THE S3MLEY

FEB 2 0 1984

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Vol. XIVNo. 2

CONTENTS

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Editorial ........................... 4

Southern Textile Mills .............. 7

New York Changes ................ 15

Bunvell Yards ...................... 17

Girls' Golf Tournament ............. 20

All Aboard for Picnic .............. 23

Credit Union Bv-Laws .. . . . . . 3 2

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See theBe Thankful

At the conclusion of the sermon thedeacon passed the contrihution box andit came back with one poker chip, a pantsbutton and a plugged nickel in it. Aswas his custom, he brought the collectionto the altar for the minister's blessing.

"Let us give thanks," said the preacher."For what?" asked the deacon, taking

a look at the collection plate."We got the plate back."-—Crow's Small

Operator.

Hubby—I went to a stag party lastnight, dearie.

Dearie—Yes, I heard you staggering asyou came in.—Burnt Log.

Rastus—You say anything to me, bigboy, an' I'll make you eat yo' words."

Mose—Chicken dumplins, hot biscuitsan' watermelon!"

No Wonder He CriedIt was a soiree musical. A singer had

just finished "My Old Kentucky Home."The hostesses, seeing one of her guests

weeping in a remote corner, went to himand inquired in a sympathetic voice:

"Are you a Kentuckian?"And the answer came quickly: "No

madam, I am a musician." — KreoliteNews.

Oh, Yeah"Having trouble with your car?" asked

a passer-by of a man on his back undera stalled car.

"Nope," came the reply from under-neath. "I just crawled under here to getout of the sun."

"And is Wilbur as fat as ever?""Fat! He had the mumps three weeks

before we knew it."—Boston & MainRailroad Magazine.

A Pretty Fix Either WaySam, the porter, was charged with theft

and his lawyer decided to put him on thewitness stand.

"Sam, if you tell a lie you know whatwill happen, I suppose?" queried thejudge.

"Yas, suh," replied Sam. "I'll go toHades and burn for a long time."

"Quite right," declared the judge. "Andyou know what will happen if you tellthe truth?"

"Yes, suh," said Sam. "We lose decase!"

"Pop," inquired little Clarence Lily-white, "what am a millennium"?

"Sho," said the parent. "Doan" youknow what a millennium am, chile? It'sjest about de same as a centennial, on'yit's got mo' legs."

Mrs. Housewife—How can I keep fishfrom smelling in hot weather?

Delivery Boy—Cut off their noses.

Grounds for WalkingA Scot was journeying in the Holy

Land and standing on the shore of theSea of Galilee he thought he would liketo sail for an hour over its blue waves.Calling to a boatman he said: "Hoo muchwill it cost to tak me oot for a sail."

"Three and sixpense," answered theboatman.

"Mon, I could get a boat for a sail athame for sixpence."

"Well, you know this is the Sea of Gal-ilee. The Saviour walked on it youknow."

"Weel it's nae wonder He walked whenye chairge such prices," and he turnedaway.

"Well, Dad, Betty won the blue ribbonat the beauty show."

Good, now she'll have something towear."

Point 9Making It a Team

The new minister drove up to a countryhome in a two-horse buggy. Little SammyFunkhouser met him and asked:

"Is them your horses?""Yes, sonny," replied the minister.

"Why do you ask?""My ma said you was only a one-horse

preacher," answered Sammy.

Statistics show that fifty years agothere was only one bath to every fortypeople in Boston, Walter Buck tells us.Now, there is one to every four and four-tenths. But even four and four-tenths isquite a crowd in a bath-tub.

The Knock DirteousShe—Anybody would think I was

nothing but a cook in this household.He—Not after eating a meal here.—

Judge.

"A gent weighing about 290 poundsand a Ford car collided. The brokenparts were one axle, two wheels and athumb."

Not Another CowA Scotsman had the misfortune to lose

his wife and a cow on the same day.Some time after some of his friendsoffered to get him another wife. "Ye're a'awfu' anxious to get me another wife,"he replied, "but nane o' yer ever think o'offerin' me anither coo!"

"He sings in a manner that is heaven-ly!" said the gushful admirer.

"I shouldn't say it is exactly heavenly,"said Miss Cayenne. "But I will at leastadmit that it is unearthly."

•»"We should never promise more than

we have a moral certainty of performing."—Washington.

Never laugh at a fat woman. She's justa little girl gone to waist.

We Should SmileOur Bobby was in a store with his

mother when he was given candy by oneof the clerks.

"What must you say, Bobbie?""Charge it," he replied.

Wife (as car sputters and stops)—•What's the matter now?

Hubby—Engine's missing.Wife—Well, for the love of Pete walk

back and find it!—National News.* .

Can This Be True?On a recent trip of the Leviathan a

woman passenger gave birth to a babygirl. As she was a poor woman the otherpassengers on the ship decided to takeup a collection for the baby. After thecollection had been taken up a meetingwas held and the chairman announcedthat the sum of $475.02 had been collected.

"From the odd 2 cents," said the chair-man, "I take it that we must have a Scots-man aboard."

"Ye're wrang aboot that, Mr. Chair-man," said MacDougal, "there's twa o' uson the ship."

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Prof.—What people are scattered allover the earth?

Class (in chorus)—Pedestrians.* •

A 12-year-old boy sent a letter to hisbest girl and closed it as follows:

With oceans of love and a kiss on verywave, when there's a storm at sea.

James.

SystemYou know these fresh air lovers. They

get you out in the air and begin to getfresh.

EditorialHAVE A HOBBY AND KEEP

YOUNGTo a group of industrial foremen

recently meeting in Wheeling, W.Va., Dr. C. O. Sappington, directorof the division of industrial healthof the National Safety Council, isreported to have said: "Probablythe one thing that keeps men fromlosing their mental balance wheneverything seems to have gone awryis a tremendously interesting andabsorbing hobby. If you are not al-ready vitally interested in somethingoutside your regular work you aremissing a great part of your life.Money is but a means to an end—there are other things worth whilein life. If more people had hobbiesthere would not be so many cases ofnervous breakdown. In fact, it maybe said that a hobby is a preventiveof high living which eventuallymakes for low vitality. You aregiven a certain amount of energyto use. You should use it discreet-ly, for when it is exhausted there isno further supply. This means pos-sibly a redistribution of your pur-suits, and also it means that youmust be moderate in all things, food,drink, clothing, work, play, andyour point of view. If you selectthe proper kind of hobby you shouldhave no difficulty in keeping youryouth."

Health experts agree that hobbiesare among the most healthful diver-sions which a man or woman canfollow because they tend to correctthe effect of the daily grind, andcounteract the monotony which isso often a necessary characteristicof a job in this age of strenuous andhighly organized industry.

The man without a hobby cannotunderstand what a relief it is to beable to throw off the cares and wor-ries of one's usual vocation, andspend a couple of hours at the closeof a wearisome day in doing exactlyas one likes, without reference to thelikes or dislikes of some one in au-thority over him. It may be golf,bowling, the cultivation of a garden,the collecting and arranging ofstamps, the pursuit of photography,a study of astronomy, or one of ascore of other things which give onea sense of freedom and completeself-control, complete relaxation andenjoyment for a mind that has beenstrained to the limit of endurance.Such a hobby will prevent one fromcontracting some form of mental orphysical disorder which would sapenergy and vitality, and cause him tobecome old before his time.

JUST AS GOODOn many occasions when discuss-

ing the quality of our product, thestatement is made that our productis just as good as our competitor's.The fellow who made a record "justas good" as some other fellow neverwon a championship. If we are go-ing to progress in the face of com-petition we have got to do better.One way we can further this thoughtis always to have in mind that shortbut eloquent sentence, "There is Al-ways a Better Way."—General Elec-tric News.

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"It is the duty of every man toprotect himself and those associatedwith him from accidents, which mayresult in injury or death."—Abra-ham Lincoln.

Comment A^S"THAT MAKES ME MAD"

Standing out in black letters inour friend John W. Hall's pink let-ter the other day was this sentence:

"The broad general rule is that aman is about as big as the thingsthat make him mad."

That, it would seem, is a goodmeasuring stick. Are you able totake as a matter of course the littleirritating things that come up everyday? When people bang doors andpapers blow about, when the motor-ist in front of you does dumbthings, when your buddy is cross—do those things upset you or do youwait for something much more im-portant to bring your ire to the boil-ing point?

There is no better time to test theability of a man to control his tem-per than such boiling weather as wehave been treated to this summer.Dispositions are on edge always, inhot weather, and the man who canaccept the little irritants then andwait for something big to blow upabout, really does measure up.

The catch is, as we see it, that thelonger you wait for a realy bigcause to come along, the longer youwill be in finding such a cause.Some people are perpetually in abluster over things—their family,their neighbors, their work,—andthey are the ones who never reallyget anywhere. Blustering simplywears one out nervously and doesnot remedy matters. The samethings may disturb the other fellow,but instead of fussing around hecalmly tries to correct matters.

••-We always have time enough if

we but use it right.—Goethe.

THE DISCONTENTED GROUPThe hardest work I do is talking

to young men and women who oc-casionally call on me for jobs oradvice.

The majority seem quite unfit byexperience or ability for the workthey want to do. What to tell them?To be blunt or sympathetic?

The good workers usually havejobs, and keep them until they findbetter jobs. Employers come tothem and offer jobs. That's a signof ability.

Below these is a discontentedgroup that wanders from job to job,never doing anything well, but hop-ing to find something they will en-joy. They are personable, alsoplausible. Yet you have the feelingthey wish the new job to give themdignity. They lack the capacity togive dignity to the job.

That is their weakness.A man of sound ability is willing

to peddle cabbages. He will likelybecome a big cabbage man. A manwho wants to write will work for acountry weekly. Neither the cab-bage peddler nor the country weeklyreporter will be ashamed of his job.He will make the job support himand promote him into somethingbetter.—Bagology.

Good sportsmanship is one of thefinest virtues that anyone can have.It can be applied, not only in ath-letics, but in a much broader sense.The good sportsman is the one whoplays the game fairly, who wants tosee the other fellow do the same andone who lives up to the best tradi-tions of fair play.

Weather or No

The weather has rain,And the weather has snow ;

It always has somethingTo gum up the show.

The weather has windTo play naughty tricks,

And yet without weatherWe'd be in a fix!

—Clipped.

THESIALEYJOUIQML

Southern Textile Mills Have Romantic HistoryStory of the Industry and Workers Unlike That Found in Any Other Branch

of Modern Manufacturing Life in United States

Editor's Note: This month TheJournal is starting a series of articlesdealing with a subject which has beenmuch discussed in recent months—textile mills and textile workers inthe south. In preparation for thesearticles a representative of The Jour-nal spent some time visiting mill vil-lages, seeing the homes, schools,churches, community houses, theatres,meeting the mill workers of variousclasses, and then going on into themountains where these mill peoplelived and where their friends and rela-tives still live by the thousands

It was all new to the writer—country, people and textile mills, andit was a revelation. To one whoseexperience with manufactur ing dis-tricts has been limited to such grimycongested sections as those surround-

ing most northern big city factories,these mills and their villages seemedlike ideal communities. To one whohad seen the trail of sorrow and wantleft by over-organization of labor andtoo much attention to the preachingof radicals, the temptation was strongto point out to the mill people theirfortunate situation, and the pitfal lswhich lie ahead for those who aremisled by un t rue propaganda.

The writer owes an unlimitedamount of appreciation and thanks toMarjorie Barr O'Steen (Mrs. WilliamO'Steen, Giffin, Ga.) for much of theinformation given in this article. Shelias lived in the cotton country all ofher life, knows the cotton and the tex-tile people personally, and knows theirproblems. The facts and figureswhich she furn ished are the resultsof much research and study.

In the hospitable and beautiful south-eastern part of the United States knownas the Piedmont region and to the southand west, cotton is t ruly king and thetextile mill sits beside him as reigningconsort. From its earliest history thesouth has had cotton, the first settlersfrom the Old World finding it growingwild when they founded their new homes.But until the Colonies declared their in-dependence of England little or no effortwas made to spin or weave cotton intoyarn and cloth on this side of the Atlan-tic. England had already made a placefor herself in the textile world. She couldspin and weave much better than her chil-dren in the New World and all that sheasked of them was to keep her well sup-plied with the raw material.

For that reason, chiefly, no effort wasmade by the colonists, either in the north

or south, to build any textile mills. Ex-cept for the small amount of spinningand weaving done in the homes, all yarnsand cloths were imported from England.When mechanical weaving and spinningdevices were invented and put into prac-tical use in England late in the eighteenthcentury, that country was easily able totake her place in the lead in that indus-try.

It was not un t i l af ter the AmericanRevolution that a clever mechanic wasable to reproduce from memory in Amer-ica a set of English textile machinery.Until then the British had guarded theirsecrets carefully, for such guarding meantcomplete control of the world textiletrade.

These first American machines it iscommonly thought, were put into use inSlater's mil l , in Pawtuckct, R. I., and

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Textile Mills Are Vast Affairs

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Miles of Cotton Cloth Are Woven

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within three years, ten other mills usingsimilar machinery, were wholly or nearlycompleted in that same state. From thenon the fever for building textile mills inthe New England states continued tospread. Cotton, the raw material, was notraised there, but that other necessarything—• suitable labor — was plentiful .Thri f ty Europeans, the first of the end-less flood of immigrants, were eager towork in the mills.

At the same time, while most of itseffort was being spent in growing cotton,the south was making a marked headwayin textile manufacturing also. But thiseffort to forge ahead in the textile worldwas brought to an abrupt close when, withthe invention of the cotton gin, the southsaw that it could have the field supremein raising the raw material. With thismachine fifty times as much cotton couldbe ginned as could be cared for whenthe lint was separated from the seeds byhand.

Almost at once the south seemed tolose all interest in further manufactur ingventures. Men who owned large cottonplantations added to their acreage andplanted more cotton. Vast estates, madepossible because of the universal systemof slave labor in the south, spread throughthe region, and cotton founded many for-tunes. By the end of the first quarterof the nineteenth century the whole south-eastern section of the country was raisingcotton, and New England was manufac-turing the cloth.

On the surface the arrangement seemedideal. Both sections were supreme intheir fields and both were making moneyin greater amounts than they had everdreamed possible. But a few far-sightedmen sensed the danger ahead. No section,they pointed out, could long maintain ahigh place in the economic world whenall its interests and efforts were placedon one thing. If the south was to winand keep a foremost place in the newworld it must add to its interests. Sincecotton was the big crop of the country,it stood to reason, the economists said,that the south should also develop as atextile country.

Outstanding among these men whourged diversified industries was WilliamGregg. He had traveled in New Englandand visited the mills and textile villagesthere, and upon his return devoted his

entire life to converting the south to theidea that it should manufacture cloth aswell as raise cotton. He saw in this notonly a means of bringing more wealth tothe south, but he also saw economic sal-vation for the vast number of uneducatedand poverty stricken white people. Thisclass of people owned no land on which toraise cotton, and as the work of the en-tire south was done by slaves, they hadscant means of support. These peoplecould spin and weave in their homes,Gregg argued, and could learn to do thesame work in a mill.

In the face of much opposition Greggbuilt a mill at Graniteville, S. C., withnative capital and employing native whitehelp. That his workers might be com-fortable and contented Gregg built homesfor them on the hills surrounding the mill.Churches and schools were built and thewhite people flocked there for work. Thisforerunner of present day mill villageswas a model for its time, and set a highstandard for fu ture owners to work to-ward.

According to Mrs. O'Steen, "Granite-ville was somewhat like an English feudalvillage, and if the employees gave upfreedom (which meant nothing to them)they gained a thousand times in otherways.

"\Vages in those days would seem com-paratively low but they were contempor-ary with the neighboring mills and evenon a par with New England, all thingsconsidered.

"Gregg inaugurated the first compul-sory education in the south. He himselfbriefly described it, 'all parents are re-quired to keep their children between theages of six and twelve, at school. Goodteachers and books are furnished by thecompany free of charge."

"Gregg charged a father five cents aday for every day a child stayed out ofschool. He was his own truant officerand many a boy playing hookey wascaught, and if the offense was a secondor third, taken to Gregg's office andspanked.

"Gregg was also the first prohibition of-ficer in the south, the use of alcohol wasnot permitted on the place. Granitevilleis standing and running today and isknown to have a high class of help. Fourgenerations of mill help have grown upin the village. From this mill and the ad-

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joining one at Vancluse have come manywell known men, including a rear admiralof the United States navy, a judge andmany prominent business men in thatportion of South Carolina.

Seeing the success of Gregg's idea otherSoutherners followed his example, but itwas not until the reconstruction period,which followed the war between the statesthat the large majority were convincedthat the south needed such industries. In-deed most authorities give 1881, the dateof the International Cotton Exposition inAtlanta, as the real start of the textilemill industry in the south.

This exposition proved to the peopleof the south that they had a commoditythat interested the world so much thatoutside capital wanted to invest its moneythere. The south was convinced that itcould raise cotton in any amount. Untilthe invention of the cotton gin Egypt andIndia were more important in the cottonworld than the southern states, but nowthat invention had brought the UnitedStates to the front rank as a cotton pro-ducer.

Capital had been needed to start thetextile mills but now richer parts of thecountry were offering that. The onlything which seemed to stand in the wayof manufacturing success for the southwas the labor element. During the twentyyears previous to the opening of thetwentieth century the mills built used allthe available white help, so that by thetime the building of mills was started innumbers, about 1900, the supply was al-most exhausted.

A South Carolina mill owner is creditedwith the suggestion which solved theproblem. In his own mill he had em-ployed a number of southern mountainpeople and found them perfectly suitedto the needs of a textile mill. For gen-erations these people had lived in theirisolated mountain homes, a sturdy, up-right people, hard-working and trust-worthy.

Probably the chief reason that theSouthern textile problems are so littleunderstood today by the world in gen-eral is because the world does not knowthe history which lies behind these millworkers. For most of the southern millsare now manned completely by thesemountain whites.

These mountain people are the real

first settlers of the district—the aristo-crats of the section. Originally their an-cestors, English and Scotch Presbyterians,bad been sent by James I, of England, tosettle parts of Ireland. The two racesand religion mixed not at all and at theend of a hundred years very few of thesettlers sent in by James remained "set-tled". Many of them had sought themuch talked of freedom in the Americancolonies.

Their years in Ireland had strengthenedtheir spirit and made them a sturdy race.They were hard-working, and if necessitydemanded it, hard-fighting. All of thesecharacteristics made them ideal pioneerstock. The large majority of them settledin Pennsylvania but their movement wasever toward the mountain country to thesouth. As the years went on they con-tinued in their hard won homes in theAmerican highlands, and their existencewas practically forgotten.

Because of this condition these moun-tain people of pure Anglo-Saxon bloodwere left to their own devices. They sel-dom went down into the lowlands andpeople from the outside world seldomclimbed up to them. Churches and schoolsin these mountain districts were widelyscattered and extremely elemental whenthey did exist. Even today there areregions in those beaut i fu l southern moun-tains where education is a highly sketchyaffair and churches are few and far be-tween. The people are deeply religiousand when they move into communitieswhere there are churches they are regularattendants.

For generations they have lived tothemselves in their mountain homes,keeping to the customs of their fore-fathers. Farming has been their chiefmeans of livelihood, and farming in themountains is no simple matter. Irregu-larly shaped patches of ground, plantedin corn or tobacco or cotton, and lyingat an alarmingly pitched angle, make upthe mounta in folk's idea of a farm. Amule and a small plough which has beenin the family for a generation or two,makes up most of the farm equipment.How the mule, the man (or woman) andthe plough can all three stick on the samesteep hillside at the same time is always awonder to lowlanders.

Their homes are extremely simplecabins—sometimes of logs, often of un-

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painted boards, seldom built with anyfoundations, but always having a. bigchimney at one end. These fireplacesanswer many purposes. They furnish theonly heat for the home, all the cookingis done there, and in many of these moun-tain homes there is no other means oflighting at night than the fire on thehearth. Good lighting is not considereda necessity, however, among a people whopossess few books or newspapers, andlittle knowledge of reading.

Money means little to the true moun-taineer for he sees little of it, literally.His diet is simple and he has worked out,or inherited, an easy way of satisfying hisneeds. When his corn crop is harvestedhe carries the corn to the nearest millwhere it is ground. He takes back partof it for his winter's meal supply andleaves the rest in payment for the grind-ing. It is a hand-to-mouth existence ina region where such conditions are notnecessary, but left to himself as he hasbeen for generations, the mountaineer hasbeen doing all that he knew how to do.He has lived as his father and grandfatherbefore him did, simply because he knewno other way.

Children brought up in these mountaindistricts know little or nothing of edu-cation as the world at large understandsit. Their mothers have small knowledgeof home-making and their fathers haveas meager a knowledge of any gainful oc-cupation. Cooking is a simple processwith these people, and modern sanitationis a thing unknown.

But while they are poor they have apride which makes them refuse charityand almost resent help. When they werefirst offered work in the textile mills theytook it gladly, for along with the workthey were given an opportunity to edu-cate their children, and to keep their fam-ilies in much better homes than they hadever done before.

These people have an inborn desire forbetter things—education, good homes,peaceful communities—and they havebeen quick to see that they can easiestsatisfy this desire by going into the mills.After the first few mountain people wentto work in the mills there was never againa shortage of help in that industry in thesouth. They came into the lowland com-munities from their t iny mountain-sidefarms where whole families slaved to win

a bare living. It is still no uncommonsight today to see father, mother, and sixor eight children all working in the fieldson those mountain farms. Generally thetwo youngest are so small that the handleof the hoe they are using extends a footor more above their heads. But everymember of the family must work hard towin every possible bit from the brightred soil.

After one man moved down to the millsand found it more than satisfying to hisfamily, his relatives and neighbors wantedto come too. They have been flocking inand are proving the ideal solution of theemployment problem.

These people love the southland, theyare not of a roving disposition, they aredependable, quick to learn, and loyal.When they move into a mill village theycome with the idea of staying. The laborturn-over in most mills is so small thatit is not considered a problem at all.

There are a number of reasons for thiscontent, which will be developed at great-er length in later articles, but briefly theyare summed up thus: The mills thorough-ly understand the type of people withwhich they are dealing and give them, notonly employment, but the hundred and oneother things for which they have been long-ing. Their ancestry has fitted them forthe better things of life, but circumstancesfor generations have denied these thingsto them. None of them, before theyentered the mills, have known "betterdays", but they are willing to learn andgreatly appreciative of and improve theopportunities offered them.

Public SpeakerKiwanis club members in Decatur

learned a lot about the Staley plant whichthey never knew before when our chiefchemist, Howard File, talked to themJuly 22. Mr. File spoke on the labora-tory and the importance its variousbranches play in the Staley companybusiness.

Cap Enlows is thoroughly convincednow that his eyesight really is changing.

Clark Blankinship took his vacation inJuly.

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New York ChangesAnnouncement was made early in July

of the appointment of L. A. Dillon asmanager of the New York office, to suc-ceed W. H. Randolph, Sr. Mr. Ran-dolph is not retiring, as he had plannedto do, but has been persuaded to remainwith the company in an advisory capacity.He is giving up the cares as duties asactive manager of the New York office,but he will still be with the company andwill still have business contact with hismany friends in that city.

In the fifty years that Mr. Randolphhas been in business in New York he hasmade an enviable reputation among themany people with whom he has had busi-ness dealings. He is known as a man ofrare executive ability, charming personal-ity, and as a salesman second to none.He is a true pioneer in the starch andsyrup business, and much of the successof the Staley company in the New Yorkmarket has been due to his ability and hisexperience and his friendships.

While Mr. Randolph will still be activewith the company he plans to take life alittle easier, taking more time for recrea-tion than he has ever done before.

Mr. Dillon has been in the New Yorkoffice for two years, during which time hehas made many friends there. Beforethat time he handled the Staley sales workin the Cincinnat i market in a most suc-cessful manner for a number of years.

OUR FRIEND SENIOR

WINNING FAMESome people are famous for one thing

and some for another, but it took RoyHartman, our civil engineer, to select anew road to fame. He won a name forhimself by being the first person to falldown the front steps of the new officebuilding.

We will say this for Roy—lie stagedhis act well. He selected a time when thegeneral crowd was leaving so that hewould have a good audience. It was areal tumble he took. Catching his heelgracefully on the top step lie took a swan-like dive sliding on his face only the lastdozen or so steps.

As a badge to commemorate this feathe wore the right side of his face with-out skin for several days.

Maxine Bon, of the grain department,was ill for two weeks in July.

All i>f his friends arc ylud /<> know thatW. If. Randolph, Sr., is nointi to take lifea hit I'tisii'r and still be with the company.Senior is with the \ew York office now in<:n advisory capacity.

Salesman HonoredAt the nat ional convention in Colum-

bus in June . George Radasch was electedImperial Ruler of the Bagmen of Bag-dad. This is an organization, in theUnited States and Canada, of travelingsalesmen. Mr. Radasch, who is managerof our Iowa division in the package de-partment, has been an active member formany years.

This honor was conferred upon Mr.Radasch at the same meeting in whichthe Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. ArchMcFar land , was elected Supreme Counci-lor

Mr. Radasch accompanied her husbandI" the Convention and dur ing the t imethey celebrated their forty-first weddinganniversary. Members of the Iowa dele-gation sent them a large basket of rosesin honor of the occasion.

Sam Seibert, of starch packing, movedto Paries Park this summer so he couldcome to town, some of his friends say.

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Burwell Yards Work Full Time

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More RailsUntil it was closed for construction

work, no one realized how much Deca-tur in general used Brush College road,and until it was built, no railroad peoplerealized how much they could use Bur-well yards. The two are closely con-nected for one made the other necessary.With the construction of Burwell yardsa subway at the Brush College crossingwas needed. It has recently been com-pleted and opened to the public.

Burwell yards, named for our traff icmanager T. C. Burwell, is the highly im-portant connecting point between the Sta-ley plant and three outside railroads. Tworailroads, the Wabash and the Baltimoreand Ohio, were so built that a short spurserved as an interchange track betweentheir main lines and the Staley plant.Decatur's three other railroads were lessfortunate. These roads, the Illinois Cen-tral, the Pennsylvania and the IllinoisTerminal (electric), were dependent uponthe Wabash for handling all interchangecars.

With the building of Burwell yardsthese three roads now have a belt lineconnection with the plant. The new tracksenter the Staley property at the extremeedge—at Brush College road—and con-nect with the original Staley tracks atElevator C.

In the pictures on the oposite pagethis new track is shown. The picture atthe top of the page shows the BrushCollege subway, looking toward the south.This road connects with that rapidlygrowing northeast suburban district ofDecatur.

The picture in the center was takenabout midway of Burwell yards, lookingwest toward the elevator and the plant.At the bottom of the page is shown thesign which marks the eastern limit of theyards. From there the track swings northand joins the main lines. A similar spurjoins a main line over the subway, to theeast.

BRITISH FRIEND

MOTOR TRIPM. B. Jones, telegraph operator, and

his family motored to Aust in , Tex., dur-ing their vacation. The weather was un-usually hot so they returned to Decatura few days earlier than they had planned.

Our nciv salesman in London, FrankShrimfton, has a niece zc'/io reads her Jour-nal. At least she carries it i\.'itli her.

"REDMEN" IS RIGHTWith a desire to get back to Nature

and live for a day as the rednian did. BuckScherer and Eddie Larmiers took a canoetrip on Lake Decatur on one of ourhottest Sundays in July. They fitted thecanoe with plenty of food and a gallon of"water" and a quart or two of cold cream.By noon the sun was getting hotter andhotter and the two travelers were usingmore and more "water" and cold cream.

Finally they decided to turn about, butby this time the wind had sprung up andit and the waves were going in the wrongdirection for the canoe. Every mile gotlonger and hotter and harder and the sunburned deeper and deeper. Otherwiseeverything went pretty well except thatEddie forgot to put cold cream on hishead and for many days thereafter he waspointed out as "that redheaded man in theauditing department."

•••Virgil Brackney and Eldridge Jacobs

visited the plant and new office in July.Both men have been patients in the Ma-con County sanatorium for some time butare rapidly regaining their health. Mr.Brackney had been working in the tablehouse before his illness and Mr. Jacobshad been employed in the boiler house.Both men expect to be ready to workagain before many months.

Just because a hen is warm-hearted i«no reason why she should lay hard-boiledeggs.

18 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1930

We Make Our Visitors Happy

All Staley men but seldom seen in Deeatur. They tire Mr. Dillon, Dr. I'ikc, Mr.Cooley and Mr. Search. It was a beastly hot day but they didn't iiiiiid-—inncli.

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS"Three Wise Men from Gotham" vis-

ited the plant the last week in July. Theywere L. A. Dillon, manager of our NewYork office, and Walter Cooley and JohnSearch, salesmen in the same office. BothMr. Dillon and Mr. Cooley had been hereat various times before, but it was aninitiation into this district for Mr. Searchand he would have liked it just as wellif the weather had been slightly less torid.

The men drove from New York to De-catur, but even veteran drivers with thecompany would not quite swallow thestories they told of the speed they made.

*Lucile May, plant nurse, is taking one

week of her vacation the first part ofAugust. During her absence Doc Het-tinger, from the laboratory staff, will bein the first aid room.

Mary Doran. of the laboratory office,had her vacation the last part of July.While she was away Kathryn Sheeby. ofMr. Galloway's office, did her work.

Attention BowlersAll men at Staley's who plan to bowl

during the coming season are asked tosign up with Eddie Larrick or Jack Min-tun during August. The season for theStaley league starts Sept. 10. but thenames must be in during August so thatteams may lie drawn up.

Mike Sheehy has organized a noon-hour club in the garage, the chief objectof which seems to be to see who can tel lthe tallest. Bert Crutchley is on the pro-gram to tell his famous story, while otherswho will appear will be Doc West, CapEnlow and Turkey Grant.

E. C. Heckler, the printer, talked well,but not too wisely of his youth recently.He touched particularly upon a certainwatermelon he—well—obtained. Themelon once belonged to a blind man butwhen Heck saw this "blind" man read-ing a newspaper, he simply walked offwith the melon.

August 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 19

Report IllnessMembers of the Staley Fellowship club

who fail to report illness within 48 hourscannot expect compensation, according tothe club by-laws. Compensation is paidto all members who are too ill to reportto work for seven consecutive days ormore, but unless this illness is reportedat the start, no record is kept, and nocompensation can be paid.

When a club member is ill, and un-able to work the secretary of the clubshould be notified at once. When he isrecovered and returning to work themember must again notify the secretary.Unless this procedure is followed the clubhas no way of checking on members.

SMOKING!If there had been widespread sickness

among the office messengers in July itnight have been blamed on the cigarswhich they smoked. Russell Devore, inhonor of the birth of his daughter, passedcigars and the messengers never missanything free.

TEACHER VISITS USH. M. Owen, owner of Decatur's only

business school, visited the office one Julyday and was interested in seeing thatnearly fifty of his former students areemployed in the building. This list in-cludes E. K. Scheiter, R. C. Scherer, R.M. Ives, Earl Bailey, C. M. Cobb, HarryLichtenberger, A. S. Lukey, Bert Muth-ersbaugh and many others.

Henry Scherer, of the personnel of-fice, came into a meeting of DecaturCredit Unions one Sunday in July, quitelate and breathless. As he slid into a seathe murmured to the man next to him:"Well, she's here and I can't stay a min-ute." It is supposed that he meant tlv.'girl from Alton or the one from St. Louis,or maybe the one from Peoria or possiblythe one from Chicago.

Oscar Knoeble, superintendent of Ele-vator C, went on his annual fishing tripto Manitowoc, Wis., in July. He wasfortunate in one thing at least. He se-lected the two hottest weeks of the sum-mer for his vacation.

The IValmsleys on vacation—Alice, with a calf; Billy, on apony, and Harry "on thefence."

Tin-: STALEY J O U R N A L August 1930

Girls Finish Golf Tournament

Here they are—those golfers. Lucilc Schulz, third place, Marjorie White, second,Kathleen Slarks first and Kathryn Shechy, fourth.

Women golfers at the plant put up astiff fight for the championship in thehandicap tournament which closed themiddle of July, and Kathleen Starks wasthe winner. Mrs. Starks, who is astenographer in the sales department, wonthe Staley Journal cup picnic day lastyear and in all events in which she hasbeen entered has proved an excellent golf-er. The prize in the tournament thisyear is a golf club.

Marjorie White, also of sales, was run-ner-up in a close match with Kathleen.She wins golf balls. Lucile Schulz andKathryn Sheehy, when they played forthird and fourth places, caused as muchexcitement as the championship match.They work side by side in the office of thegeneral superintendent and were inclinedto take the match anything but seriously.When they did play, Lucille took thirdplace and Kathryn fourth. Balls were the-prizes.

August 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 21

Ten Years Ago(These items apepared in The Journal

for August, 1920.)

The Staley company was part icular lyinterested in the big impounding propo-sition decided upon by the city of Decatur.This called for the building of a milliondollar dam which would result in theflooding of land to form a lake, thus solv-ing Decatur's and Staley's serious waterproblem. It was predicted that when thelake was finished lovely homes would bebui l t along its shore and water sports ofall sorts would be extremely popular inDecatur.

A new flag pole, with a large electricallylighted globe on top of it. was put up on\"o. 10 building. The globe, at the top ofthe pole, was 300 feet in the air and atnight could be seen for miles.

Nathalie Hankemeyer took charge aseditor of The Journal succeeding DorothyBaker Suddarth who was going with herhusband to South America to make herhome.

George Trafton, former Notre Damefootball star, had been signed to play onthe Staley football team the coming sea-son.

A track and field meet, open to all ath-letes in the state, was announced by i h .Fellowship club for Sept. 2.

Walter Grant, Jr., came to work -"is amessenger boy in the manufacturing de-partment.

The Staley band was a^ked to play atthe Pana Chautau ' iua

RETURNS AFTER ILLNESSHerman Koshinski returned to work

late in July after several weeks. He hadbeen ill for a long time and recently hadbeen taking a short rest in the country.He is recovered now and able to do hisshare of the work on Newt Simpson'sgang.

Mike Honold, superintendent of the re-finery, returned to work in July after be-ing ill some time with erysipelas.

PARK BOARDOur plant superintendent, J. H. Gal-

loway had members of the Decatur ParkBoard as his guests at luncheon in theoffice cafeteria in July. The board mem-bers are G. A. Caldwell, of the Missis-sippi Valley Structural Steel Co., GeorgeHess, superintendent of motive power ofthe Wabash, H. C. Schaub, editor of theDecatur Review, and Ralph Monroe, at-torney. Mr. Galloway is also a memberof the board.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Russell De-vore, July 19, a daughter. Mr. Devoreworks in the sales department.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Jack-son, June 26, a son. Mr. Jackson is agrain inspector.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Bei!-smith, May 30, a son.

Born—To Mr. and Mrs. J. M. HowlcyJuly 28, a son.

The day that Mr. and Mrs. A. /•'. lilak-citcy celebrated their forty-second weddinganniversary they had their pictures taken,probably to show hoiv young they lookedafter so many years of married life.Blake is an electrician at the plant, a posi-tion he has held for thirteen years. Hewas born in Decatur and except fortwenty years in St. Louis, has lived herealways.

22 T i i ic S T A L K Y J O U R N A L August 1930

All Aboard For the Picnic!Thursday, Aug. 21 is the day set aside this year for our big annual

picnic. That is the big event of the year for all Staley people and anyonewho thinks he is going to slip in a little regular work that day is just all outof luck.

The plans, as outlined by C. A. Keck, Fellowship club president, soundinteresting Committees 'have been named and have been at work forsome time completing arrangements.

Of course, the picnic will be in Nelson Park—the only place in Decaturlarge enough to take care of the crowd which always comes. Although thegolf course to be used has not been announced, the golf play will openevents, starting early in the morning. There will be also a baseball gamein the morning, but probably all other scheduled events will take place inthe afternoon. \Yatch plant bulletins for announcements.

There will be a headquarters tent where you register and get yourtickets. There will be a first aid tent and a nursery for the babies. Ar-rangements have also been made to take care of the children between theages of three and six. A play ground director will be present during theentire afternoon and will supervise all sorts of games for them. A playground will be roped off, with benches nearby for mothers, and the chil-dren will have a grand time and will be well taken care of. It is hoped thatall mothers with children of those ages at the picnic, will leave them en-tirely under the play director's care all afternoon. The children will besafer and happier and the mothers will have a better time.

There will be a horse shoe tournament of some kind, open to Fellow-ship club members and their families only. In the evening there will bethe dance. Unless later plans are made the dance this year will be in theElks' Country club. It is hoped that the new Lake Shore Drive betweenthe park and the club will be open by that time. Buses will run from thepark to the club.

Committees as named by President Keck, and his assistant, ClaudeThornborough, are:

Reception—A. E. Staley. Sr., A. E. First Aid—Lucile May.Staley, Jr., T. C. Burwell. E. C. Larsen, Building—Frank Moore, William Pol-\V. A. Kutsch, E. K. Scheiter, J. H. Gal- lock, Jack Fletcher.lo\vay and C. M. Cobb. Transportation — William Thornbor-

Arrangements—Earl Leek, C. A. Fitch, ough, Mike Sheehy, Frank Roderick.W. H. Broadbear. Hollis Hise. Refreshments — Sam Seibert, Robert

Amusements—Charles Ellis, Tom Go- Hinton, Buck Mathews, Robert Urfer,gerty, J. W. Thornborough, Ed Larrick, Harry Treadway.K. D. Sherman. Jack Mintun. Phil Wills. Check Room—William Heer, Charles

Dance and Music—V. R. March. Ed Potter.Smith, L. M. Banning, Carl Oakes. Prizes—R. O. Augur, R. C. Scherer, C.

Colored Dance—George Coleman. Joe M. Cobb.Holston, Joe Johnson. Ball Game—Lynn Davis, Ed Smith.

Tickets—H. R. Potrafka, L. M. Ban- Golf—P. D. Rollins, Harry Lichten-ning, Dan Buzzard, H. Bateman. berger, Lisle Brown.

Land Events—C. A. May. Charles El- Program and Publicity—Ruth Cade, C.lis. A. J. Percival, Mac Jagusch. M. Cobb, Harry Walmsley, Dan Buzzard.

August 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L

WALTER, THE GREAT COOLEYDown in New York state Walter Coo-

ley, our little giant salesman, has a greatreputation as a hand-ball player. He ad-mits it himself, and if slightly urged willeven tell of many games in which hehas come out easy victor over seasonedplayers.

But all this is true only of New Yorkgames he plays. When he came out tothe cornfields, our worthy auditor, R. C.Scherer took him on and decided tintWalter, as a hand-ball player, wasn't sohot.

Sure, that's P. D. Rollins you see ridingaround in a new blue Ford. He said onlythe warning that his Model T was a pub-lic menace brought on the purchase.

John Kuhns, who is a captain when onespeaks in military terms, spent two weekswith his company at camp at Sparta,Wis., late in July. As usual he returnedwell tanned and ready to play a lot ofgolf.

Harry Walmsley, superintendent of 17building, and his wife, Alice, secretaryto Mr. Staley, took their vacations inJuly. Most of the time was spent athome in Decatur, but they took a fewshort motor trips.

Since John Martin, of the refinery, hasbeen driving that new Chevy about town,some of his fr iends says there is just one,good old fashioned word which suits him.He is uppity.

TO CUMBERLAND GAPNow that he had a taste of traveling

Henry Trent, of 17 building, is going infor it strong. In July his parents camefrom their home in Oklahoma and Henryand his wife and family went on withthem to their old home in the CumberlandGap. Henry was particularly anxious tomake this trip for his grandfather, 90years old, is still a practicing physicianthere.

Claude Thornborough, foreman of theboiler room, took his family on a motortrip into the northern part of Illinois forhis vacation in July.

Lowell Gill, chemist, spent part of hisvacation in July motoring in Wisconsin.

Harvey Crose, of the boiler room, hadhis vacation in July.

We get it from a t r u t h f u l Englishmanthat Mac's summer working clothes in apaper mill are—well cool, to say the least.Crepe de chine trousers, some one said,and chiffon underwear. It certainlysounds cool, if not modest.

Since Doug Williams started operatinghis new railroad Shawtown has lost itscar shops, and Hicks and Val have movednearer the hominy plant.

*During his vacation, the last two weeks

of July, Charley Ellis planned to eatand fish and visit in Monticello and eat.

A quartet which docs not sing, much to the joy of those U'it/iin earshot The hand-some strangers are Hiisicr Woodivorth, Doc West, Roy Hartman and Joe Pollock. Weparticularly like the way Doc tried to avoid the camera.

24 TI IF , S T A L K Y J O U R N A L August 1930

Doubles Tournament Closes

A! Ritrchan and HowardWininns took first I lace inhorse shoe doubles.

Rjinners-Hf in the nice!were Gerald Leaser and 11.K. Stnitton. Bifi crowdssaw matches.

The contest between Cap Enlow and Now Bert Crutchley of the garage isSkeeter Humphry has reached the critical the grandfather of twin boys. No wonderstage—age and sobriety against youth and he acts as if he owned this corner of thebeauty. world.

August 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 25

European VacationOur traveling salesman who travels for

his vacation—George Radasch—-is backfrom two months in Europe and is highlyenthusiastic about the whole thing.George has been one of these constanttravelers, so it was second nature withhim to grab a suit case and start travelingwhen he and his wife decided on theirfirst real vacation. They arrived back inNew York a few weeks ago, but havemany interesting stories to tell.

Since Germany is Mr. Radasch's birth-place, they visited that country first, land-ing in Hamburg. After a short visit therethey went on to Berlin for a few daysand found that city much to their liking.It is clean and has more the air of Amer-ican cities, they found.

Since Aschersleben was the place whereMr. Radasch was born, they went directlythere from Berlin, but it did not impressthem. It is a quaint little city, but showsno signs of progress. Only one otherAmerican was in the city at the time.

Next on their list was Vienna and thenVenice. Both cities charmed the visitors,as did the country surrounding them.Nothing was more charming, theythought, than the Alpine country throughwhich they passed on their way to Lu-C'-rne and then on to Innsbruck andOberammergau. This village was visitedthat they might see the Passion Play.The play itself impressed them, but theyregretted the fact that outside promotersare seeking to commercialize it.

Heidelberg, Weisbaden, Cologne and atrip up the Rhine were greatly enjoyed.Leaving Germany then they went on toHolland, visiting Amsterdam, Vollendam.where the people still cling to old Dutchdress, and The Hague. After a short visitin Brussels they went on to Paris andhere, Mr. Radasch admits, they saw alittle of the famous night life.

In France they made a short tripthrough the battle grounds before flyingfrom Paris to London. This air trip wasone of the most thri l l ing experiences oftheir trip.

While in London. Mr. and Mrs. Rad-asch were fortunate in having our com-pany managing director and his wife, Mr.and Mrs. Rodney Thomas, as theirguides. Rural England came in for its

PIPE.?share of their t ime before they sailed fromPlymouth.

They had been traveling so much thateven after they landed in New York theydid not stop. Instead they went on toPhiladelphia and Washington for a fewdays, and then to Columbus, Ohio, to at-tend a convention.

J. N. Armentrout, night time keeper,returned to work late in July after a twoweeks illness.

Job and his boils had nothing on LouisAppel, of the refinery.

Lynn Davis insists that it was some-thing he ate for lunch, and not the air-plane trip, but Rol likes to suggest thatit was the fact that he was at the con-trols that upset his boss. There is nodoubt but that Lynn was upset.

Floyd Van Hook, oldest son of ourcartoonist, won a four years scholarship tothe University of Illinois in a recentexamination. However, he will not beable to enter the university this fall. Hewas graduated from Decatur High schoolin June.

26 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1930

YOUTHFUL KENNETHKennie Davidson missed the best chance

in the world to get a free lunch not longago. He ate in a restaurant which makesa practice of feeding newsboys free ofcharge. It happened that Kennie fol-lowed such a patron to the cashier's deskand as she looked at him she said, "Areyou a newsboy, too?" Kennie blushedbut for some unknown reason turnedtruthful , and had to pay for his meal.

Dr. R. E. Greenfield, chemist, took hisfamily for a motor trip to the Ozarkswhi le he had his vacation in July.

NEW ENGINEERSoon after his graduation from the Uni-

versity of Illinois in June, John William\s joined the Staley forces. He isan electrical engineer and comes to theplant as an assistant to John Kuhns. Hishome is in Arthur, 111.

Charles Fitch, tinner foreman, took hisfamily and disappeared from view for thefirst two weeks in July. When the timewas up they announced that they hadbeen spending their vacation in their cot-tage on the shores of Lake Decatur.

Doug Williams taunts /:'(/ Smith and sonic of the rest of the gang to see what lovelygrandchildren he has. They arc Marjuric. Marion. I'hyllis and Normc, and their fatheris Lawrence Williams, Doug's son. Doug, you know, is king of the reclamation plant.

August 1930 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L 27

oSHlNSkl ISSo GOOD ON 3D BA,st.- HE

W. J. SCOTTWilliam J. Scott, Mt. Zion, died in St.

Mary's hospital July 18 after having beenconfined in the hospital for four days.He had been ill for some time.

William Scott was horn in Mt. Zionon July 20, 1858, and was married toLucy Gumm, in Petersburg. Mrs. Scotthas been dead for 25 years.

Mr. Scott was a retired farmer. Hehad carried mail on a rural route fromMt. Zion for years after his retirementand had continued in that work unti l theillness which caused his death.

He was a member of the Presbyterianchurch in Mt. Zion.

He leaves the following children: RoyC. Scott, Springfield; Mrs. Winnie Tow-son, Macon; Mrs. Erma Thoman, Mt.Zion; Rubye Wyatt, Mt. Zion, and Mrs.Bernice Mart in , Decatur. Mrs. Martin istelephone operator at the plant.

Services were conducted in Mt. ZionPresbyterian church July 20.

My sincere thanks are extended to theFellowship club for the flowers sent mewhile I was ill.

Mike Honold.

CORA JANE JOHNSONCora Jane Johnson, 630 North Stone

street, died suddenly in her home July 21,following an attack of heart trouble. Herhusband, Jay Johnson, is foreman in ourtable house.

She was born in Benton Creek, Mo.,on Aug. 6, 1881. She was married to J.Lyman Johnson, Steelville, Mo., in thatcity in 1918. She was a member of theSteelville, Mo. Presbyterian church andof the Royal Neighbors of America. Sheleaves only her husband.

Funeral services were conducted in De-catur, July 23.

We wish to thank the Staley Fellow-ship club and the packing house flowerclub for the flowers sent at the time ofthe death of our wife and mother, Mrs.W. C. Dunn.

A. N. Mixell,W. C. Dunn and

Family.

Chevrolets are becoming popular withthe refinery Martins. Now Stanley has anew one.

Cecil Walker is just taking up the ancientgame and finds it difficult but interesting.He admits that he doesn't know all thefine points yet, but we must admit that helooks like a golfer.

28 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 19.30

CONFIRMATION

//( • /CM Pollock, 12, was a member of theconfirmation class at St. Patrick's Catho-lic church this summer. Her father, JoePollock, is one of the old stand-bys at theplant.

Jack Fletcher has been a bit slow aboutpassing the cigars to the foremen. If hedoesn't bring them in some day soon themen will doubt that he took a trip thissummer at all.

Charles Baker, of the office buildingstaff, was ill in July but has returned towork.

I want to thank the Staley Fellowshipclub for the flowers sent me while I wasill. They were greatly appreciated.

Charles Baker.

FOLTZ-GOSNELLNettie Foltz and John Gosnell were

married June 26 in the home of the bride'ssister, Mrs. E. L. Coverstone, in Harris-town. The bride is the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Silas Bridges, of Decatur. Thebridegroom, the son of Mr. and Mrs.John Gosnell of Newton, has been em-ployed at the plant for several years. Heworks in the store room.

Mr. and Mrs. Gosnell have just movedinto the English brick cottage which theybuilt near Harristown, on the Springfieldroad.

HILL-BALLANCEDorma Hill and H. V. Ballance were

married July 26 in the Fourth UnitedBrethren church. Rev. Isaac Summersperformed the ceremony. The bride-groom is in the mil lwright shop at theplant.

After a wedding trip in the east thecouple will move into their newly builthome in Faries Park.

JONES-MARKWELLRuby Jones and Gail Markwell were

married July 17 in the home of G. N.Quillen. Rev. Verne Oglesby performedthe ceremony. Later a wedding supperwas served at Greider's cafe.

Both young people were graduatedfrom Stonington high school in 1927.Mrs. Markwell is employed at the Cen-tury Wall Paper Co., and Mr. Markwellis an electrician at the plant.

J. H. Galloway, plant superintendent,slipped off on a short vacation late inJuly. He did not confide in the press butwe rather think he went off up into Mich-igan where no one could ask him to beton the ball games.

Rudolph Jagusch, of Zanesville, Ohio,spent' several days in Decatur early inJuly visiting his brother, Mac Jagusch, ofthe tool room. He has many other friendsaround the Staley plant with whom hevisited also.

Willis Martin, of the track gang, wasill for a while in July.

Bill Heer, in announcing his new fleeremedy says, "Dip the dog in boilingwater, then anoint liberally with Heer'sremedy, to remove fleas and grow newhair.

August 1930 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L 29

BANNING IMPROVESL. M. Banning returned to the time

office for a short time in July to help outwhile Harry Bateman was on night duty.Mr. Banning has been ill for manymonths, but now is improving rapidly andno one was prouder than he was whenhe was able again to sign his name so thatit could be read.

«It must have been some party. LeRoy

went out one evening and the next daysaid his glasses were broken.

"Don't know much today," remarkedLuther Humiston. "This is my night offtoday."

*Harve Thompson says that the fact that

lie was seen with an armload of woodand a bucket of coal on a hot night provesnothing.

Cap Morthland, from the pumping sta-tion, had his son, Samuel and his bride,from California, as his guests in July. Capbrought them out to the plant for us allto meet.

TAKE SOUTHERN TRIPClaude Fletcher, machinist foreman,

accompanied by Mrs. Fletcher and theirson-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs.Kamm, spent their vacation motoringthrough the mountain country in Northand South Carolina. While in SouthCarolina they stopped in Spartanburglong enough for a call on our managerthere. George A. Dean.

Mrs. Floy Stanley, of the credit office,spent her vacation in July vis i t ing hermother in Arkansas.

Bernard Riddle spent his vacationswimming in his front yard, he havingmoved out to the shores of Lake Decaturearlier in the year.

Alice Morris gets herself into somefunny situations her friends say. Forinstance she got out into the hot sun allone day in a bathing suit, and then some-one said they thought they saw her up onthe roof of a house.

This is \OT a biinch of chorus men in the latest musical show. Rather it is theentire messenger staff in the office building, all set ready to go. Kenneth Higdon, whoheads the line, is the bell captain. The others are John Dougherty, Ned Rowers, DickRyan, Orrillc Crane, Harold Heinz, Paul Heffernan and Philip Bateman.

30 'I' ii ic S T A I . I C Y | or u \. August 1930

They All Have Many Friends

On her fourth birthday, recently, V\r-Jo/inny Bob Leaser, in a nautical frame »»»'<» Ruth Thornborouah had this lovely

of mind, came visitin,, his mother. Mrs. *"-"<'•'' ""»/<• She ,s the Hmiohter of MrJack Leaser, in the (/rain department on.-hot afternoon. His yonni/ cousin accom-panied him. Johnnv Bob really has f e e t ,although one ivould never know it fromthis picture.

picture made. She is the daiif/hter of Mr.and Mrs. Claude Thornboroii(/h and need-less to say, a (treat favorite in the family.Her father is foreman of the boiler room.

These four little Gentrvshave any number of rela-tives in the Staley p / a n l .Their aunt is Bertha G'oti'-rf.v, of the /ray room, theirgrandfather i.t Dad Gentry,keeper of the machine shopstore room and they have anumber of uncles about theplant. Their father, I'erryGentry teas killed two yearsaqo in St. Louis. They arcPerry, 8, Billy 6, Le.Movnr4. and Mary Jane 3. Theylive with their mother inOreana.

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Among Staley Plant Workers

The t'^'o sons of .1/V.?. John White arcspending most of the summer with theiruncle, Hank Potrafka, at Paries Park.

Betty J.orene Sablotny wasquite a picture herself in greenand white when she broughtthis picture in. She was twothe day it was taken, and it isbeinti /'tit into The Journal asa surprise for her father, Au-gust, who works in the garaye.

Lowell Beilsmith look a prize when he ap-peared in a puny parade in Decatur recentlyridiiif/ his Dasey. The price was given to thesmallest pony in the parade. Lowell, who willbe six years old this month, has had the punyfur two years. The pony, a thoroughbredShetland, is f o u r years old. Lowell's father isIrw'in H i ' i l s i n i t h , of the laboratory.

32 T H E S T A L E Y J O U R N A L August 1930

Credit Union By-LawsARTICLE I.

The name of this corporation shall beThe Staley Credit Union. It shall belocated in the city of Decatur, County ofMacon, in the State of Illinois.

ARTICLE II.—PURPOSES ANDPOWERS

The purposes of this Credit Union shallbe to promote thr i f t among its membersand to make loans to its members at rea-sonable rates, with or without security.By authority granted in Section three (3)of "An Act in relation to Credit Unions",under which this association is organized,its powers shall be to receive the savingsof its members as payments on shares, tomake loans to members for provident orproductive purposes, to deposit in Stateand National Banks, to invest in any se-curities issued or guaranteed by theUnited States or any state or municipalitywithin the United States and to borrowmoney as provided in said Act.

ARTICLE III .—MEMBERSHIP

Any employee of the A. E. Staley Mfg.Co. and Staley Sales Corp., upon his elec-tion to membership and upon subscribingfor one or more shares and paying for thesame in whole or in part, together withthe entrance fee as provided in ArticleX of these By-laws shall become a mem-ber of this Credit Union.

ARTICLE IV.—MEETINGS OFMEMBERS

Section 1. The a n u a l meeting of themembers for the election of directors andthe transaction of such other business asmay properly come before such meetingshall be held at the offices of the CreditUnion on the second Monday of Januaryof each year. Notices of all meetings,either annual or special, shall be given bythe secretary who shall at least seven (7)days before the date of such meetingsend a written or printed notice thereofto each member of the corporation. Ifthe date fixed for any annual meetingshall be a legal holiday the meeting shallbe held on the day following.

Sec. 2. Ten (10) members shall con-stitute a quorum. If a quorum is notpresent at the time of the meeting, the

meeting shall be adjourned for a periodof not less than ten days and the mem-bers shall be notified in the way and man-ner above provided of the time and placeof the adjourned meeting. The memberspresent at the adjourned meeting shallconstitute a quorum.

Sec. 3. On all questions and at all elec-tions, except election of directors, a mem-ber shall have but a single vote whateverhis share holdings. There shall be novoting by proxy, except in the electionof directors, a member other than a na-tural person casting a single vote througha delegated agent.

Sec. 4. The order of business of themeetings of the members shall be as fol-lows:

a. Roll call.b. Reading of the minutes of the last

meeting.c. Report of Directors.d. Report of the Treasurer.e. Report of the Credit Committee.f. Report of the Supervisory Commit-

tee.g. Unfinished business,h. New business.i. Adjournment.Sec. 5. The Board of Directors may

at its discretion call special meetings ofthe members and shall do so upon theorder of the Supervisory Committee orupon the request in writing of any ten(10) members of the Credit Union. No-tice of such special meetings wherein thepurpose of the meetings shall be clearlystated, shall be sent by the Secretary toeach member as provided in Section I ofthis Article. No other business than thatspecified in the written notice shall betransacted at such meetings.

Sec. 6. The fiscal year of this CreditUnion shall end with the thirty-first dayof December.

ARTICLE V.—DIRECTORSSection 1. At the anual meeting in the

month of January there shall be electedthree (3) directors. The directors un-less sooner disqualified or removed shallhold office unt i l the annual meeting of themembers following the termination of theperiods for which they are elected anduntil their successors are elected and shall

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have qualified. At such election a stock-holder shall have the right to vote for thenumber of shares owned by him for asmany persons as there are directors to beelected or to cumulate such shares andgive one candidate as many votes as thenumber of directors multiplied by thenumber of his shares of stock shall equal;or distribute them on the same principleamong as many candidates as he shalldeem proper. In case of failure to elect,the meeting shall be adjourned from timeto time.

At the first election three (3) (not lessthan three) directors shall be elected forthree years, three (3) (not less than three)directors for terms of two years, and three(3) (not less than three) directors forterm of one year; thereafter election shallbe for terms of three years.

Sec. 2. A meeting of the newly electedBoard of Directors shall be held withinten days after the annual meeting of theshareholders at which meeting the Boardof Directors shall elect from their ownnumber a president, a vice-president, anda secretary-treasurer who shall be theexecutive officers of the Credit Union.The Directors shall also at this meetingelect from their own number a CreditCommittee of three (3) members and aSupervisory Committee of three members.The Directors shall meet at least once ineach month and at all meetings a majorityof the Directors shall constitute a quorum.Special meetings of the Directors may becalled by the president and treasurer andshall be called upon written request of amajority of the Directors.

Sec. 3. The Board of Directors shallhave the general management of the af-fairs, funds and records of this CreditUnion. It shall be their special duty toact upon all applications for membership:to fix the amount of the surety bond ofall officers and employees handlingmoney; to determine the rate of intereston loans; to declare dividends; to fix themaximum number of shares which may beheld by any one individual and the maxi-mum individual loan that can be madewithout security; to recommend amend-ments to these by-laws; to fill vacanciesin the Board or in the Credit Committeeuntil the election and qualification of suc-cessors, and to perform such other dutiesas the members may from time to timeauthorize. They may by resolution, after

due notice to the members, change theplace of business of the Union. Writtennotice of such change shall be given tothe Auditor of Public Accounts as re-quired by law.

Sec. 4. No compensation shall be paidto any director or committee member forhis services as such with the exceptionthat one executive officer, who does theactual work of keeping the books of ac-counts may receive remuneration theamount of which shall be fixed by themembers.

Sec. 5. The order of business of themeetings of the directors shall be as fol-lows:

a. Roll call.b. Reading and approving the minutes

of last meeting.c. Report of Credit Committee.d. Report of Supervisory Committee.e. Report of Secretary-Treasurer.f. Applications for membership.g. New business.h. Unfinished business.i. Adjournment.

ARTICLE VI.—OFFICERS ANDTHEIR DUTIES

Section 1. The officers of this CreditUnion shall consist of a President, aVice-President, and a Secretary-Treas-urer.

Sec. 2. The duties of the presidentshall be to preside at meetings of themembers and of the Board of Directors;to countersign checks, drafts, and notesdrawn by the Credit Union, to sign suchother papers and documents as may re-quire his signature and to perform theother usual duties connected with the of-fice.

Sec. 3. The vice-president shall, in theevent of the absence or disability of thepresident, perform the duties of the presi-dent and such other duties as the Boardof Directors may from time to time pre-scribe.

Sec. 4. The secretary-treasurer shallbe the general manager of the CreditUnion. He shall be the custodian of thefunds, securities, books of account, rec-ords and all other valuable papers of theCredit Union. He shall keep a separateset of books of entry, containing in detailthe financial transactions of the CreditUnion. He shall sign all checks, draftsand notes drawn by the Credit Union. He

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shall keep correct records of all meetingsof the members and of the Board ofDirectors. He shall give notice of allmeetings of members in the manner pre-scribed by the by-laws and shall performall other duties incident to his office. Heshall make and render such reports to theAuditor of Public Accounts as the statuteor the said Auditor may from time totime require. The secretary-treasurershall furnish bond for the fa i thful per-formance of his duties in such amount asthe Board of Directors shall prescribe.

ARTICLE VII.—CREDIT COM-MITTEE

Section 1. The Credit Committee shallconsist of three (3) directors, who shallbe elected annually as provided in Ar-ticle 5, Section 2 of these by-laws.

Sec. 2. The Credit Committee shallapprove every loan made by this CreditUnion to its members. Every applicationfor a loan shall be made in writing on aform designed by said Credit Committee.Such application shall state the purposefor which the loan is desired, the natureof the security offered, if any, and suchother data as may be required. No loanshall be made unless it has received tin.1unanimous approval of those members ofsaid committee who were present when itwas considered, who must be at least amajority of said committee.

Sec. 3. The Credit Committee maymeet at any time and shall meet as oftenas necessary. The chairman of the CreditCommittee shall notify each member inadvance of every meeting of the commit-tee. The Credit Committee shall keep arecord of its proceedings in a special bookprovided for that purpose.

ARTICLE VIII.—SUPERVISORYCOMMITTEE

Section 1. The Supervisory Commit-tee shall consist of three directors whoshall be elected annually as provided inArticle 5, Section 2 of these by-laws. TheSupevrisory Committee shall meet at leastonce every three months to audit thebooks of this Credit Union and in theevent said committee deems such actionto be necessary it shall call the memberstogether thereafter and submit to them itsreport. The Supervisory Committee shallfill vacancies that may occur in its ownmembership unti l the next annual meet-ing.

Sec. 2. The Supervisory Committeeshall inspect the securities, cash and ac-counts of this Credit Union and super-vise the acts of its Credit Committee andofficers.

Sec. 3. By unanimous vote, if it deemssuch action to be necessary to the properconduct of the Credit Union, the Super-visory Committee may suspend any officeror member of committee and call themembers together to act on such suspen-sion. The members at said meeting maysustain such suspension and remove suchofficer permanently or may re-instate saidofficer.

Sec. 4. At the close of each fiscal yearthe Supervisory Committee shall make anaudit of the books and records and anexamination of the business and affairs ofthe Credit Union for the year and shallmake a full report of its assets and lia-bilities, receipts and disbursements to theBoard of Directors, and shall cause suchreport to be read at the annual meeting ofshare holders and filed with the recordsof the Credit Union.

Sec. 5. The Supervisory Committeeshall keep a complete record of all itsproceedings. All reports of this commit-tee shall be filed and preserved with therecords of this Credit Union.

ARTICLE IX.—CAPITALThe capital of this Credit Union shall

consist of the payments made uponshares by its members.

ARTICLE X.—SHARESSection 1. The number of shares which

may be issued by this Credit Union shallbe unlimited, except that it shall not per-mit any member to become the owner,directly or indirectly, individually or intrust, by purchase, transfer, or otherwise,of shares having a par value of more thanthe maximum individual share holdingsfixed by the directors. Shares may be is-sued in the 'name of a minor or in trust.In the case of minors they shall not beallowed to become indebted to the Unionunless the indebtedness is also assumedby a person of legal age. In the case oftrustees the name of the beneficiary mustbe disclosed to the Credit Union.

Sec. 2. The par value of each shareshall be $5.00.

Sec. 3. Shares may be paid for in ful lat the time of subscription or may lie

August 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 35

paid in regular weekly, semi-monthly ormonthly installments.

Sec. 4. Whenever payments made bya member upon installment shares shallequal the par value of a share such pay-ments shall be transferred and he shallbecome the owner of a ful ly paid share.

Sec. 5. An entrance fee of 25 centsshall be paid by each member.

Sec. 6. Fully paid shares may be trans-ferred to any person eligible for member-ship, subject to the approval of the Boardof Directors and the provisions of Sec-tion 9 of this article and upon the pay-ment of a transfer fee not exceeding 25cents. No transfer shall be permitted ifthe transferor is indebted to this CreditUnion.

Sec. 7. The money credited on one ormore shares may be withdrawn on anyday when payments for shares may be re-ceived, providing the withdrawing mem-ber has filed a written notice of such in-tention; but the Board of Directors mayrequire a member at any time to give 60days' notice in writing of his intention towithdraw the whole or any part of theamount paid in by him on account ofshares. Such withdrawing member shallreceive the amount paid by him on ac-count of shares, together with such divi-dends as have been credited thereto, lessany lawful fines or other obligations tothis Credit Union. Withdrawals shall bepaid in the order of their filing and asfunds therefor become available. Afterthe filing of notice of withdrawal as pro-vided herein, the shares shall continueto participate in the dividends until theyare redeemed. No member who has fileda notice of intention to withdraw shallexercise any of the privileges of member-ship.

Sec. 8. A member may be expelled bya two-thirds (%) vote of the memberspresent at a special meeting called to con-sider the matter, but only after a hearing.In the event of the expulsion of a mem-ber for any cause, such expelled membershall be deemed a withdrawing memberas regards the conditions hereinabove pro-vided for redemption of shares. Anvmember who withdraws or is expelledshall not be relieved of any liability to thecorporation.

Sec. 9. No officer, director, attorney,committee member, clerk or agent of thisCredit Union shall as an individual, dis-

count, or directly or indirectly purchasefrom another member a share in thisCredit Union, whether filed for with-drawal or not.

ARTICLE XI.—FINESA member failing to make a payment

upon shares or other obligations whendue shall pay a fine at the rate of twoper centum per month or fraction thereonon amounts in default, provided, however,that such fine shall in no case be less than5 cents.

ARTICLE XII.—POWER TOBORROW

A credit union may borrow from anysource in total sum which shall not exceedtwenty per cent (20%) of its assets. Nomoney shall be borrowed on behalf of orfor the use of the Credit Union withoutthe authority of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE XIII.—LOANSSection 1. Loans may be made to any

member of this Credit Union in goodstanding.

Sec. 2. No officer or member of theBoard of Directors or of the Credit Com-mittee or of the Supervisory Committeeshall borrow either directly or indirectlyor become surety for any loan from thisCredit Union.

Sec. 3. No loan in excess of $50.00shall be made by this Credit Union unlesssecurity therefor shall be taken, and nosecured loan shall be for more than onethousand dollars ($1,00000). No CreditUnion shall loan its money upon the se-curity of first mortgages upon real estate.Within the meaning of this section an as-signment of shares or the endorsement ofa note may be deemed security.

Sec. 4. Loans shall be granted onlyfor provident or productive purposes orurgent needs.

Sec. 5. The amount of the loan, thetime for which it is granted, the terms ofits repayment and the form and value ofthe security, if any, shall be fixed by theCredit Committee.

Sec. 6. The rate of interest chargedunon loans shall be fixed by the Boardof Directors, and in no event shall the rateexceed one per cent (1%) a month on un-paid balances.

Sec. 7. All loans shall be secured bythe promissory note of the borrower. TheCredit Committee may demand one or

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more responsible endorsers and such ad-ditional security as it deems proper.

Sec. 8. Applications for loans shallstate specifically the purpose for whichthe money is borrowed, and that no con-sideration has passed or will pass fromthe borrower to an endorser for his en-dorsement. In case the facts as stated inthe application are not found to be asrepresented, or the money borrowed hasbeen used for purposes other than thosefor which it was granted, or if the bor-rower shall cease to be a member of thisCredit Union pursuant to any clause orconditions in these by-laws or any amend-ments thereto, then the loan shall imme-diately become due and payable. In theevent that the Board of Directors shalldeem any loan not safe for any reasonwhatsoever, additional security or imme-diate repayment of the loan may be de-manded.

Sec. 9. This Credit Union shall notloan to any member, directly or indirectly,a sum in excess of one thousand dollars.

Sec. 10. No loan shall be granted ex-cept with the unanimous approval of themembers of the Credit Committee presentwhen the same is considered, who shallconstitute at least a majority of said com-mittee.

ARTICLE XIV.—PASS BOOKSection 1. Each member shall receive

a pass book in which shall be entered allmoneys paid by him to the Credit Unionon account of shares and loans, all moneyswithdrawn by him and other debits andcredits in connection with his accountwith the Credit Union. Each entry insuch pass book shall be initialed by thetreasurer or other person receiving or pay-ing out the money represented thereby.If a pass book is lost or stolen, the ownershall not i fy the treasurer at once and mayobtain a duplicate pass book upon estab-lishing his ownership and paying a fee of25 cents. In all cases a payment by thetreasurer upon presentation of the passbook shall be a discharge to the CreditUnion for the amount so paid.

ARTICLE XV.—RESERVE FUNDSection 1. All entrance fees, fines

(which may be provided by the by-lawsfor failure to make repayment on loansand payments on shares when due), andeach year, before the declaration of a

dividend, twenty per cent (20%) of thenet earnings, shall be set aside as a re-serve fund which shall be kept liquid andintact and not loaned out to members, andshall belong to the corporation to be usedas a reserve against bad loans and notdistributed except in case of liquidation.

ARTICLE XVI.—DIVIDENDSSection 1. On recommendation of the

directors the Credit Union may declare adividend from net earnings, to be paidannualy, semi-annually or quarterly, whichdividend shall be paid on all shares out-standing at the end of the dividend period.Shares which become fully paid up dur-ing the dividend period shall be entitledto a proportional part of said dividend cal-culated from the first day of the monthfollowing such payment in full .

ARTICLE XVII.—LIABILITYSection 1. Every member in the

Credit Union shall be individually re-sponsible and liable to its creditors overand above the amount of shares held byhim or her to an amount equal to his orher respective shares, so held, for all lia-bilities accruing while he or she remainssuch stockholder.

ARTICLE XVIII .—OFFICIAL SEALSection 1. The official seal of the

Credit Union shall be a disc with thewords "The Staley Credit Union" and thename of the city in the margin, and thewords "Corporate Seal" in the center andshall be in the custody of the treasurer.

ARTICLE XIX.—AMENDMENT TOBY-LAWS

Section 1. These by-laws may beamended by a three-fourths vote of themembers present at any annual meetingor at a special meeting called for thatpurpose, provided such number shall con-stitute a quorum, and provided fur therthat the proposed amendment shall havefirst had the approval of the Auditor ofPublic Accounts, and that notice of suchmeeting containing a true copy of theproposed amendment shall have beengiven to each member as prescribed inSection 1 of Article IV of these by-laws.

Judging from the size of the box offish which Oscar Knoble sent back, hisWisconsin vacation was a success.

August 1930 T H E S T A L K Y J O U R N A L 37

Rubymae was rather downhearted theday after the big windstorm, accordingto her boss.

John Karr, night watchman at the ele-vator, is wearing a broad smile now, toshow his lovely teeth, they say.

Browning, of the coal dock, says em-phatically that he is not the DaddyBrowning of Peaches fame.

Says Hershel Morris—"I may not bean artist but I sure know a cow when Isee it."

C. M. Cobb, purchasing agent, took hisvacation the last part of July.

KEEP THIS JOURNALIn this issue of The Journal appears

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*They say that Lynn Davis, in an ef-

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We have Howard Owens to thank fursome good stories which will be appearingin The Journal some of these days.

Roxie Poland Walker is back at theoffice again, helping in various offices dur-ing vacation periods.

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Pure Food Starches

Confectioners' Starches

Cream Corn Starch

Mill Starches

Laundry Starches

Thin Boiling Starches

Soy Bean Oil

Soy Bean Oil Meal

Soy Bean Health Flour

STALEYSALES CORPORATION

Distributor for A. E. Staley Mfg. Co.

DECATUR, ILLINOIS