$3.20 a Month

The president of Standard Oil (NJ.) couldn't believe his auditors. Could rich Standard actually have a full-time employe (identified only as "Minnie") who was paid only $3.20 a month? An investigation proved that this was indeed true.

Moreover, Minnie worked seven days a week, was on call 24 hours a day keeping the company's Bayonne, NJ. laboratory free of rats. And $3.20 a month was enough to buy salmon and milk for Minnie and her five kittens.

That was in 1937. The investigation made Minnie famous, but didn't turn her head. She stayed on the job (with the exception of a six-months' cruise to South America on a company tanker), trained many of her 100 offspring for ratting jobs in Bayonne homes and factories. Recently Minnie got a raise, a 37 1/2% boost to cover increased living costs.

Fortnight ago, as it must even to cats, death came to Minnie Esso in her 16th year, her 14th as an Esso employe. Her successor, named last week: Son Esso Junior, aged three months. First day on the job, Esso Junior proved that he could fill his mother's boots. He killed a large, fat rat.

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