VOL. 4 No. 6  JUNE 1950

 

The Sohio News

 

 

Wilkin and Holliday Rap World Law Critics

EDITOR'S NOTE—Robert \. Wilkin. who retired as a Cleveland federal judge last year, is on the United World Federalists' national advisory board. W. T. Holliday, chairman of the board for Standard Oil of Ohio, is a vice president of the United World Federalists. This article, origin­ally written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, appeared in that paper on May 12. 1950.

By ROBERT N. WILKIN and W. T. HOLLIDAY

There have appeared in recent issues of the Cleveland Plain Dealer some articles by a couple of philosophers of despair, to the effect that world law and order is a myth and impossible, and, there-fore, it is silly to talk about it.

These prophets do not state what the alternative is. All history proves that the only alternative is recurring war. There never has been and never can be peace and security in the midst of anarchy. But modern war has become so terrible as to be obsolete as a method of deciding international disputes.

There is no primary defense against modern scientific weap­ons. The most that a modern belligerent could hope for would be to destroy a larger area and population of its enemy than had been destroyed within its own boundaries. As Gen. Ar­nold has said, nobody can win a modern war. Unless man can prevent wars he will convert this world into an incinerator.

World Rule is Certain

It is manifest, therefore, that the need for eliminating war is so imperative that some kind of world government is not only possible but certain.

With few exceptions, notably the federal union of the United States, the area of political unity has been enlarged by force. Most of the nations of today were es­tablished in that way. Unless some limited form of world fed­eration can be arrived at intelli­gently and co-operatively there-is bound to be a world govern­ment imposed by force—govern­ment by conquest. That would be a monolithic, centralized, and despotic government.

We say, therefore, that it is not silly, but imperatively neces­sary, for the people of this coun­try to be talking about world law and order, and trying to achieve a reasonable and limited order, arrived at peacefully and intelligently.

Man Is Undaunted

It is not the history of man that he has been daunted by the impossible, and it is certainly not in the American tradition to refuse to try simply because the task seems too difficult.

We can be sure of one thing, however, and that is that a rea­sonable and limited world federation will not be possible until the American people make up their minds that that is what they want. We certainly cannot expect Russia to take the lead in achieving that kind of a world order.

Only when the United States takes the lead and offers to go along in the effort to create such a reasonable world order will there be any favorable re­sponse from the rest of the world. But if the United States offered to go along the road to security and peace through a federation limited to the pre­vention of war, the world would be given new hope and the effect would be electrical.

No Alternative

There can be no just criti­cism of what our government has done to date. In a state of international anarchy there is no alternative but for us to make ourselves as powerful as possible. But the rivalry of power and armament race lead inevitably to war.

What we need, in addition to our tactics of power, is a fun-

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Let's Explore Ohio Program to Make Television Debut

Sohio's continuous "Let's Ex­plore Ohio" program will enter a new medium about June 28 when a series of Let's Explore Ohio shows makes its initial appear­ance on eight Ohio television sta­tions. Henry f. Coleman, adver­tising manager, has announced.

Each telecast program will be 1 j minutes long and will appear weekly during the evening for 13 consecutive weeks. They will appear on the following tele­vision stations: WCPO-TV, WLW-T, Cincinnati; W EWS, WNBK, Cleveland; WNBS-TV, WLW-C, Columbus; WHIO-TV, Dayton; WSP-D-TV, Toledo.

Exact times will be announced later.

This addition to a well-known Sohio service, which has included guides to picnicking areas. Ohio movies, free full-color post cards, and recommended tours within the state, will consist of movies of Ohio highway trips from 75 to over 100 miles in length. Ohio scenes and historical landmarks will be visited and commented upon during each show. Routes to be covered by the Let's Explore Ohio viewer will include portions of each of Sohio's 13 sales divisions and will, therefore, represent the en-

tire state by the end of the series. Prints of the movie film will be made and shipped to the various television stations for showing.

Since estimates show that 600,000 television sets will soon be in use in Ohio, Sohio's new video show will offer to many thousands new. interesting views of Ohio's historical sites.

No stranger to television, Sohio was the first commercial sponsor of an Ohio television show, sponsored the Cleveland Orchestra's first appearance over television, and has also telecast special civic and sporting events.

 

Two Tots in a Tub

Keith Walker, one, and Christine Datum, three, make a charming picture for their daddy, Carl Millinger, Toledo tank truck driver.

EMBA Voters Approve All Three Amendments

5,873 Cast Votes in Special May Election

CLEVELAND — Each of three constitutional amend­ments placed before members of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association by special ballot May 4 were passed by heavy majority votes, according to election results announced May 22 by Leonard Muddimer, EMBA secretary. The approved amendments:

1. Provide for an increased scale of sick benefits. EMBA members voted 1,488 against and 1,102 for this amendment. Of. the 5.873 members who partici­pated in the election, 16 did not vote on this issue.

2. Make EMBA membership available to all regular Sohio employees, even though they may reside outside the limits of the United States. On this issue there were 5,130 yes votes. 616 no. and 45 not voting.

3. Make possible the estab­lishment of plans (such as an employee stock purchase plan) which EMBA trustees may deem to be of mutual benefit or serv­ice to all regular employees.

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Personnel

F. J. Hart Named Office Manager at No. 1 Refinery

Frank J. Hart, Jr., assistant office manager at No. 1 Refinery since 1938, has been appointed office manager, a post left va­cant by the recent death of Mike Puin.

Horn and educated in New York City, Frank Hart came to Cleveland in 1912, and in that same year began work with Sohio as office boy at No. 1 Refinery.

During World War I he spent two years in the artillery, including one year in France. On his return from military service he was transferred to the Toledo Refinery while it was being con­structed. After two years at To­ledo, where he served as a liaison auditor, he returned to No. 1 (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)

 F. J. Hart, Jr.

 

Quarterly Report Shows Earnings Drop

Consolidated net income of The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) for the first quarter of 1950 was $2,772,733, equal to 71cents a share on the common stock after preferred dividend requirements, according to Sohio's interim report to stock­holders and employees made public today. This compares with net income of $3,912,160, equal to $1.03 a share, for the same period of 1949.

The physical volume of pe­troleum sold in the first quarter of this year was 6 percent above sales in the correspond­ing quarter a year ago. This increase was due in large part to substantially higher sales of kerosine, heating oil and heavy fuel oil in late February and March as a result of colder weather and the coal strike. Sales of Sohio brand motor gas­oline were about 5 per cent above the first quarter of the previous year.

W. T. Holliday, chairman of the board, and C. T. Foster, president, said that despite such increase in sales volume the earnings were reduced as a result of the lower prices received for most principal products and the fact that most costs and expenses were either unchanged or higher than last year.

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Build Mat for Cat Cracker Revamp At No. 1 Refinery

Pour 1000 Yards of Cement in One Day

(See Photo on Page 8)

On May 17, designated "C" Day by the men involved, Sohio concluded a major step in the modernization of its cat-cracking facilities at No. 1 Refinery. The "C" stands for cement, 1000 cu­bic yards or 420,000 pounds of it, which was successfully poured without mishap to form a gi­gantic: concrete and steel mat for the new thermofor catalytic cracking unit under construction since March 9 at this refinery.

The main foundation for this cat-cracking unit is approxi­mately 70 feet wide by 81 feet long by 5 feet thick, and lies atop a similar mat of old con-

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No Holiday Without Alka Seltzer Bottles

By HELEN DRUSHAL

It takes seven Alka Seltzer bottles to have a first-rate vacation.

That's the amazing opinion of Joe Drozdowski, manager at Mansfield Divi­sion's Cleveland and Church sta­tion in Amherst. But don't get Joe wrong! What he means is you have to fill seven Alka

Seltzer bottles with quarters be­fore you'll have enough money to have fun.

 

Two Quarter Century Clubs Elect Officers

New officers have been elected to head the Sohio Quarter Cen­tury Club units at Akron and Cleveland Divisions.

Linehan Akron Chairman

Cleon R. Linehan was named chairman of the Akron club. He will be assisted by William Wolfe, vice chairman; Curtis Turner, secretary; and Orval E. Stevens, treasurer.

Aish Heads Cleveland Club

Quarter Century Club mem­bers at Cleveland Division elected Russell Aish, chairman; Arthur Xavier, vice chairman; and Stephen Dulka, secretary-treasurer. Roy Packard heads the group's Sick Committee, which includes Howard Joiner, Warner Jackson, and Glen Svatos.