THE STALEY

NOVEMBER, 1938 DECATUR, ILL.

CONTENTS

Of Many Things 2

Industry and Beauty Mingle 5

White Man Improves Methods 16

Tiventieth Anniversary 20

Drops of Water 23

Old Journal Files 30

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

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

DECATUR, ILL.

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

Volume XXII • Number 5

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If we seem to be devoting a great dealof space this month to corn please re-member it is one of the two little grainsupon which we totally and entirely de-pend. Given enough million grains ofcorn, and just a few million less soybeansand—just like that we have this bigplant down in the middle of the goldenprairies of Illinois.

Speaking of the Weather

The first killing frost of the autumnnever catches A. E. Staley unprepared.He always knows when he will wake upand find flowers and late vegetablesseared by its blast and he doesn't tellby any rheumatic tinges either. He tellsby the infallable cockle-burrs. We maybe basking in a warm Indian summer,with green cockle-burrs nodding by theroad-side one day, and then the next daythe burrs will be brown. That night isthe time to bring in your delicate plantsand dig in for winter, according to theboss.

He learned this lore, and learned to re-gard it as never-failing—when as a boyand young man he lived on a farm inSouth Carolina. No radios brought stormwarnings to farmers then and newspapersbringing weather forecasts generally ar-rived after the weather had set in. Toprotect his late fruits and vegetables thefarmer had to borrow from Indian wis-dom, and watch Nature's own storm sig-nals. And most of them never failed.

The cockle-burrs are such true proph-ets that Mr. Staley has always dependedupon them. It was easy down on thefarm, and not so hard in the earlier days

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of his life in Decatur, when the plant wassurrounded by open prairies which wereliberally covered with the weeds. Now ittakes a keen and trained eye to findthem, but the boss has a patch spotteddown on East Prairie street, near theunder-pass, and all during our gloriousOctober Indian summer he watched itkeenly. The burrs stayed green longerthan he had seen them for many years,but he knew that some morning theywould be brown, and that meant a killingfrost that night.

NovemberThe warmth of Indian summer haze—The pranks of Hallowe'en—are o'er:November shortens up the daysAnd lays skim ice along the shore.The trees still flame with red and goldDespite the battle's leafy loss.Against old Winter's vanguard cold.The autumn banners boldly toss.

—Cobb.

Effects of Buying aNew Dictionary

The lamb belonged to a girl named Mary.It followed her all over the prairie:Wherever she went it did not tarry—They scampered from Boston down to

Wilkes-Barre.They even considered PanamaBut compromised on Yakima:One winter, seeking warmer suns,They found themselves in New Orleans:When war threatened Europe they started

to begFor money enough to take them to Prague:(Mary said, "I'm no Bohemian Ha—Ha—So I don't have to call that town Prague." iSo Mary stayed home, bought a new coat.And settled down in Terre Haute.

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Professor J. C. Cunningham, who isbringing his most interesting series of ar-ticles to a close this month, writes thatmaybe next month he will have an addi-tional story for us—one not directly con-cerned with the history and romance ofcorn but one which interests most of us.The article to which he referred vaguely,has to do with various traditional Christ-mas customs and foods which, we gather,have their beginnings back in some dimpast when corn made the most usableflour. He is on a holiday now but wehope he has time to work out this story,for it sounds intriguing and appetizing.

Buy Lots at Once

According to Scout W. S. Walden,there is one grocer, at least, who is notgoing to get caught with a lot of unpaidbills on his books. Prominently dis-played in this store which Mr. Waldenvisited in Xorth Carolina, was thiswarning—

NO MORE GROCERIXG TWICEON ONE PAY

PAY—THEN GRUB UP!

What If He Did?

"Now that the civic center location issettled, couldn't we call a town meetingand do something about the pictures thelocal newspapers print of some of ourStaley men? What if my fellow towns-men think F. Eakin really looks likethat?" Y. A. R.

•'Thank You"

"When the jovial gentleman in theparlor car offered to buy drinks allaround the other day, I decided to be asgracious as he and accepted right off thebat. But he and I were both puzzledwhen the Mexican whom he invited tojoin us smiled and said,

'Thank you very much!'The jovial one asked him again, and

getting the same answer the second time.NOVEMBER. 1938

heaved a sigh, took the conversation ina firmer grip and said,

•Tn my language does that mean youwill or you won't?"

And—the Mexican said, 'Thank youvery much—yes'."

The Old Starch Peddler.

But We Haven't Moved

Post office authorities seemed to knowwhere it belonged when a letter arrivedin Decatur recently addressed to

The Staley CompanyCORN AND SOYBEAN STREETS

Decatur, 111.

It's a True Reflection

It has long been our expressed theorythat the only comments people make arecriticisms. Since yesterday we are notsaying that. A man on the west coastwrites to tell us that the spirit of ourcompany, as reflected in these pages, haskept alive his faith in humanity.

We Remember

Well do we remember where we werethat bright November 11, 1918! In thecity room of a morning paper, alternatelyanswering frantically ringing telephones,elbowing through wild crowds to inter-view tearfully happy mothers, poundingout news stores—and eating hamburgers.What we wrote we'll never know—prob-ably no one read anything beyond thatone big 4 inch high banner anyway. Itwas the hysterical end of 19 hystericalmonths—and because it is still so vividwe don't want our world to ever have tolead up to another such day. But sinceit had to be we wouldn't take the wellknown pretty for that wild 24 hours inthe city room.

"Can you type?""Well, I use the Columbus system.""What's that?""I discover a key then land on it."

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Industry anil Beauty MingleIn Golden Corn Belt

All through this vast part of the UnitedStates known as the Corn Belt, the prai-ries are an ever changing scene. The peo-ple who live and work in this broad coun-try love its far reaching scenes, find beau-ty in its ever changing colors, its blue andsilver cloud pictures, its glorious sunsets—and its wide, quiet corn fields.

Decatur is one of the many busy littlecities which owes its life and energy tocorn. The Staley plant is one of a num-ber of factories which have grown upacross these prairies. The factories camebecause the corn was here. Xow the cornacreage is greatly increased because thefactories came.

From early spring—as soon as the frostis out of the ground, until late autumn,when the frosts come again, the CornBelt farmer is busy, and his fields areever-changing scenes.

In a few scattered fields one sees thepicturesque shocks standing like Indianwigwams against the sunset. Corn raisedfor commercial purposes—and in this re-gion much of it is so raised—is not cutand stacked in shocks. The little that is,

is left there to dry, and later, as rough-age is needed for stock, it is brought in,the ears shucked, and the stalks used asfeed. In the meantime it adds to the au-tumn scene if not to the farmer's coffers.One such field is pictured at left.

Many Corn Belt farmers have acreagethat runs into the hundreds of acres,while others farm 80 or 160 acres. Agreat many Illinois farm owners live ontheir own farms and not only managethem but do a great deal of the actualwork on them.

At the bottom of the page is picturedthe L. R. Parish home, in the Bearsdaleneighborhood, a few miles west of De-catur. A comfortable modern house, wellkept modern barns and stables, and wellkept lawns are typical of the farmers inthis region who are good business menas well as good farmers. Many of thepictures for this article were taken onMr. Parish's farm, with his helpful co-operation. Others were taken on thefarms of Herbert Morgan, near Illiopo-lis, John Alsup, near Warrensburg, andClint Baer, near Harristown.

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Horses still have a def-inite place in farm work,but often a tractor iscalled into service. In thepicture at the left is showna modern plow of the typeused in many of the fieldspictured here. The plow isthe first implement intothe corn fields in the earlyspring.

Later, as shown below,the disc comes in to turnup the earth, and this isfollowed by the harrowwhich breaks and powdersit. The rich black soil isnow ready to receive theseed.

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As soon as the farmer is satisfied thatthe cold weather is definitely gone, hestarts planting. Among the old timersthey will tell you they plant as soon asthe hedge leaves are the size of squirrelears. Since modern Illinois farmers havepulled up most of their hedges to killgrass-hoppers that is not an easy sched-ule to follow.

Most Illinois farmers go by weather

conditions instead of a definite date. Along wet cold spring makes farmers im-patient, and if the rains are severe andpersist, the farmers become genuinelyanxious.

Below are shown the second and thirdoperations after the corn actually startsgrowing. When it is about three or fourinches high it is cultivated, and soonafter, perhaps right away, it is crossed.

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Given the right sort of corn weather,enough rain, but not too cold, and plentyof warming sunshine, the soft little greensprouts soon shoot up into the air. Cen-tral Illinois farmers used to say the cornshould be high enough to hide a rabbit bylate June, and knee high by the Fourthof July. This year, which proved verynearly perfect for corn, it was even higherwhen the National Birthday arrived.

In the first picture below a field isshown as it looked the first week in July.This field is about an average Illinoiscorn field which was planted with a goodgrade of seed. The up-standing stalksand the uniform height attest the goodstrain.

The same field, and as near as the pho-tographer could locate it, the same spot,

is pictured next, as it looked six weekslater, Aug. 15. Those week are impor-tant in corn growth. It is then that hotdays with plenty of sunshine and not toomuch rain, and hot nights, are needed.The true Corn Belt resident does not ac-tually like blistering hot days and hotnights, but he will stand them uncom-plainingly because he knows it is "goodfor the corn".

\\hat cannot be shown in these pic-tures is the color. All through the grow-ing season the colors in the big corn fieldschange constantly. In the first stage thestalks are a soft, delicate green, later asthe summer advances they take onsturdier shade and then slowly changeto browns.

While the corn stalk is growing tallerand taller, the ear is developing in itsown characteristic manner. Here againthe strain of the seed counts. Ears ofuniform size, ears which develop arefound in these fields because the seedused was good. These pictures are close-ups of the stalks which were pictured onthe opposite page and were taken at thesame time the stalks were photographed.

The first picture was taken on July 15and shows the young ear snug against thestalk.

The second picture was taken Aug. IS.Now the ear is extending out consider-ably from the stalk.

In the third picture, taken just beforethe shuckers went into the field, the ripeear, covered with a dry brownish husk, isalmost hanging down.

Corn is picked either by machine or byNOVEMBER, 1938

hand, in October, generally, in the CornBelt. During the last few years pickers,which are highly efficient, have come in,but in a dry season, such as Central Illi-nois has had this fall, farmers foundthey could shuck faster by hand. Themachines must work at a very slow rateof speed when corn is unusually dry, butsome shuckers are chained lightning, giv-en a mit and shucking peg.

Again here color pictures would tellthe story much better. Not only colorchanges during the summer, but the tex-ture of the leaves and stalks developswith the corn. Early in the summerleaves are soft, almost silky.

By the middle of the season they areat their firmest, the ribs are firm and thetexture is almost metal-like. When har-vest approaches they are paper-like anddry.

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All over Central Illinois wagons likethe one pictured on this page, are familiarsights. One sees them in the corn fields,one meets them, piled high with corn, orreturning to the field empty, out alongthe roads. And if the visitor stops be-side the field where they are shucking,he hears the beat of the ears against thehigh bang-board, as rapid and as regularas machine gun fire.

Every corn farmer knows how to shuckcorn—and it is an art—but not everyfarmer is a good shucker. Generally oneboy drives the team slowly down therows while the more accomplished mem-bers of the family, in a few incrediblyswift motions, strip the ear from thestalk and the husks from the ear and tossit into the wagon. The bang-board isthere to make that final toss easy. Itis so high he seldom throws over it, andthe corn which hits it drops down into thewagon bed.

Corn shucking is as big an event in thecorn belt as threshing is in the wheatcountry. Literature has long played upthe husking bee which was the festivalof the season. In the commercial cornfields of today little or no attention isgiven to festivals. Farmers get into thefields as early as they can in the morningand shuck as long as it is light.

Shuckers, unlike machines, can workunder almost any conditions, althoughthey work best when the corn is not toodry. This year, however, they have foundsome of the corn almost too dry for them.Many farmers have solved this problemby dividing his day into halves. In themorning, while the corn is still wet withdew, he shucks. In the afternoon, whenthe sun has dried out the pods, he thresh-es soybeans.

Corn pickers, shown on page 11, are

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fascinating machines. As they movedown the fields, powered by the tractorengine, they cut the stalk, snap it, gulpup the ear, which passes on withoutstopping. As the ear passes up the beltit is shucked and tossed into the waitingwagon. Only these machines have to beslowed terribly with dry corn, and thefarm boys can do it better themselves.

Given right conditions the picker canshuck 800 to 1,100 bushels a day. Theaverage farmer, who is considered good,

can shuck 100 bushels a day. But it ishard work.

This year pickers have been seen ingreater numbers than ever before, al-though weather conditions in CentralIllinois have favored hand picking. Asthey come down the field they look likenothing anyone ever saw before. Theyadvance with an almost animal-like lopeand most Illinois farmers have a veryself-conscious look as they guide themthrough the fields.

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Even after the corn is shucked it isstill a long way from storage bins andmarkets. On some of the large Illinoisfarms it is no short trip from the fieldsto the crib, which is generally locatedwith the rest of the farm buildings nearthe house. Some farmers haul each wa-gon as it is filled, using horses. Others,with a tractor as the power, hitch twoor more wagons together and haul thecorn in to the crib.

And the types of cribs vary greatly.Some are filled through an opening inthe top, outside, while some of the moremodern ones are filled from the inside.The carrier belt which fills the out-sidefilled type is generally powered by a trac-tor engine.

Farmers who have the type which fillfrom the inside, drive into the opening—most cribs are built around and over a

drive-way—and dump the corn. By car-rier belt it is hoisted up into the crib.

The picture shown at the bottom ofthis page is typical of the scene on manyCorn Belt farms this autumn. Althoughthe weather was beautiful—warm andbright day after day—no farmer couldafford to loaf along. By generations oftraining he has learned to always expectthe most sudden of weather changes atany time.

When corn is ready to shuck, then, hegets into the field, shucks it as quickly aspossible, and gets it to the cribs. In somefields two or three teams are kept busyhauling the heavy wagons in all day.Other farmers use their tractors, hitchingtwo wagons together. That the loads maytake in as much corn as possible at atime, wagons always have extra side-boards on them.

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When it came to showing pictures ofcorn cribs our photographer found thatthe variety offered was amazing. Whileall cribs are built with one general idea,this idea is developed in many differentways. Nearly all cribs—on Illinois farms—are wood and are built with ventila-tion spaces between boards.

In the picture at the top of the page

is shown one of the modern type. To fillit the corn wagon is driven in, and theload dumped on the floor. A belt runsfrom an opening in the floor up into thecrib, carrying the corn.

Below is another kind of filling ar-rangement greatly favored. In cribs ofthis type the corn is carried up on thecarrier belt from the outside.

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Before he takes his corn to market thefarmer must shell it. Sometimes this isdone soon after it is harvested. Often, ifthe price is not to the grower's liking, andhe can afford to do so, he stores it forsome considerable time before selling. It isseldom, if ever, shelled before it is storedon the farm, chiefly because farmershave no tight elevators for storing shelled

corn, and no other facilities for caringfor the grain in that form.

Shellers are generally set up near thecrib, and quite often they are run, likeso much other farm machinery, by thetractor engine. The shelled corn is sentdirectly into the truck or wagon in whichit is to be hauled in to the elevator.

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The country elevator is one of the im-portant factors in the life of the cornfarmer. Here the corn finds its last rest-ing place before it starts out into theworld of commerce. All through thecountry, nearly every little village in theCorn Belt has its elevator, and duringthe time when farmers are selling, theyare busy places.

Often these elevators are owned andoperated by local men. Sometimes theyare owned by big grain companies innearby cities. Always they are the meet-ing places for farmers, and the base towhich buyers for big grain companiesand big processors look for their entiresupply.

Almost without exception these eleva-tors are built just next to the railroad sothat grain cars can be loaded for ship-ment without any additional hauling.From now on the corn has left the farm.The little country elevator is the lastNOVEMBER, 19.''

place it rests. From now on its life isshort.

The general plan of country grain ele-vators is the same. In the front office—the neat little building in the foreground—farmers transact their business, learnof the world markets—and local happen-ings.

The porch-like building at the side isone of the elevator man's most importantpossessions. It is his scale house. Trucksand wagons loaded with grain areweighed there on their way up the rampto the elevator. Empties are weighedagain as they come down.

Each year millions of bushels of cornfrom just such elevators arrive at theStaley plant in cars and are unloaded atour big elevator. Some of it later is re-loaded and shipped off again. A greatdeal of it is sent into our own mills toemerge as starch, syrup, oils or feed.

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WHITE MANFINALLY BEGINS IMPROVING ON

INDIAN METHODSBy J. C. CUNNINGHAM,

Research Professor, Iowa Corn Research Institute.

The American Indians used corn ex-clusively for human food. They had nodomestic animals to feed before the whiteman arrived. Those Indian ponies whichthey rode with such deadly skill in theirclashes with the early pioneers, camefrom the Old World to the New after thetime of Columbus. Small patches ofground near the Indian camping groundswere enough, but those were also theearly testing grounds for corn. Here thesquaws learned the principles of plant-ing, spacing, seed selection and storage.The white man was satisfied to use thisknowledge with little questioning for ahundred years. He had other and moreurgent duties to attend to, and so formany years accepted the Indians' meth-ods without question.

These p r inc ip l e s transferred fromsmall patches to bigger fields resulted ina tremendous increase in total produc-tion of corn in the territory now occu-pied by the United States. The first to-tal figures available are found in the firstcensus taken in 1839. The increase fromthat time was steady until the year 1920,when production reached its high point.Five typical years illustrates in roundnumbers the increase.

Year Bu. Produced in U.S.1839.. 377,000,0001860... 760,000,0001879 ... . 1,752,000,0001899.. 2,666,000,0001920 3,208,000,000New land put under cultivation west

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of the Allegheny mountains accountedfor most of this increase. Figures givingthe year and production show how onestate exceeded another in rank of pro-duction while all increased in totalamounts over a fifty year period.

Tennessee Once Leader

In 1839 Tennessee was the highestproducing corn state in the Union.Twelve per cent of the nation's crop wasgrown there. In fifty years her totalproduction had increased by a half butshe had dropped to tenth place and pro-duced only 3% of the United States crop.

Illinois was seventh in production in1839 and furnished only 6% of the totalcrop. Forty years later she producedover three hundred million bushels ofcorn, stood first in production and fur-nished 18.6% of the entire crop. Tenyears later Iowa became the highest pro-ducing corn state. The center of cornproduction has remained in these twostates, although the acreage continuedto increase beyond the Missouri river.

Settles in Mid-West

But the limit of this westward shiftingcenter of production had to be reachedsooner or later. The abnormal years dur-ing, preceding and following the worldwar carried the wave of corn growing tothe Rocky mountains. In four states,North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming andColorado, 530,463 acres of corn weregrown in 1909. By the year 1924 thishad increased to a total acreage of 3,-194,194.

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Drought and depression broke thatwestward wave and corn production set-tled back largely into some twelve stateswith six of them producing by far thebulk of the crop. The states of Illinois,Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, Missouri andOhio in 1932 produced 1,600,000,000bushels or more than fifty per cent of theentire crop. The meat producing andmeat packing centers and the factoriesmaking various products from corn havelong been established in these centers ofcorn production and will doubtless re-main there.

No U. S. MonopolyBut let no one for a moment think that

this Upper Mississippi Valley has a mon-opoly on this crop. The world's produc-tion of maize has increased since 1920but this increase has not been in theUnited States. In the year 1900-01 theworld crop was 3,750,000,000 bushels.This country furnished 2,662,000,000 or1\%. In the year 1932-33 the worldcrop was 4,739,000,000 bushels. TheUnited States produced 2,907,000,000 ord\/o of the total. Not only for a singleyear but the average for a five year pe-riod shows this 10% decline.

Just what percentage of the world'ssupply of corn the United States willcontinue to furnish only time will tell.If we can escape a world war long enough,happier and more permanent trade rela-tions may be developed among nations.There is a growing belief that exchangeof goods on a wide scale will lessen thedanger of war. This exchange in turnmay come from encouraging regions andpeoples to supply the products for whichthey are best fitted.

The upper Mississippi valley with itsfavorable soil, climate, means of trans-portation and other advantages is logic-ally the world's center for production ofcommercial corn and corn products. Thisregion also has benefited most by recentdevelopments in corn production. TheNOVEMBER, 1938

readers of the Staley Journal will be in-terested in two of the most importantones.

First, the improvements in machinerymethods of production.

Second, the development of hybridseed.

Machines NecessaryCommercial corn production cannot

be carried on by hand. This is too slowand too expensive.

Recent studies carried on in three dif-ferent states show the amount of laborrequired to produce a bushel of corn.

On steep hillside farms it required480 minutes of hand labor to produce abushel of corn.

On somewhat better land 106 minutesof hand labor was used before the bushelof corn was finally in the crib.

On the best, level, corn-belt land handlabor was reduced to five and four-tenthsminutes for each bushel of grain pro-duced.

The steep hillside farms required handlabor almost entirely for planting, culti-vation and harvesting.

The efficient use of machinery on thebest corn land is needed to insure an ade-quate supply at a reasonable price.

Latest Method

Hybrid seed is the white man's latestcontribution to the science of corn grow-ing. Indians selected good ears of cornin the fall for seed the following spring.

White growers adopted and improvedon this method. But even the best earshe could select often failed to produceprize ears again. He was choosing the off-spring after mating had taken place andnot enough was known about the fun-damental character of either parent.

Hybrid seed corn production whichhas come in during the last twenty yearsmeans selecting the parents of an ear ofcorn. These parents have to measure upto rigid standards before they are crossedwith each other. The pollen from a sin-

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gle stalk is placed on the silk of the sameplant and all other pollen kept away.Plants grown from this inbred seed varieswidely.

Bright Future

All inbred plants are lacking in vigor.When one or more of these inbred linesare crossed this vigor is restored and thegood points of both parents may be com-bined in the offspring. The stalks standup better, resist disease or insects, huskeasier and must outyield the open pollin-ated fields at least five bushels per acre.In the efforts to provide hybrid seed cornespecially adapted to certain soils or forcertain purposes some combinations maybe put on the market which will fail tocome up to expectations, but this will notprevent further improvements from be-ing made. Secretary Henry A. Wallace,who has made a long study of the subjectrecently said, "The surface of the possi-bilities in corn breeding has merely beenscratched." He goes on to suggest thepossibility of producing certain types ofcorn for different live stock feeding andothers for commercial uses both in thewet and dry milling processes.

(The End.)

When old Rex died, at the age of 12 years.Omar Najziger, packing house, missed himterribly. He lost no time in getting a newd,og as near like him as possible, and naminghim Rex. He has had young Rex two yearsnow and is deeply attached to him.PAGE 18

< r . - i i i i Union Report

Luther Hiser, treasurer of the StaleyCredit Union, has published the follow-ing trial balance for the period endingSept. 30:

DEBITS CREDITSCash $ 6,668.80 ..Mis. accts. rec 3.40Prepaid expense .... 19.68Furniture 332.50Bonds 9,831.54Personal loans 240,356.39Shares $222,206.83Accounts payable.. 91.53Notes payable 8,000.00Reserve fund 9,829.15Undivided earnings 5,671.76Entrance fees 12.75Interest on loans 14,391.36Reserve for int. on

d/a 527.01Interest on bonds 191.33Operating expense.. 3,278.53Interest expense 269.27Bad loans collected 20.20Mis. income.... 1.25

$260,851.64 $260,851.64Members, 1,614 — Borrowers, 1,179

New England ManagerAnnouncement was made recently of

the appointment of George H. Batchelderas New England branch sales manager,in the bulk division. His appointmentbecame effective Oct. 1.

Mr. Batchelder has had wide sales ex-perience, for a number of years havingheaded his own company which was thesales representative of various membersof the paper mill industry. His businessheadquarters were in Philadelphia andhe had made that his home.

Since coming with the Staley companyMr. Batchelder has moved to Boston,which is headquarters for our New Eng-land branch.

Suggested Volley Ball TeamWhen someone posted a paper in the

plant suggesting that all interested inplaying volley ball sign it, a surprising

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list of old timers appeared. The strangething about it was that most of the menlisted denied ever having signed. Amongthose on the list were Lize Leaser, LutherHumiston, J. N. Armentrout, GeorgeSmith, Ben Hopkins, Carl Oakes, VanUyke, Clyde Smith, Newt Simpson, BeniMarcashello, A. F. Blakeney, HermanHerbert, Earl Stimmel, Scotty Eckler,George Raney, Guy Goodman, Bob Pat-ton, Charley Wyant, Ike Ragsdale, CleveCinder, Dad Gentry, Joe Kanarien, A.Hansen, Jim Nance, Fiddle Watkins,Otto Falk, Nate Smith, Charles Brunerand Joe Pollock.

Bill Heer believes in starting them inyoung. His small grand-son, Jimmy\Vaite, has a pipe which is his favoriteplaything. It was the gift of his grand-father, naturally. He is also learning tojig—''You know I'm part Irish from myassociation with Tom Gogerty" our sy-rup mixer explains. Jimmy is the son ofHarry Waite, office janitor.

Only the arrival of a new niece in thefamily consoled Louise Thrasher, officecafeteria, when the Cubs went down indefeat in October. Jimmy Carter, uncleof the same baby, was not so easily dis-tracted from the Cubs calamity.

If You Want Pic Try TheseThere is just nothing which takes the

place in an American dinner menu, of agood pie. But even families which lovethis dessert often tire of the same kindday after day. For the sake of variety—and as a treat to the family—we offertwo delightful pies made with syrup.

Pecan Pie

J4 cup granulated sugar\/2 cups Staley syrup (Crystal White

or Golden Table, or the 2 mixed)3 eggs, well beaten3 tbsps. butter3 tbsps. flour1 tsp. vanilla

Pinch of saltCream butter, sugar and flour. Add beaten

eggs and syrup and vanilla. Pour into deeppie tin lined with unbaked pie crust dough.Sprinkle liberally with pecan halves andbake in slow oven, 330° to 350°.

Staley's Surprise Pie

2 cups Staley's Golden Table Syrup2 tablespoons cornstarch

yi teaspoon vanilla2 eggs

Few grains saltBeat the egg yolks, add syrup, cornstarch.

vanilla and salt. Mix thoroughly. Fold inegg whites beaten stiff. Pour into unbakedpie shell. Put criss-cross strips of crust overthe top. Bake from 25 to 30 minutes in ahot oven (375° F.).

A. E. Reggi, our broker inCuba, and Mrs. Reggi, are bothinterested in advancing Staleyinterests on the Island. Mr.Reggi has been Staley repre-sentative there for ten years,and unlike most of our brokersin this country, handles everyproduct made by Staley's for•which there can be a possiblesale there. This includes bulkand package starches, corn sy-rup and feedstufjs as well asother products.

Although we have no pictureof the young man, Mr. andMrs. Reggi are very proud oftheir son, now about twomonths old.NOVEMBER, 1938 PAGE 19

Twentieth Anniversary OF ARMISTI*

Where were you on the night of June18? It's an old stock question and theaverage man, when asked it, unless hehas a guilty connection with that date,probably answers with a blank stare.But—change the date slightly and almostany man—or woman—over thirty willanswer promptly. For instance try say-ing, "Where were you on Nov. 11,1918?''

The question, in its revised form, wasrecently asked ten of our own Staley menand in no case was there any hesitation.Every man answered, for the memory ofwhere they were just twenty years ago isstill one of the most vivid things imprint-ed on their memories.

None of the men in this group werecitizens of the United States twenty yearsago. All of them were soldiers then, andin the armies of the countries of theirbirths. Most of them were fighting in thearmy of the Kaiser—but all of them arecitizens of the United States now—andunaffectedly glad of it.

Six Germans

There are six men in the plant whowere with the German forces, two whowere in the Italian army and two whowere with the British. And the only onein the entire group who celebrated thesigning of the welcome Armistice wasthe one who was with an Irish regimentin the British forces.

Three of the six Germans were in Ger-many when the Armistice was signed butlocal events there so over-shadowed thesigning that it meant almost nothing tothem. The German revolution had start-ed a few days before, and street fightingand rioting behind the lines so occupiedthe German people they had little timeto notice even the end of the war.

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Back to Mines

Karl \Vond, who works in our millhouse, went into the German army in1914 and served in the front lines until1917. Then he was sent back home towork in the mines, for he had been aminer before war was declared. He wasin the mines on that memorable Novem-ber day, and the signing of the pactmeant little or nothing to him at the time.Later events made him decide to leaveGermany and by 1923 he was in theUnited States and in 1924 he went towork at Staleys, and was soon natural-ized.

Mike Casper, also in our mill house,had already had a year's service in theGerman army when the war started in1914 and he served continually until1919, but in November, 1918, he was ina hospital in Germany. He had been in-jured when a trench caved in. Streetfighting was so intense in the territory inwhich he was, that news of the Armisticewas slow to reach him. He also came tothe United States, and the Staley com-pany, in 1923.

Saved by a Pact

Fritz Brandt, who has worked in ourgarage for five years, came to the UnitedStates twelve years ago. He was still inBerlin when the Armistice was signedand as he says in his, surprisingly goodEnglish, "Wasn't it a lucky break forme? I was due to go to the trenches thenext month." He was only 18, one of thenew recruits, and was spared trench war-fare by that narrow margin. But even inBerlin there was little attention given tothe big news—the machine guns of therevolutionists were too loud.

Fred Moyna, millhouse, remembersthe Armistice most vividly because it was

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I BRINGS MEMORY RACK TO THESE MEN

the day after that that he was sent hometo Germany from Belgium where he hadbeen for some time. Franz Saloga, pipegang, remembers it for much the samereason, only he was going home fromFrance where he had been for 18 months.Both men remember it as a solemn trip,with a none too happy home-coming inthe midst of revolution. Both men cameto this country in 1923 and joined Staleyforces that same year.

August Voss, millhouse, who had per-haps the most spectacular war service,was in the German navy. His escapefrom death when his ship was torpedoedin the North Sea is alone enough adven-ture for one life-time. For 27 hours hekept afloat on a small raft, but shortlyafter he was back again, this time on atorpedo boat which saw plenty of action.In November, 1918, he was in a Belgianharbor, but while the Belgians were wildwith joy, there was no sign of celebra-tion aboard his ship.

The Too-Polite Consul

Cento Rocco, smiling Italian whoworks in our yards, still feels that if hehad stayed at home in Decatur onespring day in 1915 he would never havehad to join the army. But, he shrugs, hegot a free trip to Italy and another freetrip back to America for himself and hisbride. He was working in a Decatur minein 1915 when he went with a group ofother unmarried, unnaturalized Italians,to call on the Italian consul in Spring-field.

The consul was lovely to the boys, dis-pensed liquid hospitality freely, and laterwrote them letters pointing out that thelittle papers they had signed there meantthat they had joined the Italian Army.So off they went on tickets the obligingNOVEMBER, 1938

consul furnished and a few weeks afterarriving in Italy the boys were in service.Cento was in Bulgaria when the Armis-tice was signed, but saw little actualfighting. There was no particular cele-bration, but he remembers how glad hewas to get back to his home village.Shortly after that he married one of thegirls there, and then the kind Italian gov-ernment furnished them both with fareback to Decatur. As soon as he got backhere Cento took steps to prevent otherItalian consuls from influencing him. Hebecame an American citizen.

Fred Feriozzi, who has worked in ouroil house since 1922, saw little actualfighting although he was in the Italianengineering corps for forty-two months.Any ideas he may have had of celebrat-ing the Armistice were curtailed becausehe was ill in an army hospital at thetime. He came to Decatur as soon as hereached this country in 1922, to join hissister, Mrs. Sam Martina.

Tommy Went Home

Tommy Cheyne, Staley millwright,had been in the United States and hadeven worked on some of the Staley build-ings, before 1914. When his native Scot-land got into the war, Tommy wenthome, because he was not then a citizenof the United States. He was in trainingin England for about a year before beingsent across, but after that he was on thecontinent for the duration of the war.

The English infantry with which hewas detailed, was in Belgium in Novem-ber, 1918, but everyone was so worn andtired that the only celebration they askedwas to get a chance to rest undisturbed.However their billets there were strawand manure piles, and to settle into themthey had to drive out the hogs who had

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found them first. As soon as he was mus-tered out, Tommy returned to Americaand was working at Staley's late in 1919.He, too, had made up his mind about afew things and soon took out his papers.

Miner Turned Painter

Charles ''Scotty" Butler, syrup house,who has been a plant favorite ever sincehe joined Staley company in 1923, sayshe had to do some conniving to get intothe army and then had to tell the truthto get out. When war was declared hewas working in the coal mines in his na-tive Scotland, on the banks of the Clyde.The government wanted miners to stayat home, but Scotty wanted to join up,so he suddenly, for enlistment purposes,become a house painter and six weekslater found himself marching throughBelgium, with the Irish regiment ofwhich he was a proud member.

Scotty went home to Scotland on leavein October, 1918, and was just back inFrance on November 11. It was toomuch to expect that one of his tempera-ment would not celebrate with the restof France, and anyway, he was mightyglad peace was in sight. But even thatcelebration was mild and a week later hewas back with the old Irish outfit. Butnow that the fighting was over Scottywanted to get home, so this time he toldthe truth about being a coal miner andin no time he was back on the Clyde.He came to this country in the early1920s and has been at Staley's now foralmost fifteen years—and he is a proudcitizen of the United States, but keepsa keen eye on European conditions.

Salesmen TransferredSeveral changes have recently been

made in the sales division which handleslaundry starches and soyflour. DonaldC. Magie, who for some time has beenour representative for those products inthe Philadelphia area, went back to thewest coast in October. Mr. Magie was

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originally our west coast representative,so this change takes him and his wifeback home to San Francisco.

To succeed Mr. Magie in PhiladelphiaJohn Armstrong was transferred fromNew York City where he has been forsome time. Two new men are taking overthis work in New York. They are Wil-liam Schraeger and Willia J. Maginn.

Another new man takes over the Balti-more, Washington and surrounding terri-tory in Virginia. He is Donald R. Teed,who will make his headquarters in Balti-more.

Conversation is ceased, by request,when Jo Burnside counts up the cashregisters in the cafeteria. Jo says it isn'tthat she can't count, but she has to con-centrate when there is money involved.

Al Ewing, tin shop, can have more funwith this quartet of sons of his than anycircus that ever came to town. The boysare, top, Robert, 12, and Raymond, 10.Bottom, Geral, 8, and Glen, 7. The boyshave four uncles in the plant. Louis Ewing,packing house, Bill Swigart, pipe gang,Newell Shriver, packing house, and ErnieShadrick, 17 building.

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Drops of \Va I IT andItrains of SandRESULT PURE WATER

By I B. SMITH,Foreman, M. & L. Department.

In the fall of 1920 at the time of thecompletion of the pumping station andthe connecting 24 inch raw water mainto the plant, our filtration plant was putinto operation.

It originally contained seven filtrationunits, or sand filters as they are generallycalled. About one year later an additionwith four more units was added to thenorth of the original building.

During the first few years of operationthe incoming water was treated with limeand alum by devices and methods whichwere then considered efficient. At thattime the filtration plant did not have asedimentation basin and it was neces-sary that the reaction of the various ma-terials used in softening and coagulatingthe water take place in the sand filters.

Rain Brings Complications

Ordinarily the water received at thefiltration plant was of an excellent qual-ity requiring but little treatment, butduring periods of heavy rainfall, largequantities of silt were carried into thelake basin from tributaries and surfacedrainage resulting in discolored and silt-bearing water being received at the filtra-tion plant.

This necessitated a slowing down ofthe rate of flow through the filters to al-low for complete removal of all discolora-tion and foreign matter. The slowingdown taxed the capacities of the elevenfilters to their limits to supply the rapidlygrowing demands of the plant for crystalNOVEMBER, 1938

clear chemically pure water, which ourproducts demand.

Big Additions

In the summer of 1926 work was com-pleted on extensive alterations and addi-tions to the original filter house. Thisimprovement included rather a completeremodeling and modernizing of the plantwhich had become hopelessly obsolete.This rebuilding included the installationof a 9,000,000 gallon sedimentation bas-in, equipment for complete lime soften-ing of all the water treated and the Zeo-lite process softening of all the water tobe used in the boiler house. At the sametime the filter unit was modernized bythe addition of accessory equipment andadditional filters. At a later date a smallunderground storage basin for filteredwater was installed. Actual operation ofthe plant was started in the fall of 1926under the direction of Dr. R. E. Green-field, who had had previous experiencein such work.

Water Treatment

Untreated, or raw water as it is com-monly called, enters the treatment plantfrom the 24 inch main and flows throughan open rectangular concrete tank calleda weir box. At each end of this box areadjustable gates so arranged as to main-tain a determined level of the water inthe box, part of which, according to theheight of the water, flows through twotipping meters which feed the softeningand clarifying chemicals in proportion to

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This photograph shows the openings in the tops of No. 3 and No. 4 mixing chambers,and the line shafting and gears that drive agitators in the mixing chambers. Shown at theright rear is the continuous sampling device which provides samples from which treatmentcontrol is determined.PAGE 24 THE STALEY JOURNAL

the rate at which they operate. This inturn is dependent upon the height ofwater in the weir box.

The untreated water flowing from theweir box overflows into the first of fourmixing chambers directly below, wherethe treating process begins. Each of themixing chambers is provided with a verylarge but slow moving agitator, the pur-pose of which is to thoroughly mix thewater and the chemicals. The process ofmixing is further augmented by bafflesbuilt into the wall separating the fourchambers.

Moves SlowlyAfter passing through the mixing

chambers the water enters the sedimenta-tion basin through which it moves veryslowly allowing the particles of silt andother foreign matter carried up from thelake and the previously added treatingchemicals, to be precipitated to the bot-tom of the chambers by the coagulantwhich was added and thoroughly mixedwith the water and softening solution inthe third mixing chamber.

The period that the water is allowedto clarify in the settling basin variesfrom four to six hours during normal op-erating periods, depending upon therate at which the filtered water is con-sumed.

Underground Rooms

The settling basin or chambers arelarge underground rooms extending fromthe old table house on the west to thekiln house on the east, and from the southend of 21 building to the north end ofthe filter house. This series of rooms isdivided into two parts, either half ofwhich can be taken out of service andemptied for cleaning or inspection with-out affecting the efficient clarification ofthe water.

On the floors of the sedimentationrooms, or chambers, is a net work of per-forated round tile which terminate atquick opening 8 inch valves. These valvesNOVEMBER, 1938

are set in the concrete walls separatingthe basin proper from the alleyway ex-tending the length of the same. Theirpurpose is to discharge the sludge whichis precipitated to the floor of the cham-bers and accumulates around the per-forated tile.

Clear Water Storage

At the end of each series of rooms isa much smaller room known as a clear-well into which the clarified water en-ters by flowing over a baffle extendingupwards from the floor about nine feet.This is arranged in this manner so thatonly clear surface water from which allpossible foreign matter has been precipi-tated will enter the clear-well. It is fromthese clear-wells that the water supplyfor the sand filters is pumped.

The sand filters are open wooden tanksabout thirteen feet in diameter and eightfeet high, which have concreted into theirbottoms a network of small pile connect-ed about every twelve inches to a strainerwhich in reality is a small bronze boxwith numerous openings in the form ofvery narrow slots cut into its top face.These openings are too narrow to allowsmall particles of sand to pass. The in-coming water from the clearwells of thesedimentation basin enters the sand fil-ters at the top and slowly passes downby gravity through several layers of dif-ferent sized sand and gravel, depositingthereon the minute particles of foreignmatter which were not precipitated in thesettling basin.

Cleaning Filters

The rate at which the water flowsthrough the filters is controlled by a de-vice known as a rate of flow controller,one of which controls the effluent fromeach pair of filters. They are adjustedaccording to the ability of the filters toproperly clarify the water and maintainthe same flow through both filters towhich they are attached.

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Top—This photograph looks down on one row of sand filters, and shows the connectingpiping and control valves. Bottom—Four Zeolite treating tanks.PAGE 26 THE STALEY JOURNAL

Once in each 24 hour period or oftenerif necessary each filter is taken out ofservice and back-washed. This is a proc-ess of reversing the flow of water throughthe sand beds by water under pressureand agitating the sand bed by low pres-sure compressed air. This process cleansthe sand and gravel of particles of ac-cumulated foreign matter which is car-ried to the surface of the water by theup-flowing back-wash water where itoverflows into troughs and is carried outof the tubs as waste.

Main Supply

The discharge of the filtered waterthrough rate of flow controllers is con-veyed to a filtered water, or surge, wellthrough a concrete flume. From this well—approximately 2,750,000 gallons—allof the water used in the plant except un-treated raw water, is supplied.

A large volume of the water—approxi-mately 1,250,000 gallons—filtered dailyis further processed in the Zeolite systemfor use in the boilers. The Zeolite soft-eners are the four round horizontalclosed pressure tanks located on the sec-ond floor at the east end of the building.They are about 17 feet long and 9 feelin diameter. They have a strainer systemin their bottoms and are filled with sev-eral layers of sand and gravel in muchthe same manner as the sand filters, ex-cept that above the finer layer of sand atthe top there is an added layer of aboutthree feet of a greenish black granularmaterial called Zeolite. This porous ma-terial, somewhat resembling coarse blacksand, has the peculiar faculty of ex-changing those elements in water com-monly called hardness and which whenboiled form scale, for other elementswhich are in no manner harmful to thewater or its use. The result of this changeis water of zero hardness as it is termedindustrially.

The chemical exchange takes place inNOVEMBER. 1938

the large tanks under pressure and is al-most instantaneous. After certain quan-tities—about 250,000 gallons—have beentreated the zeolite loses its ability to con-tinue this chemical change and it is re-stored to its original capacity by soakingwith a saturated solution of salt waterthen back-washed with filtered water un-der pressure until all traces of salt areremoved.

Softening Water

All water, even sparkling pure springwater, contains elements termed by chem-ists as salts. Generally speaking for ourpurposes these are classified as incrust-ing or non-incrusting, varying in quan-tity according to the various types ofwater.

When the water is heated to the boil-ing point and above these salts precipi-tate, the non-incrusting in the form of asoft, chalky sludge, the incrusting a veryhard flaky formation similar to thatfound in the bottom of a tea kettle, ad-heres tenaciously to the inside walls ofthe heating surfaces of the boilers.

The treatment of the water by thecombination of lime and zeolite complete-ly removes these incrusting solids allow-ing the water to be evaporated in theboilers without the formation of anyscale. In this way many thousands ofdollars which would be spent annuallyin replacing boiler tubes and scales, aresaved.

To FloridaA. E. Staley, chairman of the board,

and Mrs. Staley, left Decatur late inOctober for their winter home in Miami.Because of the unusually warm autumnin Illinois Mr. Staley remained in De-catur longer than he generally does. Hishealth, which was not at all good whenhe returned to Illinois in the spring, wasgreatly improved when he left this fall,and he was looking forward eagerly toseeing his home in the south and particu-larly his rose garden.

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IF MARKS SELLS SEASONING

IT'S GOOD BOLOGNA

More than thirty years ago an ambit-ious young man named Sam Marks de-cided that the only way to get to the topin the business world was to strike outinto a fairly untouched field.

The business he founded in 1905 inDallas was christened the EnterpriseButcher Supply company, the name un-

der which Mr. Marks still operates to-day. The area reached now covers sev-eral states, instead of just a part ofTexas, the building occupied is now alarge four story one instead of the orig-inal one story place, the line sold is great-ly increased to include all sorts of sup-plies for meat packers.

This big building is used exclusively by the Enterprise company t.o house its big stockin Dallas.PAGE 28 THE STALEY JOURNAL

The old days were good, but Mr.Marks does not long for them. "WhenI started in business," he says, "we trav-eled about with horse and buggy, chiefly.Most of the slaughtering and sausagemaking was done by local butchers, sothese were my customers. There werefew packing houses in this part of thecountry then. Now some of the finestpacking houses in the United States arescattered through the Southwest."

The firm is distributor in that terri-tory for Staley's Sausage Flour andPackers' Grits. It also manufactures andsells its own well known line of Ebscoseasonings and colorings. The Enterprisecompany imports spices and seasonings,and is distributor for leading lines ofmeat packing machinery and equipment.

Mr. Marks, the founder, is presidentand guiding spirit of the firm. The vicepresident is R. H. Marks, the secretaryH. K. Hirsch.

Sam Marks, the founder of the Enterprisecompany, is the very active president today.

Two members of the Enterprise firm stopped in Decatur recently and visited with A. E.Staley, our founder, and A. R. Staley, soyflotir sales manager. In the group are R. H.Marks, vice president of the Enterprise company, Pete Braun, Staley salesman in Texas,A. E. Staley, A. R. Staley and H. K. Hirsch, secretary of Enterprise.NOVEMBER, 1938 PAGE 29

Jfrom ®lb f ournal Jftle*STALEY FELLOWSHIP CLUB JOURNAL

C. E. Murphy, editor.—November, 1918

Staley employees joined in the bigVictory Parade through Decatur streetson the morning of Nov. 11. Harry Tread-way, as Kaiser Bill, was chained, withCaptain Larsen leading the guards.Charles Fitch led the band, and GoldieScott was Miss Democracy.

C. E. Murphy resigned as Journaleditor.

Announcement was made of the form-ation of the reclamation department toreclaim old material and stored used fit-tings and materials which could be usedagain.

THE STALEY JOURNALEdna E. Coyle, editor.—November, 1923

With much ceremony the HannahBassler, a power boat, was launched onLake Decatur. It was the gift of theBayley Manufacturing company, of Mil-waukee, and was christened HannahBassler for the wife of Ed Bassler of thatcompany. Red Thornborough and BoobKeck took the big truck up to Wisconsinfor the boat.

Mr. and Mrs. Bassler came for thelaunching and Mrs. Bassler broke a bot-1

tie of champagne on the boat in chris-tening it.

Joe McGinnity, "Iron Man of Base-ball," took a vacation from his work inthe plant and went to New York for theWorld Series and a visit with some of hisformer team mates in the big league. Hewas given a royal welcome by players,who knew him when he played with the

Giants, and by fans who rememberedhim.

Two full pages of type, pictures anddrawings announced the approachingmarriage of the editor, Edna Coyle andBen Moody.

Bob Patton and Mrs. Patton returnedfrom a visit to relatives in Kentucky.

H. T. Morris was a recent addition tothe sales force. He came from the Amer-ican Hominy company where he hadbeen manager until the plant closed.

Announcement was made of the ap-pointment of Ruth E. Cade to succeedEdna Coyle as Journal editor.

James Blades was the new oil chemist.

Mable Payne, of the grain office, wasenjoying a vacation on the Mississippiand Ohio rivers.

Four of our salesmen had new Hupmo-biles. They were J. W. Pope, GeorgeDean, W. H. Randolph, Jr., and J. W.Hixson.

Buster Woodworth and Art Watkinswere back at work in the plant after asummer in baseball.

THE STALEY JOURNALRuth E. Cade, editor.—November, 1928

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W. H. Randolph, Jr., who had beenmanager of our New York office, wasmade Southern sales manager, with head-quarters in Atlanta.

Machinists and boiler makers wereTHE STALEY JOURNAL

proud of the job just completed. Theyhad just completed some new triple ef-fect pans for the refinery. This little 14ton job was designed and made in theStaley plant.

Tank wagon delivery service for somecorn syrup customers was put into effectin Philadelphia.

Pat Thompson, son of Harve Thomp-son, was elected captain of the HighPoint college football team.

Claude Fletcher DiesClaude D. Fletcher, for almost twenty

years the foreman of our machine shop,died in St. Mary's hospital in DecaturOct. 29. Seemingly in his usual healthwhen he came to work that morning, hewas taken suddenly ill just outside theFirst Aid hospital just as he was finishinga conference in the mechanical superin-tendent's office shortly after 9 o'clock.Physicians called pronounced his troublea serious heart attack and he was rushedto the hospital, where he died beforenoon.

Born in December, 1876, Claude livedmost of his early life in and near Indi-anapolis. While quite young he was ap-prenticed as a machinist and soon showedgreat talent in that work. In 1900 hewent to California as master mechanicfor the American Beet Sugar companyand from then until his death always heldresponsible positions.

Early in the life of automobiles he be-came interested in them and he and a fel-low machinist in Indianapolis producedone of the earliest reliable electric enginestarters put on the market. Early in1919, when the Staley plant was startingits big expansion program, Claude cameto take charge of the machine shop.

In the nineteen years that he was withthe company he helped design and super-vised the building of a great deal of plantNOVEMBER, J938

machinery. At one time his departmentmade most of the pumps used in theplant. He was always recognized as amaster workman, who had raised histrade to a fine art. He was equally suc-cessful as a foreman, for his men respect-ed his ability as a workman and liked himas a man.

Mr. Fletcher was an ardent motoristand for many years was an official at theannual automobile races in Indianapolis.With his wife he has for years shared alove of fishing, motor-boating, and bowl-ing. During the last few years, whilethey have maintained a home in WestRiverview avenue, they have spent muchof their time at their place on Lake De-catur where they fished and enjoyed theirboat.

In addition to his widow Mr. Fletcherleaves two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Pat-terson, Indianapolis, and Mrs. BerthaKamm, Decatur, a grandson, Billy Pat-terson, one brother, Jack Fletcher, nowin Boston, was our millwright foremanfor 20 years. Another brother, Harry,lives in Traverse City, Mich.

Safety Derby Ends WithNine Perfect Departments

When Staley's big three ring, 96 daySafety Derby ended Oct. 5 there were 9departments finishing which had no re-portable accidents, no lost time accidentsand no late reports on accidents. Thegreatest number of points lost in any oneday during the entire 96 days was four,and only two departments had a total often for the entire period.

For the race the plant was divided intothree heats. When, as happened in twogroups, more than one department cameup to the finishing tape with no accidents,the first place was awarded to the grouphaving the most man-hours. Othersranked accordingly. On the followingpage are the final results:

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How They Fini.shed the Race

Department

(PHOCKSSiNo. 16 Bldg.

Klevator C.

Soyflour andSauce

No. 13 & No. 21

Mill House

Feed House

No. 17 Bldg.

l.ilg. & Shpg.

Refinery

Oil Refinery

Kxpeller Room

Klevator A

Oil House

Table House

Peed Elevator

Soybean Whso.

Klevator B

Parking House

(MKOHANICAL)Maehinists

Yard

Pipefitters

Kleetrieians

Millwrights

Hrickmasons

Tinners

(SKBVICK)Offiee Janitors

\Vatehmen

Kngine Room

Cafeterias

1'rint Shop &Grain Insp'tors

Storeroom

Boiler, Room

M & L Dept.

Laboratories

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Champions AwardedChampion soft ball and baseball play-

ers were almust a drug on the market,at the Staley club house Oct. 16 andOct. 17. On those two evenings the Stal-ey winners for the season just past wereentertained and awarded their trophies.

The soft ball winners were entertainedon the evening of Oct. 16 at a buffetsupper. Later, with Gerry Horton pre-siding, trophies were awarded. The teamwhich took first place in the Staley league

—Crystal White, captained by ClydeSmith, got small gold balls to wear ascharms. Second place winners were mem-bers of Grits, of which Art Long was cap-tain. These boys received silver charms.At the request of the winners the SaladOil team was also invited.

On the following evening the membersof the baseball team, which won the downstate championship, were entertained.Chet Boyle, captain, presented the teammembers with tie clasps.

* . .

The day before Joe Hedrick, feed house, left on his vacation in July, he and Mrs. HattieCoffenberger were married in St. Louis. Then they left, with his three daughters and son-in-law for Colorado, by trailer, hi the pictures are shown Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick, Louise,Stella Lou and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bell. Josie, Mrs. Bell, works in our packing house.NOVEMBER, 1938 PAGE 33

Ernest Welker was all interested in theocean, and had no idea his wife was takingthis picture. It was snapped while oursoutheastern division package sales man-ager and his wife were on their way to NewYork for a vacation. They were going fromtheir home in Atlanta via the Atlantic ocean.

Up in the AirHomer Hansen and Steve Quinn, of

the yard gang, are spending the bright—and quiet—autumn days very much upin the air. Since both men are steeplejacks by profession they were selected todo the repair work on the two big 353foot stacks. Day after day they can beseen working away on their swingingstage, each day getting a lit t le higher.

Some days, when a typical Illinoisprairie wind was blowing, the men couldnot work, but one ordinary quiet daythey hoisted their stage and went to it.This is the first time since the stacks werebuilt that the annual repair work hasbeen done by Staley men.

Leo Provine took time out from thesheet metal shop in October to have hisappendix removed.

Big Laundry ConventionA delegation of Staley men attended

the laundry convention in the Hotel Jef-ferson in St. Louis in October. In thegroup were A. R. Staley, sales managerfor laundry starches and soyflour, GeorgeH. Walker, his assistant, S. S. Snell, act-ing field supervisor, Donald C. Magie,west coast representative, Earl Schrader,Kansas City representative, and J. N.Van Allsburg, Chicago representative.

Ivan Bauman, credits, is an ardentCubs fan—so ardent that he made a spe-cial trip to Chicago to see them play. Thenight before Ivan had been out late, sohe decided to take a nap before startingfor the game. Well, he took one. Whenhe awakened it was dark and his watchtold him it was after 6 p. m.

Our Mistake

The Journal editor bragged, in Octo-ber, about being an old timer, and thenproved it by absent-mindedly calling theStaley Foremen's club the Fellowshipclub. A group of men were listed as be-ing invited to join the Foremen's clubas active and associate members, but thestory said they were asked to join theFellowship club. All of them are mem-bers of the latter organization, some ofthem since its founding 21 years ago.

cle, Jed Ellis, is inPAGE 34

Billy Kay Wyantwas one of the fivebabies selected out of

, 500 to enter the StateFair contest this year.He is the son of th<'late Dobby Wyantand Wilma Ellis Wyant and is 8 monthsold. One grandfather,Charles Ellis, works inour scale house, andthe other, CharlesWyant, Sr., in theround house. His un-

our traffic office.THE STALEY JOURNAL

To Packers ConventionP. J. Braun, our sausage flour repre-

sentative in Texas, was in charge of theStaley company booth at the Meat Pack-ers convention at the Drake hotel in Oc-tober. Assisting Mr. Braun were S. S.Snell, acting field supervisor, and J. N.Van Allsburg, our soyflour representativein Chicago.

Playing SafeSeveral of the boys want to know what

Roy Rollins, safety director, keeps in thecabinets in his office. When he went toChicago to attend the National SafetyCongress he locked all the cabinets—andtook the keys with him. Jim Richey, leftin charge, found only a desk and a tele-phone when he dropped in to take up hisduties for the week.

It wasn't ants that bothered AlvinBahlow the day he and Jimmy Carterwent squirrel hunting. He had gone onthe expedition dressed in an ordinary pairof trousers, without high laced boots, andafter tramping through the briars thestickers finally got him. There was justone thing to do and he did it—but hestill wonders how those little stickerscan work inside the legs of ones trousers.

T. C. Burwell, traffic manager, spentthe first part of October in Florida wherehe enjoyed some successful deep seafishing.

Robert Anda Bur-well was all set jor aride when he posedjor this picture. He isthe eight months oldson of T. C. Burwell,vice president andtraffic manager.NOVEMBER, 1938

Rita Carolyn Poole is the only person inthe world who can call our building super-intendent, Martin Lindsey, "Grandfather",and does he love it! She is the 18 months'old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Retis Poole.Her mother was formerly Dolly Lindsey.

Most of the football fans at Staley'sattended the Illinois-Northwestern gameat Urbana, at Illinois homecoming Oct.22, but Doc Reynolds didn't. Doc is afaithful alumnus of Purdue and he andhis wife drove over to Lafayette that dayto the Purdue homecoming. "Incident-ly", says Doc, "I hate to rub it in, but wesaw a GOOD game."

Sam Carson, assistant foreman in thetable house, and his son, Fletcher Carson,mailing room, left the last of Novemberto drive to Augusta, Ga. They visitedthere with another of Sam's sons, Grover,who is in charge of the music in theAugusta schools.

Mrs. Lucile May, plant nurse, attend-ed the meeting of the Illinois nurses asso-ciation in the Stevens hotel in Chicagoin October.

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Sandra Ann, left, and Carol June, right,are the daughters of Carl Young, M. & L.department. He is proud and fond of thegirls, but their grandfather, Owen Shobe,really knows just what unusual girls theyare.

Charley Ellis says he has all the com-forts of home down in the scale houseexcept a comb and he has no use for acomb, really.

Lucile Schulz, secretary to the generalsuperintendent, took her vacation latein October, spending it in Hot Springs,Ark., and Kansas City.

An example of youthful pessimism wasprovided by a youngster who was aboutto start on a railway journey. It was thefirst time he had traveled alone, and hismother told him to write his name andaddress on a card and keep it in hispocket. He wrote:

"In case of accident this was JohnnyJones."—Montreal Star.

Judge: "What is the defendant's repu-tation for veracity?"

Witness: "Excellent, your honor. I'veknown him to admit that he'd been fish-ing all day and hadn't got a single bite."

The tailor was selling his best frienda new suit.

"I'm telling you, Harry," he said,''that even your best friend won't recog-nize you in that suit! Just take a walkoutside for a minute and get the feel ofit."

Harry went out and returned a mo-ment later. The tailor rushed up to himwith a smile.

"Good morning stranger," he beamed."What can I do for you?"—The Gar-ment Worker.

Old lady to her chauffeur's little son:"Do you know who I am?"

Small Boy: "Yes; you're the old ladythat runs about in my daddy's car."

Presenting the John A. Harris family—and the latest. Harris acquisition. John, the rotundgentleman, is our bulk sales representative in Ohio and West Virginia, and lives in Colum-bus. He and Mrs. Harris, shown with him, and their son, Johnny, have recently purchasedthis imposing apartment house in that city.PAGE 36 THE STALKY JOURNAL

They stood at the garden gate, bathedin moonlight. "Belle," he whisperedhuskily, "we've been walking out togeth-er for six years now, you and I."

"That we have. Will," was the sub-dued reply.

"And," the man continued, ''we'vekind o' got to know one another, to trusteach other, ain't we?"

"Yes," was the thrilled response."Well,'' he gulped, "will you—will you

lend me my bus far home? I'm broke."

Of more than 6,000 salesmen thatwere asked what they considered thehardest problem in selling the vast ma-jority answered "Getting started."—Ny-lir Review.

1st Rah Rah: "She's pretty as a pic-ture."

2nd Rah Rah: "Yeah, nice frame,too."—Globe.

A scientist, after discovering thatcheerful people resist disease better thanglum ones, remarks: "The surly birdcatches the germ."

Staley's Syrup has always been an impor-tant item in the diets oj these twin daugh-ters of Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Martin of Minne-apolis. They were 9 months old when thispicture was taken and one weighed 17^/4and the other 17l/2. They are the pride ojthe neighborhood, but particularly proud ojthem are Fred Bernier, Staley salesman,and Art Walsh, with our Minneapolis brok-er, Gamble-R.obinson, who live next doorand have watched with glee as Janette andJean grew fat and happy.

And then there's the one about theWPA worker who dropped dead of heartfailure on the job. When the coronerarrived on the scene he had to examine25 men before he found the right one.

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Man (entering grocery store): "1 wanttwo tuna fish."

Grocer: ''You'd better stick to oia-nos.

Office Boy: "I et six eggs for break-fast this morning."

Bookkeeper: "You mean ate, don'tyou?"

Office Boy: "Well, maybe it was eightI et."

Al Falfa: "Did you know that thatfeller who is runnin' for office has a glasseye?"

Tim Hay: "No; can you tell whichone it is?"

Al Falfa: "Yes. You look at both hiseyes pretty hard, and the one that has agleam of human kindness in it is the glassone."

The newly made citizen asked what wemeant in America by the "three R's.''A wag told him that these three R's ranall through life: At 25 it's Romance, at45 it's Rent, and at 65 its Rheumatism.PAGE 38

A gentleman was walking down thestreet with a little boy at his side whenthe boy cried out: "Oh, pa! there goesan editor."

"Hush, hush," said the father. "Don'tmake sport of the poor man. God onlyknows what you may come to yourself,some day."

The hangman tightened the knot andasked the condemned golfer: "Have youanything to say before I hang you?"

"Yes," replied the golfer, "do youmind if I take a couple of practiceswings?"

Recently Aberdeen citizens met to or-ganize a league for the abolition of tips.Sandy McTavish was present but pas-sive.

Chairman — Surely, McTavish, youare going to join. The subscription isonly one shilling a year.

McTavish—A shilling? At that rateI might as well keep on tipping.—Svert-ska Journalen, Stockholm.

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"John, dear/' said Mrs. Brown, "such A young clergyman after his firstan odd thing happened today. The clock funeral sermon, wished to invite thefell off the wall, and if it had fallen a mo- mourners to view the remains, becamement sooner, it would have hit mother." confused and said:

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