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THE MILL WHISTLE
June 5, 1944
®*MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
SPRAY, North Carolina J. U. NEWMAN, JR., Editor
LET THE GUY SLEEP: Now that warm weather is here and
you keep your windows open all the time you think it is only neigh
borly to let your neighbors listen to the swell program on your radio,
do you? Well, brother, if that’s what you’re thinking you’re 100
per cent wrong; you are thinking in terms of “I” only.
Did it ever occur to you that your neighbors have radios of their
own? Is there a single house in the community that doesn’t boast
of a radio of some kind? And isn’t it reasonable to suppose that
everyone likes to listen to their own particular programs?
But no, you like your program so well that you just must share
it with everyone on the block, so you turn it on as loud as it will go
so nobody will miss anything. And nobody does! That is, except
what they WANT to hear. That program of yours drowns out every
thing else and like it or not, your neighbors are forced to listen.
Is that fair to them? Suppose you want to listen in on a certain
program and your neighbor’s radio was going like a boiler factory
working overtime, what would you think? Well, that’s exactly what
he’s thinking about you, maybe a little more so.
But there is another, and more serious side, to this thing of
playing your radio at full volume with all windows open. We have
several hundreds of employees on the second shift. In times like
these every last one of us need our rest and sleep in order to give
our best to our jobs. It is not only a waste of money for an employee
to report for work half dead from loss of rest and sleep but it is
positively dangerous. You think, maybe, that the blaring music
from your radio will lull him into peaceful sleep? Or don’t you
care? Is listening to something you like more important to you than
the health and welfare of your neighbors? If so, . . . Well, goodbye,
guy, it was nice to have known you; nicer still not to know you any
more!
Turn off that radio and let’s meditate a moment or two. Is
there anything that grates on the ears and nerves more than unwel
come sounds—no matter how sweet they may be? Is there anything
more aggrevating than not being able to hear something you really
want to hear because of other sounds? Is there anything much worse
than being awakened from a sound sleep that you really need by the
loud playing of a radio next door? You know, and your neighbor
knows, that it isn’t at all necessary to play so loudly. You know, and
he knows, that you could hear it just as clearly if it was toned down
so that the sounds would not carry farther than your own home. So
why is it necessary to play so loudly? Is it because you feel that your
radio plays so much better than any of your neighbors? Or is it be
cause you think that you are a better judge of what your neighbors
should hear than they are?
There is nothing in the world that more quickly angers a man
than to have his judgment (in his own home) questioned. Many of
us have our own tastes, and we do not try to account for that. We
simply have them and that’s all there is to it. And it makes us
furious for others to question or scoff at them. We can’t help it if
we happen to like sardines better than shad, or frog legs better than
chicken. It’s simply a matter of taste and we don’t appreciate having
our taste ridiculed. It’s that way about radios, too. We like to think
we know what programs we like to hear and resent anyone trying
to force us to listen to his.
And don’t ever forget that your neighbor needs, and earns, his
sleep just as much as you do. Give him that much consideration.
Mill Whistle Quiz
How many can you answer?
By what other names have Marshall
Field & Co., Manufacturing Division,
been known?
Have we ever operated mills in Vir
ginia other than Fieldale?
What local high school graduate
now holds a high position in the com
pany where he was once an office boy?
How long has Marshall Field & Co.
been operating local mills?
Who formerly owned some of our
mills?
Which of our executives was once a
fine baseball player?
Which one was once a fine basket
ball player?
Which one has seen active service
in both World Wars?
How many men in the Manufactur
ing Division have worked for the com
pany for over 50 years?
Have we ever operated mills in
Pennsylvania? South Carolina?
What did the discoverer of Leaksville
township first call it?
A short while ago the old Leaksville
City Hall was torn down. Where was
it located?
What is the second largest unin
corporated town in the state?
What local citizen’s initials and name
spell the name of his home town?
What employee, after nearly half a
century of service, is still employed in
the building he started in?
How many of our mills boasts a
Treasury Flag? Army-Navy E Flag?
Which mill recently won a highly
coveted Safety Award?
and
WHO WAS CAIN’S WIFE?
Answers, except the last one, will be
published in next issue.
V . . . —
Rastus Abraham Lincoln Brown, hav
ing been duly registered, was asked by
the head of his draft board if he had
any questions.
Yessir, said Rastus. Which side is I
on?
V . . . —
The Dangerous Age
Sweet Young Thing: Mother, dear, I
advertised under a different name that
I would like to make the acquaintance
of a refined gentleman with an eye to
romance.
Mother: Connie, how awful. Did you
get any answers?
S. Y. T.: Only one—^from Father.