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Service A Publication of Cities Service Company JULY, 1951 INVENTORY Cover Painting . . . . . . Harold Anderson "Family Outing"... with nothing left out PAD Goes to Work . . . Charles M. Wilson 2 Naturally, with high-octane performance It's on the Records Now . . . . . . . . . 4 Stirring music, by the Band of America The Bridegroom Special . . . . . . . . . 5 Operation Cupid...with 50,000 to cheer Project 51 . . . . . . Edwin H. Blanchard 6 What's wanted is a birth certificate Liberty in the Dark. . . . . Earl Harding 8 A story that waited 35 years to be told Steel and Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 With four pages of photographs in full color Target for Termites . . Benjamin F. Fairless 14 How to recognize - and defeat - our enemies Zoo's Who in a Service Station. . . . . . . 16 Any resemblance to persons living is strictly...in fun Oil for Tomorrow . . . . . . D.E. Smith 18 The big job can be done...if! Here's Elmer . . . . . . Virginia Warren 21 You've heard the question. Here's the answer "What's Buzzin' Cousin?" . . George Herbert 23 Competition invades in the wax works City Within a City . . . . . . . . . . 24 With six pages of pictures by Tony Linck Cities Service Activities in the News . . . . 30 Shop Talk After Hours . . . . . . . . . 31 Published by CITIES SERVICE COMPANY for its employees and customers. W. Alton Jones, President Merle Thorpe, Director of Business Development, Editor William H. Walsh, Managing Editor Notices and articles in regard to the activities of the Company may be considered authoritative. Views expressed by individual contributors do not necessarily reflect those of Cities Service. Copyright, 1951, by CITIES SERVICE COMPANY. For permission to reproduce any portion of the magazine, please apply to the Editor, 703 Ring Bldg., Washington 6, D.C. Printed in U.S.A. Independence Day - 1951 Style THINGS have been quiet in our neighborhood on recent July Fourths - no firecrackers, no bands, no noisemakers. Folks could sleep until noon if they wanted to. Eight generations of Americans have heeded John Adams, who wrote his wife a few hours after the Declaration of Independence, to say that July Fourth "ought to be solemnized with pomp and parades, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other." A nostalgic correspondent, writing to the daily paper, deplores this change in the celebration of Independence Day. He misses the exuberance of a noisy celebration. The fire, he says, seems to have gone out of our patriotism, along with the fire-cracker. He longs to hear orators make the Eagle scream, Patrick Henry choose between liberty and death, and the sober injunctions of Washington's Farewell Address. We feel for him. We've been homesick, too, for the old days. Things have changed, but we must remember that change is the immutable law. Biologists tell us death is necessary to life. Eternal adaptability, the price of survival, applies to nations as well as individuals. We are a changed America. The wide world is next door. Great oceans are hopped like running brooks. Our planes nest in foreign lands. Unpronounceable names fill our news columns. A quarter of a million American soldiers march under a strange banner - a flag which is only months old. We live in a changed world, indeed! Is it any wonder that we are at times confused and discouraged? John Adams, in the same letter to his wife, made another suggestion. He said that Independence Say "ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty." Perhaps it is just as well that the noise of other years is absent on this July Fourth. In this quieter atmosphere, we can give devotion, each in his own tongue. We can show our gratitude to the founders, and to the defenders of their ideals from Valley Forge to the Yalu River. We can rededicate ourselves to the task of preserving the dignity of the individual, of insisting upon the subservience of the State to that individual, of guaranteeing him the reward which is contribution to the national welfare merits. The American people are calling up their spiritual reserves. There is already enough evidence that they will celebrate the nation's birthday "through acts of devotion." A headline in The New York Times early in June reports: "A new trend in holiday travel. Record crowds at nation's monuments and shrines reveal an increased interest in the nation's history:" It has been said that the past of a nation can be read in its holidays. Who knows but that the future of this nation may be gauged by the manner in which it observes Independence Day this year? W. Alton Jones
