/v <? THE BROWN BULLETIN To Further the Cause of Co-operation, Progress and Friendliness BERLIN, N. H., MARCH, 1, 1927 BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THE BROWN BULLETIN \ You BIRDS PRINTED UPON NIBROCSUPERCALENDERED BOND To FISHT SET OUTSIDE - W1D W THE Vol. VIII. MARCH, 1927 No. 9 PAYMASTER'S.' BROWN BULLETIN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION "The object of this organization is to publish a paper for the benefit of the employees of the Brown Company and of the Brown Corporation, in which may appear items of local and general interest; and which will Vend to further the causr of co-operation, progress and friendliness among and between a* sections of these companies."—By-Laws, Article 2. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor—G. L. Cave Photographic Editor—Victor Beaudoin Associate Editors—Louville Paine, John Cartoonists—J. Daw, George Prowell Assistant Editors^foh^A.6 H^ard, Business Manager-Gerald Kimball James McGivney BOARD OF DIRECTORS President—O. P. Cole Secretary—A. L. Laferriere UPPER PLANTS SULPHITE MILL CASCADE MILL BROWN CORP. G. L. Cave A. L. Laferriere Jos. Hennessey W. L. Bennett TO HOLD YOUR JOB, P. W. Churchill Paul Grenier A. K. Hull John Heck Walter Elliott Jas. McGivney John A. Hayward E. A. White KEEP YOUR TEMPER PORTLAND OFFICE Back in the days when chivalry was W. B. Brockway blooming and men wore lace trimmed pants and jackets no gentleman was prop- Items, original articles, and photographs are invited from all employees of the companies. These erly dressed without a sword. And this may be handed to any member of the Editorial Staff or Board of Directors, or sent directly to the cutlery wasn't carried for ornament. If Editor, The Brown Bulletin, Berlin, N. H. All contributions must be signed. \vc can believe Rafael Sabatini's colorful yarns, slicing each other was as common as pig sticking at the Chicago Stock SERVICE DIRECTORY yards. BROWN COMPANY DISTRICT NURSING DEPARTMENT (Established 1903) In our own frontier days men wore buck- Miss E. A. Uhlschoe.er, Supervisor; Miss M. A. Fagan, Assistant Supervisor; Miss D. Trucheon, skin shirts and carried a pair of hip- Miss V. Brothers, District Nurses; Miss G. Kennedy, Miss Hazel Locke, Miss V. Paquette, Industrial pocket cannons which went into action on Nurses. Office, 226 High Street; telephone 85; office hours, 8-8:30 a. m., and 12:30-1:30 p. m. Calls may the slightest provocation when the red- be sent to the above office, to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, telephone 283-W, or to any Brown eye flowed freely. Company time office. Working hours 8 a. m., to p. m. A nurse answers all first calls, but may not Nowadays fighting is out of style, ex- continue upon a case except a doctor is in charge. cept in the ring. Swords are worn only on lodge parades and carrying six-shoot- BROWN COMPANY SURGICAL SERVICE ing hardware is contrary to law in most L. B. MARCOU, M. D., Chief Surgeon, Office 275 School Street H. E. WILKINSON, M. D., Assistant, Office 33 Main^Street localities. Nature's weapons are the only On call duty: January, April, July, October ones available and there is nothing ro- NORMAN DRESSER, M. D., Assistant, Office 143 Main Street mantic about a fist fight. On call duty: March, June, September, December E. R. B. McGEE, M. D., Assistant, Office 45 High Street Time was when a man used to fight to On call duty: February, May, August, November show his devotion to his lady love. But now if he calls on her showing the marks BROWN COMPANY RELIEF ASSOCIATION of combat she is likely to regard him as Open to all employees except those eligible to Burgess Relief Association a common brawler and give him the air. President, T. D. Walsh, Cascade Secretary, P. L. Murphy, Cascade One man with a scrappy disposition Vice-President, W. E. Haines, Box Shop Treasurer, E. F. Bailey, Main Office can do a lot of damage to the morale of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE a plant. The tough bird with a foul A. K. Hull, Riverside '• A. Morse, Cascade Jas. P. Howell, Riverside P- K. Ross, Cascade mouth is disturbing to harmonious rela- Olaf M. Nelson, Storehouse "A" ['^o. Doucette, Cascade tions but sooner or later he meets his Fred R. Oleson, Saw Mill John A- Lynch Cascade John Briggs, Salvage IVter Landers, Cascade match. Another disturbing influence is K. H. Grant, Tube Mill .No. 2 the fellow who carries a chip on his Executive Committee meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p. m., in the Police Court Room shoulder. Perhaps there are times when putting BURGESS RELIEF ASSOCIATION up your dukes is more effective than turn- President, Michael J. Myler Secretary, A. Stanley Cabana ing the other cheek. But that time is not Vice-President, John Lavoie Treasurer, James McGivney on company time. An angry man is not DIRECTORS Victor Lacomb Edmond Boutin a safe worker. One way to keep safe Archie Belanger Odule Belanger B. F. Dale Frank Moreau and keep your job is to keep your temper. AN ESSAY ON POTATOES By LOUVILLE PAINE, Associate Editor OBERT G. INGERSOLL, one of the brought to the attention of Queen Eliza- In the market the genteel Frenchman R greatest orators of his time, lec- beth. It was very slow in being recog- from France would call for "Pomme de tured in old City Hall, Portland, nized at anywhere near its real value as terre;" the habitant, from Canada, once on a time on "Skulls and Bones." a food. "Pectac," or if he tried to say it in Eng- When the time came to begin, he stepped As a food product, potatoes are next to lish, "Bedadoes;" the town rube, "Per- briskly to the front of the stage and said: wheat in importance. They are an energy- taters;" the backwoods rube, "Taters;" "Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to supplying food, being 18.4% carbohydrates, the Irishman, Piratees, or Murphys; the talk on a subject tonight that you don't and are estimated to constitute 13.7% of Norwegian or Swede, Petortis; the Ger- know anything about—nor I either." the food consumed by the average family. man, Kartoffeln; the Italian, Partetos; the Potatoes seems to be an odd subject The world's production is 6 billion bush- Polander, Kartofel; the Scotchman, Pon- for a "layman" to choose for a theme, els. Germany came first in 1913 with 2 tar-ta; and the P. I., Petatees. for on first thought we jump to the con- billion, and Russia second in 1913 with Uncle Walt Mason would most likely clusion that we know nearly everything \/2 billion. Poland raises one-fifth of the get off something like this:— of consequence concerning this very com- world's crop, on 6 million acres, and sends mon, homely, everyday (and with some thousands of tons of starch to the United Here you, Mr. Chaser of Kale, You see I have brought my pail. persons three times a day and luncheon) States. The United States produce 350 Haste thee and attend my bequest, commodity, but by consulting government, million bushels. The reader is expected I assure you I want some of your best. doctors' and chemists' bulletins, we find to remember all these figures. Lay down your cigar and brush up your duds that we are somewhat in the same condi- My first experience in potato culture And sell me a bushel and a half of "spuds." tion Mr. Ingersoll was in regard to his was "dropping" and "picking up," for With the changes in other lines, there subject. It would, however, be difficult to Dexter Wheeler on his little farm, on have come changes in raising potatoes. imagine a dilemma from which the bril- which the City stone-crushing works and Formerly, it was all hand work but now, liant Ingersoll could not extricate himself. stables are now located. That's one of where the soil conditions will admit, ma- Like the poor, we always have the en- the jobs of small boys and girls on the chinery is employed, and the head is used cyclopedia with us, and in an extremity it farm. Mr. Wheeler often declared he more to save the heels. A sort of club can be relied upon to tide us over shallow could hire all the work done and make ownership of machinery is a good scheme, places, and again, Friend Morrison is money raising potatoes at 25 cents per as the average farmer can hardly afford always on hand with a fund of informa- bushel. My next venture was my own the whole outfit. tion acquired by experience. Also it is affair. As a profitable enterprise it In the big potato fields, machinery is only a few steps to the Riverside, where couldn't be beaten. There were no "over- an absolute necessity. Cutting seed, plant- we can always find the "Old Man" and heads." Therefore the returns were "clear ing, cultivating, spraying, and digging are Joe Streeter, whose annual prolific potato velvet," 100% profit. The plot of ground all accomplished by its use. Picking up patches on Green's Hill attest their know- was right near where the Swift Co.'s es- is done by hand and is almost a profession, ledge of the fine points of the "game." tablishment now stands. It was the site or a trade, and many a contest is staged. Some centuries ago man "ate to live," of an Irish shanty used by the workmen It is piece work, so much per bushel or but for countless years he has been work- when the R.