December 1926 Published in the interests of the men and women of the Kodak organi3ation by Eastman Kodak Company. Rochester. N. Y. MONTHLY ACCIDENT REPORT OCTOBER, 1926 Accident Cases Accidents per 1000 PLANT Employees 19~6 19~5 19~6 19~5 Kodak Office . .. .. .. 1 0 .77 0 Camera Works . .. ·. ... 7 2 2 .38 1.25 Hawk-Eye Works .. ... 0 1 0 3 .12 Kodak Park Works . 21 15 3.25 2.58 --- Total- Rochester Plants 29 18 2 .59 1.97 I I NATURE OF ACCIDENTS DURING MONTH 13 cases of injury through bruises, burns and lacerations, etc. 4 cases of injury through falling and slipping. l cases of injury through falling material. 1 case of injury through stepping on nail. 1 case of injury through sprains and strains. 2 cases of injury around press. 2 cases of injury through saw. 2 cases of injury through machine of special nature. 29 Employees' accident cases during month. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New rear to every one ofyou AT THE LANDING By Mary Callaghan, member, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences From a recent Kodak Park Camera Club Interchange Exhibit VoL. VII DECEMBER, 19~6 No.7 VALUE $1.98 "ARAG and a bone and a hank of hair." do without iron? Of what use would your How is that for a description of a muscles and nerves be without all three woman? Recently comes this as the make­ and ten or so others besides? up of an "average man" (I suspect it fits Did you ever have that "run-down" an "average woman" as well)-"Four and feeling and go to your doctor and have a half pails of water, including the blood him tell you to build up your blood? And which .courses his veins, twenty-three whe.n you asked him how to do it you pounds offat, one-eighth of an ounce of iron, found that part of the prescription meant one-eighth of ~n ounce of sugar, one-half to eat foods which had plenty lime, iron, of an ounce of salt, one pound of lime, a phosphorus and the ten or so other min­ little potash, phosphorus, sulphur, etc. erals? Total cost, $1.98." Your blood must he kept neutral or a Both pictures, of course, leave out the little alkaline-never acid-if you wish most important part of the real you- but health and vigor. And the right kind of we are shown enough to realize that we food is the only way to keep your blood have an honest-to-goodness job to learn free from acid. how to keep the "body" part of us in run­ Sugar, cereals, meat and eggs all leave ning order. acid in the blood. See the minerals which are needed! Fruits (all but cranberries, plums and What would your bones do without lime prunes), vegetables and milk leave alkali and phosphorus? What could your blood in the blood. 4 THE KODAK MAGAZINE STREET IN QUEBEC By Mary Callaghan, member, Bropklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences From a·recent Kodak Park Camera Club Interchange Exhibit THE KODAK MAGAZINE 5 (Read right on. Don't be scared.) keep the acid from doing any harm. Eat Alkalis neutralize acids. When an al­ .lunches and supper, like that. kali meets an acid in the blood they join A dinner of meat and potato (alkali up and in this way help keep the blood potato helps to offset acid meat), two neutral. vegetables (one gree~), some milk and Can you not see from this that any you have yourself guarded. sensible man or woman will drink more milk, eat more fruits and vegetables and "Safety first" in health is eating daily less meat, sweets and bread and thus keep from your "protective" foods- a pint (at his blood free from acid? least) of milk, two green, leafy vegetables A lunch like the one in the silhouette­ (one raw), fresh fruit, and then adding to milk, lettuce, date muffin, butter and each of your three meals such other foods fruit- feeds the blood enough alkali to as you wish in moderate quantities. THE LEGAL WAY 'ROUND LAW_YER thus illustrates the lan­ rest assured if all of them were not neces­ A guage of his craft : "If a man were to sary, they would not be there, for an give another an orange, he would simply attorney is no fonder than the rest of us of say: 'Have an orange.' But when the useless words and phrases. · transaction is intrusted to a lawyer to be All too often someone without legal put in writing he adopts this form: 'I knowledge attempts to draw his own will, hereby give and convey to you, all and and after his demise his survivors find singular, my estate and interests, right, that it is not worth the paper it was title, claim, and advantages of and in said written upon. orange, together with all its rind, juice, Every adult, whether with or without pulp and pips, and all rights and advan­ dependents, who possesses anything of tages therein, with full power to bite, cut, value whatsoever, should make a will, but suck, and otherwise to eat the same or by all means have it drawn by an attorney. give the same away with or without the The same holds good if it becomes nec­ rind, skin, juice, pulp, or pips, anything essary to enter into a written contract of hereinbefore or hereinafter or in any other any nature. means of whatever nature or kind what­ soever to the contrary in anywise not­ If it becomes necessary to sign any such withstanding'." · document submitted by another party, "And then another lawyer comes along read it through very carefully and if there and takes it away from you.'' is anything that you do not fully under­ The above is a bit far fetched, to be stand, submit it to your own attorney sure, but there is a serious thought behind before signing it. it, all the same. Sentences and. paragraphs can be so All legal documents, such as deeds, cunningly worded that they sound en­ mortgages and wills, have to follow a tirely inoffensive, yet they may carry an definite phraseology, so as to fully cover awful stinger in their tail, as many a man every point at issue so that there will be has found out to his cost. no misunderstanding from a legal stand­ For the protection of all concerned, point while the document is in force. never attempt, unless you are an attorney, To the layman, most legal documents to draft a legal document, and never sign apparently contain a vast amount of repe­ one until you know its exact meaning titions and useless verbiage, but you may from beginning to end. Think Safely-Work Safely 6 THE KODAK MAGAZINE MR. F. C. MATTISON Managing Director, Kodak Ltd., London, England 1\IR. J. J. ROUSE l\ianaging Director in Charge of Sales, Kodak Australasia, Ltd. l\1R. E. A. ROBINS Assistant Manager, Kodak Works, Harrow, England THE KODAK MAGAZINE 7 VISITORS FROM AFAR THREE PROMINENT FOREIGN KODAK OFFICIALS PAY US A VISIT E have recently had with us in Roch- Since leaving Australia last January, W ester three important officials of our Mr. Rouse has visited India, Egypt, foreign organization, Mr. F. C. Mattison, France and England, as well as this Managing Director of Kodak Ltd., Lon- country, this b'eing his fourth visit. We don, England, Mr. J . J. Rouse, Managing hope to see him soon again. Director in charge of sales of Kodak Mr. Robins, of Kodak Works, possesses Australasia, Ltd., and Mr. E. A. Robins, a most engaging personality and you at Assistant ¥anager of Kodak Works at once have a feeling of being at home with Harrow, England. him. All three of these officials were here to The photographic career of Mr. Robins confer with the officials of the parent began nearly forty years ago and he has company regarding a number of problems always been a most enthusiastic amateur of our rapidly growing organization. photographer, architectural details, of This was Mr. Mattison's first visit to which his own country has a wealth, being Rochester ·in about ten years. He was his pet subjects. accompanied by his wife and daughter. This was Mr. Rouse's first visit since The Canadian Kodak Company em­ 1922, and we all enjoyed again meeting ployees' publication says of Mr. Robins: his genial self. "Should the Kodak organization ever During his stay he had the pleasure and decide to create an official 'Ambassador privilege of presenting to President Cool­ of Good Will,' we hereby nominate Mr. idge on behalf of the citizens of Sydney, Robins, if only to assure ourselves of more New South Wales, an oil painting by frequent visits in the future." This has Charles Bryant, one of the foremost our whole-hearted agreement. Australian artists, showing the American It was indeed a pleasure to have these battleship fleet in Sydney Harbor at the gentlemen with us, and we hope all three time of the visit in July, 1925. will soon again find their way to us. TITLES UTTING a Packard name plate over will not be long in placing him in the Ford P the radiator of a Ford does not make class. a Packard of it. It will still continue to We have known some men who wanted perform in the same efficient Ford manner Packard titles for doing Ford work, and, in which it usually performs. It will not on the other hand, we have known some take on any Packard qualities.