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THE MILL WHISTLE
®^MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
SPRAY, North Carolina r tt isTTrTi/Ayr atvt td
U. NEWMAN, JR., Editor
priate Jh^fon^Refirem™ ProJraJ
At first glance it would seem that thi^ (rift \o u
ployes only; those who are nearing the 65th milepost ThatTs^fTr
from bemg the case. It is for our vounu-er anrl miHHi a ? ^
just as much, it not more, than Se Sr ones W? ^mp'oyes
between thirty-five and fortv fivp vpnra Lets suppose you are
the Company^etween five and ten years T;oWn
a mighty long time before voiTll ha Ji' ‘ki ^ coking ahead it seems
does^look tha\‘™y" SaftS"ti
by mighty fast; so fast that before you know it 7o^ f^nH v^.
proaching that age where work seems HonhUr >i j yourself ap-
no longer respond as the” Tee d?d
All right, you’re between thirty-five and fortv fivp
pn/x-hS? S' r/. -
shattered. You can see nothing ahead but d^vs of tofl nf
pay your bills. You see onlv L ^ ■ 1’ working to
pay days that mean only ?hat you ca^naro« f ?” ““J®’ »'
your debts. You've nothini in the ^ ‘‘“‘'■‘■'s “■>
you know that you’ll have to keep on work^'ni^ i because
to walk and use your hands * “ y”" able
jvork\“Tewtor;;a>;rarthrm;T'’'a^
f“or“\?h"h:re^sr,;vi„I“e“'':nLl'’“s'’; V™'
live with your children (and no msHov ? either have to
you’ll never be a welcome peimTi?^^^^^^^^
on charity. Do thoughts like these make n HpHp homes) or live
of a person? It not onlv Viio i or worse worker
long before his t?me S^lf^as h s futurf
through at fifty. future life is concerned he is
on th? p^rfof'S^'McS^faTdTt^P «^udy
at heart-cSi^ges all of that Tvfp "^^l^^ives who have our welfare
forty with ten ySrfmLe or le^. thirty-five and
worries about what will happen to him"IJhP^T"-’
work. He will live in secur^v oL,, i ^ longer able to
expenses and perhaps put awa’v his
reaches retirement aire he wi]l hnf dolors. For by the time he
Think of it rrZ ] amassed over 25 years of service.
know that our old age will begone ot>est^ oTf mind it gives us all to
can start phinnincr „ u . of freedom from worry. We
retirement age—and do itTherp''"’^ when we’ve reached
“maybes”. We can sHrt iooIfnl V “^uts”, and
in the knowledge that people vJiW nnt h work contentedly
say: “Isn’t it a shame trat thi pityingly and
hardly get around.” work. Why, he can
bJiht’^fnVl.l^efree'ftture;' “
December 6,
TOOTS
From the General Off*®*
By L. H. Sheffield |
I have about reached the |
that this column is improperly j,.
It should be titled “Through the
en Window"—Since every one se
to be trying to stay out of the ne
around the General Office, I ^
rather difficult to do any “Tooting'
An unanswered question is ®
worrying a lot of folks around
General Office. Why is John
opposed to inviting the wives to
Christmas party?
It looks like Joe Lindsay really
it when he said that he was throuS
with Victory gardens. As I look throug
my kitchen window I see nice grsen
grass beginning to peep up through t^e
ground where only a few weeks aSO
there was an abundance of nice
vegetables.
Had a good story for last issue of
the Whistle but was offered such a g°^
price to kill it I couldn’t resist—Need'-
ed the money. Santa Claus, you knoW
—Speaking of Santa Claus, I hear that
Joe Ragsdale is telling his youngsteis
that Santa has been drafted and that
there won’t be any Christmas this ysai'
—Shame on you, Joe.
With nuts, raisins, sugar, fruits, etc.,
so hard to get I wonder if I am going
to be able to do my usual Christmss
baking?
I believe that that emminent corres
pondent at 82 Worth Street has a sadis
tic streak in him. Otherwise why
would he continue to torture us by re
minding us of stuff that can’t be bought
in North Carolina.
We hope that some one will remind
Mildred Heiner not to hang HER stock
ing up for Christmas. There is a
shortage of everything, Mildred, and we
are sure that you won’t want to be too
greedy.
V . . . _
Nurse: Bobby! what would your fath
er -say if he saw you had broken that
branch off?
Bobby: He’d say trees are not so
well make now as they were before
the war. ^
V . . . —
“How come you don’t like girls?”
“Oh, they’re too biased.”
“Biased?”
‘ Yes, biased. Its bias this and bias,
that till I’m broke.”
V . . . _
“I turned the way I signalled,” said
the lady indignantly.
Don t I know it!” retorted the man.
“That’s what fooled me.”
V .. . _
We’ve got the Axis on the run
let’s catch ’em and whip ’em with
more War Bonds!