Blanketeer
Vol. 1 SEPTEMBER 15, 1933 No. 4
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A SHORT RESUME OF
THE WORLD’S FAIR
(By Claudia Austin)
WOODRUFF CLAN
HOLDS REUNION
Annual Event Is Held Sunday,
September 3, at Elkin Valley
Church, Near Elkin
r Members of the Woodruff clan
i assembled at Elkin Valley Bap-
1 tist church, north of Elkin, Sun-
! day, September 3, for their an-
: nual reunion. This was the lar-
I gest reunion the family has ever
; had, many members of the clan
i being present from distant points.
I The occasion was doubly sig-
' nificant in this community, in ad-
j dition to the reunion it marked
' the dedication of the recently re-
i modeled church building. The
I dedicatory sermon was preached
j by the pastor, Rev. R. E. Adams.
At the noon hour a bountiful
I dinner was served from a table
i 120 feet long and loaded with
I the choice foods of the season.
I Chaplain Bert Stone, U. S. N.,
stationed at Paris Island, S. C.,
5 offered the invocation.
Following the dinner the fam-
} ily assembled in the church for
i a business meeting and program.
1 R. C. Woodruff, chairman, pre-
j sided over the exercises, during
? which Dr. M. A. Royall, mayor
I of Elkin; Whiter R. Schaff, su-
i perintendent of the Elkin schools
and Attorney W. M. Alien and
i; Chaplain Stone, all made brief
i and int&resting talks. Special
I'; music was furnished by Thomas
Myers and his quartet.
During the business meeting
the present officers were, re-
F elected to serve for another year
i^and Elkin Valley church was se-
lected as a permanent gathering
'i place for the reunions to be held
I annually at approximately the
I game time.
To tell you everything I saw
at the World’s Fair would take
a whole issue of our paper, so as
not to bore you, I am going to
sketch briefly, a few of the most
important things I saw while in
Chicago.
A party of thirty-one people
left Winston-Salem on Monday
afternoon, August 7th, at four
o’clock, on a Greyhound Bus, all
bound for the Fair. Our party
included fifteen, teachers, two
business men, five housewives,
four college boys, two business
girls and two Red Cross work
ers. We had a guide to go
with us and all the historical
places we came to, he would tell
us about them. We also learned
all the mountains and rivers we
crossed. We spent the night on
our way up in Charleston, W.
Va., and in Portsmouth, Ohio,
coming back. The tour ckrried
us through five different states.
We arrived in Chicago on Tues
day morning at two A. M. Thus
giving us four nights and three
days in which to see the sights.
The Fair grounds consist of
4 24 acres of land facing Lake
Michigan, edging Chicago. So you
can imagine just how long it
would take you to see it all.
Someone has estimated just how
long it would take you to see it
all. There are sixty buildings
given over to free exhibits and if
one should spend two minutes
looking at each exhibit it would
require six weeks, working ten
hours a day.
Some have wondered just why
it is called “The Century of
Progress Exposition.” Before
entering the grounds one should
close his eyes and imagine
himself transported one hun
dred years back. You are now
traveling as they traveled, eating
food that is grown in one local
ity, wearing homespun clothing
and know nothing of automo
biles and electricity. You enter
the ground and see first of all
the first train, and the steps on
up to the modern train of today.
You go in the Travel and Trans
port Building^ and here you see
all the inventions from the first
up to this age. From here you
can go to the General Motors
Building and see a Chevrolet car
in the process of being made.
You can give your order for a
car in the morning, stand by,
see it made, and that evening,
drive it home.
The Hall of Science is the
most talked of building in the
Fair. This building is devoted to
exhibits of basic science, biology,
chemistry, geology, mathemat
ics, physics and medicine.
Sixteen foreign countries have
their expositions there. The
Belgian village is the quaintest
of all. Here one can see the
native people at work and going
about their daily duties with the
same vim as in Belgium.
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MILL LIFE HERE
AND IN ENGLAND
Sagar Says American Mill Worker
Leads Much More Pleasant
Life Than English Cousin
(By JOHN SAGAR)
Having spent part of my early
life in a mill town in England, I
have been asked to put down
some of my observations on tex
tiles in general and mill life in
particular, but since I never had
the opportunity of actually work
ing in a mill in England, and my
experience with textiles was pure
ly in the distributing and sales
end, any opinions I might ex
press need not be taken as au
thentic, but merely as my own
personal opinions and observa-
ations.
First of all I should say that
the American mill worker leads
a much more pleasant life than
his English cousin, he is better
paid, has more freedom of speech
and action, gets more personal
attention from his employer and
his comforts while working in the
mill are better cared for by the
company.
As far as pay is concerned in
England the mill hand probab
ly receives about half as much as
in America, but that is not as
bad as it sounds, as in America,
here if a man starts off from the
very bottom of the mill and has
no great education, if he works
hard, learns his job well, and
shows himself to be a little more
capable than his fellows, there is
no limit to the heights he can
reach; but in England the odds
are all against his ever becoming
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