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BADIN BULLETIN Page Nine = ■^6 = BADIN BULLETIN Devoted to the interests of the cmployeei ol the Tallassee Power Company, and tht plcMUra and profit of all people of Badin. Published Monthly by tht Employees of Tallassee Power Company Subscriptions, Fifty Seventy-Five Cents. Cents a Year; By Mail, Per Copy, Five Cents. CONTRIBUTING STAFF Beers, H. S Clark, D Daniels, L. G Carbon PI ant Dotson, W. G Hadley, Clarence Richards, R. V Oliver, T. M .................... First Aid Parks, R. E Rainey, Dr Sheppard, Thos. C Taylor, T. G Mechanical Department Tilley, J. W.... Williams, Ben M Thorpe, J. E, S Mrs Coffman \ Mrs. Parks ...... ( Women’s Page Mrs. Thorpe Business Manager, Subscriptions, and Distribution H. R. Wake Managing Editor F. A. Cummings Vol. 2 February, 1920 No. 5 Food for Thought The following extract from an article entitled, “Time and the Hour,” which forms an epilogue to the 157th volume of the famous English weekly review. Punch, affords excellent material for reflection to one of thoughtful-mind, ap plying with remarkable aptness to Amer ica as well as England. The article, charmingly written, is in form of a dialogue between Father Time and Mr. Punch, who are represented as sitting together to see the New Year in, and discussing present conditions in the light of Time’s vast experience. Mr. Punch, the Young Fellow with the Hump, has just expressed the wish that everybody flight go to sleep for a year, while some Sood angel (or a choir of them) carried on the work of setting a war-shocked ''vorld to rights again. He shudders ■'vhen he thinks of the things that must be done in 1920. “You see,” he says, “it's the transition period which is so difficult; it is so ^ard to be off with the Old World be- fore you are on with the New.” The Old Man with the Scythe an swered, taking the floor, as it were: “I have heard much talk of New Worlds since I began to take notice,” said Father Time, a little 'wearily. “I have seen tyrannies overthrown and tyrannies set up in their place. And I have known many wars that were to end all war; and they didn’t. You do well to be glad that for a while, perhaps ■for a generation, you have secured peace for your land; that is a great achieve ment; but there is something more to be done before the millennium is an nounced. ‘ ' “I don’t suppose any nation has ever had such a chance as you have been given. But do you look like using it? You would be indignant if I told you that you are lacking in gratitude to your dead. But all this breathless race for wealth and luxury, this hunger for just any diversion that may distract you from the memory of the past few years (I am told that no novel or pic ture-palace film has a chance of popular success today if it touches upon the War)—is this your best response to their sacrifice? “I was never of those who imagined that the War would make much change in men’s natures. Natures are not easily changed. You throw a rock into a pool, and it is convulsed to its depths, but the waves soon pass into ripples, and the ripples die away, and the pool re mains unchanged. Its water is not turned into dry land, or wine, or any thing else. “According to the President of the United States (whose own Republic, held up as a model for the rest, threatens to be as late for the Peace as it was for the War), the Allies were out to make the world safe for democracy. But safe against what? Against autocracy? Good. But who is to make it safe against itself? I hear a great deal about the Sanctity of Labour (meaning the theory of it, or a particular class that ap propriates its name), but very little about the Sanctity of Work (meaning the Actual ^Thing). Yet it is by its work, and little else, that a nation grows to greatness. If Germany could have foregone Her military ambitions, and been content to go on working, within a decade or two she could have had the world at her feet. And unless you chal lenge her in the lists of Labour she will yet have the world at her feet; for she knows how to work, as you don't; she knows, as you don’t, how to spurn de lights and live laborious days; and that —far more than her army—is what made her great, and will make her great again.” What defence of his country was on • the lips of Mr. Punch may be conjectured but will never be known, for at this point the midnight bells began. “There goes the Old Year,” said Fa ther Time, “and I must fly. I’m always flying.” “Good speed to you,” said Mr. Punch, “and a better New Year than you seem to expect.” (Note:—For the above article, the Bulletin wishes to thank Mr. Fickes, vice-president of the Aluminum Com pany of America. This is not the first time that Mr. Fickes has sent something good our way, and we are sincerely appreciative.) ii . Oi: ; ,1. .;i By Their Works Ye Know Them That the Tallassee Power Company has made earnest and effective efforts to give its employees healthful and at tractive surroundings in which to live is a fact that admits of no argument. This is appreciated here in Badin; it is also appreciated by many outside of Badin who have had occasion to visit here and see for themselves what the Company has done for its employees, both white and black. The following quotation from a letter to Mr. Thorpe, signed by two represen tatives of the Charlotte Community Center {War Camp Community Scrvicc), speaks for itself: “We wish to congratulate you on the living conditions and social environment of the employees of the Tallassee Power Company, and feel sure, if more of our big plants would follow such an example, our country would not be besieged with so trying labor problems.” Saint Valentine A patron saint who, lovers claim. Is keeping friendship ever true. This is his day, and in his name. I’m sending greetings. Dear, to you. The violets I send today. So modest, yet so true and fine, Are thoughts of you, so let them say, I’ll always be your Valentine. —Aiken Moore Mr. M. L. Fox is leaving the Company on the fourteenth. He goes to Pitts burgh, where he will be connected with a hardware concern of which he is part owner.
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