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MEL — ROSE — GLEN June Issue ★ LETTERS FROM SERTOMEN ★ MEL-ROSE-GLEN Voice of Melrose and Glenn Mills. Pnblished Monthly by Melrose Hosiery Mills, Inc., High Point, N. C. A Co-operative Endeavor Sponsored by the Personnel Department in Participation with Employees of Melrose (Seamless and Full Fashioned) and Glenn Plants. JOSEPH DAVID BOYD. Director. AGNES COX WILKINSON. Secretary REPORTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS (Selected by workers to represent various departments). SEAMLESS PLANT: Office - - - Mary Moore Knitting No. 1—1st Milford Smith Knitting No. 2—1st Helen Sheffield Knitting No. 1—2nd Thelma Robertson Knitting No. 2—2nd. Nola Ea^t Knitting No. 1—8rd Almedia Dennis Looping Room 1—1st Mae Anthony Looping No. 2—1st Ocie Brown Looping No. 2—2nd Christibell Love Finishing Room 1—1st Gretchel Grimes Finishing No. 2—1st Boarding No. 1—1st. Boarding No. 1—2nd Boarding No. 2—1st Patsy Russell Boarding No. 2—2nd J. D. Grouse •Sewing No. 2—1st Ethel Millikan Sewing No. 2—2nd Bertha Coltrane Miscellaneous Agnes Butler GLENN PLANT Looping, Sewing, Inspecting and Boarding Depts Rachel Briles Finishing Room—1st Ida Mae Rook Knitting Dept.—1st . Edith Haltom Knitting Dept.—2nd. Phyllis Waggoner FULL FASHIONED PLANT. Finishing—1st Altah Wilsoiv Looping, Inspecting and Seaming Depts Lucille Kennedy Knitting—1st Hoyle Morgan Knitting—2nd K athryn Snow Knitting—3rd Esther Brown EDITORIAL. There is an Intangible Some thing, often taken for granted, which it is well from time to time frankly to recognize. Ordinarily, we associate loyal ty with the patriot warrior whose 'lievoiiun leads him to live and perhaps to die for his country. Or, we think of the ship’s captain whose devotion to the require ments of his office leads him to go down with his ship. However, it is a thrilling thing to see an industrial worker who has quietly found his or her place in the life of the world, who ac quires skill and steadily devotes himself or herself to the daily requirements of a job. Loyalty is not something that can be bought, or for which a bargain can he made. Loyalty is a free gift, something that wells up out of a worker's own experi ence and life. Loyalty and faithfulness, in a measure, are synonymous. All may have it. Each person needs to have a life task which he con siders to be worthy and to which he voluntarily gives his attention. All are equal in the exemplification of faithfulness. It has been said, "He that is faith ful in little is also faithful i n much.” Josiah Royce wrote a hook in which he defined loyalty as the willing and practical and thor ough-going devotion of a person to a cause. He said, “A man is loyal when first he has a cause to which he is loyal;, when sec ondly, he willingly devotes him self to his cause; and when, thirdly, he expresses his devotion in some sustained and practical way.” One cannot well he loyal to work in general, or to industry work in general, or to industry as a whole; he best can be loyal to a specific job in one plant. In the affairs of men, loyalty is such a valuable intangible that we can well strive to be loyal to loyalty itself, that is, we can rec ognize the worth of it and pay tribute to this splendid quality which makes life worth while. REPORT ON ALL SUGGESTION AWARDS (Continued from Page 1) number of the head on the stock ing with picot points has been approved and will be put into effect. ($10.00 Charlie Johnson.) A suggestion for running a test on each shift has been approved. ($5.00 A. H. Payne.) A suggestion on 42 guage tubes was approved. ($5.00 Hoyle Mor gan.) This suggestion was tried out and later abandoned. A suggestion for cleaning flues for saving coal has been put into effect. ($5.00, Jule Rook.) GLENN PLANT— A suggestion on releasing belts when machines stand over long periods has been adopted. ($5.00 to Hurley Blizzard.) A good housekeeping idea on the outside of the plant. ($5.00 to Lucille Vaughan.) AWARDS AND REPORT FOR MAY— On May 1 the following awards were given of $5.00 each (in stamps): Roy Smith, Suggestion No. 8566 for a rack to hold throw-outs. Mrs. Helms, Suggestion No. 8325 for painting inspecting boards. Hurley Blizzard, Suggestion No. 8328 for safety device on the elevator. REPORT FOR JUNE— (Seamless) $25.00 Bond was awarded to the holder of Suggestion No. 8404 for a gap closer rod to pre vent tear-ups. INsert to kum No. 8365 on Air System. Or dered for trial and if satisfactory, will be awarded. A shaft for testing machines in Knitting Room No. 1 is to be in stalled. (Joe Seigler. $10.00.) Joe made his suggestion on Jan. 12 and it was not decided to put in the installation until May 15. In the meanwhile, on Feb. 14, Suggestion No. 8409 and May 14 Suggestion No. 8329 were sub mitted. The award is given to the original maker. (Full Fashioned) The holder of Suggestion No. 8354 is awarded $5.00 in stamps for a plan to date knitting on lot ticket. This idea is to be modi fied by making a run each day at random. No. 8356 is a suggestion for a study course for knitters. It is held for inquiry about materials. Holders of all other suggestions are referred to the Suggestion Cabinet in each plant. MUSIC AT WORK (Continued from Page 1) employees welcomed music, seem to be happier because of it. The Advent of Planned Music In Industry— Fifteen years ago a man of high reputation in his field made a statement in a business publi cation which has caused many a raised eyebrow among business men and manufacturers. He said, in effect, that within ten years music at work would become a universal tool. Today, we know that this man erred only in his estimate of the length of time it would take for business men generally to recog nize the importance of music in industry. For it has been just within the last few years that the value of industrial music has been fully appreciated. Melrose is mindful of a great hidden resource in the loyalty of Melrose employees. Philippines, April 13, 1945 Dear Sir; I have the January issue of the Mel-Rose-Glen, introducing the management and the Christmas party. No doubt, you have heard often that you can’t realize how much the paper means to a fel low far away and long gone. No doubt, you have heard the state ment till you’d rather not hear it. I assume you do understand the close-to-home atmosphere created by each issue received. I wish to express my gratitude for your thoughtfulness and un derstanding. For a long time we have won dered a bit how things are back home. Now we have men re turning from leaves at home. The stories are sweet music. They stress how patriotism is not just a word—it is a reality. They admit things have chang ed, all things do, but emphasize that, really, things are about the same. This we see as enough rea son for our being away. It’s good to know that when we return to the U.S.A., she will be much the same, in fact, greater! Mel-Rose-Glen, for now, is a nice little bit of home. May I request each issue? Appreciatively, David P. Hobby. 319 Bomb. Sqdn. 90th Group, A.P.O. No. 74, care of Postmaster, San Francisco. ) ★ Dear Mom: I just returned yesterday from a five day pass to Rome, and on return I found two letters from you. I was glad you were well. I had a very nice time in Rome. You know Rome is one of the oldest cities in the world and is spoken of in the Bible many times. I saw where St. Peter and St. Paul were buried and the place where Christ appeared before St. Peter. I also saw the footprints that Christ left. This may sound funny or strange, but the people have kept records for history of these things. The footprints of Christ were fixed in cement or something and were kept in this cathedral. I saw the remains of buildings that were built before Christ was born. And I saw St. Paul’s Church the largest church in the world. It is so big and stupendous that it can’t be described. There were lots of other things, but these were a few I saw. The weather is nice here now, about the same as it is back there in April. I’ll close for this time. L»ts of love, Ray Pfc. Ray Crotte, 34434384 Serv. Btry., 346 F. A. A.P.O. No. 91 Postmaster, N. Y. ★ May 27, 1945. Melrose Hosiery Mills, High Point, N. C. Dear Sirs: How are all the folks at Mel rose? I am getting along fine and getting tough. Learning new things every day. I would like to receive the Mel-Rose-Glen. I hope to be back at Melrose after I end the war with Japan, (smiles.) Sincerely, Pvt. Harold R. Davis. Co. B., 34th Bn., EJ-ASITC, Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., ★ Caroline Islands May 9, 1945 Dear Mr. Boyd:- I have been planning on writ ing you for a good long time to thank you for the Mel-Rose-Glen. Dus to quite frequent invasions, I haven’t had an opportunity to write. I suppose now will be as good a time as any to write, tho, so here goes. It has been a long, long time since I have had the opportunity to visit the mill and see the old friends there. Since I have had almost a year out here I have seen many new and interesting things. I have learned several new jobs and much different ones than I had ever expected to do. However, I have been thinking of my old job there in the board ing room. From the Mel-Rose- Glen, you are planning on re- employing some of the old em ployees. I think that is very thoughtful and the prop>er thing to do, as many would probably be working there still had not the war come along. I, too, agree with one of the service men that wrote in from India, that there is hotter places than a boarding room. At times it gets very hot out here and I often think of it being like a boarding room in mid-summer. There it does get kinda bearable in winter, but here it stays quite the same all of the time, year around. We did go up north to the Ryukyu Islands at Okinawa, so that was a break from all of our hot weather. I do thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending me the Mel-Rose-Glen, and hope you will continue to do so. I enjoy it much and it is good to know just how everything is going on there. I hope that before too much longer I can return to the States for leave. If and when I do, I will do my best to visit there to see all old friends. One of the boys, Joe Beck. P. S.: Tell Mr. Hardison Hello. ★ Mr. Boyd: Dear Sir; - I have been receiving the Mel- Rose-Glen for several months, and would like to tell you I en joy reading it very much. My new address is. Box 13, N. A. A. S., Gren Cove Springs, Florida. There isn’t much to tell about what I am doing here. We just work on the planes that crash and fix them up to fly again. Wishing you lots of luck and a great future for Mel-Rose- Glen. I remain, James B. Ruddock. April 5, 1945. I ★ Dear Sir: I thought I would write to let you know I received your paper and was glad to get it and read some of the things that was hap pening at the mill. I will be glad to get one every month if I can. The Army is alright, but walking up these hills and mountains is all I don’t like. I wish I was back home at the mill working. If I ever get out of this mess I will be back to the mill and work. ' Tell Mr. Amos that Sgt. Holin, of Asheville, N. C., is here in camp. He said he (Continued on Page 4)
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