MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For
the Employees of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
Spray, North Carolina
Copyright, 1954, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
OTIS MARLOWE Editor
Vol. 12 Monday, April 19, 1954 No. 19
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Wisdom is the principal thing; there
fore get wisdom: and with all thy get
ting, get understanding.—(Proverbs 4,
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Letters From Servicemen
Dear Kditor:
I am getting along fine and I hope
the Mills are doing fine. I enjoyed the
time I was in the Hosiery Mill at Fiel-
dale. I worked there around two years
as a knitter and I hope to come back
there when I get out of service.
Our division moved to Camp Carson
and we came on convoy from Camp
Atterbury here. It took us eight days
to travel and it was 1200 miles. I en
joyed the trip because I drove a truck
and saw a lot of pretty country.
I enjoy getting the MILL WHISTLE
and thought I would write and tell you
to change the address to here at Camp
Carson. Please give everyone my re
gards back through the mills and I hope
to be home on a furlough the middle
of May. I hope everything is going
smooth throughout the mills and I
hope to be back there next summer, so
I’ll be seeing all of you good people.
Pvt. Claude C. Austin Jr.
US 52-294-268
31st Quartermaster Co.
31st Dixie Division
Camp Carson, Colorado
Pride And Joy Dept.
Left, Helga Venecia Haynes, two
years old, is daughter of Mrs. Catherine
Haynes of Blanket Weave. Center, Mary
Ann Pruitt, eight years old, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Webb Pruitt.
Daddy works in Blanket weave. Right,
Lauren Renea Barker, who was three
years old April 11, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Barker.
Two Complete U.N.C. Executive Program
Arthur L. Jackson, superintendent of
Synthetic Fabrics Mill, and Jack R.
Baker, staff assistant in charge of
scheduling, have successfully completed
the Business Executive program at the
University of North Carolina.
They were among the 22 who re
ceived certificates in graduation exer
cises at Chapel Hill Friday afternoon,
April 9.
The Business Executive program,
which began at the University last Oc
tober was designed for persons already
carrying major executive responsibility.
During the past six months, the mem
bers have assembled in Chapel Hill on
12 alternate week-ends for an intensive
course of classroom study and dis
cussion.
A week of residence study beginning
March 29 ended with the graduation
exercises.
A. L. JACKSON
Give thanks constantly
the good things you have
seldom find it necessary
bad things. Persist in right
right living; then observe yoU'
Something for Nothing?
By MARK C. SCHINNERER, Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland-
This is about economics. This is about the teaching of economics^-^
directed just to teachers of economics, but to all teachers. It is directed
teachers because the job
teachers of economics.
that needs to be done cannot be done by J
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There is a colossal oversupply of people in my country who either
discovered some of the basic principles of economics or think that the econ
laws have been repealed.
We hear much wailing that the schools have failed in this regard
cry is for required courses in economics. We have failed—in school and °
but the answer is not in required courses. The answer, in my
in a continuous effort to inculcate in children, from kindergarten throu^^
school, some basic and very simple facts.
There are three things which almost anyone can be brought to
stand and if these three are ingrained, we can leave the more comP
principles to the experts.
1. You can’t get something for nothing. Too many think they can-
is the basis of gambling and most speculation. Giving a higher mark in g,
than is earned is proving that the student can get something for not
That is bad business. When parents urge no homework, they someho'^
pect something for nothing. One gets out of school work about what he
into it. Only parasites get something for nothing. gef
2. You can’t spend more than you have and remain solvent. The
such a system is followed, the more impossible it becomes to keep ®
Know anyone who trades in a mortgaged car on a new one and has
newer car and a bigger mortgage? The woods are full of such peopl®
It
ally
to
bad economics. It’s somewhat like drug addiction. This applies equ
a person, a business, or a government. ^
3. You cannot equalize ability by a handicap system. It is
expect as much from a youngster with a low I. Q. as is expected from a
ter with a high I. Q. It is also wrong to set up handicaps so that they
out even. Leave that for the exclusive use of the racing stewards.
petition still has a place in America, thank goodness, and I don’t want i
other way.
In every school day, there are numerous incidents in each student’s
experience when these three fundamentals are present. Just repeatedly Je
peOr
ing them to the pupil’s consciousness will work wonders. It all our y-
accepted these three economic axioms and lived by them, we would live
economic paradise.
Reprinted from Scholastic Magazines, January 6, 1954
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