Chatham
Blanketeer
Vol. 1
APRIL 16, 1934
POLITICIANS
ARE PUZZLED
Pact That Grass Not Growing In
Streets Cause of Much Belwil-
derment On Part of Old Order
New Type Spinning Machine
. The fact that grass is not grow-
in the main streets of Amer
ican industry is a cause for spec
ulation and much bewilderment
^-rnong advocates of an older po
litical theory than that under
^hich industry is now going
forward. The reason for this ap
pears to be that the main and
Underlying principles of a work-
man’s success remain thn
^9-nie. Despite limitations as to
hours of work, discounts, and a
thousand and one other items,
the “old fashioned” truths ol
success still appear to have lost
^one of their importance.
A- recent magazine advertise
ment carries the heading “If 3,11
inventors were under a code,
there would still be only one Edi-
and nothing seems more
ti’Ue. Ability in any certain line
work is bound to make itself
^®lt, just as Edison’s genius made
hini stand out among the invent-
of his era. It would seem, at
first glance, that when several
industrial plants are grouped to
gether under the same code of
^^ir practice, adhering to the
®^uie standard of wages and'
hours, and subject to the same
^schine hour limitations, that
hese plants would move along
an equal footing, each ob-
^^ining their share of business,
ut no two of these plants will
the same manufacturing
J^sts, and the better managed of
he group will be in a better po
sition to compete with the others,
■^ome will fall by the wayside in-
^'^itably, leaving those with the
l^ost farsighted management as
Masters of the field.
The same will apply to a group
individual men or women, en-
^^ged in identical lines of work,
subject to the same work-
hour limitations. Among
Jhis group will be those who, by
eir industry and thrift, wiii
®tand apart from the others, and
® infinitely more valuable to
h^ir? employers. No code can
ake a man lose his identity any
^han it can make a manu-
lo^
ng ag American business is
the shoulders of men of
Will foresight, there
n., need to bring the lawn
into Main Street.
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The above photo shows the new type ring spinners in use in
the Elkin plant.
RING SPINNING
While the spinning of woolen
yarns on ring frames is a much
more recent development than
spinning on mules, the frame has
become increasingly popular, until
today the majority of woolen mills
use the new type frame as well as
the mule. The chief advantage
of the frame over the mule is the
greater speed with which yarns
may be spun, as the process is
continuous. The twisting of the
yarn and the winding on the bob
bin is all done in a single oper
ation on the frame, while the two
are separate on the mule to a cer
tain extent. Our mill is equipped
with the latest type spinning
frames, spinning a wide variety
of numbers, and we have been
well satisfied with the quality of
the yarns they produce.
In any gathering of spinners
the subject always enters the con
versation of which machine pro
duces the better yarn, the frame
or the mule. As a rule, most
spinners prefer the mule for very
fine numbers, where uniformity is
a prime factor, but cannot re
frain from the observation that
the frame is much faster and does
creditable work on coarser num
bers. Yarns spun on a frame are
more firmly twisted, due to the
fact that they are spun “from the
outside in”, even if no more turns
or twist are put into the yarn,
and it is very difficult to finish a
piece of goods woven of both
mule and ring spun yarns. For
this reason, it is best that the
same fabric does not contain
yarns spun on both type ma
chines.
On a frame, the ends of roving
from the card spools enter the
twister head where a false twist
is inserted, and are then twisted
in the opposite direction and
wound on the bobbins. On some
machines the rings are stationary
and the spindles rise and fall to
build the bobbin, while on others
the spindles are stationary and
the ring rail builds the bobbin,
but on either type the result is
the same. A frame-spun bobbin
is uniform and firm, and any ad
justment may be made quite
easily. Any variation in the
weights is adjusted by changing
gears at the head of the frame.
Don’t Play In Streets
Children who use the streets as
playgrounds are running the risk
of death and injury. Last year
1 680 were.killed and 48,100 in-
I jured while playing in the streets.
No. 16
ELKIN WINS OVER
MOUNT AIRY NINE
Chatham Blanks Bruins To Win
First Game of Season; Monday
and Hambright Lead Hitting
The Chatham nine held the
strong Mount Airy Bruins of the
Blue Ridge league scoreless Sat
urday in the opening game of the
season, winning by a score of 9
to 0.
The Chatham team started by
taking two runs in the first in
ning and completed a strong saf
ety margin by scoring three times
in the seventh and twice in the
eighth.
The mound work of Bumgarn
er and Southern and the fielding
of Davis were factors in holding
the Bruins to four hits.
Monday and Hambright led
the hitting for the Chatham
team by getting three hits each,
one of Monday’s being a home
run. Holcomb and Bumgarner
scored in the first inning while
Monday, Gough and Hambright
came in during the seventh. In
the eighth Monday and Gough
scored again.
BOX SCORE
ELKIN AB R H E
L. Gough, SS 3 10 1
Holcomb, RF 4 2 10
Crater, CF 5 0 0 0
Monday, C 5 2 3 0
B. Gough, 2B 5 2 2 0
Hambright, IB 5 13 0
Davis, LF 5 0 0 0
McWaters, 3B 4 0 10
Bumgarner, P 2 10 0
Southern, P 2 0 0 0
Parker 1 0 0 0
MOUNT AIRY
Belton, 3B 4 0 1 0
Hennis, LF 4 0 0 0
McMillian, IB 4 0 10
Creed, SS 4 0 1 0
Eldridge, CF 4 0 0 0
Williams, RF 4 0 10
Fuller, 2B 3 0 0 0
Wagoner, C 3 0 0 0
Beasley, P 3 0 0 0
Attend Baseball
Game In Charlotte
Jim Sewall, Everette Byrd, J.
M. Cheek, Grady Holcomb and
Johnie Austin went to Charlotte
Wednesday to see the Cleveland
Indians and the N. Y. Giants play.
Grady Holcomb went for a try
out with the New York Giants.
We haven’t heard what the out
come was. Grady is one of our
star players. We hope he won’t
be leaving us soon.