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(G. E. Chamberlain)Football 5Safety Editorial 13

(M. P. O'Brien)First Impressions of South Amer-

ica 14Transportation Clnl) at S t a l c y s . . . . 15Great Workers of 1-1 istory 18The Household 22

(Miss "L. A. Harkins)riant Talk 24Roasts 27The Man in the Moon 32Art Work Harry N. Stadler

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In spite of all our doubts and fears,Amidst our sorrows and our tears.The Star that shone o'er BethlehemStill shines into the hearts of themWho cherish loved ones far and wideWith open hearts this Christmastide.

As children we have all been toldThat story ever new yet old,Of the first Christmas Day—The lowly manger filled with hayThat cradled midst the cows and sheepThe new-born child Whose name we keep.

We all look back to childhood's daysThrough grown-up years and memory's hazeAnd long to feel the selfsame joyIn Christmas that a little boyOr little girl once gladly knewWhen childish dreams came true.

Our child's heart full of Christmas gleeIs still enshrined in memory.And, like a hidden treasure chest,On this, of all the days the best.Let's leave all troubles and all careAnd delve for Childhood's treasure there.

Let us forgive the careless wrong,Let us be fair and brave and strong,Renewing in our hearts againThe Christmas spirit which has lainQuiescent through the present yearAnd turn our thoughts to joy and cheer.

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Engineers, Ciuilization's Ttlonument builders

EOLOGlSTS tell us that theonly permanent record of thisera of civilization will be foundat the bottom of the AtlanticOcean, under the trans-Atlantic

lane from New York to Great Britain,and will be marked by the many thou-sands and millions of tons of cinderswhich have dropped along that avenuefrom the fire-boxes of the steamers pass-ing. It is doubtful if any of the engi-neering work now accomplished or at-tempted will survive the next geologicalchange.

For most of us, this is looking at thematter in too large a way. Our horizonis the duration of civilization. We aresatisfied to build for Time, not for Eter-nity. In fac t , in recent years we havesomewhat lost sight even of this timeelement. We have grown to believethat twenty years is a long time, andthat in all probability everything will betorn down and rebuilt within that time.This should not be true, and certainlyis not true of many of the structures nowin progress.

As we advance, we will more and morenearly approximate the conditions thatprevail in Europe today. We will notso freely demolish and rebuild, becausethe period of heavy profits will haveceased. One has only to pay a casualvisit to the great business centers of theOld World to see with what great thriftthey have utilized the well-constructedbuildings of one hundred to three hun-dred years ago. Many instances may becited along this line.

There is one that comes to my mind.Our great competitors, the Corn Pro-ducts Company, have since the war pur-chased a corn starch factory at St. Denis,one of the suburbs of the city of Paris.The principal building in this plant wasoriginalry constructed as a - l aundry forMarie Antoinette, wife of Louis the Six-teenth, and the bui lding still shows manyevidences of its former architecturalbeauty as well as, of its more prosaicuse.

There are great blocks of the old Ro-man wall in the city of London, remain-ing in good preservation. This was builtabout sixteen hundred years ago. Nowthe design of this wall was not such aswould impress the modern engineer withpermanence. Although massive in di-mension, it is really constructed from a

home-made cement, mixed with powderedbrick-dust and small flint nodules.

These nodules were imbedded in a ma-trix of cement mortar. At horizontalintervals of about one foot the wall isbonded with old Roman tiles—hard burntbricks, about twelve by twelve and oneby one-half inches th ick , in horizontallayers. The combination has proved asresistent to the devastations of time andweather as any masonry I have everseen. That home-made cement is todayas hard as flint. Those old Romans wereconfronted with a paucity of materialsfrom which to select, but they overcamethat difficulty by painstaking and supe-rior workmanship.

Underneath the Coal Exchange in Lon-don, there are the remains of an old Ro-man bath. The water was heated in thebath by hollow tiles, conducting the gasesof combustion from a nearby furnaceunderneath the water and thence to achimney. A similar bath exists in thebasement of the Musee Cluny in Paris.Very slight repairs would put thesebaths again into operation.

There is today in the city of Paris anold stone amphitheatre formerly used bythe Romans for gladiatorial combats.The tiers of seats surrounding the arenawere all of cut stone, and are as' truetoday, and as free from evidence of set-tlement, as the Stadium at Harvard Oval.

On the high hills overlooking the Eng-lish channel at Boulogne are the remainsof a brick watch-tower or signal towerbuilt by Caligula, the Roman emperor,in the year A. D. 43, about ten yearsafter the tragedy of Gethsemane. Thiswatch-tower was built of hard burnedred brick, not vitr if ied. The bricks arc-but l i t t le larger than those used today.The color was and is a splendid vividred. They were laid together with awonderful mortar of cement, and thewall structure as it exists is a strikingmonument to the thoroughness of itsbuilders. Wherever the Romans went—and they went all over the then civilizedworld—they lef t behind them massivemonuments of masonry of almost unbe-lievable permanence.

The best automobile roads in Englandtoday are carried on foundations laidby the Romans when England was aRoman colony. The great stone-archedviadvicts running for miles through thecountry distr icts of France have fur-

nished models, as well as material forthousands of modern structures. TheRoman engineers conceived in hugemasses and his work discounted the agesyet to come.

We rind among other ancient peoplesexamples of very wonderful skill in ef-fective design. In Jackson Park in Chi-cago there is a true copy of one of theboats built by the ancient Vikings ofNorway. In this boat a score of hardyNorwegians sailed to this country in theyear of the World's Fair in Chicago,following the route pursued by the orig-inal Scandinavian discoverer of America.The workmanship and design of thisboat, while rugged and rough, is a won-derful piece of home-made engineering.It is so proportioned as to ride theroughest seas. It is so strong as to with-stand the buffets of waves and ice. Itis so small and light that it can beski l l fu l ly maneuvered by half a dozenoarsmen. I doubt if any marine engineerin the United States would undertaketo originate a boat of that type to fulf i l lthe demands made upon that one by thestorms of the North Atlantic.

Most of you have seen the caravelsfloating in the lagoon at Jackson Park.These odd-shaped little barks are almost,if not quite, perfect copies of the shipsin which Columbus sailed to discoverAmerica. Columbus built these boats forthis special purpose, and undoubtedlymade them somewhat different than ifthey had been designed for the ordinaryMediterranean trade. They accomplishedthe purpose for which they were de-signed, and bv so doing permanentlydemonstrated the engineering ability ofthe great discoverer.

But America could boast of real engi-neer ing work long before the Vikingsor the caravels of Columbus. Within avery short ride from Decatur is locatedone of the most permanent engineerim;developments in the whole wide world,lust back of East St. Louis stands whatis known as Monk's Mound. This is ageometrical pile of alluvial earth. Threesides are almost sheer. The four th sideis approached by a series of steps or ter-races. The mound is rectangular, and itsbounding lines run true east and westand north and south, and it is the largestof the many similar remains of that curi-ous race—the Mound Builders.

It was not built haphaxard. It wasdesigned and constructed according tosome well-defined mathematical plan.There is evidence to show that itsmethod of construction was primitive inthe extreme. It appears that the women

of that early race carried the dirt ontheir backs, in skins, from the surround-ing prairie. While this mound may notoutlive our present civilization, may notbecome a geological witness, I venturethe statement that it will outlive anywork of stone or steel now built or underconstruction.

So I would say to the young engineerof toda3r, whatever you build, build well.Build with your conscience, as well aswith your hands and mind. Don't cheatyourself—the ever present temptation,the most serious fault of all. Don't de-ceive yourself by intentionally mis-read-ing conditions. Here lies the great causeof engineering failures. When closing asurvey don't force your data to makeyour lines close. When designing apiece of machinery don't slur over it.See that each part, no matter how small,is right. When digging foundations don'tstop until you have arrived at a stratawhich will surely carry the load. Don'tbecome faint-hearted and weary, and passthe work as good enough. Be certain ofevery step. Remember that you, too, arebuilding for time and posterity. Thework you do will outlive you.

Of course, a very large number of ourpresent problems have to do with devel-opments that are more or less perish-able, especially mechanical improvements,lias it ever occurred to you how verydifficult it is to improve on some oldtime-tried device for some every-day pur-pose? One thing that has not been im-proved to any marked degree is thewooden barrel. Have you ever consid-ered how perfectly this container ful-fills every purpose for which it is in-tended? Had the barrel never been dis-covered until this time, and should somebri l l iant engineer present so simple andefficient a device, he would establishhimself not only in the hall of fame buton the golden list of modern millionaires.

Consider its wonderful strength in ev-ery direction. Consider the s implic i ty ofits construction, the ease with which it:is moved from point to point, the secur-ity with which it may be loaded onwagons, cars and boats, the facility withwhich it may be filled and emptied, theaccessibility of the material from whichit is constructed. I consider the barrelone of the greatest engineering objectlessons of the age.

There are many other things developedby the ancients also most difficult to im-prove. Take the grinding mill, for in-stance, the stone mill. This work wasfirst done with a hand pestle and mortarsuch as the druggists use today. Later

they increased the size of the pestle andmortar, attached a sweep to the pestle,and rotated it by oxen.

Some time in the distant past, the pe-riod is not known to exactness, the Ital-ians constructed an overshot waterwheel, which drove one of a pair of prac-tically modern millstones. The next stepwas the substitution of the steam en-gine for the water wheel. Following thisthe quar ter twist belt drive was substi-tuted for the bevel gear drive. Later avertical electrical motor was belted tothe mill.

Until this year the above records allthe improvements that had been made inthe grinding mill from the time of Agri-cola. During the past year our companyhas added one more step to the change,by mounting a synchronous motor di-rectly on the axis or spindle of the mill,avoiding nearly all friction, giving a per-fect continuous speed, and occupying theminimum floor space. Our engineeringdepartment feels a very worthy pride inhaving been able to produce a real step

in the progress of such a long-used andtime-proven device.

It is thus that the important discoveryof the individual today belongs to theworld tomorrow, and forms the basisfrom which other men start to build.

A rat being chased by a cat escapedinto his hole. The cat kept watch forseveral hours. Toward dusk a trampcarrying a bottle of squirrel whiskeycame shambling up the alley, saw thecat standing guard, kicked at him anddropped the bottle, spilling most of theliquor down the rat hole. In a few min-utes the rat jumped out of the hole,loqked about, and said: "Where in hellis that cat that was looking for me?"-From The Starter.

Uncle Eben—I just got a letter froman automobile fellow saying as how hewants to sell me an enclosed flivver.

Uncle Ezra—Are you goin" to buy it?Uncle Eben—I dunno. I got the letter

all right, but there warn't no flivver en-closed.—The Marathon Runner.

G. H. Martin, our printer, in the print shop on the third floor of No. 17. where the syrup canlabels are made.

DEFEAT CHICAGO TIGERSTwo hundred loyal rooters, who made

the trip to Chicago October 24th to seethe Starchworkers battle the ChicagoTigers at the Cubs baseball park, wererepaid by the Halas eleven copping thecontest by a 10 to 0 score and incident-ally winning the undisputed champion-ship of the middle states professionalteams.

The Decatur eleven was up againstsome real opposition in the Tigers, andbut for a sensational SS-yard run for atouchdown by "Pard" Pearce and a beau-tiful drop kick by Jimmy Conzelmanwould have been forced to take a tiewith the Windy City team.

Fighting desperately in the third quar-ter to stage a comeback and keep thetitle in the big city, the Tigers staged anadvance down the field that made theStaley rooters shiver, and not until theygot to the i r one-yard line was the Staleymachine able to hold them.

Johnny Barrett, the former Washing-ton and Jefferson star, was a wonder athurling forward passes, and only on agreat play by "Pard" Pearce, when hedove three feet off the ground to bat theball out of Knopp's hands, did he preventa sure touchdown.

Ghee of Dartmouth and "Shorty" DesJardien, former All-American center withthe University of Chicago, were otherwell-known stars that kept the Staleyson the lookout at all times.

The Halas machine put up a wonder-ful all-around exhibition of football.Their tackling was deadly, especially onthe part of Lanum, Chamberlain andHalas, while their ability to get down thefield under punts and follow the ballgained them many yards, for three oftheir own kicks were recovered when theTiger backs fumbled in the pinch.

Pearce's Run.The five thousand fans who braved the

threatening rain to see (he all-star elev-ens in action were repaid by seeing oneof the greatest runs ever pulled in a pro-fessional game.

Soon after the opening of the secondquarter, Pearce, the former PennsylvaniaU star, started his dash around the Tigersright end. He started to cut in, but onseeing the end sucked in, dashed aroundhim, and with the aid of some goodblocking soon after the start, negotiatedthe 55 yards for a touchdown, beingknocked out of bounds just after cross-ing the goal line.

The Chicago men put up a great argu-ment, claiming that Pearce had beenknocked out of bounds before he reachedthe line, but his footmarks showed other-wise, and the touchdown was allowed.Hugh Blacklock kicked goal.

The other score came from the well-educated toe of Jimmy Conzelman, theformer Great Lakes and Washington Ustar, who booted the pigskin between theposts from the 30-yard line in the thirdquarter.

The whole team played a great articleof ball and before the game had pro-gressed very far had over half the crowdwith them. The play of the line in stop-ping Falcon and Barrett was the bestseen in Chicago for many seasons, while"Dutch" Sternaman and Lanum not onlydid some great offensive work but feat-ured with ab i l i ty to break up the Barrettpasses.

Kyle MacWherter and Shank were thetwo reserves to see service in the cham-pionship battle, the former relievingKoehler when the Tigers were threaten-ing to score and Bob was bruised a bit.Shank was given a chance to understudyfor Sternaman.

That Staleys have the greatest l inein the country was again demonstratedwhen the Tigers were unable to gain buttwo yards and a half in four downs.

Where will you get a better defensivewall than Trafton at center, Jones andPetty at the guards, Blacklock and Ing-wersen at the tackle berths and Cham-berlain and Halas on the ends?

Their work was the talk of all the fansfollowing the game.

The SummaryStaleys— Tigers—

Chamberlain L. K MeagherI ngwersen L. T Mat thewsPetty L. G KeefeTrafton C Des JardienTones R. G F. PierceBlacklock R. T BennettHalas (C.) R. K KnoppP. Pearce Q. B GheeSternaman L. H BarrettConzelman R. H MaloneLanum F. B Falcon

Substitutions—(Staleys): Koehler forLanum, Shank for Sternaman, MacWher-ter for Koehler, Lanum for MacWherter,Sternaman for Shank. (Tigers): A n n a nfor Falcon, Bosdett for Meagher, Reevefor Bennett , Falcon for Annan .

Score by quarters:Staleys 0 7 3 0—10Tigers 0 0 0 0 — 0

Touchdown—Pearcc.Goal from touchdown—Blacklock,Drop kick—Conzelman.Referee—Thomas ( I l l inois) .Umpire—Moore (Chicago).Head linesman—Wyatt (Missour i ) .

Play by PlayAfter considerable argument over the

hall the Tigers furnished for the game, itwas decided to use another pigskin andJerry Jones kicked off, the ball sailing 60yards and hitting the post for a touch-back.

Falcon hit for three yards and thenBarrett punted to Pearce, who returnedthe ball to center of field. Conzelmanhit for three hut Sternaman failed togain. Pearce was tackled behind the linefor a loss. Conzelman punted 55 yards,the ball rolling across the line for atouchback.

Ingwersen threw Falcon for a loss.Falcon made three. Ghee added six. Bar-rett punted out of hounds on the 52-yardline. Sternaman went through the linefor twenty yards before being downed.Lannm made two. Staley penalized foroffside. Barrett intercepted a Staley passon their 25-yard line. Chamberlain andIngwersen threw Malone for a loss. Fal-con hit for five and a pass to Knoppmade ten yards. Malone hit for two andFalcon failed to gain. A pass, Barrett toMeag'her, gained fifteen yards. Barrettwas thrown for a loss by Blacklock. Twopasses were incomplete. Barrett kickedto Sternaman on Staley 20-yard line,"Dutch" carrying the hall three yardsand then out of bounds. Conzelmanpunted to center of field, Lanum down-ing Ghee in his tracks.

Barrett hit for seven. He made it firstdown. Malone gained two. Trafton in-tercepted Barrett's pass and returned balltwenty yards. Conzelman lost threeyards. Quarter ended with ball in Sta-ley's possession in center of field.

Second QuarterConzelman's pass failed. He punted on

second down. Ghee returned to their20-yard line. Barrett kicked on first playhut hall was returned and Tigers penal-ized for offside. Barrett punted fortyyards to Pearce, who fumbled, but Lan-um recovered. Des Jardien interceptedpass on 50-yard line. Ghee was thrownfor four-yard loss. Falcon hit for three.Conzelman intercepted Barrett's pass.On the first play Pearce skirted the Tig-ers right end for a 55-yard run and touch-down. Blacklock kicked goal. Score: Sta-leys, 7; Tigers, 0.

Jones kicked, off to Falcon, who re-

turned hall to 30-yard line. Barrett failedto gain. Barrett punted to Pearce, whowas downed on his 40-yard line. Cham-berlin made gain off tackle. Lanum failedto gain. Both teams offside. Conzelmanmade ten yards but Staleys were penal-ized. Conzelman punted to Malone, theball being carried out of bounds by himon the Tiger 30-yard line. Malone madefour yards. Falcon hit for first down.Jones threw Ghee for a loss. Pass failed.Barrett punted out of hounds on Staley25-yard line. Lanum made two. Conzel-man made twelve around right end. Ster-naman hit same place for ten more. Halfended with ball in Staley possession incenter of field.

Third QuarterJones kicked off to Annan, who re-

turned twenty yards. Shank was hurt onthe play but stayed in the game. Barrettfailed to gain. Barrett punted to Pearce,who returned twenty yards. Shank gainedtwo. Pass failed to gain. Conzelmanpunted and Staleys recovered the ballwhen Barrett fumbled and it rolled outof bounds on 29-yard line. Chamberlainmade three. He added two more. Shankhit for four. Conzelman hooted the ballbetween the posts from the 30-yard line.Score: Staleys, 10; Tigers, 0.

Jones kicked off to Malone, who re-turned ball ten yards. Line smashed byGhee and Barrett made first down. Ma-lone made three. Petty threw Malone fora loss. Ghee made ten yards on smash.Barrett came through with nine more.He made first down. Falcon hit for oneyard. Koehler hurt on play and Mac-Wherter went in. Pearce broke up for-ward pass on goal line. Pass fai led. Bar-rett made great underhanded pass toGhee for a first down. Falcon hit forfive. Barrett made first down. A seriesof line bucks carried the ball to the Sta-ley three-yard line. In four attempts theTiger backs could only make two and ahalf yards and Staleys took the ball ontheir own one-half yard line. The quar-ter ended with Conzelman attempting toget in a position to kick.

Fourth QuarterThe fourth quarter was a punting game

on the part of Staleys, with the Tigersattempting forward passes on every playafter they saw they could not gainthrough the Staley line or around theends.

The Starchworkers backfield men wereon the job every minute, and while theTigers negotiated a few successful passes,they were not past the center of the fieldwhen the game ended.

ROCKFORD IS EASYIn a game marred by the poor condi-

tion of their opponents, the Staleys hadeasy sledding against the Rockford A. A.C. team in the Northern City on Sunday,October 31, winning by a score of 29 to 0.

'the home eleven was unable to copewith the powerful rushes of the Starch-workers and had some one laid out onpractically every other play.

During the latter part of the game theHalas athletes would not carry the ball,but simply waited for the breaks to cometheir way in order to gain ground.

In their class the Rockford fellowshave a mighty formidable little machine,but they were not expected to cope withsuch an aggregation banded together bythe Staleys, and that the score was notlarger was due to the fact that CaptainHalas ordered his men to take thingseasy.

Score EarlyTwo touchdowns were put over right

after the start of the game. After Con-zelman had punted, Rockford started torun plays in their own territory butKrickson fumbled, the visitors recover-ing the ball on their five-yard line."Dutch" Sternaman carried it over onthe first play. Blacklock kicked goal.Score: Staleys, 7; Rockford, 0.

The second score came shortly after-ward when Erickson hit Halas as he wasabout to receive a pass across the goalline. The penalty gave Staleys the ballon the Rockford one-yard line and Ster-naman again carried it over. Blacklockmissed goal. Score: Staleys, 13; Rock-ford, 0.

After taking the kickoff, a series ofshort end runs and passes carried theball to the Rockford 25-yard line, wherethe home team stiffened and Conzelmandropped back and sent a drop kick be-tween the posts. Score: Staleys, 16;Rockford, 0.

The third touchdown came in the thirdquarter on another march down the fieldon straight football and short passes, theattack carrying the pigskin to the two-yard line, where Chamberlain again wentover. Blacklock kicked goal. Score: Sta-leys, 23; Rockford, 0.

The final touchdown was a gift. ARockford back permitted a Staley puntto hit him and roll over the line, whereChamberlain recovered it. Blacklockfailed to kick goal. Score: Staleys, 29;Rockford, 0.

Halas InjuredThe Rockford athletes were not the

only ones to suffer injuries, for CoachHalas received a bad bump on his jaw

and it was thought he had received afracture at first, but examination in aChicago hospital showed otherwise, andhe was only out of practice a few daysfollowing the game.

The feature of the game was the playof Feitchinger, who relieved Halas earlyin the game. He put up a great defen-sive game and nabbed some neat passes.

Kyle MacWherter, Shoemake, Dressen, »Adkins, Shank and M i n t u n were allused during the contest and had just aseasy a time with the Rockford men asthe regulars.

Englund, a last season's high schoolathlete, was the star of the Rockford A.A. C. team, playing a wonderful game atend. It was almost impossible to keephim out of the play. Bengston, at center;Wiederquist, the Moline star, who was ata tackle, and Smith, a halfback, were theother shining lights for the home folks.

The game was played at KishwaukeePark, the home of the Rockford Three-Eye League baseball team, and it wasjust like chasing flies for "Pard" Pearce,who has played shortstop for the Rocksthe past two seasons.

"Pard" had a lot of friends among the2,000 fans who braved the weather to seethe game. Rain fell all during the lasthalf.

The SummaryStaleys— Rockford—

Chamberlain L. E JohnsonIngwersen L. T EricksonPetty L. G O'BrienTrafton C BengstonJones R. G RuckelBlacklock R. T LinguistHalas R. E KnglundPearce Q. B MuickeSternaman L. H EricksonConzelman R. H SmithLanum K. B Thissell

Substitutions — (Staleys) : Feitchingerfor Halas, MacWherter for Lanum, Shoe-make for Petty, Dressen for Pearce,Shank for Sternaman, Mintun for Traf-ton, Adkins for Jones. (Rockford): Dalyfor Johnson, Wiederquist for Ruckel,Powell for Smith, Ambrose for Erickson,Kel ly for Daly, Carlson for Powell.

Score by quarters:Staleys 13 3 13 0—29Rockford 0 0 0 0 — 0

Touchdowns — Sternaman (3), Cham-berlin.

Goals from touchdown—Blacklock (2).Drop kick—Conzelman.Referee—Wood (Chicago).Umpire—Millard (Wesleyan).Head l inesman—Osborne (Northwest-

ern).

HELD TO TIE SCOREOn Sunday, November 7, the Stalcy

eleven met the Rock Island Independentsat Rock Island for the second time thisseason, and, although held to a tie by theIslanders, unbiased critics were of thesame opinion as the one formed duringthe first game, namely, that the Staleyshave the Independents outclassed as afootball team.

Although we did not score, the onlything tha t prevented it was a muddyfield, which did not give the fast Staleybacks a chance to get started, beingdowned by the heavy Islanders on nu-merous occasions.

Twice during the game we carried theball to the Islanders 20-yard line, whereConzelman attempted drop kicks withoutany success, owing to the heavy ball andmud.

The Islanders threatened just once, andthey too resorted to a drop kick from thesame distance, but were also handicappedby the mud and ball.

Maintained TitleAs far as affecting their t i t le of "West-

ern Champions," a tic game was just asgood to the Starchworkers as a victory,for they had already handed the chestyRock Island aggregation a walloping inthe first game, which should keep themfrom setting forth any legitimate claimsto the championship.

It was a bit ter p i l l for their supportersto swallow, for after seeing their petsdown the Chicago Cardinals 7 to 0 andthe Chicago Tigers 20 to 7, they had ex-pected Ursella's men to grab the secondcontest.

Poor SportsNever in the history of Staley athletics

have we ever seen such poor sportsman-ship on the part of an organization orits supporters as that of the Rock IslandIndependents.

Their mob staged a scene followingthe game, at which time they surroundedthe Staley players and off ic ia ls , but likemost cowards that make up mobs, waiteduntil the team got into taxis beforesomeone hur led a pop bott le through thewindow.

Since the Staley game the Islandershave been tiechby a second-rate team outof Chicago and handed a 21 to 0 defeatby the Dayton Triangles and have hadtheir two games with the Canton Bull-dogs cancelled, so that they have hadenough troubles without us heaping anymore on them.

Back to the GameGetting- back to the football game, it

was simply a case of d e f e n s e on the part

of both elevens. Sternaman, 1'earce andConzelman furnished the only long gainsfor the Starchworkers and none of thesewere over twenty yards. "Rube" Ursellagained the most ground for the Islanders,making two nice returns of Conzelman'sattempted drop kicks.

In the punting, Wenig had a big shadeover Conzelman and the Islanders gainedconsiderable ground through that fact,but they had only one opportunity toregister and that through a kick.

Too much credit cannot be given tothe great playing of the Staley forwardwall. Trafton played a whale of a game,although he was a marked man becauseof some dizzy sport writer quoting himas saying he would get the Islanderplayers.

Jerry Jones and Blacklock, along withHalas on one side of the line, were tear-ing the Islanders to pieces on defense,while Chamberlain, Ingwersen and Pettydid not permit them to gain much groundthrough their side of the line.

The Staleys had hundreds of fr iends inthe stands and left the field with the sat-isfaction of knowing they had the betterfootball team of the two. Again the greatcondition of the Halas crew showed uphead and shoulders over the Islanders,not a substitution being made by the De-catur team, while five of the Independ-ents were forced to leave the game atdifferent times.

The SummaryStaleys— Rock Island—

Chamberlain L. E WenigIngwersen L. T ShawPetty L. C WylanclTrafton C GundersonJones R. G DenfieldBlacklock R. T HealeyHalas R. R MarshallPearce Q. B NicholsConxelman L. H NovakSternaman R. H ChickenKoehler F. B Smith

Substitutions—(Rock Island): Ursellafor Nichols, Fitzgerald for Wyla'nd,Mockmore for Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald forGunderson, Kuehl for Chicken, Mans-field for Smith.

Score by quarters:Staleys 0 0 0 0—0Rock I s l and 0 0 0 0—0

Referee—Williams (Pittsburgh).Umpire—Barron ( Iowa) .Head linesman—Lazarus (Drake).

CELEBRATE ARMISTICE DAYJust two years ago Thursday, Novem-

ber 11, many of the members of the Sta-ley football eleven were made happy,

along with thousands of others, by thesigning of the armistice.

This year these same fellows celebratedthe occasion by taking a trip to Cham-paign, where they defeated the AmericanLegion team of that place, 20 to 0, beforea small sized crowd that went out to Mc-Kinley Field.

The mercury was down around thefreezing point, or below if anything, to-gether with a raw wind that swept thefield, and only the fact that there were anumber of former Illinois stars playingwith the Starchworkers brought out thefew hundred that did brave the elements.

W i t h a trip to Minneapolis in mind, theteam did not show its real ability on thegridiron and simply walked through a20 to 0 victory. The Legioners did nothave anything to offer that could stopthe Halas machine and it was more likea practice scrimmage on Staley Field.

Curzon and Richmond, a forward pass-ing combination, did awaken the Starch-workers with a couple of beautiful gains,but that was only a flash in the pan.

About fifty Staley rooters made thetrip for the game, but most of them hud-dled around a fire built by some young-sters to keep warm. Sternaman did a lotof ground gaining for the team, but thefel lows accused him of having a girl outthere, which accounted for the activity onthe part of the "Flying Dutchman."

tialas, Ingwersen, Petty, Lanum andShoemake also had a number of theirold-time friends present to see them per-form, while the other stars on the club,who the Illinois rooters knew only bypress reports, attracted a lot of attention.

With the exception of Bob Koehler,who received a bad crack on the nose,none of the athletes were hur t in theleast bit. Practically every one that madethe trip broke into the contest, but allwere pulling for the old whistle to soundand end the game.

Major Griff i th, former head coach atDrake U and now in the coaching schoolat Il l inois, acted »s an official at thegame. He is one of the well-known ath-letic men of the country.

The SummaryStaleys— Champaign—

Chamberlain L. \L DavisIngwersen L. T AreldgePetty L. G 11 arm onTraf ton C BaileyTones R. G NelsonBlacklock K. T Smith.Halas R. V, R i c h m o n dPearce Q. B CurzonSternaman L. I I CarrConzelman R. H MyersKoehler K. I! Lewis

Substitutions—(Staleys): Mintun forTrafton, Lanum for Koehler, Adkins forPetty, Shoemake for Jones. (Champaign):Weiss for Areldge. *

Score by quarters:Staleys 6 7 7 0—20Champaign 0 0 0 0 — 0

Touchdowns—Sternaman (3) . (Goals from touchdowns — Sternaman

(2).Referee—Brown (1 l l inois) .Umpire—Millard ( I l l i n o i s Wesleyan).Head l inesman—Griffi th ( D r a k e ) .

DEFEAT MARINESOn Sunday, November 14, the Starch-

workers made a long tiresome trip toMinneapolis, Minn., where they playedthe famous Minneapolis Marines, win-ning by a score of 3 to 0 on a fro/.engridiron.

Having played a hard game with RockIsland the Sunday before and at Cham-paign just three days previous, theStarchworkers were far from being intheir usual form.

Three times they had the ball on theMarines two-yard line but failed to putit over, and that is enough to convincetheir supporters that there was some-t h i n g radically wrong, for that backfielddoesn't generally perform like that.

Through the courtesy of the. sportseditor of the Minneapolis Tribune, wegive you herewith his account of thegame, as published in his issue of Mon-day, November IS:

"Minneapolis , Minn. , Nov. 15.—Puttingup one of the gamest battles ever seenon a Minneapolis gridiron, the Marineswent down to 3 to 0 defeat yesterday atthe hands of George Halas' Staley elevenfrom Decatur, 111.

"It might be more fitting to say theywent down to defeat before the toe of'Dutch' Sternaman, former I l l ini star anddemon halfback of the visiting aggrega-tion. This midget was the Staley offensein one choice bundle yesterday and hetore through the Marines like paper,whereas the locals' forward wall stoppedthe other advances of the all-stars.

Marines Stage Comeback"So sensational was the comeback

staged by the Marines in the last quarterthat the small crowd which braved theelements to witness the battle was onthe ragged edge of hysteria pulling for atouchdown, but the locals were unable toconnect with their aerial attack.

"Twice in the first ha l f a heroic Marinedefense, with the ball on the three-yardl ine , prevented a touchdown, while Ster-naman also missed a goal from place-

meat. The Marine power on attack wasnil during the first two periods, but in thethird quarter they played the Staleys oneven terms and outgained them in theclosing period.

Stei-naman Boots One.

"Kicking off to start the second half,the Marines were pushed down the fieldto the 20-yard line, where Sternamandropped back to the 25-yard mark andbooted over the total score with a per-fect placement kick.

"A barrage of aerial heaves near theclose of the game kept the Staleys intheir own territory, while the Marinestried frant ical ly to push the ball over, buteach time as victory seemed to wait onthe next pass, Sternaman or Conzelmanwould intercept and turn the tide. MellyNelson was sent in at center in the clos-ing three minutes of play to tie the scorewith a drop kick and he tried twice, poorpasses foil ing his attempts each time.Once the kick was blocked and Nelsonrecovered it, to immediately try againwithout success.

Staleys Are Powerful"The Staleys are all that has been said

of them, but the Marines outshone allprevious efforts, and George Halas saidafter the game the locals made moreground against his cohorts in the secondhalf than the Rock Island eleven did ina whole game.

"Outside of Sternaman, the Staleybackfield was practically helpless, butthis man was just as elusive as when hewas wont to slip past Gopher tacklers onNorthrop held. Trafton at center was atower of strength on the line, whileChamberlain, also played well. Christen-son, Tersch, Irgens and Cleve did thebest work for the Marines, with Samp-son punt ing excellently."

The SummaryStaleys— Marines—

Chamberlain L. E ChristensonTngwersen L. T PalmerPetty L. G TerschTrafton C H ansonTones R. G GaustadBlacklock !R. T KricksonHalas R. E RccleenPearce Q. B I rgensSternaman I. . H SamnsonConzelman R. H CleveKoehler F. B Sundby

Subst i tut ions— (Minneapolis) : Nelsonfor Hanson.

Score by quarters:StaleysMar ines

Goal from placement—Sternaman.Referee—Ecklund (Minnesota).Umpire—Moore (Boston College).Head linesman—Lund (Iowa).

.0 0 3 0—3

.0 0 0 0—0

WIN AT HOME

Three thousand fans journeyed to Sta-ley Field Sunday, November 21, to seethe western champions defend their titleagainst the Hammond, Ind., eleven.

Coach Halas' men did the job up ingreat shape, defeating the Hoosiers bya score of 28 to 7 in a great exhibitionof football. The Starchworkers showeda diversified attack, running the ends,smashing the line and then putting overtwo touchdowns with the use of the for-ward pass.

Four fine heaves from Jimmy Conzel-man to Chamberlain and Halas broughtthe spectators to their feet when theCoach raced over the line on two ofthem for touchdowns.

Hammond presented their strongestfront of the year, having the aid of threeChicago Tiger stars in the persons of GilFalcon, the hard-driving back; Knop, theformer Illinois U end, and Rydzenski,who gained his spurs with Notre Dame.

Big First Half

It was in the first half of the gamethat the Staley machine put up a greatexhibition of football, piling up a scoreof 21 points during that session of thecontest.

The visitors were unable to check thehard driving interference of the red jer-seyed athletes, and but for a couple ofuntimely fumbles, we would have addedone or two more counters during theperiod.

On one of the touchdowns Jake Lanumdrove off tackle for a 23-yard sprint tothe goal line, while on the other "Dutch"Sternaman squirmed his way through theHammond men for a 14-yard run andscore.

A 37-yard pass to Guy Chamberlain thatcarried the ball to the visitors' 15-yardline, followed by another beautiful heavefrom Conzelman to Halas over the line,just ten seconds before the half ended,gave us the third touchdown.

Visitors Show Fight

Taking the field for the start of thesecond half the Hammond eleven showedall sorts of comeback, and after plungingthe line for several short gains, openedup a barrage of forward passes thatfinally ended in Hess going over, aftereluding the Staley backs and prabbing awell-directed shot from Specht.

The Halas crew showed the old spirit

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and played the visitors off their feet fol-lowing the touchdown, but lost an oppor-tuni ty to score in the thi rd period onaccount of a fumble.

hi the fourth quarter, Charlie Dressen,who had been sent in to relieve "Pard"-Pearce, put us in a position to score byreturning' a punt thirty-seven yards tothe Hammond eight-yard line.

Two smashes brought it up to the one-yard mark, but on the next play the ballwas fumbled and recovered by Ham-mond back of the line for a touchback.

The Indiana eleven was soon forced topunt, but the Starchworkers could notgain, and Conzelman booted the balldown the field.

George Halas intercepted a pass in thycenter of the gridiron and then a passfrom Conzelman to Chamberlain carriedthe ball to the visitors' 26-yard line. Thenext play was another beautiful pass toHalas over the goal line. Blacklock kickedhis fourth goal, for a total of 28 points.

Show Great FormThose who saw the contest were loud

in their praise for the Staley eleven andit wasn't any wonder to the crowd whythey had been able to win the t i t le ofWestern Champions.

The interference furnished the manwith the ball in the first half was the bestever seen in Decatur, while the well-directed forward passes of Conzelmanbrought the crowd to its feet during thegame.

No one man stood out above the other,Halas having a well-dril led machine, withevery cog doing its part during the entireplay.

Pearce and Sternaman returned puntsin their old-time style, gaining 97 yardsin this deoartment of the game. Lanumand Sternaman hit off tackles for biggains or skirted the ends when calledupon, as did Pearce and Conzelman.

Besides nabbing passes in an uncannymanner, Halas and Chamberlain weredown the field like a streak on punts, thevisitors returning them but fifteen yardsin six tries.

Their defensive play was also highclass, very few yards being made aroundthe wings. In the line it was the sameold story. The Starchworkers are knownthe country over for having the best for-ward wall in the professional game, andit's hard to pick a star out of that stone-wall defense.

Blacklock and Ingwersen at the tackles,although playing against some clevermen, were through time and time againto stop their man before he reached theline of scrimmage.

Jerry Jones, that old war-horse from

Notre Dame, although bothered with aninjured thumb, played his same stargame, while Ross Petty and HubbardShoemake, who took his place when the1 llinois man was injured, piled up thehard-plunging Gillo and Falcon on manyoccasions.

Reserves Have ChanceShank, Dressen and Mintun were given

an opportunity to show their worth dur-ing the last half and each performed in acreditable manner. Shank negotiatedtwenty-eight yards against the visitors inhis attempts wi th the ball, while Charl ieDressen pulled the neatest run of the daywhen he returned Hess' punt thirty-sevenyards.

Jack Mintun hasn't lost any of his oldfight and played a whale of a defensivegame during the fourth period of thegame. Jack had a hard man to succeed,for this fellow Trafton is just about thebig noise in every Staley game.

Although Lanum and Petty were bothforced out of the game by injuries, it isexpected they will both be able to takepart in the Chicago Tiger game onThanksgiving Day in Chicago.

Gillo Real FullbackThe feature of the visitors' play was

the plunging of Gillo, the former Colgatestar, named on Walter Camp's 1919 All-American team. He caused the locals alot of trouble during the game and wasably assisted by Hess, the former IndianaU star, and Specht. In the line, LouieKohls, Rydzenski and Knop, another I l l i -nois U man, were the greatest assets ofthe visitors.

Gil Falcon, playing a tackle on defense,also broke through several times andbacked up the line in good shape.

Hammond really expected to win fromthe Halas crew, but after the game saidthey would back the Starchworkersagainst any team in the country, and theyhave been up against Canton, Dayton,Cleveland and other fast professional ma-chines.

It was one of the cleanest professionalgames the off icials had ever worked in,according to their statements, good feel-ing being displayed between the men atall times, although they fought hard.

The SummaryStaleys— Hammond—

Chamberlain L. E JohnsonIngwersen L. T RydzenskiPetty L. G OltzTrafton C KohlsTones R. G DavisBlacklock R. T BashawHalas R. E Knop

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Pearce Q. B HessSternaman L. H SpechtLanuni R. H GilloKoehler F. H Falcon

Substi tutions — (Staleys): Conzelmanfor Lanum, Shoemake for Petty, Shankfor Sternaman, Dressen for J'earce, Ster-naman for Shank, Mintun for Trafton.(Hammond): Robinson for Johnson,Pleska for Specht.

Score by quarters:Staley 7 14 0 7—28Hammond 0 0 7 0— 7

Touchdowns — L a n u m , Sternaman,Halas (2) , Hess.

Goals after touchdown—Blacklock (4),Kohls.

Referee—Moore (Boston Tech).Umpire—Mi Hard (Wesleyan).Head l inesman—Penhal legon (Wa-

bash).Time of quarters—15 minutes.

Given Fine ReceptionThe editor takes pleasure in reprinting

from the Kewanee Union, published bythe Walworth Company of Kewanee, thefollowing tribute to the courtesy and ef-ficiency of the Staley organization andits officials:

"One of the outstanding features ofthe Walworth-Kewanee football squad'strip to Decatur to play the wonderfulStaley aggregation was the fine, hospit-able manner in which our team memberswere treated by the various people con-nected wi th the Staley company. Thistrip was the first out-of-town trip evermade by our football organization and itwill always be memorable for the finetreatment they received, if for nothing:else. Arriving in Decatur they were metby representatives of the Staley com-pany, who, a f te r providing a dinner, fur-nished a special street ear to take theboys out to the Staley works and ath-letic field, where the game was played.Mr. A. E. Staley, the owner of the Staleycompany; Mr. Chamberlain, the generalmanager; Morgan O'Brien, safety engi-near, and Manager George Halas of thefootball team did eve ry th ing they couldto make the boys feel at home and pro-vide for their comfort. A very fine dress-ing room for the athletes, that is equip-ped with shower baths and lockers is pro-vided, all equipped with massage tablesfor the players. The playing field, whichis a fine athletic field—one of the best inIllinois—adjoins the factory; a fine grandstand and covered bleachers surround thefield and next spring a larger .grand standaddition is to be made to the field. Mr.Staley and Mr. Chamberlain both per-sonally made the local boys feel at home,

extending to them every courtesy. Thesegentlemen are doing a great deal of val-uable work for industrial athletics; theyare unqualif iedly fo_r sport as a valuableadjunct to industrial welfare and bothmen are giving liberally of their time andmoney to put industrial athletics in Illi-nois on a high plane. Every one whomade the trip to Decatur will always re-member with pleasure the fine treatmentthat was afforded them, and none willever regret the athletic connection thathas been made with the Staley company,which is the greatest independent cornproducts company in the world."

Presiding over the class in advancedmathematics, the Harvard professor call-ed upon the fat student to rise and eluci-date the binomial theorem. The fat onestood up and complacently remarkedthat the problem was too deep for him,and, begging to be excused for his delin-quency, he sat clown.

"You seem to be better fed thantaught," said the professor, sarcastically.

"Yes, sir," replied that fat student."You teach me, but I feed myself!"

He Figured It Out

Old Giles was taking out an insurancepolicy on his l i fe , and he and his wifewere puzzling over the forms that hadarrived for him to sign.

"Yer see this?" said Giles; "it says,'Age of father, if living.' 1 suppose Imust fill it in."

The form was at last filled, and a few-days later Giles received a visit from theagent.

"What do you mean by your form?"said the agent.

"You state your father's age as 110.That is ridiculous."

"No, it ain't," replied Giles, "your formsays, 'if living,' and that's the age he'dbe if he was alive now."

Husband — I see young Brown's l i fewas saved by the bullet hitting; a button.Rather a remarkable ecsapc for a mar-ried man, eh?

Wife—But why for a married man?Husband—Well, the button must have \n on, my dear.

Dobbs—"Time must hang heavily onyour hands."

Nobbs—"Why?"Dobbs—"Well, you wear such a large-

wrist watch."

George—"That horse knows as muchas I do."

Clara—"Well, don't tell anybody. Youmight want to sell him some day."

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SflCDTY IftCflStn. P. O'Brien, Safety Engineer

The fact that the safety idea is takingroot in the minds of people generally isindicated by the wide observance of "NoAccident Week" in cities throughout thecountry recently. The real concrete re-sults of studied accident prevention bythe people of a community for such ashort period as seven days show whatmay be accomplished when every man,woman and child realizes that injuriesmay be done away with and when theygo about their daily affairs with this con-stantly in mind.

The spectacular accidents, generallythose of traffic, either of railroad, streetcar or motor car origin, on account oftheir happening in a public place, are theones most noticed, and toward the pre-vention of which most newspaper prop-aganda is directed. In the Europeancountries the number of railroad crossingaccidents is almost nothing, and this re-sult has been obtained by very severelaws punishing those who take chancessuch as are taken in this country everyday.

It is an offense punishable by a fineto even walk along a railroad track,while in Decatur, as in other places, veryoften a railroad track is used as a high-way and occasionally we read of someman killed on his way to or from work.People as yet fail to realize that in cross-ing a railroad track before an oncomingtrain, the train has the right of way, andthat if they and the locomotive reach thecrossing at the same time the human isthe one to suffer.

With the rapid growth of the use ofthe automobiles in the past few years thelist of accidents has grown in proportion.It seems to be the ambition of some peo-ple to beat a railroad train to a crossing.Sometimes they accomplish this, veryoften they fail, and then there is anotherheadlined story with its repetition of fa-miliar details.

Some, with apparently no regard forthe rights or safety of others, approachcross streets at a high rate of speed, withthe inevitable result that if some person,either carelessly or not, attempts to crosstheir path, there will be a serious acci-dent. There are in many places laws andordinances regulating direction of traffic,but thoughtless violation of such a lawshould not be considered sufficient excusefor a serious accident. Many persons run

cars for years without causing an injuryand when the safety idea is more gen-erally driven home there will be a largernumber of those so-called "careful driv-ers" and the number of injuries from thiscause will fall in proportion.

One of the most cheering results of theteaching of safety is the frequent sightof little children stopping at the streetcurb and looking both ways before at-tempting a crossing. This can be attrib-uted to the teaching of the rudiments ofsafety in the schools and through news-paper and magazine articles in the home.There can be no doubt that within ashort time there will be regular instruc-tion along these lines in all schools andthe practical results will be such that thefuture generations will wonder at thecareless days when safety was consideredmerely a fad.

The Englishman boasts he is a self-made man and he worships his maker.

The Scotchman keeps the "Sawbeth"and everything else he can lay his handson.

The Welshman prays to the Almightyon Sunday and on everyone else for therest of the week.

The Irishman doesn't know what hewants and won't be happy till he gets it.—Dodge News.

The Whistle on the SteamerDo you remember Lincoln's story

about the little steamer with the bigwhistle? Every time they tooted thewhistle it blew off so much steam thatthe boat stopped running. That's the waywith lots of people today. If they wouldonly use their energy to drive the pad-dle wheel of opportunity instead of etern-ally blowing the whistle of discontentthey would find themselves going up thestream of success so danged fast thatthe barnacles of failure wouldn't have achance in the world to hook onto theirli t t le craft.—Dodge News.

Edith was admiring her new frock."Isn't it wonderful," she said, "that allthis silk comes from an insignificantworm!"

"Edith, is it necessary to refer to yourfather in that way?" her mother inquiredreproachfully.

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First Impressions of South America

Mr. Galloway has received a letterfrom our former editor, Mrs. Suddarth,wri t ten on board the S. S. Vasari, Octo-ber 3, in which she gives an interesting1account of her travels thus far. Shewrites:

"We expect to arrive in Montevideotomorrow. We should have arrived theretonight ( they say), but for a dense fogwhich envelops ns. The old steamboatwhist le barks out about every other min-ute now.

"We left New York September 11 andit seemed like a long time before we ar-rived in Rio de Janeiro last Wednesdaymorning;. However, the voyage had beendelightful almost all the time—a slightblow last Sunday. It was chilly when weleft Sandy Hook but grew warm overnight, and seemed like summer most ofthe way. Now it is cool again.

"After seeing Rio I have wonderedwhether that city was included in yourtravels. 1 never expect to see a morebeaut i ful place. We entered the harborat sunrise. Mountains could be seen onall sides. At the water's edge, on thewest, the city of Rio gleamed pink andwhite in the sunlight. The bay was veryblue and almost covered with variouskinds of craft . The British and Ameri-can residence section lies along a beach.The houses are brightly colored or white,dainty looking structures. Flowers werein bloom in those yards of which wecould catch a glimpse. For the most partthey were hidden by high walls. It wasthe first time I had seen poinsettias grow-ing.

"The mountains appear to be solidgranite. I asked the young man whoserved as our guide if there were minesin them. He replied that there were allkinds of minerals, but no capital to keepthe mines going or to open new ones,and that foreign capital was discouraged.Trie entrance to the harbor (which isabout thirty miles long) is narrow, andby placing guns on both sides is veryeasily and effectively fort if ied.

"Our party numbers six—all of theAmerican Express Company. We weremet at Rio by the agent of the companythere, who saw to it that we made gooduse of the day there. We went first onan automobile trip through the mountainswhich are covered with tropical growth,although it is now their early spring. Wewent first to Alto Boa Vista to see abeaut iful waterfal l . Thence in and outamong the mountains, occasionally stop-

ping to see a rock formation or to enjoyan exceptional view.

"In the afternoon we went to the topof Sugar Loaf, one of the peaks whichrises at the entrance of the harbor. It isapproximately 1,300 feet high, and it isreached by a car which is pulled fromone point to the next by a cable. Itswayed in the wind considerably on tin-first leg of the trip and it certainly didgive one a ticklish sensation to look athousand feet below. But the view fromthe top is beyond comparison.

"Rio seemed decidedly picturesque.Horses can't stand the climate, so littledonkeys are used for hauling. And theyalways have a bell tinkling about them.But the favori te method of transporta-tion seems to be on top of a man's head.

"On the mountain ride we saw cream-colored oxen yoked to draw a clumsylooking two-wheeled cart. The peopleseemed primitive enough, although themen and women who promenaded on theAvenida were altogether 'dressed up.' Itseemed to me that the women are morefashionable than those on Fifth Avenue1.

"At night, the drive around the bay iswell lighted, making the place seem asmuch a fairyland as in daylight. Theysay there is no speed limit there, and ver-ily I believe it, for the taxis just tearalong.

"We were invited out to dinner in aprivate home that night and I'm thinkingit is too bad some of the Staleyites werenot there to enjoy it. It was very appar-ent that we were no longer within thebounds of the U. S. A. We ate outdoorsin the patio, and it looked for all theworld like a stage setting—even to a bigfull moon coming up over Sugar Loaf.

"Saw a whale last Sunday, a school ofsharks and a number of porpoise. We'vehad tournaments and sports galore, danc-ing and a good time generally. The shipis British, and from Captain Penricedown to Boots the crew seems interestedin our comfort and happiness.

"I often think of you all back thereand am eager to receive a Journal. How 'is football coming this year?

"Regards to everybody."DOROTHY B. SUDDARTH."

If the mariner's wise he looks in theskies

To see what he is about;And he never expects any ships to come

inIf he hasn't sent any ships out.

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Transportation Club Pisits Staleu's

, The Transportation Club and its out-of-town visitors who came to attend themeeting and banquet at the Hotel Or-lando were guests of the Staley companyat luncheon on Wednesday, October 27.About one hundred were present, includ-ing representatives of the Il l inois Cen-tral, the Pennsylvania, the Wabash andthe C. I. & W.

Address by Mr. ChamberlainThe visitors were welcomed by Mr. C.

C. LeForgee, general counsel for theStaley company, who was introduced byMr. Wolf, and acted as chairman of themeeting.

Mr. Chamberlain made the principaladdress, sketching the history and scopeof the glucose and starch industry, andof the Staley company in particular. Hesaid, in part:

"This industry practically originated in1870 and has grown with great rapidity,as evidenced by the following1 figuresshowing annual consumption of corn, atten-year periods:1870, bushels ground per year, None1880, bushels ground per year, 6,000,0001890, bushels ground per year, 15,000,0001900, bushels ground per year, 30,000,0001910, bushels ground per year, 40,000,0001920, bushels ground per year, 75,000,000

"At the beginning of this period therewas but one principal product, namely,table syrup. At the present time thereare twenty-six principal products. Theindustry today represents an investmentof about $50,000,000 and employs approx-imately 10,000 people. It has a total ofout-bound tonnage of 21A million tons:an annual in and out movement of carsof 112,000, or about 375 cars in and outper day. The manufactured product isshipped to every part of the civilizedworld, excepting Russia. * * *

"The A. E. Staley Manufactur ing Com-pany was originated about 1900 by A. E.Staley. At that time Mr. Staley had acapital of about $1,500.00 and a consum-ing ambition. For twenty years that re-lentless, restless ambition has driven himnight and day without intermission. Ob-stacles were to him only incentives. Theyspurred him to renewed efforts andgreater successes.

"Today that $1,500.00 has grown intomany millions. The unknown boy fromthe mountains of North Carolina has be-come the largest independent factor inthis great industry. He is strictly a self-

. made man and is a credit to his maker.

" I t is a matter of real misfortune thatbecause of his unexpected and unavoid-able absence he is unable to meet you allpersonally today. You, who do not knowhim, would, I am sure, be very much>surprised to find him young—a shadeover fifty—vigorous, aggressive, with anambition as limitless as in his youth, andstrengthened by a wonderfully increasedability to accomplish.

"We, who arc in daily, sometimeshourly, contact with him do not lookupon him as a multi-millionaire or as aninaccessible leader of a great industry.To us he is a fine executive—a broad-minded tolerant gentleman—a great-hearted, liberal, loving friend and asso-ciate.

"In his stead I again welcome you."

See the PlantAfter luncheon the visitors made an in-

spection tour of the plant and later weretaken by automobile to see the Staleydam and pumping station. Each guestwas presented with a box of Staley'scream cornstarch and a can of Staleysyrup.

Father Knows a Few ThingsHow many buttons are missing today?

Nobody knows but mother.How many playthings are strewn in her

way?Nobody knows but mother.

How many thimbles and spools has shemissed?

How many hurts on each small, dimpledfist?

How many bumps to be cuddled andkissed?

Nobody knows but mother. * * *

What was the price of mother's fall coat?Nobody knows but father.

Who is it gets Dad's financial goat?Nobody knows but father.

Is mother, dear, at the movies tonightWhile poor old Dad gets his own cold

biteAnd sits alone iu the dim twilight?

Nobody knows but father.

How much is a leg of lamb right now,Or a dozen eggs, or a slice of cow?

Nobody knows but father.Who is it suffers from chilly feetTrying in vain to make both ends meet—Struggling Old H. C. L. to beat?

Nobody knows but father.—Eagle A. Unity.

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The Transportation Cli

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Qreatesl IDorkers of History

John Harrison

You were once on the ocean. Or youhave a f r iend who was. Or at any rateyour ancestors came across from some-where on a boat. How did the captain ofthe ship know his way into port? Howdoes it come .that any vessel can find itsway on the trackless ocean?

Answer: Because John Harrison, car-' penter and mechanic, made a clock overtwo hundred years ago which was thefirst timepiece to tell the hours accur-ately on shipboard.

Must Have Right Time at SeaA sailor figures where he is on the

ocean by using certain factors accordingto the exact hour of the day. UntilHarrison built his clock the seamen hadto make a rough guess at their course.Columbus guessed. He found the NewWorld, and landed down around Cuba.The next people to come over Hit uparound Newfoundland. Another .boatloadset ashore at Virginia.

The British Parliament of those daysrealized that that was a bad state "of~af-fairs, and in 1714 offered a prize of 20,000 -fpounds, or about $100,000, to anyone whowould make a clock which could f i n d thelocation of a ship within thirty miles.

For twenty-two years no one tried forthe prize. No one could figure out howto earn that $100,000. Then John Harri-son grew up.

He was born at the village of Foulby,England, in 1693. His father was a car-penter. John went to school until he wasseven years old. Then, barely able toread and write, he went into his father 'sworkshop.

Was a Good CarpenterHe became a good carpenter, and was

especially interested in wheels. By the, time he was twenty-two years old he had

built a wooden clock so well that it c,on-tinued to mark the hours for over 100years after his death.

Harrison saw, though, that a woodenclock couldn't s tand being knockedaround very much, so he started.to work,with metal. He collected books and pa-pers on the making of timepieces. Hestudied these night after night.

His place of business wa's' riot'far f romthe ocean, and lie early became interestedin clocks which would give* 'service onshipboard. Then, sometime in the earlyyears of his l i fe , be heard 'of the greatprize and determined to win it.

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The clocks of that day were somethinglike the tall grandfather clocks that aresometimes used at the present day. Theyhad a long pendulum and weights onchains. Two things made this plan ofconstruction faul ty on shipboard. Thesway of the ship .affected the swing ofthe pendulum, and the changes in tem-perature made the balances vary.

Harrison, af ter long study, finallysolved these difficulties. He had noticedthat some m e t a l s are more easilystretched or shortened by heat or coldthan others. So he made a balance oftwo plates of steel and brass riveted to-gether. The difference i n - t h e way thesetwo metals responded to the weatheracted as a check on each, so that thebalance adjusted itself. Then, as a sub-sti tute for the swinging pendulum, heinvented a series of springs to take itsplace, much as the hair-spring and wheeltake the place of the pendulum in thewatches of today.

These inventions took time, pat ienceand money. He kept investing all hisspare cash, which was very little, in hisbusiness. Finally, af ter seven years oftrying, he turned out a clock which hebelieved would keep actual time at sea.

He went up to London in 1735 expect-ing to get his reward. 'But no. The judgessaid the th ing was impossible. No onehad built a good sea-clock. Why shoulda poor, uneducated carpenter be able todo it! But the Lord of the Admiraltywas on the look-out for anything thatwould aid the Navy. He gave the clocka tr ial t r ip in a boat called the "Centur-ion." It worked. Figurings, by the clockkept the boat exactly on its course, whenthe captain's guess by the old methodshad been ninety miles out of the way.

Harrison was very happy. He went upto London for the reward once more.Not so again. Parliamentary committeemembers wagged their heads. They saidthe clock was too large.

Harrison was out of money, so thecommittee advanced, him a little to goon experimenting. He buil t another time-piece. Still' they were not convinced. Hemade a third. No nrize, always some ex-cuse, He then made a fourth clock whichwas only five inches across and kept per-fect time on land or sea. But they stillwould not grant his claims. He was ableto keep going chief ly because the Kingof Sardinia recognized his genius, and

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placed an order for four clocks at a largesum.

Harrison DespairsFinally Harrison despaired of winning

the grand prize. He wrote to Parliament:"I thank God I can be more easy in tha tT have the conquest, though I have noreward, than if I had come short of thematter and by some delusion had the re-ward."

This appeal to public opinion put theprize board to shame, and at length, in1773, he was paid in ful l . This was fo r ty -five years a f te r the beg inn ing of his ex-periments, when he was at the age ofeighty.

All Time Honors HimJohn Harrison is dead. But some of

his clocks may be seen in England to-day. And the safety of those at sea ismade sure, because a carpenter and me-chanic followed his ideal unceasingly un-til his victory was won. W. T.(Copyright, 1920, by Business Feature

Syndicate)

Aim to Hit, or Don't ShootYou may not have heard of the cau-

tious hunter who went forth to huntdeer, and when the deer appeared, aimedto hit it if it was a deer or miss it if itshould happen to be a calf.

It is a foregone conclusion thatwhether it was a deer or a calf, it escapedwith an unpunctured hide, and our hunterhad one cartridge less in his belt.

Many of us, however, have become ac-quainted at one time, or another with thecitizen who hoped to make good on thejob which he obligingly took, .with theaim-to work if he wanted to, or to loafif the loafing was good. I f . we were ob-servant we might have noticed that thiscitizen ended up in one of a f ew-ways :He either ended by getting fired, by get-ting someone else fired or by firing thesparks of dissension on the jot) , whichresulted in the end in loss to the contrac-tor, loss to the men and delay, inconven-ience and higher prices for the public.

Krom the point of view of the welfareof mankind such a citizen deserves noth-ing and by all that is honest and square,should get nothing. If his boss is a bum,or if his job is one that doesn't suit him,he can exercise his American privilegeand quit, something he can't do in Russia.

But right here is the point. If our cau-tious hunter had made sure first whetherit was or was not a deer, and then firedto hit or fired not at all, what wouldhave been the result?

In the first case, if he were a goodhunter, he would have "come home with

the bacon;" in the second, he would havesaved ammunition. Then apply this tothe man out for a job, whether it be asan operator on a steam shovel, as a pres-ident of a corporation, as a clerk in adry goods store or as a pitman: Hit thatjob hard or don't take it at all. Aim tohit or don't shoot.—The Excavating En-gineer.

Death's DoorA Georgia man, whose wife swallowed

poison by mistake, wrote the fo l lowingmessage to a city doctor:

My Dear Doc: My wife is at the doorof death; please come at once and see ifyou can pull her through.

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HUNCr -opSTOCKING- /^NJ> GOT f\T f\S TWO sitses UNJ.ESS

YOU ARE. I'M IT".

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TAKE A BOOK HOME

A new collection of books has justbeen received from the Public Libraryas this Journal goes to press. Look overthe list of authors and titles 'and see ifthere aren't some that will interest you.

FictionBates—"Geranium Lady."Belasco—"Girl of the Golden West."Bland—"Red House."Bosher—"His Friend McFarland."Brainerd—"How Could You, Jean!"Chambers—-"Some Ladies in Haste."Clemens—"A Horse's Tale."Cotes—"Crow's Nest."Curwood — " C o u r a g e o f M a d g e

O'Doone."Daviess—"Golden Bird."Daviess—"The Matrix."Davis—"Soldiers of Fortune."Foote—"Lucky Seven."Harrison—"The Golden Galleon."Hough—"The Magnificent Adventure."Hungerford—"Little. Corky."Jackson—"Daughter of the Pit."Jameson—"The Silent Legion."Kauffman—"Azure Rose."King—"Side of the Angels."Knibbs—"Tang of Life."Lee—"The Air-Man and the Tramp."Lee—"Taste of the Apples."Lefevre—"Simonetta."Lloyd—"Stringtown on the Pike."Locke—"The Beloved Vagabond."Lockhart—"Fighting Shepherdess."Lynde—"The Honorable Senator Sage-

brush."McCutcheon—"Day of the Dog."Maniates—"Penny of Top Hill Trail."Moore—"Discovering Evelina."Nicholson—"House of a Thousand

Candles."Nicholson—"Lady Larkspur."Norris—"Josselyn's Wife."Orcutt—"The Spell."Oyen—"Gaston Olaf."Page—"On Newfound River."Page—"Shepherd Who Watched by

Night."Phillips—"Social Secretary."Phillips—"Plain Mary Smith."Phillpotts—"Secret Woman."Piper—"Sylvia of the Hilltop."Richmond—"Red Pepper's Patients."Rohlfs—"Filigree Ball."Sawyer—"Herself, Himself and My-

self." "Scott—"In Her Own Right."Tarkington—"Conquest of Canaan."Vance—"False Faces."Wells—"Diamond Pin."Wright—"Shepherd of the Hills."Wright—'"Winning of Barbara Worth."

Wright—"At the Sign of the Fox."Wyatt—"True Love."

Non-FictionBarker—"Three Plays."Bolton—"Famous L e a d e r s Among

Men."Broadhurst—"Home and Community

Hygiene."Dilnot—"Lloyd George."Dunn—"Mr. Dooley's Philosophy."Dodge—"He Made His Wife His Part-

ner."Duryea & Homans—"A u t o in o b i 1 e

Book."Farrington—"Practical Rabbit Keep-

ing."Fielde—"Chinese Fairy Tales."Gallaher—"Best Lincoln Stories."Galsworthy—"Justice."Hanson—"Commercial Egg Farming."Harkins—"Little Pilgrimages Among

Men Who Have Written Famous Books."Henderson—"Pay-Day."Holme—"Life of Leonard Wood."Houghton—"Ilindle Wakes."Hubert—"Inventors."Ibsen—"Doll's House, Etc."Johnson—"Panama Canal and Com-

merce."Kirkpatrick—"Use of Money."Laut—"Story of the Trapper."Matthews—"Conservation of Water."Taber—"Business of the Household."Van Dyke—"Spirit of America."Wheeler—"The Baby."

The wife of a Methodist minister wasgreatly disturbed by the bishop's ordersto transfer her husband to anothercharge. She had recently succeeded instarting a thriving garden, when alas,there came the bishop's commands totransfer. "Oh, gracious me!" sobbed thewife. "I pray for the day when I die andgo to heaven, where I shall never see orhear of a bishop."

William, Edward, Katharine and Margaret Ken-niston, children of Percy Kenniston, of BuildingNo. 17.

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IPith the IDils

The pretty girl was eagerly watching adrill of a camp when a rifle volleycrashed out. With a surprised screamshe shrank back into the arms of a youngcorporal standing beside her. "Oh, I begyour pardon," she exclaimed, blushing."I was frightened by the rifles." "Quiteall right," said the corporal. "Let's goover and watch the heavy artillery."

A woman ordered a tombstone for herlate husband's grave. On the stone shehad inscribed: "Rest in Peace." She ex-pected her husband's insurance policy topay all the bills attending his demise, butinvestigation revealed that he had al-lowed his life insurance to lapse. Thewidow returned to the marble shop, andhad a few words added to the inscriptionso that the stone now reads: "Rest inPeace—Till We Meet Again."—LincolnLife.

She came down to breakfast very lateand her mother scanned her severely.

"Hid that man kiss you last night?"her mother asked.

"Now, mother," said the sweet youngthing blushingly, "do you suppose hecame all the way from the Great Lakesto hear me sing?"—Jonesboro Grocer.

Disheveled and weary, the stout subur-banite sank gasping on a seat in the rail-way station and glared at the rear end ofthe train he had just missed.

To him appeared the pompous, fussystation master.

"Were you trying to catch that train,sir?" he asked.

The panting would-be passenger eyedhim balefully for a second time before hehissed in reply:

"Oh, no. I merely wished to chase itout of the station."

"Witness," asked the attorney for thedefense who was trying to prove the tem-porary insanity of the prisoner, "was itthis man's habit to talk to himself whenalone?"

"Jest at this time," came the answer,"I don't recolleck ever bein' with him

when he was alone."

Instructor in Public Speaking—"Whatis the matter with you, Mr. Jones, can'tyou speak any louder? Be more enthu-siastic. Open your mouth and throwyourself into it."

When General Leonard Wood was asmall boy he was called up in the gram-mar class. The teacher said:

"Leonard, give me a sentence and we'llsee if you can change it into the impera-tive mood."

"The horse draws the cart," said Leon-ard.

"Very good. Now change the sentenceto the imperative."

"Get up," said young Wood.

Philosopher's Wife—"Why, professor!Did you fall down those steps?"

Philosopher—"Yes, Mirandy, but it'sall right. I was going down, anyway."

They had just became engaged."I shall love," she cooed, "to share all

your griefs and troubles.""But, darling," he purred, "I have

none.""No." she agreed; "but I mean when

we are married."

One in a FamilyAmong the most prosperous citizens

of a certain town in the north of Irelandare two well-known brothers who are en-gaged in the retail coal business.

In the early spring of the year a notedevangelist visited the town, and his fervidstyle of exhortation resulted in the con-version of many sinners, among whomwas the brother of the firm.

For weeks after his conversion, thebrother who had lately "got religion"endeavored to persuade the other to jointhe church, but whenever the subject wasbroached the young man waived consid-eration thereof, absolutely declining todiscuss the matter. One day the olderbrother was making another effort toconvince the erring one of his mistakeand he asked:

"Why can't you, Richard, join thechurch as I did?"

"It's all right for you to be a memberof the church," replied Richard, but if Ijoin who's going to weigh the coal?"

Stonewall Jackson Smith was looking-for work and Barney was asking him theusual question.

"What's your name?""Stonewall Jackson Smith, suh.""How old are you?""Ahs twenty-seven yeahs old, suh.""Are you married?""No suh. Dat scar heah on mah head

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Conducted by Miss L. A. Harkins, Home Advisor of Macon County

Merry Christmas

Now Christmas comes, 'tis fit that weShould feast and sing, and merry be.Keep open house, let fiddlers play,A fig for cold, sing care away.

Christmas means that we celebrate thebirth of the Christ child. In most homesit is the most sacred of all the days ofthe year. It is a season for hospitality,good will, good cheer, charity and love.

Washington Irving says it is "the sea-son for gathering together of family con-nections and drawing closer again thosebands of kindred hearts, which the caresand pleasures and sorrows of the worldare continually operating to cast loose;o f ' c a l l i n g back the children of a family,who have launched for th in life, and wan-dered widely asunder, once more to as-semble about the paternal hearth, thatrallying place of the affections, there togrow young and loving again among theendearing mementoes of childhood."

Almost from the birth of Christianity,Christmas has been kept as a day full ofjoy and thanksgiving. The early colon-ists brought the Christmas customs fromthe old country.

The Dutch settlers celebrated St. Nich-olas day which came on December 7. Itis said that the children tried for weeksto be good because the good saint leftgifts only for good boys and girls. OnSt. Nicholas Eve, the children in NewNetherlands placed their wooden shoesin the chimney place for the good saintto fill.

The English colonists celebrated onDecember 25, and the children hung uptheir stockings. By the beginning of thenineteenth century, St. Nicholas wascoming Christmas Eve, instead of De-cemjier 6, and both English and Dutchchildren were hanging up stockings forSt. Nicholas to fill, and both were sing-ing:

'Twas the nigtt before Christmas, whenall thro' the house,

Xot a creature was stirring, not even amouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimneywith care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas would soonbe there.

names are used almost synonymously.Jacob Riis, in answer to the question, "Isthere a Santa Claus?" says: "Santa Clausis the spirit of Christmas, and evdr andever so many years ago, when the dearl i t t le baby was born after whom we callChristmas, and was cradled in a mangerout in the stable because there was notroom in the inn, the Spirit came into theworld to soften the hearts of men andmake them love one another. Therefore,that is the mark of the spirit to this day.Don't let anybody or anything rub it out;the rest doesn't matter."

From earliest t i m e s, houses andchurches have been decorated for theChristmas season. Everyone loves theChristmas colors, scarlet and green. Theholly is always popular and of late yearsthe poinsettia is as often used.

It is a pretty custom to have a big redcalico stocking with white toes, heels andtops for each member of the family.They can be hung about the fireplace orsome convenient place a few days beforeChristmas. The children love to fill themas the packages come in the mail. Thesestockings make nice Christmas gifts.

Children look for fun at Christmas, andit takes just a little time to make "fun-makers" for the table from fruit. Theraisin can be turned into a turtle, withfive cloves for head and feet and a dropof white icing for the eyes. What littlechild does not love a marshmallow manmade from three marshmallows, fastenedtogether with a tooth pick! The topmarshmallow is the head and has cur-rants for eyes and a bit of red cherry forthe mouth. He looks fine in a prune hat.

YULETIDE GAIETY

Fagots

If there is a fire burning, mindfu l ofthe ancient Yule log, present each guestwith a small bunch of fagots. One ofthe guests places his bundle on the fireand starts to tell a story. When his fag-ots are burned, the next guest has histurn. Instead of relating a story, eachguest can perform some stunt, or tell ofhis most embarrassing or most excitingexperience during the year.

A Musical Race

Instead of St. Nicholas, most children The juveniles love to play this game,today look for Santa Claus. The two and maybe the grownups will also. Little

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souvenirs are wrapped in large packages,using a g'reat deal of tissue paper. Alively march is played on the piano. Theguests, carrying t h e i r packages onspoons, march around the room. If suc-cessful in carrying their bundles withoutdropping them, the fortunate ones maykeep them, but those who are not sofortunate must march until they canmake the rounds without dropping theirpackages.

Stocking GameStretcli a ribbon across the room. To

this attach red card-board stockings ofdifferent sizes. The guests in turn try tohit the stockings with bubbles blownfrom clay pipes. Allow five trials foreach one. A pair of silk stockings wouldbe a suitable prize to the most success-ful "blower."

Christmas TelegramsChristinas telegrams is a divert ing oc-

cupation. Cut countless letters out of thenewspapers and scatter them about theroom. Direct the guests to find enoughletters with which to compose a ten-wordtelegram to Santa Claus. For the besttelegram written in fifteen minutes awarda prize. A book containing blank tel-egrams makes a suitable prize.

A Snowball RaceDivide the guests into two lines, with

an equal number in each line. At the'head of each line have a pile of fluffycotton snowballs. At a signal the playersbegin passing the balls down the line.The side wins which has all its balls piledup at the end of the line first.

Star ContestDistribute star-shaped- cards and see

who is the best astronomer in the party.An astronomer—A star.gazer.A famished star—Starvation.A marine star—Starfish.A bird—Starling.A star used by the laundress—Starch.A star at the right hand of a ship—

Starboard.An Knglish court of justice—Star

chamber.A theatrical celebrity—A star.A fixed star—Stare.An inexpensive i l lumination—Starlight.A sudden alarm—Startle.

CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS

Fig PuddingTwo eggs.One cup granulated sugar.Half cup cream or top milk.One teaspoon salt.

Chop fine one package figs.Chop fine three ounces beef suet.Two heaping cups soft bread crumbs

(use bread two days old; omit crust).Steam three hours in buttered mold, or

in cups steam one hour.Sauce:One egg, beaten slightly.Add five-sixths cup sugar: beat. 'Add one-fourth cup scalded milk.Flavor.

Date PuddingOne cup dates.Half cup nuts.One tablespoon sugar.Half cup bread crumbs.Two egg yolks.Two teaspoons baking powder.Mix, then fold in two beaten whites.

Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven.Serve with whipped cream or hard sauce.(Prunes may be used instead of thedates.) Serve cold.

New England Plum PuddingThree cups pastry flour.•One-fourth, teaspoon nutmeg.One-fourth teaspoon ginger.One and one-half teaspoons salt.One cup molasses.One cup raisins.Three teaspoons baking powder.Three-fourths teaspoon cinnamon.One-eighth teaspoon ground cloves.One' cup suet, clioped fine.One cup sour milk.One-half cup currants orOne-half cup citron.Sift the dry ingredients thoroughly,

add the others in the order named, withthe f ru i t well floured to prevent its sink-ing. Two cups of chopped dates or figsmay be substituted for the other fruit .Pour the pudding into a buttered mold,filling it not quite one-half full . Coverthe mold t ightly and steam the puddingfor not less than three hours. If smallmolds, no larger than one-quarter poundbaking powder tins, are used, steam thepudding for one and one-quarter hours.Serve it with hard sauce.

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Wedding BellsBuster Woodworth, second baseman

on the Staley nine, was married to MissElizabeth Zimmer in Taylorville on No-vember 1.

La Faria Smith and Miss LaurettaMorgan were married Nov. 18 at thebride's home by the Rev. I rving Fox.They will live at 1125 Roger Avenue.Mr. Smith works in the Boiler Room.

C. R. Thornborough and Miss RuthMcGibbons of Berwyn, 111., were mar-ried at the bride's home on Monday, No-vember 22. After a short wedding- tripthey will live at 1621 Fast North Street.

H. P. Mac Arty of Building 17 wasmarried Nov. 6, in Peoria.

Noble LeRoy and John B. Dickey, Jr., are thesons of John Dickey of the Machine Shop.

Everybody was very much surprised,and equally sorry, to hear that GertrudeLogan and Goldie Scott had made uptheir minds to leave Staley's and go toCalifornia. Gertrude has been at theswitchboard at Staley's for a number ofyears, and has endeared herself to every-one by her pleasant voice and courteousefficiency over the phone. Goldie was*,equally well-liked, and both will be muchmissed. They left Decatur Nov. 18, ex-pecting to spend a few days in KansasCity en route. We wish them all suc-cess in their new venture.

They don't usually look so sad. They must havebeen thinking about leaving us.

Everybody is glad to see TommyThornborough back on the job after hisrecent illness. Tom wishes to thank theboys for the flowers sent him while hewas sick. They were much appreciated.

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Goes to PanamaAvory McGlade left Decatur on Nov.

1 to go to Panama, where he expects toplay baseball this winter. Avory workedin the millwright department and wasthird baseman on the Staley baseballteam. His perpetual good spirits andnever-failing "pep" made him popular

the fans as well as around theplant, and everybody will miss him.

Marie White and Willard Bush weremarried November 20, in Peoria. Mr.Bush is the manager of the New ParisCleaning and Dyeing establishment.

Alice White has been transferred fromthe Purchasing Department office to theSyrup Sales Department.

Emma and Kate, Tray Room girls,have received answers to the letterswhich they put in bags of starch sent toGermany last June. The letters werefound by two young" men in a factory atBielefeld, Westphalen, Germany, whenthe bags were opened by them last Aug-ust.

Miriam Eldredge is a new worker inthe Starch Sales Department.

Zita McKee is the new girl at theswitchboard, and Roxie Poland has takenGoldie Scott's place.

This young lady has an interesting history. J.R. McCord of the Machine Shop found her, a wee,wailing baby, on his doorstep March 10, 1919. Shehas now been adopted by him and is Mary JaneMcCord. Just a glance at Mary Jane's smilingface will assure you that she appreciates her goodfortune in having found such a good home andkind foster parents.

Richard Glenn Martin. Six Months Old. Richard Is the Son of Our Printer, G. H. Martin

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. I wish to express my sincere thanksand appreciation to all those who con-tributed to sending me flowers during myrecent illness.

Lela Richmond.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. "Hank" Pot-rafka, a baby boy, November 20.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Martin,Nov. 17, a baby girl, weight, eight and ahalf pounds. John works in Building 10.

The Cost Department extends its sym-pathy to Edwin Scheiter, who recentlylost his mother.

Louis Brant is back at work again af-ter a week's illness.

,T , Bernhard and Franklin Hoffman, our patternMother: Johnny, if you eat any more, maker's boys,

you'll burst."Johnny: "Well, pass the cake, mother, Mabel Payne has taken Marie Dixon's

and get out of the way."—Judge. place in Mr. Augur's office.

Where Avory McGlade Is Now. He Sends His Regards to All the Staley Folks

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Jim Galloway remarked in Foremen'sMeeting that he should think the angelswould find it rather chilly traveling upand down Jacob's ladder in this kind ofweather. Jack Fletcher suggested thatthey probably have a man-hoist now.

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Evelyn Grant should go into themovies. You just ought to see her "reg-ister emotion" when she finds a mouse inher coat-sleeve.

Sambo, while sitting in the office ofthe shipping department the other day atnoon, heard a peculiar noise, and uponmaking an inspection he found it wasWillard and Pee Wee trying to sing.

Bill Morrison took his car to a repairshop the other day and asked the manthere what was the best thing to dowith it. The repair, man looked the carover in silence for a few minutes, thenhe grasped the horn and tooted it."You've got a good horn here," he re-

marked, quietly. "Suppose you jack it upand run a new car under it."

Jack Mintun didn't have anything onthe Swedes in Minneapolis in regard tofeet.

Slim Sherman said that while in Francehe got pinched for fighting. Miller saidhe thought that was what he went overthere for.

One night last week Frank Brady wastrying to crank Jim Burge's car and, atthe same time keep his eye on a younglady in the car, and as a result his handslipped and he broke one of his fingers.

The way Ernie Gentry has been high-balling here lately he will have to jumptwice in one place to make a shadow, be-fore spring.

Max Fascover, the physical director atthe y, has given Carl Wakens orders tostay away from the Y. M. C. A. for aweek, as a rest would do him good afterthe way the bunch has been treating him.(Carl is thinking- of joining the girls'class at the Y. W.)

Willard Valentine is going out everyevening now to learn to play checkers.It takes just two to play that game,doesn't it, Willard?

P. Beagham of the Traffic Departmentseems to be a regular visitor at the Su-perintendent's office. We are for yon,I'ete.

LOST—Three pounds, by Percy Ken-niston, when rolling glucose barrels theother day. If found, please return atonce, as he is losing more worryingabout them.

When Ed Lonergan was sent to workwith Gene Morrow's gang he got sohomesick for carrying the hod that hetook three) days off to repair all thechimneys in his neighborhood.

Dave Dryden has joined our old friendThomas Freeman in Pittsburg, Kan.

"Sub" Kolb has assumed the duties offour men since the lay-off, but emphat-ically refuses to sweep the floor. He do-nated the broom to Adkins.

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Ask Johnny Shyer if he knows a younglady by the name of Frost. Johnnywould like to know where they get thatold stuff about him being kicked out ofa certain young lady's house.

Carl Waltens says Lela certainly wouldmake a good wife.

The Knocker's CreedMan comes into the world without his

consent, and leaves it against his will.During his stay on earth his time isspent in one continuous round of con-traries and misunderstandings. In his in-fancy he's an angel; in his boyhood he'sa devil; in his manhood he's everythingfrom a lizard up; in his duties he's adamn fool; if he raises a family he's achump; if he raises a check he's a thief;and then the law raises hell with him;if he's a poor man he's a poor managerand has no sense; if he's rich he's dishon-est but considered smart; if he's a poli-tician he's a grafter and a crook; if he's outof politics you can't place him as he is anundesirable citizen; if he goes to churchhe's a hypocrite; if he stays away he's asinner; if he donates to foreign missionshe does it for show; if he doesn't he'sstingy and a tightwad. When he firstcomes into the world everybody wantsto kiss him, but before he goes out theyall want to kick him. If he dies young,there was a great future before him; ifhe lives to a ripe age, then, of course, he'sliving only to save funeral expenses.

Life's a damn funny thing, isn't it?

Ed Moore has returned to the cooper's^trade after fifteen years. He thinks itwill be a sweet job.

John White's gang is now known as the"Big Four," and they are some hustlers,doing the work that it took ten men to dobefore, so they claim.

George Mercer looks lonesome sinceGrace is gone.

Buck Scherer insists on having thelight near his desk turned off all thetime. The natural inference is that helikes to sit in the dark.

Nelle Hackley seems to be very muchinterested in those application blanks re-garding the Terrace Gardens addition.We understand she is wearing a sus-picious looking ring after working hours.

Who is the gentleman Blossom takesto breakfast every morning? Howleysays it is her Dad, but we are suspicious.

The way John Warren can boot theoval, we would suggest that Halas givehim a little consideration.

"Windy" says when Jack Mintun gotthe ball in the Hammond game hestarted right off for Hill's Bowling Alley.

Some of the office force are so absent-minded on Monday morning that theytake the Edward street car and ride somedistance before discovering thei r mis-take.

Watch Your Dinner Pails!Recently an employee of the Refinery

called at the East gate and asked thegateman for permission to go down tothe Refinery. As he had left work onlyan hour or so prior thereto the gatemanpolitiey informed him that as he was noton duty, he could not permit him to doso and that if it was an urgent matterhe could call at the Manufacturing Dept.office and secure permission from Mr.Galloway,—but he said in return, "Lord,man, I can't go down to Galloway andtell him why I want in, for I would neverhear the end of it." When pressed fur-ther by the gateman he confided to himthe fact . that when he left work at 7:00A. M. he picked up the wrong dinnerbucket and after he had gotten home andtucked in bed the 'phone rang and asomewhat ruffled voice informed his wifethat her dear husband had his dinnerand that he wanted it right away. Shetried to tell the party that he must bemistaken, and as he seemed to be sopositive she went into the kitchen andexamined the dinner bucket he broughthome and found it filled with a mightyfine assortment of cake, hot buns, chickenand the trimmings. She almost faintedand hurriedly returned to the 'phone andtold the party she would see that he

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had his dinner immediately, which wasentirely satisfactory with the one whohad lost it,—temporarily.

The lady then roused the guilty manand told him of his deed, which hestoutly denied at first, but when con-fronted with the evidence he dressed indouble time and beat it to the plant. Nowonder he did not want to call on Jimand confess, and we don't blame him.

The gateman could hardly open thegate on account of his merriment, butfinally succeeded and the dinner was re-turned to the owner, amid much pro-fuse apologies which fell on deaf ears forthe only comment made was, "See thatyou do not do that trick again, for ifyou do, there will be something doing."

Now the writer does not want to giveout this man's name,—but we will saythat he surely seems to be well fed (andno doubt he is, if he can get by with itoften.) He is rather short and chubby,—his number is 802 and he works in theRefinery,—and further, his initials are L.B. H. Nuf ced,—watch your pails, boys!

Matrimony is conducive to economy.Ray Demrnitt has acquired a corn-cobpipe that lasts longer than a twenty-fivecent cigar—and the flavor increases withage.

There was a young lady named Alice,Who was teased by Mr. George ,

She would blush rosy, redAt whatever he said—

This modest young lady named Alice.

How did it happen that Howley andScherer are again good friends—we haveread nothing about Ireland getting herfreedom.

We are now waiting for news tellingof the Misses Logan and Scott starringin one of Mack Sennett's features.

Waltens says he has a notion to quitthe office gym class because Mr. Laveryplays too roughly. He says the "Hounds"do not treat him that way.

George Auer requisitioned 500 clothshipping tags a short while ago. JackHowley explained to Harry that he prob-ably wanted them to tag his clerks with.We presume this is part of his new filingsystem, having them indexed by sex andcross-indexed by tags.

A certain fellow on the loading gangrushed into a barber shop one eveningand asked the barber for a hurry-upshave. By mistake the barber cut off hismustache. From all reports, the air wasblue in that barber shop for a while.

To wed or not to wedThat is the question.Whether 'tis betterTo remain singleAnd disappoint a number of womenFor a time,Or marryAnd disappoint one woman for life.

— Exchange

Reflections of a PessimistJust when the festive season is upon

us, they begin a war on "home brew."

Where are all those women politiciansin atrocious hats who, the cartoonists ofa decade ago assured us, would tyrannizethe land when the hand that rocked thecradle cast a vote?

President-elect Harding is going tomake a visit to Mexico—a nice quietplace to rest up in before tackling hisjob in Washington.

Over in Vienna the slogan now is "Sayit with flour."

The annual guessing contest whichtakes place in every American home willshortly occur, when we try to figure outwhat the Christmas gifts made by ourfemale relatives are for.

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The End of an Eighty-Hour DayA man who stayed at home with the

children for half a day while his wife didher Christmas shopping submits the fol-lowing statistics:

Opened door for children—108 times.Closed it after them—108 times.Tied children's shoes—16 times.Number of stories read to them—21.Stopped children playing- piano—19

times.Smoke rings blown to amuse them—

498.Arbitrated children's quarrel—77 times.Put doll carriage out—28 times.Brought doll carriage in—28 times.Mended kiddie car—S times.Cautioned children a b o u t crossing

street—66 times.Chi ldren crossed street—66 times.Peddlers rang door bell—7 times.Toy balloons bought for children—6

times.Average life of balloon—3 minutes.Dried children's tears—14 times.Assisted children to blow noses—14

times.Telephone calls answered—8 times.Percentage of wrong phone numbers—

100 per cent.Crackers issued to children—37.Slices of bread and butter served—12.Drinks of water served—9.Refused to buy candy—87 times.Questions dodged about Santa Claus—

1,051.The statistician is now advertising for

two nurse girls and a governess.—Journalof Home Economics.

When Fred Gentry left he didn't takeall the bull with him. Robazek has con-siderable.

John Warren (to one of the girls)—"Do you know anything about exports?"

Young Lady (pertly)—"I know some-thing about sports, but not exports."

John—"Well, I'm an ex-sport."

Ask Seib if he ever found that rolickipin.

Mr. Auer certainly makes most of theoffice bunch look sick when it conies tobasket-ball. (That's the old pep!)

If you want to see an Irish girl talkwith her hands, watch Miss Kiely.

Anyone wishing a summer cottage forthe rest of the winter see George Wat-kins.

Some Fishes, I'll SayOne of our prominent men at the plant,

who is very fond of a good story at anytime, was exchanging stories with agroup of men one noon hour and as hehad the last chance before the whistleblew he yarned out the fact that oncewhile he was traveling he came upona great salmon fishing stream, and itwas wonderful to watch these salmonwhen they wanted to leave the mainstream and go up a side river. Thishighly truthful man stated that theywould be going along and every now andthen one of the fish would make a leapout of the water and look around andseemed to know they were near the pointthey were to detour.

The most wonderful thing he saw themdo was at a place where there was a riseof something like twenty feet,—a sort ofa dam or the like, being at the mouth ofthe smaller stream where it turned intothe larger body of water. "N'ow youcan believe it or not," he said, "but thoselish would make a run in the river, leapout of the water , give a twist to theirtails and go right up to the top of t h edam or whatever it was." He also said thatthe smaller lish would try it quite oftenand they could hardly make it, and thebigger fish would make up a sort of l i feline and drop down a line alongside theface of the dam and as the smaller fishleaped up they would sort of lock, tailsand Ilip the smaller ones on up to'-thetop of the dam. He said he watched thisfeat for a couple of days unt i l the entireschool of salmon had entered the smallerstream, l i e said he never saw anythinglike it in his life before and never ex-pected to see it again,—and neither dowe. You know the one who tells hisstory lirst never has a chance on earth,but the one who yarns last always drawsthe fur l ined bath tub.

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Have you a little fairy in your office?The Purchasing Department has. AskHarry Walmsley — he will tell1 you allabout it.

Wanted, someone to look after Pearce'sSpecial delivery letters and telegrams.Apply at the Ir ish Inn.

How did you like the box of candypresented to you by the laboratory staffafter the Minneapolis game, Dutch?

Art Watkins must be in love. Hestarted out to get shaving cream, butthe shaving cream turned out to be tooth-paste upon inspection.

Somebody should present Bill Herrwith a dictionary for Christmas. Heasked one of the boys to send an ex-press package for him "prepaid.""Where's the money for it?" he asked."Oh, I don't want to pay for it." saidBill. "Didn't I tell you I wanted it pre-paid?"

Fuzzy WrinklesT' hear sum fellers talk you'd think

th' worst Kalamities that ever happenedwuz a-goin' t' take place in the nex' 4years. Yessir, we're a-goin' to hav' strikes,lockouts, starve-outs, and knock-outs.We're a-goin' t' hav' stick-ups, hold-ups,and lock-ups. We're a-goin' t' have pore-houses, soup-houses, and we orta havemore bug-houses.

Sum uvem, even 4 C a great crimewave loomin' on th' horizon. We'rea-goin' t' hav' pickpockets, porch klim-ers and burglars. We're a-goin t' hav'

Ortomobile thieves, coal thieves, andpurse snatchers. There's gonna be mur-der and bloodshed in ever' 'imaginableform. W're gonna have war at homeand abroad. (Th' war at home mostly awar uv words.) Bizncss is a-goin' t' L.There hain't gonna be no wurk no placeand Mother won't have nuthin to do buthaff sole the seat uv the britches Poppywcarz out sittin' 'round. There's gonnabe the wurst panick that ever wuz nodeuv. There's gonna be—well, just , t' makea long story short, this here ol' worl' isgonna B 1 heluva place t' live in, the nex'4 years—accordin' to sum.

Carl Oakes' cat must B a orful kitten-ish little critter. We hear it washes thedishes, cranks the ortomobile, an' an-swers the tellefone. Carl says 'es bet-ter'n cny 'larm clock. How, and how of-fen d'ya wind 'im up, Carl?

Will ie Jennin's Bryan wunts WoodyWilson t' rezine—iz that crust er iz it j i s tsalt in the Bryan?

It's purty tuff diggin' fur a 4 man t'have t' clean up the shop. Ast EarneyGentry ef it ain't.

Notwithstandin' th' grate Republikanlan'slide, Pop Gentry is s t i l l stickin' upfor Cox.

Cox musta crawled in a hole some-wheres, we hain't heard from 'im for sev-eral days.

That's all.Your'n lovin'ly,

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vf) HEAR IN THE MOON—That Spiritualism is mighty popular with you Mortals since prohibition took effect;That in every cellar the Spirits are working twenty-four hours per day, Sunday in-

cluded;That Ghostly shadows flit back and forth, to and from the secret chambers from

sundown to sunrise.

That "Show me an honest man and I'll show you a fool" is exemplified every dayon the World Stage;

That Cap Whitten found a safety pin in the Welfare House, and, being honest, re-turned it to Jim Burge;

That instead of thanking him for his honesty, Jim became excited and thought Capwas accusing him of grand larceny and as an alibi he showed Cap he was wear-ing suspenders.

That Herman Herbert says he never heard of a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing;That he claims he only wears his sheepskin jacket in the Winter time;That in Summer or Winter Herman is wild and wooly and is always listening for

the call from the wild.

That prosperous times are on the toboggan and thrift and economy have come;That the Hupmobiles, Studebakers and Fords in the back yards of the would-be mil-

lionaires are getting delapidated;That you mortals who invested your savings in Liberty Bonds are to be congrat-

ulated.

That Charley Burkey's pet aversion is that society of friends named "Holly Rollers;"That one of them gave an exhibition in the Laboratory rolling on the floor while

Charley was jumping over the counter making his exit;That Henry Dubes says: "Charley is worse than any Holy Roller as he rolled down-

stairs getting out of the way."

That Walter Meinert, in his soft-spoken, lady-like mannerisms is a great favoritewith the ladies;

That Walter is willing to be kissed but is determined to be free from any entanglingalliances;

That he makes an annual pilgrimage to Wisconsin to visit and worship his only god-dess.

Tjhat Billy Broadbear, your Chief Electrician, is the most reformed, docile, domes-ticated mortal in your plant;

That Billy, before he was married, was a l i t t le wild and needed some curbing;That the great change made him a model husband and father—every night he sings

to the baby and is happy and contented.

That after the Election the politicians are having sleepless nights worrying aboutthe spoils of war;

That John Doe wants to be postmaster and Bill Jones wants to be dog catcher;That to the victor belongs the spoils; let the Democrats do the worrying;That fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Yours truly,THE MAN IN THE MOON.

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