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Page 2 ,r:rr r ., v y :i ? . invj THE ERWIN CHATTER >Wmm* mmkklj in the interest of the employees of the Erwin Cotton IBp Company. JL P. Lewis. President; W. H. Boffin, Vice-President and Treasurer; Carl B. Harris, Viee-President and Assistant Treasurer; Frank T. DeVjnrer, Viee-President and Industrial Eolations Director. Printed at the Seeman Printery, Durham, N. C. Editor-in-Chief ..H. W. Calvert Codeemee Editor .......J. M. Wall Durham Editor Galen Elliot Erwin Editor Whitney H. Thomas Art Staff David Stone -I » Cooleemee Reporters Bleach and Vat Dye....Sarah Bowles, Baby Alexander, Mrs. W. G. Eaton Carding Harry Stroud, Edith Wooten, Katherine Waters Cloth and Napping William Owens Office .* Mrs. Clyde Young Outside "Duke" Daniels Production Control Lena Milholen Shipping Wilson Martin, L. M. Miller Shops Grimes Parker Spinning Thelma McDaniels, Mrs. Belle Hodgin, Lee Traxler Spooling, Warping, Slashing Carolina White, J. N. Parker, Mrs. Brady Alexander Weaving Latta Batledge, B. V. Alexander, Colean Myers, Mary Berrier . W COOPKRATION T' "Nothing succeeds like success,'' goes the mottO. And there is perhaps no better way to succeed than through cooperation both individually and collectifjely. We all want to see the ERWIN CHATTER succeed. The Company, the Employees, the Editors, the Reporters and all have something at stake in this venture. It must be a creditable achievement—a success. The reporters and others haVe done a fine job with this issue for which the editor is The next isSue should be even better! and the next, and the n/xt. They will be if —if everyone tries and does his best. That means cooperation of every em ployee, every reporter, every person, who wants and believes in THE CHATTER.—G. E. m + " RECUSATION The strain and tension of wartime work calls our attention to the need on the part of everyone for recreation. Fortunately, here in Durham, there is a wide variety of recreational facilities. The Parks, Playgrounds, and Swimming Pools of the City Recre ation Department plus the Erwin Auditorium and the Lyceum offer close at hand almost every kind of opportunity for games and exercise. The old saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" applies to grown folks too. So select some game—baseball, Softball, tennis, horse shoe pitching, checkers, ping-pong, swim ming, or something else in which there is fun and interest; and GET OUT AND PLAY! The results will very likely be sur prising.—G.E. BULLETIN BOARDS Keeping informed is the responsibility of each of us as an employee. For our benefit bulletin boards have been established at various points throughout the plants. If these had not been felt a necessary medium for the publication of ideas, slogans, rules, and other information they would not have been posted. "Ignorance is no excuse" is a very old adage and one which applies to each of us. Let us now resolve to read the bulletin boards frequently and to heed the information found thereon. This takes but a few moments and it may save hours of time, pain, and inefficiency. Y-GARDENS Have you planted your victory garden! If not, there is no time like the present to get around to spading up a little ground and getting some rows planted. And if you don't know the first thing about having a garden, think nothing of it; having a vic tory garden doesn't require a genius in agronomy. There are plenty of good manuals on the subject and your neighbors can no doubt give you plenty of help. Once you get the garden bug in your system, you 11 find the pleasure is one that you'll never give up. Growing your own food gives a satisfaction that is much deeper than just a few pennies saved and the guarantee that you will have food on your table. Join the city farmers movetnent today not because it is patriotic, not because it is economical and thrifty, but because it is good for you. It is patriotic and it is a help to your budget; but the fun it provides, the exercise and fresh air, the inner-satisfaction of seeing things you cultivate grow are reasons enough to make a Victory em ployee garden worthwhile for anyone. Let's all join in and thip year's gardens the best yet. (Note: See the gardening articles elsewhere in this issue.). BVEN IN IrOOB OWN HBABT If there is to be a future for all of us in this world, it teens to me that we must have more faith in the decency of human beings. Our statesmen, our armies of occupation, our military strategists may all fail, if the peoples of the world don't learn to understand and tolerate each other. Race hatreds, social prejudices, religious bigotry—theyare the diseases that eat away the fibers of peace. Unless they are exterminated it's inevitable that we will have endless wars. Where are hatred and prejudices and bigotry going to be exterminated f Not at a conference table. Rather, in your own city, your church, your children's school, perhaps in your own home, even in your own heart. You and I must do it—every father and mother in the world, every teacher, everyone who can rightfully call himself a human being. Yes, it seems to me that the one thing the peoples of the world absolutely must learn, if we are ever to have lasting peace, is tolerance. Of what use will it be when the lights go on again all over the world, if they don't go on in our hearts? —Kate Smith. 1 WOULD YOU RECALL OUR TANKS NOW? No one of us would hand a soldier a bullet hejieeded and then take it away from him. We do not send planes and 'over seas, then ship them back before they can go into battle. Yet every time any one of us buys a war bond and cashes it in, we are stepping back from victory as surely as if we took bullets away from soldiers and recalled planes and tanks. N This is a bad money month for many of us. Income taxes had to be paid, and there may be a certain temptation to cash in a few assets, such as war bonds. But what are our difficulties, compared to those of the men and women who are fighting this war for us? How can we excuse ourselves if we, because of our small homefront discomforts or worries, withdraw from them our support ? They are doing so much for us. We can do so little for them, really. We cannot be with them; we cannot help them in their personal battles for courage and wisdom. We cannot feed them when they are hungry, or care for them when they are wounded. But we can see that they have whatever they need to defeat the enemy. And we can give them the knowledge that our dollars are behind them and that our dollars will stay behind them. So let us hold onto our War Bonds, come what may. If you cash in even one Bond, you are cheating not only yourself—since of course you lose money by this—but every Allied fighting man. We cannot, we must not, cheat those men of victory. All Together and Right on the Beam Men and women in work-clothes, overalls and slacks share equally with our armed forces in the re sponsibilities and in the glory of bringing this war to a successful conclusion. Bravery on far-fluii& battle fronts, heroism on the seven seas will prove futile unless we on the home front produce ample sup plies in ample time. "Too little, too late" should never be written above a single fallen soldier, sailor or marine—and never will be writ ten as long as loyal American workers do their share on the busy production lines of this country. Dedicate your all-out effort and your dollars to that end—get on .the beam and stay there. "God pity us at home if now we talk of our privileges and insist upon our rights. In these days, no individual has rights apart from the group, and no group has rights for I JF itself alone. Now, there are only glorified by the un selfishness of our children; duties sanctified by the blood of our anna, "I am the meanest thief in the world if by word or deed, by self ishness or neglect, I delay the. com plete victory and their return by a single minute "MINUTES ARE MEN!" Ideals are like stars. You may not reach them with your hands but by following them you may reach your destination.- '• ~Mail Call What more welcome cry is there Than the cry of MAIL! Men seem to come from everywhere I've never seen it fail. Shove and jostle eagerly, While a hundred voices shout, . "Is there any for met" And a hundred hands reach out. * They sit down in the nearest place, Where they can read. And the happy smile on evdiry face Is a warming sight indeed. But when the mail is all passed out Some slowly turn away, And I truly pity those without Any mail today. I If the folks back home knew* l what it meant \ Those letters to receive, \ I'm sure those letters would be sent To gladden hearts that grieve. I can appreciate their hungry eyes, It's a sight I hate to see, For I know how my own hopes , die When there's no mail for me. COM* ON 1 LET'S WRITE OUB BOYS FREQUENTLY. JUST A LINK TO SAT HELIX) TO THAT BOT IK SERVICE. THY IT EVEKY WEEK. Success is attained not by lying awake at night, but by staying twite in the daytime. Pity the man who talks of kitting time, whom time with every tick of the clock ia killing him. Work eight hows a days and sleep eight, but do not sleep the SAKS eight yon work. He may have greasy hsnds, his clothes may be grimy, and the Skat of his pants may be shiny, while his trousers bag at the kneee; but if hie children have their noses presced to the windowpane ten minutee before he is due home from work, you can trust him with everything you ham He is the kind of a man that makes America the great country it ia. . INFLUENCE A man with the. badge of a peaee officer on his lapel stood among a group of Mexicans being received into a little Mexican church in Cal ifornia. Asked by the mission su perintendent what prompted to join the little church, the deputy marshal replied: "Before this mis sion existed I was called out re peatedly at night to stop street fights, stealing and general bois terousness. Since this church haw come into our' midst, that rarely happens. I thought I would like to belong to an organization exert ing such a strong influence in the community." Let Everyone Memorize These Words "For as surely as the earth turns, force and violence shall be the law; and wars of cataclysmic destruction shall be the penalty; and blood and tears shall be the inheritance of that people who neglect to learn and to teach that the earth lias grown smaller, that all men .on it are fun damentally alike, that no human being need now lack food or shelter, and that science has made it nec essary for men to live at peaee if they want to live at all." *— » DEDICATING OUR HANDS Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him la bour, working with his hands the thing which is good, thai he ' may have to give to him that needeth." Ephesians 4:28 ' It is through giving our hands to good works that we are able to as cend to a higher plane of living, which is the goal of every Christian* If we consider every good thing a work of God, then every chance we have of using our hands in do ing good is an opportunity to serve God. By dedicating our bands to \?uch work and by sharing the prod ucts of work we .ean find a great deal of satisfaction in our own per sonal lives as well as occasion to make life more worthwhile for otherk , fynr. J. W. Brno, Durham. Don/t\fbrget to go to Chart* sad Sunday School next Sunday.
Erwin Chatter (Cooleemee, N.C.)
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