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Page Two THE SLATER NEWS October 10, 1946

The Slater News
Published Every Two Weeks
By
Slater Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Established 1790
In The Interest of Its Employees

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STAFF

ROBERT H. ATKINSON ________Editor
CECIL S. ROSS __________Asst. Editor
CLAUDE GUEST _______Photographer

REPORTERS

Weave Room: Ernestine McCall,
Nellie Barnette, Walker Reid,
Gladys Cox, Rosalee Cox, Sarah
Canham, Dovie Faust, Louis Bag-
well, Geneva Rampey, Leora Ward,
and Pearl Price.

Preparation Dept.: Jessie Vassey, Julia
Brown, Mary Wallace, Bertha
Jones, Sarah Singleton, Blanche
Raxter, Nellie Ruth Payne, Stanley
Hawkins, and Ruth Campbell.

Cloth Room: Opal W. Smith.

Community: Mrs. Raymond Johnson,
W. Earle Reid, Ruby P. Reid,
Doris F. Atkinson.

EDITORIALS

Turning Leaves

This is the month of turning
leaves. In forests and along
the boulevards of well-planned
American towns, trees change
their appearance and the world
changes from late summer to
Autumn.

As these changes take place,
man too changes and his world
becomes a smaller and smaller
circle. Now, London and New
York, Stalingrad and Atlantic
City are practically neighbors
—but not quite. At least not
yet.

It's true that planes will car-
ry passengers from one to an-
other at remarkable speeds and
that a day's travel around the
world may not be far off. But
the jump from American life to
Russian life is quite impossible
and though we share our
tongue with the English, we
are still the breadth of the At-
lantic from understanding
them.

Man has shortened the dis-
tance between countries and
with his atom bomb has short-
ened life expectancy consider-
ably. But the distance between
men's hearts is still immeasur-
able. Though we share the
radio waves, the secrets of our
hearts are still locked.

Until these secrets are shared
and explained, people to peo-
ple, atom bombs will remain
war materials and airplanes
will be considered with bomb
load, not passenger tonnage.

But if ever the seeds for
world understanding were ripe
for planting, now is the time.
From every corner of the
world, a great disgust for war
and its wastefulness arises.
People in Russia are as war-
weary as Americans. In Eng-
land, the repair job will take
years.

This is the time to use radio
for common discussions and air-
planes for travel and cultural

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interchange. If a jet plane can
cross the continent in six hours,
perhaps the hearts of men can
be brought one step closer by
peaceful use of machines in-

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tended for war. Perhaps if we
matched the season and turned
up a new leaf—perhaps—.

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SLATER
DAY BY DAY

Ideas for the Near Future:

A skating party, with con-
tests and figure skating and
prizes and a grand finale that
includes every skater who
takes part in the regular Thurs-
day night skating bee.—

A class in expression, carried
out in connection with the
school but open to anyone and
operated on a pupil-pay basis,
and high-lighted ever so often
by a recitation declamation
contest put on as a feature of
public entertainment. (Oh, how
our young people especially
need this.)—

And now that the war is over
and cloth is more plentiful,
how's about a fashion show
featuring garments made from
Slater manufactured cloth?—

A community Thanksgiving
program, similar to the com-
munity Christmas programs
that have been so popular for
the past two years, and fea-
turing our school glee club.—

Students night—to be held
either at Thanksgiving or dur-
ing the Christmas holidays
when all of the girls and boys
who are away at school shall
be home. And honoring, not
only the college students, but
the senior class that will be
graduating in the coming
spring.—

An amateur program, to give
our young people a chance to
find out how good they can do
certain things. (This could be
sponsored by the newly formed
16-30 club.)—

An old-fashioned spelling
bee, with none of the partici-
pants being under thirty-five.

Cloth Room Chatter

Mr. and Mrs. George Garland
visited Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Brown, of Route 1, Taylors, last
Sunday.

Everyone was glad to see
Pfe. Thurman Pace home on a
furlough recently. He has al-
ready returned to his camp in
Augusta, Ga. Our best wishes
go with Thurman wherever he
goes.

Misses Corrine Dunn and
Clara Talley carried the Young
People's Sunday School Class
of Walnut Grove Church on a
chicken supper Saturday night
at Glassy Rock.

The Cloth Room recently
presented Mr. and Mrs. John D.
Edwards with a lovely set of
dishes and two towels as a wed-
ding gift. Congratulations, Mr.
and Mrs. Edwards!

We wish to welcome Wilton
Poole back to the Cloth Room.
He recently received his dis-
charge from the Army after 18
months of service.

Young Richardson

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& M. College. He plans to take
Pre-Medicine at Clemson after
which he plans to enter medical
school.

Young Richardson is the son
of Hines S. and Anna Mae
Montgomery Richardson who
have been residents of Slater
since 1938.

Junior graduated from Sla-
ter-Marietta High School with
the class of 1946. He was trea-
surer of his graduating class,
a member of the Beta Club, a
member of the Glee Club, and
a member of the basketball
team. At commencement he
was awarded the History

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medal. Young Richardson was
also very active in the Baptist
church, where he served as
president of his Sunday School
class.

This young man went to
school for five consecutive
years without missing a day.
This certainly is a record which
deserves our praise.

Junior began working in the
Slater plant the latter part of
his senior year in high school
and continued working during
the past summer.

The people of the Slater com-
munity are proud of this young
man and others like him who
realize the need for higher ed-
ucation. His many friends wish
him unlimited success in his
future undertakings in the field
of medicine.

It costs 75 cents to kill a man
in Caesar's time. Estimates for
the last war indicate that it
cost the warring nations $50,-
000 for each man killed.

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[photograph of people sitting at a dinner table]
The members of the Slater Baseball Team and their guests are shown seated at the dining
table in the dining room of the Ottaray Hotel in Greenville. This dinner was held on September
25 and was given in honor of the members of the Baseball Team, who enjoyed a very successful
season this year.

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PREPARATION
DEPARTMENT
N-E-W-S

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Mr. and Mrs. Turner Jones,
of Slater, and Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Jones, of Greenville,
were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Crayton Brady recently.

Broadus Poole has returned
to his job in the Warping De-
partment after serving 15
months in the U. S. Navy. He
was stationed in the Philip-
pines for 11 months.

June Tolley, an employee of
the Army Intelligence Bureau
in Washington, D. C., has been
home recently visiting relatives
and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cole-
man and Sarah were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Isham Coleman.

Boyce Parnell just had an-
other birthday. You should
have seen the pennies go in the
birthday bank! Happy birth-

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day, Boyce!

Ivadell Hill, of Cleveland,
went on a shopping trip in
Greenville Tuesday.

We regret to learn of the
death of Mrs. Gertrude Dunn's
uncle, Mr. W. L. Dunlop, of
Fletcher, N. C.

Bertha Jones has been out
from work recently due to an
operation. We miss her very
much and hope to have her
back with us soon.

The second shift quiller
hands welcome Ruth Hunt to
their department.

Mrs. Sarah Singleton gave a
birthday dinner in honor of her
father recently. Everyone had
a very enjoyable time.

We wish Girard Harrison
lots of luck with his new gun.
Girard, don't kill too many
squirrels!

The SAFE Way
Is
RIGHT

[comic depicting man stepping and falling from toy cart and son]
STAY SAFE
OFF-THE-JOB, TOO

MAMA!!
POP'S PLAYING
WITH MY TOY!

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NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

If you think "Pop" is per-
forming a parlor trick, you're
wrong. He's trying to land
without breaking his neck.

We hope he has luck, but his
chances aren't too good.

The National Safety Council
tells us that 30,500 persons
were killed in home accidents
last year.

These men, women and chil-
dren were killed in many ways,
but half of the deaths were
caused by falls. Falls, like
many home accidents, are often
the fault of somebody besides
the victim.

Children must be taught to
pick up their playthings when
they are through playing with
them. Adults can set a good
example by leaving nothing
around, particularly on stairs
and steps, that might cause
someone to fall.

Falls are caused by grease or
milk or water not wiped up
from the kitchen floor, soap in
bathtubs, icy walks, broken
steps, porches without rails,
dark hallways, makeshift lad-
ders, unanchored rugs and
poorly lighted stairs cluttered
with mops, buckets, or rubbish.

Home accidents represent a
shameful human waste—a dan-
gerous waste during this period
of reconversion.

You can help reduce this toll
by making sure that neither
you nor members of your fam-
ily will be injured or killed as
a result of your carelessness.
It is the patriotic duty of every
member of your family to do
the same.