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I (Registered with U. S. Patent Office) Volume VII HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL, 1953 No. 5 MESSAGE PROM THE PRESIDENT TO MY FELLOW WORKERS: A British manufacturer made a sad admission a few days ago. But he showed how blessed we are in United States industry. His government, he said, has so burdened British industry with taxes, little profit remains to re place old machinery with more ef ficient devices. “Our costs with old equipment .re too high to let us compete,” he Weclared. “Our workmen can’t pro- )uce enough to make a living.” That brought to me with special force the thought of how much you and I and all this nation owe to machines. For at least sixty centuries man kind’s only tools were stones and sharpened bones. So people lived in caves, ate only what they could catch and kill, and wore only what they could crudely cut from animal skins. Only by his own energy could a man exisit. Life depended exclusively on man power. But in this nation we made more efficient use of our energy. Through research, invention and industrial planning we learned how a person could vastly multiply his manpower with horsepower. Of all our national production 94 per cent is accomplished by means of machines. So we have proportion ately gained by multiplying our incomes, our conveniences, our luxuries and our greater joy in life. Had you lived around the year 1700 you could have had a watch ■ r clock only if you were extremely o ealthy. Timepieces were slowly and laboriously made one at a time. Our phrase “sun time” came about because even up to 1807 most people calculated the hour by the sun and stars. In Colonial years table utensils were so scarce a Colonist planning a trip would carry his own knife, fork and spoon. There were no machines to make them in quantity. Metal but- (Continued on Page Two) Knapped Plaid Back Is Featured In First Fall Samples Now Going Out The first of the»Fall samples went out to salesmen earlier this month, and practically all of this first batch was made of the knapped plaid back cloth which was such a selling sensation last season. Shirt and pants samples will not be ready until later this month or next, but swatches of materials on hand pi'omise that the next Fall’s line will be as pleasing to the eye, and will contain new and exciting color patterns. Many of you are familiar with the knapped plaid, which is a heavy duty weave like twill with a vat dyed blue thread on the out side, while the inside has a suede finish in a gay red, navy blue, white and yellow plaid. Only a small quantity of the goods was available last year, and it was made into longees for small chil dren. They sold like hot cakes and had to be withdrawn after a short time because no more material was available. The good news this year is that a matching suede plaid ha.s become available for both kiddies and boys shirts. This plaid matches exactly the inside of kiddies’ and boys’ boxer longies as well as the misses’, girls’ and boys’ dungarees which are being offered in this material. There also is a man’s zipper (JUALITY INSPECTOR — This is Mrs. Hazel Pearce, whose job inspecting finished work in all de partments, provides a double check on our goods before they are shipped out. She is no stranger to Anvil Brand and particularly to the pants department which she has served both as supervisor and training supervisor. jacket, with dress type collar, Eisenhower style band, with snap type take-up straps on the side. There is the same typo take-up at (Continued on Page Seven) Sales Room Plans I Delivery Service The personnel office, which runs the employees’ sales shop, will try out a new delivery service begin ning Monday, to the White Divi sion, according to Personnel Direc tor Aline Carter. On Mondays, which is the regu lar pick up day for the White Di vision, all orders will be carried to the finishing room in the White Division where employees may get them during the lunch hour. Orders not claimed will be re turned to the sales room where they will be held over for the reg ulation two weeks before being re turned to stock. (Continued on Page Three) You never know what the day’s mail will bring, and recently it brought to Earnest McCall’s desk a letter from a Pennsyl vania taxidermist. The taxider mist had spotted in a store win dow exactly the kind of cloth for which he had been looking. This piece of cloth had been made u|> into a pair of Anvil Brand pants, lot no. 3(i7. It was a heavy twill, deep olive green in color, and was exactly what the taxidermist needed to line bearskin rugs. Could Anvil Brand let him have 300 yards of this cloth? Earnest obligingly turned the letter over to Cone Mills from whom we had purchased the cloth, but he can’t dismiss the (Continued on Page Seven) Safety Group Plans To Use Point System The safety committee has a new project on foot — aimed at making and judging of the various depart ments more uniform. For instance, what one set of inspectors might rate as “excellent”, another might judge to be only “very good.” And the difference between these two grades is a safety banner for the excellent department, and none for the one which is very good. At its regular meeting last week, the committee decided to start every department and office with a score of 100. A definite number of points will be subtract ed for each hazard or instance of bad house-keeping which the in spectors find. The number of points to be subtracted will be larger for the hazardous or dan gerous things than they will be for those that are merely untidy. The committee decided that bot tles or cones of thread or empty cones on the floor constituted one of the biggest hazards. Even if they are set out of the way, they can always be kicked over, and a nasty fall can be caused by a roll ing bottle or cone. Consequently, the number of points to be sub tracted for bottles and cones on the floor will be much larger than for a candy wrapper, which, while it doesn’t look good, isn’t nearly so dangerous as a rolling object. The work of assigning definite points to be subtracted for various offenses was only started at the last meeting, and will be continued at the next. A definite grade, probably 90, will be a minimum for an department or office to win a safety banner. -\ftor all the offices, except the engineering office, had fallen from grace last month and failed to win a banner, all of them came back strong this month with two inspec tion grades of excellent. Not only did the engineering office keep its banner, but also winning banners were the Hudson Division office, the White Division office and the sales division office. Ladies’ dungaree climbed back on the honor list after having been (Continued on Page Two)
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