Calcite Screenings Published Periodically In The Interest of Safely and Welfare Michigan Limesione & Chemical Company, Rogers City. Michigan—March, 1943
The March Red Cross War Fund This moulds has been designated for the Red Cross
We all have heard much to do about rationing
War Fund and Annual Membership Drive and will
up until now, and the probability that rationing will
be given the support of the press, radio, volunteers
continue to spread gradually until it includes many other commodities is very evident. The ordinary householder was affected first with the rationing of sugar; later, gasoline, tires, cof fee and shoes. On February 22 War Ration Book No. 2 was issued, and on March 1. canned goods were
win. will launch a house-to-house canvass, and ev
ery possible media in an effort to raise $125,000,000 to finance the expanding services of the Red Cross. The local drive will begin Thursday. March 11. to meet the quota of $4,000 assigned to this county. This is an increase of 100% over last year's quota. About half of the $125,000,000 is to be used in be half of the armed forces, including Red Cross ser
vice in Army and Xavy hospitals, camp service, and home service for soldiers and sailors, their families and disabled ex-servicemen, collection of blood
plasma to save the lives of wounded men : emer
gency morale and recreation supplies, volunteer production of surgical dressings, sweaters, kit bags,
It is quite general knowledge that the
fective about April 1st. and thai on .May 1st. War Ration Book No. 3 will be issued. This will prob ably cover many items which will be rationed somelime after the book is issued.
Rationing has had ils effect, and even with pres ent regulations we honestly believe the vast ma
jority of our American people are consuming more than they should—certainly more than is necessary.
and relief of Americans held prisoners of war in enemy or occupied countries.
on our produce is now greater than ever before
The balance of the amount collected is to be used
ried on by the Yi^(\ Cross and with which we are all acquainted.
We will continue to have food, but the demands
and an equitable distribution now demands the frugal efforts and attention of every American.
Are You Paying Too Much?
The responsibilities of the American R^d Cross
The purchase of War Bonds and Stamps means
are greatly increased during this emergency to take care of their regular activities and the Special
liberty. Now many limes haven't you heard it said. "You get just what you pay for"?
assistance for our men and women in the armed forces. There are more than 600 men from this
county now in some branch of service <>l our coun try. Let's see that they and the millions of other men and women receive our support through the salutary efforts of the American Rt(\ Cross. Payroll deductions will be made as formerly for
By this statement is generally implied material things: however, we may also apply it to our rights and freedoms.
We must be willing to pay a high price to be able to speak as we choose, to attend meetings, to hold elections, to worship, to travel, to have our ball-
those wishing to subscribe in this way.
games—to enjoy freedom.
Victory Gardens For 1943
means to us. and it is for the preservation of these things that we must pay. We must pay for them with the blood of our fighting men., the sweat of
Victory gardens will become an important pari of the nation's industrial life this spring. It will be a patriotic duty for all of us who possibly can to have a vegetable garden. And with point ration ing it is hound to place a premium upon home pro
duction of food to supplement ration-restricted
'
rationed.
rationing of meats and probably cheese will be ef
and other necessities, service men's clubs overseas,
in disasters, emergencies and other activities car
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Rationing Demands Attention
diets. In addition, this home gardening will make the budgets stretch farther. Ilonie garden-—backyards or lots immediatvly adjacent to the homes of workers have man}- ad
vantages for the Victory Cardcner. They are more easily reached, nearer to the kitchen, and there is less danger of trespassing. I'ractically everyone in Rogers can have a Victory Garden. Questionnaires will be sent out shortly on gar dening needs. Please return them promptly if you
are planning a Victory Garden.
This is what America
toil on production lines, on farms, in forests and in mines, the prayers of our people, the resources of our nation, and the income of our workers.
11 means that we must expend every effort to help in paying for our liberties which are endan gered by this war. It isn't enough to do all that is demanded or di rected, we must pledge ourselves to do everything
we can—improve our work, offer .suggestions in the interest of safety and greater production, re main healthy and continue buying War Bonds and Stamps. The price is high, but we know that we will really get good quality in payment for the sacrifices which are nccessarv at this time.
t lakes more than luck to build a safety record.
Importance Of Ability To Instruct Industries throughout the country are strivingtor greater production, and many of ihem have hired Or trained efficiency experts, whose duties are to eliminate stoppages and delays, find short cuts and assist workers to perform a better job:. Everything must go along without a 'hitch' to get out Government orders on time. One thing which these experts have found to be
a serious drawback to production is lack of proper instruction.
Often in an attempt to save time only half of the instructions are given and the other half must be figured out by the worker. Valuable time is of ten lost, materials wasted, and the worker is un
aware of dangers which are often connected with his duties.
The solution to these problems would seem to be that those giving instruction be thoroughly famil iar with the job or plan and to make certain that the person to whom the instructions are given knows what is expected of him. The importance of safety should always be stressed. And it might be well to tell the worker of the importance of his particular duty. I'.very one ol us must realize the importance of instructions which are complete and easily under
Our Winter Work Of Preparation With the industrial wheels in the United States
humming faster and faster to produce materials of war, our plants off-season activities seem small in comparison. But there are many different things being done to prepare for the coming operatingseason. Stripping work and quarry lay-out remain much the same as in other years. A steady cold winter in addition to plenty of snow has made these operations more difficult, but the overall re sults will be good. The mill is receiving attention toward the end that the consumers of Calcite limestone will con
tinue to receive a good product and that there will be a minimum of delays due to breakdown.
The general plant appearance will not be changed much. Minor repairs have been done on loading equipment and docks. The important job of main taining conveying belts is getting full time attention. However every man is busy so when the produc tion wheels start turning and the boats are whis tling at the harbor entrance, onr winter's work of
preparation will be complete. We are looking for ward to a year of production when raw materials will again flow to the mills and plants so that this year could be the year of victor)-.
stood.
There Must Be Men To Man Ships
The ability to instruct is as important as the ability to performâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both are necessary to effect a greater production and prevent accidents and
A seridtl'S problem in the manning of ships con fronts Great Lakes vessel operators who are re sponsible lor moving the needed materials neces
sary for the war program. Our Great Lakes ships
waste.
Changing Seasons Are Pleasant The change of the seasons is one of the pleasant experiences of life enjoyed by man living in the temperate zone.
In winter we enjoy the buffeting winds, drifted
must have men. Already there has been sufficient drain on seamen to affect the efficient manning of ships, and this of course is going to have its effect on the movement of Great Lakes freight. There are those who have been heard to criticize
the Great Lakes sailor for not joining the active
snow and severe cold that do not deter but only
armed forces.
seem to challenge us to battle with the elements.
necessary part and a very important one in suc cessful prosecution of this war. Lor without them who is going to move the vast tonnages of ore,
When Spring ushers in warmer days there comes the season of renewing our /.est for out-of-door
However, these seamen are also a
living and observing the coming to life of growing
limestone, coal and other commodities wdiich are
things.
so essentially necessary? Yes. in our opinion, the Great Lakes sailor is do ing his bit!
And this is the season, too. when we usu
ally resolve to improve upon the general order of things.
Safety by virtue of its importance to human life should always have the spirit manifested by spring among the seasons of the year. It should always be in season to come to life in safety matters. Old altitudes, careless and unsafe practices, and wish
ful thinking should be continually hewn down, up rooted and plowed under. In the fertile field of human friendliness and receptiveness to helpful in
Absenteeism Becoming Serious Problem With many companies absenteeism is becoming a very serious problem. Some companies are run ning as high as 7%. Most id' it is preventable, and at times like these when our country needs the benefit of this labor, it is inexcusable.
struction should be planted the seeds of a new alert
The reasons given run the usual gauntlet of ex cuses and few of them outside of sickness have any
ness nurtured by improved physical surroundings
acceptable reason.
and continual vigilance and care. The traditional season, of good housekeeping should lie extended Iroin spring to every day in the year.
senteeism lias never been a problem. We. of course,
It is gratifying to note that with our people ab have some lost time because of illness, but even
that is infinitesimal. Our men have always pre' There is no quitting time for safety. Your chances of being injured by accidents are twice as great away from work as they are on the job.
[erred to work when work is available.
Safety is like a wlieelbarowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if you don't push it. it won't go.
How To Make Your Safety Shoes Last
Cooperate On Gasoline Rationing The first gasoline rationing period ending March
1. has taught both the public and the Rationing Boards something of what gasoline rationing is and how it operates. Drivers have found that they can get along on much less car mileage than before. Ration Boards have made many mistakes, but are becoming much more efficient with experience and
and gradually getting the kinks ironed out so that future rationing and issuing of books will be a
much less painful process both for the Boards and the public. The Michigan Limestone $j Chemical Company Transportation Advisory Committee have found the employees for the most part very cooperative.
If every man wearing safety shoes does his part, the result will be vast <|tiantities of these materials released for our armed forces and vital industrial needs.
Follow the simple suggestions given below. -Make your safety shoes last just as long as you possibly can :
The Committee has tried to be as fair in the issu
1. Don't let grease, grit, and dirt stay on shoes longer than is necessary. Wipe them clean. 2. When wet. let them dry slowly. If very wet. turn them soles up to dry. Don't put near a radia
ance of ration mileage as possible.
tor or stove.
We have made
mistakes, but all members of the committee wel
come any complaints or constructive criticism which will rectify these mistakes and make our ra tioning program more effective. IIere are a few things that will facilitate the re newal of P. and C books:
that date.
2. Send your tire inspection slip in with your ap plication. 3. If you want your book mailed to yon. send in your car license registration slip with your ap plication. 4. Be sure your tire inspection slip is kept up to date and signed by a registered tire inspector. Tires must be inspected as follows: A book holders every 6 months. hi book holders every 4 months. C book holders every 3 months. T book holders every 2 months. The demand for tires in I'rcsipie Isle Count}' is now greater than the ration
3. Sole leather should not br subject to any greater heat than your hand can stand. Otherwise it will harden and crack, or burn.
4. If you work in wet places, apply weekly a little viscolized oil, tallow, or beeswax, which will shed water.
1. Watch the expiration date on your book and apply for your renewal at least two weeks prior to
allowed.
Michigan
Limestone &l Chemical Company employees must <.cn<\ their applications through the Committee in order to get priorities as essential war workers. Those who in the opinion of the Committee need the tires the most will receive their ration of tires first.
Rationing is a part of our all-out war effort. This is a new departure for all of us—both as ad ministrators and receivers. We must expect mis takes. This is our war—be patient with the Ra tioning Board. The members of the various pan els put in many hours extra work to get your re
quirement issued with the least possible inconven ience to you. They receive no remuneration what soever for this work.
The personnel in the Rationing Office is follow ing regulations set up in Washington, and they cannot change these regulations. Courtesy and
consideration from you will make a hard job easier for them, and in turn will insure you better and more efficient service.
: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement,
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Your safety shoes contain two things that Lucie Sam badly needs—steel and leather. The longer you make your safety shoes last, therefore, the less steel and leather you personally will require.
5. Keep your shoes repaired.
Don't wait until
the soles are worn too thin. Don't let heels be come run down. Remember a stitch in time saves nine.
Safety shoes are on the restricted list and require a coupon for purchase. Winter Work On The Boats Since the first cold winter days of mid-January, approximately one hundred fifty men have been
working on the Bradley boats and the Barge Koebling. Most repair ami altering jobs are completed now or last approaching completion. Soon we will be hearing the whistle of lug and freighter, which we are told is music to the sailor's ear after a win
ter's lay-up. Each year it seems that this work on the boats is done with more apparent ease. However, we know that this particular group makes it seem that way because of a personal interest taken and be cause id' added experience.
We must congratulate this crew on the good job that has been done this winter.
There have been
no serious injuries. Keep up the good work. boys, you have done a good safety job so far.
The Best Of Health For Employees The best of health to Michigan Limestone em
ployees. Prom the doctors' reports coming from the recently completed health examination program Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company employ ees should enjoy general good health. We think this program must accept a lair share in the credit of our men having prospective good health. Many fellows can testify that the results of their examin ation has helped them keep a check on their phys ical well-being. Thanks, fellows, for meeting your appointments
promptly and may the few minutes spent help make your coming season a more healthful one.
Ii isn't the number of guards put on. Or the stairs with the well-kept rails; It isn't the light that they install Or the lack of rusty nails. It's true that these all help a bit. But when all's been done and said—
The thing that prevents the accidents Is the way you use your head!
Ships Used By The U. S. A.
You Must Help In Emergency
The main types of ships now in use in the United States Xavy are battleships, aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers, destroyers, submarine patrol, torpedo
( hir country is facing a manpower shortage in order to keep industry going at to]) speed. Every accident at home or on the job takes a war worker
boats and auxiliaries.
out iif the picture and we are all war workers now.
Bach of these types has its own particular mis sion. The battleships, often referred to as the back bone of the fleet, comprise the greater hitting pow
the Axis nations, there were 9.12'J killed or wounded
er of the Navy and are the most powerful vessels. although Considerably slower than some of the smaller ships. The aircraft carriers are floating air fields which are very fast. Their planes are the "eyes'* of the fleet. The heavy cruisers have the job of finding the enemy and engaging him in the initial encounter. The light cruisers are used defensively in stopping enemy raids on the fleet. They mount from ten to fifteen 6-inch guns. The
destroyers are small, fast
The submarines are useful in recon
naissance and in the torpedoing of enemy ships. Patrol torpedo ships, the newest, smallest and fast est fighting units of attacking enemy ships and for offshore duties.
The auxiliaries consist of a hos
pital ship, repair ship, oil tankers, submarine tend ers, transports and miscellaneous, all of which go into making our country's Navy.
Help To Prevent Danger Of Fires Spring is fast approaching".
Why not make a sol
emn resolution to clear out the attic, the basement
and every nook and corner which has collected rub bish over the whiter before they cause or help spread a fire? Fires in homes are always regrettable. They are pathetic, yet after they have happened they are like an accident—There is nothing" much anyone can do about them.
It is reported that last year there were 335.000 fires
in
homes in the
on the battle fronts. During the same period there were 44.500 civilian workers killed on or off the job here at home.
The. men of our plant and boats can help. Last years have shown that they take accident preven tion as an important part of their job. To carry this attitude home and into community life will
help lower the accident rate.
We are not perfect
yet, we must always he alert today so to stay on the job tomorrow.
ships and have man}'
uses, but are used chiefly in battle to screen the whole fleet.
During the first eleven months of our war against
United States, and about
15.000 people died from burns. Shall we 'Keep these home fires burning'?
Victory Is A Personal Thing Talk as we will about mechanized warfare, it's
the spirit of the men behind the guns, in the sky. on the production line, who'll win this War. Take the gallant crew of the one-ship fleet, the cruiser Boise. She helped sink six jap warships in 17 minutes. An 8-inch shell tore into her hull nine feet tin
der water. Her magazine exploded. Flames en veloped her. Iler sister ships gave her up as lost. But her men willed differently. They plugged the shell holes with bedding. They flooded the fires. And the light cruised Boise steamed out into the night to rejoin the fleet. Take any one of us. It's what we will, what we
do. each one of us. indi\ idually. for Victory that will win this War.
Whispering Winds Dangerous The unbridled tongues of unthinking; persons can cause much harm and play directly into the hands of our enemies—one of whose chief weapons of defense against us nil this side u\ the water is the shaking of our national confidence. A basic task of the Axis is to set tongues of dis
Common Sense Prevents Accidents
The many, many rules of accident-prevention can
be cited, printed, painted ami laid down ; all re solve into the application of the rules of common sense and the answer can be gotten by the strict delegation of responsibility to everyone down the line. If every individual knows that he has a part in the safe program,, he not only has a desire to play the part, but is more easily taught how to do so and will be constantly on the alert to prevent ac cidents because he feels a growing part in the pro gram.
content awagging. amuse suspicion of our war leaders and their policies, the strength of the en
emy and sell-pity for Ottr plight at being in a war. Any time we hear a tale—no matter how trivial which is against our country and its cause—let's ask the simple question—who told yon? It's a good
slogan to stop idle gossip. Welding is the newest of the major trades. While there were 75.000 well ers in 1939. there are more
than 280.000 in the United States today. Suppose they are all versed in a'l the welding safe praclicr.-.
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Faith, An Asset
The greatest asset we can have, in each other, in business or our nation, is faith.
Our forefathers who settled and built this country, those who helped it survive its darkest days and those
wini niade it prosper, were men whose confidence in the future was unshakable.
Men of courage, they dared to go forward despite ;ill pitfalls and hazards: men of vision, they always looked forward—not backward: men of faith, they pushed on to prosper and establish this country for themselves and their posterity. Christianity, the greatest institution humanity has ever known, was founded by twelve men. limited in education and limited in resources—yes. but with ;m abundance of faith and divine leadership.
in these days of turmoil, let us hold to faith—faith in that same divine leadership: faith in the powers of
Christianityj faith in our official leadership, in our armed forces and in ourselves.
The American family looks into the future with
faith, courage and an assurance that we possess the vision essential to clear thinking; the common sense needed lot wise decisions; the courage of convictions based
on
facts—not
fancies;
and
the
constructive
spirit of faith as opposed to the destructive forces of doubt which will preserve our Christian ways of life, win the war and the peace which is to follow.
CALCITE SCREENINGS PUBLISHED PERIODICALLY BY THE MICHIGAN LIMESTONE & CHEMICAL COMPANY. ROGERS CITY.
MICHIGAN.
IN
THE INTER
ESTS OF SAFETY AND WELFARE. CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE RECEIVED EARLY BEFORE DATE OF PUBLICATION. AND THEY SHOULD BEAR THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT AND SENDER AND SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. J. A. VALENTIN.
Rationing A Necessity Now A law as interpreted by Webster is a rule of ac tion established by authority. In a democracy laws are enacted by a legislative, body elected by a ma jority of the people. We do not necessarily agree with the majority but as good citizens and be lievers in the democratic principle of life, we should support that law until such times as the majority of the people will see fit to change it through Un accepted channels. Rationing is a necessary evil in lime of emer
gency.
It is an attempt to treat all men alike.
In
a nation the size of the United Stales the machin
ery necessary for such a program is unwieldy, cum bersome and oftentimes unfair. The public pays for all law enforcement and the cost of proper per sonnel to administer the rationing set-up would
be prohibitive. It is up to John Q. Public—be he Democrat or Republican—as a patriotic citizen to support these laws and make them work until such times as the majority sees fit to change them. The average citizen wants to do the right thing.
Violators, comparatively speaking, are few but they gain a lot of publicity. It is easy for all of us to slip. Don't let the Rlack Market drag you down. Believe in what we are fig-hting for and uphold our established authority.
Remember! Lives are at
stake—your life and the lives of your countrymen. In limes of stress, rumors fly thick and fast.
Whether they originate with the enemy or not they help his cause. Our armed forces are rapidly in creasing in size and their requirements are in pro
portion.
Despite reports from the highest author
ity, reason would suggest that there will be little relief from rationed products for the duration and
The Importance Of The Home Front Problems of military action and war production tend to overshadow all others in the world of to
day. Our nation is confronted with three others of major importance that relate more particularly to civilian life. First, foo<l and money . . . how to keep the nation warm, moving and \q(\ and how to tax sufficiently to prosecute the war and not ruin the nation.
meet a man or woman who felt he had to use all
It may become a little tiresome to some (we've all heard rumblings of weariness) when some of ficials (and many do) harp constantly on the theme that these home front problems, while weighty, are as nothing compared to "winning the war." What ever tlie distresses of our people, the distress of men in the service is infinitely greater—this is the theme. 11 doesn't matter what happens if we don't
the gas or food ration tickets whether he or she
win the war
probably for many months thereafter. The sensible and cautious person will make all his belongings go as far as possible by the elimination of all unnecessary use. What do we mean by un necessary use? That is the catch! Let your con
science be your guide and not desire.
Did you ever
and so on—and it's the truth.
Because what this sort of talk smokescreens is
needed them or not?
the reciprocal fact that if the home economy breaks
It's Today That Counts Andrew Carnegie early taught Charles Schwab lh.it the laurels we win only once are soon forgot
Xo one questions that if the Germans and Jap
Schwab
anese home set-up can be smashed or even suf ficiently distorted, the. offensive and defensive
once wired Carnegie. "All records broken yester day." The great Iron Master wired back. "What
power of our enemies will promptly cease to exist. It's a pretty general rule, and let's remember—we
did vou do today':"
are no exception to it.
ten, that we have to win them time and time again
in order to make a lasting impression. '
up. the war can't be won at all: the national organ ism would be all tentacles and no body.
Spring. 1943
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Review Of Our Safety Record As a matter of record this
wound. The second was an injury to l.averue Langiois deckhand on the Str. Bradley, who slipped through the hopper gate onto the conveying belt during clean-up. His injuries were painful bruises
review will tell the story of their safety accomplish ments. An accident in the machine shop was our very first of the season when Frank Richards lost part
us. We have had accidents rather early this year
of his left index finger.
and the task will be hard and long, but we can
Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company em ployees can be credited with a fine safety record for the season of 1942.
The second and final acci
dent was to Floyd Uriaub. tug linesman who lost three days lime when he suffered bruises from a fall between the tug and dock. The season was completed with just these two injuries involvingloss of time. This, while not a perfect record, is one that any group of safety-minded workers can be proud of. The Detroit Dock group continued wilh their good work and had no lost time accidents recorded
against them.
The Buffalo Plant solidly behind the accident pre vention program, finished another season without a disabling injury. To the men of the Bradley Transportation Go, goes applause for completing the season with only two lost time accidents. Harold Wagner, stokerman on the Str. Munson. lost part of his left ring finger. Albert Hoeft. wheelsman on the Str. Calcite. slipped on deck as he was leaving the ship during the last day of lay-up. The severe strain caused a fracture in a small ankle bone.
This is the complete review of the resulls in accident prevention for M. L. and C. Co. and Brad ley Transportation Co. for the 1942 season. In
view of the increase
in
industrial
accidents
throughout the United States, we are proud to have our men do just a little better than usual. With the many diversions creeping into our home, recrea tional and working hours, because of the war. safety and accident prevention can lose its place in the daily routine. To keep from having acci dents at home and mi the job will become a greater task as more of our time is taken to produce on the home front.
While the 1943 season is just starting we are go ing to have a hard fight to make a good record,
one that compares with what is usually expected
but do not appear to be serious. Many weeks of this 1943 season are ahead of
have another fine record if we "hold the line" from
now till the final day of operation. "gang" that can do il.
We have the
A Cue From Mother Nature It is hardly surprising that restlessness and desire tor changes are so deeply ingrained in man. for the
forces ol nature are themselves bent upon changing the very globe on which we live. Rivers chafe at their shores and strive to become lakes or gulfs.
There's the River I'o in Italy, piling up three-quar ters ol a square mile of delta land every year and in time sure to dam up the Adriatic Sea. which must give Venice the rating of a lake town instead of a seaport.
Mountains stretch and go walking, if we are to believe geologists, who tells us that the clotid-eapped Himalayas are still growing upward and that the Swiss Alps are inching their way in a drift from east to west. The Andes of South America. too, are believed to be lifting themselves to further heights. There are pauses, but no finalitv. There
is perfection, but perfection has an infinite variety of angles and facets. Neither sea. nor sky, nor land are ever twice the same.
In some hour of changeful caprice Nature hurl ed before us the sand duties of northwestern Indi
ana, a strange collection of leaf and limb as out of
keeping with the general lake landscape as an Arab prince would be aboard his camel on the boulevards of Chicago. But Nature had her inning! Dull or sparkling, slow or spectacularly swift. the law of the planet seems to be: Keep moving! The Great Decorator is ever changing our furnish ings and thereby stimulating the cosmic commerce. Is this a cue for the commerce of man?
from our men.
Starting with the Caleite plant, we had our first lost-time accident this year on May bSlh when Arthur Christensen. tug firemen, missed his grip on the ladder to the fire hold and fell,
lie suffer
ed bruises and was generally shaken up.. Those enthusiastic safety boosters at the Buf falo Plant saw a three-year one-month record end when one of their group lost forty-one days from a knee injury. We know that these boys are going to start right in and go for another record. With their altitude- and push they will make it too. The Detroit Dock personnel is still in the no-ac cident column. Congratulations to them ami best wishes for continued success.
Bradley Transportation has had two injuries when the injured lost time. The first was to Fdward Yallec. assistant conveyorman on the Str.
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r Freedom Is Made Of Simple Stuff From the archives of broken peace we are bring
Not An American Race?
In five generations we have produced on this
ing out old words and dusting them off for use continent a race. You think there's not an Ameri again as shining lanterns to lead us through the can race? It's funny. Here we are made up of darkness of war.
Words like freedom, justice and truth—all of them hard to define, none of them used more fre quently than freedom. You cannot say what freedom is, perhaps, in a
single sentence.
It is not necessary to define it.
It is enough to point to it. Freedom is a man lifting a gate latch at dusk,
and sitting for awhile on the porch, smoking his pipe, before he goes to bed. It is the violence of an argument outside an elec tion poll; it is the righteous anger of the pulpits. It is the warm laughter of a girl or boy at pla'y. It is the rush of a train over the continent and
the unafraid faces of people looking out the win dows.
It is all the howdys in the world, and all the hellos.
It is you trying to remember the words to The Star Spangled Banner. It is the sea breaking on wide sands somewhere and the shoulders of a mountain supporting the sky. It is the air you fill your lungs with and the dirt that is your garden. It is a man cursing all cops. It is the absence of apprehension at the sound of approaching footsteps outside your closed door. It is your hot resentment of intrigue, the tilt of your chin and the tightening of your lips sometimes. It is all the things you do and want to keep on doing. It is all the things you feel and cannot help feeling. Freedom—it is you.
The Value Of Safety Shoes The industrial laborer knows the value of safety shoes in comfort and protection to his feet. Now that footwear for the entire family is rationed some of our men are wondering how they can ob tain safety shoes that are needed for the job. The steps for getting shoes are simple: First—use the current coupon in your ration book if you still have it. Second—if you have used the. coupon and need safety shoes, apply to Lester Raymond at the Store house or to the Personnel Department at the Main Office and ask for an application blank. Third—you sign the application and tell when
you used the coupon from your ration book. Bring your old shoes in for inspection when you ask for the application. Fourth—the signed application is then taken to the local rationing office where a stamp is issued to
you so that you may purchase the safety shoes
every stock in the world, and yet you can tell an American if you see him on the streets of Berlin, or Vienna, or Paris. What is an American? An American is a fellow whose grandfather was a German forty-eighter who settled in Wisconsin and married a Swede, whose mother's father mar
ried an Englishwoman, whose son met a girl at college, whose mother was an Austrian and whose father was a Hungarian and their son in the twentieth century right now is six feet tall (we are perhaps the tallest race on earth) goes to a state college, plays football, can't speak a word of any known language except American, and is doubtful whether he ever had a grandfather. This American has several characteristics.
He
doesn't like to take orders. If you speak to him in a friendly way, he will do almost anything you ask him—inside reason. If you once get him into a war, he is a very good fighter, but he has a very low opinion of war, and, except when he is dressed up for a festival of the Elks or the American Leg ion, a pretty poor opinion of uniforms. He does n't like to commit himself to stay forever in one place. He is restless, and an inveterate traveler in his own country or elsewhere if he can afford it. He is incredibly ingenious. He can devise more way to save himself work than any other known race of human beings; that's probably why he has invented so many gadgets. He will wear himself out playing golf, or tennis, or football, but he won't walk to get to the golf links. He is enormously in ventive. This is one of the greatest races of in ventors ever produced. He was born free and he shows it by the way he acts, as he will move heav en and earth to stay that way.—From "Let the Record Speak," by Dorothy Thompson.
1 IS NO SAFER THAN HIS MOST CARELESS ACT
needed in your work.
This procedure is open to workers of our country as the government realizes the importance of com fort and protection to men on the home-front. 1633
STONE winter months
Good Maintenance And Construction Record Made Under Difficulties Once again the lime has arrived when we can look back on a tour of winter work on the Brad
ley Transportation Company boats in the lay-up basin at Calcite. and make a recapitulation of all of the work which was accomplished in three short months.
As distasteful as the subject might be. it is nec essary to mention the weather experienced this winter. Weather has always been and always will lie a great factor in boat work, due to the extent of outdoor work; but the abnormal snowfall and
low temperatures which were experienced in the months of January, bcbruary and March of this
year, made working conditions extremely difficult in sinne eases. The way the men overcame the difficulties caused by these conditions merits a
great deal of praise.
Also the presumption would
be that the grade of work done under these con
ditions would have a tendency to drop off, but all of the work accomplished in the Winter of 1943 was of the same high quality as of the past. As in previous years the work done can be pnl intu two classes:
Maintenance- and Construction.
Under maintenance can be put the usual run-ofthe-mill jolts such as boiler repair, motor over haul, miscellaneous hull work' and general con veyor repair. The construction, however, was by far the greater of the two categories and con sumed approximately three-fourths of the total man days. This item can be broken down intu two parts also; listing the Reboilering of the Steamer
John (i. Mnuson and Pittsburgh Steamship Com pany Barge Roebling in one. The new after callins on the Steamer Munson. enlargement of the after cabin mi Steamer White, sheding plates on the arches of the Steamer Taylor, and extensive
galley changes made in the Steamers Taylor and Robinson in the other.
STEAMEB CALCITE: The work on this boat
consisted mostly of the miscellaneous character.
There was the usual amount of boiler repair called for in the U. S. Inspector's report. The electrician checked and cleaned all conveyor motors. The Hull crew drove some rivets in the lank top, and did miscellaneous welding and repair jobs through out the ship.
STEAMER W. !â&#x20AC;˘. WHITE: The biggest job here was the enlarging of two of the upper cabins. These cabins formerly quartered the galley crew, but now the two porters and two assistant cooks
use one room and the conveyorman and helper uccupy the other. This change improved conditions for the handyman and wiper, who moved into the quarters vacated by the conveyorman. The Mechanical crew made smnc alterations in
the boiler room ing results from in the Winter of the addition of
which should improve the operat the new equipment installed there 19-12. These changes were mainly a flush tank for collecting the
r
CARRIERS
are gotten ready for the season during
espite an abnormal snowfall and very low temperatures By Robert H. Lucas
r
To cur left is the Bradley Transportation Company fleet in the lay-up basin prior to sailing in the spring of 1943â&#x20AC;&#x201D;all is activity once more. Center: lowering the new fire lube boiler into Barge Roebling through the
cargo hold.
At the right: a steam drum for one of the
Foster Wheeler D-type boilers just before it was low ered into place in the Str. John G. Munson. Lower left: Bay City industrial crane lowering new stack into place on Str. John G. Munson. Work of this type is hazardous and requires attention to safety standards.
condensate from the feed water heater and other
was able to find short cuts which facilitated the
drains throughout the ship: all of which is pumped
job tremendously. This installation differed from previous years in the fact that all fabrication of the steel, except
back into the feed line.
Also the continuous blow
system was altered and changed from the bottom drum to the surface.
the new stack, was done here at Calcite including
The Hull crew did a fine job in repairing the dam age to the hull on the starboard side forward. This entailed removing one plate and four frames, and replacing them after they were straightened in
all engineering and design, This fabrication was done in the C.eneral shop during the months prior to layup. By this method it was possible to install
the shop.
STEAM l-'.R JOHN <".. MUNSON:
Installing two
Foster Wheeler I). Type boilers ami necessary auxiliaries was the main object of labor here.
Removal of the old equipment started on Janu ary lilh. and the first section of the new equip ment was lifted into place on the 21st. From there on things went according to schedule and the boat sailed on April 6th.
I his job approximated very closely the instal lation done on the Steamer White the previous
winter, so by profiting from experience everybody
the
foundations
and
other
structural
forms
in
larger sections, which heretofore wasn't practical due to railroad shipments froin outside fabricating shops. The installation of new boilers necessitated the
installation of certain new auxiliary equipment. A new one hundred K.W. Terry Turbo Generator unit, a new switchboard in the engine room and new electric control board in the boiler room were
installed.
A new turbine driven centrifugal boiler
Uv(\ pump, a type which is new on the Great Lakes, was installed as the main feed pump. The ash handling system installed was eoinpara1035
blc to that on the White, but differed in the fact
that the handling is done aft of the boilers instead
ol Ior ward and also that no pumping is necessary to supply water to the ash pits or sumps. Other equipment installed was four Hoffman
Combustion Engineering Company Firite Spread er type stokers with dump grates: American Blow er Induced Draft fan driven by a forty ll.l'. motor; and two American Blower I-'.I), fans driven bv sev en and one-half H.I', motors.
Outside of the boiler job. changes were made to the living quarters. Two new cabins were con structed above the dining room. This necessitat ed the removal of the skylight in the dining room
which was replaced with paneling in the ceiling. These new cabins were occupied by three oilers and three stokermen. The cabins which previous
ly were occupied by six firemen, were done over to occupy the four galley crew members. vious porters' washbowl and the handyman the i liters was Engineer.
The pre
room was refitted with a toilet, shower ami is now occupied by ami wiper. The room vacated by taken over by the hirst Assistant
One other alteration was made to the living quar ters and that was made to the deckhands* room
forward. The location of the bathroom was chang ed and bunks relocated, which gave the men the
between Captain Xauts. Steward Coodrcau and
the office that certain changes should be made in the general layout of the galley. The changes agreed upon were the removal of the partition be tween the two pantries, and the relocation of ex isting cup beards and the construction of new ones where necessary. The ensuing result was an ar rangement that greatly increased the working
and storage space, and in general improved the working conditions in that all-important depart ment of steainboatingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Galley. All parties in terested were very much pleased with the results. The Steamer Taylor being in the coal trade and
Spending a great deal of its time at docks and in the Welland Canal, it was decided to replace Ihe stationary chaulks. fore and aft. with those of the
swivel type. These new chaulks permit the use of the mooring lines at angles which previously were not possible with the old type. Other jobs consisted of the installing of the usual number of staybolts and welding of fire cracks called for in the C S. Boiler Inspector's re ports.
The electrician examined and cleaned all
conveyor motors and cleaned the six hundred KAY. unloading turbine.
STLAMLK T. W. R( )LI \S< ).\ : The galley j.-b done .mi the Taylor was duplicated here. Other than that, the work on this boat was of the miscel
laneous character with incidental piping, electrical
use of heretofore wasted space. Another job which took very few man days to complete but improved conditions on the boat
and hull jobs taking precedence.
considerably was the installation of a moior-driven ice machine. The old ammonia system was al ways a source of trouble, and the maintenance on
pany's Large Roebling.
it was high. The new system incorporates an ice cnber in the ice box which did away with the brine tank on deck that has always required a great deal of repair. STLAMKR 15. II. TAYLOR: The principle work
done here was the extensive changes made l>> the galley, pantry and mess room and the installation of swivel chaulks fore and aft.
As it was necessary to tear up the old cement floor and replace it with red tile in the galley, pan try and mess room ; it was mutually agreed upon Edward Adrian, Herman Zinke and Ernest Bruning removing some of that thick blue ice we had last winter from the sterns of the boats in the lay-up harbor.
An unfamiliar face was in our midst this winter
in the form of the Pittsburgh Steamship Com However, before the win
ter was over this uufamiliarity passed off and she became just another boat with work to be done on her and lots of it.
This work was in the form of dismantling and removal of the old boiler and piping in the boiler room and installation of a new boiler and piping. Also the old wooden house deck was removed and
replaced with a new steel one. Seven new dead lights were installed in the cabins ami new wood
ceiling's put in. The old walls were patched where they needed it.
All of the rooms were given a
complete new paint job.
There were other mis
cellaneous jobs too, such as caulking and welding in the cargo hold, new drinking water and sani tary water tanks, and a new galley sink.
Captain Otsen and his men cooperated whole heartedly in the work that was done which was
a big factor in the good job dmie on the Large by the men at Calcite.
The Large Roebling was built at Lay City in 1898 and except for a few changes is the same as when she left the shipyard. It might be said here that for a boat forty-five years old her hull and tank top are in very good shape. Another in teresting note aboiiL the Large is that when shewas built originally, she had three masts and car ried sail td help her along in a fair wind.
The Large Roebling displaces 415 gross tons, has a 438-foot keel length with a 50-foot beam and 28-foot six-inch moulded depth. She carries a nor mal load of 8.000 tons at her maximum draft.
For
reasons of comparison our Steamer Calcite dis
sary for most of the men to ride the company
places 3.996 gross tons and has 416-foot keel length
busses.
with a 54-foot beam and a 29-foot moulded depth. She carries 7.000 tons at her maximum draft of 19 feet 11Y\ inches.
soon
Jack Anderson. Chief of the Steamer White, was again in charge of winter work and again did a splendid job. He was helped out by Xornian Hen derson who was in charge of the mechanical work: Frank Ware in charge of electrical work: Paul Mulka in charge of conveyors: Cash Sobeck in
charge of hull work: John Miller in charge of handling gang; and Charles Hoffman and his car penters. All of these names are familiar as is the fine work that they and their men do.
John Gregory and Bill Joppich did a fine job in keeping time and chasing down miscellaneous material. Vie Klee and his gang was a valuable asset on the second shift on the Steamer Munson.
It would be unjust to forget the splendid work
done by the men at the General Repair Shops. Bill Heller and his men. although the work kept mount ing and looked hopeless at times kept things mov ing and in that way helped maintain the schedule of work.
There were several familiar faces missing this winter. Namely these men are: Christian Beukema. Robert Patzer Jr.. Alvin Yilburn. Ivan Pan-
lion, Ray Grigg. and l.yle Goiiletle. Uncle Sam is their employer now. and we are certain that they are serving him as faithful!}" as they served us. We are waiting anxiously for their return. In the words of the Safety Department, "If there were any bouquets to be passed out. the men tin Bradley Transportation Winter Work would cer
tainly be the recipients.'* This is self-explanatory as is the safety record built up by the men doing the work. Safe working conditions are hard to maintain under the working conditions which ex ist on the boats in the winter time, but the rules of
safety are adhered to rigidly and each unsafe work ing condition is taken care of as it arises. A system of house cleaning was practiced again
this winter.
Each Friday afternoon the handling
gang and men from each job picked up brooms and shovels and cleaned up throughout the fleet so that each Monday morning there was no inter ruptions as to where to find all material and tools. Slowly but surely we are getting the necessary tools and equipment to do even a better job than has been done in the past. The tool supply was augmented this year with the purchase of a metal
cutting band saw, and a pipe bender which was connected to a power unit so that it eliminated seventy-five per cent of the manual labor necessary to bend pipe. Both of these machines contributed greatly in the battle against time. Also the air compressor was permanently locat ed on the eastern side of the layup basin in a brick building which .also housed new toilets and lava tories. â&#x20AC;˘
The war brought certain inconveniences to the
men at Calcite just as it has to people all over the country.
The gasoline rationing made it neces
This somewhat overtaxed the company
transportation system but these difficulties were overcome.
Another inconvenience made necessary by the
transportation problem was the one-half hour lunch period, in other years it has been the policy of the management to have a one-hour lunch period so that the men could go home and get a hot din
ner, but this year at the request of the men it was changed to a one-half hour so that they could get home earlier in the afternoon.
The change to war time was still another incon venience during the mouths of January and Feb ruary as it remained dark so long in the morning. This was overcome to some extent, however, by starting work a half hour later than in previous years.
KDIT()R*S XOTL: We think it an opportune time for our readers and those who have worked
on boat repair during the past seasons to lie re minded that this winter was the tenth season that
the Bradley boats have been repaired and main tained by Michigan Lime and Bradley Transporta tion employees. In the winter of 1934 the Strs. JOHN G. MUNSON and CALCITE were quarter ed at Cheboygan and the first boat repair crewwas organized. They were inexperienced for the most part, but learned the work rapidly and a good job was done. From the viewpoint of accident-pre
vention these men and their supervisors have done a remarkable job during the ten-year period. Losttime accidents have been almost nil.
( hie accident
led to a fatality which was the only serious one. This
record
has
not
been
done
without
effort
and study by all those on the job. To enter a newfield of work and do it safely has called for time. interest and honest effort. May the next ten
years be equally successful. A good way to relieve the monotony
any job
is to think up way to improve it. Hammering toughens good steel, but it ruins soft wood. The biggest grumblers about hard luck are usually the easy quitters. Tony Yarch and Lavern Bruder, are here shown in stalling the first layer of blanket insulation in furnaces of new boilers on
the
Steamer JOHN
G.
MUNSON.
Synthetic Rubber Natural rubber is made from latex, a fluid sub
stance, most abundantly- found in the rubber (Hevea) tree which grows in South America and on some nine million acres of rubber tree planta tions now controlled by Japan. It has been estimated that 600.000 torts of rub ber will be needed to meet our nation's 1943 re
quirements. Of this amount it is thought that 30.000 tons can be taken from the trees growing wild in the Amazon Valley; 250.000 can be sup plied from plants now making synthetic rubbers and the balance must come from our vast depleting stock piles of Par Past rubber. Because of this situation. "Synthetic. Rubber" is one of the most important industrial topics of the day, Xo one has ever made rubber exactly like. natural rubber, but chemists can
make materials
that are very similar and in some respects better than natural rubber, These are called synthetic rubbers.
The discovery of a man-made substitute for natural rubber is one of the greatest triumphs of organic chemistryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for generations it seemed a chemical impossibility. Synthetic rubber as we see it today is not the development of any one man. laboratory or nation. Over a period of seventy years important contribu tions have been made by prominent chemists in Great Britain. Prance. Germany. Russia and the United States.
As far back as 1826, the great Michael Paraday. son of an English blacksmith, showed that natural rubber was composed of five atoms of carbon and eight atoms of hydrogen, and therefore was called a hydrocarbon. Other familiar hydrocarbons are gasoline, kerosene, turpentine, lubricating and fuel oils, benzene and natural gas. Since then we have had such scientists as Grcnville Williams. G. Banchardt. Sir William Tilden,
Ostromislensky, 1638
Kondakow.
Maximoff.
Gibbons
and Hopkinson. and many others who have been or are now prominently identified with chemical
research in connection with the development of synthetic rubber.
The present method of producing most commer cial rubber involves the polymerization of emulsi fied materials in a soap solution. Hydrocarbons are a large class of materials com
posed of hydrogen and carbon atoms. Just like water is composed of hydrogen ami oxygen atoms. A molecule of any substance is merely the small est possible part or unit of that substance. It is very small. A millionth of a drop of water con tains many million molecules of water. But if you divided a drop of water smaller and smaller, the oretically you would eventually isolate the single. smallest amount of water and this would be- a mole
cule.
If you divided it still further you would find
that the molecule of water was constructed of two
atoms of the element hydrogen and one atom <>\ the element oxygen. Natural rubber is made of hydrogen and carbon and is therefore a hydrocarbon. To make synthetic rubber it is necessary to jug-
gle the atoms in petroleum or a similar material until they assume a form like rubber. Hydrocar bons for making rubber may also be obtained from carbohydrates such as molasses, potatoes, grains, and other fermentable materials. The carbohy drates are first fermented to give alcohol which is converted to hydrocarbons. Rubber hydrocarbons may also be made from
liberates acetylene, a process by which Germany now obtains synthetic, rubber. 4*he source of Butadiene naturally depends up on the supply of available raw material, the care and speed of manufacture and the availability in wartime of materials to build a plant and process materials. Much of the present program uses petroleum and alcohol.
coal and water, but so
Butadiene, however, is not rubber. The butad iene molecules once obtained must be linked to
far in the
United States
this process lias not been found practical, A key to this process is Butadiene, a hydrocar bon substance, very similar to the chief constituent of natural rubber and a part of many other hydro carbons.
Butadiene can lie obtained by the pyrolysis or the "cracking" of petroleum, the treatment of bu tane or butylene found in natural gas or refinery gas. by passing alcohol over a heated mixture of oxides of aluminum and zinc and by a series of re actions starting with acetylene. Limestone would figure in the last process as acetylene is obtained by taking lime and coke and
fusing it in a powerful electric furnace forming calcium carbide, which when treated with
water
gether in an organic chain structure. This linking together would take place by itself if the butadiene was allowed to set
for a
few
weeks untouched,
but this would be too slow for production pur poses. So another chemical is added to speed the process. This new chemical, whether it be sodium, molybdenum or some other chemical, is called a
"catalytic agent" and the process of polymeriza tion is known as catalysis.
Also to improve the
quality of the synthetic rubber other chemicals are added with water and emulsifiers and polymerized with butadiene. This is called copolymerization.
After polymerization we have a synthetic latex of the buna type described above from which syn thetic rubber can be made, by coagulation with an acid the same as natural rubber and having much the same characteristics and uses as natural rub
ber.
It can be vulcanized, compounded and mixed
with other materials.
Synthetic rubber may be more difficult to proc ess in some instances. Natural rubber is superior to synthetics in most performance characteristics, but synthetics are superior to natural rubber in resistance to most influences that cause deterior ation.
There are five common commercial types of syn thetic rubber:
Buna S appears to have been chosen for the major part of the synthetic rubber program and will be produced for the government in plants op erated by the United States Rubber Company, Firestone, Goodrich and Goodyear. Buna N type includesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Perbunan of Standard Oil (X. ].) and Firestone; llycar of llycar Uheni1639
J ical Company; Chemigum of Goodyear; Thiokal RD of Thiokal Corporation associated with Dow Chemical Company.
Neoprene developed by the du Pont Company; Butyl developed by Standard Oil (NJ.); Thiokal A, B and FA, now being developed by Dow for the Thiokal Corporation.
Many companies are now engaged or soon will be in the production of synthetic rubber for the United States Government. The program as now set up will do little more than provide rubber nec essary for our war program until late in 1944. Meanwhile there seems no indication of the pos
sibility of new tires for civilian use. We must gear ourselves to the 35 miles per hour on recapped tires repaired with salvaged rubber. Not only should- we conserve the rubber in our tires, all rubber commodities should be conserved,
repaired and made to last as long as possible. This should not only be the practice of all civilians but all companies using rubber as well.
Rubber plays an important role in the operation of the Calcite Plant as it is used in conveyor belt ing which due to its construction is particularly adapted to loads and speeds the plant requires. The belting is constructed of cotton duck with a rubber binder. It also has a top and bottom cov er of rubber.
In the plant and on the boats of the Bradley Transportation Company there are something like eight miles of this belting varying in width from 30 to 54 inches. Expert care in trimming and op erations adds greatly to the life of these belts; likewise, when they become damaged or worn in spots if these places are taken care of and vulcan ized promptly, the use of the belt can be greatly extended.
We have reproduced on these pages several pic tures showing the steps taken in belt repair. One of our larger belts has carried over 35,000,000 long tons of stone to date, and is still in operation at regular capacity. On the preceding pages are pictures demonstrat ing repair. The first picture shows the damaged top cover of conveyor belt ready for repair; the sec ond, loose cover, partially trimmed back prepara tory to vulcanizing; the third, damaged area trim med and cleaned ready for repair gum and vulcan izing; below, damaged belt after vulcanizing job is completeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ready for service. No doubt, other companies all over our nation are likewise conserving rubber by extending the life of such equipment. And so it should be with every citizen whether it be tires, boots, rubbers or a hot water bottle. It is doubtful that the public will have opportunity to purchase new rubber for For much of the technical data contained in this article we are indebted to the B. F. Goodrich Com pany.
Of all human activity, war generates the wildest Be sensibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;idle words
could swing the balance in favor of the enemy. 1640
The year of 1942 and the spring of 1943 have seen some of our older employees retired from ac tive service. The Michigan Limestone and Chem ical Company is of an age now where our em
ployees are reaching retirement ages. As time passes more and more of our men will be leaving active service because of the age limit. Dr. Neil C. Monroe, who has served as doctor
for the Calcite Plant since April 1917, retired from service on December 10, 1942. Doc's service to the
men at the plant and to people of Rogers City has been dependable, efficient and faithful.
While he
is still practicing as a physician he has ceased active duty at the plant where many of our men have learned to admire him and respect, his unus ual ability. Dr. Monroe is well known in this com
munity. He has been a man who has given his years in the service of others. It is good to re port that he is in such health that he is able to
continue on as an advisor and helper to the peo ple of our community. Although he has retired we still feel that he is yet one of our organization. Charles Fleming worked intermittently as a car penter in the Maintenance Department since 1914, and has had continuous service since November
14, 1923. Charlie has seen this plant grow from in fancy to present maturity. In fact, he has been one of the active forces in accomplishing this growth. No part of the plant has had any con struction work
but what
Charlie
didn't have
a
hand in it. He has spent considerable time in re cent years before his retirement on dock repair and construction. He retired on April 3, 1943. We are sorry to have Charlie leave us as he was a con genial chap with a sense of humor that made work ing with him a pleasure. It is with regret that we report him in not too good health. It is always our wish that those going into retirement are healthy enough to enjoy the leisure hours available to them.
As reported in the last summer issue of "Calcite
Screenings" our vice-president Joseph Penglase retired in the season of 1942. Joe is another of our retired friends wdio is able to enjoy himself now that he has time to' do as he pleases. We know that the real estate project at Grand Lake will receive the best of attention and we envy Joe his opportunity for those days of fishing and boating. James Hackett's first association with the Mich
igan Limestone Company was indirectly through Mr. William Farnham of Smethport, Pa. Mr. Farnham was our jobber for several western Pennsylvania Counties and Jim acted as his head salesman.
After Mr. Farnham's death in April, 1937, Jim
sometime to come.
and most baseless rumors.
Retiring Employees In Recent Months
was employed by this company as sales represent ative to cover the territory previously covered by Mr. Farnham. He continued in this capacity until his retirement in February of 1943. Jim will con tinue to represent the company as our local dealer at Smethport and all employees of the Buffalo Plant join in wishing him good health.
Important Features of the 1943 Amendments to Michigan's Workmen's Compensation Law Effective July 30, 1943
ITEMS
Commission
PROVISIONS OF WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW
CHANGES UNDER THE 1943 AMENDMENTS EFFECTIVE JULY 30.1943
PRIOR TO 1943 AMENDMENTS
Commissionersappointed by and serving at the pleasureof the
Commissioners appointedby the Governor forstaggered terms of six yearseachafter the first appointments.
Governor.
Coverage
Elective on the part of employers, except for compulsory cover age of public employees.
Compulsory for allestablishments employing eight ormore workers: elective for allothers. Private agricultural
and domestic laborspecifically excluded; compulsory coverage for all publicemployees. Failure to comply with compulsory feature rendersemployer liable to $10â&#x20AC;&#x201D;$100 fine or imprisonment for 30 days to 6 months
or both; each day of violation a separate offense. Compensable
Injuries
Accidental injuries arising out of and in the course of employ
Personal injuries arising out of and in the course of employment.
ment.
Industrial Diseases
Schedule of 31 specific occupational diseases.
All diseasesexcept ordinary diseasesof life to which the public is generally exposed; e.g., common colds.
Benefits
Weekly payments equal to two-thirds of the weekly wage, but
Weekly payments equal to two-thirds of the averageweekly wage,but not lessthan $10.00nor more than $21.00.
not less than 17.00 nor mora than $18.00 a week. Double pay ment to minors illegally employed. Death
Benefits
Weekly payments at regular rate to dependents. Burial pay
Double payments to minors illegally employed.
Weekly payments to dependents on the basis of the followingminimum and maximum rates fortotal dependence.
ment, $200.00. Maximum:
Minimum:
1 dependent 2 dependents 3 dependents 4 dependents 5 dependents
S3.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00
1 dependent 2 dependents
3 dependents 4 dependents 5 dependents
$19.00 21.00 23.00 25.00 27.00
Burial payment, $300.00. Duration of Benefits
Maximum of 500 weeks for total disability. In case of death 300 weeks from the date of injury.
Maximum for total disability 500 weeks; for permanent total, 750 weeks; for death, 400 weeks.
Waiting
Seven days after the onset of disability, with payment for the waiting period if the disability continues for six weeks.
Seven days after the onset of disability, with payment for the waiting period if the disability continues for four
Medical Benefits
Ninety days of hospitalization and medical care from the date
Six months of hospitalization and medical care from the date of injury, with an additional six months at the discretion of the Compensation Commission.
Method and Time of
Filing of agreement, to be approved by the Compensation Com mission, between employer and injured employee. Payment due on the fourteenth day after the injury.
Direct payment of compensation without filing of agreement or approval by the Compensation Commission. The Commission is involved only if a complaint is made on a case or if an error comes to its attention. Com pensation payable on the fourteenth day after employer has notice or knowledge of the disability or death. If an insurance company "repeatedly or unreasonably" delays payment, the commissioner of insurance shall,
Compensation for loss of the following members or designated parts paid at the regular rate for the stipulated number of
Compensation for loss of the following members or designated parts paid at the regular rate for the stipulated
Period
Payment
of injury.
weeks.
upon complaint of Commission, revoke its license if a bearing substantiates the complaint of the Commission. Specific Loss Schedule
number of weeks.
weeks.
Thumb
First finger Second finger Third finger Fourth finger
60 35 30 20 15
weeks weeks weeks weeks weeks
First joint of any of above, half the amount specified. Great too Other toe
Hand Arm
Foot
Leg Eye Definition of
weekly wage
150 200 125 175 100
injury.
Great too
30 weeks
Other toe
10 weeks
First joint of any of above, half the amount specified.
weeks weeks weeks weeks weeks
Six times the daily wage injured was earning at the time of
60 weeks
35 weeks 30 weeks 20 weeks 15 weeks
First joint of any of above, half the amount specified.
30 weeks 10 weeks
First joint of any of above, half the amount specified.
Thumb
First finger Second finger Third finger Fourth finger
Hand
200 weeks
Arm Foot
250 weeks 150 weeks
i Leg
' Eye
200weeks 150 weeks
Weekly wage earned by employee at the timeof injury, but not less than40times hishourly rate of wage or earnings. If hourly earning can not be determined, or if pay has not been designated for the work, the usual wage for similar services is to be used. In all other cases the average weekly wage is computed by dividing the
aggregate earnings during a yearprior to injuryby the number ofdaysworked andmultiplying theresult by
the number of customary work days in a week, but not less than five. Second Injury
No provision.
Fund
The lossof an eye, band, arm, or foot where sucb a member or organ had been previously lost entitles the injured employee to an aggregate of 750 weeks of compensation. The employer pays according to the specific loss
schedule, and the remaining number of weeksis paid from (he second injury fund. Such fundis financed by payment of 51,000.00 into the State Treasury by the employers of workers fatally injured but with no de
pendents. Regulation of Attorney Fees
Compensation Commission permitted to regulate fees in cases where there is a dispute between the parties.
Compensation Commission may regulate fees.
Settlements of Claims
Lump sum settlements and redemptions of liability allowed
No substantial change.
Time Limit on
No limit.
Recovery
after six months of weekly payments, subject to approval of Compensation Commission.
Compensation not payable for any period more than one year prior to the date of filingof application if payment of compensation has previously been made.
Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company has for many years elected to come under and be governed by Michigan's Workmen's Compensation Laws. The above 1943 amendments provide for some important changes. Provisions of the law as in effect prior to 1943 are in the first column. In the second column are found changes in the amendments which will be effective July 30th, 1943. Courtesy Michigan Labor and Industry, May. 1943.
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Employees Serving in the Armed Forces of our Country We Are Proud Of Our Honor Roll CALCITE PLANT—Lloyd Dullack, Kenneth Paull, Donald Conley, Iverne Pines. Eugene Kitchen, Glen Wenzel, Joseph Darga Jr., Norman Sioii, Charles Fur-
taw, Nerval Bade, Ernest Tulgeiske, Vern Pauley, Wil liam Conley, Rudolph Schalk, Wilbert Ohlrich, Bernard
Wagner Jr., Calvin Meyer, Ivan Lozen, Jack Florip, Royal Schulwitz, Bernard Urban, Ernest Adrian, Rob
ert Noffze, Lawrence Bannon, Carl J. Schaedig, Henry Hoffman. Anthony Glentz, Robert Santimo, Carl Pilar-
ski, Theodore Urban, Russell Bey, Alberl Slricker, ClayIon Hopp, Elmer Brege and Robert Ferdelman.
BRADLEY BOATS—Marlow Perdike, Adolph Wolgasi, Howard Elowsky, Lawrence Haselhuhn, Gordon
Jaeger, Benedict Kowalski, Robert Trapp, Edward Langlois, Theophilus Pilarski, E. Bruce McLennan, Edward
Green, Thomas Derry, Clifton Daly, Edward Wasylk, rzynski, Richard Santimo, Edmund Jackson, Leo Hilla,
Lyle Goulette, Jack Berg, Julian Kowalski, Theodore Rose, Don Andrew MacLean, Gerald Greengtski, Ar thur Bey, Wallace Dagner, Peter Kowalski, Henry Mod•
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As time goes on more of our employees are be ing absorbed into the armed forces of our coun try, men who have served the company in every phase of its operation. We have seen them leave their jobs to fight in battle—determined that no enemy will continue to menace their jobs and ways of living. About 150 of our plant and boat men are imw a part ol the nation's martial power. They are rep resented in every branch of service and in many ranks. They arc serving both on home and for eign soil—on the field and in offices.
We proudly remember them and dedicate these pages for a record of their achievements. LeRoy Warwick has been in the service since
July, 1942, and is at present stationed in Texas. I.eRov worked in the General Repair Shop on a drill press and bolt machine before he was induct ed. He has two brothers working at the plant who are doing a splendid job of serving on the homefront. Picture upper left is Roy. Thomas Derry. deckhand on the Str. II. II. TAY LOR before he enlisted with the U. S. Marines, is
now seeing active duty.
Kenneth Tulgeiske, Erhardt Grambau, Frank Filipiak, Ferd Limberg, Ralph Patzer and Elmer Wenzel Jr.
Picture upper right.
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Howard
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Hoffman.
Norman
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Pardieke,
Marlow
Pardieke. Robert Trapp, Harry Montych. Donald Pearse. Robert Patzer. George Glosser. Isadore Pines. Lloyd Dullack and Glen Wenzel. On November 21. 1942, Marlow Perdike. a mem ber of the crew of the Str. T. W. ROBINSON, en
tered the service of our country in a SeaBee Unit. From the induction station in Detroit. "Mutts."
as he is known to most of us, was sent to Camp Allen in Norfolk, Virginia, where he was issued his clothing. Mutts described it as being a sort of production line technique—enter one door in civ ilian clothes and emerge through another door complete with uniform, medical examination
and a new haircut there to be greeted by buddies with the familiar "Hey, Mack, where you from?" Mutts worked in the galley on the Str. ROIiIXSON so it was to be expected that his services would be so employed while with Uncle Sam. It was interesting to learn from him how food
is actually prepared in such enormous quantities so that these fighting men are well \v<\.
Marlow
tells of mixing food in twelve steam-heated cop pers (capacity 80 gallons each)
with row boat
Some promotions made in recent months were— Don Pearse to Ensign. Pat Patterson to 2nd Lieu
oars. Of course, he praises the manner in which the cooks work, and we presume there are many cooks. The old story—many cooks spoil the broth
tenant, Herman Steinke to 1st Lieutenant. Howard
—doesn't hold true here when we learn that it takes
Goetsch to 2nd Lieutenant, Chris Beukema to Cap tain. George Cook to Captain. Paul Felax to Tech. Sgt.. Helmuth Schultz Jr. to S. Sgt.. Arthur Sautini to Cpl. Tech. and Ivan Bannon to S. Sgt.
three cooks to make a batch of gravy. It would take about a bushel of coupons for meat alone in a day when two tons of meat are consumed at one meal.
navy are—Donald Conley. Ilelinuth Schultz Jr.. Howard Goetsch. Lawrence Haselhuhn. Henry Fleming. Dale Farero. Thomas Derry. William Ro-
This was part of the training Marlow received at Camps Allen and Bradford from which places he was transferred to Cam]) Holliday. Miss., and subsequently shipped out for overseas duty.
barge, Orval Poch. Robert Zemple, Elmer Schadig.
Just the other day we received a letter from him
Some of tin- employees now overseas or in the
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and publish excerpts from it for the benefit ol his Those Who Have Passed Away many friends and shipmates—
To friends and employ
" " . . 1 gave my sea bag and locker a cleaning ees of Michigan Lime today which it needed very much and 1 came across stone and Chemical Com an old copy of "Calcite Screenings" that Pve had pany and Bradley Trans since my boot camp days. It brought back old portation Company the memories of my happy civilian life and I wished sudden death of Erwin that I could have kept it. I have found it neces Joppich on December 27, sary to discard all excess baggage—even all but 1942. was a sad blow. Lr a few of my most important letters have been tossed win had close to thirty away with a feeling of reluctance as they are years' service at Michi
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things that we treasure out here and read many times. So also "Screenings" had to go the way
of all good things and make room for other things which I must keep, but before throwing it away
gan Lime and his contacts through the years earne( him many friends, lie
was very active in affairs I took the time to clip out various pictures that I of his church, the Rogers City Band, and was a wanted to save. There was a picture of my broth member of the Village Council. He will be great er and cousin when they went away to fight for ly missed in the community and the friends at the this glorious country of ours, also a picture of my father and L'nclc Bob holding the Minute Man
flag. There were various pictures of shipmates, classmates, friends, and some of the gang that 1
used to play football with, all having taken up the bigger game to preserve for our posterity the free dom which we enjoyed so much in our younger
days. I'm saving them all to put in a scrap book I
plant and boats will miss his cheery smile and ever-willing efforts to give the best of service.
Julia Selke. sister of Alex Selke of the Sir. W. F. WHITE, John Selke of the Str. B. II. TAYLOR.
James Selke of the Str. CALCITE. and Louis Sel ke Jr. of the Shop, passed away on January 5. 1943.
when that happy day comes that I may return home again, and I'm sure that they shall be a joy and
William Sorgenfrei. who is the father of Adolph Sorgenfrei. Mill Shift Foreman, passed away on
comfort in the future days to come.
March 5. 1943.
"I have also saved a picture of the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY which I shall paste upon my locker with the note of carrying over a million tons of stone last year and having traveled twice the dis
Quarry Department, died March 9. 1943.
tance around the world . . .
Witkowski, died March 7. 1943.
"There are very few cooks who couldn't tell a fair story about Rogers City. The new men who are striking for cooks' rates haven't had time to hear the story yet but I will have them well school ed in time. One of the reasons why 1 receive an attentive audience is because the SeaBees are land-
going sailors who can boast of little except ol a sailor's uniform, which by all means is the best there is as far as military service is concerned. It may not be as dressy as some others, but it is by far the most comfortable and is very highly re spected wherever we go. The men who have pre ceded us have built a reputation;, and come hell and higfa
water
we
shall
not
let
that
reputation
down . . .
'" . . . My mates are interested in learning which is port and what for'd means and when anything comes up concerning ships I am the one to be consulted.
Although 1 may make some sur
prising statements they are always ready to be lieve . . .
"I shall write again in the near future and tell
something about the island—what the censor does n't cut out, which isn't very much."
When you see a man speeding down the street,
Herman Fisher, brother of Paul Fisher of the
Martha Witkowski. the infant daughter of Prank
On March 26, 1943. Rhinold Froelich Sr. passed away, lie was the father of Rhinold Froelich of the Maintenance & Car Repair Department. Another sudden death in our community was
that of Herbert Campbell who died on March 31. 1943. while working at the Calcite Plant.
Mr.
Campbell was an employee of this company since July, 1918. and since 1924 was a locomotive engin eer.
Death was the result of a heart condition.
Mr. Adrian Brackinreed died on April 25, 1943. from a heart attack.
Mi. Brackinreed worked in
the Mill Department until the end of the 1941 op erating season. He did not return to work last season because of poor health. He was a veteran
of the Spanish-American War. and had been an employee of the Calcite Plant since 1918. Harold, son of Adolph Gruelke of the Drilling
Department, was accidentally killed on May Id. 1943.
Pvt. Russell I'.runing. who was an employee ol
the Drilling Department until his induction in the armed forces early in March. 1943, passed away on
6th. Death'was the result of complications he's probably anxious to have his accident and get May following pneumonia. Russell was the son of John
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it over with.
There is no better safeguard than a man's own mind—if he keeps it on his work.
and brother of Erhardt, Elmer and Kenneth.
Our sincere sympathy to those bereaved. 1643
Front Row (lefl lo righl): Paul L. Mulka, Alonzo All,
John Belusar, Charles Baker, Albert Hopp, Howard War wick, Theodore Perdike and Leo Smith.
Back Row:
Frank Lamp, Julius Zempel, Frank Mayes. Trofim Polohniuk, Claude Powers, John Smolinski, Sr., Edward Buza and Emil Erickson.
Honor A Seventh Annual Class For Quarter Century Of Faithful Company Service Seventeen of Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company's employees and two men from the Brad
ley Transportation Company were taken into the select group of those having served twenty-five years or more in either organization.
This group
was the seventh annual class which has been so
end of the conflict. We on the home front can do many little things which will contribute to our
victory and the men at this meeting were deter mined that the workmen at Michigan Lime would
direct their efforts toward supplying materials, money for bonds and make any sacrifice our gov
honored and presented with medals for their quar
ernmental leaders call for.
ter century of faithful service. A total of ninetyone men have reached twenty-five years of service
Ilighlights of the evening were many. Roy Flewelling with his accordion and orchestra proved as
with Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company.
popular as ever.
Some of our employees now
parted from this life. The Five men from Bradley Transportation Company who have served twenty-
in the armed services were home on furlough and were on hand lo give a military atmosphere to the Occasion. They told us something about army life
five years are still in active service. The evening of January twenty-third
and that we all have important jobs to do whether
Of these, five have now retired and three have, de
at the
Westminster Church was the scene of festivities
when the newcomers in the twenty-five year class were
welcomed.
\<j.(\ and entertained. About
one
hundred twenty-five men from the plant ami boats attended the banquet. As in other years a very good dinner was prepared which everybody enjoyed thoroughly. One aim of the banquet committee is to see that everyone is well icd.
With the world
food problem before us any like gathering in the
future might not see such quantity, quality and variety of food as was given the boys this evening. This was an evening of festivity with the activ ities and entertainment very informal. However, the fact that we are a nation at war, and a verv
hard, lough, serious war. reflected on the spirit of the evening.
Many of tin- men have sons in the
country's military services, the war comes close to home because of this. It was the natural trend
ol the evening lor thL group of men to question themselves on what they could do to hasten the 1644
we are in service uniform or overalls.
Movies in technicolor of the Calcite plant opera tions, some news and comedy pictures were shown to complete the entertainment for the evening. The
pictures of the plant were especially interesting. Thoruley and his assistant blew up a few flash bulbs making us believe they were taking pictures, hut you do not see any pictures in "Screenings." Guess the cigar smoke was too thick for the camera. The
cooks served Joe Valentin a special turkey dish but kind-hearted Joe gave it to a half-starved neighbor.
Mr. Clymer presented the new twenty-five year boys with their silver medals and congratulated each one on the outstanding contribution each had
given during his many years of work.
He stated
that such men as represented this group were the backbone of our country's industry—men with ex perience—men who will meet responsibility.
We all hope that once again we will have just such an evening—music, song, decorations, turkey —yes. even the cigar smoke. Mr. Photographer!
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Marine School is most helpful for men who follow the sea
Front Row (left to right): Leopold Mulka, John Claus, Henry Newhouse, Chief Urdal, LeRoy Heller, Merlin Perdike. Center Row: Wil liam Budnick, Alvis Radka, Roland
Tulgetske, Stanley Bellmore, Adolph Lietzow.
Back Row: Albert Fuhr-
man, Robert Monroe, Carl Altman,
Walter Tulgeiske, Harry Bey, Bern ard Darga, Ernest Adrian, Harold Repke.
Men who follow the sea become more and more
specialized as time goes on.
Personal qualifica
tions and ability to perform work according to mar itime regulations are such that the sailor is no longer just some strong-armed chap waiting around the docks looking for a job. but a man possessed of certain abilities and qualifications as the law of the land requires. Under these circumstances sailors now add to their practical experiences by taking classroom work.
ulated on the success of this program and for their efforts and interest.
Following the grand showing that First Mate Mark llaswell and his 1942 class of Deck Dept. men
made, the same type of course was offered this past winter. Capts. Donald Xauls and Russell Lamb were the instructors, livening classes were held three times a week to start with, and two weeks prior to the men writing for their licenses the class was held for eight hours each day. Five men were enrolled.
With requirements of law becoming increasing ly strict, the need of more men who can meet the tests is felt by transportation companies on the
Those qualified by experience to take the test giv
Great Lakes. In the winter of 1942, Chief Engin eer Arthur Urdal of the Str. John G. Munson con ducted a class for oilers, firemen and stokermen
a First Class Pilot License—All Tons.
so that they could either prepare themselves to write for an engineers' license or to become more efficient at their work.
The class was so well re
ceived and the results so good that the idea was enlarged this past winter. Chief Urdal with the help of Asst. ling. Harold Xidy. conducted classes for a three-weeks period. Ten men enrolled in the course and met for eight
hours each day. They covered all the prescribed courses of study as used by the Lake Carriers' As sociation Marine School.
Men receiving Second Asst. Engineers' license for all horsepower were—John Bredow. John Claus,
en by the Marine Inspectors were Elmer Fleming, Henry Kaminski and Martin Joppich. who received
Something new this winter for men of the Brad ley boat- was a class for those getting Able Sea man certificates. Capt. Lamb gave instruction on the phases of sailing with which a good seaman should be acquainted. Four men of this class re ceived Able Seaman certificates.
The men making this advancement and progress are to be congratulated. The instructors are
proud of these fellows when they make good in their work- and examinations. All who took part in this successful program have the best wishes and sincere thanks from the management of liradley Transportation Company. As a personal note to you boys—you have now made a sucess.
This new success carries much re
Leopold Mulka. Robert Monroe, Henry Xewhousc,
sponsibility.
You are now branded as a leader
and Merlin I'ardike. Donald Lamp, who attended school in Marine City, also received a Second Asst.
among your fellow workers and this will be a big
part of your job. to lead them in doing work that
Engineers' license.
you and your group will be proud to call your
Immediately following the advanced classes lor those writing for a license, the instructors tutored a class of eleven on two nights per week. These
portation problem. With your increased knowledge you now have the opportunity to be of more value
own.
We are at war—you have to help the trans
men are interested in writing for engineers' papers
to your country's war effort.
in the future and gained considerable knowledge at the evening classes which will be of help when the
now in the armed forces.
the advanced course is given. The students and instructors are to be congrat
Help your "buddies"
You have been successful in your first trial, your second chance is here. Are you going to be the leader and man that is now expected of you? 1645
War Bonds For Post War Economy By E. Strieker Some of the most criticized actions of the gov erning powers today are the steps they are taking for restoration to peacetime economy and the plan ning of world-wide trade.
merce.
Committees composed of industrialists, agricul turists, scientists, professors and even politicians have been set up both here and abroad for gather ing data and working out some practical solutions to these weighty matters. The ultimate results of their efforts will have
far-reaching effect on the lives of all if accepted by the combined agencies of the United Nations. It is therefore essential that definite measures be
adopted to safeguard and to plan for the future of America and our allies that will be sane and just. The problem we wish to discuss here is the stabili zation of currency, national and international, dur ing the postwar period. There isn't a great deal that can be said with any degree of accuracy about the progress of this plan as no program ever presented has been sat isfactorily received. However, the general trend of our own committee is to establish the currency for international usage on a gold standard basis. It might be well to recall that back in 1933, when our country went off the gold standard it was done so to lower the value of the dollar in terms of other currencies. This of course resulted in rid
ding ourselves of surplus goods to other countries and discouraging imports. If this program had been allowed to continue, perhaps eventually we would have eliminated a national debt and would
have had funds to increase American industry and improve living conditions. We would have mon opolized world trade. Such vision could scarcely become a reality as there were other nations just as zealous to "cut in" and expand their own com merce. Germany, for one, perfected this plan dur ing the period of building and preparing for war. It is for the prevention of this danger that the committees are striving, and a stable currency is believed the answer to dominant trade systemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; this stability to be made possible through a gen eral world clearing house for evaluation and ex change of currencies of various nations. How will they valuate the currency of these countries for international trade and payment of debts? Much, of course, depends on what will be used as a standard. If gold were the accepted standard to what extent each nation would con tribute to this central control would have to be
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that the stabilization plan based entirely upon gold would not seem advisable.
The problems confronting our country and our allies today are not just the winning of this war, but the preparation of sound programs for re building nations, reconverting industries, stabiliz ing currency and regulating international com
agreed upon between all participants.
ing that the United States owns about 80% of
the world's gold supply there is little doubt but
Consider
It is certain however that the economic stability of the individual nations will play a major part in any final settlement of international trade and currency policies, and it is with this that we should presently concern ourselves. We have heard much talk of inflation since the outbreak of this war, and have felt a bit of anti-in
flation measures through ceiling prices, wage freezing and increased taxation.
And we learn
from economists that despite steps already taken, dangerous inflation is looming ahead of us. There fore, they imply that harsher measures be made
effective to control the increasing inflationary dan gers unless the purchasing power of American workers is diverted to War Bonds, or other in
vestments for furtherance of the war program, except that part that is actually needed for living expenses.
This action would affect the war program to the extent that all consumption of goods would direct ly aid the war effort and would eliminate the un necessary spending for scarce commodities thus keeping down prices.
There is no security that we will be able to pur chase the same amount of goods for our money during the postwar era that we might still be able to purchase today. However, the only means we
have of assuring ourselves of moderate prices diretly after the war is by planning and preparing now.
The United States Treasury Department is tak
ing an active part in the checking of inflation by pushing the sale of War Bonds through payroll de ductions. On Tune 15th the Treasury Department is beginning a new campaign and quotas will be fixed for each firm participating in the drive, which in no case will be less than 10% of the gross pay roll. It is rumored that new bond quotas will reach 20% of nation's payrolls before the end of this year.
A second nation-wide War Bond Drive will like
ly be scheduled for Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for at least thedouble-of-regular bond sales. Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company and
Bradley Transportation Company employees are to be congratulated on the splendid showing they have made in the April Drive, and they will be de pended upon to make the next big drive another success.
When the seriousness of inflation is fully real ized, we can expect definite action from the work ing force to control this problem and avoid serious repercussions during the postwar period.
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Dumping foreign material which has been taken from future quarriable surfaces, a major part of winter quarry work.
Covering The Winter's Operations They say a great public servant is never appre ciated until he is dead and gone, then posterity can evaluate his worth from the proper perspective. We think this is true of winter Operations in the
plant, particularly after a winter like we have just experienced. Now that the snow, wind and zero weather are
a thing of the past, one can look back with profit and pleasure on a job which may not have always
been pleasant but which has been completed suc cessfully with a comparative minimum of delay and accident.
Stripping—the process of removing foreign ma terials from the top ol the limestone in the quarry— started January 11. and was completed on March 12. High winds and extreme cold caused a shut down from January 19 to January 22, inclusive. During the rest of this period winter work pro ceeded without let-up on a three-shift basis.
The oustanding job performed in the quarry was the construction of a railroad over the f;rst cut
made by Xo. 1 shovel when she entered the quar ry in 19.30. This section of the quarry has not been worked for years. Xo. 1 and Xo. 9 shovels strip ped this section nearly to the Detroit and Mack inaw Railway tracks and are now loading trains
boat managed to get through the ice for a cargo. In spite of extremely bad weather and hazard ous conditions of
ice and
snow,
there
were no
major accidents to men or equipment during the winter work. This speaks well for the safety habits of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Com pany employees. Such a record is exceptionally good when we consider the fact that due to the war many new men were working with the vari
ous crews during this winter's operations.
Applicant; "Sir. I have neither paper nor pencil!" Officer: "What would you think of a soldier who went to battle without rifle or ammunition?"
Applicant* "I would think he was an officer, sir."
Your War Budget The family budget must now be put on a war basis. There is lie) quicker way of getting into the
fight than by changing your habits of spending and saving. Don't sit back and wait to be taxed.
Taxes alone
S. Steel freighters are so long
will not pay for the war. and too. you may get a jolt. Taxes, in fact, cover less than half of what it costs to fight—and win—a war these days. Here are two ways in which you can help "foot the bill": First, you should save your money and invest reg ularly each payday in war bonds and stamps. Rut it to work in the service of freedom. Right now a war bond is your weapon for beating Hitler as well as your security for the future. Second, save to pay your taxes. The policy of
that they have been unable to load on the fines
pay-as-you-go is sound in war times as always and
side because of lack of space between the fines
war means higher taxes. Don't let tax day find you Unprepared. Rut aside part of each pay check
in that section.
The regular overhaul and repair of the Mill and
equipment was performed with the usual care and dispatch in spite of the extra work. Some of the U
shuttle and the end of the slip.
Last winter the above difficulty was rectified
toward income tax. The Treasury Department has
feet which required a large crew of men and con
offered Tax Anticipation Notes to help you save. and pay a small rate of interest for use of your money. You can buy notes at any time and use them
siderable time, but was ready to go when the first
to pay your income tax.
by extending the fines loading shuttle 36 feet. This entailed the lengthening of F-13 by some 30
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News Items From The Buffalo Plant Along With News Stories Of Interest To Us Once again, for the third successive year, our safety banquet was held in the main dining room of the Hotel Lackawanna on January 23, at 8:00 p. m. The employees turned out with flying colors, boasting a 100 per cent attendance and also a 100 per cent grand time. The dinner marked our third consecutive year without a lost time accident.
It was a happy occasion for all to see Mr. "Pat"
Patriarche, our retired accountant. He gave a very pleasant talk and was really happy to be with his old friends, and expressed his sincere desire to at tend all future safety banquets. The guest speaker of the evening was Mr. Lau rence of the U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company who talked on "safety" and congratulated us on our splendid and flawless three-year record. Oth er speakers were Miss Grace Frary, Traffic Man ager for the past 23 years and Leon Rathbun. of the Sales Dept. Mr. Rose, our plant superintend ent also thanked us for our splendid co-operation
By Our Plant Reporter Roy Taylor, the oldest employee of Stone-Mix is doing a fine job as fleet superintendent and has also taken over much of Bob Davenport's work. Keep it up, Roy, and lots of luck to you.
We are all wondering why Lee Lekan spends most of her lunch hour embroidering, crocheting or what have you.
Lee says she's a 100% man-
hater but you never can tell, can you, Lee? Keep hoping "Miss Priority." Bob Collins and Del Bryant, two new men in our
loading crew, have done quite a bit of boxing, both pro and amateur. If they fight as well as they work down here at Michigan Limestone, then Joe Louis, look out!
Stanley Lis was promoted to Loading Foreman on January 1 and is doing au outstanding job with the influx of new employees, due to draft.
Stan
ley has blended the new men into smooth-working
and urged us to keep up the fine work.
units in record time.
After the speeches, Mr. Mintz, manager of our Buffalo Plant congratulated us on our third noaccident year and expressed 'his hopes that we keep going to the fourth year.
"Murphy" Rychnowski, when asked why he didn't get his wife into a defense plant, replied, "She is too busy raising an army." (He has three to
We were entertained by an excellent accordion
player, with tunes old and new for our singing and dancing pleasure. When the evening ended, we all agreed that our third safety banquet was the best
contribute when they grow up.) Ralph Stoddard, John Kunik, Phil Richards and
Alex Kruszka did an outstanding job with our re claiming operation this past winter, considering the severe weather and the under-sized stone. This
ever.
Everyone misses Bill Collins our A-l locomotive engineer, but the one who misses him most is his "baby"—No. 13—locomotive. Bill broke his knee February 18, but expects to be back soon. We all
work is hazardous and was accomplished without accident or damage to equipment. Eugene Hill went Six Rounds with William
want you back, Bill, so hurry up and get well.
West's idea on payday night, and was still stag gering the following morning.
Early in January, Mr. I. L. Clymer visited us and stayed for a few days to inspect the mill. We en joyed his stay and are looking forward to the hon or of having him here with us again.
and he is all that is left since Uncle Sam started
Wedding bells sounded last October 17, for the former Rita Spittler, now Mrs. Robert Hertle. Her
Mr. R. C. Stanbrook was a plant visitor Febru ary 28 and the boys were all glad to see him and hope to have him with us real soon again.
husband Bob is a corporal in the U. S. Army and is stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga. Best of luck, Rita—and all the happiness in the world.
The Stone-Mix Corp., recently gave up two of its key employees to Uncle Sam. Bob Davenport, for merly their sales supervisor, is now serving in the ground crew of the Air Corps in Atlantic City. Carlton Mack, formerly their dispatcher, is now an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces at Atlantic City.
Best of luck fellows.
Woe to Eugene Hill one of our newest car load ers. Eugene has his troubles with his "wimmin."
So far he has tried to gain ground with three of them but Bill West and Charlie Ruff had him stop ped every time. . It's O.K. Hill—your day will soon come.
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William Sero is the Old Man of the loading crew taking them.
Johnny Kowalski moved four times in one year and it was one tough job to locate him. However, he has bought a home, thank heavens!
William Stephany got through another winter with B.V.D.'s and he says he could live at the North Pole without long underwear, and we believe it.
Mickey Scanlon should be charged just half fare for riding the station wagon—he goes just "half way home."
Welcome to our midst—Mrs. Schneider, Stone Mix's bookkeeper. We understand from Paul
Brehm that you're doing fine and are filling the shoes of your predecessor very well. and we are glad to have you with us.
Good luck
Our "no lost time accident" record was broken on
Congratulations are in order for Stone-Mix who
February 18th. after extending over a period of three years. 1 month and 17 days, when our Loco motive Engineer, William Collins, fractured his
just received a Federal Housing Contract for the
right leg.
Bill is one of our oldest employees and will com plete 25 years service with our company in July. Me practices safety and considers the safety of other employees, which has been one of the im portant phases of our record. Bill Collins was entering a railroad box-car by gripping the door frame with left hand for support and placing his left knee on the car floor. He was in the act of bringing his right leg into the car so that he would have been in a kneeling position prior to resuming an upright position in the car. As the weight of his body was transferred to his
right leg. the fracture occurred.
Bill worked un
til 5 p. m. that day. and at 9 p. m. an x-ray dis closed the injury. Bill made a spirited effort to have the doctor permit him to return the following day but was advised that our Safety Record was
secondary to the possibility of his receiving a per manent injury due to his returning too soon. We of the Ruffalo Riant do not consider this ac
cident the end of our "no lost time" safely record, but the beginning of a better record. Johnny Collins' new cabinet was designed to such
Willert Park Extension. Shipments are well ahead of last year's and practically all of the concrete out put is going into war production construction work. Nice work, boys! With Our Boys In The Armed Forces We just received a card from M. Gorman, Buf falo's first draftee—Mickey is stationed at San Fernan
do, Cab. and was just pro moted to a technical corpor al.
Xice going. Mick.
Wally Kowalski is serving in the Supply Squadron at Charleston. S. C. Wally is now a Corporal in the Ground
Crew
of
the
Air
Corps and is doing fine. Jim (rorman was home on leave last January and was on his way to a Naval Train
Pfc.
Kenneth Board
ing School in California. Jim has already complet ed one course in gunnery in Illinois and is going on for further training along that line—Good luck. Jim!
Harold Kroff and Bob Stephany are the most re
close tolerance that a portion of the office roof had
cent draftees of our men.
to be lifted before they could get it inside.
tioned in Massachusetts and Private Bob is station
Private Harold is sta
ed in Indiana.
Joseph Caruaua. our shipping clerk, was given a farewell party by the office force at "Charlie's" and was presented with a pen and pencil set. whieh was well deserved. He did everything but put "make up" on the office girls, and we will all miss him very much. But then he is getting one of those khaki suits free of charge and it's for a good cause. se> he has something to be thankful for. The "Cal cite Screenings" will naxtd a new RulTalo Riant
Kenny Roard was just promoted to private first class in the M.P. Division at Missouri. Along with liis promotion, he has become the father of a bouncing baby boy. Congratulations, Ken! Joe Greer was graduated from Officcr>' Train
ing School January 2. and is now a Second Lieu tenant in the annv stationed at Cam]) Livingston. I .a.
Editor.
We hear that Holly
wood scouts are on the J" lookout
for
Bob "Bar
ney" Hagin who was I seen doing a polka with the dust mop one morn ing at 6 a. m. The radio
Ensign I.. II. Rathbun. Jr.. son of Leon Rath bun. Sr.. one of our salesmen, was home on a 3()-day lurloiigh in January, after seeing active duty un der the Pacific Fleet. Ensign Rathbun will report to Seattle. Wash., for further orders.
Our deepest sympathies go to Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
in the office was on full- 3^1
blast and sure enough «^
Leod. whose son. Sergeant Norm, was killed in an automobile accident near Camp Tyson. Tenn. Ev eryone was deeply grieved to hear the news for
there was Bob hopping j.
Norm was a favorite of everyone in the office and
all over the flood
the plant.
with
=»
the dust mop—keeping time with the polka. ':
I.ook out Bob — the j scouts will tret you vet.
Strafino Toinani has successfully completed his bask training at Parris Island.
medal. Congratulations!
An
Fines is now a full-
fledged Marine and already has a sharpshooter Keep it up. Pino.
Incidentally his younger
brother. Louis, left for the Marines March 23rd.
8 lb. 2 oz. baby boy was "
Florence Laughlin (left)— Lee Lekan (right). born to Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kruszka. Mother and son are both fine and
Joe Giarritano was promoted to a private first class in the Radio Division in tin- .Army at Wis
we are all waiting for those cigars, "Pa-Pa."
consin.
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Walter Pilarski
CARPENTER SHOP
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Chas. Hoffman
DRILLS
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Thomas Kelley John Dembny
ELECTRICAL CREWS MACHINE SHOP MILL
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Frank Reinke
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Adolph Sorgenfrei Anthony Mulka
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POWER HOUSE SHOVELS
William Heller
George C. Wing
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Leon Ruell
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SHOVELS
Fred LaLonde
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TRACKS
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John Modrzynski
TRACKS
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Peter Giovangorio
TRANSPORTATION
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Victor Koch
TRANSPORTATION
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C. C. Eldridge Otto Zempel
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E.B.Metzen
Capt. C. R. McQuinn
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Chief Guy LaBounty Capt. C. A. Thorsen Chief Arthur Urdal
STR. W. F. WHITE
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Capt. M. R. MacLean Chief J. A. Anderson
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Our Boys are prize possessions of the com munity in which they live By Rev. S. J. Francis
Beyond question we all agree that one of the
prize possessions of a community is its boys. Sure ly no one would presume to put a value on them
for thev are priceless, at least to those who own. them. Let us hope that it is the deep desire of all parents to equip and prepare their sons to stand over against life with a fair measure ol credit and honor.
In the early years of a boy's development the
home provides the main influences that mould his character and form his habits.
However, it is not
long before he conies within the orbit of outside
forces, powerful and different, perhaps, that leave
their mark upon his mind and heart. Parents who are deeply concerned about the character of their sons, and they all should be for it is the foundation of society, should eagerly invile the aid of all organizations and movements that will aid their boys in following the way that
leads to citizenship of honor and integrity. There are many such agencies operating in various com munities'but none has a more appealing and more effective program and none is doing a better char acter-building job than the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting is a world-wide brotherhood among the boys of all nations. The sun never sets on the uniform of the Boy Scouts of the world. Scout ing is an international, spiritual democracy based on comradery and friendship and mutual respect among the boys of all nations. Thus it prepares a citizenship that can help to build a world of
genius in devising situations that test a boy's self-reliance and give full leadership.
These two
Perhaps one of the greatest benefits of Scout ing is derived from the intimate association of boys with men of high quality and sterling char acter, who will set Up in the picture gallery of the boy's mind, an ideal of the man he ought to
aspects of the Scout Program are so evenly bal anced and so nicely adjusted as to make them wellnigh pedagogically perfect. The entire organiza tion is a machine capable of working wonders, not only in moral regeneration of the American boy. but also in fitting him to assume the duties of an
be.
American citizen."
understanding and good will.
If the individual the Scout knows and admires
as Scoutmaster is a true-blue, upright. Fed-blood
ed man. who accepts without compromise every
Inasmuch as character development is the real
objective of the Roy Scout Movement what bet ter atmosphere can be provided for Scouting than
responsibility in life, and who gives due emphasis to high moral and social relations by au example a Church and what better leadership than Christhat is above reproach, the boy following in his lion laymen. Housing the Scout Troop in the footsteps will have no regrets for the outcome of church affords another medium through which a boy's interests become centered in the church.
his own life.
One of the best statements, describing the pur
pose and the possibilities of the Seoul Program, is
Thus he finds within
thai
institution,
through
Scouting, good fellowship and character guidance.
stated by Dean James E. Russell of Teachers Col Therefore, he is quite apt to become a permanent lege. Columbia University, as follows: "The Scout part of the life of the church, when he has grown
Program is essentially moral training for the sake beyond the age of Seoul Troops.
of efficient citizenship. It gives definite embodi ment to the ideals of the school, and supplements
the efforts of home and church.
It works adroitly,
It would be a wonderful opportunity for the
boys of this area if the various churches would organize and operate a Roy Seoul Troop.
Such
bv a thousand specific habits, to anchor a boy to a" movement would provide activities through modes of right living as securely as il held by which our boys would gain a lot of useful informa chains ol" steel: but best of all. it exhibits positive tion and, by doing the things they enjoy, acquire 1651
the habits and attitudes that are the basis for a strong and dependable character.
Just recently the Kiwanis Club endorsed the
Joe Chrzan—Short but accurate.
Bob Crittendon—Plenty of static if he don't get the breaks all the time.
Boy Scout Program because the men saw its pos sibilities for the boys of Rogers City and the sur rounding area. They have pledged themselves to
to his average.
encourage this movement and to assist in the or
like he used to on the "Old 18" locomotive.
ganization and the operation of Troops and to help set up a community Board of Review and Court of Honor, through which all Scouts would pass for their advancements and awards.
Through the cooperation of the parents and the
A. Hopp—The Company League hasn't been kind
A. Raymond—Still gives her the company notch
Art Getzinger—Says he always bets on the wrong
thing. If he does pick the right thing it is at the wrong time.
Hap. Halligan—The life of the shop team. Biffer Joppich—Can't figure out why the average
churches this splendid Movement can function in our County and begin to build for tomorrow a cit
doesn't come up faster.
izenship of which we can be justly proud and
Can't live on that, Sammy.
which will efficiently serve the best interests of all the people.
Sam Voigt—Haven't see him since the 208 game. Bill Erkfitz—Hates to see Buza make the boys
wear bowling shoes—No Sale.
Paddy Kerr—And how he comes through for' With the League Bowlers Harry's Shop Team! Penny Hoeft—My scores come from living Geo. Wing—Strong start for the Yard but no
right—No luck.
Harry Boutin—One of the best jockeys in the game—Spurs always sharp. Buck Demerest—Uses the old Bulldozer tech
nique even on the alleys.
Butch Elowsky—Swing like the 37 and always under control.
Dick Schaedig—His appendix caught up with him before he could get back to the lead.
L. Raymond—He will sure lose his tongue unless a device can be made to keep it in when he bowls. C. Platz—Plenty of practice on splits most of the time.
Cap. Lamb—Runs into the same tough going on the alleys. The Tugs are a lot more dependable than his ball even though the compasses are "out of whack."
Alf. Quade—Old head pin pretty well sums up his bowling.
Chas. Grivvatch—She ain't backing in there to night. Fred "Mouse" Dagner—Bowd you for a beer, and boy howdy! Does he bowd!
jack Schultz—Old dependable for Wing's Ma chine Shop. Gene King—Always heckling.
Harry Meharg—The noisiest man on the alleys, always been tapped. F. Richards—Old Sunshine himself.
Bob Lucas—Always one board out of the way. C. Hopp—Waiting for the old 300 game. Popeye Voda—The strength of the Mill Team until Stanbrook put him on the night shift. Jack Kinville—Sometimes she zigs when she should zag. Norv. Schlager—Shows up better on the Tavern team on Thursday. O. Zempel—Tries to break the back end out of the place too often. Red Lee—Good, but absent too much from the
line-up.
see any more.
L. Conley—Has trouble with his controls the same as in the powerhouse.
Pat. Sheedlo—The badge won't even scare one pin over.
Morris Richards—New to the league but will come O.K. after they do away with the foul line.
Al. Plowman—His second ball is always in there. H. Morrill—When she hooks she really hooks.
Dick Hamann—He must have been scared away
for some reason or other.
Harry Wing—Takes up the slack for his Shop Team whenever any of the boys are away. After boiling it all down it seems that the Army, Navy, etc., have taken about the best bowlers in
our league to help clean up a bad situation. In the Service—Norval Bade, Dale Farero, Iverne Pines, Bert Urban. Ernest Adrian, Kenneth Paull.
Charles Furtaw, Carl Starr, William Conley, Ru dolph Schalk, Robert Noffze. What Is A Goofer?
A goofer is commonly known as the war worker
who takes a chance on an injury by lifting with his back instead of his legs. It may be a worker who climbs a ladder and falls when reaching too far to one side.
Or perhaps the fellow wdio works at a
grinding wheel without wearing goggles.
But another equally dangerous type of goofer is the fellow who works hard all day, works faith fully on the job, and then off the job—going home or going back to work, or maybe just hurrying to the picture show or grocery store—has an acci dent that keeps him out of war production for a day, or a week, or maybe for good. In short, a goofer is a fellow who does just about anything that might cause lost time in war produc tion due to accidents on-the-job. off-the-job, on the way to and from work—whether workers walk,
ride bicycles, drive, share rides, or depend upon bu? transportation.
Fred Vogler—The gas rationing raised hob with his bowling.
Ivan Soper—Building up for the Mill playoff. 1652
Postal to wife from vacationing husband: "Hav ing wonderful time.
Wish you were her."
H
Safety Essay Contest For the past number of years, safety essays have become a regular assignment in the higher grades of our public school. And every year a better selection of essays covering every phase of public and personal safety is written by the boys and girls of the schools in this community. This year many of the essays had national safety or safety in time of war as the central motive. The essays, we are certain, are the product of
many hours serious thinking on the part of the students. They were well written and every one of them a splendid contribution. We feel certain that the students received much good personally, and it is with real satisfaction that we express our thanks to all thoseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;students and teachersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; who made the contest a success.
However, true and lasting success can only be realized as the result of safety-consciousness and the elimination of pain and accidents. We, there fore solicit the wholehearted support of every stu dent to put across the fine ideas and suggestions they have expressed. We look forward to the continued interest of
all students in our essay contest, and trust they will cooperate as cheerfuly in the future as they have in the past. The folowing girls and boys have been chosen winners in this year's contest: Eighth Grade: Fern Erickson, Virginia Congonte. Ninth Grade: Leon Olsen, Barbara Santimo.
Tenth Grade: Robert Friedrich, Margery Congonte.
Eleventh Grade: Donald Kreft, Aileen Flewelling. Twelfth Grade: Clifford Brege, Ruth Fleming. THE ROAD TO VICTORY
By Margery Congonte In this present world crisis, the citizens of Amer ica, one and all, are striving to the limit of their
ability for the ultimate goal, which will enable the allied nations to assume a victory with everlasting peace; to end once and for all the greediness of alien aggressors; to preserve for the generations to follow the ideals upon which the United States of America were established. Those ideals today form a government which is run and governed by the people, and which have given to its citizens freedom and ecmality. To preserve what we Americans cherish so dearly, numerous essentials must be accomplished. The realization of keeping our freedom for which the Americans will fight for until the end, will not decide the turning point of this conflict, but the climax will be the result of situations today; such as the manpower problem, munitions, materials, and money. An effective army or any branch of service is that with healthy, skilled and well-trained men. If this
service unit must flourish, safety will play the prominent part in producing the necessary results.
Yes, safety will mean a lot toward the success of the war effort.
Day in and day out, the boys in service prac tice physical fitness. Should these boys disregard safety regulations, our hospitals would be crowd ed with disabled men. Through idleness on one person's part the length of this war is increased. On the production line, munitions and materials
are the important elements. Throughout our coun
try defense factories are being stimulated to great er activity. Due to the conscription of youths of eighteen, the young boys of sixteen and seventeen are being employed. Their inexperience develops numerous small accidents, but the real cause is that
in earlier life safety was not practiced. Safety is not a set of rules to be studied, but only involves common sense.
On the other hand, the men who have had ex
perience develop the sense of safety and are always conscious of it. The cautiousness of the experi enced keeps production running at top speed, while the youths only hinder production.
It is these
men who prove to be faulty and fail our fighting men. Speed in manipulating machines brings vic tory closer, but the record is only outstanding if safety accompanies it.
In short, it still is and must be safety in every day life. To some people safety is merely a fig ure of speech, but it combined with other factors will determine the outcome of this war. Should
each and everyone of us apply SAFETY in every day life; how much nearer would victory be! If this Road of Safety be crossed with care what na tion other than the United States be victors! If
through the fault of a few the Road of Safety is crossed recklessly, the Road of Victory will ap pear too far away from the near future.
I'm cer
tain that no one would like to have HITLER for a brother!
Diseases And How They May Be Spread Any of the upper respiratory and droplet borne types of diseases (the common cold, influenza, tu berculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, cere
brospinal meningitis, mumps, infantile paralysis, etc.) may be spread by the direct transfer of the infectious material to other persons. Most of the
diseases listed above, and syphilis, dysentery, small pox, typhoid and the paratyphoids may be spread by contamination of utensils used in serving foods or to the foods themselves.
Some of the common
modes of transmission are: Coughing or talking in the presence of others; coughing, sneezing or talk ing over foods or utensils; direct transfer of secre
tions of the nose, mouth, or open lesions on the body to food or eating utensils; contamination of the hands with urinary or fecal material containing the infectious agent and then handling foods or eat ing utensils. 1653
Helping the Birds to Find a Home Daddy, will you make a bird house, for me? Dad dy, will you get me some lumber for a bird house? I wonder how many fathers heard this refrain a few weeks ago? Dad is usually pretty busy but when
the youngster really wants something. Daddy usu ally comes across. I am convinced this is true in Rogers City, anyway, after taking a lew pictures of the results of a bird house project sponsored by the schools of the town in the past few weeks. The picture represents roughly one-sixth ol the total number of bird houses produced through the
public and parochial schools in this commendable project. \Ve are living in a section of a state known as one of the best hunting grounds of the country and we
are naturally well acquainted with the game birds of this region. I wonder how many of us know much about those happy deuisoiis of the woods
that are not game birds, Birds are the warm-blooded group of the animal kingdom. This high body temperature and lea thers have been developed by nature through the
process of evolution to enable the bird to live in the cold temperatures of high altitudes. The speed and extremely active life of the bird requires a tremendous expenditure of energy, and to keep up
this energy large quantities of food are required. The main foods of most of our smaller songbirds
By Paul Thornley
ing too numerous and eventually eating up all green vegetation. One can thus see that birds in the neighborhood
of homes and gardens keep down the insect pests. All creatures may become harmful from man's
point of view under a given set of conditions. If a bird such as the starling reproduces to the point where it destroys crops he is called harmful. When we consider the fact however that insects, if it were
not for birds, could in a mailer of a few months
consume all of our vegetation, one should think
twice before killing a bird other than for food. Apart from the tremendous economic value of birds to man. we have their beauty of feather and song to enrich our surroundings. Few people other than bird lovers have any idea of the number of birds to be seen and recognized in the woods of northern
Michigan.
The more
common summer residents such as the robin, wren,
chickadee, sparrow, starling, goldfinch, woodpeck er, and some others are known to everyone, but
many of the shyer songsters such as the warblers, orioles, thrushes, and others keep under cover and their presence is often known only by quiet, care ful watching or by their happy songs.
Some other birds we see in Michigan only while they are passing through on their way North are. for instance, the beautiful red and black of the
are various types of insects, grubs and worms. It requires 1-1 feet of earthworms to satisfy a young robin for a day. How would you like to feed that
scarlet tanager.
mouth ?
seen if one scans the trees wdiere the male is perch ing. She is nearly the color of the foliage and lurks in the trees near her more conspicuous mate.
There are two common ways of finding out the kinds of food eaten by birdsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1. inspecting the crop of a flead bird: 2. by counting ihe insects eaten by
The tanager is on his way North
now and if you keep watch for a week or two you may see him. His olive green mate can also be
Youngsters sometimes thoughtlessly kill birds ami destroy their eggs and nests. Few birds out side of the crow and possibly the starling do more tain 10!) canker worms. A nighthawk consumed harm than good. If a yearly drive lo gel children 60 grasshoppers and 500 mosquitoes; a flicker 1000 to construct bird houses in order to protect birds around the home and create in the coming gener clinch bugs; a scarlet tauager 650 gypsy moth cat erpillars in 18 minutes. A northern yellow ihioat ation an abiding interest in our feathered friends, was seen to consume 3.500 plant lice in 40 niinutes. SUCh a project is well worth the effort not only Nature has developed a balance among living from the aesthetic and economic viewpoint, but a bird through a powerful spy glass. The crop of a cedar waxwing was found to con
creatures and the bird is one of her methods of
also as an educational and recreational outlet for
preventing the prolific insect kingdom from becom
the child.
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Remedial Agents and Health "One deplorable aspect of life in America is re flected in the advice we get over the radio concern ing a great variety of remedial agents. We read in the "Hygeia" magazine for June that those who act on these suggestions are the victims of fear. "Because there are so many such victims the
makers of liver pills, cathartics and aids for this and that ailment are able to make good financial dividends. We do not need to take drugs to keep healthy . . . WMien you have a cold or an acute
Upper respiratory infection, your best
friend
is
early and sufficient bed care . . . Vour bowels will move if you give them a chance, and of all things you do not need colon irrigations. Your liver has enormous capacity to look after itself, and your kidneys get all the flushing out they need if you
are leading a reasonable type of life ... In short, simple, intelligent, everyday hygiene is all that you need to be concerned about in all these re
Your Vegetable Garden There perhaps never was a time when a vegetable garden was more necessary than it is this year. Vegetable gardens are needed to increase food supplies. A plot of any size can help to bolster the
food Supply Which has been greatly diminished. Most people in our community are garden-mind ed, have grown vegetables for yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in fact many of them can well be proud of the fact that their early days were spent on a farm. There are many
home garden plots in backyards. A forty by fifty feet plot will supply a family of five with vegetables all season.
Of late years gardening around Rogers City has increased materially by the opening for sale of small acre-plots which are excellent for vegetable gardens. Part of the old Bradley farm is again available for gardens this year and there are a few good lots in this area still available for anyone de siring them.
To the new gardener we can say franklyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there is nothing much to growing your own vegetables except a little work.
spects. When things begin to go wrong, get some needed rest, and when questions arise that you cannot answer try to consult your doctor at once instead of worrying about dire possibilities ..."
You are never too busy to work- safely. Trailer Transportation
Since the rubber shortage, transportation has be come a problem for both men going to and from work and for the company in the transportation
of men to the job. Since gasoline rations are only allowed to the plant gate, the busses were particu larly crowded from the gale to the dumps during winter operations. In order to facilitate this trans portation problem, the company purchased a newbus trailer this year. The trailer was constructed Irom the chassis of a car trailer. It is 33 ft. long
and has a capacity of 100 passengers. After a few adjustments had been made and the exhaust from the motor extended above the trailer
top to keep gas fumes from entering, the men say
the vehicle was very comfortable and quite warm in winter weather. The maximum load carried last winter
was 95
If you are going lo have a garden it should be planned before planting. There are columns after columns being written these days about vegetable gardens, and it's quite evident that many of these
passengers, which the new piece of equipment seemed to handle quite easily. The tire situation is getting worse, more cars
writers never grew a spear of grass. The point is.
transportation facilities of the company will likely
we suppose, to get everyone to grow vegetables.
be even more valuable before the end of 1943.
are going off the roads, and this addition to the
Tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, beans, peas, onions, parsnips and radishes are the most common vegetables grown. They can be sown in rows. eighteen inches apart, which allows plenty of room for cultivating. If spaced closer together it is nec essary to furnish more plant food and water than
normally required. Squash and cucumbers, of course, require more room. The United Stales Department of Agriculture put out a Victory Garden pamphlet No. 183 which is complete and instructive and can be had for five cents by sending to the Superintendent of Docu ments, Washington, D. C. 1055
You 11 See It In Screenings "Personals" That Come To The Editor's Desk
Just "Among Ourselves"
Some of the cabbage and tomato plants were a little disappointing, but due to shortage of labor and transportation difficulties it was impossible to
Good for you, Minnie! We are pleased to learn that you have an operator's license. Due to the
secure all the plants our gardeners wanted.
Now that the Shop tool room has been redesigned and improved there is one highly desirable feature which should be added, in the opinion of the Tool Room
Lunch
and
Discussion
Club
which
holds
manpower situation. Rob Crittendon instructed Mrs. Alfred Demerest to operate radio and tele
graph equipment. Also added to his force was Joe Hassett of Flint. Michigan. We welcome these two new members and knowthat radio Communication service will be maintain
forth there. Two or three folding chairs could be placed there for the noon-hour comfort of the mem bers. Why members of such a learned society-
ed at normal efficiency.
devoted to the winning of the war and the solu tion of mankind's problems in generalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;should have to sit on waste baskets and nail kegs is beyond hu man imagination.
a special trip with his truck and went to work early.
Typical of the philosophy of the above-men tioned group is this sage comment by Adolph "Bill" Sabin during a discussion of high finance. Quoth he: "One good thing about depressions is the fact
that they don't slap them on you in good times." It was a good thing that the perch run started down at the dock when it did.
One of the very
Gus Schaedig. veteran truck driver, had to make Getting to the garage he found his truck missing"
and had to wait for it to show up. Gus says he isn't going to lose any more sleep like that again. I.ile begins at safety. Most of us are food-conscious due to the ration
ing and war. Rogers City is certainly filling up with Victory Gardens and houses for rabbits and chickens. William Warwick, operator of the Mobiloader. is in need of two clucks (mother hens)
that the dear wife had taken all the ration books
to keep his young chicks warm. He hasn't had any luck so far and we just heard him asking Ed Rad-
away when she left for a vacation.
ka if he wouldn't come over and mother the brood
well-known
fellows
from
the
office
discovered
Charlie didn't
have a red stamp to his name and he sure Was
getting hungry for meat.
Well, his first efforts
resulted in the catch of a lawyer and a sucker, but
he wasn't quite hungry enough for meat to keep these morsels. Finally lie got to be one of the best fishermen on the dock and now lias some big perch
to give awav. Just see Charlie Platz if von want
for him.
Take him up, Ed. on a fifty-fifty basis.
Tom Vareh. the tie buyer, has chased up some ties that he claims were made fifty-eight years ago.
Maybe Tom thinks the petrified variety will be the answer to longer wear and good service.
Belter
pilt em in a museum. Tom.
fish.
To be funny, George Marsh bid ten dollars on an old horse at au auction sale. Now he has a horse to \v^.d. Better save it w hen those red ration stamps
run low. <ieorge.
As a guest speaker "Butch" F.lowsky is lops with the Tool Room Lunch and Discussion Club. Some
time ago he came in and gave the club members an excellent word picture of cam]) life and Indian lore. Not satisfied with merely telling his story. "Rutcli" drove home his points with some fine demonstrations of "step dancing" and Indian war dances.
If the way of the heathen Chinese is peculiar, the ways of women's fashions are more so. 11 you don't beleve this ask Jack Schultz about it. Ask him what happened to his wife's Faster bonnet. When that particular lady had finished unwrapping her Easter purchases. Jack was asked to throw the the discarded Wrapping into the furnace. This he proceeded to do. including a queer-looking object which may or may not have been discarded wrap pings. Well, you guessed it. It was the hat. Anywav, it couldn't be found after that. 1656
Joe Urban, track man. is one of our regular gardeners. Even 1hough Joe has raised much of his own food in other years, he is going to have a bigger and better garden this year. With three sons in the armed forces Joe says thai he has a lot of work to doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;food lo raise and bonds to buy. It is well for all of us to think this way. We can
not let the boys in the armed forces down. you a garden?
Every little bit helps.
Have
Penny Scales and Fortunes The other day I stepped onto one of those penny scales out of which a little cardboard drops with one's weight on one side and one's fortune on the other.
The figure showed my weight was somewhat in excess of the weight a doctor might prescribe as a healthy average, and something will have to be done about that.
The fortune read: "You have the happy faculty of making- things pleasant for those around you." Now penny scales can't think let alone read char acter so there was no connection between the for
tune as given and me except that 1 bought it for
a penny.
However, there is no quality greater and
more valuable than one which will make things pleasant for those wdiom that life contacts. We can all say our own lives are richer because we have had the good fortune to meet a number of fine men and women whose purpose in life seems to be to make life more worthwhile for those with
whom they come in contact. They are kind, thoughtful, considerate. They have encouraged and inspired us. They have helped us over rough
places. Certain individuals vvll always stand out in our minds as the most helpful men and women who
Winter has gone and now the cold weather is here—pass the salt tablets, pardner, I'm getting
hot. Despite our belated spring, the softball league is going strong and the umpires are in plenty of hot arguments. Again the cry "Play Ball" is heard. Because of the gasoline and tire rationing we must stick closer to home and so good old softball is providing some entertainment for many. A six-team league has been organized and is now
in progress. Games start at 7:15 p. in. on Tuesday. Wednesday, and Thursday at the field located at the end of South Second Street. The season schedule for the first half is:
Tuesday—June 8—Track vs. Yard. Wednesday—June 9—Shop vs. Mill. Thursday—June 10—Quarry vs. Coast Guard. Tuesday—June 15—Mill vs. Coast Guard. Wednesday—June 16—Track vs. Quarry.
Thursday—June 17—Shop vs. Vard. Tuesday—June 22— Track vs. Shop. Wednesday—June 23—Yard vs. Coast Guard. Thursday-—June 24—Mill vs. Quarry. Tuesday—June 29—Yard vs. Mill. Wednesday—June 30—Shop vs. Quarry. Thursday—July 1—Track vs. Coast Guard. Standings to June 4th : Won Lost
have touched our lives.
If we all always considered the other fellow, if we always tried to make things more pleasant for those about us. what a great change we could
make in everyday life. Nervous passenger: "Don't drive so fast around corners. It frightens me." Taxi Driver: "Do what I do—shut vour eves when we come to a corner."
"I'm sending my wife to the mountains for the holidays." "What holidays?" "Mine."
It's not a voice that hurts the ears;
Quarrv
1
0
Track*
1
0
1
0 1
Coast Guard Yard Mill
Shop Come and watch your team.
0 0
0
1
1
Sell your old car to William Heller. Shop fore man. He says he wants the motors for welding ma chines, but we think he has both eyes on the tires. Ration points may come and ration points may go. but Frank Modrzynski has plenty of lard, sausage, ham and side pork here so he doesn't have to worry about those red tickets most of us cherish.
It isn't loud and shrill-
Of course, these porkers need some care and at
But, oh, the voice of conscience is
tention so Frank will have to work for his meat.
So difficult to still. Teacher—"What is the "Order of the Bath'?"
Kid—"Pa first, then Ma, then us kids, and then
the hired girl."
We usually have to work for what we get and with food as necessary as guns we can raise food. Maybe Frank's motto is—"Help win the war— Raise a pig."
An Emulation
The benediction of your loved ones goes with you to your work each day. Therefore, resolve to be mindful of your obligation to them, your fellow men. your employer and yourself—to be watchful
and
alert
to the
hazards of each
task
whether old or new. to plan your work before un dertaking it so that you may return safely and with a Whole body to your folks at the end of the day— happy in the reward of a day dedicated not to toil but to service. If
relatives
stick
close
weeks, that's sympathy.
to
the
widow
for
two
If they stick for two
months, it's life insurance. 1657
Pvt. Carl Starr is back
on his old job as Rower House oiler after a few
months with the army in a Wyoming camp. Carl was hardly induct ed before the army age limit was changed so he received
an
honorable
discharge. He is glad to be back" doing his bit at at home. He .-ays the army has a grand bunch of boys and we can't let them
down.
The mysteries of point rationing should be stud ied to be understood or you can learn the hard way as
Rill
Fulsher did last
winter.
Bill
wanted
to
Plant Guards and Watchmen
Ever since ground was first broken for build
ing a plant at Calcite. visitors have always been welcome to come and go pretty much at will with the exception when our country has been in the slate of an emergency which necessitated the gov ernment placing restrictions on the admission of
people l" plants closely related to the war effort. Because of this previous freedom of. ingress it is now difficult for some people to understand why they should be restricted in a privilege so long en joyed.
We are greatly pleased that there few instances when the authority guards have been questioned. Most the seriousness of our present war
have been but of our plant people realize situation and that there are perhaps many people in our fair United States today who are engaged in subversive activities eager and ready at all limes to plot
bring home a special treat so he stopped at the
against us.
store and got a nice big can of V-8 vegetable juice.
Gate guards are charged with the responsibility ol knowing who is in the plant at all times. Ii is
As he left
the store
the clerk
called
out. "How
.about the points yen owe us for that stuff?" "That." said Bill, "was friend wife's department so >he would be in to settle Up later." The missus learned later that the ration value was 38 points or about a whole week's allowance.
R. S. Due to Rill's vegetable juice, all the infants then at the Fulsher Maternity Home suffered from colic the next day.
(>ur old politician says that he isn't in favor ol old men either in public office or industry. We say that if a man can work let him do his best for the good LISA.
therefore necessary that individuals have a pass to cuter plant property.
lU cause of tlie good run of perch which has been on this spring, llu- requests for fishing per mits have been greatly increased.
While it has
always been the plant practice to give our people the benefit of fishing from plant properly, this privilege is now somewhat complicated by a gov ernment restriction which is required of all per
sons that they must have been certified by the United States Coast Guard and carry an identifi cation card lie fore they can have access to any property, boats, wharves, docks, etc., bordering
Sou: "Dad. what was your greatest ambition when yon were a boy?"
the Great Lakes.
Dad: "To wear long pants. And I've had my wish. If there is anybody else in the country that wears his pants longer than I do. I'd like to see him."
to limit any of the privileges previously extended to our employees; however, there are certain re
It is not the intenl or purpose of the company
strictions which are now in effect and we ask the
indulgence of all in our attempt to comply with these regulations.
The ice on the lakes this year was slow to leave particularly in Lake Superior. Calcite was the
first port
opeil this season and many of the
boats which would ordinarily have been on ore hauls from the Lake Superior iron mines descend ed on
Michigan
Limestone and Chemical Com
pany for limestone stone cargoes. Here are shown Mime of the boats lying at anchor outside Calcite
waiting their turn at the loading slip April 10. 1943.
Vardman. Alex Durecki. is an old time garden er and really gets the crops. The cameraman
caught him by surprise this spring evening as hewas preparing the ground for his victory garden. Ration points won't worry Alexâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just give him r; little rain and lots of sunshine. 1-.58
lo\)\i> sloyA^sc. If Charlie Baker ever thought of being a guest
expert on Information Please, he has had his hopes clashed beyond repair, The other day it took Char lie fifteen or twenty minutes to find a solution to
this question â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister? Lie gave the right answer eventu ally, but too late to save his reputation as a master
mind.
By the way. what is the answer? Ves or no?
If he is forty-five and thinks a pretty girl's smile means anything, either his face is wonderfully pre served or his mind isn't.
Harry "Sparky" Fleming has been well known as a fisherman, but never have, we heard of him being much of a hunter. He must know something about the beasts of the field as he gave the boys on the
bus an expert's opinion of how the sly fox disposes of the winter's accumulation of fleas.
According
to Harry. Mr. Fox walks slowly into a lake or river and the fleas all gather toward the dry end of the fox. Finally when only the end of his nose is stick ing out and all the fleas are there, the fox ducks his head and the fleas are gone for another season.
There was a lady who waited for painter Aaron Smith so long that when he arrived and started to work she kept coming to the room where "Smitty" was working. Finally "Smitty" asked her what she wanted and she said. "You're so quiet I won dered if you were really working." Aaron replied, "I don't put this stuff on with a hammer, lady."
GUESS WHO?
Just look who we have with us? A young musi cian. Although he is not known today for his musi cal abilities
so
we
must
give you some other clues more up to date. Well, he is a fisherman, garden er
and
lover
of
athletic
contests. He may be found working around the boats, mill, quarry, or slip. He's still a young fellow- even if he has the title of grand pa. This small musical in strument he is holding
must have helped develop his lung power as he can sure do his share of holler
ing at a basketball game. Ves. he is quite a talker and always has an answer. You forgive all that be cause you know him as having a good sense of hu mor. He has been in your midst for most of his for
ty-four years. Co ahead and guess now. The last
"Guess
Who"
was "Perry" Polohniuk and Dan Beebe.
Did vou
make a good guess? Our old friend, "Sid"
Burncll of the Drilling
Dept.. is back on thejob again after having spent time in Uncle Sam's army. "Sid" was taken into the army last June and was re leased
this
winter
as
one over the age limit.
"Sid" says the boys in the army are doing a good job and are out to win. He is glad to lie on
the
home
front
again wdiere he doesn't
have to compete with those tough young sol diers. He says that the
Don't
talk about
what you are going to do.
One of the well known families in Rogers City is the Voigt family shown here. This picture was taken when Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Voigt celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Voigt was associated with the lumber industry for many
years. In 1939 he retired from the employ of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company af ter twenty-five years of service. The picture shows daughters and sons, Mrs. Margaret Smith of Cleve land, Mrs. Leona Flewelling. Arthur, a crane op erator at Calcite Riant: Elmer, an attendant for
quarry supplies; Edward, an able seaman on Str. W. F. White, and Mrs. Augusta Jacobson of Cleve land. Mr. and Mrs. Voigt are seated. We con gratulate them and wish for them continued good health and happiness.
training is very rigid and it takes a good physique to stand up under it. Our boys are the grandest bunch of men in any army in the world according to "Sid"
and
are
worth
every effort we can give in work and mon ey to keep them fight ing in this tough war. 1659
Locomotive watchman. Frank Lamb still can be
called the Tiger man.
It must be admitted that
he still knows his baseball even if his judgment wasn't so good on last year's world series.
There railroad ing cars flashers
are flasher signs at some of the quarry grade crossings. Will all employees driv and trucks over these crossings heed the when trains are approaching. Locomotive
engineers say that some cars still sneak across. These warning signs are for protectionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;your pro tection.
Nelson Pilon must sure like to wash his car. Per
Meat rationing has cut down on
the normal
meat consumption of many familiies. With an eye towards supplementing the larder in both meat and eggs, people both in and out of town are rais ing chickens to such an extent that hatcheries re
port an unprecedented call for baby chicks. Vacant lots, backyards, in Rogers Ctiy are sprouting new chicken houses.
Ben Santimo is shown above in
dustriously making use of some of his spare time. I understand Ben fears the current floods in
the
haps that clay out in Royston is too much for the finish.
On May 11. 1944. the Rower House Crew will have completed twenty years without a lost-time accident. Boy! Is that a record! Vou don't make a showing like that without work. All that the
rest of us can say is. "Good work, boys, keep it up for another twenty."
A hobby is a good thing for any one to develop
south caught his chickens en route, but we hope
for recreation in his spare time.
his brood arrives in due time to furnish him a drum stick for his lunch basket.
usefulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so much the better. Joseph Chrzan doesn't raise these rabbits for pets alone. Joe works in the Yard Dept. at Calcite and finds that occasionally a rabbit stew tastes good after a hard day's work
Maybe some of you folks would like to know What certain fellows are named around the garage. The names are usually taken from pet hobbies.
There is "Pansy" Patzer, "Perch" Warwick, "Row Boat" Waytosek. "Chicken" Budnick, "Golf" Meharg. "Tinker" Zeniple. "Auto Mecca" Reetz. and "Gutter Ball" Demerest. We wonder why some body hasn't added "Retread" Radka to the list? All the rules and regulations that can be adopted, all the safety devices that can be attached to ma chines, all the guards which can be erected, and all the warning signs that can be posted are useless unless every man is careful to see that they are maintained and every man is careful to warn others of danger.
Watch for the new gas saver, boys. It's installed on Adolph Sabin's Buick. We will give you a re port if it works. We are told that we have two new inventors in
our midst.
They are William Warwick and Joe
Waytosek. They have a spear fashioned for the end of a trombone and plan to have John Heller try it out at the next: band concert. Object of spear :s to pick up stray cigar butts. \ careful habit is the best bodyguard.
Fred LaLonde, Quarry Shift Foreman, tells us that he can supply his shift with all the brook trout they want. Others have told us that so far Fred has just been having lots of fun drowning angle worms.
Sparky Fleming is no longer looking for hunting land. He wants to buy beaver swamps now. Sparky heard that these animals bring a good price. 1660
If the hobby is
in the open air. This is not a new departure for Joe since ration ing. Lie started it long before we entered the war;
however, it will now prove a valuable supplement to his meat coupons. Anyone who thinks he would prefer to raise bunnies instead of chickens knows where to go for expert advice.
A few blondes, brunettes and red heads in the
offices since last issue of "Screenings"—
Dorothy Goetsch—the gal with a pleasant voice— yes. she was a telephone operator before she began work in the Time Office. Dorothy has a pleasant nature, but we understand that she can get angry
when anyone calls her "Carrot" or "Red" referring, of course, to her red hair.
Helen Durecki, formerly with the local Civilian Defense Council, is now working in the Accounting Department. She's the blonde. Then there's dark-haired Ethel Karsten, who is
Mr. Thoruley's assistant in the laboratory. Ethel's doing a fine job — and a replacement lor a man at that! Lola Walborn left the ice cream business to ac
cept a position in the Time Office. Oh, yes, she is brunette.
We want you girls to know that we enjoy work ing with you. Good luck! Drive carefully—speed kills.
Through the efforts of the office social commit
tee (newly-titled and self-appointed) Ardis Rob erts, Gisela Rlatz and Hugh Farrell staged a real
Christinas party for the office force.
Everything
was complete even to the mistletoe hanging in the doorway, which apparently the men didn't notice as the girls put it there. Louis Leveck and his as sistants from the Str. T. W. ROl'.INSON served
plenty of turkey, food and—oh! that fruit cake. Charles Rlatz was honored with the task of being Santa Claus. "Bud" Dueltgen. loastmaster. pick ed on Charlie because of his seniority and not his whiskers. He was a good Santa with gifts for all and even some extras for the ladies. Those dainty
feminine trinkets with appropriate poetry by the clever bards Lucas and Farrell—these two rhym
ers would put "Eddie" Guest in the extreme back ground. We were all grateful to those who work ed hard to give us such a fine banquet. It is hop
Thanksgiving Day is far off but Donna, daughter of Louis Selke, shop watchman, has plenty of mak ings for a Thanksgiving dinner. Some have rab bits, some chickens and some ducks. They all add Up to one thing—good food when our country
needs all the food its people can raise. All automobile and truck traffic to the docks and
fuel piles are asked to be more careful at the rail road crossings on these plant roadways. The lo comotive engineers and brakemen complain that some drivers pay no attention to the trains and an accident could happen very easily. The coopera tion of all will be appreciated. George Daguer. locomotive engineer, gets very excited when lie hears of a place where the fish are biting.
Well, the fish were biting in the tug-
basin and George wanted a few. He took his young son with him and told the boy just how to fish. and as usual the sou caught all the perch. George fell in the drink and the boy said that he would have to put a bobber on Dad. One of the things asked for the most by those
ed that the committee will give us another one this coming Christmas and that mistletoe will not
coining into the garage these days is gasoline and tires, hut Ed Radka is no superman so all you can
be rationed.
do is be careful with what vou have. boys.
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on December 3, 1942.
Vernon Edward to Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Langlois on December 15, 1942.
Births
Leon Orville to Mr. and Mrs. Orville Piechan on December 28, 1942. Donald to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bredow on
February 16, 1943. Ralph Paul to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dietlin on February 8, 1943.
Since the last issue of "Screenings" daughters were born to the following Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company and Bradley Transportation Company employees: Diane Rita to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Kuznicki on November 23, 1942.
Sally Ann to Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Durecki on November 27, 1942.
Linda Madelyn to Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon on December 6, 1942.
Nancy Ellen to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Klee on December 12, 1942.
Sylvia Grace to Mr. and Mrs. Vera Henry Jr. on December 22, 1942.
Sally Ann to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Leszinske on
Philip William to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Kania on February 12, 1943. Richard John to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Urban on March 12, 1943.
Rogers Arnold to Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Zinke on March 20, 1943.
Donald Eugene to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Kerr on April 15, 1943.
William Roy to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Gager on April 19, 1943.
Delmar Karl to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wagner on May 8, 1943.
Best wishes to the young ones and congratula tions to the parents.
December 22, 1942.
Joan Arlene to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Lozen on January 1, 1943.
Karen Joyce to Mr. and Mrs. William Pauley on January 9, 1943.
Marriages
Karen Esther to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Joppich on February 2, 1943. Z#%j
Ann to Mr. and Mrs. Simon Smolinski on Febru
ary 2, 1943.
Julianna Marie to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cicero on March 5, 1943. Patricia Ann to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Vallee on
March 13, 1943. Patsy Ann to Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Smith on March 26, 1943.
Nancy Gail to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hopp on March 26, 1943. Linda Lou to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Blair on
March 28, 1943. Jane Ellen to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Freel on March 30, 1943.
Millicent Ann to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Raymond on April 5, 1943. Barbara Kay to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kelley on April 16, 1943.
Eileen Kay to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sorgatt on April 24, 1943. Ann Beatrice to Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Claus on
May 10, 1943.
Bernard Darga of the Bradley Transportation Company and Theresa Idalski were united in 'mar riage on January 2, 1943. Philip Idalski of the Bradley Transportation Company and Pauline Darga were married on Jan uary 16, 1943. Lt. Lewis J. Patterson and Marion Lamb of the
Accounting Department were married on January 11, 1943.
Stephen Majewski and Clara Haske were united in marriage on January 23, 1943. Harold Wagner of the Str. JOHN G. MUNSON and Margaret Weise were married on February 6, 1943.
Emil Zeilaskowski and Helen Yarch were joined in matrimony on May 1, 1943. Ardis Hopp of the Purchasing Department and Ralph Roberts were married on December 27, 1942. Hilton Gould of the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY
and Ruth Poch were married on March 3, 1943. Congratulations and our best wishes.
Sons born to:
George Leo to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mayes on November 7, 1942.
Lawrence John to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Partyka on November 10, 1942.
Allan Lee to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Joppich on
It's patriotic to save on gasoline, and tires are just plain hard to get so Earl Nagel has solved the transportation problem with buying a nice-look ing horse. Now that Earl has the horse all fatten ed up it has too much life and he can't handle it.
November 13 ,1942.
It seems that "Old Nell" doesn't want to leave the
Jack Leroy to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Rickle on November 18, 1942. FYancis Paul to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kuznicki
cozy stall and good food so if you see Earl out in the country leading a horse and buggy with a fair passenger in the buggy, don't be surprised.
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Shifting tracks in the quarry is one ol the major jobs both in winter and summer operations, but par ticularly in winter stripping where the shovels are moved rather rapidly-. The time-honored method of moving track is to pull the rails and ties apart
and transport them to the new location where they are again assembled at considerable expense and labor. This year as shown above, much time and effort have been saved by removing sections ol track intact.
These sections can then be taken to
new location, bolted together and a new track is set up in a fraction of the time originally required. Shock May Be Serious
There have been times when persons have been literally "scared to death." It has happened repeat edly that a person comes out of an accident with out a scratch, yet he ma\r die from the shock. And. of course, if injured he may suffer the same sort of nervous collapse. Persons witnessing au accident may experience shock ; therefore, it is most important that we know something about shock.
Remember the symptoms?
Most killers at large have a price on their heads and the bobcat is no exception. He is a menace to young rabbits, partridges, and will even attack young fawns. The one above is certainly no tabbycat for a lady's lap. One of the winter sports ,in
Upper Michigan is tracking these predators to their lairs with dogs. With his back to the wall, a big cat can make it tough for any dog. Gus does not care so much for the bounty, but by cracky ! he says. it's good sport. He and his brother usually get a
gang together lor one good hunt in the winter anyway, and apparently they get results.
Rale face covered
with beads of sweat; wide, staring eyes; pupils large; "all gone" look, skin cold and clammy to touch : breathing feeble or in long, drawn-out sighs; pulse very weak or not felt. Remember the treatment?
Examine for bleed
ing. If found, check it. Lay patient on back with head lower, if possible. Do not move him unless absolutely necessary. Call for a doctor at once. Loosen tight clothing; cover him carefully with blankets anil keep him warm. Turn head to one side: rub the limbs toward the body. Give patient nothing to drink until he is conscious. Aromatic
spirits of ammonia may be given by inhalation. Much grief may be eliminated by remembrance of these fundamentals in recognizing and treating shock.
How's Your Disposition? Do you have your 'off days'?
Are your disposition tactics free from radical changes from day to day based on moods.'' Or do you 'blow hot and cold', change from energetic action to listless inaction, from friendly to frigid,
from cheerful to grouchy, or from sarcastic to con siderate, so that those with whom you associate never know wdiere to find you? An occasional check on our qualities and char acteristics may be helpful.
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There has been an exceptionally good run of suckers in the neighboring rivers and streams this
spring.
Spearing has been the order of the day-
ami the catches have been large.
Suckers make
good eating in the spring of the year if you don't mind the bones. Martin Budnik claims they make a valuable addition to the larder. Nice going. 1663
The Bradley Transportation CompanySafety Meetings and Personal News Ships and Safety Excerpts From The Safety Meeting Minutes Members of the deck crew were instructed to
lash the bottom small ladders to something solid when it becomes necessary to use a small ladder for those "one minute" jobs. Steel points on steel decks do not dig in and hold to keep the bottom from slipping. Members using ladders without lashing are running a big risk of a bad fall. It was suggested that some sort of a ladder or steps be installed in the cargo hold so that in the process of greasing the wheel shaft it will not be necessary to perform the acrobatics that heretofore were nec essary.—Str. W. F. WHITE. Since the enlargement of the after end cabins has made it necessary to move the walk closer to the railing it has been found necessary to walk over or around a large eyebolt wdnich is used in working on the wheel. It was decided that these eyebolts be moved to another place where there will be no danger of tripping over them.—Str. W. F. WHITE.
Light fixtures on the upper cabins aft be turn ed to face aft in order to eliminate the glare strik ing the pilot house and bridge ... A new eye be spliced into forward mooring cable as the strands in present eye have become broken and might in jure a man's hands . . . When staging plank is stowed on angles over center elevator they be so placed that both cleats are either inside or outside of angles, thus eliminating the possibility of their shifting so that one end might drop . . . All men be careful in using the catwalks on inclines from tunnel as it is impossible to keep them free of stone at all times due to spill from belts.—Str. JOHN G. MUNSON. Each man aboard ship should acquaint himself with the different types of fire extinguishers and how and where each type should or should not be used.—Str. JOHN G. MUNSON. It was suggested that two extra steps be added to the ladder that goes to cargo hold through the
lights put on the after end of this vessel.—Str. CALCITE.
It was recommended that all men review the fire and lifeboat instruction cards to be certain
they know just what to do at the proper time.—Str. CALCITE.
All cameras on board vessel were either taken
home or given to the captain for safekeeping.— Str. CALCITE.
Men on ships are to observe all rules during blackout periods that occur when the ship is in a blackout area.—Str. CALCITE.
The condition caused by fly-ash was mentioned,
and members were warned not to try to dig out the particles but to use the eye-wash solution that is provided for that purpose. Too often the rubbing process imbeds the particle and make a trip to the doctor necessary.—Str. W. F. WHITE. The installation of fuse boxes on all radio cir cuits was recommended in crew rooms as soon as material is available.—Str. B. H. TAYLOR. The committee recommended that the hatch bar be renewed and that new screens be installed in
the sump wells.—Str. B. H. TAYLOR. It was suggested that the deck plates in and outside the galley doors be rough-welded to avoid slipping when the decks are wet, also that a wood
grating be installed at the icebox door to compen sate for the raised surface on the tile floor.—Str. B. H. TAYLOR.
Members of the engine department were warn ed about closing the draft fans before opening furnace doors, which opened otherwise might
The steward's coal shovel should be hung on a hook at his coal bin and be kept there when not in
cause back flash . . . Repairmen were warned to notify firemen when cleaning ash pits as a per son might be burned if grates were dumped while ash pit doors were open.—Str. JOHN G. MUNSON. It was suggested that an inspection of all guard rails, cables, chains and stays be made in order to make certain that all such equipment is in firstclass condition.—Str. JOHN G. MUNSON. The following suggestions were offered: That guards be placed over fan in bulkhead between seamen's toilet and windlass room; that hand rail on ladder be repaired; that hook be installed for cook's coal shovel; that forward side of vapor globes on upper cabins aft be painted so as to elim inate glare of lights toward pilot house and that
use.—Str. B. H. TAYLOR.
the railings on top of dunnage room be rebuilt as
last hatch.—Str. T. W. ROBINSON.
The new men in the deck crew were again cau tioned about the correct method of handling lines on the dock.—Str. B. H. TAYLOR.
It was also suggested that a junction box be in stalled in the firehold for the welder which would
lead forward through the tunnel . . . A pipe serv ing as a cable guide on the "A" frame is wearing through and should be repaired or renewed.—Str.
they have become eroded JOHN G. MUNSON.
and
weakened.—Str.
It was suggested that when a deck engine cable is made fast on the dock or on another boat in
B. H. TAYLOR.
such a manner that it will lead over the gang way doors, the deck department notify the engin
The members of the safety committee still be lieve that there should be some kind of docking
gineer rope off gangway.—Str. T. W. ROBINSON.
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eer on watch that the cable is there and that en
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STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
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PERSONAL ITEMS
Bob Derry—"After we do get to the dock in this fog how are we going to see the stone pile?" We see I'at He ward wearing his little white hat as he goes about his daily chores. That is a sure
sign of spring and spring always means romance. When is the great event going to take place. Pat? This year? Our old friend Bill Hornbacher. more affection
ately known as Willie, reminds us to be sure and mention his name here.
Due to the war and the
shortage of newsprint we will have to confine his publicity to a few paragraphs instead of a page or two. HI, Bill]
STR. T. W. ROBINSON
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PERSONAL ITEMS
After a long, cold winter, everyone seems glad to be back to the peace and quiet of steamboat life.
We are glad to have so many familiar faces back with us. Some of the new faces are—Harry Sloan, Leopold Mulka. Wilbcrt Parclike, Harry Piechan, Martin Joppich. Joseph Crawford and John Nichol. Now that the season is well under way the argu ments on tlie war and our arrival in Calcite seem
to take up the spare moments. running a close third.
Food rationing is
Steward Leveck is wonder
ing what to do in case he runs out of points. hope his worries remain—just worries.
We
Every Sunday on the lake we have a weaving bee. Principle members are—Lester Pines, instructor: Harold Party ka. assistant instructor: Mike King, Philip Henry. Philip Idalski. Joe Crawford, and Harry Piechan. The boys say the women can't do
When I die, please bury me 'Neath a ton of sugar Under a rubber tree
Lay me to rest in a new auto machine And water my grave with good gasoline.
this to us.
Al Schultz has built a tool box but we understand
"Hey, Clarence! Flow do you spell straight?" "S-t-r-a-i-g-h-t." "That's right. Now do you know what it means?" "Sure, without ginger ale."
disappeared.
Congratulations and best wishes to our newly-
Les Bannon was seen bringing a bike aboard. We take it that he is going to save on shoe leather.
weds, Hilton and Mrs. Gould.
Charles Cook was very disappointed when he learned that our metal mike was not in working order.
First Mate—Wonder if there is enough room in Wheelsman—Who wants to turn around if we are
ever lucky enough to get there?
Mill: Say is it unlucky to postpone a wedding? Pat: Not if you keep on doing it. We heard—T can get 25 miles to a gallon of gas. I'm now!—I can't even make 15.
Clarence Flewelling says his Hill Billy band (Joe Smith and Alvis Radka) will be ready to go visit lajor Bowes program this fall.
Hitler's funeral.
We hear that Captain Pearse can't seem to locate the bass head he brought back from Florida. cookie, food ration is tough, isn't it? Safety is part of your job.
After playing cribbage with Harry Piechan. we concede to him all honors. We hereby challenge any sailor in the fleet. The Str. Munson need not answer to this challenge. We understand that one of our pupils showed them the fundamentals of the
We wish to congratulate Emmet Rose on his promotion to Third Assistant Lugincer. Good luck to you, Emmet. Harry Sloan, our erstwhile fisherman, tells about
catching a nine-pound pike that got away. The same old story—those big ones seem to get away every time.
The captain and first mate went exploring the Niagara River on a tug to try to find the source of
Some of the boys are pretty downhearted now that there are 110 vacations. Don't worry, boys, there's going to be a big celebration and we'll all What's that?
There has been no confirmation on
this, however.
game.
Cheboygan River for us to turn around?
have a dav off.
his wife needed a rubbish collector so the tool box
Yes,
all the ice in Buffalo.
What was found remains a
military secret. We understand they are going to explore the North Pole next winter for possible sources of limestone. The wise husband remembers his wife's birth
days but forgets her age. The young man who works and saves will some day have enough to divide with those who don't. 1665
Our dashing watchman on the 1_' to 4 watch has
just hrul the title of Quartermaster conferred on him. Anyone wishing knowledge of steering in the Chicago River ask Leo. It just proves that if oth ers can do it yon can loo. Leo.
Walter llincka reports that since taking the new
medicine that he is a wildcat's playmate, Glad to hear of the improvement, Walter, we won't doubt the playmate part at all.
Allen Strand is just as noisy as ever -just as much talking too. It is reported that he buys two gallons of gas at a time so that he can get to the STR. B. H. TAYLOR
PERSONAL ITEMS
At this issue of the "Screenings" we are away to a good start of another navigation season. Al
though it was not as early as was anticipated due to ice conditions all over the lakes, the new cargo
ships being rushed to completion and those com missioned late last season hope to fulfill Uncle Sam's hopes and requests of reaching the goal set in the amount of iron ore required by Decem berâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as every other necessity required to win.
Our present successes in Africa were welcomed by every true American, but even at this we should not become over-confident and slacken our pro duction and take for granted that we are sure of victory. The cost was tremendous for the Allies but we reached our goal. We have a long hard
fight ahead of us yet, but with the cooperation of every American doing his or her bit in every pos sible way. which there are many, we can shorten this fight for freedom and be sure of victory. This not only means in the purchase of war bonds ami
stamps which we should purchase to the limit. We have been temporarily deprived of vacations, and all the gas we would like to have as well as some other luxuries we have been accustomed to
having.
This is just for the duration
until com
plete victory is ours. This season
we have a
number of new
faces
with us. taking the places of those called to the
gas station ofteuer. What is the attraction. Al ? lie careful, this is how love gets started and there
is 110 .slopping it.
George Hoy reports Ted Strand taking out citi zenship papers when he came to Ohio the past win ter for work on the Pradlcy. This entitles him to vote, doesn't it. George? Anyone i" doubt about the I'.. II. TAYLOR load ing for Michigan Lime, Buffalo, in four hours, ask Herman Wolgast and John Claus.
The ride to De-
troit by train wasn't worth it. bul they reported under the circumstances. You had company, did n't you fellows ? There are two of our
crew
members.
Elmer
Fleming and John Claus. to whom we extend our congratulations for their success the past winter in obtaining their license. Our "Admiral" as Philip Florip is known to the boys, is doing nicely according to Louis Urban. After all this leaching from Louis we are sure that the navy will be proud of him when and if lie re turn.-, to Great Lakes. Don't forget. Phil, to tell them where vou learned it.
"Sinig" or "Snoo/.er." better known as Leonard Smigelski. has shown a remarkable improvement since Faster. Leonard claims something snapped and there wa> nothing to it after that.
bers to the B. H. TAYLOR and wish for the boys
"Kid Biff," "Ur steward, has decided not to go to jail next winter as he has in previous years. After the practice he has had keeping track of his ration
in the armed forces all the luck in the world.
points he is going to get a clerical job.
"Skipper" Piatt is more at ease now since he learned that the shipyard at Ashtabula where he was employed all winter did not have to close down after he left. "Skip" claims that even the officials
surprised to learn recently after sending his shoes lo be repaired that due to the size and the short
armed forces.
We welcome the new crew mem
were worried.
It is reported that some of the crew members
It is reported that Frank, our night steward, was age of leather he needed a priority rating. "Gertie." our waiter, claims that he gets tired of ii all at times. Don't let the life of a sailor get
you down, Frank, you can put the taps back on
have seen so much ice this season that they arc refusing it in highballs. Better use the ice. boys.
your shoes providing yon go without the shoes.
instead of the highball.
Out" porter claims that he enjoyed himself at Buffinglou on our recent trip to this port, lie has
It will be mighty welcome
soon around the C.ecO. Toledo Dock when the mos
quitoes start switching cars again. We regret that Ted and Allen Strand were called home on account of their dad's illness, but the boys have joined the ship again and report Dad doing nicely . 1666
reached
the
conclusion
that
someone
must
have
stolen his pass. It was a good thing that somebody could identify you. John Claus is going around at limes with that
dreamy far away expression one has when in love. We all have to go through that stage of it. John. When mav we ask, is the date? We welcome our new second assistant lo the TAYLOR—none other than Richard Haneckow.
"Red." our coalpasser, says that he is just as tough as they make 'em ... a demonstration cheer fully given at any time. George Hoy says since meat rationing he has de veloped quite a craving for seafoods of any and all descriptions.
Harry Sorgatt is just as talkative as Allen Strand. What an argument these two can put up. "Poppy" Budnick says that he is not worth a darn at spinning a yarn that wanders away from
tlie truth. Whoa!
Wait a minute. Poppy.
The crew of the Str. B. II. TAYLOR wish to
extend their sympathy at this time to the fam ilies of Harry Sorgatt and Clarence Mulka. It is said that all things must come to an end—• thus endeth our contribution to "Screenings" for this issue.
STR. JOHN G. MUNSON .
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PERSONAL ITEMS
The officers and crew of the Str. Munson regret the loss of a brother to our shipmate Kenneth Bruning. who passed away while in the service of our country. We extend our deepest sympathy. Our new deckhand. Eugene Modrzynski, started a new fad by taking a cold shower in bed before getting up.
Gene says. "It sure peps you up."
As yet the boys can't tell any stories of the big ones that got away at the Soo. because they didn't
Please remember always that the benediction of our loved ones goes with us to our work each day. therefore, we should always be mindful of our ob ligation to them, our fellow men. our employer and ourselves—to be watchful and alert to the hazards
of that task whether old or new. To plan our work
before we undertake it so that we may return safe ly and with a w hole body to our folks at the end of
the day—happy in the reward of a day dedicated— not to toil—but to service.
even get a nibble.
The weather was against us this spring, but if we bend our every effort to the task ahead, we will wind up the season ahead of the Axis. We notice that the crew members are not wear
ing goggles this year when working on deck. The reason is—new boilers—less fly ash.
We understand it's getting pretty tough to get a taxi in Puflington early in the morning. We know a few fellows who don't intend to miss the boat
very many limes way down thar. There are a number of new men on the Str. Mun
son this season—Dan Iin ford, Chct Kandow. Eu gene Modrzynski. Walter IMath. Dan Zielaskowski and George Wallace. We know these men will
make good sailors and will contribute materially to the fine job being done by the Bradley fleet. Let us firmly resolve that we shall at all times guard our lips carefully to avoid spreading informa tion that will help the enemy and hurt our cause. In formation concerning figures on production, meth ods of production, new designs and movement of
commodities or persons can easily be the answer and supply a missing link for the Axis.
Knowing full
weli too. that such information given even in con fidence to relatives and close friends in all inno
cence finds its way to the enemy and costs Ameri can lives.
The Str. CARL D. BRADLEY plowing the early spring waters of Lake Michigan. Once in awhile one of these rollers keeps on coming right over. Some of these choppy waters make life interesting for most of the new sailors.
Some think they have made a success of life, when all they've made is a lot of money.
The fellow who has the most time to kill usually wants to kill it with someone who hasn't. 1667
lor other crew members.
We really do miss him
as he was a swell sport about it all. We really hated to see Tom Hawkins leave the WHITE for the armed forces. We will all be pulling for him and wishing him the best of luck.
William "Happy" Halligan is gaining quite a repu tation as a pipe-fitter these days. "Hap" says he. STR. W. F. WHITE
PERSONAL ITEMS
Steamboaling here on the Sir. WHITE has re
could do a lot better if he could invent a way to stretch pipe after it has been cut too short. We are glad to welcome Nathan Cadwell back
turned to its normal course at least after an inter
esting beginning. The WHITE really isn't the WHITE until she gets those South Chicago and Buffalo runs, and now. it can be safely said. "Old times are here again." Being marooned in the ice for several days wasn't
on the WHITE after his recent illness. We hope "Maggie's" recovery is lasting.
Hank "(iildcrsleeve" Kaininski says he likes the WHITE fine but he would like to know who hides the levers that run the winches.
exactly exciting, but it was a changeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the change being in the diet. However, there were no fatal ities although the cooks were reported to have a vacant store somewhere in the vicinity of the icebox.
Several weary, rain-drenched, mud-spattered members of the crew finally made their way back "home" several trips ago in Buffalo after circum stances necessitated an all-night excursion up town.
It seems as though some of the boys wanted to go up and see the sights after the WHITE tied up for the night just through the Niagara Locks. The mate obligingly had them rowed ashore and prom ised to return for them when they came back. As soon as the fellows had disappeared, the Lock Guards with shotguns to enforce the law, informed the captain that they wouldn't let them back on the boat. So, to make a long story short, the men were compelled to wait until the WHITE made the unloading dock the next morning. The boys didn't mind missing the sleep but they
did not appreciate the rain and mud that came as
Alfred "Peanuts" Haneckow decided to raise a
"Van Dyke" but after going home once proudly showing his achievement to his family, he found that he had raised a row instead. once again a smooth-shaven sailor.
Want a good grease job? See "Casey" Jones. The salesman whose pants wear out before his shoes is probably making too many contacts at the wrong places.
Because we're up to our necks in war is the best reason why we shouldn't lose our heads.
The equinoxes are the two points wdiere the sun crosses the celestial equator., The length of days and nights are then practically equal. The solstices are the points wdiere the sun is far thest from the equatorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;23j/T north or south. The sun is to the northern solstice on June 20. which is the longest day of the year. The sun is to the south ern solstice on December 21, which is the shortest day of the year. William
a bonus.
The F.H.A. places no restrictions on Pill l.aLonde. Of course. Bill did his building on a small
scale. After spending so much time and effort, he hopes he will get the bird when official home open
ing takes place on top of a pole. There is a surprising turn to education on the part of some members of the crew of late. Andrew Ncdeau. Fred Beebe. Eugene Jones .and John Mil ler have a Round Table Discussion nearly every night. Anyone interested may take a hand. Entertainment is one ol the things most lack
ing on a steamboat, but the WHITE was fortunate in having as a member of its crew, a young man who was a gifted comedian. Although he didn't mean to be funny, his use of steamboat terms aroused the laughter of other members of the crew.
He
liked
lo "drive" the
boat
instead
of
Kunner
eer. and Guy La-
Piounty. r i g h t. Chief Engineer, both of the Str. T. W. ROBINS( )N are two new members of the
twenty-five service
men
year in
Bradley T r a n as portation C o mp a n y. Twentyfive years service on a lake freight er means many miles o f travel and these fellows have never miss
ed many trips in these years of ser
wdieel it. To operate the steam winches he would turn the "faucet." and instead of going down in the Engine Room he went "down cellar." Many-
vice in the interest
other like expressions were a source of amusement
of
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"Peanuts" is
the company.
left. Second Assistant Fm>in-
old Calcite. It sure gels around to different and un heard of places. Stick around. Hank, you haven't seen anything as vet.
The mail boat lightened up six inches after the mail was put off on the Calcite. You can easily tell who the single men are—not very many of them left now—at least for the duration.
STR. CALCITE
PERSONAL ITEMS
Once again the old Calcite has received her bap s
tism of coal dust, and the crew have begun to re
new old acquaintances in the coal trade. To for mer crew members we would like to report that we found the Rev. Orr in his usual good spirits and health, also our friend Mike in Toronto.
We have
n't yet been to Sodus but look forward to seeing Dave soon and expect to find him well and happy.
At the time of this writing, we have just depart ed from Sodus for Milwaukee. We wonder wdiy the captain looks as blue as his uniform—he wasn't that way before our arrival at Sodus. Cheer up. Cap, December is only thirty-one weeks away be fore lay-up. How to Remove A Fish Hook
"By all odds the 'push through' method is the best one for the removal of a fish hook in which the barb has gone in beneath the skin." it is ad
vised in the Journal of the Medical Association for May 22. "Circumstances can conceivably arise in
which it would require pushing the fish hook through a considerable distance by a curved route
The crew has been looking" forward to a duck dinner, with Chief Engr. Frederick bringing the ducks. During the last week or so some of the boys
before the barb emerges from the skin.
have begun to lose faith in the compound room as an
occurs, it would seem better to make a small incis
incubator.
ion down to the barb before pulling it out back
Step carefully around those eggs. boys,
there may be something besides ducklings in them.
The galley gang have been up to their usual high jinks, beguiling poor, innocent coalpassers into bringing up slice bars so they can slice some bread,
etc.' They are also well represented in the Don Juan department. The competition is terrific, eh, Perry, me lad?
When this
ward."
The foregoing is in answer to a question from
a physician regarding a statement published in a fishing magazine wherein it was advised that one
"take a pair of small-nosed pliers, take, a good hold on the hook yourself or have someone officiate for you. and yank ..."
Go as far as you can see and when you get there
The deck department has been having a little trouble with them durn gremlins, but never mind, boys, maybe after the war we'll be aide to get a new water jug.
you will see farther.
A bachelor may know all there is to know about women, but he won't get the truth about himself until he's married.
Our new porter. Harry Wasylk, was ringmaster at the famous Popcorn Cafe at Toledo. The only things that popped were the juke box and the cash
register, and in he popped with a piece of birthday cake for the fairer sex.
Clifford Tucker, who lives over yonder, is buying Morris another taxi at $10 a ride.
On May 17th. we celebrated the completion of twenty-five years of service with the company byWilliam Schwert.
The steward arranged a little
party for Pill, and the crew presented him with a meerschaum pipe, tobacco and perfume. We are joined in congratulating Bill on his record and hope to have him with us for some years to conic. Since the meat has been rationed, our steward always wears glasses while serving the portions.
Being skeptical, we discovered they are reading glasses which magnify. The portions of meat may look very barge to you. Fd. If you are in doubt, ask "Si" Davidson.
Three members of the deck crew of the Str. B.
II. TAYLOR with the National Safely Council tro phy won by Bradley Transportation Company in the Marine Safety Contest. Wheelsman Ted Strand. Second Mate Don Langridge and Deckwatch Louis Urban are just three of the many-
Bradley Transportation Company employees whose interest and efforts have made these honors pos
"Hank" Ncwhouse is beginning to like the good
sible.
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The Absent Worker
Judging from current comment one of indus try's number one headaches these days is absen teeism. In terms of man-hours lost to vital pro duction in these days when production is para mount and manpower scarce the problem is serious. To the layman, the cause is quite simple—the worker merely stay away from his job. To those wdio have made a study of the problem, it is much more complicated. Some companies have reported absenteeism run ning as high as 7%. Most of it is preventable and at a time like this when we need production for the preservation of our country it is inexcusable. Absenteeism has to some extent been going up ward with the increase of rates per hour and hours of work. In normal times absenteeism may result in an inefficient and expensive operation whereas in war time it can be translated into unbuilt ships, guns, tanks, and planes. The reasons given run the usual gauntlet of ex cuses and few of them outside of being sick and unable to work are acceptable reasons for being off the job. However, placing the whole responsibility on the worker no doubt is frequently unjust and does little to correct the situation.
The individual can
scarcely be blamed if he can see no difference in time off for "personal reasons" and time wasted on the job because of lack of material or ill-plan ned work.
Intelligent planning for production is manage
ment's responsibility. It should also strive to im press upon employees by word and action that their presence on the job is vital, that every man on the payroll is needed and that absenteeism—the un necessary absence of workers from the job—is un pardonable, inexcusable and is keeping from our soldiers and sailors materials and supplies that are
absolutely needed to save lives and win Victory. Thus far it has been our experience that men at Calcite prefer to work when work is available. The taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and
four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us
by allowing an abatement. Liberty, freedom, justice—may they always typ ify America.
Safety is a precious commodity in that the more of it you buy, the less it costs. Some folks think it costs a lot in time, energy and effort, and fail to realize that the people wdio pay the most for it are those wdio try to get along without it. Acci dents respect neither persons, seasons nor condi tions. There are no rest periods for safety—or va cations.
There is no official "leave of absence."
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Are You Fighting? Ask the average man or woman wdiere the hardest fighting is going on these days, and you'll get a variety of answers—depending on the latest headlines.
But the truth is that for most of us the Big War isn't being fought in Attu, Africa, in the Solomons, or in Russia. The War is waged within us. And it takes just about all the grit, gumption and guts we can muster to hold our own "fronts" in this
war of ours. Carelessness cuts in our left flank, as tricky as any Jap. Indifference is always trying to
land paratroopers behind our lines.
And plain old
Laziness gets in plenty of licks. Before we can do our best for Uncle Sam, we've got to lick these treacherous and troublesome ene mies from within. So!—up and at 'em. We must exert every- effort for the advancement, of our lines. We must put our first line of defense
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into our efforts. Say, for instance—helping the Red Cross-—not only with our dollars but taking an active part in this program. There's first aid training for the men, production corps and surgical dressings for the women, and even Junior Red Cross work for boys and girls. It's surprising wdiat response the young people have given to the needs of our fighting men—there are afghans, lap trays, games, puzzles, scrapbooks, cards and robes to add to the comfort of the sol
diers, sailors, and marines.
It's everybody's fight all right, and we can better our efforts by helping in this humanitarian service. By serving others we fight, the enemies—our en emies—the enemies within us.
Are You Responsible? "I've been looking for something to happen." "I've been afraid of that." Very often after an ac cident has happened and the bystanders are talking it over, expressions like the foregoing are com mon. The sad thing is that these men have waited too long before doing something about it. They really thought a serious condition existed and someone was hurt as the result of his negligence. A word spoken to someone may have prevented much pain and suffering. Is it going too far to say that the man wdio observed and realized the con
dition as dangerous—the man who later said, "I was afraid of that," yet had done nothing about it is to a certain degree morally guilty of the accident himself.
The fight for safety is not so much a fight against machines or conditions—the real battle is for the
unified and conscientious effort of all striving for the common cause of eliminating all conditions which may lead to pain, suffering or destruction. Everyone should own a comfortable bed and comfortable shoes because he's in one or the other all his life.
When we let the other fellow get in a word now and then besides helping the conversation it gives us a chance to catch our breath.
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; A Soldier Speaks
So you're sick of the way the country's run, And you're sick of the way the rationing's done, And you're sick of standing around in a line, You're sick, you say—well, that's just fine. So am I sick of the sun and the heat,
And And And And And
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm
sick sick sick sick sick
of the feel of aching feet, of the mud and the jungle flies, of the stench when the night mists rise, of the siren's wailing shriek, of the groans of the wounded and weak,
And I'm sick of the sound of the bomber's dive.
And I'm sick of seeing the dead alive. I'm sick of the roar and the noise and the din,
I'm sick of the taste of food from a tin,
And I'm sick of the slaughter—I'm sick to my soul, I'm sick of playing a killer's role, And I'm sick of blood and of death and the smell,
And I'm even sick of myself as well, But I'm sicker still of a tyrant's rule, And conquered lands where the wild beasts drool, And I'm cured damn' quick when I think of the day. When all this hell will be out of the way, When none of this mess will have been in vain,
And And And And And
the lights of the world wdll blaze again, things will be as they were before, kids will laugh in the streets once more, the Axis' flags will be dipped and furled, God looks down on a peaceful world. —Maude Hargfet.
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Many of us have since that time taken our flag and its significance for granted, but it has ever stood as a symbol of the life, liberty and happi ness so characteristic in the existence of the American people. And now, as always, it helps us to understand and believe in the ideas, liberties and traditions of democracy which we are fighting to preserve. It should serve to remind us that we are fighting against—not merely
enemy people—but godless, lawless, ruthless barbarism with world wide slavery as its aim, and to realize that only determined fighting at home and abroad can ever bring about the defeat of our enemies.
It admonishes each of us to accept full personal responsibility for our part in this war and to take no part in racial, class or religious antagonisms. Old Glory symbolically teaches us to have faith in our government, our allies, and our ability to achieve final victory, and to have confidence in the fact that the grectest nation on earth—our nation—is capable of win ning the peace as well as the war. *
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ESTS OF SAFETY AND WELFARE. CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE RECEIVED EARLY BEFORE DATE OF PUBLICATION. AND THEY SHOULD BEAR THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT AND SENDER AND SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. J. A. VALENTIN.
We Can Make Our Safety Record Better There are good and bad records. When we speak of a safety record we like to think of one that we can be proud of, one that is a record of good showing. 1943 has not given cause for rejoicing in the accident prevention field when we take the over-all view. We can feel grateful, though, that while the frequency has been higher than anybody wants to see, the severity has been very low. The loss of time has been low as the accidents have not been of a serious nature.
The Detroit Dock group are still keeping up a good safety record with no lost-time accidents. Good going boys! The Buffalo plant keeps working away with pep and energy on that new record with which they hope to make the old one look insignificant. Those boys in the Bradley Transportation Com pany are having a poor year as compared to the many successful seasons they have had in the past. So far four lost-time accidents are charged to the Bradley Fleet. Edward Vallee lost time from in fection, Lavern Langlois lost time from sprains and bruises, Thomas Carroll lost a few days from a sprained shoulder due to a fall, and Ivan Streich lost time from a blow in the mouth when a moving cable slipped. While all these accidents are not classed as serious, they involve loss of time and mar a safety record habitual with Bradley Boat crews. We, who know of the effort the officers and crews put into safety feel that these men will be on top again. You know how to "lick" accidents, sailors; let's give more effort to keeping men on the job every day.
The boys at the Calcite Plant are doing a good job at accident prevention. While the two losttime accidents are two too many, they have not been
serious. We are thankful for that. In the Spring Is sue of Calcite Screenings we recorded the injury to Arthur Christiansen of the Tugs. Since then Elmer Holt lost time from infection in his leg after an in jury due to a fall in a ditch. Infection causes lost time, and prompt medical attention to all injuries is the way to prevention. It's tough for men, proud of their record, to take a lost-time accident on a type of injury which can be so easily prevented. Our season is barely half over; at the present frequency the results at the end of the year will be sorry indeed. Stopping accidents where they are will give us a fair record for the season. Having them go on would be serious to the morale of the safety-conscious workers we have around us. Men, let's do our best to keep the remaining weeks free from serious injury and tragic accidents. Summer, 1943
More Zeros For The Bulletin Board When we revise the plant bulletin-board at the
end of the month and the record justifies placing a zero after a certain department,, it doesn't repre sent "something for nothing." It's difficult to com prehend just how much hard work and effort has gone into that accomplishment, not the work of an individual, but of each and every member of
the department, because it would have only taken one slip to affect the result and change it from noth ing to an accident. And did you ever stop to think of the time and energy that must have gone into the task of find ing something that means "Nothing"? In other words, the Zero itself.
In fact, we are told that one of the great in
ventions in the history of man was absolutely nothing窶配ero.
It took thousands of years for somebody to fig ure out a mathematical symbol for "Nothing." Zero was invented about 600 A. D.
It didn't reach Eu
rope until about 1000 A. D.
Zero has been taken for granted for years. But unfortunately, Zero still hasn't reached our plant bulletin-board often enough. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
And to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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My Husband's Dinner Pail What's on my mind.'' My husband's dinner-pail, symbol of a way of living. I had just washed it and put it in its usual spot beside the kitchen sink, as I had done countless
times before, when I noticed it.
Maybe it was be
cause the house was so still—the boys were out playing, and the bucket's owner was somewhere doing the funny things men do when they want to avoid doing something about the house; but all at once that battered, almost paintless piece of tin was more than just a lunchbox. It was a symbol of a way of life, my life, the American way of life. It meant security. It meant security for me in my home, and for millions of other women in their homes. It gave mute guarantee that this pleas ant way of living would go on. So long as that battered pail goes forth into the world, for that long will I enjoy enough of everything that makes life worth living. But this security is not for me alone, it extends to my children. That battered dinner-pail is their guarantee of good food to make them strong, and for their right to an education, to freedom. I do not understand things deeply, but for one fleeting moment I glimpse something bigger than my selfish life. I see that bucket going into mills, onto railroads, into mines, going anywhere its own
er cares to take it. Eager hands, free hands, on good days and bad. working at jobs of their own choice. The American way of life—too big for my kitchen-trained mind to try and explain. And now—war. Millions of eager hands setting down their buckets and picking up guns, millions willing to (lit- for the right of a free man to live free. And more millions grabbing up dinner-pails, hands that grasp the handles tin familiarly—women going out to do men's work. That battered bucket is more dangerous to I litler than a loaded gun, because it symbolizes a way of life, a will to win. and the means to victory. Tomorrow, when I clean it again, I will give it an extra shine. I'm proud of my husband's dinnerpail, and glad it is on my mind.
Keeping Fit For Service The American fighting man today tries to do two things: do away with the enemy, and stay alive. The American working man also has two aims: to make whatever the fighting men need, and to keep himself fit for turning out what the fighting men need.
The fighters are doing their part. How about the workers?
Workers are turning out the goods, but last year 47.500 workers were killed by accidents, and of these. 29.000 deaths were suffered in accidents
off the job.
That's not exactly staying fit to keep on turning (iiit war goods, is it." Ambition only leads to success when it results in doing rather than in mere wishing. 167G
.
We've a lot to be
thankful for . .
Consider Our Own Fireside
There are perhaps more homes, in the true sense of the word, in the United States than in any other country. In no other country has there ever been a race of men and women who have worked hard
er in establishing their homes, and taken greater
pride in their upkeep. Pianos, radios, refrigerators, stoves, washing ma chines, dish washers, vacuum cleaners, telephones, toasters, and many other household helps are the
rule rather than'the exception. The children in these homes have known a great er degree of luxury, of refinement and education,
than any other children in the world. Because of father's industriotisness and mother's loving care, there has been reared a fine upstanding, healthy, happy group "\ youngsters who are a credit to our age and civilization. Of necessity the war has broken many of these homes. The family circle is smaller. The young people who are not eligible for combat are never theless tremendously affected by the excitement and tempo of wartime. Xow as never before the family circle's {import ance should be kept intact as far as possible. If it is smaller, it should be more closely knit. Xow as never before we. as parents, must try to have a
broader and better understanding of the problems which confront our children, and strive to hold to
the ties which bind a family together and make home a place of refuge and peace, rather than just a place to eat and sleep. All this may sound trite or banal, but it isn't vapid nor should it be allowed to become so. Now. more than ever, we should think
well about
the
home, and what we can do to keep it well bound together while some of the family circle are away, so that it will ever be a real sanctuary for Ihe chil dren and the grown-ups who share it.
Good Humor is a priceless asset.
It is also a val
uable ally of good health and STOod will.
Our Flag—Symbol Of Freedom 1. Do not permit disrespect to be shown to the Flag of the United States of America. 2. Do not dip the Flag of the United States of America to any person or any thing. The reg imental color, State flag, organization, or insti tutional flag will render this honor.
3. Do not display the flag with the union down ex cept as a signal of distress. 4. Do not place any other flag or pennant above or if on the same level, to the right of the Flag of the United States of America.
5. Do not let the flag touch the ground or the floor, or trail in the water.
6. Do not place any object or emblem of any kind on or above the Flag of the United States of America.
7. Do not use the flag as drapery in any form what soever. Use bunting of blue, white and red. 8. Do not fasten the flag in such manner as will
permit it to be easily torn. 9. Do not drape the flag over the hood. top. sides or back of a vehicle or of a railway train or boat. When the flag is displayed on a motor car. the staff should be affixed firmly to the chassis, or clamped to the radiator cap. 10. Do not display the flag on a float in a parade except from a staff. 11. Do not use the flag as a covering for a ceiling.
12. Do not carry the flag flat or horizontally,, but always aloft and free.
13. Do not use the flag as a portion of a costume or of an athletic uniform.
Do not embroider
it upon cushions or handkerchiefs nor print it on paper napkins or boxes. 14. Do not put lettering of any kind upon the flag. 15. Do not use the flag in any form of advertising nor fasten an advertising sign to a pole from which the flag is shown. lo. Do Hi it display, tise or store the flag in such a
manner as will permit it to be easily soiled or damaged.
Falling Down On The Job We are the typical fall guys without exception— in a strictly literal sense. American worker's, scientists, engineers, and oth ers have done and are doing many tremendously amazing things, lint one of the most surprising of all is the way we continue to fall down, we just don't seem to be able to stay on our feet. More than 25.(300 Americans died last year from injuries received when they fell. That, to put it mildly, certainly is falling down on the job. And we are not choosey on how. when, or where we fall: it may be on the street, in the bathroom, living room, or out of the window: we fall out of bed
and trip over chairs we are supposed to sit in. Why are we the original fall guys? We spend much time and effort in an endeavor to stop acci dents, and yet with all the safety programs which are now going on. we can still reduce accidental deaths in our United States by 25°'° if we would but "watch our step."
Better Communities
A Stronger Nation
When Experience May Prove Dangerous There are some men who because of experience close their minds to new ideas. This quite often is found to be the case with the so-called "self-
made man," the fellow who thinks that he only is responsible for success, and overlooks entirely all that he has gained through others. He takes pride to point to his own experiences and uses them as final proof that what he says and does is right. The more years of experience some men have, the more they are apt to close their minds, and answer
all arguments by refering to their own experience. We have all. at one time or another, heard the fel
low who would ivy to beat down a man of less ex perience, not on the basis of sound ideas or neces
sarily principle, but simply on the stubborn asser tion that his years of experience should entitle him to the final answer.
Experience may be dangerous to the fellow who thinks he has learned all there is to know about
his work.
One thing that experience should teach
all of us is the fact that we live in a world of con
stant change and improvement. What is good practice today may be replaced by a better one tomorrow.
Therefore one never comes to the. end
of new experiences. We should always keep our minds open. There will always be a better way. A husbandman who had a quarrelsome family, after having tried in vain to reconcile them by words, thought he might more readily prevail bv an example.
So he called his sons and bade them
lay a bundle of sticks before him. Then having tied them up into a fagot, he told the lads, one af ter another, to take it up and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the fagot, he gave them the slicks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest of ease. Then said the fa ther: "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain unit ed, you are a match for all your enemies: but differ and separate, and you are undone." 1677
MacAE opened to nav .
was dedicated; the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY be
Vice Admiral R. R. Waesche And Party
ing the first boat to pass through the lock en route to the Algoma Steel Corporation Plant
Honored Guests At Calcite We were honored at our I'hint on July 10th by
at Saul! Ste. Marie. Ontario, with a cargo of lime
the visit of Vice Admiral
stone.
R.
K.
Waesche. Com
mandant of the United States Coast Guard, togeth er with Mrs. Waesche and the Admiral's two aides.
The Str. BRADLEY stopped just below
the lock and took aboard as guests, the military and other officials connected with the construc
Commander F. A. Leamy and Lieutenant-Com mander Arthur Hesford. Commanders Leamy and
tion and operation of the new lock, together with
Ilesford arrived by plane on July Xth and were guests of Congressman and Mrs. Fred Bradley at
on the Great Lakes. Many vessel men from Cleve land were present at the ceremony. After the
their cottage at Grand Lake.
The party were en
friends and others interested in
marine activities
BRADLEY passed into the new lock and while
route to the dedication of the new MacArthur Lock
the lock was being filled, it was christened the
at Satilt Ste. Marie, Michigan.
General MacArthur Lock by Miss Jean Barns,
Vice Admiral
and
Mrs.
Waesche
boarded
the
Steamer T. W. ROBINSON at Buffalo on July 8th arriving at Calcite the morning of July 10th.
The party visited various Coast Guard installations in our vicinity and that evening boarded the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY to make the trip to the Soo. On Sunday. July lllh. the new lock at the Soo
daughter of one of the construction engineers on
the job. Just after passing out of the lock the Str. BRADLEY stopped and the guests disem barked.
The
BRADLEY then continued on her
way to deliver her cargo. The Str. BRADLEY returned to Calcite Monday
morning and Vice Admiral and Mrs. Waesche and the aides spent the day visiting friends. They left by plane on Tuesday morning to return to Wash ington.
It was indeed a pleasure to have this party visit us and we know that they left with a very favorable impression of Calcite and its entire organization. Transportation has been the hub around which individuals and nations have revolved in their strug
gle to live and develop since the beginning of time.
The natural products of the world are sel
dom if ever located where the demand for such
products is greatest.
Thus man has been forced
to devise means of getting the world's riches to the source of demand.
The richest nations in the world must not only-
have an abundant supply of natural resources, but must be able to deliver these products of nature to
the consumer cheaply enough to compete with oth er nations.
The development of the World's transporta tion facilities and the growth of commerce through
various methods of transportation is a fascinating story which we have neither the time nor space to even touch on here. Suffice it to say that to date
lliUK LUUJ\ at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, is jation on July 11th with appropriate dedication services By Charles F. Platz The Str. Carl D. Bradley, at the left, flagship of the
lying in ihe new lock, and at the lower left are Vice
Bradley Transportation Company, was given the signal honor of being the first vessel to pass through the MacArthur Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, following its completion. Below we have a view of the Str. Bradley
Leamy, right, and Lieut.-Com. Arthur Hesford, left. The lock, completed in record time, was named for Gen. Doug
no means of moving materials has been found which can compete with water transportation. The continent of North America has two great waterway systems equalled by no other conti nent, namely, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Through these two great commercial sys
tems flows by far the greatest inland traffic In the world.
The Great Lakes are particularly important be
Admiral R. R. Waesche, center, and his aides. Com. F. A.
las MacArlhur, hero of the Pacific, by Act of Congress.
cause a large part of the coal and mineral resources of the continent are located on or near their shores.
The iron ore mines of the Mesahi Range near Lake
Superior contain some of the richest deposits in the world and furnish the largest portion of the steel necessary for our war production.
One of the bottle-necks in Steel production since the war began has been the locks at the Sault
which have held Up shipping not only because of 1679
the number of freighters moving to and from Lake Superior but also because the- depth of the locks
both the Suez and Panama Canals during their en
would not accommodate some of the newer boats
Congressman Fred Bradley, who has for years seen the need of more locking facilities to Lake Superior and whose untiring efforts were par tially responsible for its authorization, in his speech at the dedication of MacArthur Lock very aptly called the Sault Ste. Marie waterway system—"the jugular vein of the United Nations war effort."
at full load. The MacArthur Lock opened and dedicated July 11, 1943, was built in record time to relieve this congestion. The following historical data was obtained from the remarks of L. C. Sabin, vice-president of Lake Carriers Association and one time Superintendent of the Soo Locks.
tire existence."
but it was not until 1881 that the Weitzel Lock was built which was in service untl 1914 and to
Unusual Accidents The unusual manner in which on-the-job injuries to industrial workers may occur are well illustrat ed by the following examples in "Labor and Indus try." They are based on reports of industrial in juries received by the State Department during re cent weeks. In addition to providing engaging reading, the accidents described should serve to convince employers of the necessity of carrying workmen's compensation. No matter how safe the employer may believe his plant is, these cases illus trate that accidents lurk in every occupation in every industry and may strike the worker in a most
some extent in 1918 during the last war.
unusual manner.
Tonnage increased so rapidly that in 1886 4J-4 million tons of shipping and an increase in the draft
ed her arm while attempting to dip a scoop of un
of newer vessels caused the construction of the
usually hard ice cream.
Poe Lock which was completed in 1896 on the site of the old State Lock, still in use for up-bound light traffic. Commerce continued to grow and by 1906 the
A Saginaw garage worker was injured in the right arm while milking a cow in a garage. The
The MacArthur Lock is the eighth lock that has been built to enable vessels to pass to and from Lake Superior and the lower lakes. The first was a lock for canoes built on the Canadian side
in 1797-8 by the North West Fur Company. The State Lock built in 1855 and in use until 1881 accommodated some twelve million tons of
freight during this period. In 1888 it was de stroyed to make way for further improvements. Ten years after the construction of the State Lock the need for better facilities was obvious,
Poe Lock had trebled its volume and in order to accommodate the continual increase in size and
draft of new freighters, Congress authorized an other addition, the Davis Lock which is the long
est in the world, was completed in 1914, and was followed closely by a duplicate called the Sabin Lock completed in 1919. The freight passing the Sabin Lock alone during the past 24 years amounted to 956 million tons which is equal to the traffic car
ried by the Suez Canal during its entire life of 56 years. Vessels recently built are capable of loading to 24-foot draft. The traffic congestion during the
present war production schedule again brought a
A woman clerk in a dairy products store fractur
cow kicked him.
An employee killing rats with a rifle fired the gun. The bullet hit a barrel and ricocheted off the barrel
and hit another employee in the leg. While unloading a small carload of shells, a worker brought one over alongside another work er and playfully struck the shell with a hammer. It exploded and a fragment injured his fellow work er in the leg.
A foreman was injured in the head by being struck by a shovel from behind by a worker whom he had just presented with a discharge slip. An exuberant employee greeted a fellow worker by slapping him on the back. Result: the worker swallowed three nails he was carrying in his mouth. An insurance salesman for a fraternal organiza
demand for more facilities to take care of the
tion sustained fractured ribs as a result of a col
steadily increasing flow of ore and the answer was the present MacArthur Lock.
lision.
This lock was started in March 1942, and was
opened to traffic when the Str. CARL D. BRAD LEY made the first official trip through its gates with a load of limestone on July 11, 1943. The new lock is the fifth one at Sault Ste. Marie.
Four of them are owned by the United States and
one by Canada. The MacArthur Lock is 800 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 30 feet deep, which should accommodate the traffic and shipping draft for some years to come.
He was so busy chasing a bee out of his
car that he ran into another vehicle.
An employee was walking downstairs when he stepped on the shop cat, tripped, fell downstairs and injured his back and arm. Another worker put a penny in a peanut vend ing machine which didn't give. He shook it, the glass broke, and he cut his wrist. The mail clerk of the circulation department of a newspaper was wounded under the left ear with
a pair of shears wielded by a newsboy who he had just reprimanded.
An idea of the importance of the Sault may be ob tained from this statement by Mr. Sabin: "Con sidering the system as a whole, traffic through the locks, including the Canadian Canal, reached on June 1st of this year a total of three million tons.
cost the world more than $400,000,000,000, The De partment of Commerce estimates. The United States has thus far spent $112,300,000,000, Russia $96,000,000,000, Great Britain $58,200,000,000, and
This is practically double the commerce passing
Italy $8,000,000,000.
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The Cost of Hitler: The present war has already
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Tug Repairs The Frederick T. Kellers gets complete overhaul this summer By Robert H. Lucas Lowering the new boiler into the Kellers as repair work progresses. The old boiler may be seen in foreground.
On July 6th the Tug Kellers was taken out of commission and moved to the eastern side of the
lay-up basin for repairs that have been contemplat ed for several years. These repairs consisted of removing the existing equipment in the boiler room, stiffening of the hull where it was weak ened by age, and the installation of new boiler
old riveted pads with screwed openings, were re moved, and new pads made from live-eighths-inch boiler plate were riveted on. To these pads were welded forged steel welding necks with flanged ends. Another repair, which was requested by the I". S. Coast Guard inspection service, was the renewal of the bottom section of the combustion
chamber wrapper sheet.
room equipment. same
When the old boiler was removed, several of the
boiler which was removed from the old tug Mason
frames were found to be worn pretty badly as was suspected, but the hull plates themselves were still
The
boiler
which
was
installed
was
the
several years back. The boiler is the same age as the one removed from the tug Kellers (constructed in 1898). and extensive repairs were made on it
at the General Repair shop, to put it back in use ful operating condition.
Repairs began in the fall
of 1942 and started with the removal of the water
legs to a point just above the grate line.
A new
mud ring was designed and the plate used in the water legs was increased from nine-sixteenths to five-eighths. The new plates were attached to the old by welding, and were secured by 114-inch stays with welded collars at the weld line.
The neces
sary number of stays were installed in the newplates to allow a working pressure of 155 pounds per square inch. While this was being done the
in fairly good condition. These worn frames were stiffened by welding angles to the old frames, after they were cut down to where the metal was of its original thickness. Other places throughout the boat were also gone over in the same manner af
ter being inspected by the government inspector. New coal bunker framing and plates were in stalled, as well as a new cast iron firing floor. A new steel throttle valve was attached to the engine, from which a seamless steel tubing main steam line ran to the boiler. The steering engine was found to be badly in ni:c(\ of repair and was over hauled completely at the shop. When the steering engine was re-installed it was lowered so as to re move the bow in the steering rods to the rudder quadrant, A new inner stack and breaching were made at the shop and the outer stack was repaired.
The job is not yet complete, but it is planned to have the tug back in service this month.
The boiler which was installed on the tug Kel lers is smaller than the one removed, by about 350 square feel of heating surface, but should be plenty large enough to handle the load required. The working pressure on the boiler removed had been
cut to 120 pounds per square inch, but 155 pounds per square inch will be allowed on the new installa
tion.
UU*
Although the boiler installed is smaller, it
was deemed advisable to use it. as asking For steel to build a new boiler would not only be a hindrance to the war effort, but would be almost impossible, due to the shortage of boiler plate. Our Bay City industrial crane carefully lifts the old boil
3 '-••>^N- ^stom——|
er out of the Tug Kellers during dismantling period. (081
The Steel Industry And Great Lakes Transportation Vital For Victory hard steel for machinery, the strong
All the world looks to the United States for the materials of war. For
steel for refineries, tough steel for crankshafts, rust-resisting steel for
in American industry is seen the teem ing force to produce the tools of vic tory. Into the production of these war
exhaust valves and steel for delicate
instruments.
goods must go the resources of a na tion—to be mined, processed, and man ufactured into the desired objects. Many of these implements of war and destruction are constructed basically of steel.
about 91,000,000 tons per year, and with the free and uninterrupted move ment of raw materials to the steel in
Therefore, steel has become known as the
strength or fibre of American life. From the re port of the Steel Journal we gather the information which tells the story of American strength in steel. More than 243,640,000 tons of raw materials were consumed in American
blast furnaces
and steel-
making furnaces during the past year. This re sulted in the production of 62,446,000 tons of fin ished rolled steel products. Over three-quarters of the total tonnages of ma terials consumed were for the manufacture of pig iron. Most of the pig iron was utilized in the in dustry's steel furnaces together with steel scrap and limestone to make steel.
The capacity for pro
ducing steel in the United States is
The remainder of
the pig iron, about 15%, was consigned to found ries.
(The graph, in simple form, illustrates the proc ess of making steel and the amounts of raw ma terials used.)
The various grades and types of steel produced and the manner in which they are produced depend upon the use to which the final product is utiliz ed. The peculiarities of the many types of steel are as advantageous for the prosecution of the war as they were in peacetime, and the processing of the various steels requires the utmost in accuracy
despite the greatly augmented production sched ule—as the light and tensile steel for airplanes, the
dustries this goal can be attained. However, shipments of iron ore at present are behind schedule by five million tons, but with favorable weather and the increased efforts of the
transportation system, the goal set forth will pro vide enough raw materials to produce satisfactor ily the necessary volume of steel products. The addition of the new lock at Sault Ste. Marie will
also facilitate in the delivery of ore to the blast and openhearth furnaces as scheduled. One of the greatest factors in making possible the world's largest output of steel products this year is a trained and efficient working force—to mine, trans port, and manufacture raw materials into tanks, ships, 'planes, guns and ammunition. The effectual measures taken to step-up arma ment production affects everyone of the citizens of this country. Only a small percentage of the finished steel products will be alloted for civilian need this year, and for this reason we must learn to take especial care of our present steel equip ment and machines, to have these articles repaired before they become so worn as to render them unserviceable.
Our cooperation is also necessary for an ade quate and efficient transportation system to keep production of war goods at maximum. With full util ization of American manpower, resources, and in genuity we can be assured of a quicker victory.
Record Tonnage of Raw Materials Consumed by Steel Industry in 1942 l88.6i5,ooo Ton/
of Jtciw Materials
want into Bla/f Furnace/ IScrap
ore
\4I.Bi%O00ren
103,640,000 Tonr
1051558,000 Ton/
Of.Raw Materials went into Steel Furnaces
59.076.000 Ton/ or"
Ilimzsiom 22,857.000 Toar
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Pig Iron
Produced
' 8.545,000 Ton/ Sold outVida Steal Industry or ncA conAimed during year
86.Q32.000 ton/ of
\Sfeel Ingots
1and Castingf
62,446,000 Tons of Hoi-Rolled Product/
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r
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jOtzhaxtmant
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BLASTING CREWS
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CARPENTER SHOP
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DRILLS
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DRILLS
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Thomas Kelley John Dembny
MACHINE SHOP
Frank Reinke
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William Heller
Adolph Sorgenfrei
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POWER HOUSE SHOVELS
George C. Wing
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Leon Ruell
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SHOVELS
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Walter Pilarski Chas. Hoffman
ELECTRICAL CREWS
MILL
CLahtai aiYt
Fred LaLonde
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TRACKS
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John Modrzynski
TRACKS
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Peter Giovangorio
TRANSPORTATION
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Victor Koch
TRANSPORTATION
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C. C. Eldridge
YARD
Otto Zempel
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DETROIT DOCK
E. 6. Metzen
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STR. T. W. ROBINSON STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
Capt. C. R. McQuinn Chief Guy LaBounty
Capt. C. A. Thorsen Chief Arthur Urdal
STR. W. F. WHITE
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Capt. M. R. MacLean Chief J. A. Anderson
STR. CALCITE
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Capt. Leo Moll Chief Chas. Frederick
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Hospital Service Plan Members of Hospital and Surgi cal Benefits Committee who pre sented the Michigan Hospital Service Plan to company em ployees are, left to right: Joseph Waytosek, Griffin Pines, Gerald Burns, Joseph Kline, Frank Richards, Walter Idalski, Clare Macklem, and Clarence Stewart.
The wealth of a nation is the health of its people. Americans enjoy a higher level of health than any other country in the world. This situation is. in substantial part, the result of the services of a far-
flung system of well-equipped hospitals with sci entific equipment and trained personnel, Through out the LJailed States there are more than 6,000
hospitals with approximately 1,000.000 beds contin uously available to the people for the prevention
teachers in Dallas. Texas, made an arrangement with
the hospital <>f Baylor University, in which the hospi tal agreed to provide twenty-one days of hospital
care each year at a cost of about 75c per month. The arrangement proved so satisfactory to both the teachers and to the hospital, that soon other groups of employed people requested the privilege of coming under the same type of arrangement.
This was agreed to—and the first hospital service
and cure of disease.
plan was born.
Today one family in five sends a patient to a hospital each year. During 1941 nearly half of the
Soon after, similar arrangements were worked out in other hospitals in the Southwest; in Sacra mento. California, and in Newark, New Jersey. As experience grew, it became evident that to be suc cessful, from the subscriber's viewpoint, such an arrangement must include all of the hospitals in a given area. This principle was soon incorporated in the organization of the various plans.
2,000.000 babies born in the United Stales first saw the light of day in a modern hospital. Hospital care has become a necessity, a regular part of the program which any family hopes to establish at the beginning of a year.
(iood hospital care costs money. The need [or hospital care does not of itself provide resources with which to finance it.
The uncertainty of con
In 1933. the American Hospital Association rec ognized the value of this arrangement, both to the
tinued good health has created a special problem
general public and to the hospital concerned.
to the citizen in the payment of his hospital bills and a similar problem to hospital administrators and trustees in the payment of the hospital bill for salaries, supplies, and other services. A plan had to be devised to help both the individual and the hospital. No one can tell when he will need hospital care,
that year, it passed a resolution stating that the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Asso
or what the costs of such service will be.
Conse
quently, individuals and families have not been able to place hospital care in the budget along with other necessities—food, clothes, and shelter.
A large group of individuals representing a cross-
section of the public can accomplish what is impos sible for any one of them acting alone. The total cost of hospitalization can be estimated accurately for a group, each of whom may make regular and equal payments into a common fund to be used
for the purchase of hospital care for those requir ing; such service. In a land of free enterprise, private initiative usu ally provides the answer to a general and wide
spread need like this. The need for hospital care proved to be no exception. In 192°. about 1500 school 1684
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ciation approved the principle of hospital insurance as a practical solution of the distribution of the cost ol hospital care, which would relieve some financial
embarrassment
ami
even
some disaster
in the emergency of sickness of those who are in
receipt ol limited incomes. In the same year, it issuer! a small folder outlining the essentials of an acceptable plan for group hospitalization. Among
these essentials are: 1. Emphasis on public health and welfare.
2. Free choice of physician and hos
pital. 3. Non-prolit organization. -4. Economic soundness. 5. Coopcrative and dignified promotion. These basic principles have guided the public
ami the hospitals in the establishment of 77 com munity hospital plans, which now cover almost the entire United States and Canada. The growth of these plans in recent years has been rapid. For example, ten years ago, in January 1°33. there was one plan which met these standards with the total enrollment estimated at 2.000 persons. By Januarv 1. 1938. there were 38 such organizations with
an enrollment of 1.360.000. By January 1st of 1943. there were 77 plans with the total enrollment well
The Government Urges Us To
in excess of eleven million subscribers.
During the course of this development, great contributions have been made in time and effort
by many individual citizens, public groups, hospitals, and the American Hospital Association. Probably the greatest single contribution to the successful de velopment has been through the Hospital Service Plan Commission, organized by the American Hos pital Association. Its function has been that of a supervisory body charged with protecting the in terest of the public and the hospitals. In order to do this, it has established certain
standards
fe>r
approval. These standards incorporate the orig inal recommendations of the American Hospital Association, as given above, and provide in addi tion: 1. The administration of the hospital plan should provide adequate representation of the gen
Buy More Bonds According to figures recently made available, last year the individuals' bank deposits and secur ities of 11.8 billion dollars, their purchase of bonds together with the corporation cash and bond de
eral public and medical profession and the hospi tals. 2. The ultimate responsibility fe>r service
posits amounted to 36 billion dollars, or approxi mately 30% of the national income produced for
should be accepted by the member hospitals. 3. Ad equate records shall be kept, indicating funds avail able for hospitals, contingency reserve ami admin istrative expense. 4. The re-approval by the Hos
With measures being adopted to prevent any rise in inflation in our country, it is necessary that we
pital Service Plan Commission is based upem the or ganization's record of community service. 5. Pay ment to hospitals should be based on the cost of these services provided to the subscriber, The rigid application of these basic principles has served to provide the public with a reliable and responsible medium for meeting the need for budg eting hospital expenses. It has provided the hos
pitals with an assurance of adequate pay for large numbers of people who previously had to make their own credit arrangements. One of the leaders in the development in hospital service plans has been John R. Mannix. While he
was the superintendent of the hospital in Klyria. Ohio, he worked out the basic benefits and rates
that would be necessary to provide hospital care for his whole community.
Later, as the director of the
Western Reserve University Hospital Group, heserved as a member of the Board of Directors of
the Cleveland Hospital Service Association, one of the early hospital service plans, When the Michigan hospitals, in 1938. were con sidering the establishment of a hospital plan in this state, he was asked to help develop the organzation and become its director. The Michigan Hospital Service, organized in 1939. is the only hospital plan in Michigan meeting the Standards establisheel by the American Hospital Association as enumerated above. It lists as participating hospitals, 133 of our 135 general non-profit hospitals in the state. In a little more than four years it has enrolled nearly a million subscribers, has rendered hospital service
the year.
as individuals take whatever precautions are re quired to evolve a practical method of control. We must learn to spend and to save wisely, and to utilize our savings to best advantage.
\\ e. in America have known a progress, a bet terment ol our economic conditionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even the aver
age family has enjoyed comforts which were un
attainable to the average of foreign peoples. Hence it is difficult to educate the people of our country to the actual fact that despite the increased pur chasing power the supply of goods i< dwindling, and therefore prices will invariably rise because people are bidding higher on the goods available.
By allotting a greater portion of our income for the purchase of war bonds instead of endeavoring to purchase the scarcer commodities, we' are ef
fectively maintaining economic stability, thus con trolling to a degree the upward trend of inflation. We are being urged by the Government to pur chase more bonds than we have in the past. The amount ol bonels we can purchase depends upon the efforts we make to avoid unnecessary spend ing ami by budgeting our finances. Our records lor the first seven months of
this year indicate that the Michigan
Limestone e\- Chemical Company has a monthly average of 10.4% and the
Bradley Transportation Company has maintained 11.6% payroll deductions lor the purchase of bonds. The special drive for bonds during the month of September will greatly tax our finances, but there is every indica
valued at more than eight million dollars to 200.000 persons. This service has been made possible by
tion that Ave, as individuals, can at
the cooperation of some 3200 groups of employed people.
by the U. S. Treasury Department.
tain the 15-bill.ion-dollar goal set
though it were the last: to be' tranquil, sincere.
I live on the sunny side of the stre'et; shady folks live on the other. I have always preferred the sunshine and have tried to put other people there.
yet not indifferent to one's fate.
if onlv for an hour or two at a time.
This is moral perfection: to live each day as
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Collection of Income Tax at Source-On Wages By Fred J. Fisch What difference is the new pay-as-you-go tax
employer gives you a receipt lor the amount he has
plan going to make to you? Are your income tax troubles ended? Will it relieve you of the year's biggest headache,
deducted and turned over to the government. You
the one which conies on about the middle of Febru
ary when you start thinking about making out your
find you have paid too much in 1943. you will get a refund or a credit. If you have not paid enough,
annual return, and reaches a climax on or just be
you must pay the difference in cash—right then.
fore March 15th?
Xow we come to another new worry—the victorv tax. As you know, your employer has been
Above all. since the new law "forgives" 75% ol"
your 1942 tax debt, does it make it unnecessary for vim to pay the second installment which became due June 15. 1943? Your second income tax payment should have-
have to compute your tax in the usual way at the usual time—March 15, 1944.
deducting this tax from your pay -since the first of the year. This tax is computed at 5% of all you earn over $624 a year. The rate of taxation is exactly the same for everybody, whether he is married or single, or has one or a dozen depend
been made as usual on June 15, 1943. How come? you ask. What is all this stuff about "forgive
ents.
ness" anyway?
er than for the incemie tax.
Well, that's a matter of book
If at that time, you
Thus for most people the exemption is low That means that more
keeping. It simply means that the lax installment you paid on March 15th, and the one you paid on June 15th. will be credited on the Treasury's books against your 1943 income taxes, instead of those
people are subject to this tax than to the regular income tax. For instance, a married man making $1200 a year will be exempt from income tax but
for 1942.
ments—one-half on March 15. 1944. and the other
the amount collected in this way is to be refunded after the war. You can, however, get this refund earlier by purchasing War Bonds, or paying life in surance premiums. Since most people will be in a position to claim this creelit against their 1943 taxes, the new law provides that after July 1st the victory tax will be collected at a 3% rate. For those subject to income taxes it is included in the
half on March 15, 1945.
20% withholding,
Thus when the new withholding plan be
gan te> operate on July 1st. your 1943 taxes were
paid up to that date and thereafter they will be paid as-you-go—that is. emt of each pay check. But remember that if your 1942 tax lull was more
than $50 you will still owe the fourth of it lhat was '"unforgiven." This may be paid in two install These two payments are
not from victory tax.
According to law 2% of
Those not subject to incemie
tax. will have 3% taken out of their paychecks.
"carry-e>vers" and are in addition to current taxes for these two vears. Thus vou will pay all of 1943 taxes in 1943. ' in 1944 you will pay all of lhat year's taxes plus \2y>c'v of your 1942 taxes, ami the same holds true in 1945. For instance, if your tax for 1942 was $100 you will be forgiven 75°/< of it. leaving one-
for it in your tax returns of next March 15th. If you make a regular income tax return it must show not only your usual income tax. but your victory
quarter or §25 to be paid in 1944 and 1945 in two equal installments. There is one exception to this.
All married persons whose wages exceed $3,500 and all single persons whose wages exceed $2,700
If your income was larger in 1942 than in 1943. you
must file an estimated return which is due Septem ber 15. 1943. In case you are requireel to file an estimated return, you proceed exactly as you do in making out your regular return, except lhat you work with probable rather than actual earnings.
will pay the 1942 tax in full and take your 75% for giveness on the small 1943 income. Now let's see just what the new plan is and how it works. This new bill does not change ex isting income tax rates. It merely alters the meth od ol collection. For most pee>ple—all those on
regular payrolls—this new system of cedlection which started on July 1st, toe>k out of their pay en
velopes about 20% of their wages over and above certain exemptions-, The amount taken out elepends on whether you are married or single, and whether you have dependents or not. Don't get
the idea that this 20% per cent deduction from your pay check constitutes your income tax. It does not. Actually it is a security for your tax. \n amount based on the lax rale of the average indi vidual which the government takes as soon as you
earn it. This it keeps until the exact amount of your tax for 1943 is determined. At the v.n>\ of the year, or whenever you stop working for him. your 1686
But—and this is the new worry—you must account
tax as well.
Those who make no income tax returns
must nevertheless make victory tax returns.
You estimate as nearly as you can what your in
come for the year will be. You take your personal exemption in the usual way, $500 if single, or $1200 if married, your $350 credit for each dependent, and your deductions for interest, charitable contribulions. taxes, etc. Then you compute your lax. in cluding not only the normal and surtax, but the
victory tax as well. On March 15, 1943, you make your Final tax return, because when you made your estimated return back in September, you were not absolutely certain either as to your income or your deductions. Only now you are able to use exact instead of estimated figures. If the actual figures
show that you owe the government money on your 1943 taxes, you must pay it then (in a lump sum)
together with one-hall of the amount still due on
your 1942 taxes. Now let's see how all this works
the next bracket, and $8.80 is withheld. As the Gov
out in an actual case which involves out of the or
ernment REFUNDS ANY OVER-PAYMENT OF
dinary factors.
WITHHOLDING
Take John Doe, for instance. He is a married man, the father of one child and his wages are $2400 a year. Now if this were all of his income John would
forms are filed on March 15, 1944, there should be
not have to file an estimated return on September
15th because his wages are less than $3500 annually. The amount withheld from his semi-monthly check
would be presumed to cover his taxes and he would be in the clear. However, John has a little outside incomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;$500 in dividends and $318 net for the rent of a house. Because this is in excess of $100, John must file his estimated return on September 15th, and the chances are that he will also have to make
a further tax payment at that time. It's easy to see why. Beginning with July 1st, John has been sub ject to the withholding tax from his wages, but nothing has been applied on the tax due on his oth er income. Using a duplicate of his 1942 tax re turn as a guide, John sees that his gross income for that year was $3218. He decides that it will be about the same for 1943.
He also estimates that his
allowable deductions will be similar, $80 interest,
$100 taxes, and $75 contributions. Totaling these he gets $255 which he subtracts from his gross in come, to get his net income of $2963. Since his ex emptions as a married man and his credit for his dependent child remain the same, his normal tax at 6% and his surtax at 13% are exactly what they were for 1942; $67.00 and $783.69 respectively. To this he must now add the victory tax computed at 5% of his gross income over $624. This comes to $129.70. Because he has bought enough war bonds, John can take a 42% credit on this amount. This makes his victory tax $75.23 and gives him a total estimated tax of $325.92. Against this he balances his estimated credits.
These are:
1. The 5% victory tax withheld by his employer from January 1st to June 30, 1943, $1200, less $312, 5% of which is $44.40. 2. The estimated withholding payments which his employer will deduct between July 1st and Decem ber 31, 1943, at the rate of $14 a month, $200, less $104, and $26, equals $84.00.
3. The two installments of $62.67 paid on his 1942 income tax in March and June of 1943, $125.34. Adding these together, John finds that he has a tax credit of $253.74 to set off against his estimated tax of $325.92. This he finds, leaves him owing Uncle Sam $72.18, half of which he pays on Sep tember 15th when he files his estimated return, and half on December 15th.
Thus when March 1944
rolls around, he should be square with Uncle Sam. If, however, he has received any extra, unexpected income, he will have to report it and account for it in his final return.
In order to expedite the putting deductions on our semi-monthly payroll, we use the bracket sys tem to calculate each employee's tax. By referring to the semi-monthly bracket sched ule, if an employee having a single status, with no dependents, earns $60 semi-monthly, his "withhold ing" is $5.80. However, if he earns $61 he falls into
TAX
when
the
Income
Tax
no objection if the "withholding" exceeds the actu al tax by a few dollars.
Deep Breathing The Journal, "How to Live," published by the Life Extension Institute, says that, ordinarily, breathing should be unconscious; but, every day deepbreathing exercises should be employed. "A hundred deep breaths a clay" is one physician's rec ipe for avoiding tuberculosis. These may be taken a dozen at a time at convenient intervals through the day. A Russian author who suffered a nervous break-
clown, and who tried many other aids to health without success, finally went to the mountains for several months and found that a
retired life in
which simple deep-breathing exercises were prac ticed systematically every clay, effected a cure. Deep breathing is a great resource for people who are shut in most of the day. If they will seize .the chance, whenever it offers, to step out-of-doors and take a dozen deep breaths, they can partly compensate for the evils of indoor living. In ordinary breathing only about ten per cent of the lung contents is changed at each breath. In deep breathing a much larger percentage is chang ed, the whole lung is forced into action, and the circulation of the blood in the abdomen is more
efficiently maintained, thus equalizing the circula tion throughout the body. The blood-pressure is also favorably influenced. Breathing exercises should be deep, slow, rhyth mic, and through the nose, not through the mouth. Muscular exercises stimulate deep breathing, and, in general, the two should go together. But deep breathing by itself is also beneficial, if very slow. The systematic practice of slow, rhythmic, deep breathing gives a much-to-be-clesired clearness of mind to the mental worker. Emmanuel Kant prac ticed deep breathing faithfully every day and re joiced in having "fresh air circulating in the brain." Deep breathing also "cheers up" a depressed person and substitutes a feeling of good spirits. Columbus had a good idea when he clung to a belief in the roundness of the world.
So did the
early pioneers who opened the vastness of Amer ica's west. So did Henry Ford and Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Morse. They and thou sands of others with vision made the United States
great. They all had an idea. Within industry there are countless men and women today who have ideas. Their suggestions have brought and will bring better, safer, smoother production. No man can think of everything. The ideas of every worker are needed in this all-out
production drive. If you want ideas, the formula is simpleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;look out for them. Most ideas are the result of looking and listening.
Have you an idea? 1687
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COMPANY HONOR ROLLS
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Michigan Limestone ev Chemical Company
Alex Beebe Herman Steinke
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Joseph Darga Jr. Charles Furtaw Xorval Bade
P...
Clarence Flelridge George Cook
William Con ley Jack Florip
Christian Beukema
Ralph Peppier
\'ern Pauley Rudolph Schalk
J. Harry Montych
Paul L. Mulka
Ivan Lozera
William Cherette Robert Pearse
Howard Soper
Wilbert Ohlrich
Howard Goetseh
James O'Conner
Earl Berg
Royal Schulwitz Ernest Adrian
Jsadore Pines
Donald Pearse
Lawrence Bannon
George Glosser
Alfred Brege
Henry Hoffman
William Cook-
Fred Kit ft
Robert Santinio
Arthur Sanlini
Robert Patzer Jr.
LeRoy Warwick Ralph O'Toe.le Jerome Kowalski
Alvin Vilburn
Elmer Brege Russell Bey
E. B. Metzen
Albert Strieker Russell Smart
Roy Strieker
Charles Wall
Raymond Grigg
Marvin Klanu Ivan Bannon
Edward Smith
James Dovolis
Bernard Wagner Jr Bernard Urban Robert Noffze
Henry Fleming
Dale Ferero
Carl J. Schaedig
Kenneth PanII Iveme Pines
Lewis J. Patterson
Anthony Glentz
Orval Pines Robert I laneckow
Carl Pilarski
Lloyd Dullack I)oiiald Conley
Clayton Plopp
Glen Wenzel
Norman Stott
Calvin .Meyer Ernest Tulgetske
Theodore Urban Robert Ferdelman Robert Lee
Eugene Kitchen
Ralph Gapske
Gerald Greengtski
Bradley Transportation Company
Xelson Free
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Leonard F\cwelling Lyle Goulette
ft
Norman Fleming
Marlow Pardeike
Paul Relax Emil Lielzow
Adolph Wolgast.
Peter Kowalski
Howard Elowski
H en ry Modrzyns ki
Carl Mulka
Lawrence Haselhuhn
Richard Santimo
J lelmuth Schultz
(rordon Jaeger
Edmund Jackson
William Robarge
Benedict Kowalski
Leo Hilla
Erwin Adrian
Edward Modrzynski
Edward Langlois Theophilus Pilarski
Arthur Bey
Orval Poch
Clifton Daly
Kenneth Tulgetske
Robert Zemple Elmer Schaedig
D. Jack Berg Julian Kowalski
Howard Hoffman Norman Pardeike
Theodore Pose E. Bruce McLennan
Robert Trapp
i'.el ward Wasylk
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Dear Fellows:
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We all know that you are doing a
splendid job in the army, navy, marines, and wher ever you are stationed. Your letters to us and to
Wallace Dagner
Lrhardt Gram ban
Ferd Limberg Frank Kilipiak
Ralph Patzer Elmer Wenzel Jr. :V
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Eddie Wasylk. Bill Conley. F.lmer Wenzel Jr.. Leo Hilla, Royal Schulwitz, Howard Flow sky, Ben
Kowalski, Ralph Gapske, Iverne Pines and Pat Pat
in
terson when ihey were home- on furlough recently. It's a pleasant feeling to be able to talk things over with you fellows. As for us, we're keeping pretty busy—-the sailors have their hands lull keeping those boats going oil schedule—and those of us at the plant can't afford
the navy and is now a first-class petty officer in the amphibian force in active duty, from S Sgt. Bud Scbultz—now with a bemibing squadron in the South Pacific, and from Pfc. Ernest Adrian. Ernie is a clerk with the Army Air Force at Fort Dix, Xew Jersey, after receiving training in Florida
cllorts are directly affecting you. you can be sure of. winning bets that we're doing what we can to help yon. It's going t<> be a great day when we can gel together again to tell each other of our experiences.
and at Fort Logan. Colorado. 11 was good to see such fellows as Xorm Stott,
So until victory, we're in there pitching! - Plain and Boat Employees.
the other folks here at home are interesting and
greatly enjoyed, and we are all right-proud of your achievements.
Letters have come to us recently from Cpl. Bob Xoff/e. who tells of his duties as a clerk in a Flor ida Air
1088
P.ase.
from
Bob
Patzer,
who enlisted
to be slackers, either.
When
we think
that our
William Conley is station ed at Camp Ellis, Illinois, in the Signal Section. Bill is now a corporal, and before his induction last
January he worked in the Electrical Dept. We were very happy to see Bill on his recent furlough—he is certainly looking fine. Some ol these soldiers are
so trim there's going to
be heavy competition lor the- old-time top bowlers whenever the boys return. Pvt. Leo 11ilia was home
just recently on a fur lough Irom camp some where in the vicinity of New York City. He has
Pvt.
Elmer
Wenzel
Jr.
was just nicely getting acquainted with work on the boats when he was call eel into service. He is
the sou of Elmer Wenzel,
Power House Engineer. Elmer will make a good soldier—no one can have a doubt in the world about that—ami his smile ineli-
cates that the army is quite all right. Good luck. Elmer—and here's hoping
that you keep on smiling! Pvt. Edward Wasylk was employed as a porter dur ing the past season and at present is doing his bit as a truck driver at Camp
seen several local fellows
Swift. Texas.
in his travels in the great metropolis. Before his
an Engineer Battalion and
induction into service Leo
worked on
the
Bradley
tells
us
that
Eddie is in he has
al
ready gained a great deal of
valuable
knowledge
boats in the Engine De
about
partment, and after the war he's thinking of re turning to his first love— sailing the Great Lakes.
the building of
One more of our sailors
who is doing his bit on
.Also serving with the armed forces is Pfc. Roy-
laud
trucks
as well as
bridges
which are but two of the
his many duties. Eddie's father is a shovel pitman.
Howard
al Schulwitz. who work
Elowske, in the infantry
ed in the Yard Depart
and stationed Lewis in the
ment as oil house at tendant and truck driver until last March. "Schul-
is
Private
at Fort State of
Washington. He has been ber of 1942. I lowanl and Benedict Kowalski are
ly" is attending Motor Transport School at At lanta. Georgia, learning
in the army since Novem
buddies in the same cam))
diesel repair. The reason
and recently came home together on furlough. A
he
brother. Harvey Flowskc.
was home on a furlough to see the new daughter.
works in the Track Dent.
appears so
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proud m
ibis picture is that
he-
This picture of Lieut, and Mrs. Lewis J. Patterson
Pfc. and M rs. Iverne Pines are enjoying that longawaited fur lough. I ve rne was employed in the Sampling Dept. ami Mrs. h'nes was a member of the Ac-
"Pat" and Marion live in Wilmington, X. C, where
counting St aff. They are now living in Columbus. Ga.
"Pal" instructs in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery School.
ivfrv
was taken when they were in Rogers last month.
Three members of one family. Theeidore. Bernard, and Clement Urban, are station
ed at the same camp. Fort Lewis. Wash. Ted and Bert were employees when in ducted:, and Clem was a vacation worker.
News Items From The Buffalo Plant Along With News Stories Of Interest To Us M te !*.,
Our Honor Roll
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Hans Betsshart Frank Gorski
William Larivey Henry Podraza
James Hill
Richard Somber^
By Our Plant Reporter From Sgt. W. J. Kowalski we hear about the great outfit he is in (The Air Fe>rce Supply Group), and we quote from Walter's letter: "Supplies are ihe most important thing between winning and losing this war. and this outfit is trying to bat
Sarafino Te)iiiani
100% to keep them flying."
Maxwell Maybee
Arthur F\>ster
know you boys are doing ri fine job and are thankful.
Robert Stephany Louis Tomaui
James Gorman John Kroff Jr.
wish
Kenneth Board Michael Gorman
Edward Laub George Penu
(Murphy Juniors) instead of three. record and it ties Biug Crosby.
Harold Kroff
Alfons Swiatosz
Walter
Kowalski
SlSfelSg
William West
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Since the last issue of the Calcite Screenings we
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The new "Car Loader" has been in service since
May 2nd anel to date has proven very satisfactory. It consists of a flexible pan conveyor mounted on
It permits sacked lime
stone to be received from the head pulley of main conveyor serving bagging machines, and conveys sacks directly into car for loading. It replaces the old method of men carrying sackeel limestone from car door into cars.
improvements scheduled
error.
There are now
four
That's some
"Red" Fodraza was home on furlough the hit ler part of July and Surprised us all by getting mar ried.
The future
to correct an
He spent his honeymoon in Detroit, and is
now back in California.
The New Car Loader
wheels and self-propelled.
Yes. Walter, we all
for Fall
Lizzie wants to know if the Government is feed
ing and paying his two sons?
He seems to doubt
it, as he has been supporting them ever since they got into the Army. Frank (juido is our new Fditor. and he has some
job to equal Joe Caruana's fine record, but he may surprise us and do a better job.
John Slaltery is doing a swell job as oiler,
he's
mrtty too).
seasem :
A new type pan conveyor feeder to replace pres ent feeeler. It will be automatically controlled as
to capacity, by a link belt PIV unit (a variable speed reducer), and will carry a section of stone 24 inches wide and IS inches deep. When running only 4 feet per minute it will load 15 tons per hour into dryer kiln. Its purpose, is to eliminate the pres ent bottle-neck during winter months, that of load ing frozen materials into dryer with old type feeder with a discharge Opening of 18 inches by 6 inches. Liplak furnace will supplement present hand-fired furnace.
It is thought this will eliminate oil fur
nace and save fuel oil. as this furnace acts as a
booster for coal furnace in drying limestone for pul verizing. The increased efficiency to be gained by installing the stoker will result in eliminating oil furnace from further service. Since the accident to William Collins, which re
sulted in a "lost time accident" during the month
of February, we have had a few minor accielents em our new loading conveyor. These were stopped by installing a guard around the head pulley of this unit. One injury occurred when the guide wheels of this conveyor ran over the foot of an employee, resulting in a slight injury which could have been avoided by wearing safety shoes. With
the influx of new men into our organization the effort of the older employees to watch, instruct
and guide these men. will be the factor to reduce accidents to the zero mark, on the palh of estab lishing a new and better safety record. The old one ended in February after 38 months of no lostlime accidents. 1690
Bill "Case_\- Jones" Collins has been back on old 13 for a month, anel according to that smile he's sporting, wc take it he's fully rece>vereel from his injury.
Our expert "angler." John "newer say die" Rychnowski. was out fishing for one week.
His total
catch amounted to four minnows and a rubber boot.
Familiar Sights: Willis Harold and his gigantic alarm clock head ing for the mill.
Joe Caruana putting air in his right front tire. Billy, witli his pipe smoking like a three-alarm fire.
Jimmy llluhanich punching his lime card on the wrong side.
Rat McCaul cranking his car at 8 a. m. every morning. Tom Karlinski leaning all over the furniture in
the shipping office.
Bobby Collins punching in at 9 a. in. Eugene Hill reluctantly heading for the loading platform. Bob Hagin mowing the lawn with his bright red lawnmower.
When Roy Taylor of Stone-Mix, slid down the
side of one of the- trucks and cleaned Up half of theyard, and also put a dent in his character. We thought he had slipped, but Freddy Harrison told us he dropped one of his cigars. Bob Ilagin's son. Carl 1)., named after Mr. Brael-
ley, former president of our company, joined the Navy in July.
Our friend Mickey Scanlon rides to work in style now-a-days and, from all reports, it's the "Merry Widow Waltz" he hums.
John Collins heard from our friend Frank Gorski in North Africa. He must have been busy, for all he said was, "Thanks for the Check, will write more later."
Murphy was informed that his brother, Ensign S. C. Rychnowski, has left for the South Pacific. He's a pilot.
James Gorman left for sea duty in July with the rank of gunner's mate. Mr. H. S. Lewis was a very welcome guest at our
plant in July. Lizzie wore a special smile that day. Mr. I. L. Clymer was a plant visitor in July and the only regret we have is that he doesn't get here often enough.
How Does Your Garden Grow? Now that the season is well along, many of the flowers are in bloom; and autumn—with all its splendor is just around the corner, we are prompt ed to ask the question: How does your garden grow?
We can't help thousand tomato bage plants, ten thousand flower
but wonder how the sixty-five plants, forty-five thousand cab thousand onion plants, and ten plants which our people planted
are thriving.
Some of these plants had a late start this year. Last year when ordered ten days earlier, many of the plants were nipped by frost. It is difficult when placing an order two months in advance to know just how it will fit in with the spring weather. Reports are good, however, and the harvest should be satisfying. We have seen many good-look ing gardens, both vegetable and flower. In general they are well taken care of, some of them look better than others, of course, and usual
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Collins spent their vacation in New York City this year and enjoyed it very
ly their appearance bespeaks the amount of effort the owner has put forth in their care. How does your garden grow? What is the pow er beyond the effort we put into caring for a gar
much.
den?
John Collins spent his
vacation at "Veranda
Beach."
Boy Scout Council Organized By Rudolph Duellgen Jr.
Under the sponsorship of the Rogers City Kiwanis Club, a council for the Boy Scout Troops of
Rogers City was organized on Tuesday, July 27th. The Kiwanis Club held its weekly meeting on that date at the site of the Presque Isle CCC Camp, and made an inspection of the camp, which will be transferred in the near future to the Boy Scout Council.
Camp Presque Isle is located on Clear Lake, sev enteen miles west of Onaway on Route 33, and consists of several buildings in good state of re pair. The entire layout is ideal for a boys' camp and the Council is fortunate in being able to ac quire this camp site at no cost. The procedure leading to the final transfer of this property was handled by Congressman Fred Bradley. The Boy Scout movement now underway in Rog ers City should have the support of every citizen as there is a definite need for this activity by the boys of this community. The Boy Scouts are recogniz ed throughout the nation as one of the foremost organizations which develops boys into good citi zens and greatly reduces delinquencies. The op
portunity is now here to boost the Boy Scouts— it should not be overlooked.
The above information is supplementary to the article written by Rev. S. J. Francis for the Spring Issue of Calcite Screenings.
Would that we knew because if we could
tell, we should solve the power of the universe. Our garden grows by a series of miracles. The dry, hard pellets that we plant in the soft, brown earth are but seeds, but in the words of a poet we know that "the plants and blossoms are there with their petals of various hues." We watch them change from seed to plant, from plant to flower and from flower to fruit, we marvel at the changes but cannot explain exactly how they are wrought. We only know that in those little pellets so dry and so round there is a power no chemist can fuse. We think it was Thomas Huxley who once said as he traced a nerve through the body, that he often felt that if he could see a bit more clearly, if he could probe a little more deeply, he could trace the Deity at work, so we feel as we trace the thread of life through a plant. We may gaze long and deeply into the heart of a flower to see what is hidden therein, but we gaze in vain. The mystery always eludes us so we can only quote the verse of Tennyson: Flower in the crannied wall
I pluck you out of the crannies. I hold you here root and all In my hand. Little flower, But if I could understand what you are Root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
How does your garden grow? As far as your work is concerned, we hope well. Just what is the
power behind harvest and autumn in all its glorious splendor ? Our Great Creator, beyond that—who can tell?
Nothing is true forever. A man and a fact will become equally decrepit and will tumble in the same ditch, for truth is as mortal as man, and both are outlived by the tortoise and the crow.
I love children.
They do not prattle of yester
day : their interests are all of today and the to morrows—I love children. 1691
Cummings of the Coast Guard waiting to "kill" one.
The Service boys could certainly swat the "ol' punkin'."
It's a hit! It's a hit!—we hope. Most of the time the pitchers were stingy as "all get out" in giving up hits.
evening on a diamond located at the south end of
Second Street. Through the efforts of Rc<] Lee. Penny Hoeft. Rob Lucas. Kenny I'iechan and many other ambitious helpers, a nice diamond was built with backstop and side fences provided. A split schedule was played so there would be first and second-half winners. The honors went to the hard-hitting, fast-fielding Coast Guard team
in the first half.. However, the' boys in uniform have had tough opposition in the second half and it looks as if they will have to play off with one of the others to see who the champs will lie. Since
the Yard team has loaded up with "Speed-ball" Hoeft.
••Ilomerun"
Pilarski.
and
"Rubber-arm"
Mulka the other teams have Found the going tough. There have been sixty men from the plant who "Red" Lee with the white hat and "Ken
ny" Piechan, scorer.
have been on one team or another since the season started. A few old-timers have come out of cold
storage but they surprise the fans by the way they cover territory. There have been plenty of stiff joints and sore muscles, besides the "ra/./.berries"
It has been a long lime since there has been any effort on the part of the men of the Calcite Plant toward a baseball league. There are always a few men who like to play ball and this was a good year for the few faithful ball fans to get things started again. Whether it is a depression or a gasoline shortage such conditions always serve to keep peo ple at home and-so home affairs and entertainment once again come into their own. The many who like ball games are favored with contests provid ed by six good teams anel there have been some very good games of softball.
from the sidelines. frames yet.
There is some life' in the old
Umpires, the heroes or "hums" of every game,
have a tough time with fans and players.
The
brave ones who come back for more each night are Chas. (iriwatch. Fred Lee, Bill Lrkfit/., Frank Lamb, and Dutch Dode.
So far no one has been
hurt but the staff of umpires have had close calls. After the season is over we'll let them associate
Calcite Plant ami a team from the United States
with the rest of us again. Somebody has to do the dirty work, boys-—-more power to you. The teams in the. league are: SHOP, with "Red" Lee manager; TRACK. "Slug" Schlager mana ger; MILL, "Babe" Bellmore manager: YARD,
Coast Guard made up a six-team league. They played every Tuesday. Weelnesday. and Friday
Kenny I'iechan manager: QUARRY, Sam V'oight manager; ami the COAST GUARD, Art Yetter
Safe at first! And don't think the gals couldn't burn up the base paths, either—they sure came in at full speed.
"Babe" Bellmore makes a neat pick-up during the warmup session. "Babe's" best spot is catching, for the Mill.
Five teams representing departments from the-
"Joey" Chrzan, fleet-footed fielder for the Yard, scores standing up. Catcher "Lewie" Wenzel makes a hard try.
"Al" Gosselin, plate umpire for the ladies' games.
manager. These managers have quite a time han dling their temperamental stars anel keeping them pepped up. They have usually put a good team in
tella's Team. The gals drew as many fans to their games as the fellows did. and at times provided a
the field each night and are not a bit backward
about putting in a ringer for some of the tough games.
That's what a manager is tor—the brain
trust—win the games by all means. The games have been lots of fun for players and fans. In fact the interest is so great at present that instead of the season ending now as planned, it has been continued until the first week in Sep tember. A new set-up has been made for this last period. The Plant men are distributed among only four
teams now.
And quiet "Al" seemed to know how they should be called.
lot more excitement. There were some heavy arguments and umpires "Red" Lee. "Al" Gosselin and Ivan Soper ducked for cover wlmu it got too hot. These boys just didn't trust the girls with fire, in their eve anel a ball bat in hand.
The one dropped has been replaced
by a team organized as the Rogers City Mer chants. Otis Pollock is the manager. The players have been all shuffled up to balance the power so some close contests are in the making.
League Standings for the Season : First Half Coast Guard
W
L
Second Half
W
5
1
Yard Coast Guard
3 3
2
L
Shop
4
2
Track Ouarrv
3 2
2 3
Quarry
Shop "
2
Ste-e-e-e-e—rike! cries His Majesty, The Umps!
Yard '
2
3
Mill
2
"Les" Pines, bearing down, went all the way around.
Mill
0
5
Track
1
And
2
The men are not the only ones who can play softball. Three teams of ladies put up many interest ing battles. They used the diamond on Mondays and Fridays:. There were the Married Women's Team, the Single Women's Team, and Irene Ccn-
The single girls won the honors and the season
closed with a banquet. Everybody, both players and fans, have shown much interest in this entertainment. The' promot ers should feel satisfied w till the results and we
Meet Ethel Strieker, head score-keeper for the Women's League. Operating Manager, Hugh Lewis, in background.
hope that the muscles and spirits of our gang don't age so fast but what another year will find a softball league- in operation. Get along little doggies, so runs the old song, get along
little doggies, you're running too long—in one place.
Do You Know How
Shells Are
Made? Our army's 105 mm. guns are very powerful wea pons, and they are going to shoot off a tremen
dous quantity of 105 mm. shells before the war is over.
These 105 mm. shells are made from bars
of steel 3 inches in diameter and about 30 feet long. Let's make a tour through a certain Pennsylvania steel mill where many of these shells are made. The first thing we sec is the unloading platform from which a crane takes the liars and lays them in cradles em the floor. Then one by one they are moved to a huge shear and are cut into liars about 15 inches long. The short pieces of steel are loaeleel into baskets hanging from the assembly line, and off they move
to the forging department. In only a few seconds an electric induction device brings the bars up to a white heat. Then they are moved to the forging machines. There just as your finger can poke a hole in a piece of modeling clay, the steel finger of the forging machine ped<es a hole all the way through the solid bar of steel. During this opera tion, which doesn't take more than a minute, the ma
chine also partially shapes the nose of the shell.
expands the diameter of the steel liar, and shortens it as well.
By this time' you've got something that begins to look like a finished shell.
However, the steel is
under severe internal stress from the terrific pun ishment it took when it was forged. The right combination of hardness and ductility is renewed when it is softened in a furnace. (|uenched quickly
in oil and then reheated to a mild temperature. Xow the shell is put into a high velocity sand blast er .and the scaly surface which resulted from the heat treatment, is removed.
And now. in the finishing operations, the 1943-model steel men. They are girls, ing in dead-earnest. The superintendent they are better workers than the men.
we meet all work says that That tall
a special-purpose machine tool designed for the job. After each step the shell is replaced in one of the baskets traveling along the line, then re moved where the next operation is done. Finally, the shell is ready for inspection—a
gleaming hollow piece Q.i steel with a pointed nose and a colorful copper band around it for the rifling of the gun to bite into.
There are two teams of inspectors sitting at long tables—one team is the plant's own inspectors, and the other team represents the army. Each inspec tor has one particular part of the shell to inspect. An elderly man checks the diameter of the shell lor si/.e. Another weighs it; another sees whethe'r ii can withstand a certain hydrostatic pressure from the inside; another checks its profile for ac curacy. It happens but very seldom that one of the shells does not meet the requirements.
Beyond the inspectors you see other girls anel men loading the 22-lb. shell into cardbeiard cartons
to be shipped to the great shell-loading plants where they are loaeled with the stuff that does the elamagc.
As you watch the cartons being piled into the waiting boxcars, you feel pretty sure that the Axis, too. eould easily have underestimated the produc tive power of America's steel industry.,
The full benefits received from knowledge gain ed in hirst Aid training can never be measured and will never be known. Occasionally something startling occurs and it is only then that the value of first aid training is brought te» the fore. During a recent .summer thunder shower a bolt of lightning struck in the vicinity of \'o. 3 dump. Some of the track crew were doing repair work out there and Xorval Schlager. a trackman, re ceived part of the electrical charge conducted
dark-haired one has turned out 475 shells in 7'\z
on the rails,
hours.
mentarily the remainder of the crew did not realize
The best that any of the men has done is
450 in 8 hours.
Come here a minute.
See that girl running those
lie was made unconscious, and mo
what had happened. Leonard Mauti. who has had first aid training, saw that Schlager was not breath
she stoppeel me one day anel suggested I turn the boring machines lace to lace, so she could run two
ing and immediately started artificial respiration. Alter approximately ten minutes' time Korval was breathing "on his own" and showing signs of con
at once—be loading one while the other cut.
sciousness.
two baring; machines
She used to run one.
Put So
I moved all the machines face to face, and production sure took a jump. All told, there are about
We must give credit to Leonard for acting quick twelve different
ma
chining operations on the shell as it passes down the
line—-drilling, boring, turning, threading, grinding almost every operation that machine tools do. Each operation is done quickly and efficiently by 1694
Other than a slight headache and sore
thigh muscle, he had no ill after-effect.
ly and wisely. Without first aid knowledge his fellow worker would have had a hard struggle alone
in coming to. However, all at the scene are pos itive that artificial respiration procedure learned in
a First Aid class prevented a tragedy.
Personal Letters Mean Much To The Men In Service We are told that many good people are unable to understand why the War Department is discourag ing our boys in the Armed Forces from answering letters that come from correspondents not known to them. There are a number of corespondence clubs which were formed in good faith which have been affected by this policy. The fact of the matter is that striking up ac quaintanceship with soldiers through false good will organizations is one of the old techniques of espionage—hackneyed, but still used. This, we presume will be continued as long as genuine activ ities of this sort provide an innocent front for them. Masses of letters to soldiers from unknown cor
respondents, however well intended, place a heavy and unnecessary burden on our protective agencies. The War Department therefore urges all good cit izens to write and write often to the soldiers with
whom they are personally acquainted, but not to write at random to those to whom they are strangers.
But remember this, that to get a letter is a Yank's biggest thrill—not to get one is his keenest disappointment. Keep Uncle Sam's mail bags stuff ed with letters from home.
Uncle Sam's Aerial Torpedo First it flies. Then it swims. And anything it hits goes boom! It's Uncle Sam's aerial torpedo. The kind our torpedo bombers are using these days to deal out grief to Axis ships. Inside this "flying fish" is a steel lung, full of compressed air. When the torpedo is released, the compressed air drives it viciously toward its target. A special kind of steel is needed to make the steel lung. It has to be thin and light to help re duce to a minimum the load the torpedo plane must carry. And it has to be very strong—to withstand air pressure of many hundreds of pounds per square inch.
The special steel for the lungs of aerial torpedoes is just one of the many developments that have emerged from United States Steel laboratories to help win the war. You've read about some of the others; special steel springs for torpedoes and bombs, portable steel landing mats for bombers, new steels for aviation, tin plate made with only a fraction of the precious tin once needed.
Taking Care Of Your Car With the threatened gasoline shortage and the ban on automobile tires, motorists will do well to
pay a little more attention to the operation of their cars.
Climb into the envelope and seal the flap. Put yourself into it, and all the family, including the dog, the cat, and the bird. Create a visit home with the magic of words and the help of your camera.
Motorists can prevent or at least postpone the effect of gasoline and rubber shortages and at the same time drive more safely if they will cut their average driving speed to the most economical rate from a gasoline consumption standpoint. Millions of gallons of gasoline are wasted "pushing the wind"
Fill your letters to the brim with smiles, joy, happiness, and humor. Pack in some laughs, clip cartoons that will give them a chuckle. Omit the taboo or preaching
at high speeds. Avoid jack rabbit getaways.
and sob-stuff.
eration.
Al
Millions of gallons of gasoline are wasted through unnecessary accel
though your heart may be heavy, make your letter radiant
Have your engine checked and the carburetor adjusted for efficient operation. Keep your tires pumped up to the recommended
with faith. Don't add an additional load of
pressure.
Avoid skidding—quick stops and starts.
worry and fear to
Slow down on curves—the sidewise friction be
those whose burdens
tween tires and pavement on curves is hard on
already are great—
rubber.
put a lift in every
^^
line, it will help you
"T^VLJ^Mifcr, /IW*"1*'
too, but above all—
Shift tires from wheel to wheel every 5,000 miles to insure uniform wear on all tires including the
don't forget to write.
spare.
Whenever you change a tire, check the air pres sure after a few miles of service.
"Hey, you, where are you going?
Pull over to
the curb," said a traffic officer to a timid driver who, obeying directions from the back seat, had
entered the wrong end of a one-way street. Im mediately a woman in the rear seat chimed in: "That's right, officer. He's been speeding all day, and I knew he'd be arrested. It just serves him
Have your wheel alignment front and rear— checked regularly. Don't bump into curbs. No tire will stand such abuse.
If your car begins to steer queerly, slow down at once.
right I" "Your wife?" asked the officer with a sympa
In addition to saving vital materials, and of course, money in operation, the driver will have
thetic look at the scared driver. The driver nodded.
ing a definite contribution to his own personal
"Drive on, brother," said the policeman.
better control of his car and, too, he will be mak
safety as well as that of others. 169:
How The Cut In Gas Mileage Will Effect
You Are Not Too Old At Forty
The Use Of Your Car With the gasoline ration coupon now worth three gallons instead of four, many of the Plant em ployees have been wondering how they are going to get to work. The purpose of the reduced ra tion is, of course, to cut out non-essential driving.' The essential driver will still get coupons to take care of his required mileage. A war-worker, for
This is the day of the young man—at least that's the talk today. If you are over 40 and out of work
instance, who drives 470 miles a month, on the
four-gallon tickets received 16 coupons for three months. He will now receive 28 three-gallon cou pons for the same period. The A book now has only 180 miles of driving. However, the person who originally had a supplementary B or C book and could only use 90 miles for non-essential driv ing per month, is now entitled to 120 miles of non essential driving on his A book. Most of the M.L.& C.Co. employees who have supplemental mileage rations are due for renewals on September 1st. These renewal blanks should be
properly filled in as soon as possible and turned in to the Plant Transportation Committee along with the tire inspection slip. Forms may be obtained either at the Main Office, the Ra tion Office, or from Ed
Kelley at the Machine Shop. There is still con The guy that caused it; siderable argument about but he is worried now! tires and tire rationing. We
that "over 40" is a tough label. According to those who have the authority to say "no," you are too old, but we think there is plenty left in a man over 40, and harken to this—
Benjamin Franklin was 81 when he served as a maker of the Constitution.
Gladstone began his fourth term as Minister of Great Britain at 83 and he was still making speeches at 87 years of age. Tennyson wrote "Crossing the Bar" when he was 83 years old. Goethe finished the second part of Faust when he was 82.
Oliver Wendell Holmes who died a Supreme Court Judge wrote "Over the Tea Cups" at the age of 82. Michelangelo painted "The Last Judgment" at the age of 66 and he was working on St. Peter's in Rome when he died at the age of 89. Titian painted his "Battle of Lepanto" when he was 98 years old. Verdi was 85 when he produced his most endur ing masterpieces. Immanuel Kant wrote his finest work at 73 in
cluding his "Metaphysics of Ethics." Cato the Roman began to study Greek when he was 80.
Henry Ford was 40 when he manufactured his first car.
And Commodore Vanderbilt accumulated $100,000,000 after he was 70.
hear all kinds of stories about dealers with lots of
tires and the approaching flood of synthetic tires this fall. Don't believe all you hear, and only half of what you see, and don't blame the local Ration
Freedom Freedom. Is there a word in any language that sounds so sweet, that carries with it everything
Board if you can't get that tire certificate. The quota of tires of each county is set at Wash
suffered for, died for?
ington in a ratio to the population, farming, and war industries in each county. The Tire Ration Board is limited to the quota of tires allotted to them which can fill only about one-third of the applications turned in from this county.
Synthetic rubber is around the corner in large quantities, but the Japs still have the natural rub ber which is necessary to make good synthetic rubber tires. The army tried 90% of synthetic and 10% natural, but it didn't stand up. They are
now using a 70% synthetic and 30% natural. The new synthetic tire for the public will have just enough natural rubber to hold the synthetic to gether. It won't stand a speed over 35 miles per hour, and sharp rocks will puncture .it. The cas ing will tear easily and cannot readily be repaired. If your tires are good you are lucky, take care of them. If your tires are not so good and you are wise you will watch them with an eagle eye be cause you may not get any more for the duration. Keep your tires in goexl shape and recap them when they need it. Compare them with the tire you may be given to replace them, and not with the tire you were able to buy in the pre-war years. 1696
that man has hoped for, worked for, prayed for, Freedom that gives to the
brain and soul of man the inspiration to excel, that holds in store for all humanity the blessing to
think, to speak, to perform, to dwell in peace and contentment.
Freedom for us was won by our forbears who suffered and struggled. We are now engaged in a conflict against the forces of destruction which are threatening us with serfdom and slavery. To maintain and preserve the liberties and free doms bequeathed to us is our responsibility—we cannot lose faith.
To awaken each morning with a smile brighten ing my face, to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me,
even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which 1 am working; te> meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—this is how I desire
to waste wisely my days.
Births Since the last issue of "Screenings" daughters were born to the following Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company and Bradley Transportation Company employees: Ann Beatrice to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Claus on
May 10, 1943. Dianne Kay to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Goulette on June 20, 1943. Ladonna Jean to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Haneckow on July 19, 1943. Katherine Ellen to Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Gordon on July 12, 1943. Rosalynne Grace to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buza on June 19, 1943. Connie Elaine to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mulka
on June 28, 1943. Sons born to:
Henry William Kreft to Mr. and Mrs. Phil Kreft on July 15, 1943. Frank Casimir to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hincka
on July 15, 1943. Gary William to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schroeder on July 21, 1943. William Edward to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fuhr-
man on July 17, 1943. Clarence Philip to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smolinski on May 25, 1943. Kenneth LeRoy to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beebe on June 17, 1943. Wayne Eugene to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene King Jr. on June 26, 1943. Gene Gordon to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Raymond on June 5, 1943.
Good Telephone Manners Some dos and don'ts on good telephone manners, so important in these days when operators and equipment are being taxed to the limitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Don't have your operator get your party on the 'phone and then keep him waiting your conven ience.
Don't give your operator the names of several persons with whom you wish to talk and later say, "Who is talking?" It is your responsibility to know the name of the person you called. Do have your 'phones answered promptly and identify yourself quickly on incoming calls. Don't annoy your party by keeping him waiting. If you do, apologize. If you must look up some data for him, offer to call him back.
Don't attempt to talk with a pencil, cigarette or other impediment in your mouth. Speak directly into the transmitter and use a moderate conserva-
tional tone.
Above all, don't mumble, whisper or
shout.
Don't attempt to carry on two conversations, one with the caller and one with someone with
you. If you must talk with someone else, excuse yourself and turn away from the transmitter. Keep a scratch pad and pencil near the 'phone and thus avoid having your party wait while you search for them.
Avoid an abrupt ending to the conversation and don't slam the receiver down.
Always be courteous and pleasant. fcWikrp-Kj,
Marriages
Those Who Have Passed Away We extend our sincere sympathy to the follow ing employees, who lost members of their families through death: Mrs. Rudolph Bredow passed away on May 11, 1943.
She was the mother of Wilbert of the Brad
ley Transportation Company, and eif Leemard of the Drilling Department, and a sister to Albert, Edward, and Herman Hopp also employed at the Plant.
Car repairman Alfred Basel's mother, Mrs. Gustav Basel, passed away June 14, 1943. Mr. Henry Ohlrich, father of Charles Ohlrich of the Drilling Department, died on June 24, 1943. Thomas Cummings' father, Charles Cummings, died on June 25, 1943. Mrs. Mary Crooks, mother of Clayton Crooks of the Transportation Department, passed away on July 20, 1943, at a son's home in Flint. A brother of John Belusar passed away in Cleve land, Ohio, on August 6, 1943. Don't conceive that fine clothes make fine men,
any more than fine feathers make fine birds. Plain, genteel dress obtains more credit in sensible eyes.
Adolph Lietzow of the Bradley Transportation Company and Miss Lois Wagner were united in marriage on June 26, 1943. Charles Bellmore employed in the Mill Depart ment and Mrs. Selma MacDonald were married
on July 20, 1943.
On August 1, 1943, Miss Beatrice Rambadt of the Accounting Department and Henry Brietzke of Hawks were united in marriage.
To these couples, our sincere best wishes for a happy married life. Time is our meist precious asset in this war and unfortunately it is the one commodity for which there is no substitution and whose production can not be stepped-up. Therefore the only way we can have a sufficient amount is by saving as much of it as we can. "Vic tory goes to the swift," and the more time we save
in our production of tanks, munitions, bombers and bread, the quicker will come our victory. Who knows but what one minute saved today misfht save vour verv life tomorrow? 1697
too fast for profit. John and Pete should know that those track fellows really know how to swing the sledge. Did you have to dig down in your own pockets, boys ?
Plant Personals
ball players who had a lot of fun playing softball.
big boy from the shop likes to hunt. fish, pick berries, or do
the manager put him in that spot.
anything where lie can be in the great oiitelemrs. During one of the recent warm evenings a picnic was mentioned for the family and some friends, and of course "Butch" was "rarin' to go." While the picnic lunch
was being put out, "Butch" got thirsty and grabbed a pint of maple syrup instead of the pint ol tea. It was epiite a mistake as the thirsty man eloes not like maple syrup of all things. Among the many who studieel the seed catalogue last spring was Howard Warwick, locomeitive en gineer. Howard has always been well h-d. and the talk of a food shortage had him worried, so he put in that Victory Garden. Somewhere be
tween planting time ami the time for the first hoeing he must have gazed in the crystal ball and
seen plenty of food for the future as the garden is now mostly weeds and won't produce much for the dinner table.
So you have noticed Vic Koch, too! It must lie the ice cream e>r the young folks who eat the ice cream, at least something is putting spring to
Vic's step and a gleam in his eye. It could be that swing music he hears at the Dairy Bar. What is the secret, Vic? You sure have the pep washing those soda and sundae dishes.
Xow that the family is growing up and will soon lie leaving the cozy corners of home, blaster \ incent Kuchinski is fixing the place all up for com fort in the years to cemie. Alex Kandow is one ol the helpers so Vincent is getting a good job done. Do you report all injuries, no matter how small, to your foreman? You should. One lost-time ac cident this year from infection is more than we want. Let your foreman know when you are in jured and insist upon the proper care. Yon can always get a doctor and if necessary call the Safe ty Department when a doctor cannot lie secured at the plant. There is no excuse for a minor in jur}- becoming serious. Take care of it at once and lie sure to report to your foreman. "Butch" Llowski. the Shop's first baseman, hits such a hard ball that he thinks he can make first
base safely by crawling on hands and knees. Don't feel too badly. "Butch." as we saw one of those young Coast Guard fellows doing the same thing. At the recent St. Ignatius Picnic we understand that John Modrzynski anel Pete Ciovagnario. track foremen, had the most popular stand of the day for the men. Swing the sledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ring the bell, and
get a cigar. When sonic of the boys from the track crew took their turn the cigars were given away 1098
"Les" Raymond was one of the "used-to-be"
Rhinardt "Butch" Froelich. the
Me still thought himself quite a clean-up man. so It is record
ed by the scorekeeper that "Les" struck out three times in that particular game. Angelo Santini. track man. was telling his friends out on the track about a big bear that he saw in his garden. Angelo isn't too well acepiainted with our wild animals and after describing it to the fel lows in the gang, they told him it was a wolf and that it would kill ge>ats and chickens. Angelo im mediately sought help to catch the beast and even wanted the Coast Guard Patrol out.
His informers
found out later that Angelo didn't get much help, in catching what turned out to be a black and white dog.
Nearly 20 years ago. February 26. 1925. to be exact. Dominic Micketti started working at Cal cite.
Dominic has been a faithful track man and
on the payroll ever since. Heiwever. he not only knows how to lay track, but has, as the picture shows, raised a nice family as well. Some of the family have graeluated from High School and the others are all headed in that direc
tion. Like so many other American families at the present time the Dominies have a son and alse> a son-in-law in our armeel forces.
Joe worked for Calcite after graduation and this spring joined the .Yaw. At the present time he is in Louisiana. His preliminary training is over and he will soon be on convoy duty. Joe was one of our star athletes in Nigh School and will certainly help to make it hot for the subs. Mary's husband. Sergeant .Art Santini. also on the Calcite service roll, is making his mark as a mem ber of Uncle Sam's Armed Forces,
From left to right, back row: Joe. Nina, Ida. and Anthony. Front row: Mary. Mrs. Micketti. Yornia Jean. Dominie Jr.. Dominic St,, ami Itleanore.
You can help win this war by doing your best to stop accidents. Every man at work every day. Many of our men are getting all fixed so that if and when another economic depression strikes
they will have a little farm to insure them against hunger. This is a good idea but one always finds an exception to general trends. Watson Siecinski. she>vel operator, who has long been a farmer in his spare moments has now bought anel fixed up a place in town. We bet he will still have a garden even if he now becomes a city dweller.
This man "Bob" Hamilton just talked himself
into a Spitzer game again we are told and before it was over Bob was taking it on the chin. One fel low said not on the chin but on the pocketbook.
The way Milt Hoffer kicks the paint bucket around must be due to the effect the present twofor-five cigars have on him. Boy, when a sober
man like Milt loses his paint pail twice in one day. he certainly must be under an influence of some kind. Maybe, too. Smitty and Louie had him rattled.
Brother Dominic and Prank Micketti of the Track crew had heard about the fine bullheads
that are. caught at Llowski's dam. so away they go one off-Saturday to make a catch. Lunch pails and bait boxes were packed with lots of food so the boys could have a whole day to catch fish. They had a whole day but no lunch as some hungry guy or guys went away with the works. Red and Frank say it's cheaper to buy 'em at the fish
If John Modrzynski could lay track as fast as he proeluces potatoes he would seion have the qufarry railroad in perfect shape. Some of his men say that they saw him planting potatoes one evening and spraying them the next. We knew you were a gooel gardener. John, but didn't know you had the help of a magic touch.
dock.
Ben Lounds has spent lots of time in the blue berry patches this summer getting those great big ones. His relatives in Detroit are going to have an exaggerated ielea of just how big blue berries are supposed to be as lien has sent quite a few quarts to them.
have some real fish friesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we hope-.
Herman Rusch bought Old Maud from Karl Jarvis and she is noted for being able to lean into the
collar and move a good loael. If Frank Lamb could get his Uncle Otty's blacks he says he would show what hauling really is. So far all the bets are on Rusch'S Maud so Frank will have to prove himself. The boys tell Frank that there is a difference be tween horses anel baseball so he had better go easy on the bets.
Bea will have a full-time job helping Henry manage the big farm. We'll be out to help with the thrashing, Bea.
Anel was the Lake May crowd whoopin' mad when Al Hopp said it was the Lake May water that made him sick. Wdw! Don't pull that one
again, Al. that water is the purest in the Northâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; most of the time.
We don't know what the general crop situation is throughout the country, but locally there- is an abundance of everything in the ways ol "eats." The farmers are having a good growing season, the fields and pens are full of stock, there's chicken coops ill hundreds of back yards, rabbits too. and fruit and berries are more abundant than any year we can think of. It must be that we live right around here as we are all well taken care of. Buy Bonds to help.
Maybe it: shouldn't be mentioned here, but some people will not let Al Plowman forget about put ting his foot tbremgh the ceiling of the Accounting Department. Accidents will happen, eh, Al ?
Yes sir. Dave Crigg has finally been converted. When brother Norm was home on a furlough he
caught so many fish with his shaggy old plugs that Dave has decided to give up the delicate tech nique of fly fishing and really get semie fish. It took a long time, but now the Grigg family will George Waytosck has a few chickens, a cow. a pig. and a good garden just so if rationing goes any farther the family will be well \cd. It seems the other day he lost the cow in that long pasture be tween his farm and Lake Huron, so not wanting to lose all that beef, he set out to bring bossie home. Before the chase was over he had more meat than he wanted. Two black bear met him
on the other side of the brush pile, but George came home with the ceiw and his own hiele. too.
If we can't have beef, we can have chickens. Many
a backyard coop is now furnishing meat for the table. If your backyard was not big enough or your inclination not strong enough to raise your own. you might investigate Ray Summers' farm some dark night. Bat be careful. Ray has al ready made short work of four black and white chicken raiders who sneaked in the back way.
There is safety eepiipment stationed along the
Our "Guess Who" For This Issue
docks, harbor ami breakwall such as ladders, life preservers ami life lines. This equipment must
not be removed for any reason other than the emergencies they are suited for. If such equipment is used see that it is replaced immeeliately. Reports come in that the stations are sometimes unsupplied. Congratulations to a department which is on
its way to a safety record. The Simp has over a year without a lost-time injury. Keep it up boys, and make it ten. One of the Shop men says: "Look —Listen—Live !"
Did you see the boy at the game the other night with the fancy straw hat? Everybody wanted to know who the elude was. It turned out to lie Joe
Markey all "elolled up" for the evening.
Keep
young. Joe. It's good to see frienel "Louie" Dambra back af
ter a stay in the hospital. down, can they, Louie?
Can't keep a good man
Safety—it's wonderful!
That's right, fellows, no mistake. Prank Reinke was reading that book on "Chilel Care and Feed
ing." He knows how to test the liquid for temper Two brothers well known anel long resielents of
Rogers City. The yemnger fellow on the left is em ployed on one of the Bradley Boats and has wink ed his way well to the top. We don't know much about his hobbies in recent years, but we do see
him around the bowling alleys during the winter months,
Big brother on the right with the sun tan and
ature, how to sing lullabys. and what a safety-pin is for. There has been a new baby at the Reinke home since early summer. (Xo cigars you say— no. the youngster has been returned to its mother and father.) It is told that Ferdinand Dost has the best Vic
tory Garden seen in this community. Good going. Perel, as there are lots of them real good. Even some of the office guys have found out lhat there
mass of curls has not near as much ol either today
is a handle on a hoe.
so his looks have changed considerably in his last thirty years. He has worked all over the- plant during his seventeen seasons and now has a job where he contacts many of the men from the Shop and Mill. He used to lie quite an athlete and still tries hard in this summer's Softball league. Father Time has slowed him up some it seems.
meant he eliel have that lazy fly ball in sluirt field. A run scored, teio. Clarence says he is the only driller who feels young enough to play ball. What say, drillers?
The "Guess Who" in the last issue of "Screen
ings" was Louis Yoda Jr. of the Mill Department. We can't help wondering how soon we'll have another turn-over in the electrical shop personnel.
Men come and go so fast there that it's hard to keep posted. At any rate. Griff Pines has provieled Un cle Sam with a
etc.
lot of
first-rale
"I got it—I got it." says Clarence Blair.
He
Wanted: Some new umpires for the women's Softball games. Seems as though some fellows can't handle the job.
Charlie, don't drop that glass! But Charlie did ami what makes the boy so nervous? The shop gang hope that their tool-room boss. Chas. Baker, gets his panes in right next time.
motor-winders,
We extend the welcome hand to the present
crew.
Wc understand Bob Patzer has considerable re
spect for the State Police since they stopped him the other day.
\\ e've never listened in on a noon-hour session
at the shop, but they tell us that Bill Sabin always has a come-back just a little bigger and better than the one just told. Somebody got an owl a few days ago and thought it was a pretty good size with a four and a half-foot wingspread.
Bill
says he's shot lots of them with an eigbt-foof Spread.
Those were't owls. Bill, they we're early
models of the Plying Portress. 1700
Bob went to meet his son. Harold, at Mackinaw on the hitler's last visit home. Harold didn't show
up s*> Bob started for home.
As he neared Che
boygan a State Police ordered him to stop. Bob was all set to start the story about the sick wife and the doctor when the trooper informed him lhat Harold was waiting for him at Mackinaw. Harold had seen his dad leaving for home and
called State Police at Cheboygan.
You may wonder if modern man hasn't lost
many of his frontier skills such as finding his way
in the woods, en- blazing a trail, or cutting a road.
Adorph Redman proved this summer that lie. at
least, is capable of hewing his way through the woods to a given point. The road he cut into Peetz' marsh was much appreciated by many of his fellow workmen for a lot of them followed it right into the huckleberry woods.
Harry Meharg would like to have umpires make
up their minds more quickly. In one Softball game recently Harry ran all the way from second
to third on what the limp decieled was a foul ball.
All that wasted energy and all that hard work! Speaking of Softball, we all know that some games are nmre interesting than eithers. There is no argument there, but to illustrate the point, any way, we have this: Ed Kelley finds that he can
get complete satisfaction watching any of the plant league games from a back window ol his house, but for a women's league game it's necessary to be at the field.
He claims that tiu>se games re
quire closer attention.
Perhaps there is ne> argu
ment on that point, either!
Oh, Boy! Is that good! Youngsters like coeilaid any time but on a hot summer's day a session like this is kits of fun.
Watson Sucinski's grand-
chilelren, Marilyn and Carolynne Cross with a lew of their Friends.
Rhoud Benson is a student of human nature,
and from his vantage point on the shop crane he has many opportunities to study it. He says that the other day when Joe Valentin escorted two
pretty WAC's through the slu>p all work in the place almost came to a standstill. Fellows' heads ami curious eyes showed up from behind dump cars,
steel columns, dipper sticks, locomotives and scrap iron.
Even the boys go for something in a uniform.
A bumper blueberry crop this year enabled many people to lay away a good supply of this luscious fruit of our northern woods. A little gas from the hoarded store and some honest toil will replenish the fruit larder and give many Calcite families a blueberry pie this winter.
The photographer caught the Yoights and the Murphys with the goods.
Tracy Kuchinski is loe>king on while Billy Furtaw, George She>rkey, Tootie Erkfitz, and Gerahline Shorkey take everything but the ice cubes. The photographer was too late for everything but the picture. One of the major questions posed by this war seems to be: "Who is the girl you would like to be with?" Various branches of the Army and Navy have been working on the problem with woiielerful results.
Some of these results are as follows:
A paratrooper unit chose Iledy Lamarr as "The Girl WeM Like Most to Jump in a Double Para chute Harness Willi." Anne Shirley was selecteel
by a submarine crew as "The Girl We'd Like Most to Share a Crash Dive With."
Wounded sailors in
a naval hospital chose Leslie Brooks as "The Girl We Would Like Most to Have Pneumonia With."
Xow why shoulel the Army anel Navy alone struggle.
with this problem? Why shouldn't industry clo its share? The employees of the M.L.iYC.Co. could do a lot more to win this war by choosing their
favorite girls.
The fellows on the Loading Crew
could select "The Girl We'd Most Like to Work
the Midnight Shift in the Openhearth Tunnel With." The electrical shop could choose "The Girl We'el Like to Go Trouble-shooting With." The Locomotive men could have a "Girl to Get on a
Side-track With." ities are endless.
Yon see. fellows, the possibil And there's a war to win.
1 low
about it?
Bergie Platz, former local ace. is gone so Harry figures he- is the next man up. Maybe Reinke will make a come-back. Ilarrv, and then what?
The boys who hit the maple pins are beginning to awaken and Harry Boutin has high average sceÂťre for the season all taken right now. 1701
Baby's First Tooth
Happy day! The proud smile mother gives as she tells of baby's first tooth! It isn't loo long then before more teeth come through and baby starts to eat solid foods. During the period of early childhood it is ex
Take The Time
Take time to work—it is the price of success.
Take time to think—it is the source of power. Take time to play—it is the secret of perpetual
youth.
Take time to read—it is the fountain of wisdom.
tremely important that the child be fed the proper Take time foods, given plenty of milk and enough sleep. These erence. factors greatly affect the development of the teeth, Take time and a firm set of primaries is an aid to the growth piness. of the secondary set. Take time Xeglecting to care for the baby teeth may re to a star. sult in unnecessary trouble in later years. It's up Take time io you parents to see that baby's teeth are given
care and attention.
Better still, have the teeth of all members of the
family examined regularly as a healthy family is most often a happy erne. Young men, life is before you.
Two voices are
calling you—one coming out from the swamps of selfishness and force, where success means death; and the other from the hilltops of justice anel prog ress, where even failure brings glory. Two lights are seen in your horizon—erne the fast-fading marsh light of power, ami the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood. Two ways lie open for you—one leading to an even lower ami
lower plain, where are heard the cries of despair and the curses of the poor, where manhood shrivels
and the possession rots down the possesses; anel the other leading to the highlands of the morning, where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where honest effort is rewarded with immortality. We are spirits. That bodies shemld be lent us. while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in ac
quiring knowledge, or in doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God.
When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and answer none of
the intentions for which they were given, it is
equally kind and benevolent, thai a way is pro vided by which we may gel rid of them. Death is that way. Our friend and we were invited abroad
on a patty of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first and he has geme before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and 1 be grieved at this, since we
to worship—it is the highway to rev
to be friendly—it is the road to hap to dream—it is hitching your wagon
to Live and be loved—it is the. priv
ilege of the gods. lake time to look around—it is toe) short a dav
to be selfish.
Take time to laugh—it is the music of the soul. Keep your minds so filled with Truth anel Love that sin. disease, anel eleath cannot enter them. It
is plain that nothing can lie added to the mind al ready full. There is no eloor through which evil can enter, and no Space for evil to fill in a mind
filled with goodness. Good thoughts are an imper vious armor; clad therewith you are completely
shielded from the attacks of error of every sort.
And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon- are thereby benefited.
There are lots of bullheaels out al Sunken Lake, too. but Joe Waytosck. the Kingfish out there, is in the- fur business and has pet 'coon all over the place. Charlie Schalk ami Pari Xagel found out that you can catch the fish, but the 'coon have them when your back is turneel.
'I he victory gardens are thriving, they have fur nished and will furnish their quota of food for the country this year. Nearly everyone working at Calcite has a garden large or small either in his own plot or a piece borrowed for the purpose. Some of these gardens are really going to pro duce a crop.
Butch P.lowski is satisfied with his
and hopes he will harvest enough to keep the wolf from the door this summer and fall.
are se>on to follow, and know where te) find him.
Test by a trial luiw excellent is the life of the good
man—the man wdio rejoices at the portion given him in the universal lot anel abides therein con
tent : just in all his ways and kindly-minded toward all men.
A Vale player was teaching some cowboys howto play football.
He explained the rules and ended
as follows:
"Remember, fellows, if you can't kick the ball,
kick a man on the other siele.
Xow let's get busy.
Where's the ball?"
One of the cowboys shouted: "T" heck with the
ball! 1702
Let's start the game."
IJIIIHIjHI |.:|
The Old Lighthouse At Presque Isle By Don S. Olds On the shore of stormy Huron,
Oaken plank, well splined and bolted,
On the tip, of fair Presque Isle,
Now replace the shattered door, Swinging free on sturdy hinges,
Stands a watchtower of the ancients Built of stone and ringed with steel.
Shutting out the Northwind's roar.
Legend has it that Jeff Davis
But to cap the tower with concrete
Built the beacon on the shore,
Shelter from the storm king's roar.
Was no task for novice hand, So came a wizard of the slide-rule, From the wise men of the land.
Thru the stormy nights of Autumn And the quiet nights of Spring,
Then by book and rule and bottle, Grew the mighty work apace,
Ever shone the lighted turret
And the early days of Autumn Saw the concrete slab in place.
That the ships might seek in safety
Like a living guiding thing. Then at last a mightier lighthouse Rose upon the nearby shore; Abandoned was the tower of Davis, Now its years of service o'er. Wind and rain and snow wrought havoc,
On rusted hinges, sagged the door, Openings gaped where once were windows,
And for safety on the tower top, Workmen wrought with forge and sledge, Six steel sections of a railing Curved to fit the turret's edge.
On a day in late October, Came the railing from the shop, And willing hands with rope and tackle
Timbers failed the topmost floor.
Hauled each section to the top.
Came a stranger to the Northland, Saw the tower and lingered on, Fancy caught by history's romance, Romance of the years long gone.
After trials and tribulations,
So he bartered for the title To the tower and woodland there,
Each day planning for the future As he climbed the spiral stair. To the cabin, not far distant,
Brought the household goods from far, And again smoke from the chimney Curled up toward the evening star. Now
were
friends
from
out
the
Southland, Stopping at the cabin door, Stopping for a day, but staying, Four days, five days, sometimes more.
Then the tower was cleared of litter, Blown thru windows and thru door, And a coat of painted whiteness Covered scars of tempest o'er.
And arguments both loud and long, Stood the railing all assembled, Anchored in the concrete firm and
strong.
On a night both cold and blustery, Thru the woods path to the tower, Came a band of loyal friends, Close upon the midnight hour.
Flashlights cast strange, eerie shad ows,
As they climbed the winding stair, Till they gathered at the railing, Feeling perfect safety there. Gazing silent o'er the waters, At the lights of passing ships, Feeling bound by friendship's ties, Needing not the word of lips. Then a gunshot cracked the stillness, Followed by a second, blast, As they dedicate the railing, Salute the future and the past.
And thus a chapter added To the history of the tower, With memories we will cherish
Thru every passing hour.
(
1703
The Bradley Transportation Company Safety Meetings and Personal News Excerps From Safety Meeting Minutes Str. T. \Y. ROBINSON—It is the same old story
about leaving tools anel materials on the steps and landing platforms. There is only one answer for this: there is a proper place for everything on a boat; keep them there; steps and landing platforms are only made for your feet.
Str. JOHN G. MUNSON—The men were caution
ed in regard to overloading belts and conveyors and also in regard to keeping them filled to the point of greatest efficiency. .Men on cleanup of coal cargoes were warned to
watch for lumps of coal which may have been lodg ed at the outboard end e>f the arch angles where they meet the uprights. The cjuestion of handling lines on the coal docks
under the chutes was brought tip by Marvin Taylor ami it was suggested that the men who have this
eluty to perform, make certain that the chute will not be moved while they are on the dock beneath it. Str. CALCITE—It was suggested that the bunks be inspected to see that there is net chance of the occupant rolling out. A pin has been misplaced several times for the extension on the conveyor walk. A new one will be fastened to a chain.
I laving several new men aboarel. a warning talk was given on being careful on deck anel in the cargo hold; to be sure to use the bucket on the cable: how
to. and when to get em the landing boom; be care ful when fis 11flies are on the deck.
A fireman suggested an extension on the hanel rail on one side of the boiler room, so an extension
has been put on both sieles. The hand railing frenn main deck to the con
veyor platform has been repaired. Str. H. II. TAYLOR—It was suggested that the crew members give "Special Attention to the Open Hatches." leaving docks after unloading coal cargo, as the holds must be washed out before loading limestone for the next elock.
Str. CARL D. BRADLEY—Captain Pearse was called upein to address the meeting. lie discussed the- two accidents we have had recently, both men going through the gates while cleaning-np tincargo hold; stating that this was two loo many: that we have exhausted our resources in providing Safety Measures, and warnings to eliminate this type of accident. He called on the crew for any suggestion that will help this condition. Chas. Cook suggested that we open the hatches wider so that the man attending the Safety Stop cable coulel command a better view of the men in the
hold. 1704
The only objection to this is that if the
hatches are left too far apart, we have the hazard
of men falling in. who persist in walking on the hatches. It was decieled to have a wider open ing, being sure- that both hatches at the bulkheads be opened. Handling of gates in the tunnel was discussed in detail.
More care will lie taken not to run the
gates beyond the racks, thus avoieling breaking both racks and chains.
Chief Sparre spoke on the safe and sane methods of handling electric winches so as to conserve both man anel machine.
The chairman took up the matter of handling lines on the new elock at Gary, now under construc
tion. This is a very dangerous condition and spe cial care is necessary. He also warned against the men unnecessarily exposing themselves to too much hot ^un. Sunstroke anel sunburn can have disastrous results.
GENERAL—There
have
been
two
cases
of
sprained ankles on board lately and members were asked to be a little more careful of how and where they walk. This means asheire as well as aboarel
ship. The lifting of heavy articles without proper equipment was also discussed. The subject of walking on the hatches was again brought Up. While the practice in itself is danger ous enough, it is doubly so when the hatches have been freshly painted. Some members of the crew-
have been guilty of the practice lately and were askeel to stop it. A screen has been reepiested to be installed so that it will give protection to the man operating the controls for the side conveyors, from the lumps of coal and steme that occasionally roll down from the elevator.
This will be taken care of as soon as
the proper material may lie obtained.
STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
.
.
PERSONAL ITEMS
PERSONAL ITEMS
STR. T. W. ROBINSON
The old T.W. is getting back to normal again
On July 11th the Steamer Carl I). P.radley. under the command of Captain P. l\ Pearse. had the hon or of officially opening the new MacArthur Lock.
.•liter Vice Admiral and Mrs. R. P. Waesche disem
The P.radley "first docked at the Fort Brady pier where approximately 300 guests embarked. Shethen proceeded into the Lock. At 3:25 p. m.. amidst
swollen lips . . . thought it was a bad tooth . . .
cheering spectators and tooting steamer whistles, Miss Jan Harris broke a bottle e>f champagne against the concrete siding of the lock. The Sir. Carl 1). Bradley then rose from the Lake Huron to the Lake Superior level, and proceeded to the West Center Pier where all the guests disembarked.
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Clyiner anel their guests. Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche, Mrs. Waesche. Lieut.
Commander Hesford and Commander Frank Leamy
made the trip to the Soo aboard the Str. Carl I). Bradley to attend the Opening of the new MacAr thur Lock.
barked after a short trip. toe> short for us. Faces about the Robinson:
Steward Lcveck's
but saw a pair of boxing gloves on Jack Xichol and Bert Radka.
Kven good fighters get hit now
and then.
The big time: Marry Sloan says anyone interest ed in farming should see him for Ohio seeels; beans 24 inches long, tomato stalks 10 feet high, sunshine the vear 'round.
Memos of a midnighter: Walter Tulgetske. bet ter known to us as P. I L. is the official newsboy of the T.W.R.—Extra. Extra, Extra.
Stanley (Pinky) Ne>wicki is going in for silhou ettes in a big way.
Congratulations to Clayton and Mrs. Gordon who are now the proud parents of a seven-pound baby
gfrtv So far "Pat" Ileward hasn't let us in on the big secret as to when the great event will take place. (Please. Pat. suspense is terrible.)
Clarence: Hey! You aren't seasick, are you? Bob: No. but I'd sure hate to yawn.
Anyone seeking advice on how to raise chickens see Charlie Cook, our wheelsman.
From all re
ports coming from Petersville. they certainly must grow out there. Earl: Hew Otto, where are all the strawberries in this shortcake?
Ship small talk: Leo Mulka is busy filling his hope chest: our hopes for him only last till layup. Frank Stanbrook: Say. Bill, I thought the Rob inson was an all-electric boat.
That's right, says Runner. I low come they are burning coal, then? Tsk. tsk. But he stopped us when we asked him what he was going to do with the knife he was making. For the army, says Stan.
While loading coal at Buffalo recently quite a few of the fellows took the boat to Crystal Beach. Chief
LaP.oiinty says he can't imagine sailors spending their time off taking a boat ride.
Otto: That's the short part of it.
After Baldy rides on the Sky Ride- he is still look ing for the fellow that invented it.
Cherette. inventor, is now working on a pair of
Lavern Hauler's hobby is taking and develop ing pictures. What do you use for films. Putch?
dice without spots for deckhands who want to shoot era]) without gambling.
Headlines. Ohioans: Harry Sloan is now in the
Hornbacher: Hey. Re>ydon. gimme a cigarette. Roydon: Are you old enough ? After having his photo taken by the newsreel cameraman while entering the new Lock, we un
derstand our olel chum Bill Hornbacher is planning on going to Hollywood next winter for a screen
lest'. Heard, but not
seen:
What
time- Calcite, and.
any vacations this vear?
Notable Americans get their faces on our paper
money. The rest of us try to get our hands on it.
wood-sawinir business.
Mail votir orelers early.
More small talk: Harry I'iechan has collected so many skunk hides playing cribbage. that the market will soon be flooded,
Wonder if young Stan found the Chicago buoy— ha/.}' weather, eh. Frank? Our first mate. Mark Haswell. went fishing at
the Canadian Soo. and after making several casts there said there just couldn't be any fish in the river. Mark.
But there were a
few on
the bank, savs
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ing fine. The life of a sailor still holds a warm
spot in Howard's heart, de-spite his liking for army lite.
Lyle Goulelte and Benedict Kowalski are also
members of the crew of the B. H. Taylor who are now in Service. We have not heard from them re cently, but we think of you often, fellows, and will
welcome the day when you are back wtih us again. Our Captain seems tu have trouble finding his
pipe, it is never where he last remembers leaving it. Perhaps if weights were used on it. it wouldn't walk away from him. PERSONAL ITEMS
We have had our first trip to Gladstone, and as
It has been said recently, while al the Toledo
usual some of the boys go bathing, clothes and all.
STR. B. H. TAYLOR
coal docks, that the ice to which we referred in the
last issue would be appreciated, for summer has
hit us with a bang! We are having mosquitoes at the C. $ (). dock, which are really not mosquitoes at all. but Ohio dragon flies. Mosquitoes could never be so large ami vicious. They have migrated
Our Third Mate says hereafter he will use the boat
to go ashore, instead of the dockman's say-so on the Safety of the catwalk.
Ted Strand thinks Lorain was very dead over the Fourth. We think he did all right.
conditions at Great
Elmer Fleming's figuring was away out when
Lakes Steel Corporation. Mosquitoes follow us. anel fog meets us. wherever we go. We are sorry
it came te> figuring who had the most river watches.
to Michigan, judging
from
to hear of recent accidents caused from all
the
log we've had. This hampers our chances of ful filling L'ucle Sam's wishes for meeting the de mands ol ore, stone, and coal by December.
OUr men in service continue to give their all. so that we of the Allied Nations may wage an offens
Remember, Elmer, practice makes perfect—hurry
up and catch up !
We offer congratulations to "Sparky" on the birth of a daughter.
Where was DePeudry on a recent trip to Ford's with coal ?
It seems Allen waited too long to use coupon
ive and victorious war. What must these men think of the news from the I Ionic Front? Let us
Now he has to ge> on his bare feet.
put all thought of strikes in the coal mines and fac tories out of our mind for the present. Mate-rial, machines, anel manpower are vital for victory, and
when he heard there were ten more Jap ships sunk,
we must put our shoulder to the wheels of in
dustry. The riots in Detroit, and the necessity of calling in the militia, are sad reminders that the
veneer u\ civilization is still all too thin. Imagine what propaganda value Nazi editors in Germany will find in such news from the "land of the free."
Victory is still a long way o\\. so let's get started on the winning of it in every possible way.
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What a smile of satisfaction on Walter's face-
ami more planes destroyed.
Herman and Rt-d have become quite- politically minded, from conversation heard in the Mess room.
Halligan says he is going to save scrap, if we get more coke breeze from Lorain.
Herman is *v,rc of one way to get Paul up pass ing Detroit—to tell him there is a letter for him.
It is said that in order to cash checks in I leaven's
I.live is grand, Paul.
bank, we must first make some eleposits in it.
"Smig" was confused about whether we got pa It is not the size of the dug in the fight, that counts, but the size of the fight, in the elog.
pers or mail first at Detroit upbound. so he sent both
A letter was recently received from Ferd Lim-
the mailman, when he had to pick up all the change from the deck, and Smig was twenty cents short
berg. a former member of our crew, who is now in
the Engineer Corps. Ferd likes army life, and we know from experience that Ferd is an A-l soldier. The best of luck!
Since the last issue of the Screenings we- have
buckets down. This did not go over so big with when the mail bucket returned.
Live and learn!
We have- heard of people walking in their sleep, but it is reported Clarence whistles in his sleep.
Wallace says working in the galley is a snap
learneel that three of our other crew members are
compared to working on deck.
He wanted action,
now serving overseas. They are Paul Relax. Rill Robarge, and Thomas Perry, anel we send you our
and admits he is getting it. Ford's may not be so bad.
Our next cargo to
best wishes, fellows.
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Howard Klowski visited us recently while loading ;it Calcite. He was home on furlough and loe>k1700
Our steward, "Kid Biff," also known as one of the
Dittos, has the rationing point system under con trol—we. the crew, most sincerely hope!
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Goodreau's two junior assistants have been re
cently promoted, but seem to have forgotten that a promotion calls for a cigar. Lozen thanks his lucky stars there was a Coast Guard Patrol boat handy at Ashtabula. It is a long
way to Detroit, anel farther to Cheboygan.
We regret losing our night steward. Frank KLenefick. who has just given up sailing to open a bakery business in Detroit. We used to arouse your Irish, we know, Frank, but we really miss you in more-
ways than one. The best of luck in your new bus iness, and if there happens to be a surplus of oat meal cookies sometime, you know how we'd appre ciate a few.
We lost Skip with regrets in Ashtabula, but that shipyard had tei stay open. Where was Benny "the Greek" over the Fourth? Kidnaped again, I bet.
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PERSONAL ITEMS
Kenneth : Do you know anything about Texas? Louis: Sure, taxes this year are entirely too high.
Alphouse S.: What is cold boiled ham? Donald G.: It's ham boiled in cold water.
We know now the proper name for fish flies on Lake Erie. They are known as Ohio butterflies.
We enjoy our trips very much from Calcite to Buffalo, to Conueaut. to Detour, and the fishing is
Anyone seeking more information may speak to Chief Suttle or George Hoy.
very good at Detour, so the Chief says.
Anyone having a roadmap of Wisconsin, or know ing the distance from Chicago. Milwaukee, or Green Bay to River Forest, would lie doing John Clans a great favor to supply him with the information. Love is a funny business, John, but not always this cruel.
We congratulate Aelolph and Mrs. Lietzow, and wish them a long and happy wedded life. Should have done it long ago, kids !
Julian to Dan: Do pug noses run in your family? Dan : (Inly in cold weather. W> loo bad lhat Virgil had to haul in hay on the fourth and fifth of July. We hope it did not rain. Virg.
We all hated to see eiur old friend. Chris Swarts. leave ns. but our new first mate. Roland Bryan, received a hearty welcome.
Let's give the Japs half the Pacific ocean, the bottom half.
We heard that George Hoy happened le> meet a girl friend of Walter KHefsen's, while loading at Ashtabula.
Poppy Budniek has heard the reasons why the Second Mate is Canada's gift to the United States, but Poppy still has his doubts. Pilarski found the plane all right, after arousing the whole forward end to help him locale it.
Kuckie wonders if it is possible to have a carge; of stone te> Toledo. A cargo of coal eleies not give him time tei renew acquaintances. Watch that por ter on the Calcite. Kuckie. he is trying to beat your
time at Popcorn Cafe. Cigars are coming from all directions on ihe -
"B.H." Best wishes to all whether the occasion be a marriage or a birth. The ideal form of taxation, of course is the kind
that will be paid by somebody else. Let us now all be thankful that March 15th is just another elay. and not an annual headache.
H
Stroll"' has teamed that one must have a pass te
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fpiuni til VuT Sl# at Great Lakes Steel-and altc
We understand that Frank Kelley is helping mor
ale on the home front by posing for his photograph. She was not by chance a talent scout from Holly wood, was she Frank?
"Daniel Boone" Ruhrmau has been reinforcing
his traps in anticipation of amither trapping season. It seems that Big Beaver as well as Big Fish have a tendency to get away.
"Champ" Wagner is back with us. chipper as ever, after joining the "Royal Order of Scar Bel lies" at the Detroit Marine Hospital.
The new ce-iliug price on corn has "Lone Ranger" Repke worried. *
Wanna buy a horse? .
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Chief L'rdal seemed to have a monopoly on catch
ing fish until CO-' Modrzynski came- back to the boat at Detour proudly waving two pike and a
pickerel.
The- law of averages still says you're
no fisherman. Slim.
At feast "He member of our crew appreciates Lake Erie during the hot weather. It seems that Lester Gordon has bit on a scheme u< preserve
fishllies to use for winter fishing and naturally its to be near bis source of supply. want
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{ Are You Indifferent To Your Job? From even a casual observation of human nature we find that the attitueles and reactions of most
people have changed within the past two years. The- psychological effect this war has on many is to foster indifference to responsibility and service. 'Ibis is one of the most serious dangers tei the morale- and unity of our people and nation. STR. W. F. WHITE . . . PERSONAL ITEMS Meat rationing is no headache when the White
makes a trip down Lake Erie way during the summer season. Millions of fishflies collecting on all available space take care of that.
We'll take
the meat shortage in preference to the flies anyday, though. Friendly altercations as tei who has the best spare time of several of the crew-members.
Their
wives woulel probably say it's easier talked about than done.
We suggest that "Sarge" Zoho take an umbrella with him the next time he goes up town in Buf
falo,
entific and industrial preigressiem.
The effects are far-reaching and directly concern every one of us. The man on the job with an "I
don't give a darn" attitude is certainly neit pro ducing at maximum capacity. The fact'that labor is scarce has been reflected in many war workers in just such an attitude.
Victory Garden at home, occupies some of the
ft rains every time he goes sight-seeing in
that city.
way to make up for the meat sheirtage. Uncle Sam will be wishing you the best of luck, men.
Don Marsh, the new waiter, was carrying dishes stackeel high on both arms but with none in his hands. When asked why he didn't use his hands,
he said, he used them to pick tip the dishes he dropped.
ful conclusion to this war.
We can fight this indifference by thinking of our jobs and responsibilities—putting aside the petty grievances and fixing our "sights" on the goal
Nothing like being safe, says "Casey" J ernes.
It is called a
Strong box because when it is finished it will take a strong man to lift it. "Hank" Kaminski has a new side-line of con
The canary bird population
at his home has increased so much that the hous
ing problem is becoming acute. Several ambitious members of the crew decided
to take a jaunt down town from the new steel plant in South Chicago. After walking, anel walking. they finally reached the main gate. When they ge>t out to the street they found it was 118th Street— still "No Man's Land."
Edward Yoight tells us that Ralph Smith, a veiling tall, slim deckhand, was scared to jump across the pockets in the cargo hold. Finally, getting enough nerve. "Smitty" gave a big jump and sailed across, not one. but two pockets! Arnold Specht suggests buileling a porch out from
the fantail gangway to catch more refreshing breezes. Perhaps Arnold woulel like to sit out there
and "grit" his teeth as the beat fishing days go bv. 1708
If we are determined to be successful in
our efforts we canned fail in our goal. With this thought firmly fixed in our minel we have gained a major victory on the home front for when we have overcome inelifference we are better
workers, better patriots, accielents are reduced ami production maintained.
What is your attitude. Mr. War Worker? you become indifferent to your job?
Have
Do You Remember Your First Aid?
"Casey" is buileling a strong box.
structing bird cages.
Labor unrest, strikes
and non-excusable absenteeism, are signs of indif ference and lack of patriotism. It is required of every American to put forth his best efforts to aid our cause. We expect the most of our fighting forces—they expect the most of us. It takes the best of both forces to bring a suex'ess-
ahead.
Several fellows are interested in getting into the chicken business this year. It woulel lie a good
It
causes carelessness, wastefulness and retards sci
Do you remember your First Aiel? Flave you re vived your First Aid technie|ue lately? Can you be sure that you will never have occasion tei use it?
If your answer to the last eiuestiem is yes. then you need not bother with the first either—however,
we venture to say some day when you least ex pect it. when you may be the least prepareel to render First Aid you will be called upon to do so. So let's brush up a bit.
Do you know that although your first impulse. when a man is injured, may be to rush him to the hospital, there are few situations where minutes
are so vital. Prompt First Aiel action is necessary in all cases. It may be urgent and necessary to employ artificial respiration or to stop severe hem orrhage immediately, or to apply a splint to a brok en bone at once. However, the injured person may lose more vitality in a fast ride, saving perhaps on ly a few minutes, than he would in a smooth ride,
taking several minutes longer. Quick stops and sudden spurts of speed are nerve-racking to the in jured. There is also the danger of traffic accidents.
For centuries tomatoes were cemsidered elangerous. Then in 1812. a painter ate erne and lived! To
day tomato pulp is fed to extremely young babies as a wholesome food.
The whole forward crew in chorus: (after a trip
from Toledo to Fords) What do you mean, out of the coal trade?
The Chief (on seeing the ship's articles presented
for his signature): If it's got anything to do with taxes. I won't sign it. J
Lodi Adrian couldn't figure out why every one
was singing "Deep in the Heart of Texas." until he got his mail. Now he says absolutely no more post carets.
STR. CALCITE PERSONAL ITEMS The mate, to Ted Werner on one eif Ted's busy
days: Where the heck are you going, Ted? Ted: Gee. Vinegars, I don't know. I tink I'm coming. Web Wirgau says ever since he got in between Modr/.ynski and Kurkerwicz the other night he knows what thev mean bv the mad Russians.
Jim Selke came back from inspecting the new chicken coop his wife talked him into, anel was heard tei say: "Vou know, sometimes I think I'm not real bright. What I should have- done was lei have moveel the family in there and let the chickens have the house." "
Speed Hoeft has been home making hay. Some of the other boys have been heard to remark that 60 acres makes a good alibi, but don't let them get you down. Speed. They'll all be around try ing to buy a pig before the winter's over. Fooel seems to be a major item to the boys this
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year. ranch.
We hear George Kerr has quite a rabbit When it conies time to kill some of those
cute little bunnies, George, we'll see whom they
Speed says the people of Cheboygan are not very charitable. He sat on the curb with his hat on his knees for fifteen minutes anel never collected a
thing lint three suspender buttons and an old cigar butt.
We understand Hank Xewhouse is carrying bot tled water in his own private ceuiler now-a-elays. What's the matter. Hank, don't you like the ships
drinking water? Or what have you? Two of our younger crew members with an eye for beauty alinosl became ace|iiainted with two gorgeous blondes in Fordson. They were doing all right until the girls went into a beer garden. Being too young to go in. the beiys still have their memories.
Two of our boys misseel the boat in Cleveland anel had epiite a time pawning their jewelry and finding their uncles, and girl friends in Detroit, to find their way back to Calcite. What a trip, and a taxi from Alpena! Never will I let the Calcite
really belong to.
out of mv sight asrain !
We understand Bill Schwert was among those in the front row at a recent ship launching in Cleve-
boys away from the better places. What say, Pod-
lauel. There are those who say Bill was under the bow with his mouth open waiting for the cham pagne, but we think he was requisitioned as an es cort for the Spars anel Waves.
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After one round with a pair of roller skates, Jack-
Paradise is now ready to concede that the old gag, about being as young as you feel, is just a gag.
Brush haircuts are very popular among the younger set on the Calcite. We don't know about the- haircuts looking like a brush, but the forward hallway deck sure looks like a brush heap when the barber gets through. The Captain says the olel Calcite is getting loo fast for the I'. S. Mail boat: first they can't catch us at Detroit to deliver our pay-checks, and the
very next trip we beat an air-mail letter to Buf falo, Better luck next time. Captain. tried V-mail. Captain ? )
(Have you
These brush haircuts are keeping some of thecrick ?
Ed Schultz does wel short-handed.
when the trail ev crew is
We are contemplating buying a sign "God Bless Our Happy Home," and loaning it out to what ever department has the least storm and strife go ing on. It Should be about the fastest moving sign in history.
When we stopped running for Waterways, it looks as if we went into the coal trade, and not out of it.
Our speedy coal passer is now a fireman and has two uniforms and a white anel khaki top for his hat. Looks like a Polish admiral when running from
one ice- cream parlor to another.
According to all the signs, there are going to be
Green and Tucker worked two hours making an
at leasl three school teachers who are- going to get
exte-nlion on a broom hanelle so burlaw would not
seime very contradictory reports on the summer's doings. Don't believe a word any of them say. girls, (even on a stack of Bibles). Just come to us and we'll give you the real low-down.
have to bend when sweeping up the boiler room. All is quiet in the after end since Moscow geit off at Detroit to get his teeth fixed. 17W
Maintain Your Health
In these days of national emergency, mainte nance of health reaches a parity with prevention of accidents. A man losing time through sickness is just as much incapacitated, and in addition, often is put to greater expense, since Workmen's Com pensation Boards do not take ordinary sicknesses into account.
Your Job Is Important
The armed forces of your country are becoming larger every clay.
Those units in actual combat
are making history and meeting death.
To them
will go the glories, the honors and the glamour of war. You are just a man on the home front, one of
the many unsung heroes left at home to do a job; not a very exciting task, but one just as important
Infection is not by any means confined to trau matic injuries. In the health sphere small blunders
as the paratrooper floating down behind enemy
frequently lead to catastrophe and seemingly triv
testing out an enemy shoreline, or as important as a foot soldier charging a strong point.
ial infections may result in more serious diseases. Colds pave the way for a host of afflictions, such as sinusitis, bronchitis and pneumonia. It is wise to guard against the lesser evils to avoid dangerous complications.
No one is immune from disease.
Everyone has an "Achilles heel." The wise person will acknowledge weaknesses and guard them jealously from infection or other danger. In the human frame, like a chain, the whole is only as strong as the weakest link. First aid precautions are wise health insurance. Everyone should know how to keep a wound clean, and should remember that even the smallest
lines, as important as the daredevil commando You can direct the course of this war as much as
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the generals, by the way you think, by the way you act, by the way you buy bonds and most important by the way you work and stick to the job. The morale of the country, which is the most impor tant weapon in winning any war, is dependent up on your attitude from day to day. No longer are you working just for your own gain, nor the gain of an employer. Your job has reached new im portance—you are now working for the good old United States.
cut must be looked after carefully. Serious infec tion may strike anyone, anywhere and any time. It is so much easier to check trouble than to remedy
When this battle is over you will not receive the applause of the crowd nor will you be greeted with bands and speeches, but the boys in service know what you are doing and how well you are doing it.
it.
Today word comes from them for all of us here
Some people live dangerously—and continue to live. Others live foolishly—and die. It all depends upon the measures they adopt for self-protection. All of us are potential enemies of our fellowmen. Human contact is one of the great spreaders of disease. If we are suffering from any contagious disease, we must consider the welfare of others. By care in this respect we can prevent the spread of disease and assist others to keep well. Health authorities in Canada have accepted ac cidents, even traffic mishaps, as health problems.
to work and work harder. It is only hard work that will produce the modern weapons of war and supplies necessary to combat the Nazi and the
Jap. Forget ourselves, forget those little discom forts—our Country is at stake. Your job is im portant—stick to it! The Clouds Remain
We think it was Thoreau, the nature lover, who
said when he saw the woodsman's axe destroying the majestic trees of the forest, "Thank God, they
For every person killed in an accident some 95 are
cannot cut down the clouds!"
injured. Many of these victims are consequently too handicapped to hope for any real success or hap piness in life afterwards. Precautions designed to
There are some eternal things that the destruct ive powers of men, in all their fury, will never be
able to destroy.
To think of these things is to
prevent accidents are, therefore, a Public Health • achieve an inward quiet and peace even in a wartorn world. The stars still shine, we still have the service. sunrise and the sunset. Old Lake Huron still lav Such Is Life
In all lines of work that bring two or more hu man beings together, our weaknesses are given a chance to show themselves, usually to our detri ment. We are interdependent. None of us can live very long without the help of his fellows, and this is an entirely different thing than "at the ex
pense of his fellows." We, nevertheless, are quite apt to envy the man ahead of us—might even, likely as not, be jealous of the man who is promoted. Our over-sensitive natures make us feel seeming slights or insults that were foreign to the inten tion. Our "thin skin" can't stand the gaff and rough handling of a busy world, and as a result
some of us are in hot water or up in arms a good bit of the time.
Politicians have a hard job sitting on the fence and keeping one ear to the ground. 1710
ishes in the stillness of its tranquil beauty, or is tur bulent with wind and wave.
The hills are not
moved. Birds sing. Little streams dance merrily on their way. Flowers bloom in all their splendor. The world goes on being a beautiful place, ever
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lastingly.
There are indestructible qualities of the human
spirit too. Mother love is immortal, and though crushed to earth it will rise again. Courage and sacrifice glow with a new light in the midst of the blackout of hope. Faith gallantly rides the whirl
wind sweeping the earth, Charity extends beyond the grave to the boundless realms of eternity. No, we cannot cut down the clouds! The spirit
of man cannot be destroyed! The finest things of life are immortal—they will survive.
We must remember that the enemy is fighting just as desperately as we are.
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O say! can you see by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof thru' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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On the shore, dimly seen thru' the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows half conceals half discloses? Now it catches ihe gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream, 'Tis The Star-spangled Banner O long may it wave
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O fhus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto; "In God is our trust!"
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Do <d$ <Watzxfotȣ Whither, 'midst falling dew, VVhile glow the heavens with the last steps of day Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky. Thy figure floats along.
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Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,
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Or where the rocking billows rise and sink
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On the chafed ocean's side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast—
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The desert and illimitable air—
Lone wandering, but not lost. J
All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
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And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,
And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend. Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.
Thou'rt gone! The abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given. And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight. In the long way that I must tread alone. Will lead my steps aright. —William Cullen Brvant.
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CALCITE SCREENINGS PUBLISHED PERIODICALLY BY THE MICHIGAN LIMESTONE a CHEMICAL COMPANY. ROGERS CITY. MICHIGAN. IN THE INTER ESTS OF SAFETY AND WELFARE CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE RECEIVED EARLY BEFORE DATE OF PUBLICATION. AND THEY SHOULD BEAR THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT AND SENDER AND SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. J. A VALENTIN.
Accidents For The Year 1943
Many things are not and cannot be done because of the state of war in our country and throughout the world. Often the presence of this condition is used as an excuse or alibi for not producing certain results. The worn-out phrase *'lt is the war" can be used justifiably a good share of the time, but certainly is not the answer to all human failures and errors of today. As applied to the problem of accident prevention and <>ur unfavorable experiences this year, we cannot let the matter rest by saying "it is the war
and
when conditions
become
normal
every
thing will be rosy again." Let us review those accidents happening since our last report in the Summer Issue ol "Calcite
"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to ac knowledge the providence of Almighty Clod ... 1 do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty-
sixth day of November next, to be devoted by Un people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the Beneficent Author ol all the good that was, that is. or that will be; that
wt may then all unite in rendering unto Mini onr
Screenings." Detroit Dock workers are continuing the no-ac cident habit. We will not say. "Keep your fingers crossed." as that is not the way accidents are pre
of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational maimer in
vented.
tions of Government for onr safety and happiness
We do saw "Keep working and your job
will go right." Buffalo Plant gets our moral support on that new and longer record they have in mind.
Our sailor lads are coming a Utile better, al though 1943 has been bad. The injuries have not been severe, but have resulted in some lost time.
The last injury since midsummer has been to Don ald Depcw of the Str. Carl I), l'radlcy. lie pinched a finger between hatch covers and lost thirteen daws* time. Xow that the sailing season is Hearing an end and the weather conditions are none too good
at best more care will need be taken.
The boys
on the Bradley boats will be up there with honors when another season rolls around.
Since last we reviewed accidents at the Calcite
plant we have had two more so the total now is four for the season. On August 21. John Piclusar. an experienced floor blaster, was severely injured when an electric cap exploded while being tested. This
accident was bad and could easily have been fatal. The final result was loss of the left eye and a se vere shaking up.
Harold Streich of the Accounting Department bumped his "funny bone" on a typewriter which resulted in an injury that caused seven days' losttime.
After looking over similar reports as above that have been written in other years, it seems that our tone is always one of dissatisfaction. \\ e do not mean to be critical or fault-finding, but safely is
one job that is never satisfactorily done if workers get hurt. We will have that perfect season yet. Fall. 1943
sincere and humble thanks . . . for the great degree
which we have been enabled to establish constitu
. . . fur the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquir ing and diffusing useful knowledge: and. in gen eral, for all the great and various favors which lie has been pleased to confer upon us." â&#x20AC;&#x201D;George Washington. October 3, 17.S1'. A New Peak In Accidents
Compensable injuries reported to the Michigan State Labor Department during August reached an all-time high of 3,495. The highest previous num ber reported was 3,292 in March. 1943. The 1942 monthly average was about 2.550. The factors contributing to this increase are varied. For one thing, a good many employers re ported accidents which occurred as far back as January and February, 1943, and there apparently was a general tendency on the part of both em ployers and insurance companies to clean up re maining cases which fell under the provisions of
the compensation act prior to the 1.943 amendments which became effective on July 30. Another fac tor was the increased number--as yet undeter minedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of new employers under the act who were reporting compensable injuries for the first time. A still further factor is the rapid increase in em
ployment, particularly in manufacturing industries, during the past few months.
Do everything yon can to prevent accidents by using common sense. Prevent injuries from becom ing worse by getting First Aid. 1715
December Is With Us Again December is a month of moods, of likes and dis
likes. The early Roman calendar listed Decem ber the last month of the year, the same as it is listed now. except that the calendar then had onl\ leu months. In fact, the ancient "Decern" means ten. and the Latin moiith was Decembris.
There are month ol
many, many people
YESTERDAY IS GONE
Latin word name ol the
who
WHY WORRY ABOUT
like the
December, on the other hand lliere ate
many who have a decided dislike for it. name is an
untruth because it
TOMORROW
Its very
means the lentil
month whereas on the modern calendar U is Hie
twelfth mouth.
December also ushers in
TODAY
winter
on its _'lsl day. Many people enjoy winter—it cer tainly oilers many variations. However u.eic
IS THE
are those who think our northern seasons would
be perfect if winter could be left out. We think it was Benjamin Franklin who said. "There were never such things as a poor man's war or a poor
TO
DAY
PREVENT
ACCIDENTS
man's winter."
People in ages past have cast a slanted eye at December.
Various terms have been used to de
scribe it—such as: the hoary month, it's the month we fill our coal bin, buy heavier clothing and put in a lew extra provisions for over winter, it's the month of chills and bills.
For many it has meant sorrow; yet to many ol us associated with the Christian world—December
is a month we love—it has another adjective term
which we like to use. "Holy Month." so designated because of the birth of Christ on December _f5th.
For many of us it is the one day in the entire
year, even though it does occur in bleak Decem ber when we can lay aside many of the things of everyday life, it's one day when the Christian world lavs aside business, prolit, loss, and personal priv ileges, and the work-a-dav problems. And we still have memories of the good Bishop Phillips Brooks.
When A Man Is Rich When we think of a person of wealth, we usual ly look- upon his material gains or accumulations. but the word "rich" should have a different mean
ing—it should not be connected so much with the material, but rather with the spiritual side of life. We all know people who are rich in mind, rich in heart or rich in spirit, we speak of rich experiencs and of being rich in friends—so that anyone can be rich by feeling rich ! Put this feeling has to be earned, just like wealth has to be earned if it is to be appreciated. To give is more blessed than to receive. Often
one is especially rich in giving something away that has enriched someone else.
And he is
rich
when he has learned to gather in beauty whenever
who wrote "() Little Town of Bethlehem." and of the ancient monk who wrote "Adcste l-'idelis."
uring memories.
Then again we must remember the old Saint Nich olas, who. during a period—an all too short period
Anyone who has earned ami banked money usu ally goes to his bank to draw it out when needed.
of innocent childhood—lets us believe in
Thus it is with those who have banked kindness in other lives, or who have handed down ideas or
a land
of make-believe, wherein all is wondrous, beauti ful and breath-taking: wherein Mother is queen and Dad is king. Yes—we believe that December more than any other month is a month of moods, likes and dislikes, which have been significantly im
pressed upon the minds and hearts of us all. Bad will be the day lor every man when he be
comes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he L thinking. with the i\cv<\<. that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors ol his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is
still, in spite of all, the child of God. There is but one virtue: to help human beings to ivcv and beautiful life: but one sin: to do them
indifferent or cruel hurt: the love of humanity is
the whole of morality.
This is Goodness, this is
Humanism, this is the Social Conscience. 1716
found or has learned tin
thoughts in hooks.
valuable lesson of treas
Xot only are these people priv
ileged to draw out their own accumulations but they leave riches on which others for all time can draw. One of the richest men we have ever known had
nothing but himself to give away, but he gave lav ishly of all that he was for he was very rich in heart. Me was alone in the world. Me lived in a lint near a river bank. Me loved nature. Me al
ways radiated cheer and his mind was a storehouse of rare knowledge.
It's nice to have money on which to get along— it's convenient and it's necessary, but yon have heard the old adage of "being born with a silver spoon" also the one of "keeping up with the Joneses." We shouldn't worry too much about the material so long as we arc comfortable when we can become- so rich in our own right by accumulat ing each day of our lives and dispersing with it in the same wav.
,
Worry Can Make You 111 Most doctors will tell us that we American peo
ple worry too much for our own good, and these days everyone knows there
is plenty
to worry
about.
We think there is a difference between worry
and concern.
Any thrift}- individual must have an
interest in what he is about if he is going to suc ceed, he must be intentive. interested and concern
ed—he need not necessarily worry. However there art those in whom concern is easily converted from care to solicitude and to worry. Some people just can't help worrying. In these days of turmoil there seems to be plen ty to worry about. W'e think the war is responsi ble for most of it—with loved ones in the armed
DONT FORGET
forces and the uncertainty of conditions every
SAFETY WHEN
YOU QUIT WORK
where there is plenty to bother the average Amer
Your chances of an accident are
greater away from your job....
ican.
There are many people who worry themselves sick. W'e know others who seem not to be quite normal unless periodically they can get right down to some hard worrying that completely occupie:. their mind in defiance of all else.
Too many people also worry about their past. One's past is something that can never be lived over again. It's gone and no good can be bad by
building Up regrets. The present is .something that we actually have every morning. No one can lake it away from us. W'e can review our past and appraise it as we will, but we can do nothing .about it after it's gone. Worry will not help.
Every morning is a new leaf no matter how soiled the old one may have been. Plere is the op portunity for a new day. Much of our past; how
ever, is Full of rich, happy memories for all of ns and each one of these should bring to the present an emanation of pleasure, satisfaction and light in direct contrast to anything there may have been to worry about. The past however cannot be entirely forgotten. It reflects much good. It is a stern teacher and the present doesn't always like to go to school to it! This tragic war is an example of our refusal. It costs so much more in every way to learn from the present without any regard to the lessons of the past.
History is constantly repeating itself.
Form
and circumstance alone change. There are certain fundamental principles that thread their way throughout all human existence. But what we do
in the present is what counts most for each of us. We doubt that worry as such ever accomplished much and it certainly can be very destructive— to be concerned on the other hand often results in
being fore-armed. What is worry?
Xothiug more or less than our
subeoiisicous mind on a rampage. You are wor ried if you want to be. and only when you want to be.
In the garden of great minds failure is only a '
fertilizer for the flowers of success!
Prelude To Winter The First signs ol the approach of winter are with us-—the harvest is in. the wild geese and ducks have flown southward, the fuel trucks are busy fill ing the bins with coal. Storm windows, doors and sheds can be seen going up here and there and some of us get a crick" in the knee caused by the early frost.
Like a squirrel the housewife has been busy all fall putting up stores of canned goods and pre serves and storing away vegetables and staples for the winter.
0«f old weather prophet, George Pilarski. has since early autumn been prophesying that the com ing winter will be milder than last—and probably milder than the average. Mis prophecy is based on the thickness of the pelts of certain animals and of the delicate skins on onions, and certain other
knowledge of weather behavior he has acquired over the years such as the abundance or scarcity of fruits, nuts. etc. This year there are im beech nuts in this area.
Aside from these early preliminary signs of what we may expect. Old Boreas sends an occasional snifter from the Arctic region that causes us to get out the fed flannels, hunt np onr arctics, take
the overcoat out of tin- mothballs, wipe our eyes and sneeze onr sneezes.
Spring is so wonderful, summer so bountiful, aulumn so beautiful; all being so. it is hard to under
stand why winter should require so much prepar ation for us to live through it.
There is some merit
in the saying that "we prepare in the other three seasons to live through the fourth." Put with all its snow, rain and slush, the neces
sity of storing fruit, vegetables and coal, the wear ing of heavy coats, mufflers and rubbers, winter with its crisp, clear, invigorating atmosphere, its beautiful Landscaping and cheerful, homey fire sides has its compensation and we love it. 1717
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SYNTHETIC America is in the gri; The question, can w By I. N. Kimsey Manager Mechanical Sales The B. F. Goodrich Company
Here's the first bale of man-made rubber pro duced in the world's biggest synthetic rubber plant, the 120.000-ton "â&#x20AC;˘Rubber Rancho Grande" at
Port
X'eches. Tex. Vice- President George Vaught (left). Willis Burt, chemical engineer, and Wallace J. Piggotl, plant manager, all of the P. P. Goodrich Com pany which built llu- plant for the government and is operating the first two 30.000-ton units, watch Parbara Jean Lee dust the first 75-pound block be fore shipment to plants making tires, fuel cells, liferafts and other war-vital articles.
America is in the grip of a desperate rubber
crisis that today resolves itself into a question <>l whether we can bridge the gap until manufacturing facilities are producing enough tires and other vital
products made of synthetic rubber for our Armed Porecs and our industrial plants and transportation systems.
Indeed it is a grim race against lime, for upon
its successful solution and production depends the fate of all the United Nations.
The discovery of a man-made substitute for na tural rubber is one of the greatest triumphs ol or ganic chemistry. For many years it seemed a phys ical and chemical impossibility, and let it be said here that the development of synthetic rubber is not the labors of any one man or laboratory or even ol any one nation, but the combined efforts of them all.
Over a period of seventy years important contribu tions were made by prominent scientists and chem ists of England. France, Germany, Russia, and the United States.
As far back as bSZ'i. Faraday, an P.nglishman. showed that natural rubber was composed ol live atoms of carbon and eight of hydrogen and there fore was called a hydrocarbon and down through
the years to the beginning of the first World War when the Russians, in fear of the threat of a block
ade, intensified their experiments with synthetics with a fair degree of success: about the same time the Germans built and operated a synthetic plant
with a capacity of 150 tons per month. Their proc ess was long and expensive and the quality only fair, because they did not have the technique lor acceleration.
1718
After the conclusion of the war when
natural rubber was available to all. the Hermans
and Russians stopped production
but
continued
their synthetic rubber research. The most significant synthetic rubber develop ment work in America was carried on by Doctors Kyriakides and P.arle of the Hood Rubber Com
pany, now a division of the B. F. Goodrich Com pany, where working in the Hood laboratory they developed processes for the manufacture of buta diene and other raw materials for the manufacture
of synthetic rubber and for the conversion of these materials into a useful synthetic rubber which could be processed. In PL'o when the I'ress of this country was de
voting columns to the investigation of such plants as cactus, milkweed, and other sources of rubber,
the P. P. Goodrich Company undertook an agressive and independent program of research in this and other fields id" synthetic development. So while others were showing little or no concern as
to what might happen from a wartime interrup tion we were commercially manufacturing a sup
erior synthetic, for in 1939 we started using syn thetic rubber in oil ami gasoline hose and on June 5. 1940. Amcripol Synthetic Rubber was introduced and passenger car tires of Amcripol were announc ed for sale.
Due to the intensive research development work being carried out in the industry laboratories on known sources and other raw materials to pro duce new sources of synthetics, whatever might be written today might become obsolete tomorrow. This also holds true to the relative comparison values between crude and synthetic rubbers, for each day brings forth new "know how" in the handling of synthetic and new lest lube develop ments from the laboratories.
At the present time there are five outstanding commercial types of synthetic rubber and one thermoplastic, which I will attempt to cover brief ly, giving a few of their chief characteristics ami
present uses in the manufacture of Industrial Rub ber Products. Insofar as there are several techni cal terms which will be used in their description, 1 feel a short definition of these terms would lie in order and will make it more understandable.
/
RUBBER >f a desperate rubber crisis,
mdge the gap in time?
One battery of
polymerization tanks
in
the
phase of operation at "â&#x20AC;˘Rubber Rancho." 120.COO-ton synthetic rubber plant at Port X'eches. Tex. Each of the tanks has a capacity of 3.750 gallons. Polymerization is the key step in making synthetic rubber. During this process butadiene, styreue and other raw materials are synthesized into the rubber latex that is compressed into blocks of crude synthetic rubber at later stages.
Giant wooden coagulation vats in the govern ment's "Rubber Rancho" built at Port X'eches. Rub-
bet latex enters the vats after passing through the polymcrizers. While in the vats curds ol solid rubber form in the liquid. They then pass through further processing and drying operations ami even tually emerge as drv crumbs of rubber.
Giant stripping columns at "Rubber Rancho." 120.000-ton capacity synthetic rubber 'â&#x20AC;˘plantation" at Port X'eches. Texas. P.mulating the Chicago
packers who reputedly use all of the pig but the squeal, the stripping columns recover the sty reue not entirely "used up" in the process of syn thesis, so that it can be u^al again. Butadiene is also recovered.
The end ol the process ol making synthetic rub ber. Out of this chute, ready to be packed ami
shipped to processing plants, drops 75 pounds of synthetic rubber every minute and a half. There are several such chutes in "Rubber Rancho." big
Port X'eches, Tex., plant.
Butadiene—A liquid that has almost the same
molecular structure as that found in liquid from rubber trees. Its natural form is gas. Easily liq uefies under pressure. Chief sources of supply are petroleum and grain alcohol.
Styrene—A chemical added to Butadiene to give synthetic rubber flexibility and wear-resistance. Polymer—A "chain" of rubber-like molecules present in synthetic as crude latex. Co-Polymer—A mixed chain of many Polymers. Catalyst—A chemical added to Butadiene and other ingredients and chemicals which starts the liquids to work, much as yeast starts fermentation. Coagulator—A chemical which speeds up the joining of the molecular chains, much as churning separates butterfat from cream. Acrylonitril—A nitrogen liquid compound mixed with Butadiene to increase its resistance to oil and
petroleum products. Emulsifier—A blending agent—usually soap chips—which, when added to Butadiene and other ingredients, causes them to mix with each other, as in plain English, soapy water cuts grease much quicker than clear water. Buna—German word. "Bu" from Butadiene, "Na"
from sodium. "S" stands for Styrene; GR. govern ment rubber.
The five types referred to above are as follows: Buna S Type—Commercially known as GRS—is the type which is being manufactured in govern ment synthetic rubber plants operated by the maj or rubber companies. Because the materials can be made in large quantities at low cost, it more nearly resembles natural rubber in many properties and quality. It can be vulcanized with sulphur and accelerators; however, its best properties are brought out by the addition of a black pigment, so most products made from this synthetic will be black. It is estimated that approximately 250,000 tons will be produced in 1943 and approximately 500,000 to 600,000 tons in 1944. Its strength, resil ience and flexing properties are good, but it swells in the presence of oil and cracks in Ozone. Buna N Type—These synthetic rubbers are CoPolymers of Butadiene and Acrylonitril and are similar to rubber, insofar as they can be vulcanized with sulphur and accelerators, yet in many cases
the)' are hard to handle in processing. One of the outstanding characteristics is its resistance to oil and acids; therefore it will be used extensively in
oil and gasoline hose, tank linings, printer's rub ber and rolls. At the present time the entire pro duction is being consumed by the Armed Forces in the manufacture of bullet-sealing gasoline tanks and hose on planes and it is my thought that this synthetic will be in great demand in the post-war period, regardless of the price of crude rubber and its availability. Butyl Rubber—This is one of the synthetics which will bear watching, as it is commonly known as bath-tub-butyl, or the synthetic of the future, due to its low cost and ease of manufacture.
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It is
a Polymer of Isobutylene or Butadiene or Isoprene. It is still more or less undeveloped. Its chief in gredient is a derivative of natural gas or petroleum. The outstanding manufacturers are Plumbic and Standard Oil. The principal characteristic is that it processes quicker than the Buna rubbers; how ever, it takes longer to cure.
It can be vulcanized
and has remarkable resistance to oxygen, sulphuric acid, Lewisite, as well as tear and abrasion.
No
tonnages figures for 1943 arc available.
GR-M Type—Originally called Dttprene, now called Neoprene, it is a synthetic originally manu factured by DuPont, and now being made in gov ernment synthetic rubber plants, it is mainly de rived from acetylene gas, it can be vulcanized. It has good mechanical properties and excellent resistance lo aging, oils, gasoline, heat, ozone, and many chem icals. Due to the fact that this synthetic was first
available in large quantities it has been compound ed for more applications and tested over a longer period of time than any other synthetic; in tact there have been about twelve distinct Neoprene types developed for particular properties. It is ex pected that tonnage production of this type will be somewhere near that of Buna S Type. GR-P Thiokol Type—This type is the least like natural rubber in structure, its strength and resil ience are both low. It is currently manufactured by Dow Chemical Company, it is made in several different types, all of which are rather difficult to process, due to the fact that they cannot be vulcan ized with sulphur. Thiokol is resistant to oil, gas oline and other solvents and has good tear resist^ ance. No tonnage figures for 1943 are available. Koroseal—A Thermoplastic manufactured by the B. F. Goodrich Company and is derived from coke, limestone, and salt, these ingredients all being available in large quantities. It is a thin, transparent, waterproof, rubber-like material, and due to the fact that it will not support combus tion, practically the entire output is taken by the Armed Services for cable insulation, tank crash
padding and waterpoofing of fabrics. Its resistance to oils and fats is very good. The post-war possibilities of Koroseal seem un limited. Its principal uses will be in the field of plastic pipe, window* screens and the coating of fabrics of all types. Production is being increased continually due to the extreme demand. No ton nage figures are available for military reasons.
It must be understood that while I have given only a brief outline of six of the most prominent synthetics, that in the near future many other sources of raw materials such as the Mexican and
American Guayule, the Russian dandelion, also our natural goldenrod, milkweed, the vine Cryptostegia, and other weeds may eventually play major roles in the replacement of our natural rubber. Surely
the unsung heroes of the entire program are all of the members of the research and laboratory staffs of the major rubber companies for the grand un tiring work they have done.
M
Synthetic Conveyor Belts Manhattan Rubber Company
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BY P. L. Edwards
Owing to the rapidly dwindling supply of Crude Rubber in this country it will soon be necessary for all belt manufacturers to convert to the use of
one or more of the several General Purpose Syn thetic Rubbers. The problem of building plants to
produce these in sufficient quantities has been a big one. but they have been completed on schedule and there will be an ever-increasing supply of these rubbers available as the months roll by. There are several types of Synthetics such as
Neoprene, Thiokol. Buna S. Buna X. Butyl. There are many trade names for Puna N. but they will all find a much-needed place in industry. They all
possess many of the characteristics such as flexi bility, resistance to abrasion, tensile strength, etc.. as found in natural crude, and essential for econ omical belt life.
Sinus Trouble Often Started By Colds Sinus disease can lie cured.
The opinion that
now prevails in some minds that once a person has simis trouble, he will always have it. and that if he has had one operation for this ailment, he will have many more and never be cured is fallacious according to Doctor Lee M. Hurd. The question is often asked. "What happened before so much was known about the sinuses.'"
The pains in the head were called neuralgia and were treated with medicine to kill the ache.
The
function of the sinuses has not been clearly deter mined as yet.
Allergy is the cause of sinus trouble in about half the cases.
When a person has a head cold, the
same infection invades some or all of the sinuses. Treatment for this condition consists of a rest in
bed, with such other care as the doctor may deem
necessary. Surgical treatment is rarely needed. The conditions that makes a person susceptible to a cold in the head are impaired general health, local disease in
or connected with the nose, ad
verse weather conditions and the activity of germs
in the nose. If a person is in perfect general health, the likelihood of the germs getting the up
per hand and causing a cold is extremely remote. The trouble is that few persons are in perfect health. In many their resistance is low and the germs can become active. Since the germs are constantly present, avoiding a cold simmers down to keeping always in good condition. For the average person the rules are few and simple. Eat a well-balanced diet: of meat, vegeta
bles and fruit. For the amount of physical labor they do. most persons eat too much. They are also inclined to eat too much meat
green vegetables and fruits.
and not enough
One should drink
plenty of milk and water and be moderate in the use of tobacco and alcohol.
It has required many years of laboratory work, careful compounding and actual field testing to
produce belts of a quality we have been using and so it will require some time before industry can hope to duplicate with these synthetics the same quality we have had in the past. As lar as conveyor belts are concerned these
will be made chiefly from Xeoprene (GRM) and Buna S (GRS) compounds. Those made from CKM may possess certain characteristics not found in GRS compounds and as a result some actual field tests will have to be made so that "Old Man Serv
ice" can dictate which has the greatest ultimate economy.
'
The photograph above shows a conveyor belt at the Calcite Plant made from synthetic. It handles openhearth-sizc stone and with the tonnage moved so far shows promise for synthetics in this work. It may be necessary to obtain satisfactory life to watch them even more carefully than before to pre vent damage and unnecessary wear, or to lessen the
possibility of accident, because the prospects of hav ing sufficient natural crude rubber to use for the manufacture of belts is quite remote unless the Far Fast world picture changes rapidly.
A moderate amount of daily exercise in the open
air is most important. Walking to ami from Work, if you are confined indoors, and taking exercise before breakfast in the open air will help. We should have at least eight hours sleep with plenty of fresh air.
However, in this connection, it should
be borne in mind that it is fresh air that is desirable
ami not necessarily cold air with the snow blowing in on the covers. It is being questioned by some ii sleeping in a bed with plenty of warm wool blank ets over the body and the head bare, and exposed to sub-zero temperatures pouring through an open window is the best policy. The reaction between the two extremes may not lie beneficial. The rooms in which we live or work should be well ventilated without drafts and not too warm. The treatment for acute sinus infection consists
of rest in bed plus such other measures as the doc
tor may order, as if not properly taken care of. chronic infection may result from repealed acute attacks.
So do not be mislead by what you hear.
Sinus
disease can be cured.
One thing will not be rationedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Safety. 1721
Ji
J^>£.h.a%bnznt
o t a m a n ox
BLASTING CREWS
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CARPENTER SHOP
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DRILLS
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ELECTRICAL CREWS
MILL
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TRACKS
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Adolph Sorgenfrei Leon Ruell
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TRACKS
William Heller
George C. Wing
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SHOVELS
Fred LaLonde
John Modrzynski Peter Giovangorio
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TRANSPORTATION
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Victor Koch
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TRANSPORTATION YARD
Frank Reinke
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SHOVELS
Thomas Kelley John Dembny
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POWER HOUSE
Walfer Pilarski Chos. Hoffman
DRILLS
MACHINE SHOP
tacn
C. C. Eldridge Otto Zempel
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DETROIT DOCK
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E. B. Metzen
STR. T. W. ROBINSON STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
Capt. C. R. McQuinn
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Chief Guy LaBounty Capt. C. A. Thorsen Chief Arthur Urdal
STR. W. F. WHITE
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Capt. M. R. Maclean Chief J. A. Anderson
STR. CALCITE
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Capt. Leo Moll Chief Chas. Frederick
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The View Above Is One of the West Breakwall, Badly In Need of Repairs Which Are Being Accomplished This Year
Dock Work At Port Of Calcite There are some of our "old timers'* who remem ber when dock and wharf facilities at the Port of
Calcite were meager, temporary affairs sufficient to tie a vessel to and that was about all. It took an acrobat to traverse these slructures during the time that the work of loading a boat was started and finished.
As the operation on this isolated Huron shore grew and lake vessel traffic increased, new dock and loading facilities came into being so that breakwalls and permanent construction ol the teen years was beginning to succumb to time and tide. What was called the west lireakwall needed repairing and replacing. Part of this breakwall had already been replac ed with sheet piling and concrete construction. What is called the pier head of this dock was part of the original work built with second-hand tim
bers from Crawford's Quarry.
Time, tide and ice
dition a distinct hazard to these surroundings.
It was easily possible for all or part of these cribs to fall into tlu channel blocking the loading slip or into the mouth of the lay-up harbor blockingoff its use. Such a thing happening during the busy season of shipping limestone to vital steel and chemical producing plants during war lime would have been very inconvenient indeed. Now the pier head along with the major part of the west breakwall will be constructed ol sheet
piling and concrete, ready again to aid in shipping at the Port of Calcite. While this job is yet far from completed it is well enough along to prevent any disturbance, costly repairs or delays. Again man's labor and planning are ready to fight lime and tide.
During the history of shipping at the Port of Calcite the
issue of safety to ships and
harbor
equipment has always received prompt and thor
basin made this pier head in its unpredictable con-
ough consideration. Considerable tonnage is han dled out of this port ami the usual navigation sea son does not provide extra time to take care of lengthy delays. It is now assured that the flow of blast furnace and openhearth stone to the mills will not be interrupted by delays at the source.
Pierhead Work Making Safe Entrance to Loading Slip
Pierhead of West Breakwall Showing Shifting Action
have taken toll and this part of the dock was ready for a parting from the substantial, comparatively new section.
Facing the channel to the loading slip entrance ami bound on one side by the tug harbor and lay-up
ft ^JL JVatlon J\f[oxf Be <Pxoud * In World War I a young American soldier killed
in France had written the following in his diary: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work; I will save; I will sacrifice; I will endure;
I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me." The boys in service of World War II have adopt
ed the same courageous attitude.
It is for us at
home to take these words to heart and do our ut
most as if the issue of the whole struggle depend ed on each of us. Then within the shortest possible time our boys will return with a complete and glo rious victory.
Let us all remember that no sacri
fice can be too great on the home front.
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<^y\l\ianiqari J-Lmzitonz & (JkzmlcaL (Zomjianu Alex Beebe Christian Beukema
Herman Steinke
Clarence Eldridge
J. Harry Montych
George Cook
William Cherrette
George Glosser Ralph O'Toole
Robert Pearse William Cook
James (TConner
Isadore Pines
Arthur Santini Charles Wall Kenneth Paull
LeRoy Warwick Raymond Grigg
Calvin Meyer Lloyd Dullack Dale Farero
James Dovolis
Roy Strieker
E. B. Metzen
Fred Kreft Howard Goetsch
Alfred Brege Howard Soper William Conley Vern Pauley Royal Schulwitz
Jack Florip Norval Bade Wilbert Ohlrich
Henry Hoffman Albert Strieker Robert Noffze Theodore Urban Everet Smith
Jerome Kovvalski
Henry Fleming
Iverne Pines
Edward Smith Glen Wenzel
Ernest Tulgetske
Eugene Kitchen
Robert Haneckow
Orval Pines Ivan Bannon Alvin Vilburn Donald Pearse Paul L. Mulka
Donald Conley Lewis J. Patterson
Robert Santimo Russell Smart
Carl J. Schaedig CIa)r ton Hopp
Earl Meyer
William Friedrich Leonard Mauti
Gerald Burns
Fred Vogler
Joseph Darga Jr. Rudolph Schalk Ernest Adrian
Llmer Brege Bernard Wagner Jr Anthony Glentz Robert Ferdelman Glenn Burdick
John Robarge Eugene King Jr.
Norman Stott
Marvin Klann
Robert Patzer Jr. Earl Berg Ralph Peppier Charles Furtaw Ivan Lozen Lawrence Bannon
Russell Bey Bernard Urban Carl Pilarski Robert Lee Clarence Furtaw Earl Basel
Florian Modrzvnski
Joe, JotadLsu JiamtioxtatLon dom/iami Ralph Gapske
Nelson Free Carl Mulka
Emil Lietzow Erwin Adrian
Edward Modrzynski
Elmer Schaedig
Howard Hoffman
Marlow Pardeike
Adolph Wolgast
Gordon Jaeger Clifton Daly Edward Wasylk Lyle Goulette Edmund Jackson Ferd Limberg Ralph Patzer Clarence Pilarski Robert
Benedict Kowalski
D. Jack Berg E. Bruce McLennan
Peter Kowalski Leo Hilla Erhardt Grainbau
Elmer Wenzel Jr.
Clarence GriVatsch Stephenson
Norman Fleming
John Nichol
Helmuth Schultz Orval Poch Norman Pardeike Howard Elowski
Paul Felax
Edward Langlois Julian Kowalski Gerald Greengtski Henry Modrzynski Wallace Dagner Kenneth Tulgetske Thomas Derry Eugene McLean Leonard
William Robarge Robert Zemple Robert 'frapp Lawrence Haselhuhn
Theophilus Pilarski Theodore Rose
Leonard Flewelling Richard Santimo
Arthur Bey Frank Filipiak Edward Green
Smigelski
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The picture in the upper left corner on the pre ceding page was taken by the plant photographer when Pvt. Lawrence Bannon was home on fur
lough several months ago. Lawrence is stationed at Fort Reno, Okla., and was employed in the Mill
Department and as shipping clerk before his in duction last March.
In the top row center, we have Pvt. Ernest Tul getske. Before his induction this husky soldier worked in the Track Department. Ernie has been in the army since January 1943, and when last we heard from him he was still in California.
The aviator in the upper right picture is Lieut. Bob LaBounty, son of Guy LaBounty, Chief En
gineer on the Str. T. W. Robinson. The LaBounty lamily lived in Rogers City for some years and Bob attended the public school here. He is mak ing a splendid record for himself and at present is stationed in the South Pacific area.
Sgt. Tech. Edward Smith (center left) stopped in to see us in September when he was home on
A Few Lines From The Boys "We do have a little time off ing a few dances lately and selves, even though we must miles for a nurse, but just think
for play. Been hav been enjoying our drive forty or fifty of the ride back . . ."
Lieut. Howard Goetsch, stationed in North Africa. Lieut. Goetsch is now a liaison officer.
"Since the army has recently released the sec recy surrounding Radar I can tell you that is the line of work I'm doing now. The work is very interesting and 1 should make good use of this knowledge when I get back to civilian life again. I imagine you have read many interesting articles on Radar in various publications and it revealed the important part it has played thus far in the war ..." Cpl. Alex Beebe. Alex is stationed at Fort Worden, Wash.; has been in the service two years and nine months and during that time has re ceived considerable training in radio, became fam iliarized wtih seacoast equipment, searchlights, an ti-aircraft weapons, etc.
furlough. Eddie is now at Fort Ord, California, and was employed in the Maintenance and Car Re pair Department before he was inducted into serv
"I go out as often as possible to see the country and always find it interesting. Today one of my
ice. Ed's father is employed at the plant and a brother, Joe, works on the Str. Carl D. Bradley.
country picking mushrooms and chestnuts off an
(Center, second from left) Sgt. John Florip is stationed at Alamogordo, New Mexico, air base. Jack's serving as an aerial gunner, and before his induction worked in the Sampling Department.
Pvt. Norman Stott (second from right—center) came all the way from San Francisco to spend a few days' furlough with his family and friends in
Rogers. Norm is with the Coast Artillery—has been driving an officer's car. Pie worked in the Mill Department until last December when he was inducted. His father, Clarence Stott, is employed at the plant.
Pvt. Lyle Goulette (center right) was a conveyorman assistant on the Str. B. H. Taylor before his induction March, 1943. He is eager to see the war over so that he can get back to work in his yard and new home. In the lower left we have Pvt. Benedict Kowal
ski.
Ben worked for Bradley Transportation Com
pany before his induction and at present is station ed at Ft. Lewis, Wash. He has a younger brother, Pete, also in the army, who is stationed at Ft. Reno, Okla.
Carl J. Schaedig (center bottom) is also stationed
officers and an RAF officer took a hike in the
cient trees. We are now roasting the nuts and find them delicious. Lately I have enjoyed some fine
English dinners of steak, goose and partridge ..." Capt. Herman Steinke now stationed in England. "This country is very different from our own. It all seems so very quaint and historical ..." Pfc. Royal Schulwitz, who has just arrived safely in England. "i am glad to hear that everyone is doing his best in the war effort and I know we will come out on
top . . . " Pvt. Adolph Wolgast now stationed in Australia.
"I guess you know that Donald Conley and 1 separated in New Caledonia. 1 think he stayed there; am not sure, though . . . "Pvt. Glen Wenzel from the South Pacific.
"My biggest job is keeping the phones working on the riile ranges. There are eighteen of them so I manage to keep quite busy . . . "Cpl. William Conley stationed at Camp Ellis, Illinois. "I've been fishing a good many times and caught some pretty big fish. Some of the fellows back home would like this place because of the fish . . . I work ten to fourteen or more hours a day—it all
depends on how things run . . . I've seen four
at Ft. Reno, Okla. Can't figure out how Carl was put
wolves and many sea lions since I've been here ..."
into a ridin' outfit unless it was because he worked
Dale Farero Sic.
on trucks and tractors in the Yard Department. He has been in the army since March, 1943.
In the lower right corner is Pvt. Edward Langlois, who is stationed in the southwest Pacific. Ed die worked for Bradley Transportation Company as a coal passer before his induction over a year ago. Since that time he has completed his basic train ing and has seen considerable action in the South Pacific area—at the battle of Munda, Rendova. and
other major engagements in that location. He has a brother, Laverne, at present working for the Bradley Transportation Company. 1726
Somewhere in South Pacific
October 20, 1943.
Dear Mr. Clymer: Received the latest Screenings a few days ago. As usual I was very glad to get it. Honestly say I really enjoy reading it. Am now back on the old schedule again, and have kept quite busy lately. Had a rest period which in my estimation did me a lot of good. For a time we had a real rest, leave which took us to Auck
land, New Zealand. It was swell to get back among
Jt
civilians and civilization again. Our crew bought a radio in Auckland so when
we got back we were able to hear the rebroadcasts of the World Series.
We have also been able to
pick up our big name bands and orchestras, news
reports and sports reviews. Some of those help us to forget about the war for a while in our free time.
I hear that the boys on the T.W. topped tinother boats in the recent bond drive. Was glad to hear that, because I spent so much time on the T.W. and would like to congratulate them.
Also heard the little home county topped their September bond quota by a big margin. 1 am really proud of the people up there and hope that I am doing as much as they are. We need everything they can give. With all that we arc bound to
"Our Flag" Artist Passed Away Fred Tripp. 78-ycar-old creator of the now fam ous "Our Flag," reproduced on the cover of Sum mer Issue (1943) of "Calcite Screenings." died Aug ust 3, 1943, at the P.eloit Municipal Hospital. P.eloit. Wise
tie had been seriously ill only a few days.
Mr. Tripp's famed oil painting of the United States Flag, hangs in the lobby of the McCleary Hospital and Clinic, and it is interesting to note thai Mr. Tripp never in his life had a painting
lesson, yet he produced a masterpieceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an inspir ing, compelling expression on canvas of what he fell in his heart and soul about the flag of his country. He painted the picture in 1937. following a period of treatment at the McCleary Hospital.
come out on top.
How is the bowling going this year? Boy. I really miss that! At present am helping to knock over more than the "maples" though. Time to sign off now. Say "Hello" to the gang for me. As ever.
Bud (Schullz). Would You Believe It? In his youth, before he became a god, Bacchus, who worshipped all growing things, discovered one day a tiny plant which pleased him so that he wished it might grow in his own country. So lie uprooted the little plant: and. that the tender roots might be unhurt, he found a hollow bone ol a bird and drew the routs into the bone.
As he journeyed on. the plant thrived and its roots grew too big for the bone of the bird: and as
Bacchus was then passing through Africa, he pick ed up a lion's bone and placed within it the bird bone containing the plant. But soon the roots became so large that even the lion's bone could not hold them. Then Bacchus, seeing by the roadside a large bone of a jackass. pushed the lion's bone into it and was soon in his
own country, where he planted in the ground the jackass bone in which the plant now reposed, to gether with the bones of the lion and the bird. From that single plant grew a vineyard, and
from the grapes Bacchus made a wine. -
to relate,
when
his
friends
drank
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wine they sang like birds. When they drank more they were brave and mighty as lions. I'.ut when they drank too much they behaved in the manner ol jackasses.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Moet & Chandon. Imperial Crown White Seal Champagne. In the mind of him who is pure and good will be found neither corruption nor defilement not any malignant taint. Unlike the actor who leaves the stage before his part is played, the life ol such a man is complete whenever death may come. Ib is neither cowardly nor presuming: not enslaved to life nor indifferent to its duties: and in him is
found nothing worthy of condemnation nor that which putteth to shame.
To use his own words: "I took a six-foot Ilag
we happened to have and pinned it to the ceiling of my room as a model. I then sat down before it and painted the picture. The inspiration for it was the thought that there was a place for such a painting on the wall in the lobby of the Hospital where I had been a patient and that it would inspire
and encourage the many people that come and go through the institution. I have, seen many pictures of the flag, but it is always unfurled as a battle-flag, This flag represents peace and we can very well imagine that everything we Americans have, and
all of our hopes and aspirations, our joys and sor rows, are wrapped within the folds of this beauti ful emblem."
"Calcite Screenings" received so many compli ments on the reproduction of "Our Flag" that we thought it pertinent that we enlighten our readers
on the origin of the painting. 1727
Hunting Season Company sponsors employees' hunting club on company owned lands Our hunters will be responsible for Club Regulations as well as enforcement of slate conservation laws.
Hunting in this day and age is in most cases a
many of our annual influx of nimrods will not be
recreation rather than a livelihood, a release from
able to get to the old round-up and we feel for them. The local boys, however, will be out in full
the worries of man's regular routine of earning a living.
There arc many forms of recreation in our mod
force and we wish them luck.
This season the
ern world but by far the most popular for reviving
game bag will not only satisfy the hunter's ego. but will supplement the meat larder and thus de
our energies and /.est for living is to get back to nature. Back to nature may take various forms of
crease the meat shortage in urban areas.
expression but to many individuals the thrill of matching his wits against the cunning of the wild life of the woods takes precedence.
Killing wild life is considered by many people to be unnecessary and cruel, but after all man is a
Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company owns a large tract of land stretching from the quarry at Rogers City nearly to Pres<|ue Isle Lighthouse. In 1932 this laud was fenced and closed to hunting with the idea of conserving the game. Since that time it has been a game refuge and is now well
meal eater and nature has been organized by tin-
stocked with wild life.
Creator on this basis so who are we to criticize? Man was born to the wilderness and what is more
leel that this tract of laud now has a sufficient sup
natural than to revert occasionally to the environ ment and activities of his ancestors in their strug gle to survive? Modern civilization is the unnatur al transgressor and not the hunter.
So long as man retains this love of nature and keeps the balance between plant ami animal life the race will thrive and prosper. There might be objections to this philosophy but we have to give our hunters a break. Some people even argue that that .American zeal for hunting has given our armies the best soldiers in the world both in marks
manship, ingenuity, and over his enemies.
inan-to-man superiority
Par be it from us to argue the
point. Some of us may not hit our deer, bear or rabbit, but at least we know which part of the gun goes against the shoulder.
Northern Michigan is the hunters' paradise of the Union. This part of the slate has huge tracts of land and natural game cover has been protected by wise game laws and a good conservation pro
gram.
Deer. bear, rabbits, coyotes, fox. partridge,
and bobcats abound, and in normal times when the
season is opened we see hunters from nearly all of the eastern and midwestern states.
This year <\ui- to the Shortage of transportation ly 28
The conservation officials
ply ol game to open it for a season to good ad vantage.
With this in mind the Company has sponsored a hunting club for opening the above closed land to Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. employees on
ly. This is an organization for employees and the hunters are responsible for the enforcement of the following regulations as well as the hunting regu lations put out by the State Conservation Depart ment.
Due to the possible danger from high-powered rifles to men working in the quarry and the radio station, the committee has designated Swan River
Good Housekeeping Good housekeeping is an essential 'must' in in dustry—many accidents are caused by cluttered
pathways, tools left where they don't belong, pipe left where dropped when the 'phone rang or at quitting time, ladders, wire, boards, ties, screens, left where last used.
as the western boundary for hunters. Company land from Swan River east is the stamping ground.
There are any number of incidents which would come under the category of poor housekeeping. Oily rags, paper and rubbish are fire hazards as
This Club is a Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company project. Our employees are all safety-
well.
minded.
Most of our hunters are old hands with a
gun and need no instructions, but remember— "there may be some greenhorns on the job and a chance taken to get a deer or a bear is not worth the risk of maiming or killing a hunter." Some men may have "horns" but if you wait until you can see them through your gunsights you can be sure it's the real buck.
Coyotes are predatory animals and many reports indicate an excess of these animals in the above
mentioned hunting grounds. When hunters turn in their report on the game seen at the end of the deer season the committee would appreciate the reactions of the hunters on the advisability of a drive to eliminate some of these undesirable pests. Members of the hunting club who use the prem ises will secure permits from the club secretary, which they are to carry with them. They will also wear a "permit tag" similar to the state license tag on their backs for identification. Their permit is also a report on game taken and game seen and filing these report slips after the season will give the club a very good record of the area as a hunt ing ground. Below is a facsimile of the permits which are being issued.
Along with preventing accidents by keeping the plant picked up it's good workmanship. No matter how well any job is done it is not complete, it is not finished, until tools, blocking, wire, pipe, ties,
spikes, screen, bolts, and other materials used on the job are picked up and the job left 'ship shape' as our nautical friends would say. It's just the same as when we take our car to
the garage for a repair job. The mechanic may do a beautiful job on the internal workings of our gas buggy, but if he leaves it covered with grease and grime we are not very well satisfied and we pay the bill none too willingly without any word of praise or satisfaction no matter how well it may run.
The same holds true with any job no matter how large or small. It's never satisfactorily completed until it's cleaned up, and good housekeeping is a prerequisite to accident prevention.
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Lowly Milkweed, Pest To Farmer, Comes Into Its Own Now plays an important part in our war production Fibre from the milkweed pod is now being used as a satisfactory substitute for Kapok, thanks to the Japs cutting off our far eastern supply.
Joyce Hoffer and Claire Danisls gather milkweed pods.
We have all heard tlu- old saving. '"Necessity is
the milkweed pod is producing a salisfaetorv sub
the .Mother of Invention." Nothing proves the lit
stitute for life-preservers and may easily replace
eral truth of this statement belter than a war. The
many ol the peacetime uses of Kapok. The present and future story of the milkweed pod might well enthrall the minds of these young
inventive genius of a nation is continually striving to outdo the enemy with some new weapon or striving for some defense against a new weapon.
The Gentians thought they would cripple oiir
sttipping by mass sinking of ships by means ol the submarine, and thus cut the British and Rus
sians off from their main source of supplies. To counteract ibis the autogyro was developed.
The Japanese thought to cripple our transposi tion system by capturing our main source ol raw rubber. They very nearly succeeded. Our an swer is the synthetic rubber program.
Scientists estimate that during lour years of war. science and invention have jumped a normal
peacetime development of twenty years.
Wars
have their compensation but the cost in blood and treasure is prohibitive. Another illustration of many that might be plac
ed in the same analogy was brought home to us last fall when nearly all of our children were scouring the Countryside for the pods of the lowly milkweed. Prolific in its feathered faculty for reproduction the milkweed has been a thorn in the side of the
fanner, one might say. since the beginning ol lime. Its p..(Is now bring- ten cents a bag on the market in Petoskey where they are using it in the production of life-preservers. The farmer in the luture may cultivate its growth at a profit. For this development we can again thank the jap. Me cut off our main supply of kapok which is developed in Java, the Malay States and the
sters with its historical background.
From life-
preservers to cushions, mattresses, bathing suits
and who knows what else? We have barely scrap ed the surface of Nature's bounty and some of these children with Inquiring minds may yet find a way to prevent wars and give to man his share
ol work, food and pleasure.. All Fighting Climates Found In U. S. A.
Any climate in which our soldiers are likely to light in this war may be duplicated somewhere in the United States, according to Major Paul A. Siple. l\ S. .Army climatologist. as reported by James T. Itoward in P.M. For instance. Tokyo's weather resembles that of
Washington. I). C. Berlin's climate parallels Seat tle's, except that there is more rain. Sicily and North Africa, in October, are having weather sim ilar to that in Southern Texas and Southern Cal ifornia.
For a taste of Guadalcanal try Louisiana's bavoii country in the summer. For the Solomon Islands' sensation visit Key West. To get the feel of the .Arctic outposts try Minnesota. Montana and North
Dakota during a cold spell. .Most difficult are the monsoon climate of Kan-
goon, on the road to .Mandalay, and the so-called "horse latitudes" of the Persian (lull' and the \<vt\
Sea. Best example is Washington. I), (A. and south eastern areas during their humid hottest.
I'hilippines.
Kapok is made from the fibre surrounding lin seed of a tropical plant. There are several vari
Some people get bent from too much work; oth
ers get crooked trying to avoid work.
eties and we are now developing a variety in South Annrica and the West Indies that is better than
that which came from Java.
Much like the rubber
trie, it lakes time !<â&#x20AC;˘ produce a crop.
The trees
I have told you ol the man who always put on his Spectacles when about to eat cherries, in order mat the fruit might look larger and more tempt ing.
In like manner I always make the most ol
cannot be harvested until they are from five to seven years old. Kapok, whose trade-name is silk cotton, is a resil ient, buoyant, water-resistant and highly moisture-
away from troubles. I pack- them into as small a compass as I can lor myself, and never let them
proof material.
annoy others.
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A percentage of the fibre from
my enjoyments, and. though I do not cast mv eyes
Metallic
Calcium
Shovel operating in limestone bank at Calcite
.Millions of tons of limestone are quarried annu ally at Calcite and distributed to industrial centers surrounding the Great Lakes where it is used in the reduction of pig iron from iron ore and in the process of making steel from pig iron. It is also burned into lime by driving olf carbon dioxide with heat and in the form of lime where we find
industry puts it to many diversified uses.
Lime
stone is also used in the manufacture of calcium
carbide from which acetylene is derived, and enor mous tonnages are needed in the refining of beet sugar, in the paper industry and for making cement.
withstands the wearing action of a rotating shaft or other movement while the remaining lead acts as a cushion to transmit the load or weight of the moving member to the steel or other metallic back
ing support. World War II provided another emergency op portunity for calcium when it was tried as a sub stitute lor aluminum and other cleansing or deox
idizing agents in removing impurities from steel. For Special alloy steels it was found to surpass all conventional agents. It is now no longer a substi tute but a new efficient steel-making material and
These are the common uses with which we are all more or less familiar, but a more infant indus
both metallic calcium and calcium alloys are used.
try in our country is the refining and use of cal
oxidize and degasify the steel, as it has the unusual
cium metal itself.
ability of combining actively with oxygen, hydro
Few of us have ever seen metallic calcium but
we may have used it in the form of calcium car bonate or calcium oxide to sweeten a garden or lawn. The mineral content of many foods also contains calcium compounds which are essential for healthy bones and teeth. Metallic calcium is a silvery white metal lighter thai! aluminum or magnesium, and recently il has lonnd an extensive use in removing impurities from molten stainless steel and other highly al loyed steels having vitally important war uses. This latest commercial use of the fifth most com mon chemical element in the earth's crust will add
impetus to the uses of metallic calcium in post-war industry. World War I provided one of the first opportun ities for calcium to demonstrate its metallurgical
value.
Shrapnel bullets made from lead hardened
with antimony were used until the demand for these bullets threatened to exhaust the antimony stocks. A new lead-hardening alloy containing barium and calcium permitted producers to mainlain bullet production. Alter World War 1 metallurgical research de veloped lead alloys containing' up to lr;< calcium for bearing
materials.
The
calcium
lead alloy
Calcium acts as a metallurgical scavenger to de
gen, nitrogen, and many of their compounds.
In 1939 a new domestic industry began with the erection of a plant in Michigan to reduce calcium electfolytieaIIY from molten calcium chloride. This reduction process is technically very difficult be cause calcium's melting point 1-PH.) F is onlv (>8 above melting point of calcium chloride and the
freshly formed metal must be protected from the chlorine simultaneously liberated ami from the air.
Prior to 1939 the annual United Slates consump tion of metallic calcium was about 21 tons which
was imported from France.
One hundred years ago calcium sold for $20 a pound; since 1939 il has varied from 75c to $1.25 a pound. Many other industrial uses for metallic calcium are constantly being found.
The limstone found in the deposits at the Calcite Quarry near Rogers City. .Michigan, is very pure and lends itself readily for metallurgical purposes. Who knows what uses our abundant sources of
limestone material may be used for as many newdevelopments are found in the accelerated war program. The field of plastics and metallurgy, with fields yet to be uncovered, will always produce new products from available raw materials. 1731
Our Nation Invests Thirty-Nine Billion Dollars In Three War Loan Drives Many individuals are truly confident that the end of this long and arduous war is in sight, thus thoughts turn to peacetime production and prob
however, the Christmas shoppers will be given a break as this drive has been postponed until Feb
lems.
major drives was enough to take care of the gov
Although the news from the widespread battlefronts is favorable at present, we should not for a moment relax in our efforts of production of war materials and in the financing of this war. Our martial strength abroad will necessarily be increas ed and maintained until some form of government and economy is established in the defeated coun tries of the world. The cost of maintaining soldiers overseas is tremendous—and will be continued long after the war is won. it is reported that it takes 10 to 18 tons of shipping to deliver a soldier and his equipment, the range depending on his branch of service. It takes from one to three tons of ship ping a month to keep each soldier fighting, the ton nages will perhaps be slightly less for the army of occupation. Besides the men and equipment, huge quantities of food, clothing, fuel, gasoline and other supplies must be transported to the various fighting zones. If one soldier consumes an average of 5)4 pounds of food daily, the shipments of food supplies to the armed forces and to our allies are enormous.
Wars are-expensive—this one will require much more of our energy and resources before complete victory is assured, and it will take a long time be fore the loss in lives and property is computed
and people again return to civilian activities. A few figures on the financing of this war dis close that in the three war loan drives 39 billion
dollars were derived from nonbanking sources.
Regular payroll savings deduction plans now cov er about 184.000 firms with 85% of the employees, which is about 27 million workers, subscribing to payroll deductions amounting to approximately 9% of their gross earnings. Of the remaining
15% of employees many of them prefer to pay cash for their bonds and make their purchases at hanks, post offices and sales counters. Concerning the rumors of the high rate of re demptions ol" war savings bonds the figures are comparatively low and for the most part these bonds were redeemed for a specific need. Every American is willing to do his share in this
ruary.
The 39 billion dollars collected on the three
ernment's estimated needs for the remainder of this
calendar year.
The Joy Of Anticipation Anticipation is often greater than realization; yet how flat would be much of our everyday life if it were not for forethought, expectation or an ticipation. We are reminded of a plaque we once saw that in part ran something like this: "Behold the fish erman ! He ariseth early and disturbeth the whole household. Mighty are his preparations, and he goeth forth full of hope and ambition. He faireth not so well, and the truth is not in him."
Fishing, hunting, golfing, vacation, party or what have you—it's quite the same. How often do we plan for some event and after it is over and we ponder over the details do we realize the greater pleasure we had was perhaps from the preparation. The joy of Christmas, of course, centers around the Nativity, but aside from that, how much plea sure do we have from the festivities surrounding Christmas? The preparing of gifts, especially where youngsters are concerned should provide a joy and pleasure that surpasses the thrill of Christ mas day. How much pleasure do we get from the prepar ation for a trip, a vacation, a party, a homecoming, which brings us to this thought. A surprise, no mat ter how joyous, is of too short duration to be trad ed for the pleasure derived from anticipation—for example—our boys now in the service of the armed forces receive leaves and furloughs when they can come home and be with their folks.
Some of the
boys will write about the possibility of the visit and then wire when the)' expect to be home; others plan a surprise and just drop in when they arrive. There is no pleasure of expectation or anticipation in the latter instance but think of the pleasure af forded a mother who expects her boy home in a few days. Young folks often expect more than Santa brings them—'tis true. Grown people don't always realize
war—this was evidenced in the war bond drives.
their ambitions either. The best of intentions some
Presquc Isle County has always been far above the quota assigned, and the employees of the Michigan
times fail to mature. As the old saying goes—"The best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go astray." "It's better to have loved and lost than
Limestone
& Chemical
Company
and
Bradley
Transportation Company are maintaining the 10%
never to have loved at all."
for war bonds. The percentage of payroll deduc tions for Michigan Limestone & Chemical Com
Yes, anticipation doesn't always develop into realization, but there is a certain pleasure in antici pation that is compensation in itself.
pany for the first ten months of 1943 is 10.6% whereas Bradley Transportation
Company
em
ployees average 11.12% of earnings deducted tor war bonds.
Plans for a fourth war loan drive are under way; 1732
"No man who has tasted the joys of a superbly done job can ever again content himself with sec ond-rate work."—Success.
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Thirty-Second National SafetyCongress Meeting â&#x20AC;˘
In the midst of war il might seem unusual for several thousand delegates to meet at a National Safety Congress.
I he thirty-second National Safety Congress held in Chicago October 5-7 was well attended and in dustrial executives, engineers, safety inspectors, la
the armed forces. Although it is believed there may lu some food shortages this winter, the vic
tory garden has forestalled a condition that might have been serious.
Approximately 2$0 Michigan Limestone §1 Chem ical Company employees in Rogers City and vicin ity planted victory gardens this year with an esti mated average plot of 4.300 aq. ft. per garden. These employees obtained through the company some
bor leaders, officers ol the armed forces, educators.
50000'tomalo plants. 22,000 onion plants and 10.000
ami specialists in many fields met to discuss and find new or better ways to promote safety. Even though we are at war. saving lives is still the bus iness and aim of many organizations and individ
cabbage plants. Because of the shortage of potatoes this spring
uals.
This congress was similar in most respect's to those meetings of other years except that more or
ganizations participated. Industry has always been wed represented; there was increasing interest in
many people planted tubers in their victory gar dens. The potatoes raised in Presquc Isle County this season were' remarkably free inmi the blight which was prevalent in other parts ol the Stale. With victory garden potatoes cutting the market for local needs Presqiu- Isle County's bumper crop of 1,500,000 bushels raised by its farmers this year
the fields of home and farm safety, organized la
will be a valuable addition to the nation's food sup-
bor participated in the Congress for the first time and the army and various departments of the Fed
ply-
eral Government were active as never belore.
This shows that more sources are pouring their efforts and contributions into accident prevention.
The above mentioned crops and carrots were produced in the largest amounts, but most of the gardens also raised an abundant supply of corn, squash, cucumbers, beets, and small vegetables. A
Safely is not a job for one organization alone ami the National Safety Council needs this help given by industry, government and public.
large part of the harvest has been consigned to the cellars, and many cellar shelves are loaded with
Considerable lime was given dealing with industrial training ture and method of teaching ployees how to do a job and do
ers in canning supplies say they have never beforesold such large volume's of these materials to the public. As a result of the victory garden the retail gro
in all ihe sessions work and the na inexperienced em it the safe way.
C. C. Carleton's address before the Annual Meet
ing of Members keyuoted the spirit of the whole congress with the thought that we should never
neglect safety because of being too busy and that accidents can be prevented.
As sidelights to the congress your delegate at
tended a United States Steel Corporation of Dela ware Safety Meeting and a Safety Meeting of the Gary Sheet and Tin Mill. Both of these meetings were very good.
Many problems in accident prevention were dis cussed at the Corporation meeting. Comments, dis cussions and decisions have helped companies in gaining results in the renewed safely drive inaug urated a year ago. The Cary Mill meeting was an actual demonstra tion of how a new employee, either male or female. is introduced to the job, the organization and its policies. It was very good and the sponsors are to be congratulated on giving a good demonstration and in promoting safety.
Victory Gardens The drive for victory gardens in the United Slates this year is considered by the l.\ S. Depart ment of Agriculture to have been quite success ful. Despite the fact thai tin average man. due to labor shortage, had more work to do than ever before he found linn- to cultivate a plot of ground and raise garden produce. Millions of tons of veg
etables which ordinarily were needed for home con sumption were thus released to feed our allies and
home -canned vegetables of all kinds.
In fact, deal
cers say they have noticed a decided let-up in the sale of canned and fresh vegetables. The harvest moon is over, the- cellars are full
on Thanksgiving Day the gardener can give- thanks for a bountiful harvest and feel confident that he
has brought victory to our armed forces that much nearer. The individual's contribution may seem small, but when added to a million others the' re
sult is a decisive blow to the enemy.
^p*$m4?
Tom Kelley re-ports seeing a big bear ne a r the sand house. \'ow we know why Charles ( )hl rich feels more at home on the swedge drill ne a r the drill bouse. P>y the- way. Charlie, that big- 1) aek bear you saw across the ditch at Xo. 1 sin >ve 1
Plant
Personals Grace For Thanksgiving Show us the way to see the good. That comes into our lives each day, The blessings dimly understood That give us cheer along the way. Give us content, with gold and gear—
Though much or little we possess— Let Its be glad for what is here On this, our day of thankfulness. Remember the food scare last spring when a lot
ol people thought this ever abundant L'.S.A. was going to be short of food?
Well, as usual when
the- Yanks set out to do something it is well done
and many of us had a little garden to help remove this scare. The farmers elid something along this line. too. for just recently in the local paper it was stated that 1.500.000 bushels of potatoes were raised this year in Prcsque Isle County alone . . . over
still there.
is
It hasn't moved an inch.
"Cosh dang it. where the h— am I ?'* saysS rv Dietlin Upon his arrival into civilization
1
cu
a
tter
being lost in the wilds around Lake Emma wl die a fishing trip this summer.
em
Time waits for no man. A few short years from the wedding bells and a new generation steps from the fold ol home and dependency to spread its wings and fit itself into the- pattern of society. There are heartaches, of course, when family ties are broken and young folks leave home, but this is life and only through independence and the will to face and conquer life's problems can the racethrive and prosper. Thanksgiving Day is near and sometimes in our darker moments we might wonder what it means and what there is in this maelstrom of strife, war and bloodshed that we have to be thankful for. But
the thought cannot last for long. One look at Europe even through the eyes of the press should bring us to emr knees in humble thanks that we
live in America. Everyone in Europe is hungry, but the children of this period will suffer all their
one hundred bushels for every person in the county.
live-s from the ills, both mental and physical, of
Guess we won't starve for a while.
childhood malnutrition.
While we are on the subject of gardens it was suggested to us that Jack Wheeler give a lecture to employees' wives on '"Now to Can String Beans, Safety in the Nome, ami Washing the Kitchen
children of the world have- never had.
Ceiling at One A. M." Jack it seems is noted as a pressure cooker expert.
This is the first year that the territory east of
the- quarry has been open to deer hunting for somelime-. We hope none of our boys are so careless as to be like the- gent in this story: "(ins.** said Bill, as he caught up with (ins on the wa\ back to camp, "are all the rest ol the boys out of the woods yet ?" "Yes," said (Ins. "All six of them ?"
"Yes, all six of them." "And they're all safe?"
"Yep," answered (ins. "they're all safe." "Then.** said Pill, his chest swelling, "I've shot a deer."
Safetv ever-
accidents never.
When last seen George Breach's pet skunk with its he-ad in a fruit jar was being escorted towards the llammonel Coast Guard station by Charles Platz's dog. The skunk must have arrived o.k. as it was heard bumping its head against a bungalowfloor up there by one of ottr office gals. Walter Yarch says. "All the time my ducks go
quack, quack, quack. All they do is eat and quack." Expensive meat, eh, Walt? 734
While we. in the midst of
war' are still far enough re-moved from its effects to be able to send forth our offspring to school or work virile, healthy, well fe-d and with a love ami
zest for life that few children have- today and many
This picture shows a typical American family. Emma Conjonle. the oldest, hopes to go to the University of Michigan m-xt semester, and we haven't any douhl but that she will keep iq> the good record she has made in the local schools. Marjorie. Virginia. Kela. and Barbara are- follow ing closely in their sister's footsteps.
Raising five girls is quite a handful, but Jimmy and his wile are making a good job "I it. and can
we-ll be proud of this fine-looking quintet.
The next three items are the prize stories for this issue.
We would like some more of them so here's
hoping our humorous contributor comes through again next time.
"Sparky Fleming on the- Trail"—We wonder if Sparky brushed up on trailing deer. Past season Sparky trailed seven goats through the- swamp about a mile-, right to a Farmer's yard, whe-n hewas told about it. he says. "Doggone il. how did I
know they were goats.
The tracks looked like
_
.
_
Elmer Holt claims he has a horse just like the bronco be had out West when he was a lad ol eigh
lie says on Saturday when In- was relieved
of his duties watching for cattle rustlers he headed for the home ranch.
There was a chasm 30 feet
wide and a hundred feet eleep. If he went around it was twelve miles, straight across was six and
SO he cut down a large tree which fell across the chasm. Then he got on his bremc and headed him across. When half way Elmer doesn't know wheth er the horse got scared or just plain balky, but any way the bronc turned around ami come back so El mer was late for the dance.
"In Doghouse Shovel No. 12"—Watson asked Joe what 3AAA means in the catalogue when buying chicks. Joe says "Aigs." Heck, that isn't the way
to spell it. Joe says it's the way they put il in the catalogue; the more A's the more "Aigs." You feeel
your chickens at 5 in the morning you have aigs for breakfast, feed them at 11 and you have aigs for dinner, feeel them at 5 in the evening and you have
aigs for supper. So there are yenir three A.A.A.
We have heard of a lot of house and barn raising-
bees but the other day we saw a drill raising bee in
the quarry when Ted Ycrks and Jack I'.urns useel nearly a carload of ties to raise Ted's drill high enough so as to get a longer pipe under the stem; now the- other drillers are anxious to find out the
How about it. boys?
Joe Kasuba had epiite a time this summer in find
ing a remedy le> pick up weight.
Seems the- gol
darn
but
method didn't
ter watch yourself now. Hap.
work so
well
thanks
Hank Smith. Joe now looks and feels fine-.
in tin- army. ma<!e such a good re-cord on I he rifle-
range that his officers don't let him practice any more. Pari made- expert marksman on first try. Yon can bowl 300 in the Safetv League.
Phil Kierzek had a pair of rabbits which he kept
all summer.
He themghl them more productive
than chickens, but
when this fall came he
found
that the combination was all wrong and that two rabbits is still all he had.
We know that you are going to reael many of the articles and items in this "Screenings." but if you re-ad nothing else—read the poem on the back in side cover. Its thought is something we can all take te» heart many times.
"The melancholy elays have come The saddest of the year With wailing winds ami naked woods And meadows brown and sere."
When Old King Winter tops the words of the poet with a snow storm as he eliel this year as early as October loth, we really kneuv that summer is gone and winter is al hand.
A good example is the best safety sermon.
results.
ilopp were talking about the blackberry crop and Happy said that the crop would be poor as the ber ries were struck with blight. Alva asked him how he- knew and Map said that he saw them ail turning black. Alva thinks Happy loo smart so you bel
We- are told that Earl Me-yers. recently inducted
thev were deer."
teen,
Xot only are- cellar shelves full of vegetables but
mother Nature certainly produced plenty of ber ries this summer so lots oi our people have enough canned for next year loo. Alva Meyer and Happy
This was the earliest date- for a snow storm in
Rogers City for a number of years, and it was a good one. Several Michigan Limestone Ik. Chem
ical Company employees reported drifts two feet deep in the surrounding countryside.
In fact one young lady in the office had to have her car pulled out to the road, through the- snow, be fore- she could e-onie to work that Saturday niorninu'.
to
All
fooling aside now, Je>e. but Ihat was sure a bumper
potato crop you had this year and that corn lasted pretty good.
"1 haven't laughed so hard in two months." says Pob Kroll as he got off the bus one night. What was the joke. Pob?
When Alfred Fleming raffles off a shotgun he does it with a bang. Everybody in the Shop held a ticket on that one but only John Dietliu had any luck. He didn't get the gun. but he did get the little- red rooster that was offe-re-d as third prize.
We expected to smell the aroma of roast fowl com ing from the blacksmith shop the mxt day. but we were disappointed. Maybe he-'s waiting lot Thanksgiving. 1735
Our "Guess Who "For This Issue
What "Screenings" would be complete without some- anecdote about our friend "Bill" Sabin ? Well, this time it isn't the deer he shot in mid-air or his
tale about the fish called tin- Typhus. No. it's about the- time- he came to work wearing two kinds ol shoes.
It was before the time was set hack an
hour, so perhaps it wasn't "Pill's" fault that in the darkness he put on one black work shoe and omsnappy brown dress shoe.
This thre-w him so far
out ol balance that he had to go home- and change 'em.
There are hunters and there are hunters, but the-
fellow who dislikes taking his wife along on a hunt ing trip because she shoots all the game better eemsiut \ an t'oevering. the game warden, or some oth
er authority on where le> find the game. Anyway. Wilbert Radtke enjoyed a fine dinner of partridges which his wife- shot.
Two of the best deer runs in the. county are to
be founel right in the Machine Shop. One of these leads around the end of the new boom for .Yo. 10
shovel and the other passes through the lunch room. In the course of a day these two runways yield more deer and more fancy shooting than the rest of the county does in a whole season.
Since George Wing has been experimenting with new color schemes lY>r the Shop he has stirred up considerable interest and cause-d some comuienl.
Mothers certainly must have been busy years ago to keep the youngsters dressed in ruffles and lace.' These two young men have- long since- put aside the fancy togs, but still like to be well dress ed. To us they look well dressed even in coveralls marked—Work Safely.
They are great promoters of safety and both can well be- proud of the sple-ndid safety records they have built. The litlle- fellow at the left is now employed in the Machine Shop—uc can't even give
out a hint as to his work except thai he does a very good job. We might add that his victory garden was a real success. The- lad oil the- right is busy working in the- Mill Department. He has a son in the service ami being a veteran is very eager to see the war brought to an immediate conclusion. In the "Ciiie-ss Who.'" in the summer issue- were
We wish we could pass some of those comments an to you. but most ,,f (hem are unprintable. George, however, feels that when they are all boiled down they aren't toe.) uncomplimentary, so in the name of science he has elecided le> carry on. • iue-ss we'll have to le-ll Mrs. Breach to give her
husband a lecture, (ieorgie- is Ihe bad boy who's been telling the shop lads that there ain't no Santa Clans. Johnny Heller was especially disappointed lo hear that bit of bad news. Observers say his jaw dropped three inches.
The big trailer bus purchased last season to
take
care
of
the
transportation problem caused by gasoline- and rubber shortage has a new coat of paint to protect it against the
the Raymond boys—Xorinau. who is third mate on
ravages
the Str. W. P. WHITE, and Pes who is employed
snow.
in the storehouse.
shown putting on the
The other day Louis Yarch offered to back up Frank Lamb in a fight. Frank declined the offel
the lettering.
of
rain
finishing touches on the grounds that the least reliable kind of back
ing a man can have is the kintl offered in a fight.
He recalls one fight he got into on the- strength of some- backing offered by a couple of friends. When the scrap was hottest and things weren't going so good he looked around for his supporters, but found that his rear guard was backing Up so fast that it soon disappeared. 1736
and
Aaron Smith is
Steady hand
and
Aaron's
ami
eye
not only keeps the le-tlers straight—but got him his
of
seasem's limit
partridge.
Maybe
semie of the rest of us
should handle a paint brush as a conditioner
for the hunting season.
Last Sunday Walter Meyer and his wife drove about forty miles to go hunting and when they got there and ready to shoot they found they had a 20-gauge shotgun and 12-gauge shells—so what?
George Wing always has been very careful about seeing that Chet took oars along when he weul boating—very implicitly stating that taking oars is a showing of true boatsmanship and an indica tion of safety-mindedness. Not long ago George and wife went boating quite a distance from their
place on Grand Lake ami the boat stopped. George showed no alarm but just asked Edna to hand him the oars, but lo! and behold! he forgot to take them along.
George's motto IS the same as the minister who Did we hear something about Quarry Superin tendent Bob getting lost in the berry patch? Bill Peach was one of the first fellows in for a
permit to hunt deer out east of Swan River.
Pill
says that he was never much of a hunter, but the bucks are so tame out that way that he is sure be
Later we found out why Bill thinks
they are tame. It seems that during erne noon hour when Pill was using a tree For a back rest one
of the big bucks came along and started away with his hat.
At least that's what Bill says.
"Happy" Halligau's beautiful bird dog got a dose of poison or something ami "Happy" said that though he tried his very best he couldn't save the dog.
Art Hopp is said to have tried his mechanical genius oil opening a can ol sardines.
He is still
working for all Ld Adrian
What
knows.
we
would like to know is where did Ed get a can of sardines.
Albert Schultz tells us that turpentine is the sure- cure for worms in onions.
Sounds like kill or
core.
John Myers didn't turn in several personals which he had jotteel down, Perhaps the boys in the Electrical Department withheld their contribu tions when Johnnie declined to submit his. It might be worth some consideration to start a
column in "Screenings" on social events. The slag party at Red Lee's cottage at Lost Lake, about a month ago was quite an affair. It's been reported that the boys put on quite a spread. Maybe next lime they'll invite, a lew extra guests. Martin
Lewandowski
and
his crew
driver
in
the
Yard Dept.. has help ed
coal
the
tugs
many, many times. It is
doubtful
whether
he ever felt sorry for
the tug men who had to work hard shovel
ing the coal into the bunkers em cleanup, but spilling coal into the lake at times diel concern him. Too. the
tug
fellows
accused
him ol being careless in bumping those nice white
said: "Don't do as I do but do as I say."
can get one.
Joseph Waytosek.a truck
are
to
be
complimented on the fine job they diel of painting steel work at Calcite this past summer. Some of this work was at a considerable height, but the job was completed without injury to any of the crew.
The welders in the Shop hope that the pieces of
cabins with coal. With all this background Joe figured he could put a gadget on his truck so thejol) would lie clean, easy and saving to material. Here it is in the photograph, as much as you can see 'd' it. and Joe. the inventor, as he is now called. The tug boys say it works swell ami Joe just beams all over when he tells about it. It makes the job cleaner anel faster. Good work. Joe-—did the- tug
fellows give you a cigar in appreciation?
All those promising flocks of ducks we saw this spring are now coming into the-ir own. When a man has a drumstick in his pail on Monday il may
be an aftermath of Sunday dinner, but whe-n he has chicken four days in a row you know he's a poultry man ami those red points are- getting scarce. Guess Who?: "When Louis I ley thaler can havechicken in his pail every day and I've gotta eat bo logna there ain't no justice in the- world." Kama L'rdal
landed
this
nice rainbow while fishing in Ocqueoc Lake. Yes. Chief L'relal was along but Kama lands her own fish. A neigh boring fisherman watching the battle suggested that Art give his wife a hand but Art sat like a statue. Ik-
had to get back to the Mun<^m next trip—and who likes to go tei the hospital any way. Art is no mean fisher man himself anel we see him
now anel then, getting off the ship at Calcite with a nice pike caught at the Soo Loelcs while passing there. After all. what is a lowly pike compared to catching one of those fighting rain bow trout.
We bet husbaml
art will have let catch a num
blue overall cloth continues to come with welding
ber of pike before his proud
rod.
wife would ever admit he was a better fisherman.
holes.
It makes good patches for those little burned
17^7
â&#x20AC;˘ |; Ji?
Without noise and fanfare tinUnited States Coast
Guard is playing a very im portant role in the war of today. Tor 153 years it has been concerned with the tremen
dous task of life-saving, coast
patrol, and guarding against smuggling.
Xow. in war il
is also training forces for combat duty and maintain
ing invasion patrol. The luited States Coast
The boss gave Paul Clans a cigar the other day. As much as Paul likes cigars it took nearly the whole day for him to smoke it.
Paul said after he
got through he didn't have to smoke a cigarette for four hours. He thinks this is a good way tei save on cigarettes.
lighthouse and life-saving stations, which is a particu larly important function in
rifle and now can't buy any shells. Anyone with any
The Merchant Marine In
Fred Lal.onde bought a nice new .22 automatic .22 shorts for sale see Fred.
Profit guaranteed.
spection Service, which was
George Daguer is the authority on how to build septic tanks especially those with unbre-akable
known
joints.
as
the
Bureau
of
Marine Inspection and Nav igation
under
the- United
State-s Department of Com merce, is now under the jur isdiction e>!" the I'. S. toast
Guard, or Navy. This Service is divided into dis tricts, and the- activities of the tugs and Pradley boats relating to navigation are under the direction of the Saint Ignace office. The Saint Ignace office has an efficient and co
operative- personnel performing the many duties re quired ol iheui in a inanne'r most eommemlable. The Inspector in charge is Bernard J. Gellick (photograph). Joseph Change is the inspector of
boilers and machinery. Poth these inspectors are lieutenant-commanders
in
the
U.
S.
Coast
Capt. Gellick has been associated with the
Service for many years and has made- numerous
trips to Rogers City on inspection of hulls and other business.
Captain (lellick's ability and experience are well
appreciated by his superiors and he- has been re quested to remain in service to assist in an import ant duty which he can perform competently. We- offer our congratulations to Captain Gellick for his fine record and wish for him continued years of successful work.
During the- time that "Butch" Prtielich was haul ing some stove- wood for a friend he came- across
a big porcupine. Porky got in his way so Putch picked up a stick of wood, took a lusty swing and came- up with a handful of <piills. Safety first. Putch.
George Pcldhiscr must be feeling pretty good these daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he's wearing that big smile again. It is (|iie-stionable whether Mike Grohowski or Vera Henry are the best chicken raisers but they both are good at chicken talk. 17m
attracted the- attention of all employees and vis itors anel certainly lent a cheerv note to the activ ities about the plant.
Bert Smith bought what was supposed to be some hunting land but is doing some lumbering on the side. Good-bye hunting, Harry.
this area.
Guard.
set out some 2500 tulip bulbs and a couple hundred
daffodil bulbs this fall. The peony bed last spring
inspection of merchant ves sels and the supervision of
Guard is responsible for the
now
According to Pill Bade, we should have some
beautiful flower beds at the- plant next spring. Pill
Clarence Ste-warl says be is trading his new pump gun for his boy's single barrel. Too many misses in the pump gun with ammunition so scarce-. He- grabbed the pig and away he ran. Walter Str/.lecki and Vic Pilipiak had some butchering to do on Vic's pig. First they shot off one ear. next shot took off a hoof, a third shot creased the
neck and finally Vic's wife had to finish the job. Sometimes meal is hard to get even when ration points are' not necessary. Pill Peetz lost the- "old blue- goose." No, it is not a trade-in but just another coat of paint on the olel automobile. Cheapest new car Bill ever bought.
Joe Waytosek says he knows just how much coal he has on each truck load. Joe must be of'i balance the- last two days as we see him handing Ed Kadka the cigars. Mackie Monroe. Raymond Coodin. anel Lou Mon roe- are busy building roads.
Loll isn't so sure- about
the job but it's hard to say whai those men w-ould do without a little constructive feminine criticism.
Daddy. Donald Monroe-, is pretty busy on the- Str. Calcite these- days and someone has to keep things ship-shape while he- is away.
This is n< >l a "Guess
Who?" bttt if look carefully
you you
might be .able to pick out the fond father from the smile as well as the features. He-
was graduated from
Rogers
City
High
School and for a num
ber of years has been a Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company em
ployee and a well-known figure in the community. lie seemed to be impervious to feminine charms
The photograph of Captain 1". I'". Pearse in the pilot house of the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY shown on the back cover of this issue was taken by plant
photographer, Paul Thornley. Captain Pearse's service with the company elates back to April 4. 1921. He is a very capable commaneler and his friendliness and character are re
flected in the attitude and work of his crew.
He- is
quick to praise- the fine qualities and work of his men and maintains among employees.
cooperation
and
discipline
Even though war has brought new problems lit}
the navigation and operation of lake freighters, we congratulate the officers of the Bradley Transpor
and destined to a lonely life in spile- of them. How
tation Company for maintaining their usual elli-
ever the community finally lost its eligible bach
cient results.
elor when he succumbed to the charms of one ol
our former public school teachers. You have prob ably guessed it by this time—Lester Raymond is the proud father and you can't blame him for fall
John Pruning, better known as "Dead-eye Dick." got his buck the first morning. He shot twelve times and got five hits—or was that just a story to
ing in love again—this time with the- happy brighteyed young lady in the picture.
belittle your skill, lack?
Spitzer—Pill Heller bet a dollar when one of the lady players was on the fence, but Pill paid for
doing you're helping the fighting men. your neigh
Give generously to the War Chest Fund. bors and your allies.
the hide.
l\ the job isn't safe see your foreman.
Bill had another experience with some ladies when he took them boat riding.
Ask him what
happens when a mouse is found in the- boat and you are out in the middle of the lake. .Anyone- running over or killing porcupines give them to Martin Puelnick. Martin says that porky
Remember: First, do everything you can to pre vent accidents by using common sense. Second, if you have an accident prevent the injury from be coming worse by getting First Aid first.
Safety Essay Contest
is the best meat there is.
As in the past years "Calcite-
Patzer to Yerks—How's the .transmission grease? Yerks to Patzer—11 should be full. I just put new
By so
Screenings" will
Sponsor a safety essay contest in the schools of
e>il in the motor.
Rogers City. A representative will visit the two parochial schools as well as the public schools to
When you hear two birds in the shop whistling in inarch time you will know it's Rhoud lienson and
explain the rules and regulations. We expect the type and length of essays to lie similar to that ol either years.
Johnny I leller.
Safety in the- post-war world is something for
Yo more bolts twisted off now since Lrvin Krccl
operates a bulldozer.
He's
pretty
well cooled
down—even his stories are more tame.
Does he- or doesn't he need those glasses: ()rville Piechan found a lens in the flux pump house and asked Jack Yoble if he was seeing .all right. Jack saiel that he certainly was as long as he had his glasses on. So Orville- handed him the lens ami tohl him that he might be missing something.
us to think about and will bring many new prob lems. The school students of today are those who will need to meet these new conditions and should
be trained to meet these problems. Safety in the school curriculum would help them and no doubt we will soon see the time when it will receive- More
general recognition. We hope that the- students will do their best to write some worthwhile essays. To give a little thought i'ii safely is well for any of us.
Pill Warwick and Doc Pruder are the- tall story
tellers in the Yard Department.
record so far. Pill tells about the young chickens he raised and how they are all laying double eggs now. He says that the- rooster even crows about it so P.ill has knitted a little
Ii v/on'l be long now!
They hold the
red sweater
lr
for the-
rooster with a nice little zipper on it. Doc says that when he- was out to Grace Harbor years ago he caught a large fish anel il took four men to load it into the buggy ami almost broke the- buggy in two. After he got it home he used the crosS-CUt saw to cut it in pieces. 1739
News Items From The Buffalo Plant Along With News Stories Of Interest To Us
For Buffalo Plant employees now in armed forces, (Left to right): Louis Toniani, Sarafmo Toniani. Harold Kn.ff. John Kroff ami Robert Stephanv. With the influx of new
erators of Kilns in Buffalo area It lias relieved shocks from reducers encountered in Kiln drives. We- thank volt, Mr. Stanbrook.
On November 2. about five-thirty, a great change men <h\v to older men
being taken in the Armeel Service's, the responsi bility of the safety of the new employees lies with the older emplovees. Consult yemr fore-man before attempting to do anything that appears to be un safe.
Our new switchman Eddie Spillman has Sug gested improvements in the switching department. These improvements were made and as a result, safety anel operating conditions are better. The most notable job of department clean-up was accomplished by our stokerman. Walter Kruszka. He improved the dryer room to a point near perfection in appearance, making conditions foj* himself and others more-
By Our Plant Reporter
favorable.
He can also
show Hoffman Combustion a few things in oper ating a stoker.
ed. Out most treasured relic, old \'o. 13, departed lor the locomotive- hospital. She did herself proud by the intensive work which was asked of her. As
the old girl departed, I detected a tear in Bill Col lins' eye as he- watcheel her pull out of sight. Al though we will miss her, the replacement is another old friend, \'o. 21, I elon't think Bill will feel too bad when he gets in the cab of his new "Pahv." Alex Krazicr. one of euir recruits from the Lone-
Star State, tells of a peculiar incident. He- claims that after leaving one of the restaurants in Texas, lie turned and saw three headless men following him.
P. S.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;lie claims he had only Pepsi-cola.
Willis Harold is still wondering what happened to the St. Louis Cardinals.
"Dcy was s'posed to
take foua straight."
Bobby Collins has given up the fight game and has been married. He- was good bolh as semi- and professional fighter, but he has settled down now. Congratulations* Pob. We regret to see Ralph Stoodarel take a leave- of absence due to the serious illness of his wife.
was made insolar as moving of cars was concern
We
all wish her a speedy recovery. We are counting on lunior kowalski doing a good job replacing Ralph.
Little- William Sero is doing a classy job of han dling our tractor. He sure can put it through the paces.
On the- recent visit of our President, .Mr. Clynier.
Felix Matecki explained the operation of tin- Xew Stoker ami Sisto Pempie. tunnel operator, sold the idea of a new feeder. They bolh did a good job as he was satisfied with the- Stoker installation ami
Our oil ice force welcomed a newcomer this past month.
Welcome to our mielst. Ann Songin.
On Octeiber 27th a party was held in celebration
of four birthdays. This celebration was held in the Rosticccria in honor of Grace I'Tary. Ruth Marks. John Collins, ami George Mintz. -:
THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF OL'K LEADING CITIZEN
Name: Brother Hill (Eugene); At times he can't remember name of his Boss or
the Company he works for. Has a chauffeur and ihe- use of the- Station Wagon about three times a week.
1lis singing voice is fair and he can make rhythm. Twice a week wants off to see his draft board
(about noon).
gave the O.K. on the feeder purchase.
He- is an excellent bagging machine operator and we all like him, bill advise him to pay the young la
Mr. Stanbrook's idea of a jack shaft arrangement on dryer kiln reducer drive has created a stir in op
dy at the- YMCA his regular amount of re.om rent,
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il we are- to keep on enjoying his grand company.
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The New Arrivals Since our last issue of "Screenings" daughters were born to the following employees: Betty Ann to Mr. and Mrs. William Budnick on
August 10, 1943.
Mr. Budnick is employed by
Bradley Transportation Company. Linda Ruth to Mr. and Mrs. George Trapp on September 7, 1943. Mr. Trapp is a member of the Blasting Department. Linda Alta to Mr. and Mrs. George Teeples on September 23. 1943. Mr. Teeples is employed in the Mill Department. Rita June to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ristow em No vember 7, 1943. Mr. Ristow is employed in the Mill Department. Sons were born to the following: Everett William to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Shay on August 14, 1943. Mr. Shay is employed by the Bradley Transportation. Lloyd to Mr. and Mrs. George Marsh on August 24, 1943. Mr. Marsh is employed in the Transpor tation Department. George Duane to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cummings on September 2, 1943. Mr. Cummings is employed in the Transportation Department. Richard Norval to Mr. and Mrs. Norval Schla-
ger on September 12, 1943. Mr. Schlager is em ployed in the Track Department. Alger Henry to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fleming on September 19, 1943. Mr. Fleming is employed in the Machine Shop. Richard Dean to Mr and Mrs. Leo J. Schefke on September 25, 1943 Mr. Schefke is employed in the Mill Department John Douglas to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pines on October 13, 1943.
Mr. Pines is a member of the
Drilling Department. Karl Neil and Harry Romain to Mr. and Mrs. Karl Daniels on October 14, 1943. Mr. Daniels is employed in the Shovel Department. Donald Albert to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ursem on
October 16, 1943. Mr. Ursem is employed by the Bradley Transportation Company. Anthony John to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mayes on October 31, 1943. Mr. Mayes is employed in the Mill Department.
Congratuations and happy lives!
Those Who Have Passed Away Archie Schuler, father of Daryl Schuler of the Str. MUNSON, passed away on September 4, 1943. John Schultz died suddenly from a heart attack on September 7, 1943. Jack, known and well liked by many in this community, was employed as a machinist at the plant for many years. He came as an employee to Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company in 1912. He was a young man and his untimely death is a great shock to us all. The infant daughter of William Torno passed away em October 9, 1943.
George Atkinson, power house engineer, passed I,
away on October 13, 1943. His death was sudden after he was apparently well on the road to recov
ery following an operation in Detroit. One of our
older employees, he has been a faithful, tireless worker at Michigan Limestone & Chemical Com pany since 1916. Mrs. Alonzo All, wife of Alonzo All of the Mill
Department, passed away after a long illness on October 23. 1943. It is our wish that the relatives and friends find comfort during their sorrow.
Marriages Percy Heward Jr. and Elna Claus were married on August 21, 1943. Mr. Heward is a deckwatch aboard the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY.
Joseph Smith and Lillian Chrzan were united in marriage on August 14, 1943. Mr. Smith is an as sistant repairman on the Str. CARL D. BRADLEY. Congratulations and best wishes from us all.
Inflationary Spiral "Inflationary spiral" is a term used to tell how prices and incomes keep spinning each other higher and higher when things to buy are scarce and money is plentiful, as they are now. The first
thing to happen is that people with lots of money fight to buy the goods in the stores. If this were peacetime, the factories would make more, the
store shelves would stay full and prices might stay down. But the needed materials have gone to war and so have the workers who would be making civilian goods. We can't make any more of these
goods than we are making, but people are willing to pay high prices to get something if they think they'd have a hard time finding it elsewhere, and so prices go up all along the line. Then, because prices have gone up, many work ers ask for higher pay or higher profits. That adds to the cost or goods from the tactories and food
from the farms, and so the prices of these things go up again. The result is another call for more in
come lrom the people who have to pay the higher prices, then another rise in prices because of the higher costs, and so on, faster and faster and high er and higher until the process is like a tornado, sucking in whatever it hits. The comparison can be carried further by any body who wants to look more carefully at infla tion. People whose wages or profits go up may ride on top of the spiral as long as it whirls them up dangerously. Those most certain to suffer at this stage are the millions whose incomes don't tend to go up in a boom. Sooner or later the spiral
collapsesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wages and
farm
workers
find
and
farmers
profits
hit bottom,
themselves
with
the
same debts and mortgages they had during infla tion, but with dollars to pay debts and mortgages perhaps two or three times as hard to get. Bank ruptcies sweep up the wreckage. We can't stop the inflationary spiral altogether, but there are thing we think can be done. Here's the plan: Price ceilings, rationing of scarce goenls, taxes on swollen incomes, limits on consumer cred
it, paying off debts and buying war bonds. This program can do a lot to slow down the inflationary spiral if everybody ce>operates.
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The Bradley Transportation CompanySafety Meetings and Personal News Excerpts From Safety Meeting Minutes
We Should Try To Think - Then Act All too many of us act without
thinking.
In
Str. II. II. TAYLOR—It was suggested that bilge
many of us it would appear that the realms of thought and action are separate one from the other. This of course is far from the Utopia e)f safety and
wells be kept clean so that siphons will work prop erly. Also that all movable equipment be properly
safety is neither action without thinking, nor think
Stored away ami lashed for bad weather. All stagings and re>pe gear needeel for lay-up work should be carefully checked before being put
ing without action, but by converting thought into
into service.
action.
It was suggested that aerials for radios be kept high enough to allow a person to walk under them to avoid injury to a person walking around the
has man\- limes resulted fatally.
The ideal ol
There are still some individuals who take the
position that safe practices are a characteristic separate ami apart Inun the regular job which is added or injected into the operation.
Of course,
that is wrong lor without safety any job will bogdown and neither men nor equipment will perform their real purpose.
Plants are real things, composed of real persons
and real equipment, both working together to turn out a real commodity, but both capable of being <liverteel from their real purpose. Because of the seriemsness of such diversion.
practices and regulations have been devised to ov ercome the tendency* of persons to stray from the
deck at night.
The committee reviewed some safe practices on care of deck lines and deck engines when weather becomes colder, also suggested a proper place to stow tarpaulins in the boiler room to thaw out. The chairman instructed the watchmen to run
the deck engines slower when taking in the cables, too. that crew members sitting on the benches for ward of the boiler house at that lime slay clear until the cables are in.
Str. CALCITE—It was suggested that some sort
path of safety and to insure that the equipment en- of a guard or baffle be placeel in No. 1 hatch to pre machine will perform only such actions tor which vent coal from getting around the telegraph and whistle pull wires and the universal joint on the it was designed.
The thoughtful man not only knows about h\> machine, he knows his machinery, he knows his job. he had the knowledge that expects definite results from definite actions.
Certain actions re
steering engine shaft. Last month a man got off to go to the hospital and it was founel that he was in worse conelition
than it was thought aboard the boat. A suggestion was made that injured or sick men shall have an
sult in continuous safe productions—others will leael to interruptions and accidents. All this we escort to the doctor or conveyance that will take call safety-consciousness. If we have the will to him to medical aid. do the right thing, the more certain we are ol ob taining correct results.
Safety instructions or thought must be a part
of all operating procedure and the first part ol that instruction should ask the question—Is it safer
Str. CARL I). BRADLEY—The captain called to the attention of the- crew that any man getting
left at Calcite would not be picked up at Mackinaw as it is not a safe practice.
can result from our actions, then we will find free
The Chief Engineer instructed the deck crew in the proper way to leave the steam on the deck en
dom from the things called accidents, and satisfac
gines in cold weather.
tion from a sense of security ami dependability.
The captain discussed the accident the steward had when a Silex coffee maker upset and scalded
When we have satisfied ourselves that no injury
Too serious are our accidents—too frequent—toej severe.. Thought would prevent them. 1,742
his arms and feel.
It was suggested thai hooks
be put on the top of containers so they could not No. 13 hatch be pulled open while unloading coal so as to allow the ladder to cargo hold to be clean
fall over.
It was suggested that the paint and lamp room
doors be kept closed at all times and not be hooked
open at any time. Some members of the deck department said that
they could not hear the alarm bells when working in the tunnel so new bells will be purchased and installed.
ed of lumps which might fall on men on the cleanup.
It was suggested that beads be welded on deck
in front of doors of after topside cabins to elimin ate the chances of a person slipping. The crew members were warned against using
the boom in going ashore or returning to the ship.
The Chief Engineer Lrought up the subject of Although there has been no time when the boom
the men handling the hand controllers in regard to the men putting the controllers in their proper notches and not holding them in in-between posi tions and burning the contactor tips. Str. W. F. WHITE—Mention was again made of
has been used it is well to keep any new crew mem
bers cautioned in regard to such practice.' It was suggested that the coal bunker hatches be examined to make sure that the connecting chains are all in place and in good shape.
Suggestions offered were: That before starting to unload that the cleanout holes in the center el
walking on deck in rough weather. Members were requested to use the tunnel instead of the open evator housing above main deck be inspected to deck. The men calling the watches were also in structed to inform the members being called as to the condition of the deck.
The subject of men in the clean-up carrying shov els when cleaning the sides of the cargo hold was brought up. There was considerable discussion as to whether this practice was necessary. It was thought that when the men are climbing up the chains that both hands should be used rather than
one to carry a shovel that is not necessary for the cleaning of that particular part of the cargo hold. It was agreed to try the new idea and see if it will work any better.
The matter of the companion way door to the
engine room was mentioned again. It is admitted ly a bad spot for there is very little clearance be tween the door and the bulwarks when the door is
open. Last year a deadlight was installed in the door which was thought at the time would relieve f
the situation. It has somewhat, but not entirely. It is felt that if the members of the crew don't co
operate there isn't much that can be done. The man opening the door from the inside must look be fore doing so and the man going by on the outside must also keep in the clear. If it is necessary to stand and talk, keep clear of the door at those times. The question of the danger to the engine room crew putting head but of gangway when the fantail mooring wire is in use was brought up. It is felt that at times this practice is necessary. There are times when the mooring line leads very close to
the gangway door and anyone putting his head out of this is liable to be hurt.
A sign has been
made and placed in a convenient place near the winch.
When the person or persons engaged in
the operation* of the vessel at the dock use the said winch the sign is to be placed over the dockside gangway in the engine room. This sign warns all persons that the fantail line is in use and that they are not to put their head out of the gangway.
make sure the plates are in place . . . that the man handling the mooring engines watch the ca
ble on the drum to see that it does not become
fouled . . . that when unloading at Detour the
safety cable be strung down the starboard side of the deck in order to prevent it becoming fouled in the deck hose . . . that oilers be careful not to get
oil or grease on hand rails as this makes the rail ings too slippery for a safe hold. Str. T. W. ROBINSON—It was suggested that when the ladder is on the dock it should be pulled out on the bottom and all the slack taken up on the rope falls.
It is related by a peasant that he had persuaded himself that beyond his fields there were no others, and when he happened to lose a cow and was
compelled to go in search of her, he was astonish ed at the great number of fields beyond his own few acres. This must be the case of many theor ists who have persuaded themselves that beyond this field or little globe of earth there lie no other worlds—simply because he has not seen them. We are .all manufacturers: making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
Here's a definition of happiness which appeals: "Four feet on a fireplace fender." LONG DISTANCECRITICISM
"You're out!"—the Umpire barks and thousands of leather lungs shout out, "Robber," mixed with a loud chorus of boos and bronx cheers and pop bot tles.
George Moriarity, the famous American League umpire, once complained that he could never under stand how crowds, hundreds of feet from the plate,
could see better and judge more accurately than he can when he is never more than seven feet away.
Yet they often boo and jeer decisions and now and
It was felt that a portable sign would be better than one that is permanent because there is a ten
then throw anything they can lay hands on.
dency to ignore the commonplace things but the un
strikes on a chap when we are toe> far away to un derstand. Perhaps if we had a closeup view of the man and his problems we would reverse our de
usual attracts attention.
Str. JOHN G. MUNSON—It was suggested that
Isn't it the same in life or business, too?
Wc call
cisions.
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Seated (left to right): I.. Pines. S. Xowicki. J. Krawev.ak. R. Modr/.ynski. A. farvis. W. I'ardike.
Bounty, H. Sloan, M. Haswell. C. Klewclling. L. LeVcck. L. Widajewski, M. Joppich. W. Kunuer. J.
C. I.amb. S. Idalski. A. Yareh.'P,. Raelka. A. Smolinski. Standing (1. to r.) : Capt. McOuinu. Chief La-
Gregory. W. Stafford, A. Se-'lmll/.. P. Idalski. (.). MTi ler. I.. Haunon. J-:. Heller. II. Picchan. John X'ichol.
STR. T. W. ROBINSON
we heard lie was waiting at a certain bus depot and his friend waited so long at another bus depot that it was time lor both of them to go to work. From
PERSONAL ITEMS
Thanks to our captain for getting us the Minute .Man flag. W'e really feel proud of it. Recently coming out of Cleveland we encoun
tered rough weather. At least George I.amb says so.
Seems the dishes wouldn't stick to the table.
Jlow you doing now. George?
Anyone want a spinning wheel for making yarn see- Pill Kunuer and Chief LaBounty. Leaving all
jokes aside they sure did a swell job on one for Ben Darga.
"'Pinky" is open to suggestions on safe parking places. Didn't know anyone went parking these days with gas rationing. Flewelliug is looking for a good back linament. I low come the setre back. Clarence?
Tony Yarch and 1st Asst. Harry Sloan, who claim t«> be the' TW's only fishermen, have no alibi this lime—-"no fish in the- river"—Ear wliem al Detour
they saw iw«. large pike that had been caught by the- dock crew- a\
According to Karl l.aVcck he is a marrieel man
now.
now on. Johnny, gel your bus depots straight.
As yet we have the cigars to smoke.
Lately every lime there has been a cribbage game in session, there has been a peculiar odor around. How come. Harry? How does it feel te> get seasick? Well. Ray Modrzyuski should be a good authority e>u that subject.
the coal dock.
We hear llial
Harry tried to buy one off the dock to prove to us
he is a fisherman. Better luck next time. Harry. Chief LaBounty to Bill Kunuer: "Say Bill, what's that you're making? That don't look like yarn." liill: '*l know it's not. I'm making rope instead." Pill was elected to try out the new spinning wheel.
Les Pines feels pretty proud after having en di eted a table-cloth, bedspread, ami several chair anel dresser sets he is willing to call il a season.
"Btttch" Pruder has changed his shop from pho tographing to airplane ce>nslructie>n. Only draw back is no rubber bands. What! No priority, Butch?
elieke. Xorinan Pardike. Richard Santimo. Wallace
From what we hear Palely has been trespassing in a danger /.one. Better you should stay in your own room, Palely.
HONOR ROLL: Our shipmates now in the armeel forces pitching for Uncle Whiskers—Hehnuth Schultz Jr., Lawrence I laselhuhn. Marlow Par-
Those stokermen are tough.
Haswell has been going to bed with a heating pad lately. What's the matter. Has. getting old?
Dagner. Theophilus Pilarski. Philip Henry, John Niehol.
I .e-s Pines received a letter from Dick Santimo.
who was stationed at University of Nebraska tak ing a 2\ months course in civil engineering. Weenjoyed a short visit with Dick on his recent fur
lows from the other boats who catch all those- fish
lough, and he is now stationed at the University in St. Louis. Good luck to you. Dick, we-'re pulling
use for bait. The fish at Detour are too particular
for you !
Tony Varch would like to know what the fel for Tone.
Johnny (ire-gory came afooard the boat one time while- unloading al Detroit mad as a wet hen. 174-1
Later
Things printed can never be stopped: they are like babies baptized, they have a soul from that moment, and go on forever.
/
Front row (left to right) : A. Ooodreau. W. Pudnick. E. V'allee. E. Erke. W. Adams. R. Adrian, M.
Florip, F. Bwlnick. Back row (1. to r.) : Chief Suttle.
C. Idalski. I'.. Fleming, Capt. Xauts. G. Pilarski. I).
PERSONAL ITEMS
STR. B. H. TAYLOR
The Old Clipper Ship. P.I I., left Toledo Ship
Mel.eod. II. Wolgast. P. Stone. A. Liet/.ow. I). Shorkey. G. Hoy. W. Ilincka. R. Haneckow. A. Strand.
J. Clans. L. DePeudry. R. Ilalligan. J. Sucharski. D. Lamlridge. L. Smigelski, C. Mulka. W. Plalh.
While painting the bow at the breakwater Al len Strand almost fell in the water,
lie claims it
yard on May 23. with only seven ships her superi
was almost worth it. what he- was looking at. Shewas sweet, wasn't she, Allen? Anel she is single,
or—or are there more?
too.
Who said the Paisley?
Ye old "YamA Suitee Taylor" with R.P.M.'s to spare says that as seion as she gets used to the new
wheel, she will make history.
Well, the "Wing"
is not running anymore—vou luckv old boat. Tay
We send our congratulations to "Smig" on his joining the Xavy. We- know that the Navy will be proud of you as we were-. 'I he best ol luck. Leonard.
lor. We- who remember "Billie the Kiel" looked with
longing eyes, as he- stepped on the old rosin pail. Jt was evident that "'the Kid" longed for the squared circle at Madison Square Gardens and not Conneaut. How about it. Poppy?
One of our wheelsmen has complained about thepotato peeler making so much noise disturbing Iiim while having his early im-ruing lunch. we have a new oner
the old one?
Could
At least a new muffle-r for
How about it. Klmer?
J
using the word "diadem" ? Klmer: Pee>ple who work carelessly diadem sight quicker than those who work carefully.
It has been suggested that Leo De Peudr\ Ingiven a blueprint of the tunnel so he will know where the compartments start ami end.
While at
it might also get him a metal identification tagso that he won't forget his name.
Anvone watching Walter Ilincka getting dress ed t<- go on lookout would surely know that winter is just around the corner.
John, the Third Mate, is still looking for the per son who got the grapes—Don got the money—The steward stored them—But when John went to get them someone beat him to it.—So John lost both
grapes and money. Who got them?
Our deckhands are quite concerned as to wheth er or not that we have any more trips let Crcen Bay this season. Oh. for just erne more- trip, but please not at three- in the morning. Our slewarel. "Honest Al." as he is known, has
Teacher: X'ow can anyone give me a sentence !
We would like to know why one of our deck hands and his companion were walking from State Park last trip. Clarence Idalski surely did his good (\vx-i\ for the day when he happened along— "Slim" says for days to come-.
defined point rationing—You point lo what you want
ami the grocer says you can't have it.
Waller Plath learned how- easy it was to gel in the- gate at Great Lakes Steel. It seems such a long ride to Toledo when one has to -4'" to workem arrival.
Mark. Pickles, ami Gertie were very much sur
prised lo be served lunch in bed recently. You le-llows ordered, didn't you?
It is reported that George Hoy. looking in the mirror and raising his right hand. swore never to
argue with a certain person again.
George never
wins—no one else does either. George,
We congratulate Sparky and Poppy on the newarrivals since last "Screenings." And from Ted Strand we- will take the cigars any lime now. 1745
Kneeling (1. to r.) : A. Radka. H. Pilarski. I). De-
pew. M. Perdike. L. Langlois. J. Smith. X. Smelcsky. J. Selke. Standing (1. to r.) : S. Chibola. Chief Sparre. A. Xedeau. W. Ilorubacher. P. Heward. C. Cook, STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
PERSONAL ITEMS
Congratulations and our best wishes to our two newlyweds—Joseph Smith and Lillian Chrzan were
marieel August 14lh. anel Percy Heward and Khia Clans were- married August 26th. cigars, boys.
Thanks for the-
Our forme-r shipmate-. Bruce McKeiniau. while home on his furlough visite-d us recently in Calcite. He- says that he likes the- army, but is sure glad to be aboard the good ship Pradley again. The natives of Rogers City still claim that the
sun shines more in Rogers City than it does in Cleveland.
K. Derry. (). Sparre. K. Winfield. R. Tulgetske. T. Carroll. M. Sobeck, A. Allman. R. (iimmel. K. Ka-
Konde.C.Cherrette. C.Gordon, K.Dagner. C.Swarls. W Pre-dow. II. Could. A. Malocha. Capt. Pearse. Our service-nu-n and women went out to fight this war in defense of the accepted American
standards. They went in faith, believing that they could save them for the- oppressed peoples and preserve them for ourselves, they expect us lo protect
these standards and better them
while
they are abroad, so lhat when they return home, that lovely, pleasant place they remember, they will find—Home.
We must not fail them.
I t's noi the gnus or armament.
' >r tin- money vve can pay., Put close cooperation That helps to win the day. I t's not the individual
How about that. Rav?
()r the Army as a whole, We wish to congratulate Clarence Klewclliug on
his promotion to third assistant engineer.
Good
Put the everlasting teamwork ()f cverv blooming' soul.
luck to you. Clarence.
Wanted: One good iustrm-tor to te-ach Alvis Radka how to keep time without using his foot when he plays his guitar.
We understand that Hilton Could is quite a speed boat enthusiast.
How was the ride. Hilt?
Robert (iemmil wishes lhat we have more- rolls
so he won't have so many dishes to wash. Fred: When are we going te> Cleveland? Male: Xot until you shave off thai Van Dyke.
Deckhands are wondering just who needs the seasoning after seeing Ford Winfield come oui of the Pilot llou.-.e- wlu-u she was rolling. Tom Carroll:
It's not that I'm afraid when she-
rolls—it's just thai my knees turn to water.
Authority: Is that which makes some nie-n grow, and others swell.
Profanity: Is a blank cluck on a bankrupt vo cabulary.
Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else have "vonr" wav.
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In ibis war two people want your shirt— The- enemy wants it for keeps—• Your Uncle Sam wauls il for the- duration.
He
wants "the- shirt off your back." Too little ami loo late won't do . . . the armed
forces of America can't protect your Liberty with that kind of laundry.
They Heed all you've got lo give in the shape- of earnings and savings . . . all you can contribute in the shape of voluntary self-denial ami ungrudging lime.
Anel. above all. they need it now. They need "the shirt off your back" and all that it means in sacrifice that's generous, spontaneous, and immediate.
And here are three lines to hang it on:
Hang il on the Firing Line with Speed. Hang it on the Assembly Line with Sweat. Hang il on the Dotted Line with Ponds.
For, only Sweat and Bonds and Speed will bring us Victory and only Sweat and Bonds ami Speed will bring our bovs back home.
Come on. Gang—SHIRTS OFF!
America's see-ret weapon—Unity!
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Front row (left to right) K. Kuchinski. C. Kan-
dovv. H. Friedrich. J. Lindsay. T. Stone. II. Caswell. G. Kelley. S. Cabrysiak. 11. Bey. II. Wagner ami F. Kellev. Back row (left to right): Captain Thorsen. H. Vogler. W. Chain. R. Bryan, C. Lister, R. STR. JOHN G. MUNSON .
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PERSONAL ITEMS
Our new deckhand. Norman McLennan, hopes to
lie as good a deckhand as his brother Bruce was before he joineel the army.
Incidentally. Bruce is
on maneuvers in Texas at this time.
Robert Stone anel Gerald Kelley. of the galley department, developed a rather strange hobby recentlv: The- feeding of fish anel seagulls.
The other night the stokcrman saw the nightcook leaning over the rail and staring down at thewater.
Stokerman: What are you looking* at, Dan? Dan: I just wanted to see if they'd eat it second hand.
'.rhe fishermen of tin- Sir. Muuson say thai the reason the chief catches more fish at Detour than ihev do is that he has more lime to fish.
The boys in the deckhands' room were having a discussion about going uptown when somebody asked. "Does Pruning ever get off the boat?" "Yes," they said, "he got off once- in Coimeaut last summerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;said he could not sleep e>r .something." We- are glad to have Herb Friedrich back with us again.
He has been on the sick list lor quite
some time.
Klee. K. Schefke. I). Schuler. J. Yarch. I). Puford.
II. Rcpkc. J, P.radow. V. Pcebe. J. Lamb. M. Idal ski. A. Fuhrman. C. Modrzyuski, L. Gordon, S. Bellmore, D. Zeilaskowski. H. Xidv, ami Chief Urelal.
George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock. Put you can do better than that.
Your dollars, there in your pocket, leading a dull existence, can have an exciting, thrilling time, e>ut where the battles are being fought. They can go where hell is breaking loose and join in the light for freedom.
Vou can send your dollars rolling over burning
sanels as parts of tanks. You can send them zoom ing into the sky as parts of planes. You can build them into ships and sub-chasers. You can turn them into bombs, shells and bullets.
You may have to slay over here, but you can enlist your dollars to get over there. Step up and buy War Ponds. Captain Malcolm P. MacLean of the Str. W. K. White
resplendent in the new bine-gray uniform of the Coast (iuard.
Muuson feel
proud to see their Minute Man flag fluttering in the breeze.
Coast (iuard
Reserve
anel
holds the- rank of Licuten-
aut-con inlander.
Recently
lime- i\uc to illness but as a
rugged man of the sea hewas soon back on the job
again.
The tree which moves some to tears e>l joy is
in Ihe eyes of others only a green thing which
encetion.
Some see Xature all ridicule
and elcformity. and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some- scarce see Nature- al all. Put to the eyes of 1lie man of imagination Xature As a man is. so he sees.
That old saying about dew in tin- uieirning being a sign e>f clear weather is backed by scientific ev idenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when the night is cloudy, little- or no dew
"Cap" is typical of
many men with long experi
stands in the way.
is precipitated.
1.ike- all offi
cers of Great Lakes freight ers. Captain "Mac" is in the
he- was off ship for a short
The officers and crew of the Str.
is Imaginatietu itself.
There is a magic way you can throw your
dollars across the seven seas!
at
water
These
transporta
fellows
have
contributed immensely to the task of moving essential raw materials to their ulti
mate use in defeating the enemy. It is our hope that
Captain
Macl.cau
will be
able to pilot ship and crew for many years yet. He has befriended many young lads. 1747
Seated (left to right): I). Marsh. A. Selke. II. Yarch. II. Joppich. J. Miller, J. Gordon, II. Kaminski. and A. I laneckow. Standing (left to right): Captain MacLe-an. X. Raymond. V. Riekle. W. Shav. STR. W. F. WHITE
PERSONAL ITEMS
Kdward "Ossie" Yoighl belongs in the "Hall of
Flame" on the- Str. White for 'skunking' not one-, but three fellow players al spil/.er. Must have been plenty hot that day. eh. "Ossie"? Wallace Wirgau had lo find something differ ent to do during the roll we had on Lake Huron.
The- waves were so high that he found it hard to see out of those deadlights. Congratulations from all of lis to Roland ITsem.
His sou will probably keep him busy this winter. Don
Lam])
thinks
working
in the
galley is
belter than oiling. John 7.e>he) doesn't agree with him—on anything. It's just like jumping from the frying pan into the fireholel.
Xorman Llaselhuhn could make a fortune giving out sleeping lessons. We are amazed at your tech nique, Norm. Just how do vou do it? Don Marsh hopes the- war is over soon.
I le wears
out shoes so fast lhat he- finds an acute shortage of stamps.
Why don't you join the- army. Don? They
say ihe army marches em its stomach. John "Sarge" /oho likes baseball so we'll
we
suggest he join some major league team. It isn't a bad idea "Sarge." We- notice you've been batting a thousand lately.
It just g"e-s to prove—you can't fool some of the people some of the time—Xorniau Raymond made his young son a wooden gun. Wlu-n he took the results of his efforts home, his son took one look at it and said, "I don't want that. Dad—that's a
rifle.
II. Wasvlk. R. Ursem, W. LaLonde, R. Monroe. !•'.. \'..ight. L. Dietliu. P. Pcebe. P. Mus/.vnski. V.
Henry. T. Sobeck, L. Hoar. M. Inglis. X. Ilasclhuhn. W. Wirgau. K. [ones, L Zoho. ami A. Oauskc.
The pistol packiu' porters on the "While" have
found the Detour woods a good place to get game. I hey don't worry about meat-rationing now—just shells.
Hank Kaminski and "Shine" Selke agree that it isn't safe- to walk to Calcite after dark.
Pear and
deer gave- them a good scare on one of their trips to the boat. Oh, well, the- animals were probably scared loo.
Commander Trebes of the I'niteel Stales Coast
Guard made a round trip on the Str. White from the Son recently. John Miller says the skunk is one animal lhat
has plenty ol "scents." How do you know, John? Evidently Hank Kaininski's arm isn't so good. In fact, he can't find anything at which to aim oc casionally. Do vou have a spitting image of it. I lank ?
Quality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below
the
rest of society. Familiarity in inferiors is sauciness: in superiors it is condescension: neither of which are to have being among companions, the very word implying that they are to be equal. When, therefore, we have extracted the- company from all considerations of their equality or for tune, it will immediately appear that, to make il
happy and polite, there must nothing be started which shall discover that our thoughts run upon any such distinctions.
Hence, it will arise that
be-nevoleucc must become the rule of society, and
he lhat is most obliging must be most diverting.
I want a machine gnu!"
Don't look- now. but when you gel home take a "Adie-" ( ianske. the porter, picks up things fast since In- has been steamboating—even a little-
look in a mirror and ask the- other man you sec-
weight. Don't worry, "Adie," it will come in handy
win the war. If he says. "Xe>." ask him what he slippeel up on anel remind him of it tomorrow.
in rough weather. 1748
there if he did everything he could today to help
Seated (left to right): D. Puduick. K. Partyka. G. King. I-'., /hike. A. Hoeft. <i. Kempe. W. Joppich, R. Davidson. X. McLennan. J. Bauer, anel Ben Kam-
yszek. Standing (1. to r.): J. Selke. R. Smolinski. W. STR. CALCITE
PERSONAL ITEMS
We are glael to see the smiling face of our friend Billy Schwert once more abe>ard ship. We were a
little, afraid that once those nurses got Billy in the
hospital they wouldn't let him go. but Silly says
that with the manpower shortage what it is it would hardly be fair to leave his other girls flat.
11 has been suggested that Captain Moll ought to move into the- freight she-d down at Grant this winter to save moving as more of his belongings are there than at his cottage.
Redwing: (lee. I bet we would have rolled if we'd had an cmnlv le>ael on.
The Calcite Rhythm Kings have be-en augmented
anel. most critics agree-, improved by the addition of our deckwatch Charles Lee. an accordion virtuoso.
Their rendition of "Over the Waves" especially shows fine technique. There has been some talk of taking up a collec
tion of meat ration points to help our friend Si through the winter. W'e are not so much afraid of Si pining away te> a shadow, but if his wife tried to feeel him in the manner to which he is accus
tomed, she may be a bit gaunt by spring. Ever since the tax sale list came out we've- been
hearing strange noises from the wheelsmen's room—something about section six and seveneighths, the- east fractional half of the northeast quarter of the southwest three-eighths. Speed says with pulpwooel thirteen dollars a cord what can you lose.
Since our last issue o\ "Screenings" one of our eleckwatchmen. Melvin Vogler. has become a proud
papa. We congratulate him on a baby daughter anel hope she may always bring him as much joy as did her advent. .<-
Xo. hoys, that tinkle you hear from the- wlu-e-ls-
Derry. S. Centella. J. Paradise, K. Adrian. II. Newhouse, T. Werner. 0. O'Toole, I). Monroe. I.. Schef
ke. S. Sobeck, W. Wirgau. K. Metko. Capt. Moll. C. Modr/.ynski. K. burlaw. M. Vogler. A. Dwyer.
men's room isn't an echo of wedding bells. It's on ly the clink of silver. Did you consult Emily Post, Cordon, or did you have- other expe-rt advice? Salesgirl to Al Dwyer:
Don't you think Ashta
bula is a well laiel-oiil town?
Al: Oh;, undoubtedly. Tell me. have they chosen .an epitaph for the- tombstone yet? George Kerr says that if L.euli Adrian is going to wear those ironboiinel collars he'd better gel a wife to help him fasten them or else lie's going to get a buttonhook.
Hank Xcwhoiise has opened a detective agency. He- says he'll place his first ad in the Rogers City School Xews—confidential reporls on the activities e>f young Rogers City sailors in lower lake ports. I.odi says if Hank ever gets a commission to shad ow himself he'll be too busy to do anyone else any harm.
Joe Puck and
LcKoy Heller have be-en doing
considerable fanning of late. It's funny how many more prospective- farmers there are aboard in Xo-
vember than there- are in April, When the going ge-ts tough we sometimes hear Julius talking to himself about fishing. It may be all right. Julius, but to us it sounds an awful lot like—out of the frying pari into the fire. Anybody looking for lost candy bars. gum. or pop, see- Joe Puck as he has a swe-et tooth but does not show or wear it.
We- hear that Michael Kerr's rabbits are breeding as fast as the family can eat them. And now that our season is Hearing the end, and as we all know, there is an end to everything, we come to a conclusion with a very Merry Christmas
ami a Happy and Prosperous Xew Ye-ar. and don't
forget the purchase of the War Ponds during the winter months.
1749
Fire Will Win The War Or Lose It It is fire after bombings that is wrecking our en emies. It is fire on ships, docks, munition dumps, communications and supply depots in and behind enemy lines that allow troops to advance. The en
emy is being defeated by fire. Likewise we can be given the same treatment. What the enemy does with fire to our armed forces is a problem for those forces to combat. What we do to pre vent the same weapon being used to destroy here at home is our problem. Twice within the last nine months fire has ruin
ed two of the nice buildings in our city's small bus iness district. Both were modern buildings and were thought of as fireproof. However, the loss of the buildings meant the labors of hard-working owners suddenly disappearing even though they seemed reasonably free from the fire danger.
Every item of use to us today is hard to replace, far more expensive than its true value and often made of materials so vital to articles essential to
the war. To make every item do for the duration is part of our job. Protect from fire. Your home is always one of the most important
things to you. What do you do to protect it now ? Men are giving lives for the protection of the American home. You can give time to prevent fire from destroying it and its many valuable furnish ings.
With cold winds soon blowing and the need for hot stove and furnace fires this equipment should be checked.
How is yours?
Electrical cords and appliances always one of the big sources of home nres are more dangerous than ever because we must use old things that would ordinarily be replaced by new. Check yours —don't have a fire.
The dry-cleaners are busy—many people do their own cleaning will inflammable cleaners—be more careful than ever.
Matches
and
children—this
combination
has
started many bad home fires and has cost lives of those youngsters so dear to us. Do you keep an eye on yours? The fact that homes are precious—even scarce and difficult to replace these days—would be rea son enough for protecting them. Now we are at war—watch those home fires and don't let them
get out of control.
New Foods From Yeast A new yeast food that is the richest known source of Vitamin B and contains about twice as much
protein as meat was recently announced by Anheuser Busch chemists in St. Louis.
Furthermore,
this food can be flavored and turned into pies,
soiips, muffins, and meat loaf. Most important news for a war-hungry world is the fact that this yeast food costs only a fifth as much as meat. Mass production is already feasible. The materials for this new food are molasses,
water, ammonia, and yeast, kept bubbling by the introduction of 1.000 cubic feet of air a minute. The
yeast itself is the result of breeding of yeast cells 1750
by Dr. and Mrs. Carl Lindegren, who sought to de velop varieties of yeast that possessed staple food tastes.
The molasses in the mixture provides food for the yeast, the ammonia provides the yeast with nitro gen wdiich can be converted into protein. After 12 hours, 125 pounds of yeast have mutiplied their
weight sixteen times, and produced a ton of tasty, healthful food.
Experts figure that a ten-foot vat can produce as much meat in a year as 1,000 acres of pasture land. This has tremendous implications tor our post-war food situation. You And Your Job Never allow yourself to admit that you are un equal to the emergency confronting you. Be a master of circumstances and surroundings, not their slave.
Nobody ever advances who constantly waits for directions.
Keep your eyes wide open for the things to be done, and do them before you are asked to. No field is overcrowded for the man who can think for himself and is not afraid of hard work.
Every man's work can and ought to be a master piece. There is something within us wdiich responds with "Amen" to the job done just right. Every botched job has a way of bobbing up somewhere in our afterlife to mortify and defeat us. With a blabbing tongue it tells the story of halfheartedness or shiftless endeavor.
Andrew Carnegie said, "I would not give a fig for the man in business who does not already see himself a partner." "Whatever your business, resolve that you will not be paid for being something less than a man." How To Be Contented Goethe, the German philosopher of earlier times, recommended nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome' them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accom plished. Charity enough to see some ge>od in your neigh bor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and help ful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears con cerning- the future.
A band leader got there by facing the music. For all freedom-loving people, home and Christ mas hold the joys of love, friendship, and good cheer. From ocean to ocean—from pole to pole— our hearts this year bear a hope for Victory and everlasting Peace.
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^eLtLwiriEi± Think of yourself from first to last: Guard yourself from the wintry blast; Feed your stomach and quench your thirst; Feather your nest and feather it first;
Fly to your pleasures and dance them through— There is nobody else in this world but you.
Think of yourself—and right or wrong. Give no heed to the passing throng. What if your conduct should bring to shame Those who honor and share your name What if they're hurt by the things you do Why should their suffering trouble you? Live for yourself, but don't complain When you have come to the world's disdain.
Don't return when the night comes on And wonder where all of your friends have gone. Carry no burden except your own. But always be ready to weep alone.
But if you wish for the happy years And the love of a friend who sees your tears, And the world's respect and an honored name. And all of the joys which the gentle claim. You must think of others in all you do— You must think of them first, and last of you. —Edgar A. Guest. (COPYRIGHT)
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