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JANUARY The Chameleon is a magazine for employees of The Sherwin-Williams Co. Published at Cleveland Headquarters, once a month, since January, 1898 Volume Twenty-one Number One K. B. Mickey, Editor Address: Editor of Chameleon, 601 Canal Roai, Cleveland, Ohio 1920 Those New Year Resolutions NOTHER New Year has rolled Try the impossible! You'll fail, of course. A around, bringing with it--what? Another crop of new aspirations But you'll accomplish more than if you had tried the mere possible. Often, too, you'll never to be attained, of gccd resolutionsfind the impossible wasn't impossible. A soon to be broken and thrown onto the handful of American marines attempted the moral scrap heap we all maintain ? impossible when they set out to check the Where are the good resolutions of last New Year, the vows we so confidently made to ourselves? Looking back, we see most of those brave resolutions lying broken along the road we traveled from last year to this. advance of the victorious German host until the retreating French Army could be reorganized. So far as they knew, or the world knew, their resolve was impossible of attainment. But they tried. And they not only accomplished the impossible, but exceeded it. They not only checked the And we know that year after year it has been the same old story--the same old determination on January the first--to live our lives better than before and the same old weakening, the same inability to achieve German advance, but started an advance of their own that ended in the complete over throw of the malignant power that for four years had threatened civilization with destruction. our resolutions against inertia and the force Anyhow, the good of resolutions doesn't of untoward circumstances. lie in the mere keeping of them--it's the Some of us ask: "What's the use?" We are discouraged. We say the only resolu tion we made this year was never again to make a New Year resolution. trying that's good. Better to fail with a big resolution than to succeed with a little one, so far as character and accomplishment are concerned. And so, let us this year set ourselves Wrong! All wrong!! The only New Year impossible tasks. Let us resolve to sell an resolutions worth recording are the very ones we can't keep. It's the unattainable impossible amount of goods. Let us go after the impossible prospects. In whatever aspirations that lead to greatest achieve department we may be employed, let us ment. To accomplish something that you strive for perfection. Doubtless we won't knew before was within your power brings only an easy complacency at best. The attain it, but we will surprise ourselves at how close we came to it. Let us set our history of America begins with the story selves the highest standards of Quality and of apparent failure. Christopher Columbus Service in order that the Sherwin-Williams set out to find a new route to India. He Family may do bigger and better things failed. But he discovered a new continent. this year than ever before. i Page 14 THE CHAMELEON January, 192i Addition to Zinc Oxide Plant In line with our plans "to increase our facilities to enable us to take full advant age of the present favorable opportuni ties for large expansion," extensive additions are now under way at our Zinc Oxide Plant at Coffeyville, Kansas. New Ore Crushing Building Awaiting Installation of Machinery A new ore crusher building is now ready and waiting for the installation of gyratory ore crushing machinery. The ore as it comes from the mines is unloaded direct from the car into a large breaker. After the preliminary crush ing in the breaker it passes through rolls which crush it still finer, then is screened through two screens and finally comes out in small particles, none being larger than five-sixteenths of an inch. The foundation is completed for a new Cappeau Kiln. All sulphide ores are roasted in a kiln of this kind before burning, as all sulphide ores contain from 15 to 30 per cent sulphur, which would discolor the pigment produced unless subjected to this process. Another change is the tearing out of old and erection of a new block "B" pipe line. This pipe line leads from the furnace and after making a large semi circle, enters the bag room. The pig ment fumes after leaving the furnace are drawn through this pipe line by a large electric fan. It is necessary for the pig ment fumes to take this semi-circular course in order to cool off before enter ing the muslin bags in the bag-room. The fumes are then forced into the bags by another electric fan. The pressure forces the gases through the bags, while the solid particles (leaded zinc oxide) drop down into hoppers from which they are taken out every day. Texas By R. N. Bellow The fact that Texas was an indepen dent Republic from 1836 until 1845 accounts for its name--the Lone Star State, and until very recent years Texas maintained an individuality and an independence among the United States that was entirely different from any other state in the union. "Dean of the District," E. S. Donnelly. Since the original discovery, our Texas organization has grown until today we have more than 120 loyal, happy, con tented, hard-working members, with 20 territories, 6 retail stores--Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Waco and Wichita Falls, and two wholesale Texas is by far the largest state in the union, having an area of 265,780 miles, the length from East to West being 825 miles and the breadth North and South 740 miles. Its area is larger warehouses--Dallas and Houston. The Dallas warehouse is conceded to be the most attractive and conveniently ar ranged warehouse in the entire S-W organization. than the combined area of the Atlantic Coast states from Maine to Virginia inclusive and nearly one-third greater than that of the entire German Empire. The Texas people are fine people to know and live with and do business with. There is none of the selfishness, exclu siveness and coldness often found in The population is just a little over ' some of the older sections of our country. four million, consequently there is a If you want to be in a place where you vast area yet to be settled and developed. can live and let live, come to Texas. The state is divided into two great sections, the eastern half being an agri cultural, lumber and mining country, the western half consisting of prairie Sales Manager of St. Louis Division lands, being a cattle-raising country and at the present time an oil-producing country. Being primarily an agricultural coun try and a cattle-raising country, business conditions naturally depend largely on the weather and the Texas pioneers will tell you that "no one ever predicts the weather in Texas unless he be a stranger or a fool." There are many place in Texas where there is no rainfall for as long as three years at a time. This is the cause of the bit of philosophy which tells us that Texas can promise more and do less and promise less and do more than any state in the Union. Within the past generation the atti tude of Texas business men has changed entirely. Where they formerly dis couraged development with outside capi tal and manufacturers and passed laws which enabled them to do this, the general attitude is now one of welcome to every individual or corporation who wishes to do business in the State. This change in attitude accounts for the wonderful development of such cities as San Antonio, Houston, Galveston. El Paso, Waco, Ft. Worth, Amarillo, Dallas and Wichita Falls. Mr. J. D. Jones has been appointed . Trade Sales Manager of the St. Louis Division. All who are acquainted with Mr. Jones' record during the fourteen years he has been associated with the company, agree that his appoint me n t is merited. He has had valu able e xpe ri ence in the Trade Sales Department as chief clerk. His road ex perience has been extensive and thorough. His past fifteen months' work as Manager of our Credit Department of the Mississippi Valley District has been able and satisfactory in every way. He has been a consistent and conscien tious worker day in and day out in every position he has held; dependability and loyalty have been the distineni-hing features of his service. Dallas is conceded to be the metropolis of the State and has a motto--"The City Where Men are Looking Forward." An article in a recent issue of Collier's Weekly contained this statement: "Dal las from its three-quarter million dollar concrete viaduct presents the most imposing skyline of any city save New S-W Man Guards Property During the critical times ot tb coal strike the first platoon to Company D, Seventh Regiment, was stationed at Minden, Missouri, to guard the Sherwin and Liberal mines. York." Mr. Kenneth Thomas, of the Kansas Readers of The Chameleon learned City Promoting Department, is a mem from a recent issue that The Sherwin- ber of this regiment and did splendid Williams Company "discovered Texas" work in helping to protect property SUP 052143