JUNE, 1958
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Pvt. Kenneth Davis
Studies Hydraulics
Pvt. Kenneth C. Davis, son of
Hoyt Davis, Shop mechanic, is
assigned to the U.S. Marine
Corps unit at Memphis, Tenn.,
where he is a student in super
jet hydraulic mechanics. He be
gan this course of training at the
Marine base in Jacksonville,
Fla., and recently was trans
ferred to Memphis for advance
studies.
Pvt. Davis entered service last
THE HILLS BEYOND
Mrs. Lillie Brown
Funeral service for Mrs. Lillie
Lindsey Brown, 62, was held
May 28 at Beech Avenue Baptist
Church and burial was in Fire
stone cemetery. A retiree from
the Spinning department, Mrs.
Brown was employed here from
1942 to 1957. Her son, Luther, is
a member of the Methods and
Standards staff at the plant.
Others surviving are her hus
band, Reuben Brown; sons Les
ter, Lawrence, Louis and Ken
neth all of Gastonia; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Ruby B. Nix of Sum
ter, S. C., and Mrs. Rosie Pickel-
simer of Gastonia; also four
brothers and four sisters.
Textile plants in the United
States are expected to use about
eight and one-half million bales
of cotton in 1958.
August and received his basic
training at Parris Island and
Camp LeJeune in the Carolinas,
before being sent to school at
Jacksonville. He was graduated
last spring from Norcross (Ga.)
High School. While there, he
was an outstanding member of
the baseball team.
EMPLOYEE’S DAUGHTER
Wide Variety In Her Talents
Give her a brush with a few
dabs of paint and she’ll turn out
a piece of landscape art with a
realism you can “feel”. Let her
put her hands to needle and
thread, crochet hooks — even
woodworking tools or potter’s
clay—and shell come up with
things both useful and pretty.
That’s Carolyn Sims, a teen
ager who finds time in a busy
schedule to do a lot of things
creative.
Carolyn, daughter of Mrs.
Emory Johnson of the Cloth
Room, will graduate this month
(June) from a secretarial course
at Carolina Business College of
Charlotte. Then she will take a
job in Gastonia.
Her creative talents showed
up early and exerted themselves
when she was in elementary
school.
“As for painting, it all started
when Mother gave me a paint-
and-brush kit as a Christmas
present,” Carolyn remembers.
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VERSATILE HANDS — Caro
lyn works on a piece of land
scape art amidst a display of her
different types of handiwork;
art, dressmaking, ceramics, cro
chet and embroidery and wood-
carving.
IN THE fifth grade she learn
ed to sew a fine seam and soon
thereafter, began to master the
art of crocheting. She has turned
out many items, including place
mats, centerpieces and scarves.
In a home economics class at
Ashley High School, Carolyn
learned dressmaking and now
has completed 14 dresses. They
feature a touch of the seam
stress’ own originality plus por
tions of design borrowed from
available patterns.
Usually she works from mem
ory, taking a design she has
seen and turning it into a dress
without use of a conventional
pattern. As you might suppose,
one of her latest creations is a
modified chemise.
In Junior high school Carolyn
learned to shape clay. Her many
ceramic pieces have ranged from
a simple ashtray to delicate
flowers.
Like her paintings and crochet
work, Carolyn has given away
much of her ceramic art—scat
tering it all the way from the
Carolinas to Winder, Ga., her
mother’s home town.
In her busy schedule, Carolyn
makes room for participation in
the young people’s activities at
the First Christian Church of
Gastonia.
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You help support our schools, our hospitals
and our churches m^ith your money and your
earts...you help develop good citizens by
working with our children...you keep our
merchants thriving with four steady payrolls.
WITHOUT YOU!
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UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS
Was It Really Luck}
By Fred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rimanoczy
American Economic Foundation
Many people believe that the meteoric rise of
the United States among the world’s nations was
a matter of luck. They believe that with such a
wealth of natural resources, and starting as we
did, at the same time that steam-power became
available, “we couldn’t miss”.
But this is a dangerous belief because it be
littles the real reasons which must be remem
bered if we are to hold our position.
The first thing to remember is that our na
tural resources—rich as they are—are no richer
than those of areas such as Russia, China and
India, which are still “backward” in providing
their peoples with consumer goods.
The second thing to remember is that our
physical progress started in the minds of our
people.
It was an idea that set off the explosion of
human energy which started us up the ladder.
Let’s reduce this idea to its various parts.
^ 1. The institution of private property was
recognized as the keystone of individual free
dom—property rights implement human rights.
2. It was the right of any citizen to engage in
any legal business of his choice.
3. It was the right of unusually-capable peo
ple to earn unusually large incomes.
4. It was the right of every business manager
to conduct his enterprise free from monopolistic
restraint on the part of anyone.
5. It was the right of every worker to accept
or refuse employment according to his personal
desires and preferences.
6. Government tax policy respected the right
of every business to preserve its assets and earn a
fair reward for the people whose savings pro
vided those assets.
7. The free customer was made the supreme
authority (through his purchases) as to which
businesses should succeed or fail.
It was this seven-pronged idea combined with
the advent of steam power that put the Ameri
can economy into high gear, because it had been
formalized into a political system that gave
enormous encouragement to hard work and the
formation of private property in the form of tools.
In effect, these tools added millions of me
chanical workers to our small population—work
ers which do not compete with human workers
for food and clothing.
Today, tools account for more than 95 per cent
of the work done in the United States.
That is why almost every able-bodied Ameri
can today can have a good house, inside plumb
ing, an automobile, a mechanical refrigerator, a
television set, a savings account, and a life in
surance policy.
It is because of our tools that we produce as
much as the rest of the world put together.
But we must always remember these things:
It was the idea of personal freedom and private
property that gave birth to the tools.
We can lose the tools by losing the idea.