THE STALEY

MAY, 1943 DECATUR, ILL.

DECATUR, ILLINOIS- n

FEB 2 0 1984

i LOCAL HISTORY

A $300.00 rubber life raft saved the life i.l Cy

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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"? . . . . N O W I S T H E TIME!

CONTENTS

MAY, 1943

Sfaley Company Mapping Plans

Cotton Textile Industry

Mal/as Serves as Illinois Chairman

Greatly Increased Tonnage

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Club Committees Named by Dayton 76

Keep Bond Flag Flying 20

What About Breakfast? 23

Staley Company Fighting Men 25

From Old Journal Files 33

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Manufacturers of Corn and Soybean Products

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

Volume XXVII • Number 1 1

LETTER FROM NEW GUINEAREMINDS US OF OUR PART

Letters which come back from theStaley men in service interest me for sev-eral reasons. One thing which interestsme in most of them is the way in whichpractically every man writing to friendshere is looking forward to the time whenhe can come back to Staley's. Most ofthem say that the Army or the Navy orthe Marine Corps, isn't so bad, but itwould be nice to get back here and smellthe feed dryers or even the mill house.

Then the other day I saw that letter(quoted in another part of this issue)from Sergeant Hardcastle. He is one ofthose Americans who is living in that''Hell painted green" which is NewGuinea, only he doesn't have anything tosay about the awful heat, or insects, orsnakes or odors. Instead he says:

"I recall some of our products whenthe big guns speak death. * * * At messsome of our food is sure to have had itsbeginning in the Staley lab. * * * Every-time I pick up my telephone I hold partof my company in my hand."

That is the first time any Staley manon actual combat duty has written backabout this concrete part the company isplaying in the war, although probably agreat many of them have thought of it.Because we are not actually making gunsor tanks, ammunition or field rations,uniforms, planes or other equipment, itsometimes escapes our minds that wehave a direct war work to do. It is wellto remember, even if a soldier in NewGuinea must remind us, that the mate-rials the men and women in this plantare making are necessary and vital in-PAGE 2

gredients in the finisher! articles whichequip and feed our men in all parts of theworld.

Sometimes We Forget

Of course you all know you are ratedas a war worker but it is still hard to re-member sometimes, especially since thework you are doing and the things youare making and packing are just thethings you were doing and making andpacking several years ago. Most of themare even going to the same customers.Those customers, however, are makingsomething definitely for the armed serv-ices, but if the Staley product failed inquality or quantity, that company wouldbe unable to meet its government con-tracts.

It was all of this that Sgt. Hardcastlehad in mind when he added in his letter:

"All we ask of you men there is—keepthat thing going—we need it."

It is a simple plea but it comes directfrom the heart of a man who, until twoyears ago one of our boys, is now inthe thick of one of the worst fightingareas civilized man has ever known. Hehas been there long enough to see whatit would mean to those American boysif their ammunition supply failed becausethe Staley plant did not make the neededingredients for making it.

Because of a Nail

Actually it all comes back to that sameold "battle-lost-because-a-nail-was-lost"thing. If any Staley man and woman, re-gardless of his job, is careless, or neglect-ful or absent too often it slows up thewhole process in a very necessary chain.You may think if you are a janitor or a

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bookkeeper or doing some other jobwhich is not actually handling the fin-ished product, that you do not count—that it makes little difference what youdo—but there you are only kidding your-self.

Clean, orderly buildings, records inperfect order and up to date are more im-portant now than ever before. Every-thing must be in order so that nothingwill slow down the orderly and rapidflow of materials in and products out.If one man in a department stays homeevery time he feels tired or not quite upto par, someone else in his departmentis having to do two peoples work. To besure the nurse insists we stay home if weare ill, but the point is—take care ofyour health so you will not have to takeso many days off.

About Your Health

That might be a good time to get ina few of the nurse's pet ideas on thishealth problem. She insists that peoplestay home when they are ill, and she saysthat most Staley people who say they areill, are—but she thinks a great many ofthem would have better health and wouldhave to take fewer days off if they usedcommon sense. For instance: »

Everyone now is working at high pitchand nerves are on edge. You will accom-plish more, with less fatigue, if you startthe day with a good breakfast. GertrudeSmith, nutritionist, stresses this in anoth-er part of the Journal this month andLucile May applauds loudly.

Then if you are one of these peoplewho likes to do a lot of things on theside, consider your Staley job—your warMAY, 1943

job it is—first. If you find that after aweek-end of intensive gardening, for in-stance, you are worn out and taking coldon Monday and stay home, look well toyour garden work. Perhaps you wouldbe doing more good in the garden if youspread your efforts over several days—and then perhaps on Monday you wouldnot be such a wreck. At least your gar-den might appear in the light of a recre-ation and not a chain-gang job.

Take your recreation, warns the nurse,but take it as such, so that it will restyou and not so that it will wear you outand make you ill.

Try Worrying Successfully

In the last issue of the Staley NewsRoy Rollins said one thing (actually hesaid many) that touched a pet theory ofmine. In writing of men who come tohim with the worry that there is no op-portunity for them here. They are wor-ried. In effect what Roy tells them is this—and it is what I have found is a work-able plan:

If you are really worried do somethingabout it. Worry, all right, but worrythrough to a solution. Learn to worrysuccessfully. In this case Roy tells suchpeople to get busy and prepare them-selves for better jobs. The jobs are therewhen the men are ready for them.

I have -always thought that a greatmany people said they were worried whoactually were not even deeply concerned.They think they are, to be sure, but ifthey were actually worried they wouldturn that worry into a constructive direc-tion and try to work out of the conditionwhich caused the depression.

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"Oh, Adam was a gardener and God who made him sees

That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.'

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Staley Company Mapping Plans Now

For Period to Follow the War

There never was such a war as thisone, and from it will emerge such aworld as we have never seen, or this warwill have been in vain. So believes thatever growing group which is workingthrough various fields—industry, gov-ernment, politics, religion—to prepare forthat post-war world. Wars have alwaysbrought about violent changes, but neverbefore have such definite plans and prep-arations been made in advance to meetthose changes as are being made now.

The custom of the world has been, gen-erally, to fight a war on the battlefieldsand then come home to economic andsocial messes which took a terrible tollin nerves and money and even lives be-fore they were settled. Economists havedetermined that such a period will not—must not—follow this war. The chang-es will be here, but the world, politically,economically and socially — must beready for them.

Staley Company Prepares

That the Staley company, to surviveand prosper, must prepare now for thatpost-war period has been definitely de-cided. No haphazard, last minute plan-ning will do, but a carefully thoifght-through program must, according to com-pany directors, be worked out.

Franzy Eakin, selected to take chargeof this work, has long been interested inpost-war planning. While following hisprofession as an accountant he learnedat first hand just after the last war whatcan happen to business, government, na-tional economy and society when noMAY, 1943

plan and pattern are ready for the chang-es which war brings. Before coming tothe Staley company as comptroller hehad spent several years in his capacityas a certified public accountant workingwith firms which often were sufferingfrom the results of entering a post-warperiod without previous planning.

He has been with the Staley company11 years as comptroller and for eight ofthose years has been a director and vicepresident. That gives him a knowledgebackground of the Staley company'sability and scope, and a foundation uponwhich to build his post-war planning.This year he gave up active comptroller-ship to devote his entire time and atten-tion to this new work, although in plan-ning for the years after the war he feelsthat he will work more closely with everydepartment in the company than he hasever worked before.

Need World Picture

According to Mr. Eakin no post-warprogram can be laid out for the Staleycompany, or for any other business or-ganization, until general national andworld conditions are studied carefully.To plan a Staley's of the future one mustgo thoroughly into such matters as whateconomic and social problems will facethe world in'general, which way the cen-ter of population will shift, what will bethe agricultural, transportation, archi-tectural and political trends and prob-lems.

These and dozens of other questions ofworld-wide importance must weave into a

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background before much can be doneabout the hundreds of issues which mustbe faced right here at the Staley plant.The number of those problems is stagger-ing and grows constantly, for each oneadded to the list suggests another. Theypyramid and tower on all sides but eachties directly into the world background.To the novice there seems to be no goodplace to start and certainly no end afterone once gets going.

Even a novice can realize that the ad-vancement made by science during thewar years will directly affect the entiremanufacturing world as soon as peace isdeclared. The program upon which Mr.Eakin is working is based on this. Whatare many of these new inventions, dis-coveries and ideas going to mean to theStaley company?

Takes An Example

He suggests one field as an example—the textile industry. For many years thatindustry has been a large user of Staleyproducts. If textiles undergo the radicalchanges scientists predict, what will itmean to the Staley company? One thingis certain. It will not be wise to waituntil the time arrives to find out. Itcould mean one of several things and allof these avenues are being explored andcharted. It might mean that the new tex-tiles will continue to use the same starch-es, but in greater or smaller quantities.Again it might mean that no starcheswould be used but that some other prod-uct now being made by Staley's wouldbe needed in greatly increased quan-tities. It might mean that the Staley com-pany could put an entirely new producton the market for the new textile—orthat the Staley company might have tostep out of the textile picture entirely.This we do not expect to do!

And here is where the pyramidingstarts. If some minor product seems tobe just what the textile industry wants,PAGE 6

or if the company can put some newproduct out for that industry—what doesthat mean? It probably means that thepresent manufacturing set-up would beradically changed or even re-built. Itmight mean the elimination of some pres-ent departments, the enlargement of oth-ers and the creation of new ones.

If Rebuilding

But before new buildings could be putup or old ones rebuilt the post-war popu-lation, transportation and agriculturaltrends would have to be studied. Wouldit be wiser to build new, small plants inareas closer to the raw materials and thesources of labor? Will post-war popula-tion center in large cities, spread out insmaller communities or scatter to farms?

Whatever plan is followed new prob-lems open up in research, development,control , manufacturing, engineering,sales, credit, distribution and personnel.Particular attention is being given in allpost-war planning to personnel. It maybe because that was one of the big issueswhich followed the last war. Men cameflooding back into an upset economicworld which was not prepared to receivethem. The men had changed along withconditions but industry was not awake tothe change. It woke up too late. Busi-ness executives, according to Mr. Eakin,have determined that this will not hap-pen again.

The Men Who Come Back

Industry realizes that the men whocome back will have changed. They willexpect to be absorbed but many of them,while they will want to go back to theirold companies, will not want to go backto their old jobs. Many of them have hadadvanced training in trades which willfit them for other work. Many of themwill come back to their companies muchmore valuable than they were. Some willcome back with physical handicaps. All

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of these things the Staley company mustget into that vast map of its post-warlife.

That it is vast beyond the averagecasual study is easy to realize, when oneknows that the textile industry, used asan illustration here, is only one of themany large industries now served by theStaley company. Taken into considera-tion in the planning must be the hun-dreds of new products which probablywill spring up to use some present orfuture Staley product. Those pyramidsand towers again!

And always between and around thewhole thing runs the highly importantthread of social trends. Only those whoalso look with a clear and far seeing eyeinto the future of society can properlyplan for the future. No business can beplanned unless the subjects of health, rec-reation and housing of the employes arestudied. Large factories in densely popu-lated areas present a problem which isentirely different from the one presentedby smaller units in smaller communitieswhere the workers live in homes of theirown. That is why those trends of popu-lation and agriculture, architecture andtransportation must be studied. It is anendless chain and it does tie into theworld background.

Resigns WPB Job

T. C. Burwell, vice president and traf-fic manager, resigned from the War Pro-duction Board in May. Mr. Burwell hasbeen serving since last autumn as a tech-nical consultant on traffic with theBoard, as a dollar-a-year man.

He resigned because of increasing re-sponsibilities in his department with thecompany, feeling that he could be ofmore worth to the war effort here for thepresent. In his WPB job he spent abouttwo weeks out of every month in Wash-ington.MAY, 1943

Michael Paczak HeadsPlant- Training Group

Michael Paczak, who has been a planttrainer, has been made supervisor oftraining. Art Watkins, night superin-tendent, who had been loaned from thatjob to supervise plant training during itsearly stages, is now back in his own job.Mike, who has been with the companysince January, 1933, had been a studentat James Millikin university before com-ing to Staley's. He has been a press op-erator in the refinery, and since the jobtraining program started has been incharge of press pulling training.

Other trainers are Harold Sigmon, whoteaches trucking and loading, Leo Rich-ards, clean-up, and Eldo Reidlinger,grain pulling. Each man in this grouphas taught each of the others his specialjob so that all of them can teach the en-tire course. During the hours these menare not teaching groups they are workingon the jobs in which they are instructors.

When Guy Hudgins, boiler maker, andMrs. Hudgins were celebrating their 29thwedding anniversary in April they had thispicture made. They were married in FortWayne but a jew years later came to De-catur. In 1922 Guy came to the Staleyround house and has been here ever since.

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COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRYMEETS WARTIME CHANGES

That many changes have been madeand much development work has beendone in the cotton textile industry tomeet war requirements are two of the in-teresting facts brought out in a pamph-let "The War Effort of the Cotton Tex-tile Industry", recently published by theWest Point Manufacturing Co., of WestPoint, Ga. The pamphlet was written byJoe L. Lanier, assistant treasurer of thecompany, and follows, in part:

December 7, 1941, found the cottontextile industry of this country alreadyproducing for war purposes in a largeway. The industry was operating ap-proaching maximum production withspindle operation more than 100 hoursper week on a three-shift basis. Thechange from "preparation for war" to"all out production for war" meant buta small increase in total production buta greater proportion for war purposes.The War Production Board in a releasedated June 29, 1942, stated that morethan 50% of the entire production ofcotton goods for 1942 would be for mili-tary purposes. That demand was success-fully met with but small inconvenienceand few shortages in supplying the civilrequirement. The problem of the textileindustry to date in World War II hasbeen one of adjustment and change towar products and the maintenance ofmaximum production.

Fortunately, the supply of grades andstaples of cotton, with but few excep-tions, has been plentiful and there hasnot been a shortage of this raw material;PAGE 8

but we were not so fortunate in many im-port materials such as silk, linen, severalof the hard fibers and, to a lesser degree,wool and certain special artificial fibers.Products from many of these materialshad been adopted for military purposes—silk for parachutes and powder bags,linen for parachute strapping, burlap forsandbags, and various hard fibers in theform of rope—to mention only a few.The problem of substitution has beenmet principally by cotton and in many in-stances the cotton substitute has provedsuperior.

There has been but one general con-version order to our industry, a conver-sion to bag osnaburg and sheeting a per-centage of the looms on various fabricclassifications ranging from 20 to 100%.This conversion was necessary to providethe tremendously increased need for baggoods formerly from jute fabrics. Manychanges on a voluntary basis have beenmade in product lines of mills to fill warrequirements and this has been particu-larly true in some of the heavier itemssuch as ducks, twills, and yarns. That themilitary requirements have been metwithout a greater use of conversion or-ders is a tribute to patriotic men of ourindustry.

Much development work has beendone to perfect fabrics and finishes tomeet the requirements of new equipmentand new conditions of fighting. Mech-anized warfare with its great variety ofequipment, from jeeps to airplanes andP.T. boats to carriers, need cotton in ev-

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ery conceivable construction and finish.The finishing plants have been calledupon to produce dye finishes in effectivecamouflage colors and treat for mildewand rot for use in the tropics and for windand water in the arctic.

During the year, the Army and Navyconferred to the men and women in manyof the mills their Production Award "foroutstanding accomplishment in the pro-duction of war materials." This Award,the highest that can be given to the "sol-diers" back home by our fighting forces,is a splendid recognition also to the wareffort of our industry.

Our industry, supplying both vitallyessential military and civilian needs, willcontinue as a bright spot in the indus-trial picture.

The Eckart family had this group pic-ture taken recently. Carl works in 17 build-ing. The young daughter, Patricia Elaine, isthree years old.

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Six years ago the boys who worked on thecoal dock gathered around and had this pic-ture taken, which one of them found recent-ly. In this group are John Guysinger, Ger-ald Leaser, Irv'm Andrews, Jess Harbin andLoren Dash.

Aircraft Mechanics AlsoFought on Guadalcanal

When the aircraft mechanics at Hen-derson Field on Guadalcanal Island saidthey would "Keep 'em Flying", they didnot refer to American planes alone, butalso to Jap soldiers, according to Lieut.James W. Hurlbut, Marine Corps com-bat correspondent who recently returnedfrom that area.

"Frequently, I saw those mechanicsdrop their wrenches and grab rifles andgo to work killing Japs," said LieutenantHurlbut. "When they finished that task,they went back to working on motorsand planes."

The combat correspondent said themechanics would lend a hand to the Ma-rines anytime it was needed and that they"did a good job of fighting and fixing.Everyone on Guadalcanal took a turn atfighting when they were needed. By ev-erybody, I mean just that—Marines,sailors, Coast Guardsmen, mechanics,Seabees, combat correspondents, aviatorsand anyone else who happened to bearound. It was everybody's job and ev-erybody worked together to win thefight.""

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Maltas Serves as Illinois Chairman

In Protein Conservation Work

K. J. Maltas, assistant feed sales man-ager, covered most of the state of Illinoisduring April in his capacity as Illinoisstate chairman of the national ProteinConservation Program. On a short leavefrom the company to carry on this work,he helped organize feed dealers and man-ufacturers, various agricultural associa-tions and others interested in proteinfeeding, to work toward a solution of theproblems facing them.

District meetings were held in ninepoints about the state and at each meet-ing there were well known speakers toexplain the protein situation and lead adiscussion on ways to solve the problem.Farm advisors all over the state were en-listed in the movement which should re-sult in a better understanding of the useof protein feeds. Why protein feeds mustbe rationed and used carefully, is ex-plained in the following paragraphsfrom the Department of Agriculture:

Never in history has there been sucha demand by the whole world for all thefoods that the farmers of America canproduce.

Of all these foods, those most neededare milk, eggs, and meat. These are thehigh protein foods.

To produce high protein foods effi-ciently, high protein feeds are needed—such as soybean meal, cottonseed meal,tankage, fish and meat meals. On a ton-nage basis, these feeds make up onlyabout three per cent of the total live-stock feed supply of the country otherthan roughage. But from a productionstandpoint the high protein feeds ranknumber one, for when used rightly theyPAGE 10

step up the efficiency of all other feeds.This season about 10>4 million tons of

the high protein feeds are available. Thisis slightly more than a normal supply.Yet the urgent need for these materialsfor feeding poultry, dairy cows, hogs,and beef cattle—in order that farmersmay produce as they have never pro-duced before—has created a need and ademand for these high-protein concen-trates far beyond our present supplies.Such a situation calls for cooperative ac-tion on the part of the farmer, his gov-ernment, and his suppliers of poultry andstock feeds.

To deal successfully with this wartimeproblem we must have a program thatwill:

(1) Provide, as far as possible, forcontinued high production of milk, eggs,and meat.

(2) Spread fairly the available sup-plies of our high-protein concentratesover the more plentiful grains so thatthere is no waste.

Many livestock and poultry producershave been concerned recently as towhether they would be able to get theprotein feeds necessary for 1943 produc-tion of livestock; and livestock products.

The upshot of the recent survey, andthe checking and rechecking of figures,is that the supply situation is tight butthat for the country as a whole there willbe enough to go around if we make thebest use of all we have.

On the basis of careful estimates, therewill be about 16 per cent more proteinfeed in 1943 than there was in 1942, ascompared with an increase of about IS

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per cent in the production of meat andlivestock products.

Except for animal proteins, the diffi-culty in the protein feed picture is notthat supplies as a whole are short com-pared with Normal Supplies but that de-mand is vastly increased.

The situation is somewhat like thatwith human foods. The supplies of manyfoods available for civilian use in theUnited States are about as large as wehave had in recent years, thanks to theall-out effort of farmers. But we have agreatly increased demand because of theincreased purchasing power of consumers.

This means that consumers must sharethe available supplies to insure that onefamily will not get a great deal while an-other gets little or nothing. In this casethe sharing is carried out by means ofrationing. No one enjoys being rationed—but it must be done to make sure thatwe will all be adequately nourished, sothat we can maintain health and the topproduction needed for the war.

In the case of animal feeds also, therewould be enough to go around in normaltimes, but the demand is much largerthan normal. Reports indicate that insome areas farmers want two or threetimes as much protein feed as they haveused in the past. In Iowa, for example,it is reported that 7 out of 10 farmers areasking for special feeds as against 3 outof 10 in former years.

This is especially true in the case ofanimal proteins, which are highly valuedfor poultry and hogs.

There are two reasons for this big de-mand. (1) Feed prices are very favor-able in relation to livestock prices; forexample, the Government has deliberate-ly held down prices on oil cake and mealas one means of encouraging dairy pro-duction. (2) Farmers are anxious toreach production goals and are there-fore inclined to use protein feeds moreliberally than in the past.MAY, 1943

So the urgent need in the case of pro-tein feeds, just as with human food, is toshare what we have. Otherwise a fewproducers will be likely to get a great dealand others little or nothing; or a fewmight get a great deal for a while andvery little later on.

That holds for protein feeds as a whole—but it is especially true of the animalproteins, where the demand is biggest andthe supply shortest.

In addition to this limitation of theprotein content of feeds, the Secretary ofAgriculture has requested the industry toput "mothers and children first" in a vol-untary program designed to give prefer-ence to starting and breeding feeds forpoultry and livestock. The industry hasexpressed willingness to meet the Secre-tary's request insofar as it is practicableto do so in view of such factors as thescheduling of car shipments, the need tokeep mills running at capacity, and therequirement that cars be fully loaded.

This program will not give all produc-ers all the protein feeds they want. Simi-larly, it will restrict the feed industry inways not contemplated in normal times.But if it is faithfully carried out, it shouldinsure adequate nutrition without wastefor the various classes of livestock andpoultry. On this point livestock nutri-tionists of the Department of Agricul-ture, and those called in as consultantsfrom State colleges by the industry, areagreed.

The faithful carrying out of this pro-gram is essential to reaching the live-stock goals set for 1943—and the live-stock goal* are a vital part of the wholefood production program, which is gearedclosely into the war effort.

There is no doubt in the minds of any-one concerned that the farmers of theUnited States, as well as the feed indus-try, will do their part.

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An officer at Rosecrans Field tries out Lt.Hiser's machine gun mount.

Lt. Hiser Teaches Useof Guns of All Kinds

Teaching all the men in the crew of abig bomber to use all types of guns is partof the job Lt. William Hiser does atRosecrans Field, St. Joseph, Mo. Lt.Hiser, oldest son of Luther Hiser, inter-nal auditor, and Mrs. Hiser, has alwaysbeen more interested in guns than any-thing else and this work of his in theArmy ordnance department gives him achance to do the thing he loves best—•and do some extremely good and newwork for the Army at the same time.

A recent issue of the St. Joseph News-Press carried a feature story on Lt. Hiserand told of some of the things he has per-fected to give the men at the Field morerealistic conditions for the target prac-tice. Two things mentioned particularlyare a .30-caliber machine gun mountrigged to fire a shot gun, and a real gunturret electrically operated. This is alsomounted on a movable frame designed byLt. Hiser, so that the men can get thefeel of a turret gun.

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he hoped would be a big help to the menand would also cut the cost of training.This is a sub-machine gun lined with a.22 barrel. It will shoot .22 bullets, whichcuts the cost. What he did not tell thereporter but what Luther might have toldhim is that the .22 barrel used in theoriginal experiment was from his riflewhich his son asked for a few weeks ago.The son got the rifle, the Army gets thebenefit of the experiment—and Lutheris shy one gun.

Lt. Hiser, a graduate of Georgia Mili-tary Academy, also attended James Mil-likin university in Decatur before goinginto the Army. The Hiser's other son,Dean, is in the Army, taking trainingwith a glider division. At present he istaking commando training at Louisville,Ky.

Frank Rucker, retired cooper, and Mrs.Rucker were surrounded by flowers andgifts when they celebrated their 40th wed-ding anniversary with an open house inApril. For the occasion Mrs. Rucker car-ried the lace handkerchief her mother car-ried at her wedding in 1873.

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Greatly Increased Tannage

Uses Far Less Shipping Space

Actual war brings out a lot of theseunsung heroes people are always talkingabout—and we seem to have found agroup here in the Staley plant. The pack-ing, shipping and traffic department menlook pretty much like they did a yearago, but they tell us all real heroes lookjust like ordinary men. And why arethese groups classed with heroes? Listen:

What have they done? This. Duringthe first three months of 1943 the Staleycompany shipped 23,500,000 poundsmore tonnage than it did in the same pe-riod in 1942 but all that additional ton-nage was shipped in 1022 fewer cars thanwere used in the same period in 1942.That means, among other things, thatevery car which went out was loaded toits greatest safe capacity. Shipping dam-

age claims, incidentally, have not in-creased.

Wartime shipping has over-loaded alltransportation lines in the country andat the same time wartime demands havegreatly increased shipping tonnage. TheStaley company is no exception, withsome of our products going to feed ourown and other armies of the Allies, andothers going into all sorts of things be-ing made for actual combat use or Lease-Lend.

We produce at top speed and ship aswe have seldom shipped before—andhave available far fewer cars. How hasit been done? By careful planning, care-ful attention to planned details, andcareful work.

Tommy Casley, U. S. Navy, was killed inan accident while on duty in Australia. '

Tommy Casley KilledIn Auto in Brisbane

Harry Thomas Casley, seaman firstclass, was killed in an automobile acci-dent in Brisbane, Australia, April 27, ac-cording to a telegram his foster-father,Harry Casley, received May 8. Tommy,who had been in the Navy since last au-tumn, has been stationed in a supply de-MAY, 1943

pot in Brisbane. No details of the acci-dent were contained in the telegram, butMr. and Mrs. Casley were informed thathe was buried in Australia, pending theirinstructions.

Ever since he finished school TommyCasley had worked in the Staley plant,and at the time of his enlistment he wasworking in the syrup house. His ac-quaintance among Staley people waswide because he was the foster-son ofHarry Casley, foreman of Elevator A,and Mrs. Casley, with whom he had livedsince he was six weeks old and who werevery fond and proud of him.

In addition to his foster parents Tom-my leaves his father, B. D. Casley, ofCisna, 111., and his wife and six-year-oldson, Nelson. Mrs. Casley and Nelsonhave continued to make their home inDecatur since his enlistment.

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This picture oj W. M. Smith was used inthe Decatur Herald with a story on soldiersreturning to civilian life. Smitty had re-turned the week before to his job in theround house.

Good Picture—Poor Safely

Walter "Turkey" Grant may be downbut he certainly is far from out, if onemay judge from a letter he wrote theJournal recently. Turkey, who works inthe west yard, has been a patient in theMacon County Tuberculosis Sanitoriumfor several months, but he gets about andhe certainly reads the local papers—andhe does not forget the things he learnedat Staley's—as witness this part of hisletter:

"In looking at the morning paper Iwas surprised to see a picture of a Staleyemploye using an air hammer with hisgoggles up on his cap. What, I ask you,will the public think of us? Don't tellme they have mislaid the safety rulessince Harry Lichtenberger and I havebeen out here."

The picture he mentions appeared ina local paper and neither Smitty nor thephotographer were to blame. The news-

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papers wanted a picture of the man andany man is thoroughly disguised withgoggles on. Smitty—William McAdooSmith—had just returned to civilian lifeand his old job in the round-house whenthe Decatur papers decided to take hispicture.

So Turkey, you and Harry must notblame Smitty nor the photographer. Theyboth know better but he wasn't actuallyusing the hammer. It was all a pose—like those girls in bathing suits—youknow.

Manpower and JobsAre Being Studied

A personnel inventory of the Staley or-ganization is being made by WilliamJaske, who has been borrowed by the per-sonnel department from the standardsdepartment. At present he is working onreplacement schedules and replacementlists, and preparing manning tables.

The object of the work is to show aclear and complete picture of the joband manpower situation in the company.It will show not only what jobs there are,but what ones can be filled by men underor over military age, what ones can befilled by women and what training isneeded for them. It also gives a pictureof the company personnel in such detailthat the right man can be found for theright job.

Margaret Carter,who is being gradu-ated from Cerro Gor-do High school thismonth, is the daugh-ter oj Pauline Carter,20 building. Her fa-ther is Myrl Carter,who works at Muel-lers. An aunt, AgnesRommell, and an un-cle, Robert Siweck,

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work in the plant.

A few of the Staley girls who regularly make surgical dressings in the Red Cross roomswere busily at work the night the photographer called. Girls in the group, left to right,facing the camera, are Eloise Rice, Louise Wooters, Helen Conover and Florence Martin.With their backs to the camera are Audrey Winchester and Mary Doherty. Three of thegirls have husbands in the service. Helen's husband, Bill, Staley salesman, is with theNavy at an unidentified base in the south seas; "Pat" Martin is with the Navy at DutchHarbor, and Gordon Winchester, when last heard from, was on his way overseas. OtherStaley girls work at the Red Cross other evenings.

Army Musicians DoubleBut Not in Brass

What happens to the trumpet playerwhen an Army band accompanies thefighting troops into action? After thebig brass drum is put away and the en-emy is too close to permit the playing ofmusic, exactly what do the band mem-bers do?

That's when the Army musician doessome doubling—but in cold steel insteadof brass.

Among the varied jobs which com-manding officers assign to bandsmenwhen they put away their instrumentsand shoulder their guns, is the importantone of providing security for field head-

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quarters and bivouacs. That includesanti-tank defense, against enemy para-chutists, airborne or glider troops. Bands-men will also be found at the front assist-ing the medical detachment by serving aslitter bearers, guarding prisoners of warwhen they are taken back from the linesand also in camp, and assisting in keep-ing open the lines of supply.

Military bands have three main pur-poses, states Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,Jr., leader of the Army Band. They pro-vide music for formations. At suitabletimes, they entertain and encourage thetroops. They also perform combat du-ties, as directed by the commanding of-ficer of their unit.

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Larry Tremple and his wife found Maroa,a small town near Decatur, better suited fortheir family than Decatur, and they and thechildren love it. Looking at the Tremples,all ten of them, one would say it agrees withthem. In the front row are Martha Sue,Teddy, Peter, Nancy, and Sally. In the backrow are Larry, Jr., Virginia and Peggy. Mr.Tremple is a bakery technician in our indus-trial sales division.

Club Cummittees Named by Dayton

In preparation for starting the StaleyFellowship club on its 1943-44 year, thenew president, Dan Dayton, has an-nounced the following committees:

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Boy ScoutsEdgar Ecklund, chairman; William

Ryan, Edward Lahniers, Jerry Leaser,Alonzo Wall.

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Athletic

Russell Dash, chairman; Robert Si-week, Dave Mitchell, Irving Smith, Geo.Henderson, Jesse Fisher, Sam Williams,Morris Fisher, Francis Coulson, MaryHelen Bauman.

Entertainment

Dudley Boren, chairman; Wi lburCoon, Earl Beals, Grover Roderick,Daisy Alexander, Florence Brown, ClydeSchoonover, Frank Koshinski, GertrudeHebert, Robert Siweck.

Finance

Ray S. Bass, chairman; Dudley Boren,Russell Dash, Ed Moore, Virgil David,Gilmore Hoft, Edgar Ecklund, ClaudeThornborough.

Special Insurance CommitteeEdgar Ecklund, Earl Beals, Jesse Fish-

er, Virgil David, Ed Moore.

Handicraft

Virgil David, chairman; TheodoreShondel, Harvey Smith, Earl Kahn, JohnQuerry, Walter Rinehart.

Relief

Ed Moore, chairman; Bob Leek, I. T.Hayes, Oman Williams.

Sick Benefits

Gilmore Hoft, chairman; Lee Lyons,Sylvester Boos.

GardensClaude Thornborough.

Homer Boycr in NewPersonnel Position

Homer Boyer, new interviewer in thepersonnel department, is actually not anew comer to the Staley organization forhe was a package department salesmanMAY, 1943

for four years. During the year beforehe returned here to the personnel depart-ment he had been working as a carpenterin the Victory ordnance plant.

In addition to his Staley acquaint-ances made through his package depart-ment work, he is well known to the base-ball loving group in the company be-cause he is by way of being a personalityin local amateur baseball. Born in Ar-genta he has lived there most of his lifeand he and his wife are continuing tomake that their home.

Mike Honold retires after 24 years.

"Just Going Fishing"Insists Mike Honold

Michael Honold, who has been fore-man in the Staley syrup refinery since1919, retired May 1 and has no otherplans, he announces, other than goingfishing. Those of Mike's friends whoknow his habits say that he will not bea success at that sport because he willget to the lake so early in the morningthe fish will all be asleep. Mike, due at

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the plant at 7 in the morning, generallygot here around 6 so he would be readyto go to work on time.

Born in Pekin, 111., Mike has spent 55years in the syrup business, and in histime knew his way around most of thebig plants. He was working at the Edge-water, N. J., plant when the Staley com-pany built the refinery here in 1919, andstarted out for the best man in the indus-try to run it. The late G. E. Chamber-lain, then the Staley general superintend-ent, had known Mike in earlier days andstarted to hunt for him. When he foundhim Mike moved to Decatur.

Mike and his wife live in a home whichthey have owned long enough to remodelit until it is as comfortable and attrac-tive as any house in Decatur. Because hehas always been very busy as refineryforeman he purposely did not buy a largepiece of land, but they have an attractiveflower plot. Working there will not takemuch of his time, but he does mentionvaguely that he might find room in hisgarage for a work-shop is fishing fails tointerest him.

The day before he retired his "gang"in the refinery gathered around. R. A."Doc" West, his successor, made a nicespeech, and the boys presented him witha bill-fold and "contents".

Soldiers Bonus CheckStarts Chinese Fund

Bud Kester started something whenhe signed over his company Army bonuscheck of $50.00 to China Relief. Bud,who on the rolls of the United StatesArmy is Corp. Tech. Horace J. Kester,worked in the soybean warehouse beforegoing into the Army. For a good manymonths he has been seeing a great dealof extremely active service in the southPacific and evidently he has been a wit-ness to some of the Jap's treatment of theChinese.

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At any rate instead of asking for his$50.00 bonus, he wrote to Roy Rollins,director of personnel, and asked that theentire sum be turned over to China WarRelief. Roy, who thinks he has an ar-mored heart, was deeply touched and de-cided that, as a gesture of thanks andgratitude to Bud as well as to the bravesufferers of China, the personnel of theplant could at least do as well as Bud.If he could give $50.00 surely 500 peo-ple in the organization could give a dimeapiece to make it another $50.00.

Without half trying to get the moneyhe found more than that amount collect-ed on his desk in a short time. And hewill still take dimes—or more—if any-one else wants to add to Kester's gift.

C. G. Scheeler, who has been with the jeedsales department lor some time, is takingover the work of that department formerlyhandled by J. D. Douglas, who comes toDecatur. Mr. Scheeler has been the repre-sentative in the Dakotas, Nebraska andparts of Wyoming and Montana.

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When the Army staged a big parade and sham battle in Decatur in May the Staley com-pany had this float in the parade. The girls in the rear are Bernice Corbidge, left, andFrances Denson. In the front they are Ruth Austin and Dorothy Minick.

Get Postal Zone Number

Correct Decatur addresses in the fu-ture will carry a city postal zone numberafter the word Decatur. Post Master J.M. Allen has asked that all Staley peoplelearn their number as quickly as possibleand then mail cards to all regular corre-spondents telling them of the addition.

The system followed is this—Jane Doe1212 South Michigan St.,Decatur, 2, 111.

This zoning system, which the Britishhave used for a long time, is being putinto effect in a large number of cities inthe United States to facilitate mail sort-ing and delivery. With men from thepostal services being called in the armedservices, post offices are finding theirwork slowing up and mails being de-MAY, 1943

layed. A new man can sort mail morequickly and accurately if there is a zonenumber on it.

If you failed to see your zone numberin the published list ask your postmanwhat it is. If you have a box you will beassigned a letter—A, B, or C to use in-stead of the number. There are 48 cityand 7 rural routes served by the Decaturoffice. Already five men from that officehave gone into the service and at leasttwice that many will leave this summer,the post master is sure.

We wish to thank our friends in theStaley plant, particularly the men in theboiler room, for kindness to us at thetime of the death of our son.

Harve "Slim" Crose and Family.

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K E E P B O N D FLAG FLYINGBy Forgetting to Cancel Deduction Drders

Remember how proud the entire Staleyorganization was the day the bull gangput up these two flags? Remember—itwas just last October—how excited ev-eryone was as we watched the men jogover to that corner of the big parkinglot, at the 22nd Street and Eldorado in-tersection, and start sinking the big polewhich was to show the world that theStaley employees had signed up for 10per cent of the payroll, for 10 per centdeductions for War Bonds? Rememberhow thrilled we were when we passedthat corner every day and saw the flagswhich told the world that Staley's weredoing their part?

Well—remember that the next timeyou think you simply can't keep up your10 per cent deductions. And rememberso vividly that you change your mindabout cancelling those deduction orders.Too many people have lost their firstflush of patriotic enthusiasm and havedecided they will drop the deductions fora while. One wonders what would hap-pen if some of their brothers and sons inthe service would lose their enthusiasmand drop out of action for a little while.

So far the Staley 10 per cent flag stillflies, but if the deductions drop belowthat point, down it has to come. And in-stead of dropping it should be climbing.Those persons who cancel deductions saythat it is a necessity brought about bybills which must be paid. Bills have ahabit of accumulating—that is why acash basis is a more comfortable one. Per-haps the family does not eat quite so lav-ishly but it probably can eat just as well,if the cash instead of the credit systemis followed.

But this is war—everyone's war andthose who stay home must do their partand that part takes the form of buyingbonds. The ironic thing about it is thatwe who stay comfortably at home don'teven give this money—we only loan itand get back four dollars for every three.Leaving out patriotism, it is plain goodsense to cut down on some of the thingsyou want now, loan your money whereit is needed and get it back, with interest,after the war.

Think it over well—and then do notcancel your deductions. .

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Hardcastle Writes of New Guinea

S/Sgt. David H. Hardcastle recentlywrote his former foreman, P. E. Wills,from New Guinea, which seemed so goodit should be re-printed, in part, for hismany friends in the plant. He is a broth-er of Floyd Hardcastle, planning.

"Your good letter was mine to enjoyyesterday. It was like sitting down onthe steps of 16 building and talking toyou as I have so often done.

"Most factories, it is evident, are atfull speed now. Often when we are us-ing some of this valuable war material,I tell the fellows that it probably had itsorigin with the Staley company. I recallsome of our products when I hear one ofour big guns speak out certain death atthe little yellow devils. At mess we aresure to have a happy meeting with finefood products that had their beginningin the Staley lab. Every time I pick upmy telephone receiver I hold a part ofmy company in my hand. All we ask ofyou men there is—keep that thing going—we need it.

"Glad to know that several of the boysare in this thing with me. Sorry I haven'trun in to any of them yet.

"If you recall I have been in this gamefor 16 months. When I return I can tellyou plenty that will be of interest to you,since you were once a soldier. I am gladthat I am a soldier for Uncle Sam. Thereis no question but that we are the bestpaid, best cared for, best equipped andbest fighting soldiers in all the world. Isomet imes w o n d e r if our enemieswouldn't like to be Americans. I don'tthink I care to give them that cherishedprivilege.

"Please give my regards to all em-ployees there and do not forget to do thesame for those elsewhere."

Don't tell people about your indiges-tion. "How are you!" is a greeting, nota question.

/. D. Douglas, who has been a feed de-partment field supervisor in the southeast-ern territory, has been transferred to thehome office in Decatur.

C. M. Keith, who has been a salesmanin feed sales, has been brought in to thehome office and is now working with E. M.Bailey in the priorities department.

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WHAT ABOUT BREAKFAST?

GERTRUDE S. SMITH, Nutrition Director, Corn Industries Research Foundation

Are you one of those people who getpretty well fagged out by the time youare due to eat lunch? Do you have aheadache or get very tired—and some-times irritable—an hour or two beforethe lunch hour, and wonder why? May-be you don't eat enough for breakfast.

Breakfast is probably the most im-portant meal of the day—especially nowthat food rationing is here—and the onethat is most neglected. Some of us do notget up in time, or just do not feel likeeating much for breakfast—and so westart out with nothing more than a cupof coffee, or fruit juice and coffee. One ofthe most popular types of breakfast—with men especially—is doughnuts orsweet rolls and coffee. This may be satis-fying, but it certainly doesn't supplymuch in the way of food essentials. Whenwe have this kind of food to start out theday, we wonder why we feel so queerby noon.

Eat Three Meals

The day's food requirements should bedivided into three pretty equal parts—and if we neglect breakfast, it is almostimpossible to make up for it in the othertwo meals. Sometimes, when there is along stretch between breakfast and lunch,our breakfast should supply more foodthan our lunch, or we should have a snackMAY, 1943

a couple of hours before lunch, to tide usover. And when I say "snack", I meansomething like a glass of milk, or fruitand milk,—or a sandwich. Just a cup ofcoffee or a cold drink doesn't supply thenourishment that we really need, al-though it may stimulate us for a fewminutes.

Breakfast is a very good time to getone of the two fruits which we shouldhave during the day, either fruit or to-mato juice—which supplies Vitamin C.It takes about twice as much tomatojuice to supply the amount of Vitamin Cthat orange or grapefruit does. Six ouncesof orange juice will supply enough Vita-min C for an average size woman for aday.

Use More Cereals

Breakfast is also a very good time toget the egg which we need. We can alsoeat part of our cereal requirement, eitherin the form of bread or as cereal. Withmeat rationing giving us less meat thansome of us have been accustomed to hav-ing, it is important that we use morecereals. They contain protein as well asminerals and vitamins which are essen-tial for good health. The egg along witha glass of milk will also provide addition-al minerals and vitamins, as well as extraprotein, so that we won't miss the food

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value of the meat so much. Coffee maybe served in addition to this—if we feelthat we have to start the day with a cupof coffee.

There are two schools of thought onwhether or not we should have a hot orcold breakfast. For my part, I believethat we feel better if we eat a hot break-fast in the winter, but that it doesn'tmake so much difference in the summer.The main thing is to eat a substantialmeal at the beginning of the day—onethat will give us enough nourishment tocarry us through until noon.

If we go to work without eating in themorning, it means that we are withoutfood from dinnertime the night beforeuntil noon the next day—about fourteento sixteen hours. If anyone required usto go without food for that length of time,we would be indignant.

The period before lunch is one of thehigh fatigue points of the day; it is a timewhen we can have accidents more easily—just because we haven't eaten enoughto keep us going.

Eat According to Work

The person who is doing office workdoes not require as much food as the onewho is doing heavier work, so that herbreakfast may be lighter. It should stillbe something besides coffee and fruitjuice, even though she may have to getup a little earlier in order to have time toeat it. The person who is preparing thebreakfast can plan a basic one and varyit for the different members of the familywho may have different requirements.Also, a surprise occasionally helps to in-crease the breakfast appetite. Muffinsin place of the inevitable toast, for in-stance, may stimulate the appetite.

TYPICAL BREAKFASTS FORDIFFERENT KINDS OF WORK:Light work—-Fruit or juice; whole

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Medium work—Fruit or juice; 1 egg—poached, soft cooked or scrambled;whole wheat toast and butter; or—Cereal; milk, coffee.

Heavy work—Fruit or juice; 2 eggs;whole wheat toast and butter; cereal;cookies or a doughnut; milk, coffee.

The muffins should be made out ofwhole grain or enriched flour to supplymore vitamins and minerals.

Occasionally, when a heavier breakfastis desired, or for special occasions, grid-dle cakes or waffles may be served pro-viding they are not greasy, but a regularbreakfast of just doughnuts and coffeedoes not supply enough of the food es-sentials for good health even though itmay be satisfying.

It is not fair, either to you or to yourjob, to go to work without breakfast orwithout enough. So, if you have been inthe habit of stinting on breakfast, try thisidea of improving the kind or increasingthe amount of food you eat. You willfeel better and do a better job if youacquire the breakfast-eating habit.

A half-filled war stamp book is just thesame as a half-equipped soldier. Fill 'emup instead of the gas tank, nowadays.

His friends mightthink this is W. H.Randolph, Jr., in min-iature but it actuallyis his grandson, JamesGlenn Fisher, Jr., sonof Bill's daughter, Vir-ginia, and her hus-band, Glenn Fisher.The young man is notquite three'years old,but very special in theRandolph family forhe is the first grand-child and the onlygrandson. The proud

grandfather is southeastern manager for in-dustrial sales, and lives in Atlanta.

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^ Staley Company fiqktinq Ulen ¥

M O R E N A M E S A D D E DTo List of Men in Service

The following men jrom the company entered military service during April—

Herman Goldberg

William Donald Potrafka

Emmet Karl Cunningham

Kenneth Bray

John Henry Gilbert

W. E. Connett

J. W. Connett

Lewis D. Ludway (Painesville)

D. K. Reeves

Pvt. Edwin Robazek wants to know ifhe is just an out-sider. Now that he is inAustralia he doesn't get his Journal andhe wants it. The trouble seemed to bethat Edwin suffered a change in A.P.O.and the Journal hadn't been told. Is thisthe place to say nobody ever tells us any-thing? But the Journal has been startedto him now—hope he gets it and goodluck to him.

Corp. Clarence Bowman, left, sent thispicture which he writes was taken "at oneside of the tent at A.P.O. 915. You mayfind it interesting because of our unusualclothing and the crude construction of ourhome. The man on the right is a good Armyfriend jrom Fresno, Calif. When this pic-ture was taken we were isolated on an un-populated island where there was no civili-zation." Corp. Bowman worked on the ex-tra board before going into the Army.

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Corp. Thomas Goodwin is now in chargeof the laundry at the Army air base at EaglePass, Texas. He formerly worked in Eleva-tor C.

Married in Oklahoma

Thelma Furr and Corp. Thomas Good-win were married in Muskogee, Okla.,Jan. 9. After a short time Mrs. Goodwinreturned to Decatur and later Corp.Goodwin was transferred to Eagle Pass,Texas.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs. DoraFurr of Decatur. and for some time hasbeen employed at the Macon CountyTuberculosis sanitorium. She plans toremain in Decatur and continue with herwork for the duration.

Corp. Goodwin, who worked in Ele-vator C before going into the Army, isthe son of Mrs. Mary Goodwin, of De-catur.

Pvt. Henry White, who was quite illfor a while, is home from camp now torecuperate. He had an appendix opera-tion, and did not recover according toschedule. His mother, Mrs. MamieWhite, bag room, drove down to CampShelby and brought him home.

Pfc. Don Siloski is now stationed atLetterman General hospital in San Fran-cisco, where he has been taking some spe-cial training.

Carleron at College

Dean Carleton, formerly clerk in theplant office, is now taking a special Armytraining at Gettysburg College, Gettys-burg, Pa. He is in the air corps, but isgetting a good basic college course, in-cluding history and English. Accordingto a recent letter he had an average of100 in history and 85 in English whichwould seem to show that our Dean is notso slow.

He also has been playing some basket-ball. Also—and the thing he thinks themost important—he has been doing con-siderable flying. He will be trained eitherfor pilot or navigator, and he is hoping hebecomes a pilot.

Joins Husband

Marjorie Stockwell Dickson gave upher position in the paymaster's office inMay to join her husband, George Dick-son, who is in the Navy air corps. Heis stationed at San Diego. Marjorie isthe daughter of S. R. Stockwell, refinery.

The infantry does not always seem able tomanage the infants. At any rate, Corp. Rob-ert Brix, formerly of the laboratory, washaving a little difficulty with the baby hepicked up in Hawaii and tried to pacify.Bob says he has better luck with older babes.

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Following Father's Example

Two of Hank Potrafka's three sonshave followed his example and joined theNavy. Hank served in that branch dur-ing the last war. His oldest son, Robert,has been in the Navy for some time, wasat Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and hasseen considerable action since. He is atorpedoman and is now at Mare Island.The youngest son, William Donald, en-listed in the Navy in April and is nowat Great Lakes. He worked in the yardsbefore joining.

Robert Ball, who worked in the mail-ing room before enlisting in the Navy,is ill in the hospital at Great Lakes, withrheumatic fever. He is a brother of JeaneUenz, of the financial department.

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Sgt. Donald Martin, found on a smallisland after having been reported dead formore than two months, came to Decatur inMay to spend a furlough with his parents,Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Martin. His father, Cy,is a shipping inspector in the plant.

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The two sons, and only children of R. K.Lenover, assistant foreman 20 building, andMrs. Lenover, are in the Army. Pvt. Ken-neth, left, worked in the kiln house and Pvt.Walter in the paymaster's office. Kenneth isnow in a tank destroyer group at CampHood, Texas, and Walter is in a financialtraining group at Ft. Harrison, Ind. Theboys were inducted nine days apart.

Randolph to Navy

W. H. Randolph III, son of W. H.Randolph, Jr., manager of our southeast-ern division industrial sales department,has gone into the Navy with an ensign'srating and will take his preliminarytraining at Corpus Christi, Tex., beforebeing sent on for advanced work. Hehas been for some time with the Coca-Cola company in Pensacola, Fla. He is•married and has one child.

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Lt. B. P. Thurber, Jr., was recently com-missioned at Miami Beach. He is the sonof B. P. Thurber, of our package sales, west-ern division. Lt. Thurber wears foreignservice ribbons and a wound stripe as a re-sult of the Jap bombing of Hawaii where hewas stationed Dec. 7, 1941.

Lieut. A. R. Staley is now stationed atLuke Field, which is in Phoenix, Ariz.,and Phoenix is Lieut. Staley's home. Heand Mrs. Staley and their small daughtermoved there a few years ago because ofMrs. Staley's health, and she remainedthere when he, after going into service,was stationed at various camps in thesouth. Some time ago he was transferredto Gila Bend, and a few weeks ago he wasagain transferred—this time to the fieldin Phoenix.

D. K. Reeves, who was the packagedivision territory manager in Tennessee,is now Pvt. Reeves of Camp Perry, Ohio.

P. I. Gill, formerly package divisionsalesman in Columbus, is in the Mer-chant Marine service.

It is Corporal Hilbert 0. Bell now andhis address indicates that he is overseas. Heworked in the yards before going into theArmy.

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Lt. Harold E. Schable, who formerlyworked in the plant, is now stationed at Ft.Sill, Okla.

Joseph Creamer, who worked on the extraboard, is in the Coast Guard now and atpresent is stationed at Cincinnati.

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Soon after Jack Hewitt was commissioneda second lieutenant, he was sent to CampRobinson, Ark. Lt. Hewitt was commis-sioned April 15 after 20 months in the Army.He is the son of George Hewitt, sheet metalworkers, and Mrs. Hewitt, and before goinginto the Army was a student at James Milli-kin university.

Corp. William B. Parker is taking ad-vanced training as a motor mechanic atHolabird Ordnance Motor Base in Balti-more. The second son of Judge A. Parker,assistant foreman in the boiler room, heworked at the plant at one time but wasworking for the Wabash when he enlistedlast September. He is an expert rifleman.

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S/Sgt. Uliss Swindle returned to camprecently after a visit with his wife, Mildred,of 17 building, and his parents. His father,William, works in 20 building. Sgt. Swindleformerly worked for Archer-Daniels-Mid-land.

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In Radio Work

Pfc. Cloyd Merle Blair, after takingspecial training at Sioux Falls, is now as-sisting in radio communications teachingat Orlando, Fla. The school is one of theapplied tactics and he is also gettingsome advanced training, as well as assist-ing in the teaching.

Like most of the boys who write, helikes his work but he will be glad to getback to the Staley plant and in the mean-time will we please see that the Journalscontinue to come. We will.

Air Corps Commission

Verle Rusk walked into the Journaloffice in May wearing the bright new barsof a second lieutenant. He had beencommissioned earlier in the month atSeymour, Ind., in the air force. Beforegoing into the Army a year ago he workedin the yards.

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Sgt. James C. Layton probably doesn'tlike the desert heat in California, where ithas already touched 138 he writes, buthe does not complain. Merely says thathe is all right.

One almost sure way to get into theArmy is to get a job in the package salesdivision. At least three of the boys havegone recently—but before this is printedsome others will have joined them. Thethree we have in mind are Jim Moore,from Cincinnati, now at Camp McCoy;C. T. Cisco, territory manager from WestVirginia, now at Ft. McClellan; and E.F. Kerwin, from Philadelphia, now atMiami Beach.

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Pvt. H. C. Anthony, Jr., now at Fort Bliss,•was a package division salesman before hedecided to let his uncle buy his clothes fora while.

Floyd Harlin, who has been in theNavy for several months, is now takingspecial training at the service school atGreat Lakes. He is in the quartermas-ters' school.

Pvt. Bernard L. Walser is a Staley extraboard man who has recently been learninga lot about desert war tactics in the Cali-fornia desert, and trying to like it. He en-listed in the Army on the first anniversaryof Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1942.

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Sgt. Earl Linden Campbell writes thatbeing regimental operations sergeantkeeps him busy, but he takes time toread the Journal. His wife is with him,at San Luis 'Obispo, and at present isworking for the American Red Cross onthe post.

Sgt. Leo Kelly, formerly of Elevator C,is now a qualified engineer on an Armybomber and hopes soon to be a co-pilot. Hewrites that he enjoys flying even when hehas to dress this way to do it.

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Pilots Training

Dewey Doolen is now at the San An-tonio Aviation Cadet Center training tobe a pilot. "When and if I graduate,"he writes, "I'll be a pilot and that carriesa commission with it. I'm now what wecall a gadget—that's an aviation cadet."

Av/C Kenneth Leonard, son of ourfire chief, George Leonard, is at Elling-ton Field, Texas. He is taking trainingas a navigator.

Corp. W. B. Go§ was enjoying Army lifewhen this picture was taken. He is now inan air force band, at Pampa, Texas. Beforegoing into the Army he worked in the ac-counting department.

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Pvt. Randall Lewis has two uncles in theStaley plant. Everett Lewis is in the boilerroom and Frank in the laboratory. His fa-ttier is Cecil Lewis of Shumway, III. Abrother Cecil Howard Lewis worked in theplant before enlisting.

Donald White, refinery, is now Pvt.Donald White of Camp Sutton. His fa-ther, David L. White, works in the refin-ery also.

William McEvoy is one Decatur Highschool graduate this June who will not beworrying about a career because he is slatedto go into the Army soon after commence-ment. His father, Michael McEvoy, hasbeen a pipe-fitter with the Staley companyfor many years. An older brother, Sgt. M.L. McEvoy, is with the Army in NewGuinea. Annabelle Johnson, sales, is an old-er sister.

Pfc. Ralph Drombowski and Pfc. HalCraig will get Staley news first hand whenJean Garrison, financial, and Virginia Os-born, stenographic, visit them in Colo-rado late in May. They formerly workedin the office.

Hungry Diner: "Waiter, will the grid-dle cakes be long?"

Waiter: "No, sir, round."

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Donald, 5, and David, 2, are the sons ofRobert Siweck, electric shop, and Mrs. Si-week. They have an uncle, Frank Koshin-ski, and two aunts, Pauline Carter and Ag-nes Rommell, working in the plant also.

Jean David Smith is taking over thestatistician's job which Harry Lichten-berger left, temporarily, when he enteredthe Macon County Tuberculosis sanitor-ium last spring. Jean worked in the ac-counting department for several years,but resigned last year to keep house.

J. A. Stigers, who has been a salesmanin the feed division, is transferring overto the package division, taking a south-ern territory.

Harold Jackson, a Decatur High schooljunior, is the son of Lyman Jackson, garage,and Mrs. Jackson. He has practically grownup around the Staley plant for he was sixmonths old when his father came to workhere. He has been working after school andon Saturdays as a salesman at Bachrach's.

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Ask Gertrude Smith

Staley women who have any problemsof nutrition are urged to feel free to sendthem to Gertrude Smith, nutritionistwith the Corn Industries Research Foun-dation. Miss Smith is anxious to serve thewomen who feed Staley workers, and shefeels that perhaps one way to do that isto answer questions the women mayhave.

She has a great many practical ideason canning and will be glad to pass onthese ideas or advice on preserving fruitsand vegetables to those who have specialproblems.

Anyone having any food problems cansend them to:

Miss Gertrude SmithStaley JournalA. E. Staley Mfg. Co.Decatur, 111.

Marion Trow, supervisor of placement,has never talked much about being a rac-ing fan—but she took one week of hervacation and went to Kentucky the weekof the Derby.

Hilda Luka Turner, financial, took aleave of absence late in May to join herhusband who is stationed at an Armycamp in Texas.

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from ©Id Journal files

The Staley Fellowship Club Journal,May, 1918, carried on its cover the slo-gan—good now as then—"Food Will Winthe War—Don't Waste It".

With a "sweet" picture of him ap-peared the announcement that W. H.Walmsley had resigned as purchasingagent and joined the Army.

The Staley company employees hadsubscribed to the Third Liberty Loan100 per cent, to the amount of $50,-000.00. (A number of Staley people ownhomes today because they subscribed tothat Liberty Loan drive in 1918.)

The Staley Fellowship club had itsannual meeting, which was addressed byPorter J. Millikin. C. A. Keck was elect-ed president, J. H. Highley, vice presi-dent, and Ed Smith secretary. Governorswere W. J. White, J. H. White, FredKlumpp and W. H. Broadbear. The clubhad on hand $2,676.00 in cash and $1,-500.00 in Liberty Bonds and War Sav-ings Stamps.

In the list of Staley men in servicewere Louis Brand, Mack Gentry, A. O.McGlade, John Parker, Ernest Reich, J.A. Slover, Ray Scherer, and H. A. Sher-man.

The Staley Journal, May, 1928, car-ried a story by H. T. Morris on the effectthe weather had on Staley business.

C. A. Fitch was elected president ofthe Fellowship club, R. A. West vicepresident and L. M. Banning, secretary.New governors were Jack Mintun, W. H.Broadbear, E. C. Larsen and C. D.Fletcher.

Scotty Butler was bowling sweep-stakes winner.

Kathryn Sheeny was the newest addi-tion to the stenographic forces.MAY, 1943

The Staley Journal for May, 1933:Chicago was getting ready for its big

Century of Progress and the Journal ob-liged by carrying a story.

Claude Thornborough was re-electedpresident of the Fellowship club.

The offices went on a summer schedule,opening at 7:30, taking a half hour forlunch and closing at 4.

". . . IT ALL DEPENDS ON ME"

We reprint here a few paragraphs froma booklet published by Reliance Electric& Engineering Co., taken from Eric L.Colston's "It All Depends on Me".

"Have I done everything today asthough the successful outcome of this warall depended on me?

"If this philosophy of individual re-sponsibility were genuinely acceptedand acted upon, Victory would be won.

"The Government has power to con-trol every material aspect of life, but onlythe individual can contribute the spirit-ual power, without which the materialside is of little avail."

1

People in the orderdepartment, especial-ly, are delighted withthe picture for it is aphotograph of Larry

I jaf^S* « I Wayne Foster, six*V f I months old son of

Corrine Taylor Fos-ter, and RaymondFoster. Corrine for-merly worked in or-ders.

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YOUNG HERO OF PACIFIC AIR RATTLEMARRIES WHILE OIV FURLOUGH

Sgt. Donald O. Martin, who camehome in May after having been reportedmissing in action for more than twomonths, stayed in the middle west longenough to get married, then reported toSalt Lake City for duty again. Sgt. Mar-tin and June Ramsey were married in St.Louis May 17. They returned to Decaturfor a visit before going west.

The son of Clarence O. Martin, Staleyshipping inspector, and Mrs. Martin, Sgt.Martin figured prominently in war newswhen the flying fortress crew of which hewas a member was rescued in the southPacific in April after having been givenup for lost for two months. The ninemembers of the crew managed to escapein rubber rafts from the wreckage oftheir plane after it had been damagedand shot down in a battle with eight JapZeros.

Because the plane was known to havebeen hit and because the crew evidentlyhad perished, relatives of the men, amongthem the Martins, were notified that theywere missing in action.

As Dorothy Kuhns wrote, after an in-terview with him, in the Decatur Herald:

"We were all ready for the landing.We gathered up the flying suits and para-chutes to keep off the cold in the raftsand got our emergency rations ready.We put the rest of the flying suits againstthe wall of the plane and sat down withour backs against the suits. This was forpadding against the shock of the landing.

The airmen suffered only a minimumof shock as the pilot put the plane downon the calm water in what Martin de-scribes as a "beautiful" landing.

Before the ship had stopped moving,the rafts were shoved out and the crewleft the ship. The nine men piled intoPAGE 34

the two four-man rafts. The rafts weretied together and a 15-day journey byrubber boat was begun. The navigatorfigured a course to friendly islands butthe drift was the real boss, Martin said.

The sergeant considers his group alittle luckier than other groups that havehad the same experience. Although theylost their parachutes, flying clothes,knives and guns, their emergency rationslasted, they caught a bird and two fishand they had water enough—thanks toample rainfall.

The men's wounds healed rapidly andthey did not suffer the discomfort fromthe sun to the degree they expected, hesaid. The quarters on the rafts were smallbut the men managed to move aroundenough to prevent acute cramping oftheir muscles.

Raft Overturned

"Only one raft turned over during theentire IS days," Martin said. "That, ofcourse, had to be the one I was in." Itwas a simple matter to right the boat andclimb back in.

The men didn't realize that their or-deal had weakened their whole constitu-tions until the 15th day when theysighted an island, made a landing and at-tempted to climb out of the boats. Mostof them fell flat on their faces.

Natives watched the white men on thebeach from the shelter of a nearby junglefor 30 minutes before they came to helpthem. Coconuts and bananas revived themen to a considerable degree and theystarted making their plans to return tothe air base.

51 Days on IslandSergeant Martin and another crew

member were moved to another island be-THE STALEY JOURNAL

cause supplies on the first island were toolow to feed the entire group. The twomen took a trip back to the first islandevery few days, however, to find out howplans were progressing. The group hadbeen there only a few days before a tenthmember was added to the airmen seek-ing rescue. This was a naval flier whohad been in the islands for nearly sixmonths.

After one unsuccessful attempt atreaching help by outrigger canoe, officersof the Fortress took a native with themto guide the canoe. This time they weresuccessful.

It was on the 51st day in the islandsthat a Navy plane came for the rescue.The men returned to a South Pacific basewhere they were given their choice ofbeing hospitalized or taking a furlough.

Martin—like the rest—chose the fur-lough.

West New NationalCredit Union Head

R. A. "Doc" West, refinery superin-tendent, was elected president of the Na-tional Credit Union Association in theannual meeting in the Sherman hotel inChicago in May. He is also president ofthe Staley Credit Union and until histerm expired this year was an Illinois di-rector. R. S. Bass, company treasurer, isan Illinois director, and attended the Chi-cago meeting with Doc.

The National association, which hasalmost 4,000,000 members, is made up ofover 11,000 chapters in the UnitedStates, the Canal Zone and Hawaii.

M/Sgt. H. J. "Jimmy" Cozad prob-ably has started his officers training at aschool in Persia, where he is stationed.In a recent letter he said that he wasseriously considering taking such acourse. Jimmy, prominent Staley athlete,went to Persia with a railway battalion.MAY, 1943

Heavy Rains PostponeTry-Outs for Soft Ball

Although the Staley Fellowship clubwill have some soft ball teams in theleagues this summer, try-outs were beingput off until diamonds were at least outfrom under water. The season, scheduledto start the first of June, will open latebecause up to that date diamonds werenot even muddy—they were lakes.

Staley's will have one team in the In-dustrial league and two or three in theBusiness Men's league. This latter issponsored by the Recreation Board. Thissame board sponsors a women's soft ballleague and Staley's will have at least oneteam in this league.

There are no plans for the Staley ballteam this year.

Robert Asman, salesman in our NewEngland territory, and Mrs. Asman, haverecently announced the engagement of asecond daughter, Gretchen, to HenryGeorge Jacob, Jr. Both families live inNew Haven, Conn. Several weeks agothe Asmans announced the engagementof their daughter, Anne Marie, to GeorgeJohn Bussmann.

Gretchen Asman, who spent her earlylife in Decatur, was graduated from St.Mary's Academy and attended AlbertusMagnus college, in New Haven. Mr. Ja-cob, who prepared at Hopkins, is a sen-ior in the Yale engineer school.

When a recent visitor to our New Yorkoffice said to Marian Maurer, secretary,"It's nice to see one old face in here," shesaid:

"Couldn't you please change thatslightly and say 'familiar' instead of'old'?"

Marian has been a "familiar" person-ality about that office for several yearsand is a great favorite with all Decaturpeople, as well as New Yorkers who visitor call the office.

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MAY FLOODS PLAY HAVOC WITH ILLINOISCORN FARMERS PLANTING PLANS

When the rains descended and theflood came—literally and liberally—toIllinois in May, there was one big subjectfor conversation in corn and soybean cir-cles—what would it do to the crops?

According to H. J. Kapp, vice presi-dent and manager of our grain depart-ment, and a corn and bean farmer in hisown right, it can mean many things—but it all hinges on the weather of thefuture. Continued heavy rains and dampdays, followed by early killing frosts inthe fall could spell tragedy, he knows, butthings seldom work out that way in thiscorn and bean country of central Illinois,he finds.

While Illinois farmers like to planttheir corn between May S and 20, Mr.Kapp holds to the conviction that thereis little danger of it being caught by frostif the planting is delayed until the first ofJune. Counting the theoretical 120 daysnecessary for maturing a crop, and bas-ing his conviction on the fact that thispart of the country seldom has a killingfrost before the middle of October, hefeels that even a later planting might berisked, if necessary.

A hurried survey made after the heav-iest rains showed that perhaps 20 per centof Illinois farmers had their corn in whenthe floods came. Since most corn in thispart of the country is planted on low bot-tom land or flat country, such fields aregenerally the first to be flooded. Any cornthat was in, Mr. Kapp feels sure, will bea complete loss. The anxious farmer nowmust wait to see (1) if the rains are go-ing to continue; (2) if the rains ceaseand the weather continues cold anddamp or (3) if the sun will come out,and a stiff Illinois wind spring up to as-

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sist it in drying the fields enough to beworked again.

The soybean crop, according to Mr.Kapp, will not feel the May floods as thecorn crop will, because he knows, by ex-perience, that beans can be planted aslate as the first of July and still mature.Illinois farmers, for all that they raisebeans in staggering quantities, are stilltrying out planting dates and methods.Some, according to Mr. Kapp, plant atthe same time they do corn, while otherswait until the corn is in.

In the immediate Decatur area it hadbeen estimated that farmers would plantmore than 100,000 acres of corn thisyear. About 20,000 acres had been plant-ed before the flood and most of thoseacres were under water. Much of theflooded area in central Illinois was goodcorn land. Ordinarily at this time of theyear it is comparatively dry and thescene of great activity. After a tripthrough the Illinois and Sangamon riversdistricts before the floods had reachedtheir crests Mr. Kapp said central Illinoislooked like the Minnesota lake country.

Jane Brumley Returns

Another familiar face is back. JaneCloyd Brumley came back to the finan-cial department late in May, when HildaTurner left'to join her husband. Janeworked in that department both beforeand after her marriage to Howard Brum-ley, but resigned some time ago to devoteher entire time to her husband and smalldaughter. Now, womanpower being whatit is, Jane is coming back.

U. S. War Bonds are wings for theeagle and feathers for your nest.

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Lt. Bauman Works withAir Service Command

Lt. Ivan T. Bauman, who worked inour industrial sales office before goinginto the Army in 1941, is spending mostof his time now traveling in the interestof the Air Service according to a letterrecently received from him. He writes,in part:

"I won't delay any longer thankingyou for the Journal which arrives regu-larly every month, as I certainly enjoyreading all the news about the Staleyfriends. Though I travel a lot I haven'thad the good fortune to meet anyonefrom Staleys except T/Sgt. Maurice As-kins, who also works here at Air ServiceCommand near Wright and PattersonFields. It was by chance that I met himinasmuch as this is another Washingtonon a smaller scale, and it is rather diffi-cult to locate anyone. We met one morn-ing over a cup of coffee in the cafeteriaand held an extended gabfest, as wehadn't seen each other since inductiondays in Chicago in February, 1941.

"Since last December I have been as-signed to Headquarters Air Service Com-mand doing installation and maintenancework in connection with signal equip-ment for fighter control operation. Itis very interesting and most of the timeis spent working from coast to coast, con-tacting personnel at the various airports.If I had a memory like Jim Farley itwould be a decided asset, as I have con-siderable difficulty associating the cor-rect name with the right faces. Since theturn of the year I have been in all thestates except six, so I feel I am getting anorientation course in elementary geog-raphy."

Lt. Bauman, who entered the serviceas a private, is now a first lieutenant.

Staley War WivesEntertain at Tea

The Staley War Wives club, organizedlast winter, may be the nucleus of a citywide club of similar nature. Young wom-en throughout the city have taken an in-terest in the organization and have ex-pressed the wish that they, too, could beaffiliated with such a group.

A number of these young women wereguests of the Staley group at a tea givenin the Y. W. C. A. in May. At that timethe Staley Wives wprked with Mrs. Hen-rietta Martin of the Y. W. C. A. in inter-esting a group of yoyng women abouttown whose husbands are in the armedservices. Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Horace Gar-man, president of the Y. W. C. A. board,and Marion Trow, of our personnel office,were special guests.

Helen Bowman Conover, new presi-dent of the Staley group, and Frieda St.John Strohl, retiring president, poured.On the committee making arrangementsfor the affair were these two and MurielScheine, Juanita McGarry, and Lula MayDial.

Jaunita McGarry is new vice presidentof the Staley group and Florence Martinis secretary. The Staley club has socialmeetings but for the most part the mem-bers do organized Red Cross work.

Dorothy Swartz, accounting, is takinga leave of absence to spend some timewith her husband who is in the Army.MAY, 1943

A telephone call from her husband,Chief Petty Officer Leo "Pat" Martin,set the world spinning for Florence Brin-koetter Martin late in May. Pat hadbeen in Dutch Harbor for some time andFlorence thought he was still there untilhe called her from the west coast. Whilehe could give her no details of where hewas or where he was going he suggestedthat it might be well to get packed and beready to hop off to join him soon. Flor-ence, assistant to Mrs. Wheeler in salesstenographic, is packed.

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These lines, written by Maude Harget for the Washington Times-Herald, needno introduction and no explanation—

_yv Soldler

So you're sick of the way the country's run,And you're sick of the way the rationing's done,And you're sick of standing around in a line,You're sick, you say — well, that's just fine.So am I sick of the sun and the heat,And I'm sick of the feel of my aching feet,And I'm sick of the mud and the jungle flies,And I'm sick of the stench when the night mists rise,And I'm sick of the siren's wailing shriek,And I'm sick of the groans of the wounded and weak,And I'm sick of the sound of the bomber's dive,And I'm sick of seeing the dead alive.I'm sick of the roar and the noise and the din,I'm sick of the taste of food from a tin,And I'm sick of the slaughter— I'm sick to my soul,I'm sick of playing a killer's role,And I'm sick of blood and of death and the smell,And I'm even sick of myself as well,But I'm sicker still of a tyrant's rule,And conquered lands where the wild beasts drool,And I'm cured damn quick when I think of the day,When all this hell will be out of the way,When none of this mess will have been in vain,And the lights of the world will blaze again,And things will be as they were before,And kids will laugh in the streets once more,And the Axis' flags will be dipped and furled,And God looks down on a peaceful world.

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/HEY/WAIT^I I'M STUCK-/

GOT STOCK IN THE DOOR OFA. BUS WITH A BIO. SACK-ON HIS SHOULDER-

An old woman at the Ulster frontierwas asked if she had anything to declare.No, nothing at all. But what was in thebottle? Oh, only holy water, holy waterfrom Lourdes. The customs officer pulledthe cork.

"Whiskey it is," said he."Glory be to God," said the offender.

"A miracle!"

"So you met your wife at a dancePWasn't that romantic?" asked one truckdriver of another.

"No, embarrassing as the dickens," replied the other. "I thought she was hometaking care of the kids."

He (sheepishly): "I suppose you'repretty mad at me for coming home witha black eye last night."

She (sweetly): "Angry? Why no, dear—don't you remember? When you camehome last night you didn't have thatblack eye."

"What line did you say you were in?""I manufacture a face powder that

can't be kissed off.""Who has charge of your proving

grounds?"

A woman indignantly approached anofficial of her rationing board, and said,"Does the number 7 coupon in a sugarrationing book mean a 'bonus' of twoextra pounds of sugar for the holder?"

"It does, madam," informed the offi-cial.

"Then I wish to make a complaintagainst my grocer," snapped the lady."He charged me for them!"

fc) i_AQS»-SEES BASKET-BALL CAME THROUGH VEKITH-ATTOR

ON ROOK OF" HIGHSCKOOI-

HONEST OFFICER,/^.»MAN AIRPLANE /OlSPOTTER-

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1 NEVER OMLJ-FORGET COHAT MR HOOVE R JWHATS THATSAID-ETC-ETC- GOTTA DO WITH

- SLA- KINDA PENCIL

(L)OTHER(JPOMISTON EXPECTS' -TO TAKE THE STUMP IN FAVOf? OFTHE 1944 CANDIDATE —

Eleanor Clarage conducts a most hu-manly interesting daily column in TheCleveland Plain Dealer. Recently shepictured a rough fellow entering a resi-dential neighborhood drug store, a roll ofmoney in his hand and saying that hewanted to buy some ice cream.

The druggist replied that he had none—all sold out—sorry.

"Well," replied the prospective cus-tomer, "I got a better job than I everhad, making and got more money, buthell, I et better when I was on relief."

Wife (heatedly): "You're lazy, you'reworthless, you're bad-tempered, you're

shiftless, you're a thorough liar."Husband (reasonably): "Well, my

dear, no man is perfect."

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Mrs. Neighbors: "But isn't your sonrather young to join the army?"

Mrs. Malaprop: "Well, he is veryyoung, but then, you see, he is only goingto join the infantry."

"Bill shouldn't have married Irene.In six months' time she's made him apauper."

"Wow! Is it a boy or girl?"—TypoGraphic.

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You talk of

Already four Staley men have given their all— their lives. More than 350 others are offer-ing theirs. You are asked to LOAN yourmoney.

And lu l l talk of sacrifices!

B U Y M O R E B O N U S N O W !

"Staleymone"is a newplant growth substancefor increasing yields atlow cost. That's goodnews for every progres-sive farmer in America!

"Staleymone" seems to stimulate growth and blossom fertiliza-tion, and to retard the falling of blossoms, fruits and grains. Biggerand better crops have been reported by hundreds of users who triedout the product in 1942.

Even if you have studied the subject of plant hormones andbelieve they are worth investigating . . . even if you know thegood reputation of the Staley Company for scientific research andfair dealing . . even if you are willing to take a chance on somethingnew, rather than missing that chance . . . you still want to makereasonably sure that you will not lose a single acre's yield in 1943.

So this is our advice to you: Plant only part of each crop with"Staleymone"-treated seed and watch results carefully. Keep recordsof yields. Then you will KNC)W what "Staleymone" can or cannot-do on your own farm.

•VA fa -TO^XStaleymoneIf your dealer cannot supply

"Staleymone," write direct to usfor information and prices.

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