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I venture to give you a slogan-the littley,ord "utmost." ... It might also be spelled:'Stalingrad." ••• The officers and men ofthe armed forces are required to give their.,tmost on all occasions and especially in~ar. This nation of ours has the right andJ,xpects the utmost from. its citi%ens--andyou know and I know that the utmost willbe given by all.

A Statement byREAR ADMIRAL C. W. FISHER, U. S. N.

Director of the Shore EstablishmentsDivision

Big Town'WASHINCTO~, D. c., Feb. 12

Rumors That Fly.: OWl has analyzed more than

4.50({ rumors which have come tothe attention of various Federalagencies during the past 11 months.

The rumors analyzed by OWlfall into five general classes:

By far the greatest number maybe called "hate rumors"; they ex-press prejudice, animosity, or hos-tility for groups other than theenemy.

The second group may be classi-fied as "anxiety rumors." They re-flect uneasiness or fear and com-monly take the form of unfoundedreports of Allied disaster or weak-ness, or of overwhelming enemystrength.

A third group, classifiable as"escape rumors" reflect, in themain, wishful thinking about theprogress and duration of the war.

A few can be classified only as"supernatural rumors"; these con-tain fantastic prophecies of disasteror impending miracles.

Finally, there are a substantialnumber of "curiosity rum a r s",which contain amusing or novel tid-bits or supposed "news".

A comparison of specific ru-mors with specific enemy propa-ganda appeals since Pearl Harborhas shown a relatively low relationbetween the two. But there can belittle doubt that enemy sympathiz-ers and enemy agents in the UnitedStates are engaged in planting andencouraging the circulation of ru-mors which aid the enemy's propa-ganda objectives. Of these, the mostimportant are "hate-rumors".

A list of the groups againstwhi~h most current "hate-rumors"are directed are, in alphabetical or-der:

Army administration, business,Catholics, defense workers, draftboards, English, farmers, Jews. labor,Negroes, profiteers, rat ion i n gboards, Red era s s (blood-donorservice), Russia, and unions.

Citisens Can Help Suppress RumorsSome rumors sprlng up from

situations in which certain facts,though known to many persons,cannot be published. OWl is in pos-session of ample evidence that theenemy, or his agents, often does notknow about a given war port or warplant; the repetition of facts or ru-mors, in such circumstances, oftenmakes it easier for the enemy tofind out what he did not know, orsimply suspected.

There are several simple ruleswhich each American can observe:

1. Never repeat a rumor.2. Do not repeat aj rumor ver-

bally even to deny it.3. If you k now the facts

which can spike a rumor, cite thefacts promptly.

4. If you do not know the factswhich can stop a rumor, ask the ru-mor-teller where he got his facts.

5. Don't give a rumor the bene-fit of a second thought.

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"UTMOST" _ 2Rear Admiral Charles W. Fisher puts emphasis on thelittle word "utmost." This great naval leader tellsus, straight from the shoulder and in few words, whatthe war score is.CAMERA HUNT'INC 4We let Bob Nesmith loose on the "sheets" at one of theButte mines and he came back with this informalrecord of the boys waiting to go underground. Seehow many of them you ca~ recognize.INSIDE DOPE _ _ .5In our last issue, we showed you how the boys fromthe Mining Engineering Department do their outsidework-in this issue we give you the inside dope orthe picture story of the fellows who carryon withthis important phase of mining.

PEOPLE AND PLACES 8We got several nice comments on our informal newsdepartment two issues ago so we decided to take an-other shot at it. If you like it, we'll keep it up. Aneditorial called "George and Abe" also appears onthis page ..OLD TIMER 9We have a soft spot for all the old timers and a par-ticularly soft one for Henry Porter of the PrecipitatingPlant. We think you will feel the same way afteryou read this little story about him.

POUR IT OUT 10When they've finally got the zinc in shape, they pourit out. This is one in a series of articles we have beenrunning on the zinc operation at Great Falls. Comealong and see the zinc reach its final stage in theRefinery.

SOURCES OF SUPPLY _ 12The boys from the crafts in Butte, Anaconda and GreatFalls do a whale of a job in keeping things runningsmoothly. Here's a picture account of another opera-tion at the Foundry at Anaconda and we'll have morecrafts operations to show you soon.

COPPER COMMANDO is the official news ..paper of the Victory Labor - Management!Production Committees of the Anaconda Cop"per Mining Company at Butte, Anaconda'and Creat Falls, Montana. It is issued everY]. two weeks •••• COPPER COMMANDO isheaded by a joint committee fro.,.. Labor andManagement; its policies are shaped by botltsides and are dictated by neither .•. COPPER;COMMANDO was established at the reeom«mendation of the War Department with theconcurrence of the War Production Board' ..Its editor is Bob Newcomb; its' assod~ieeditor is Marg Sammons; its safety editor isJohn L. Bo;udman; its chief photographer isBob Nesmith; its staff photographer is LesBishop ..•• Its Editorial Board consists of:Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F. Bird, AFL:.Ed Renouard, ACM, from Butte; Dan, Byrne ..CIO; Joe Marick, AFL; C. A. Lemmon, ACM ..from Anaconda; Jack Clark, C 10; Herb Don~aldson. AFL, and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from'Great Falls .••• COPPER COMMANDO ismailed to the home of every employe of ACM,in the three locations-if you are not receiv ..ing your copy advise COPPER COMMANDO,at 112 Hamilton Street, Butte, or, better stnn,drop in and tell us. This is Volume 1, No. 13~

Our front cover this m.onth is a shot of Fred Schmookand Phil Larsen "setting up" for the round.

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IN the last issue we went undergroundwith the boys from the Mining Engineer-ing Department and got the notes andmaps. all of which are brought into theoffice to be transferred to the permanentrecords. There must have been a lot of un-derground notes brought in the morningour roving photographer. Bob Nesmith.got the upper right shot of the west wi~gof the office. judging from toe concen-tration shown in the picture. Because theoffice maps must be a permanent record.they are on a heavier paper so it is 'neces-sary for Claude Yerkes in the center rightpicture to post over a light well (a lightunder a glass top table). This helps himtransfer the advances in the mine work-ings from the office maps to the minemaps. They say that if the maps in theDepartment were spread out. they wouldcover an area of more than four acres. Inthe lower right shot. Fred Strandberg islooking over one of the many maps. In.the same picture William D. Mclaughlinis working on a mine stope book. A stopebook contains copies of the mine floorplans at each eight-foot elevation--calledstope floors. Charles McMullen is oper-ating the blue printing machine to makea black and white print in the lower leftpicture. Since it is necessary to add notesto the prints. white' paper is used and itmakes the prints a lot easier to read.

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REMEMBER that the cal-cuQations are made as soonafter the survey as pos-si~le. Here Victor Martin,~rne Mattila and JohnVan Cleve are checkingsome of the calculationswhich have been made.

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WHEN it is necessary to re-duce one scale to another foraccuracy's sake a pantographis used as shown in the pic-ture opposite with CeorgeHolloway, draftsman, the op-erator. A pantograph simpli-fies the work of the mapmaker.

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FRED ANNALA and Henry Johnsonwere HSY indexittg ledgers the dayw. visited the Mining Enginee'ringD...-nment. Th,is is work resultingfNIII the underground surveys alldit', mighty important work. too.Acroa the table, Toby WorcesterWAI checking a 'stope book.

THERE are the equivalentof 15,000 three by four-foot maps in ~e office.They' contain the surveysof levels and stope floorson a scale of fifty feet tothe inch. That's EvanCustafson pulling one ofthese maps from the file.

JIM HOLBERT, left, andBob Corbett, right, areplatting stopes in the pic ..ture opposite. In other.words, they are trans ..ferrin'g the field noteswhich have been broughtin to the permanent ree-ords of the Department.

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SURVEYS which have beenmade underground are beingplatted by Clifford Clifton inthe picture to the left. To theright Clint Peck is puttingaway one of the many stopebooks at the close of the day'swork. All theee importantrecords are kept in steel, fire-pt:oof cases.

George and AbeON Friday of this week we celebrate thebirthday of Abraham Lincoln. Beforewe will be able to get around to anotherissue the birthday of George Washingtonwill have passed. So we figured we wouldpay a tribute to both these men at thesame time, and we hope you don't mind.

There has been a t r e me n d 0 u samount of hero worship of both' GeorgeWashington and Abraham Lincoln, and it'is right that this should be so. But. inregarding these two great men 'of historyas gods, we are apt to overlook the naturalqualities that both had which made themhuman and made them great. As a mat-ter of fact, if we could pull them downoff the pedestals on which the histories ofcur country have placed them, we prob-ably would not only respect them morebut like them better.

. They both walked in on the nationalscene in a time of crisis. and each putaside his own personal interests, what-ever they might have been, to help thecountry and the country's people. Theywere both willing to sacrifice to the limitto, protect the principle of a true democ-racy. Both of them were told, atdifferentfimes in their lives. that what they weretrying to do simply couldn't be done. Eachone of them was counselled that it waseasier to give in than to go on. Both of'rhem took it the hard way and becauserhev did, we have a country to share to-day, If either of them had backed up,we probably would have nothing.

Personally, we don't go for the beau-tiful lesson represented by Washingtonand the cherry tree. We think this typeof talk puts him up on a pedestal, when,if he had anything to say about it himself,he would like to be down on the levelwith his people. History has kept tellingus for years and 'years that Lincoln felt,not like somebody on a throne, but like'somebody in an easy chair sitting backwith his feet on the table talking to you 4

and me. If we want to think of eitherof them, and let's do a lot of thinkingabout them in the days to come, let'sthink of them not as gods but as regular'guys. That's what both of them were.Because they were regular guys, we re-member them now. If they hadn't been.they would have been long since forgot-ten.

People (,-' PlacesSOME' of the boys from Butte turnedout a few evenings ago for a Labor-Man-agement Committee broadcast over sra-.tion KGIR at Butte. The program washeld on the forum conducted by John K.Claxton and the forum was composed ofDenis McCarthy of the Miners' Union,John F. Bird of the Crafts and Bill Mc-Mahon of the A. C. M. Company. Billsat in for Ed Renouard and the three boysdid themselves proud.

The principles of Labor-Manage-ment Committees (which now numbermore than 2,000 throughout the UnitedStates) are not always clearly understoodby people in the community, and we gotthe impression that the whole theory oflabor and management pulling togetherin a time of war is better understood nowthan it was before.

Hail Herb!YOU can't mention a Labor-ManagementCommittee in these parts without think-ing of Herbert Heasley, labor consultantof the War Production Board, who is re-sponsible for the establ ishment of theLabor-Management Committees in thisterritory. Herb dropped in to Butte fora couple of days and attended the Labor-Management Committee broadcast wejust talked about .

. HERB HEASLEY

Herb is a welcome guy in this terri-tory. His driving purpose is to get man-agement and labor thinking alike and.working alike to win the war. He has the •ability to see both sides of troublesomequestions and to arrive at sensible con-clusions' about them. He came up thehard way from Texas and is proud of it,and he brings a sense of balance to indus-tries engaged in war production that

~should help win the war sooner ... All ofus who know Herb like him and are proudof the' job he does.

Ladies' DaySOME of the boys in the three localitieshave been complaining about our failureto publish pictures of women': Just aswe were in the middle of looking aroundfor something really attractive to show,we came across Phyllis 'Rutherford. the

PHYLLIS RUTHERFORD

first gal to work.in the Drafting Depart-ment at Great Falls, and we got a photo-graph of her. Phyllis lived for some timein Anaconda before she moved to CreatFalls. She has always liked art work andthe job she's got now tickles her. Wedropped in on Phyll is in "the DraftingDepartment-she operates a blue print·machine and is practicing trad;g from apencil drawing to tracing cloth so that,the prints may be more permanent.Phyllis hails from a family of two brothersand three sisters, so she had no troublein fitting in with the gang, all of whom _think she is pretty swell. Her boy friendis in the Army; he used to work in theZinc Plant at Great Falls so Phyllis sortof feels she is carrying on his work bytaking a job in the Reduction Works.

Phyllis likes all kinds of sports.Whether it is skating, swimming, basket-ball or golf-she's right there among theleaders and that goes for ballroom danc-ing too. Being such an all-around goodsport probably is one of the reasons shewas so popular in high school and thatpopularity has carried right over to theoffice.

We kind of like the idea of gettingaround and interviewing gals, so if youhave any suggestions let us have them.

HENRY PORTER

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Maybe we're wrong" but we'll bet a dice Jdoughnut that Henry Porter is the old-

est old timer in Butte. He is fond ofpeople and horses and dogs, and still re-

members practi~ally everyC?ne he's met.

Just meet him and he'li remember you.

THREE old cronies, John Mance, Henry Porter andMike McEnany, talk things over at 'lunch time

WE believe that Henry Porter is theoldest old timer in Butte. Now if (youdon't believe this, you'll have to go out tothe High Ore Precipitating Plant and'argue it out with Henry, We'll make abet that he'll convince you.

Two of Henry's uncles. Henry H"for whom hewas named. and Thomas C.Porter, came along with eight other menand bui It a log cabin in 1864 catty-corneracross from the Hennessy Building of to-day, They were the first settlers in thepresent city of Butte. and were the menwho started the first mine and smelter inButte, Letters fro~ them to their brotherHenry's father. influenced him to -com~on to Butte with' his family, Henry wC!sborn in Butte.

At a school (where the public libraryis today) Henry enrolled for the firstgrade. As a boy. he sold papers on thestreets and knew by name practicallyeveryone in Butte. and that can almostbe said of him today. He never forgetsa friend or a face, and knows all the oldtimers well. Last year in Meaderville hesaw a man 'with whom he had playedfootball in high school and hadn't seensince. but he recognized him right awayand a reunion was held on the spot. Downat the Fair in Hamilton two years ago, hespotted a couple of fellows with whomhe had played baseball in the old RavalliCounty league. Henry had been quite abaseball' player and played for a goodmany years in the league and his twofriends were pleased as punch to have achance to reminisce.

Always interested in sports of allkinds. he was on the high school footballteam for three years in the late 1890'sHe says: "That's when I quit smokin~'cigarettes. A coach came out here fromMichigan" andwhen I was winded fromrunning, he said the only way I could stayon the ~eam' was to quit smoking. So Iquit .right then for football meant a lot "more to me.'" A good many years later,however, .in trying to convince a friendthat he should quit cigarettes Henry

bought a pipe for his friend, and got onefor himself at the same time. Today agood smoke to him is either a pipe or acigar.

In 1894. Henry's folks bought aranch 'in Bitter Root Valley, Hamilton,Montana, and when his father's healthfailed, he went down to manage therancfi, He loved living on the ranch, forito him animals of all kinds are almosthuman. and on the ranch there were somevery fine, thoroughbred horses. (He saysthe horses and the baseball league 'wereprobably accountable for his staying onthe ranch as long as he did.l The ranchwas only about five mi les from MarcusDaly's and there was a lot of rivalry inthe Valley over horses, but always a keenappreciation for a thoroughbrea ..

In 1922 he came back to Butte tolive and worked in the mines for a time,but left the mines for the High Ore Cop-per Tank. When there was a chance tobe barn boss at the Leonard Stables-well, there wasn't a chance of his notaccepting. He was right at home there.There were thirty-four head of goodhorses, including a thoroughbred drivingteam and saddle horse. When this stablewas closed, Henry moved right over to thenew stable at. the Leonard. He still hascharge of the horses there and loves eachone, The horses are used to move the scrapiron to the flumes when it is brought inon the flat cars. Always to be seen withHenry at the High Ore is a big Shepherddog. Henry says: "He came here abouta year ago and I guess he must just haveadopted me for he's been following me. ..ever Since.

A kindlier man can't be found. Heloves his friends and we know he has agreat number of them. He says: "I'venever had trouble with any of the men.I've worked with all, of them-whether '.they're' Irish. English or whatever, I'veliked them all and don't believe I've any

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THE Zinc cathodes from the ZincElectrolyzing Plant are brought in on acar like the one in the upper left picture.The hoist picks up the cathodes-' =weigh-ing about a ton-and feeds them into thefurnace door, which is closed after thecathodes are dropped in. That's Joe Mc-Elroy and Charlie Klimas with their backsturned. They're cha[gillg the furnace'-,with the zinc cathodes. In the lower left. .,

picture Louis Knaup is operating the,charging crane. About 250 pounds ofthe molten zinc are .dipped out-of thefurnaces each time witj1 a big ladle likeyou see in the lower right shot. You can ~see, in the upper right picture on the ne><;~page, the counter' weight and long handlewhich helps the operator, Alvin Nash,control the dipper, That's Bob Smithskimming the poured zinc in the samepicture and in the one to the left. Skim-ming the poured zinc gives it a brightersurface and cleans off the film of oxideand ai r bubbles. The molds must cooland then they are dumped and stackedand picked up by the iron horse and trans-ported to the scales to be weighed. BillCosgriff, scalemaster, and Bill Treweek,weigher, 'are shown weighing the zinc forshipment in the lower left picture on thenext page, The scales are on the outsidebut the weights show on the scale beamwhich can be seen in the picture.

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IN the lower right picture you see Lee Akers, theoperator of the iron horse (that's what they callthe industrial truck there in the box car loadedwith the zinc slabs), John Fah, the checker, andFrank Palmer, the loader. They are ready to loadthe zinc into a box car for shipment all over theworld. The zinc is still warm when it's broughtin after having been weighed. It takes quite a .while for it to cool completely, for as we told you,when it comes from the furnaces, it's "hot stuff"

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Sour~esofSupplyThe scrap pile at Anaconda reallyturns into some wonderful things

A BIG pile of scrap iron like the one inthe upper left picture might appear to beJust so much junk, but out at the RepairFoundry of the Anaconda ReductionWorks it's vital junk. The scrap consistsof cast iron and steel and is used in theMolding Shop. There are between oneand one-half and one and three-quartersmillion pounds melted there each month,

To this scrap are added variousgrades of pig iron and after they aremelted together in the big cupola (that'sthe name of the furnace in which 'they'remelted) white iron, grey iron, semi-steeland alloy irons result. These irons areused for liner. castings, mill liners. ma-chinery castings and grinding balls.

After the scrap iron and pig iron are' --<'e

melted, the cupolas are tapped and themolten iron drains into ladles. Oscar'Johnson is tapping one of the cupolas forthe molten metal inthe lower left shot.You can see how the molten iron drainsfrom the furnace into the ladle. Theladle is then moved over to the molds andthe metal is poured into the various sandor permanent molds ..

That's August Vidro pouring fromthe ladle into the mold in the upper leftpicture on the next page. Harvey Moore,foreman, is looking on. Harvey's beenforeman for the last twenty-five years ...He has charge of the Brass and IronFoundry, so it's necessary for him to lookover a lot of jobs. In the upper right shotnext page, George Chabala is pouringHardinge Mill liners and in the lower leftPeter Curley, a molder apprentice. isproving that he's learning the trade. ""'There are all types of castings made inthe shop. They vary in weight from afew ounces to thirty thousand poundsand castings are made of every size anddescription.

After the molten metal sets andcools, it is shaken out of the mold andtaken to the chipping room. There therough edges are chipped off and it is' ~_.cleaned up. The castings which ~re tobe used in the rough are shipped directly:from the chipping room to the depart-ment which placed the order. Castingsrequiring machining are taken to the Ma- _chine Shop. Then they are moved on to •the department needing them and set upso 'p_roduc~ of the vital war materialswill not be stopped.

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You may not recognize Don Lucierin the lower right shot for he's wearing aface protector. .It's Don for sure and he'schipping or cleaning up a valve pot forone of the Butte mines. The valve potwas cast at the Foundry, shaken out ofthe mold and brought over to the chip-ping room. Don is chipping off the finnsI{that's what they call the ragged edgessuch as you see in the picture). Afterthey're all chipped off, this valve pot willbe sent to the Machine Shop for finalmachining. When it leaves the MachineShop for Butte it will be all set for instal-lation. There are molds of aU sizes anddescriptions brought into the chippingroom to be cleaned up and the boys do agood job of keepi ng the work on the moveso that no department is kept waiting fora part.

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H~RE'S a couple of shots at the Boiler Shop out at the RepairFoundry of the Anaconda Reduction Works. In the upperpicture Elm~rWestin is holding a hot rivet. Richard Lloyd, thehoHermaker, is ~perating the pne",matic riveter. Henry Hanson,who laid out the job is checking to see that it's being done as

planned. Eddie McNamee is holding the dolly. They're rivetingstiffener rails for the body of a Cranby type ore car used in theButte mines. That's BillSpaun wearing the shield to protect hiseyes and face in the lower picture. He's welding electrically anore skip for the BuHemines. It looks like he's doing a good job.

Books PleaseTHE USO, which has been doing a swelljob for the men in service, is issuing anappeal for books. We got i! straight f~omMr. Venable in Butte that the need isgreat and that the boys really appreciategood books, which are mighty scarce.

COPPER COMMANDO believes thatevery reader should get behind this driveto increase the pleasure of our boys'leisure hours and would like to cooperatewith this fine movement. We ask read-ers of COPPER COMMANDO and theirfriends to dig in and help this drive byleaving books for soldiers. We haven'ttaken it up yet but we know the boys atthe Mill and Smeltermen's Union at Ana-conda and Great Falls will not object toour suggesting that books be left there.COPPER COMMANDO will pick themup and deliver them to USO headquarters.Donations in Butte can be made at theCOPPER COMMANDO office in Butte,:112 Hamilton street. We'll pass thebooks along.

Don't leave your discards. If youdidn't enjoy them, the chances are goodfhat the boys will find them dull too.;This drive is not a move- to unload yourliterary junk; it is a drive to supply oursoldiers and sailors and marines with goodreading matter.

The major menaces on the highwayare drunken driving, uncontrolled thumb-ing and indiscriminate spooning. To putit briefly; hie, hike and hug.

The man from the city went to thestore at the Missouri crossroads andbought a couple of nightshirts. Whenhe had completed his purchase and leftthe store, a long, lanky backwoodsmanasked the merchant:

"What was them things that fellergot?"

"Nightshirts." replied the mer-chant. "How about selling you some?"

"Not me. I don't get around muchat night. ,.

Names on a hotel register:One of them: Pat Murphy-Irish,

and proud of it.The other: Jock McIntosh-Scotch,

and fond of it.

Teacher (pointing to deer at thezoo): What is that?

Johnny: I don't know.Teacher: What does your mother

call your. father?Johnny: Now don't tell me that's a

louse.

"Mother," cried little Mary. rush-ing into the farmhouse they were visiting."Johnny wants the Listerine. He's justcaught the cutest little black and whiteanimal, and he thinks it's got halitosis."

Ilnd in ODJ: Next IssueCILDINC METAL ... th'e new war produ·ction job at Creat Falls. Firsf. of a

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BIG BOOM! ... step up and have a look at the Butte Miners Union Drumand Bugle Corps.

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..~oun1'nfi(JIINew FacesWE had to squeeze out our news sectionin the last issue so we are a little behindschedule in sending our regards to TomMurray, formerly president .of the Milland Smeltermen's Union at Anacondaand CIO representative on our AnacondaEditorial Board. And the same goes forDan Byrne, who assumed both mantles atthe Smelter when Tom moved along asmember of the Executive Board of theInternational.

We wish Tom every success in theworld, and since we have already had sev..eral helpful conferences with Dan weknow that he will do a real job on theEditorial Board.

Bayard Morrow, who has given usmany a helping hand as.the Company rep-resentative .at the Smelter, has asked tobe relieved. We are pleased to announcethe appointment of Charlie Lemmon tothe Editorial Board. Charlie's previousco-operation' has been most appreciatedand we welcome the opportunity to workwith him.

Big StackTo us, the Smelter at Anaconda is

one of the most deceiving sights we'veever seen. By this we mean that the sizeof the place fools you. We got a hunchthat this was the case when we drove toAnaconda the first time. The fellow driv-ing the car pointed out the Stack andmentioned that it was over five milesaway; it looked to us as though we couldhit it with a stone from where we sat.Farther on down the road we looked atthe Smelter but got no impression at allof its great size. Actually, so far as wecan see, it takes a visitor to Anacondaseveral trips before he really begins tograsp how big it is. and some of you folksfrom Butte and Great .Falls who haven'tyet had the thrill of standing at the footof the Big Stack should make it a point,when conditions permit, to do that verything.

PasswordWe are always impressed with the

courtesy and efficiency of the men at thegates when we visit the Smelter and,judging from what we have seen, wouldsay that the pass system at the Smel tpJ'works mighty well.

No plant in war production. can riSKfor a minute having a saboteur get insidethe gates-many lives are at stake, and amajor phase of the war effort would bethreatened if some pal of Hitler's ~ot in-side.

The boys at the Smelter, workingunder Johnny Dillon, do a thoroughgoinginquiry of any newcomer, but these fel ..lows are always friendly and courteous,It makes a person coming to the Smelterfor the fi rst time feel pretty good andpretty safe as well.

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propeDer, Instruments, controls. etc. The produets ot our mines, smelter and retinery., in&41every sln,le one CIt th_ planes and many more ins'ruments 01 war besides.