slm9q@cc.usu.edu (Kenneth Dean Hunsaker) (04/14/91)
Since this has been going around I decided to look up Procter & Gamble in the Dictionary of Trademarks (An interesting book you can find in the reference section of most major libraries). I include it here with the hope that such nonsense and false accusations will cease, at least by those who profess to be followers of Christ. =================================================================== The Procter & Gamble crescent moon symbol grew out of crude star mark used to identify the company's Star brand candles in shipping. Soon after its founding in 1837, the company began shipping its soap and candles downriver from Cincinnati to New Orleans and other cities along the Mississippi. A wharf hand is said to have drawn the first star on a wooden crate of the candles in 1851, but it is possible that Procter & Gamble was using a more finished trademark by then. When the company registered the moon- and-stars design under the new trademark law in 1872, it claimed to have been using the mark for twenty-one years. From the 1870s through the early years of this century the moon-and-stars design appeared as a prominent feature on Procter & Gamble packages, but it gradually shrank in importance. By the 1960s it was a tiny device printed near the list of ingredients on packages of such products as Head & Shoulders, Tide, Joy, and Hires root beer. Then in 1982 the design became the focus of a bizarre rumor that the company was involved in devil worship. Because an artist had chosen a field of thirteen stars as a patriotic gesture more than a century ago, one of the country's oldest trademarks was suddenly singled out as a satanic symbol. After three years of battling the false stories without finding a way to silence them for good, the company decided in 1985 to drop the mark from its products. =================================================================== Kenneth Dean Hunsaker slm9q@cc.usu.edu P.S. Perhaps the following is not appropriate for this newsgroup if so it can easily be stripped off by the moderator. I have included a couple of samples of Proctor & Gamble Logos. One from 1872 and the other from 1930. They are in a GIF image file that has been uuencoded. To view it you will need UUDECODE and a GIF file viewer. 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