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Old Slater Mill
PAWTUCKET, R.I.
EST. 1790

THE SLATER NEWS
Vol. 3 Slater, S. C., December 13, 1945 No. 25

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Slater Mill
SLATER, SO. CAROLINA
1943

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Christmas Play
To Be Presented
December 20th

The annual Christmas play
will be presented at Slater Hall
on Thursday night, December
20, at 8:00 o'clock P. M. The
play is entitled "The White
Christmas" and is by Walter
Ben Hare.

Rehearsals are now under-
way and the actors are busily
learning the parts and char-
acters they are to portray.

Those taking part in the pro-
duction are: Mary, Elizabeth
Ballenger; Joseph, Hines S.
Richardson, Jr.; Simeon, R. P.
Canham; Timothy, Raymond
Johnson; Isaac, C. C. Compton;
Anna, Faye Dean; Thomas,
Jesse White, Jr.; Ruth, Sarah
Jo Johnson; Deborah, Ruby
McGill; Rachel, Betty McMul-
lan; Priscilla, Ophelia Riley;
Melchoir, Claude Guest; Gas-
par, C. G. Hyer, Baltasar, E. A.
McGill; and Prologue, Eliza-
beth Ammons.

Music will be furnished by
Mrs. Mary Ledford, Mrs.
Frank White, Miss Janie Mc-
Cluney, Mrs. Jessie Mae Smith,
Mrs. Eithel Gosnell, Mrs. Roy
Whitemire, Miss Ruth Talor,
and Mrs. W. W. Stephenson.
Mrs. Frank A. Cook will be the
pianist. A group of young
ladies will be chosen to play
the part of angels and their
names will be announced later.

This play will portray the
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Philadelphia Ordinance District
Thanks Slaterites For War Work

ARMY SERVICE FORCES
Philadelphia Ordinance District
Philadelphia, Pa.

27 November 1945

S. Slater & Sons, Inc.
Slater, South Carolina

Gentlemen:

It is fitting, I think, that the Philadelphia Ordinance Dis-
trict organization should at this time express to you officially
its appreciation of the contribution made by you and your loyal
workers to the war effort.

Recalling the manner and the spirit in which you met dif-
ficult production schedules, and how well you brought that pro-
duction to the required quality, often in the face of critical
shortages of material, equipment or manpower, we think you
have a good reason to be proud as we have to be grateful.

The industry-Ordinance team came a long way together.
It had a tough, discouraging beginning; but once underway,
nothing could have stopped it—and nothing did. Unified attack
upon the most heart-breaking production assignment in all his-
tory could have had no other result, a result in which yours was
no small part.

It is the sincere hope of all of us here in the Philadelphia
Ordinance District that your war experience will have been fruit-
ful of many permanent values. It is hoped, too, since Ordinance
always is an industry problem, that we may count upon your
continued interest.

In congratulating you upon a job well done, we wish to ex-
tend to your people our sincere thanks for all they did. They
were splendid.

Very sincerely yours,
(Sgd) A. D. Kelse
Colonel, Ord. Dept.
District Chief

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Homeless and Destitute of World
Must Depend On Your Old Clothes

By Christmas approximately
25,000,000 children, men and
women in the liberated coun-
ries overseas will have receiv-
ed clothing donated by the
American people in the United
National Clothing Collection of
last spring. But 25,000,000 is
only a small percentage of the
destitute, homeless and looted
people of Europe, the Philip-
pines and the Far East.

Devastation and want in
those lands are so vast a
scale as to be almost beyond
our comprehension. Millions
there are even now inadequate-
ly clad for winter weather, for
health and for self-respect. It
is estimated that in China alone
200,000,000 people need cloth-
ing.

Among these threadbare mil-
lions, there are people of every
age and from every walk of
life — new-born babes, school
boys and girls, aged farm
couples, the village choir mas-
ter, the woman who went out
sewing, office clerks, doctors,
teachers, young mothers, sick
and fear-haunted ex-prisoners
of war, the nearly hopeless
wrecks of slave labor camps,
and even newly elected big city
officials. Most of them live and
work in unheated rooms, for
fuel, too, is still acutely scarce.

In the bomb-gutted, ruin-
strewn lands, peace alone
could not bring to an end the

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war-created shortages in raw
material, yard goods, clothing,
shoes and bedding. The ship-
ments of clothing that Ameri-
cans donated were not nearly
enough to go around. Yet as
these war-suffers try to rebuild
their factories and their lives,
they need clothes for courage,
protection and survival.

These peole are not asking
you to give them Utopia, but
only serviceable thing like
your old coat — the one with
the frayed edges but a warm
lining, or the baby blankets so
long stored away. Without the
help of these people you and
I will never get even an ap-
proximation of Utopia. With-
out their help, there will be no
peace for our children.

The clothes which were
hanging useless in American
homes last year and which
were gathered together in the
nation-wide clothing collection
and shipped overseas by
United Nations Relief & Re-
habilitation Administration
have made the difference be-
tween a hoped-for Happy New
Year and no new year at all
for many hundreds of thous-
ands of our fellow men over-
seas. . . A coat and a pair of
shoes — the difference be-
tween despair and renewed
faith. . . a baby's blanket —
the difference between a
Christmas to celebrate and an

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empty house.

Here are some letters these
people have written to YOU.

"We are very happy to have
received your gift of clothing
and we thank you very much,
as we have been berefit of all
our linen, furniture and other
belongings. This is not gay at
our ages — 6e and 69 — after
working all our lives."

"My husband and I are deep-
ly touched by the kindness
shown by our American friends
who have felt pity for our suf-
ferings and have wanted to
soften them by relieving our
distress. It is with a heart very
moved that we address our
thanks to the generous and de-
voted donors. We shall pre-
serve forever a great and eter-
nal gratitutde."

"We are five teachers be-
longing to the same family and
were totally bombed out. Not
a single thing were we able to
save. I cannot possibly express
to you the joy and hapiness
that the sight of your clothes
brought to the whole family.
It is great and noble to give
aid in this way to those who
have lost it all, and to do it so
generously."

These "thank-you" letters
are from a town in France.
Can you read them without a
lump coming to your throat?

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LOCAL SCHOOL ENDS
RED CROSS DRIVE

The Slater-Marietta School
has recently closed its drive
for contibutions to the Ameri-
can Junior Red Cross. A total
of $40.40 was raised and has
been forwarded to county
headquarters in Greenville.

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NOTICE

Please be sure that we
have your correct with-
holding tax status before
January 1, 1946. After
that date there will be no
changes made until July
1, 1946 except in the case
of the birth of a child or
an adoption of another de-
pendent. If we now have
your correct status, you
need not do anything, but
keep in mind that what
we have on January 1,
1946 will be effective for
six months.

Persons desiring to
change their withholding
tax status may do so by
calling at the Payroll De-
partment before January
1, 1946.

Slater Manufacturing Co.,
Inc.
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Ebenezer Lodge Installs Officers
At Ceremonies On Saturday Night

The newly elected officers of
Ebenezer Lodge No. 101, A. F.
M. will be installed at a cere-
money to be held at the Lodge
Hall on Saturday night, De-
cember 15, at 7:30 P. M.

As was the case last year, the
installation of officers will be
a public ceremony to which
Masons, their wives and cer-
tain uninvited guests will be
asked to attend. Final plans
for this ceremony will not
be announced; however, it is
likely that representatives of
the Grand Lodge of S. C. will
be present to assist in install-
ing new officers.

At the conclusion of the in-
stallation ceremonies, a dinner
will be served by the Masons and
their guests by the ladies of the Order
of the Eastern Star. This din-
ner is an annual affiair and is
looked forward to with a great
deal of expectancy by the mem-
bers of the local lodge.

Election of officers to serve
during the next year were
elected at the regular communi-
cation of the Lodge held on
December 3 at the Lodge Hall.
Those elected and appointed to
serve are as follows: Worship-
ful Master, M. L. Jarrard;

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Senior Warden, J. C. Lindsey;
Junior Warden, F. K. Epps;
Treasurer, A. B. McMakin;
Secretary, Robert H. Atkinson;
Senior Deacon, T. R. Adding-
ton; Junior Deacon, Frank E.
Grant; Chaplain, Clyde M.
Johnson; and Tiler, W. H.
Dunn. The two Stewards will
be appointed later, but in time
to be installed on installation
night.

Retiring officers who have
served the Lodge during the
year now drawing to a close
are: Worshipful Master, T. E.
Waldrop; Senior Warden, M.
L. Jarrard; Junior Warden, J.
C. Lindsey; Treasurer, A. B.
McMakin; Secretary, John L.
Reaves; Senior Deacon, F. K.
Epps; Junior Deacon, Folger
Burgess; Senior Steward,
Robert L. Sartain; Junior
Steward, Hines S. Richardson;
Chaplain, L. B. Vaughn; and
Tiler, W. H. Dunn.

Under the leadership of the
retiring officers, the Lodge has
enjoyed one of its most pros-
perous and successful years,
and members feel that the
Lodge will enjoy another such
year under the administration
of the officers elected.

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New Fence To Be
Great Help For
All Employees

The Slater Manufacturing
Co., Inc. is erecting a new
fence to enclose the parking
yard in front of the mill. The
old fence will remain the
same, and to enclose the park-
ing lot it was necessary to
erect a new fence on the in-
ner side of the lot.

This fence begins at the old
fence near the railroad tracks
and runs toward the mill to the
corner of the parking lot,
where it turns at right angles
and runs again to the fence
just behind the Employment
Office.

A new gate has been erected
at the end of the walkway com-
ing from the front door of the
mill. It is a double gate and
will not interrupt the flow of
persons going to and coming
from work at shift changing
time.

To connect the parking lot
with the outside, a new walk-
way has been built alongside
the new fence. This walkway
ends at a new single gate.
which has been erected just to
the rear of the Employment
Office.

In a few days, concrete
steps will be built at this gate
to connect the new walkway
with the street.

According to J. A. White,

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