Chath am Blanketeer
APRIL 25, 1936
Storm-Torn Gainesville From the Air
The picture above was made by Mr. Thurmond Chatham from
an airplane above Gainesville, Ga., the day after the town was
wrecked by a tornado. Mr. Chatham flew to Gainesville from Win
ston-Salem, and thfs is only one of the pictures he made showing the
terrible havoc wreaked by the storm.
Vol. 3
THE STORY OF
AN AUTOMOBILE
The One That Sold in 1914 For
$5,C00 Not As Good As To
day’s $700 machine.
Let us consider the story of two
automobiles. One was sold in
1914 for $5200. The other was
sold in 1936 for about $700. Let
us call them A and B, so as not
to be accused of advertising any
brands.
Automobile A—which cost $5,-
200—was very swanky in its day.
But look at it! It has wooden
wheels, its glass is easily break
able. Its space is small and crowd
ed. The wheelbase is short. The
driver is unprotected. The doors
are inconvenient. It is a light car
and does not hold the road well.
Look at the old horn—do you re
member what a nuisance it was?
Now that inferior car cost sev
en times as much as Car B. In
fact, if you paid a million dollars
for a car in 1914, you could not
get one as good as this $700 car.
It did not eixst. The manufactur
er did not know how to make it.
Many of the improvements in the
$700 car are only a year or two
old; some are four or five years
old. Few, if any of them, existed
in 1914.
What lesson can we learn from
that? The American factory is a
progressive laboratory which
serves two purposes:
1. It improves its product;
2. It brings down the price.
Both these purposes have one
objective, namely to bring the
commodity to an increasingly
larger number of customers.
When a product is improved,
the old customer discards what
he already has and buys some
thing new. Also new customers
who were dissatisfied with the old
product might be satisfied with
the new one.
When the price is brought
down, new groups in the com
munity can afford to buy the
product. That is why one cut of
every 4.9 persons in the United
States owns a car. Cars are avail
able for almost every person ac
cording to his pocketbook.
In the United States, a luxury
soon becomes a necessity for all
the people. But that is not the
point we wish to make in this
article. Here we wish to empha
size that American industry em
ploys more workers at better
wages because it improves the
product and brings down the
price of the product.
This is as true of refrigerators
as it is of automobiles. It is as
true of nail polish as it is of blan
kets. It is true of everything.
Millions of dollars go into ex
periments, into successes and
failures, into trials and errors,
before a product is improved and
the price can be brought down
If industry is progressive and
flexible, it can make work; it can
create new products; it can open
new markets for old products.
It is true that the manufactui -
er makes a profit out of this in
creased market, but so does the
worker improve his chances or
earning more money and having
a more permanent job.
The answer to all this is; mass
production, quantity production,
increased markets—these give
jobs to workers. The small, tiny
forge had a blacksmith and may
be one assistant, but a modem
company can give work to fifty
or a hundred thousand men.
Lose Weston
Eddie Weston, one of the fea
ture players of the Chatham
team last year, has accepted a
job with the Kannapolis baseball
club.
“He that gives good advice,
builds with one hand; he that
gives good counsel and example,
builds with both; but he that
gives good admonition and bad
example builds with one hand
and pulls down with another.—
Bacon.
“To be conscious that you are
ignorant is a great step to knowl
edge.”—Disraeli.
No. 16
CHATHAM WINS 9
OUT OF 11 GAMES
Duke University and Mount Airy
Reds Only Teams to Get the
Best of Blanketeers
The Chatham Blanketeers of
the Elkin Plant started the 1936
season by losing to the strong
Duke University baseball club by
the score of 5 to 4. The following
week the Blanketeers defeated
Erskine College in two games by
the score of 2 to l and 14 to 2.
The following week Elon College
was defeated by the score of 3
to 2, and Catawba was defeated
2 to 1. High Point College fell
victim by the score of 9 to 3.
The first game away from home
the Blanketeers traveled to May-
odan and defeated the Mayodan
entry in the Bi-State league 6 to
3. Mount Airy Reds defeated the
Blanketeers in Elkin 8 to 6 and
in a return engagement the
Blanketeers defeated Mount Airy
in Mount Airy 11 to 10. The next
game the Chatham team defeated
the Mayodan Club in Elkin by
the score of il to 6.
Last Saturday the Chatham .
team won over the Harris-Cov-
ington Hosiery Mill of High Point
by the score of 24 to 3.
CHATHAM TolilEET
2 STRONG TEAMS
Bossong and Southside to Face
Blanketeers Here Friday and
Saturday Respectively
The Chatham Blanketeers,
winners of nine out of the first
11 games played thus far this
season, will meet the strong Bos-
song Hosiery Mill of Asheboro
here Pl-iday, and Southside, of
Winston-Salem, here Saturday.
The Southside team of Winston
has one of the best teams in the
history of the Plant, having been
defeated only one time this year
and then by Mayodan in an ear
ly season game in Mayodan 8 to
7.
The game Saturday will be a
battle of southpaws between Sam
Fowler, ace left hander of the
Blanketeers and Johnson, of the
Arista Mills.
The game with Bossong mills
will bring together two of the
best amateur teams in North
Carolina as Bossong has one of
the outstanding teams of Western
North Carolina. The roster of
Bossong includes all league play
ers.
Admission prices have been re
duced and large crowds are ex
pected to witness both games.