapping paper and thatlevulinic acid, or one of its derivatives,was the best plasticizer that had beenfound for the material. The companyhad been concerned because there wasno supply of large amounts of levulinicacid available. The new Staley projectfitted hand in glove with the coatedpaper project. Before the machinery formaking the new paper on a manufac-turing scale could be built, the war haltedall progress. It is probable that this de-velopment will provide a sizeable marketfor levulinic acid in the future.

On February 25, 1940, the manufac-ture of levulinic acid was announced inthe News Edition of Industrial and En-gineering Chemistry, a journal that everychemist in the country reads. Immedi-ately thereafter, the company was del-uged with interested inquiries and re-

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quests for samples. Many industriallaboratories began research work onlevulinic acid at that time and this typeof work is still continuing. The possi-bilities of levulinic acid are being ex-plored in many fields and new outletswill result from these investigations.

One of the first uses discovered forlevulinic acid was in the production ofthe calcium salt, calcium levulinate. Thissubstance was found to be an an ex-cellent calcium "carrier"' in medicine. Atthe present time several pharmaceuticalhouses manufacture calcium levulinateand its use is widespread throughout thecountry. In addition levulinic acid hasbeen used as a starting material for thesynthesis of other pharmaceutical prod-ucts.

Late in 1940, Professor J. C. Irelandof the Oklahoma A. and M. College, acci-dently saw a sample of levulinic acid.He studied the structural formula anddecided that levulinic acid would be aninteresting substance to test on plants.He obtained a sample and went to work.Shortly thereafter he sent a report thatlevulinic acid was one of the best plant-growth stimulants he had ever tested. Anumber of seeming miracles were pro-duced in his greenhouse during the fol-lowing winter. This discovery resultedin the most widely-known and excitinguse found for levulinic acid. The de-velopment of "Staleymone" was on theway.

During the summer of 1941 field testson important crops such as cotton, corn,sugar beets, soybeans, alfalfa, etc., sub-stantiated the early tests. Levulinic acidhad the property of stimulating plantgrowth and increasing the yields of agri-cultural products. It acted like a hor-mone, in that only an extremely minuteamount was required to increase thevitality of a plant.

Levulinic acid in the liquid form wasnot very suitable for treating seeds be-

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fore planting. A powder was more easily-used. The next step was to develop apowdered material that would havegood adhering properties and which con-tained the active ingredient, levulinicacid, in the proper amount. This wasaccomplished in a most satisfactory man-ner and in 1942 ''Staleymone" ("Stay-mone" at that time), was introduced onthe market in an experimental way.

Many users of "Staleymone" have re-ported remarkable results; others havenot been able to find any benefit. Thewhole subject of plant growth hormonesis highly controversial and the expertsare still divided in their opinions. Thereare many variables involved in this field,such as kind of plants, soil, climate,seasonal weather conditions, methods ofusing stimulants, time of planting andmany others. It will be many years be-fore answers to all the questions will beobtained. Meanwhile if "Staleymone"continues to live up to its early promise,it will be an important factor in theeconomy of the nation.

Research is being actively pursued inthis field and improvements will be madeas information develops.

The "Staleymone" which will be soldexperimentally during the 1943 seasonpromises to be an improvement over theproduct of the year before.

Not all of the uses for levulinic acidare likely to be as spectacular or as well-known to the general public as "Staley-mone" but they are likely to be, moreimportant in so far as volume of produc-tion is concerned. At the present time,the bulk of the output of the manufac-turing plants is going Jo plastic pro-ducers, and this market promises to ex-pand enormously after the war. Anotherapplication that now takes a consider-able amount of levulinic acid is in thepreparation of acid-cleaning mixtures forfood-processing equipment and metal-skinned airplanes and trains. Levulinic

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acid is also being used in the synthesisof dyes for plastics and fibres.

New uses for levulinic acid are beingexplored continuously in our own lab-oratory, and to a much greater extentin the laboratories of prospective cus-tomers. Some of the studies have beencontinuing for as long as three yearsand a new development may "break" atany time. The war has made it impos-sible to expand the size of our plant, butit is possible that some of the new useswill be of extreme value to the war effort.

Levulinic acid is a chemical. It is prac-tically impossible to anticipate all of thepossible uses of a chemical substance.Among the fields in which levulinic acidmay eventually be useful, in addition tothose mentioned above, are food process-ing, solvent refining, pe r fumes andflavors, ore flotation, the rubber in-dustries, and the like. In addition to usesof levulinic acid itself, numerous deriva-tives of levulinic acid can be preparedeasily, and it is conceivable that some ofthe derived materials may open up otherlarge markets.

Three years have passed. Allow sevenmore years to finding out what can bedone with levulinic acid. An article writ-ten in 1950 should make thrilling read-

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years ago he was brought in to the homeoffice as western division manager.

Mr. Apperson has been in the foodsales business most of his adult life. Hereceived his early training in the business

F. W. Apperson NewPackage Sales Manager

In a bulletin sent out early in Febru-ary, A. E. Staley, Jr., president, an-nounced the appointment of Forrest W.Apperson as package division sales man-ager. Mr. Apperson has been with theStaley company for fourteen years, al-ways in the package sales division. Heworked first as a package division sales-man in a western territory with KansasCity as his headquarters, but several

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F. W. Apperson has just been namedgeneral sales manager of the package di-vision.

and in sales work with the Russell Brok-erage company, in Kansas City. He hadbeen with that company for ten yearswhen he decided to come with the Staleycompany.

At the time of Mr. Apperson's appoint-ment some other shifts in the packagesales were made, necessitated by thechanging Conditions. Charles Coble, whohas had charge of eastern division sales,will continue in that position. FrankKekeisen will take" over supervision inthe central division. He has been withthe package division seventeen years,and for years has been an assistant divi-sion manager.

H. C. Hinkley is taking over the west-ern division management, again movinginto a place just vacated by Forrest Ap-person. When Mr. Apperson was broughtin to Decatur Mr. Hinkley took over hissales work in the west.

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area for this particular ordnance officer'straining group.

Anne Marie Asman's engagement was re-cently announced.

Anne Marie Asman Engaged

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Asman, ofNew Haven, Conn., have recently an-nounced the engagement of their daugh-ter, Anne Marie, to George John Buss-mann, also of New Haven. No marriagedate has been announced. Mr. Asman, asalesman in our industrial sales divisionfor our Boston office, and Mrs. Asman,formerly lived in Decatur. Anne Mariewas educated at St. Mary's Academy andAlbertus Magnus College, in New Haven.

Mr. Bussmann is the son of Mr. andMrs. George H. Bussmann of New Hav-en. He prepared at Worcester Academyand is now a senior at Lehfgh university.He is in the Army Reserve Officers Train-ing Corps.

To Officers Training

Richard F. Nazette, formerly a pack-age division salesman, has recently goneto an officers' training school. He wasthe only man to be selected from his corps

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Mdrl Schull and Robert I. Fain, whoworked in the same building—starchshipping—are both stationed at the samecamp in Pennsylvania. Pvt. Fain hasbeen there for several weeks but Pvt.Schull is an extremely new comer.

Asking for Mail

Corp. Robert Clark, U. S. M. C, haswritten his father, Ralph Clark, to tellhis friends to write him. Corp. Clark,who has been in the Marines for morethan two years, has been outside contin-ental United States most of that time.He was stationed in Hawaii for morethan a year.

Master Sergeant

Carl Jeschawitz is now a master ser-geant, and is still stationed at GulfportField. Carl worked on the extra boardbefore going into the Army. He formerlycame home often because of a beautifulattraction, but recently it has been an-nounced that a company of WAACS areto be stationed at Gulfport so it is doubt-ful if he will want to come clear back toDecatur so often.

Flight Officer Charles Harlin recentlywrote his father as he was making a longflight, and at the time of writing was8,000 feet up. He was taking time towrite while his co-pilot was flying theship. Charles, who is just 21 years old,worked on our extra board from the timehe finished high school until he enlistedin the Army. He had completed his air-plane mechanics course before taking hisflight training. His father, Robert Har-lin, formerly worked in our oil refinery.

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COMPANY AND CREDIT UNIONHave Good Hews for Men in Service

A bonus for company men in thearmed services was announced late inJanuary by the Staley company, and adecision to waive interest payment onCredit Union loans to the same groupwas made public following the annualmeeting of the Credit Union, a weeklater. In September the company had an-nounced that former Staley men, now inthe armed services, would be reimbursedfor payments they are now making tofederal insurance, up to an amount equalto that they carried under the companygroup plan.

Here 90 Days

In announcing the bonus plan the com-pany made it clear that these checks wereto be sent only to men who had been withthe Staley company at least 90 days justprior to their induction. The checks weremailed to all men under that classifica-tion who were already in some branch ofservice, and are now sent the newly in-ducted men.

The checks, for $50.00, were maileddirect to the men unless the men or theirauthorized spokesmen, directed they besent to some 'other person. More than300 checks went out in the initial mail-ing and others are being sent out now asmore and more men in that special group,leave for service. It is of interest to notethat many of the checks are being putat once into War Bonds. Some were sentback to the Credit Union to pay off oldloans and some for deposit there. Themen for the most part seemed disposedto save the money rather than spend itnow.FEBRUARY, 1943

Waive Loan Interest

The decision of the Credit Union di-rectors to waive loan interest paymentsfor service men was made after a vote ofthe members showed that the majorityfavored that step. The loan balances ofthe men now in service will be declaredinactive on the date of the man's induc-tion and begin bearing interest againonly when the men have been dischargedand returned to civilian life. Dividendson savings will be paid service men regu-larly.

Peggy Rainey took over the job as clerkand messenger for the plant superintendentwhen Clark Kikolla was inducted into theArmy in February. She is the first girl tohave taken the job as messenger but so far,as one might judge from this picture, therehave been no complaints.

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WOMEN FIND RIGHT CLOTHES MAKEFeature writers all over the country

have suddenly discovered women in in-dustry and have been working with fash-ion designers on just the right thing forthese women to wear. The girls in theStaley plant haven't exactly expresseddeadly boredom at these discussions, butthey well might for two reasons. Therehave been women working in the Staleyplant since the first World War started,and these women have always dressed forthe job.

To prove the point we fingered throughan old picture file the other day anddragged out the photograph appearing atthe right. This picture was taken oneday just after the last war, when a groupof the girls from the old tray room, werestanding in the court. Overalls, or jump-ers or whatever those garments werecalled may not look so snappy today, butthey were a bit revolutionary in 1918.They were excellent for wear in the plant,as were the caps which the girls wore toprotect their hair from starch and mov-ing machinery.

Katherine Byers, starch packing, has "Kate"embroidered on her blouse.

Two of this gruop still work here—nowin modern uniforms. They are MableRickey, left, and Maggie Prell, third fromthe left, who is now forewoman in starchpacking.

Helen Ellison weighs a package of starch.

WORK MORE PLEASANTPerhaps the first slacks worn in De-

catur were worn by girls working in theplant. After the tray room was closedthe girls were transferred to the starchpacking and syrup houses where skirtswere still much less comfortable thanslacks and the girls in those departmentswore them when few Decatur merchantscarried them in stock.

Just recently the girls had the idea ofadopting a uniform style. They talkedthe idea over and a scheme was workedout which resulted in an extremely at-tractive picture. One style was selectedand one color. The word "Staley's" isembroidered over the pocket on theblouse, and most of the girls had theirown names or nick-names also embroid-ered on the blouse.

Pauline Turner, forewoman in syrup pack-ing, finds her new uniform comfortable.

Gladys Hendricks leans over to stop the machin-ery for a minute.

Eileen Russell watches the scales as she weighseach box.

Ada Highley keeps her eye and her hand on those large syrup bottles.

These suits are cleverly made. They girls have found that they can reachhave the appearance of being two piece around without ripping a seam—andslack suits but actually they are one piece without having blouse and slacks partgarments. They are amply cut and the company.

Busily filling sample packages were Thelma Mize, Martha Hall, Janice Mattson andGenevieve Collins.

Dash and HerbertBowling Leaders

Russell Dash, as secretary-treasurer ofthe bowling league, gets out the weeklyscore reports and perhaps that accountsfor the fact that early in February he wastop man in everything but averages. Hehad the highest game—238—the great-est number of games—60—and, thegreatest number of pins—10035. His av-erage of 167 was fourth for that week.

Walter Grant, Jr., has the high aver-age with 173 and as his high game 235.Harry Lichtenberger, now in the tuber-culosis sanitorium, had 169+11 andGeorge Cornell 169. Al Crabb trailedclosely with 166. Harry's high game was226, Cornell's 209 and Crabb's 212.

In the Staley Women's League Ger-trude Hebert holds the lead all the waythrough. She has a 156 average, a highgame of 218 and a high series of 557.Augusta Walter, the runner-up, has anaverage of 137, a high game of 198 anda high series of 465. Other ranking aver-ages are Pauline Cable, 135; Doris Co-zad, 132, and Mary Grant Bauman (ofthe bowling Grants) with 131.

the late Cleve Cinder, veteran Staley em-ployee.

Some of the men in the plant who oftencall the plant engineer's office have hitupon a not-too-mild form of torture.They call Hank or Henry on the phone,tell them off as usual, and then dare themto talk back. They know that WandaClose is probably sitting right there andall that Hank or Henry can do is to think.One who never tries this is Fid Watkins.He did it once—only to discover thatWanda was on the extension phone.

Mrs. Edward Kazmierski, who hasbeen working in 17 building, is the moth-er of a son, born early in February. Mr.Kazmierski, who is in the Army, washome on furlough at the time of his son'sbirth. Mrs. Kazmierski before her mar-riage was Kathryn Ginder, daughter ofFEBRUARY, 1943

Another Harris in the Navy

Just before he celebrated his nine-teenth birthday John D. Harris joinedthe Navy and is now in training at GreatLakes. He is the son of John A. Harris,industrial sales representative in Ohioand surrounding territory, and Mrs. Har-ris. He was a freshman at Ohio univer-sity when he enlisted. In joining theXavy he is following in his father's foot-steps for John, Sr., served in that samebranch during the last war.

Greetings From Africa

Can you imagine anyone in the excite-ment of the African campaign sendingNew Years greetings? Cpl. Charles Stonedid just that. He wrote the Journal butthe letter was for all Staley people. Hesays he is well and happy—but wouldbe happier back in the old home town.

An Air Cadet

Verle Rusk is now an air cadet. Heworked in the plant before going into theArmy.

T/S Charles Rinehart is now in Africaaccording to a message received by hisparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rinehart.His father is a Staley millwright and bothhe and his brother, Pvt. Ralph Rinehart,worked in the plant. Ralph is in Aus-tralia.

Meet at Camp

When Pvt. Ira F. Mclntyre saw hisnew Staff Sergeant recently he discoveredit was Lynn W. Quick who worked withhim here at the plant before both menwent into the Army. They are stationedat Fort Lewis.

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ored, too, that she is, without trying to doso, cleaning up other things, like vocabu-laries, for instance.

Wanda Close keeps her eyes on her work.

The Feminine Influence

Probably you have heard of that elu-sive thing called a "refining feminine in-fluence" and thought it a myth. If youhad any such ideas talk to any personwho has any business in the plant engi-neers' office and be shown the error ofthe thoughts. A feminine influence hasentered there and the way it has refinedthe office and all visitors is wonderfuland awful.

The "influence" is Wanda Close, quiet,a good sport, an excellent stenographerand the possessor of the rare faculty ofknowing when to be very busy and very,very deaf. Wanda came into the officeof the engineers when war began takingmale clerks and stenographers out fasterthan they could be trained for jobs. Tak-ing her into that department was an inno-vation. It had always been a man'srealm.

Now, after a few weeks, no one wouldthink of letting her go. They even bragabout the fact that she dusts the desksand filing cabinets every day. It is rum-PAGE 24

Corp. Robert Dilly wrote a letter to afriend in the plant but like the soldier inthe story he talked too much. About allone could read between the censor'smarks was that he is in England. He for-merly worked on the extra board.

Apology to a Sailor

William Franklin Conover, SK 3/cU. S. N., otherwise Bill Conover, Staleypackage salesman, writes from somecoral island, that he reads the StaleyJournal with keen enjoyment but adds"I notice my wife (Helen Bowman Con-over) is listed by her maiden name.PLEASE make necessary correction sothat I will have a wife when I come home.You know I had plenty of competitionbefore I won her hand." And we havepromised Bill and Helen that we havedone so. Helen, in charge of sales de-partment files, has been as nice as Billabout that slip of the typewriter theJournal made last month.

Incidentally Bill writes letters to Hel-en, which do not violate censors' rules,but still would put to shame most of thetravel folders we have read.

We Annex Another Smi th

Ed Smith's only daughter, Alma, re-cently joined the office messenger forcesmaking one more member of that familyto work for Staley's. Her grandfather,Lafayette Smith, worked here for severalyears before his death, her father hasbeen Staley time keeper for years andseveral brothers, uncles, an aunt and lotsof cousins have been or still are on thecompany rolls. People who only knowEd won't recognize Alma. She is thatpretty messenger with lots of lovely hair.

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*fiaktina Men

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M O R E \ U 1 I S A D D E DTo List of Men in Service

Since our last issue the following men have left the plant or office for somebranch of service—

James R. Atchason Joseph M. HuntRobert B. Ball Homer Eugene JacobyRaymond L. Blaase Clark J. KikollaJoseph W. Borders John KippHarold Briggs Kenneth LenoverGeorge E. Brown Walter LenoverWilliam L. Canty Cecil Howard LewisDean Carleton Jack E. McAdamsCarl R. Carter Joseph McGlade, Jr.Samuel B. Chappel Herbert MilliganDonald Childress Bernard MortonLeon J. Cone Ralph PiersonAndrew R. Cullison Elmer E. RandallRobert H. Doddeck Richard W. RodgersHuston F. Dorsey Kenneth R. SchumanRalph Dromboski Charles SchmidtForrest W. Engle Roy StroyeckGerald E. Engle Wo'odrow W. TuttleHarold Garner Ralph Ghel TuckerGeorge Harner William E. Whitmore

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Capt. M. S. Gravely was aStaley package divisionsalesman before he wentinto the ordnance corps.

Lt. John C. Stoutenbor-ough, former salesman, isstationed on the west coast.

Pvt. Edward C. Neuen-dorf went from the person-nel office into the Army, butstill that doesn't account forthe angle of his hat.

Pfc. Claudean Perkins for-merly worked in the plantbut has been working forUncle Sam for some timenow.

Pvt. L. P. Miller, whoworked in the plant, is nowstudying at a radio school.His step-father, Walter El-lis, works in the plant.

Leo Kalips, who won hiswings the day he was 19, isthe much adored grandsonof H. H. "Pop" Kalips ofthe boiler house. The youngsailor is an aerial gunner.

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Pvt. Ira F. Mclntyre findsArmy life very interesting,he writes.

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Corp. Robert Clark liasbeen in the Marine Corpsfor more than two years. Heis a son of Ralph Clark whoworks in the plant.

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Lester O'Riley has beenpromoted to a first lieuten-ancy.

Promoted

Lester O'Riley has recently been madea first lieutenant. He worked in thepacking house before going into theArmy and his father, Harry, works therenaw. He received his first commissionlast summer.

Captain Crawford, U. S. M. C'. R., hasjust been promoted after long service in theSolomons.

Now It's Captain Crawford

Since his prolonged stay on Caudal-canal Tom Crawford has been made aFEBRUARY, 1943

captain in the Marine Corps. He is nowin an unnamed port taking a well earnedrest. He went into the Solomons withthe first Marines. At that time he was asecond lieutenant. During the operationsthere he was promoted to first lieutenantand made a staff officer. His second pro-moted evidently came after the Marinesleft the Solomons.

Before taking his Marine Corps train-ing Capt. Crawford was in our account-ing department. .

Lt. A. R. Staley is verybusy in the air corps.

Acting Commandant

Lt. A. R. Staley has been made actingcommandant of cadets at Shaw Field, inSouth Carolina."Lt. Staley has been sta-tioned at that field for several months.

Always enthusiastic about aviation,Lt. Staley has been flying for a numberof years. Early last spring when he de-cided to enlist he turned first to his fav-orite branch—the air corps. He wascommissioned a first lieutenant and sentto Miami for preliminary training.

Before enlisting he was manager ofspecial products sales. He is a directorof the company.

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When Lt. Robert Hop-kins, formerly of the plant,won his wings in JanuaryGloria Hirsch of the salesdepartment was there to pinthem on him.

Curtis Gengerke was en-joying life in a sunny cli-mate the last time he wrote'Staley friends. He formerlyworked in the plant.

Lt. J. D. Douglas, Jr., isthe son of our Florida feeddepartment salesman, DaveDouglas. Lt. Douglas is anavigator in the Air Trans-port. Ferry Command.

Lt. E. F. Haley, Jr.,worked in the package divi-sion before going into theArmy.

Sgt. J. T. Van Hook is avery busy man since he hasbeen made mess sergeantand has to buy groceries inAustralia.

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BOOK DF THE MONTH WILL BE PUTINTO EVEBY HOME MABEH 1-IF WE EAT

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—it's the new ration book.

Come March first and the countrystarts buying that old stand-by of theAmerican menu—"A can of — —withlittle blue stamps lettered A, B, and Cand numbered variously 1, 2, 5 and 8.

For the 31 days of that month, 12 ofthese stamps are allotted, totaling 48points. Surrender of one or more of thesestamps must be made with each purchaseof a can or bottle of fruit and fruit juices,vegetables and vegetable juices, soupsand baby foods. Stamps must be givenup, too, for each package of frozen ordried fruits and for frozen vegetables.The only exceptions to these are frozenfruits or vegetables in containers weigh-ing more than 10 pounds and vegetablejuices in containers of over one gallon.

NOT INCLUDED in the rationing arechili con carne, candied fruits, fruit cakesand puddings, jams, jellies, meat stews,olives, paste products, pickles, potatosalads, preserves and relishes.

Actually the women of America—whoafter all will have more actual contactwith these books than most men—havefound the thoughts of rationing muchmore mystifying than they will find theFEBRUARY, 1943

actual rationing. Because they have al-ways walked into any store and boughtanything for which they had the moneyto pay, they are having a little troubleadjusting their thinking and planning toa rationing basis. It has worked so wellwith sugar and coffee, which have beenon a ration basis for months, that thereis no doubt but that it will work equallywell and easily with other articles.

One thing that grocers are warningwomen of is that they must do a littlemore preliminary planning and thinkingbefore going to market. They also mustplan to do their marketing when theyhave more time. Gone, it would seem,are the days when a woman puts the po-tatoes on to boil and then dashes over tothe store to buy a food supply. If she iswise and can do it, dealers think, she willdo well to do her marketing at odd hours—before the noontime rush, and in theearly afternoon. Some women will beforced to continue buying late in the aft-ernoon and it will aid them 'and thegrocers if women who can do so will dotheir marketing before 4 o'clock.

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Barbara Lee Webb, 4, smiles because sheknows both parents are busy working in aplant where food is made for war workersat home and abroad. Her father, RaymondWebb, works in the soy flour plant and hermother, Jessie, in the syrup house.

Cigarers Solve Army Problem

American cigarettes and American in-genuity helped solve one of the manyproblems of getting vital supplies ashoreto United States troops after they hadestablished a beach head on the NorthAfrican coast.

Ensign Stephen L. R. McNichols, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, was aboard oneof the two Coast Guard transports whichlanded U. S. troops on a rocky beach ISmiles north of Casablanca on the morn-ing of November 8. After the CoastGuardsmen had successfully ferried thetroops from the transport to the shore,they tackled the problem of carrying inthe tons of supplies needed to maintainthe landing forces.

The crew of the transport, exhaustedby hours of driving their landing bargesthrough enemy gunfire and around hid-den reefs, were making a slow job of it.

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In contrast, Ensign McNichols noted,the scores of Arabs who had appearedfrom nowhere to beg for cigarettes, werethe most active people on the beach.After a few minutes of dickering, he wasable to organize a labor battalion with afixed wage of one cigarette an hour.Thereafter, the goods were quickly trans-ported to the satisfaction of all hands.The wiry, smoke-starved Arabs werepleased with the bargain and the wearycrew of the transport got a well-earnedrest.

Larry Keith Ballloves to clump aroundin his uncle's bootsand ride his horse ifhe can, although he isjust 3. He is a nephewof Jeane Ball Dem,financial, Bob Ball,mailing, and Lynn Dc-vore who worked herebefore going into theArmy. His f a t h e r ,Bill Ball, works forCaterpillar.

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TO SAFETY ROX.ES- DO NOTLET AN ACCIDENT B E YOOR.FAOl-T-

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JProm Old Journal Jpiies

The Staley Fellowship Club Journal,February, 1918, C. R. Murphy, editor,was printed on gray paper, with picturesof Washington and Lincoln done in linedrawings, on the cover. Much space in-side was given over to safety. One articleurged men to wear safety glasses. "Alla man has to do," it urged, "is to sign anorder in the store room and get his glass-es. They don't cost him a cent. If hedoubts the wisdom of this let him take agood look at the many workers walkingthe streets minus one or both eyes."

Another article in the same issuewarned men against the old habit of put-ting a chew of tobacco on an open wound,and still another said—"The majority ofall men who are injured are careless."

That same issue carried a story of themarriage of the yard foreman, JohnWhite, and Mayme Potrafka.

In the Staley Journal for February,1928, Ruth E. Cade, editor, a story onGreenwich Village was written by O. D.Sutler who had recently gone from thehome office to be in .the New York office.

The mailing department arid itsboss, George H. Walker, was featured.Another article was illustrated with pic-tures of 12 men who were Safety contestwinners. They were Red Thornborough,Guy Bowers, William Maples, Syl Ivens,James Rickey, Jack Howley, EdwardBork, Tom Gogerty, Otto Grolla, JohnShyer, Rufus Schroat, and Dales Tish.

A new messenger in the plant was Rus-sel Dash.

The marriages were announced ofHollis Hise and Muriel Haffey and FrankKekeisen and Bernice Griffin.FEBRUARY, 1943

The Staley Journal for February, 1932,Ruth E. Cade, editor, featured the con-signment department which was thencomposed entirely of men. Those in thedepartment were Tom Longbons, head,Kenneth Davidson, Cecil Taylor andEverett Ellis.

The service department was being re-organized with Faye Brausen in charge,H. C. Majors as mail truck driver, MerleYount in charge of mailing lists andHelen Bowman and Marie Willis as mes-sengers. Three young men who had beenin that department had been transferredto the laboratory. They were PhilipBateman, Marion Bergandine and Ken-neth Higdon.

Staley people who were seriously illwere Alice White Walmsley and SteveHolmes.

Percy Robinson, warehouse, was proudof the record of his son, Harry, who wasgraduated from High school in two anda half years, with top honors.

Ladies in the Lab

When Alice McClure was transferredfrom the general offices to that of W. B.Bishop, director of chemical engineering,she brought" to four the girls now em-ployed in laboratory offices. She is tak-ing over clerical work for the chemicalengineers. Some time ago Regina Dono-van took over a similar job in the analyt-ical department, and Betty Gidel hasbeen stenographer attached to researchand sales service for several months. Theold timer in the laboratory is KathrynSheehy, who has been secretary to thetechnical director, Howard File, for agood many years.

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GIVE

RED CROSSWAR FUND

Well Fed Army

Time was when a ration of hardtackand bully beef, eked out with salt pork,cooked dried beans or peas, and potatoesor turnips—if they could be had—wasconsidered enough food for our fightingmen. But the modern mechanized armyand warships that are more like warplants call for both great physical stam-ina and the utmost mental fitness.

The average soldier consumes far morethan the average civilian, but there'smight little waste, and although he getsplenty to eat, his allowances of certaincritical foods—sugar, coffee, butter, andmeats—have been reduced without anydamage to his diet needs.

The Army has discovered that it's nouse serving the men in service the foodsthey don't like, and a lot of them don'tcare for such items as kale, soups, cookedcereals, and puddings. Prunes and drycereals rate high in soldier appetites,along with weak coffee, cocoa, roast beef,mashed potatoes, frankfurters, cakes andcookies, and canned fruits. Naturally,the men in the Army and Navy do notget their favorite foods at every meal forthe diet must be varied and also adjustedto their training or combat duties, theseason of the year, climate, and otherconditions.

Soldiers must have special kinds offoods that can be readily shipped, pre-pared, or stored in climates that rangefrom Arctic to tropical, from bone dry todrenching wet. Quantities of military

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foods must be sent in canned, dried ordehydrated forms, and immense storesof these must be assembled at strategicpoints where they can be distributed asthe needs arise.

It is plain, therefore, that all civilians,including war workers who need an am-ple diet themselves, will have to do withless of some foods, although they willnot be stinted in fresh fruits and vege-tables and the like. But restrictions onthe quantity of canned fruits and vege-tables and juices will call for dividing upavailable supplies by means of point ra-tioning. Point rationing is not a schemefor tying up food purchases in red tape.On the contrary, it is one of the few re-liable methods of spreading the suppliesof scarcer foods so that each consumermay "spend" more of his points on itemsthat are scarce or give up fewer pointsfor those that are more abundant.

Hilda Lucka Marries

Hilda Lucka, financial department,and Marshall Turner were married Feb.13, after a last minute change in plans.Originally they had intended to be mar-ried later but he received his call into theArmy and they decided upon the earlierdate. The ceremony was performed byRev. C. W. Flewelling in the CentralChristian church. The bridegroom hasbeen a student in James Millikin uni-versity. .

The usual valentines were received bythe usual people about the plant and of-fices this year—and everyone felt thatthey came from the usual source. EdSmith had nothing to say, also as usual.

Speaker: "I have lived in this townall my life. By actual count there arefifty-five tap-rooms and saloons in thetown, and I am proud to say I have neverbeen in one of them.

Voice: "Which one is that?"THE STALEY JOURNAL

Cinder Business BoomsAs Country Lanes Melt

Without going into the subject veryclosely most people would not think ofthe war touching the hundreds of laneswhich lead up to farm houses all over cen-tral Illinois. But it does, and because itdoes the Staley company has been doingthat well known land office business incinders this winter. It happens like this—many farmers and dirt road mainte-nance men have used a heavy road oil,sometimes over a thin cinder base, to re-pair unpaved roads and lanes in the win-ter and spring. This year the war, mak-ing what it has of the oil supply, the onlysalvation for those roads has been cin-ders, cinders and then a few more loadsof cinders.

That is where the Staley company en-ters the picture, for in the process ofmaking corn and soybean products thecompany burns what is considerable coalin any language. And coal, as it burns,leaves cinders, and part of the cinders soproduced in the boiler house each day,are not needed about the plant and aresold. Between 75 and 100 tons of cin-ders not needed at the plant, are takenaway from the boiler house each day.On such a day, if Central Illinois hasbeen having one of its balmy spells ofweather, such a quantity practicallymelts as truck after truck backs up for.a load.

Early in February the thermometerplayed about between 40 and SOidegreesabove zero for several days and frostwent out of the ground in a hurry leav-ing unpaved roads bottomless. Duringthat warm spell as high as 100 trucks aday backed up to the cinder mountain atthe east gate and rolled off to rescue someside road or farm lane from becoming asea of mud. Occasionally a group of farm-ers in a nearby community pooled theirneeds and bought a car which meant thatFEBRUARY, 1943

slightly more than SO tons of cinderswent to them.

The purchasing department, whichhas always handled cinder sales, hassome experts on truck sizes, for whencinders are sold by the truck load theprice is graded according to the size ofthe truck. Since Illinois truck licenses arelettered to show truck capacity, thebright young things in that office canestimate fairly closely how many cindersa man can haul according to whether hehas an A, B, C, D, etc., license number.

Dorothy Hepworth, who is still in thehospital, has asked the Journal to ex-press her thanks to all the Staley peoplewho have been so thoughtful of her dur-ing her long stay there. She was injuredin an automobile accident in October andis just now able to be about in a chair.She wants especially to thank the peoplein 17 and 20 buildings, where she worked,and the Fellowship club.

Ray Camden, extra board, is just backto work after a two months' bout withtuleremia, thoroughly disgusted with rab-bit hunting. He wishes to thank the Fel-lowship club for kindness to him whilehe was ill.

H. H. "Pop" Kalips is able to be aboutbut still not able to work, since he injuredhis ankle last fall. He is on the boilerhouse crew and says that the boys there,as well as the Fellowship club and otherStaley friends, have shown him all sortsof kindness since he has been unable tobe out. He particularly appreciated thebasket the club sent him at Christmas.

Even if Murl Schull did leave thepacking house for service in the Army hisfamily is still represented in that build-ing. His sister, Elizabeth, who came tothe company several months ago, is work-ing in that same building now.

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Married in Reno

Helen Folkman, of the traffic office,left the first of February for Reno, Nev.,where she was married Feb. 4 to Lt. Rob-ert W. Chambers. Lt. Chambers, whosehome is in Clinton, 111., is a pharmaciststationed with a medical division unit inCalifornia near Reno. After the ceremonythe couple left for Grass Valley, Calif.,where they spent their honeymoon. Laterthe bride returned to Decatur and willcontinue her work with the Staley com-pany for the present.

Southeastern Division Men Here

Four men from the southeastern dis-trict of the Industrial Sales division madetheir annual visit to the home office inFebruary. Headed by the southeasternmanager, W. H. Randolph, Jr., the partyincluded L. A. Dillon, W. T. O'Steen andW. F. Allen. Mr. Allen is the paper milltechnician in the southeast.

Tom Wagner, office janitor, is stillseriously ill. He has been a patient inSt. Mary's hospital for several weeks.

Cube Starch—and the Marines

"With the Marines—it's Staley's 20to 1." So writes a member of the Corps tohis old friend Gerry Horton. The Ma-rine, stationed in Hawaii, enclosed a boxtop to prove to Gerry that he was talk-ing about Staley's Cube Starch, andwrote that all the Marines find Staley'sCubes perfect for their laundry.

"Out here we do not always have hotwater, but we always have laundry to do.So good old Staley's back in Decaturhave solved our problem for us. We countout the right number of cubes, they dis-solve smoothly in cold water—and theresult is perfect laundry. With the Ma-rines it's Staley's 20 to 1."PAGE 34

Clyde Smith, electrical gang, says hisnew son is being called Clyde Duane butNOT Junior. We thought they mightname him Ed after his famous grand-father.

Mildred Van Hall, 17 building, whobroke her ankle several weeks ago, is stillunable to be back at work. She is upnow, and walking with a cane.

Our Zero Weather

January brought its usual zero weath-er to Central Illinois, and that broughtout the usual winter outfits. MauriceDurkee and Roy Hartman appeared, asthey always do in cold weather, in theirseal-skin caps and Lucile Schulz brokedown and wore her fur coat to the office.And dozens of pairs of pink ears weresaved from frost by the newest fad of ty-ing a baby blanket over the head. (Nowthat every girl in town is wearing sucha blanket over her head, one wonderswhat the poor babies are doing.)

They do say that Dr. McKalip Thom-as appeared at the laboratory wearingALL of a two-trouser suit. Being fromthe sunny south the low temperature wastoo much for him.

They call them apple polishers de luxe—those "brass hats" who took gifts tothe Red Cross teacher the day beforetheir final examination. It was not sur-

, prising, our news source says, that all ofthem passed their First Aid course.

0. D. Sutler, our New York manager,is serving as a volunteer part time mem-ber of the U. S. Coast Guards. Part ofeach week is taken up with his CoastGuard duties. He, and other businessmen who have found this way of gettinginto service, are assigned to active patrolduty off the eastern coast.

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The name seems a bit inelegant thoughundoubtedly descriptive but anywayWashington has developed a war indus-try whose practioners describe them-selves as "bratsquatters."

A "bratsquatter" is a youth of eithersex who, for so much an hour, will sit athome with your infant while you go tothe neighborhood movie. And with maidsand nurses almost unobtainable at anyprice here, it is a thriving industry.

The British barmaid was a flirt, andwhen the corporal went out to buy a pa-per she pursed her lips invitingly andleaned over the bar towards the shyyoung private.

Putting her face against his, she whis-pered: "Now's your chance, darling."

The private looked around the emptyroom. "So it is," he remarked; andpromptly drank the corporal's beer.

Jack: "Didn't she let you kiss her?"Bob: "Oh, heavens, no! She isn't that

kind."Jack: "She was to me."

She was a good-looking blonde, andwhen her tire went flat she hailed a pass-ing motorist. He stopped.

"Wonder if you'd help a girl in trou-ble?" she inquired.

He said, "Sure, Sister, what kind oftrouble do you want to get into?"

Life is like this. The fellow who wasonce kept awake by coffee is now losingsleep wondering where he can get it.

After hearing the chaplain's forcefulsermon on the Ten Commandments, Pri-vate Black was in a serious mood. Buthe brightened up as he went over the listin his mind.

"Well, anyway," he said, "I haven'tmade any graven images."FEBRUARY, 1943

"Give a sentence using the word be-witches." *

"Go ahead, I'll bewitches in a minute."

Wife: "I can't decide whether to go toa palmist or a mind reader."

Husband: "Go to a palmist. You havea palm."

The Young Man: "What time is it get-ting to be?"

The Young Lady: "I don't know, butrt was Saturday night when you came."

A group of tourists were making therounds of the old Indian ruins near Kay-enta, in the Navajo country, and at oneof the cliff-dweller villages they had toleave the car and walk some distance.Then someone remembered he had neg-lected to lock his car—and all began toworry.

"It is perfectly safe," assured the In-dian guide. "There isn't a white manwithin fifty miles!"

Liza had a soldier boy-friend whowrote regularly. He boasted of hercharms to his comrades and other soldiersbegan to write her. She answered everyletter, and as the men shifted from campto camp the mail increased. Then theboy friend received this sudden notice:"Dear Ernest, I got married last Satur-day. My husband don't like no soldiers,so don't write me no more letters. Pleasetell the resi of the Army."

It is said that the $25,000 salary ceil-ing is going to force a lot of movie starsto* drain their swimming pools and selltheir tiger skin rugs.

Lowry: "What is the Mason-Dixonline?"

Larry: "It's the division between 'you-all' and 'youse-guys'!"

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E V E R Y B O D Y ' S DOING IT"

"DOING WHAT?"Signing up for a garden plot NOW.

For Information

Call 223 or See

HOWARD PEVERLY,•

FELLOWSHIP CLUB OFFICE

1:30 - 4:45 P. M.

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When Pvt. Henry N. Trent was home ashort time ago he had this picture takenwith his wife and 6 weeks old daughter,Patsy Ann. Pvt. Trent's father, Henry, anda brother, Glen, work in 17 building, andanother brother, Alfred, works in the oilrefinery.

S/S William H. Hulsman is now aradio operator and gunner on a bomber.Before entering the Army he worked atthe Staley plant in Painesville, O. He is.stationed at Will Rogers Field.

In Massachusetts

Lt. Dale Walker, who formerly soldSoybean Oil Meal and other feed de-partment products, in Minnesota, is nowstationed at Camp Edwards, Mass. Mrs.Walker went east and they have a homeat Buzzards Bay.

Learning to be one of those soldierswho flies through the air with seeminglythe greatest of ease, is Jimmy Carter,formerly of the millwright staff. Jimmyis now in training with the paratroops ina southern camp.

FEBRUARY, 1943

BY AN IN CREASE IN

Leo Kelly is now in training at a gun-ners school and when he is finished withit he will be an aerial engineer. He isone of the boys who writes that he is us-ing his bonus money for War Bonds.

W. R. Van Hook, store room, haslearned that his son, J. T., is now a messsergeant. The promotion—for it is such—came to him in Australia where he hasbeen stationed for some time.

Naval Flyer Wounded

On a hospital ship "somewhere" Har-old Wisher is recovering from wounds,evidently of a serious nature, accordingto letters his mother has received recent-ly. His mother is Mrs. Nita Kilburn,who has charge of our receiving depart-ment. Harold is a Navy aviator, and hasbeen in the service for several years.

Pfc. Claudean Perkins, who worked inthe plant before going into the service, ispostman for his company now, he writes.He is still in Jhis country.

Girdles are like the Japs—both creepup on you and it takes a Yank to getthem down.—Henry Charles Sutter.

Robert Riley has recently been com-missioned a second lieutenant in the airforces. Before going into the Army heworked as a gateman at the plant, whileattending classes part of each week at theUniversity of Illinois.

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Before you do anything else—send in to the Journal

office the addresses of any service men who for-

merly worked with the company. Help keep that

list correct and complete.

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Mother: "Isn't he rather fast for you,Mabel?"

Mabel: "Somewhat, but I don't th inkhe'll get away."

Hubby (at Golden wedding): "Well,dear, all the years have flitted by, and Ihaven't deceived you yet, have I?"

Wife: "No, John, but goodness knowsyou've tried hard enough.''

Eskimo: "What would you say, darl-ing, if I told you I pushed my dog teamfor a thousand miles through ice andsnow, just to tell you that I love you?"

Kskimoette: "I'd say that was a lot ofmush."—L'.S.S. Pennsylvania Keystone.

Some psychologist says that blonds arebetter disposed than brunettes. We didn'tknow you could dispose of a blond, onceshe got you.

"Horse Sense," says Judge Frank A.Matthews, Jr., New Jersey Past Depart-ment Commander, in his best judicialtones, "is that sense which keeps a horsefrom betting on the human race."—o

American Legion.

The cavalry recruit was instructed tobridle and saddle a horse. Ten minuteslater the sergeant-major came along forhis mount and found the recruit holdingthe bit close to the horse's head.

"What are you waiting for," he roared."Until he yawns," answered the re-

cruit.

Said the sour old spinster: "All menaren't cast in the same mold. Some aremoldier than others."

Mathematics teacher: "Robert, canyou tell me what is meant by a poly-gon?"

Robert (a freshman): "I guess itmeans a parrot that's died, doesn't it?"FEBRUARY, 1943

After hearing the chaplain's forcefulsermon on the Ten Commandments,Private Black was in a serious mood. Buthe brightened up as he went over thelist in his mind.

"Well, anyway," he said, "1 haven'tmade any graven images."

Said the German to the Swiss: "Howcome you have an admiral? You haveno coastline, no navy, no empire."

The Swiss replied: "Well, you in Ger-many have a Minister of Justice, haven'tyou?"

Kmperor of Japan: "When we win thiswar I'm going to rule the world."

Mussolini: "No you're not—I am,because the Lord said 'The meek shallrule the earth'."

Hitler: "That's a lie—I never saidany such thing!"

"Don't they teach you to salute inyour company?" roared the Major toPatrick Malone, who had passed himwithout raising his hand.

"Yes, sir," replied Pat."Then why didn't you salute?""Well, sir," was the candid reply, "I

didn't want to attract more attentionthan I had to, 'cause I ain't supposed tobe out here without a pass."

A stone mason in conversation with acarpenter remarked that his father, nine-ty years old, was still living and workingat his trade as a hod-carrier.

"Ninety years old, eh?" said the car-penter.

"Yes.""Is his health good?""Tain't much now. He's been com-

plaining for a few months back.""What's the matter with him?""I dunno; sometimes I think hod-

carrying don't agree with him."

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A sailor was boasting about the dif-ferent places he had visited. The SouthSeas, New Zealand, the Arctic Circle—all came alike to him. A woman whohappened to overhear the bragging re-marked :

"Then you must know a lot aboutgeography?"

Sailor (quickly): "Well, madam, nota great lot. We put in there once for coal-ing, but I never went ashore."

Cute Shopper: "Do you have 'No-tions' on this floor?"

Floor Walker: "Yes, Ma'am, but wehave to suppress them during workinghours."

"It is hard, indeed," said the melan-choly gentleman, "to lose one's rela-tives."

"Hard?" snorted the gentleman ofwealth. "Hard? It is impossible!"

He grabbed me by my slender neck—I couldn't yell or scream,He took me to his dingy roomWhere we could not be seen.

He tore away my flimsy wrapperAnd gazed upon my form;A chilly sweat came over meBut he was hot and warm.

His feverish lips were pressed to mine;I gave him every dropHe drank away my very self—I couldn't make him stop.

He made me what I am todayThat's why you find me here—A broken bottle, thrown away,That once was filled with BEER.

"What is a counterirritant?""A woman who shops all day and

doesn't buy anything."

Cursing and yelling on a London streetwas Clancy holding a doorknob in hisfist. "Them damn Nazis will pay for this—blowin' a saloon right out of my hand."

"This clock we bought runs fine—itdoes an hour in forty-five minutes!"

Did you hear about the wife who shother husband with a bow and arrow be-cause she didn't want to wake the chil-dren?

Neighbor: "Is this your ball I foundin my yard, Tommy?"

Tommy: "Any windows or anythingbroken?"

Neighbor: "No."Tommy: "Yes thanks, it's mine."

Customer: "You're sure one bottle willcure a cold?"

Assistant: "It must, sir—nobody'sever come back for a second."

Grocer: "But why do you want a car-rier pigeon instead of a turkey?"

Thrifty young bride: "Because I hearthat they go further than any other bird."PAGE 40

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