(Registered with U. S. Patent Office)
Volume VI
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY, 1952
No. 3
Banner To Be Given
MESSAGE
PROM THE
PRESIDENT
(Reitzel N. Morgan, head of the
engineering department, is guest
columnist this month at the re
quest of President R. C. Kir-
chofer.)
February is a month of thank
fulness and gratitude for the
American people. It is the month
of George Washington’s and Abra
ham Lincoln’s birthdays. Of the
outstanding things these men
fought and studied for, the ele
ment of “change” was all impor
tant. Washington was leading and
fighting for freedom during the
American Revolution, and came to
be the First President of the Unit
ed States. Lincoln w'as President
during the Civil War, one of the
hardest and most trying periods
of our history. A great issue was
before the country in regard to
the slave problem and as difficult
as it was, we find the South has
made the change from slavery and
is now again one of the most pro
gressive sections of the country.
Such brief facts of history have
some correlation on our work at
Anvil Hrand. Namely, the element
of “change.” It is human nature
to resist a change in our laws and
rules or anything which will tend
to take one from the daily routine
of work or play. As we are all
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In Safety Scoring
Plans are under way to award
a banner each month to the de
partment that makes the best
showing in the safety inspections,
it was learned from Ossie Wright,
chairman of the safety committee.
That department will have the
privilege of hanging the banner
on its wall, and keeping it until
the following month when it again
will be awarded to the department
with the best safety inspection
record.
A second banner, representing
second place, also will be awarded
in all probability, she said.
The idea of recognizing those
departments which are given a
perfect or near perfect score by
safety inspectors, was the sugges
tion of the functional sub-commit-
tee. The pattern department is the
only department thus far to
achieve a perfect score during a
month’s inspections, although all
departments have shown a re
markable improvement.
The safety committee was or
ganized five months ago, and at
the first few meetings an hour
was not long enough for the in
spectors to report all the hazards
and dangerous practices they had
observed. Last month, after hear
ing all reports, the committee had
time for a general discussion.
Safety inspectors have not been
assigned to the offices heretofore,
but Ossie announced that in the
future they would be a part of the
safety program, and Anna McKin-
^ ney and Clayton Holmes were
named as inspectors.
For the first time this month
members of the safety committee
are inspecting departments other
than their own.
After a near perfect record in
December with no lost-time acci
dents and very few of a minor
nature, January records show
three lost-time accidents, with one
occurring among the office force,
and two in the pants department.
Jack Quaritius
Is Visitor Here
For Few Hours
Jack Quaritius, former assistant
sales manager, was a visitor in
High Point for a few hours re
cently. He was on his way from
Pinehurst to Jacksonville, Fla.,
where he is connected with the
Peninsular Life Insurance Com
pany. Owing to the fact that he
arrived here just at closing time,
he was unable to see many of his
former associates and expressed
regret that business necessitated
his leaving town without seeing
them.
Jack likes his new jo-b, and
Florida as a place to live, and
seemed to be in fine fettle.
HELEN KOHEKTSON
Anvil Worker
Now On Leave
With Waves
Helen Robertson, a member of
the pants department since March
of 1950, is the latest member of
the Anvil Brand family to join the
armed service. She left earlier this
month to join the WAVES.
A graduate of Allen Jay High
School, Helen lived at home with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs, S. S.
Robertson on Route -1, prior to her
enlistment.
Doris Skeen Cargal last montli
became a member of the Air
Force. The daughter of Mr. and
Ms. A. J. Cargal, of 82.'} Randolph
Street, Doris graduated from High
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Only The Words, Not The Idea, New To Grandmother
Grandmother never heard the
expression “work simplification.”
If she came across some contri-
vap.C'j which cut down the amount
' of labor needed to get a job done,
she was apt to observe “that man
has used his head to save his
back.”
“Handy” was another word our
grandmothers used frequently, to
describe either a well-planned kit
chen, or a woman who could do her
housework with the least effort
and in the shortest time.
While some of our grandmothers
were able to plan their kitchens
and their work to save time and S'
steps, not all of them could do
so—any more than every man
knew how to “use his head to save
his back.” But for grandmother’s
grandchildren, that is not so. A
whole field of study has grown up
around this idea of reducing
the amount of effort needed to do
any job, and engineers have drawn
up blueprints for studying and
simplifying jobs to such an extent
that very few of us today don’t
benefit form their work.
The idea is not new, but the
study, and the methods of applying
this study to jobs, in order to cut
out motions that are not needed,
is comparatively new. The aim is
not to work faster, but to do the
job with three motions instead of
four. It is called work “simplifica
tion.”
And that is the subject of the
course that Reitzel Morgan, head
of the engineering department, is
giving for our training super
visors, who are meeting one night
each week for study sessions.
The primary task of the training
supervisor is to help new operators
to learn their jobs. The study
course is intended to help them
teach the new operators to become
good operators, to do their jobs in
the best and easiest way as tiuickly
as possible.
Of course, the training super
visors help to work out changes
and new methods in all jobs, as
well as acting as general assist
ants to the supervisors of the var
ious departments.
At present they are learning to
apply a general pattern to all jobs
to see if they are being performed
in what their grandmothers would
call a “handy” way.