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Volume V
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER, 1951
MESSAGE
EROM THE
PRESIDENT
4.
f) a n fe Si g 11) I n s
(Floyd D. Mehan, executive
vice-president, and a director of
the company, is President Kircho-
fer’s guest columnist this month.)
TO MY FELLOW WORKERS;
Thanksgiving Day will soon be
here, and we., of all the people on
the earth, have the most to be
thankful for. Wars have not
burned and ruined our homes.
There" are no knocks on our doors
at micUiight by police who are
searching out those who have been
bold enough to express a belief
that is not in accord with the plans
of our Government.
I doubt if thirty years ago the
peoples of Russia, China, Poland
and other Iron Curtain countries
had any thought that such a con
dition could exist in their lands.
Today we look with ridicule upon
the thought that such a condition
could ever come to pass in the
United States.
Let us all hope that it is beyond
the realm of possibility for us to
be absorbed by Communism, but
while we are hoping let’s do some
thing about it. W'e must educate
ourselves so as to be able to screen
whole truths from half truths. We
should each of us find out what,
as an individual, we are going to
uphold as a principle; then work
with all our body and soul to carry
out that principle.
Stalin, who is to us the bigoted
symbol ot Communism, has stated
that he can conquer the United
States from within. Kor safety’s
ake, let us not take this statement
of his t(M» lightly. Today, he has
his forces at work. True, they are
in the minority, but at one time
Stalin’s group itself was a minor
ity in Ru.ssia. However, they
worked at their systems and when
the first opportunity appeared,
they had their .half truths so .well
prepared that enough of their
countrymen believed in them for
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Thank You, our Father.
Thank you for everything —
and we are, we owe to You.
for everything we havo,
No. 12
Housekeeping
Here Showing
Improvement
The clean-up campaign, staged
during the past month, has result-
etl in improved conditions in the
plants, and there are evidences of
better housekeeping, according to
Ossie Wright, chairman of the
safety comrnittee whose first re
port indicated a number of hazards
the committee found was due to
■*poor housekeeping '
A second report of the commit
tee with specific grades for the
various departments, together
with the committee’s reccmmenda-
tions, had not been made as Sew
It Seams goes to press. These re
ports will be posted on the various
bulletin boards within the next day
or two.
Margiu^ Coleman has been serv
ing on the committee as a repre
sentative of the pants department
in place of Helen Robertson, who
has been ill and on leave of ab
sence for several weeks.
I Legal Holiday
Next Thursday, November 22, is
Thanksgiving Day and a legal holi
day All departments will be closed
for the day, and .lack Kives, in
charge of production, suggested
that all employees watch the bul
letin boards, for further informa
tion on closing and opening hours.
The plants also will be closed on
the afternoon of November .‘10 for
the semi-annual audit and inven
tory. .Additional information about
this closing also will bo pasted on
the bulletin boards.
Ollie McGee's
Son Wounded
In Korea
Ollie Mcdee of tiie overall ile-
partnient was notified by the War
Departnient. that her son. Howard
G. Smith, 18, was wounded in ac
tion in Korea. Since the notifica
tion, she has received several let
ters from Howard, who is in a
hospital in Japan. He has had a
part of one foot amputated as a
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But on this day — this American day of Thanksgiv
ing — we would thank You especially for certain things.
Our thanks to You, our Father, for the God-given
freedom we enjoy as Americans; for the enjoyment of
our human rights, individual and collective; and for our
opportunity to serve bettor our God, our country, our
families, ourselves and all mankind — such an oi)portun-
ity as is presented to no other people upon the face of this,
Your Earth.
It is not, our beloved Father, that we consider our
selves better than others. We know that is not true, and
we strive to remember that it is not true. But we also
know that out of Thy goodness we Americans are the
most fortunate of all people. And for that we most grate
fully thank You — and at the same time pray that our
good fortune will be extended, by You, and through us
if you so will, to the rest of the world.
Amen.
—R.L.T.