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MEL — ROSE — GLEN
March Issue
the dya’s work is done so that
we can enjoy doing other
things. We have only one pair
of eyes—the only eyes we
shall ever have; we want to
protect them, use them wise
ly, get all the help we can so
that we can treat them prop
erly.
Eyes have SKILLS.
Some people can do things
with their eyes with skillful
ness just as some people can
use their hands more skill
fully than other people. For
instance, some people use the
hunt and hit system of typing
and other people use the
touch system.
Some one has said that
with the coming of a machine
civilization we have taken the
load off our backs and put it
on our eyes.
A vision program in indus
try is for the purpose of giv
ing all who need it helpful
guidance so that their eyes
can be of the greatest possi-
bld assistance in job perform
ance.
MAN IS LIKE A KNITTING
MACHINE
1. He is complex in make-up.
2. Can spin a good yarn now and
then.
3. Jilust be fed regularly.
4. Sometimes needs to be needled.
5. Once in a while needs to let out
a few links—sometimes take in
a few links during his lifetime.
6. Needs adjusting to meet the
different yarns people hand him
each day.
7. One difference — instead of
starting at the top, he starts at
the bottom—sometimes becomes
a heel for awhile on the way up
til he gets somebody behind him.
8. Last of all—if he is well oiled
once in a while he’ll turn out a
pretty good article most of the
time.
P. S. He hasn’t come to a defi
nite decision about wimmen’,
says Mr. J.J.G.!!
—Observation of Frank Liebler,
New York salesman.
“A man without an aim
Is like a clock without hands;
As useless if it goes,
As if it stands.”
“Darling, haven’t I always given
you my salary check the first of
every month?”
“Yes, but you never told me you
get paid twice a month—you low-
down unprincipled embezzler!”
“Who introduced you to your
wife ?”
“We just met. I don’t blame no
body.”
“We can’t tear your clothes with
machinery. We do it carefully by
hand.”—Sign in laundry company’s
window.
Wonders, Etc.
GLENN PLANT
Looper Room
Virgie, why don’t you try put
ting some gas in your Ford some
time. Maybe it will run then.
Will someone please explain to
Evelyn what a shike-poke is.
Knitting Room
Flash We sure feel sorry for
James after he got tangled up in
the brier patch—so he says..
Looping Room
We welcome our new loopers and
hope they will enjoy working with
us. Marie Lambeth and Nell Hon
eycutt.
If you want a lot just call on
“Tommy.” Yes we have a new
lot boy, Thomas Lambeth, an ex
marine. 'But don’t get excited,
girls, he has a wife and we hopo
they will both enjoy working with
us.
We are glad to have Virgie
Clapp back with us. After two
years she still remembers how to
sew those tops.
Jessie Tuggle is sewing tops on
night time now. Jessie comes to
us from the knitting room.
We also welcome Iris Tuggle, a
new top sewer on second shift.
We are glad to have Mrs. May
back with us. She is also sewing
tops on second shift.
We are glad to know Eula Mor
ris is getting along fine and is
now at home after undergoing an
operation at the Boulevard unit of
the High Point hospital. We miss
you, Eula, and hope you will soon
be able to be back with us.
We regret to learn that Mrs.
Granie Hauser is a patient at the
Boulevard unit of the High Point
hospital, where she will undergo
an operation. We wish you a
speedy recovery Granie and hope
you will soon be back with us.
Congratulations to Mrs. Pearl
Fuller Scott, a former top sewer
who was married to Mr. Claude
Scott on February 10.
If you have missed “Lib” Cagle
for the last few weeks it’s because
her husband is home at last. “It’s
been a long, long time” but he’s
home for keeps now.
If you wonder why “Baker” is
so happy, well she just got word
her son is on the way home.
Valentine day was a surprise for
Mary Edna. She received a dozen
red roses from that certain
“sailor.”
Nannie Wood is out being a
nurse for her daughter “Polly”
who just returned home from the
hospital.
Did you notice Ann Kirkman
looking mighty pretty with a new
permanent ?
We are hoping Mrs. Clark will
soon put Mr. Clark to work in the
garden so he won’t be so rowdy at
the mill.
Pearl Scott wishes to thank ev
ery one for the nice wedding gift,
a chenille bedspread.
Eula says it’s nice to be remem
bered on Valentine day with a box
of candy. “Thanks to every one.”
Knitting Room
MEL-ROSE-GLEN
Voice of Melrose and
Glenn Mills.
Published Monthly by Melrose Hosiery
Mills, Inc., Hiffh Point, N. C.
A Co-operative Endeavor
Sponsored by the Personnel Department
in Participation with Employees of
Melrose (Seamless and Full Fashioned)
and Glenn Plants.
JOSEPH DAVID BOYD, Director.
AGNES COX WILKINSON, Secretary
REPORTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
(Selected by workers to represent
various departments).
SEAMLESS PLANT:
Office Mary Moore
Knitting, No. 1, 1st
Knitting No. 2—1st .. Helen Sheffield
Knitting No. 1—2nd Thelma Robertson
Knitting No. 2—2nd
Knitting No. 1—3rd Almedia Dennis
Looping Room 1—“1st Mae Anthony
Looping No. 2—1st Ocie Brown
Looping No. 2—2nd . (Dhristibell Lov''
Finishing Room 1—1st Gretchel Grimes
Finishing No. 2—1st
Boarding No. 1—1st
Boarding No. 1—2nd, Edith Whitaker
Boarding No. 2—1st, Virginia Bizzell
Boarding No. 2—2nd J. D. Grouse
Sewing No. 2—1st Ethel Millikan
Sewing No. 2—2nd Bertha Coltrane
Miscellaneous Agnes Butler
GLENN PLANT
Looping, Sewing, Inspecting and
Boarding Depts Rachel Brilcs
Finishing Room, 1st Ida Mae Rook
Knitting Dept.—1st .. Edith Haltom
Knittin? Dept.—2nd, Pauline Leonard
FULL FASHIONED PLANT.
Finishing—1st Altah AMlson
Looping, Inspecting and
Seaming Depts LucUle Kennedy
Knitting—1st Hoyle Morgan
Knitting—2nd K athryn Snow
Knitting—3rd Hoyle Morgan
EDITORIAL
"THE EYES HAVE IT”
Eyes are neither “good”
nor “bad”. It depends upon
what we want to use our eyes
to do. A watch maker works
at a job that is “close”. A
man in a railroad tower works
up high where he can see long
distances down the track.
Both have “good” eyes in
terms of the job performed.
There are even jobs in indus
try that a person having one
eye can perform better than
a person having two eyes.
Eyes are neither “weak”
nor “strong”. Again it de
pends upon the kind of work
we do.
Not all eyes are the same;
neither are all men the same
heighth. Some men are five
feet four inches; some are six
feet two inches; most men are
about five feet eight inches.
One co'uld not say, “How tall
is a man?” Men are of differ
ent heights. There are cer
tain advantages in being five
feet four—for instance, a
man can get out of a bus door
without hitting his head!
Some eyes can do some jobs
better than they can do other
jobs.
Some of us wear glasses.
That does not mean that our
eyes are “weak” or “bad”. It
could, mean that we are smart
enough to get helps from pro
fessional eye doctors who tell
us that we can have assist
ance in doing the kind of
work we do. No person can
say with any accuracy, “I
need glasses.” We do not
know without the advice of
someone — professional eye
men—who can tell us that de
tail.
Some of us find that by
wearing glasses we not only
see the work better, but we
have greater eye ease after
A fly was walking with her
daughter on the head of a very
bald-headed man.
“How things change, my dear,”
she said, “when I was your age
this was only a footpath.”
Two Travelers
A and B are travelling the same
road, A going four miles an hour,
B five miles an hour. But A has
two and a half hours’ start.
In what length of time will B
overtake A, and how far from the
starting point?
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My, my, are wedding bells ring
ing? First came the marriage of
Phyllis Brown to Sammy Hiatt,
then Halsie Lowe to Raymond
Harris and we hear tell there’s
gonna’ be another, for the birdie
says one little girl sneaked off
and got a blood test last week
end! Anybody feel guilty, huh ?
Ha! Mr. Price’s wife went to
purchase a mattock to give her de
voted husband—and Price paid the
clerk a dollar to hide the handle.
Does a slight suspicion of laziness
enter your mind?
The welcome mat is out to our
newcomers, J. W. Jarrell and
James Bowman.
Some people are wondering when
Mr. Smith intends buying that
wheel chair for Clark. We see he’s
hired the boy to push it!
Poor James—he says he’s will
ing to rent a tent if only it’s in
High Point—of course there’s a
few other minor details—it must
be a five room tent, with hot
water and bath. Um-m—nice he
isn’t hard to please.
Yessir—from all appearances.
Baby Smith will soon be large
enough to fill Daddy Smith’s pipe
. . . with sand!
Julia’s hubby and his “Homing
Piereon” are home to stay.
It’s nice to have Hazel Wade
pinch-hitting for Halsie while she’s
away on her honeymoon.
The very funniest incident we’vo
seen this week—Hazel Wad"'
sneezed, a button flew off her
slacks and hit “Red” in the back.
Poor Hazel just hung on to her
slacks!
Just received a truck load of
dogs. For sale or trade.
Gurney Price
Glenn Hos. Co.
Finishing Room
We are glad to know that Mrs.
J. C. Hill (our foreman’s wife) is
able to be up some now after sev
eral weeks of illness.
Sorry to hear Iretha Tuttle’s
brother is so seriously ill. Hope
he will soon be well again.
Nellie and Viola’s brother is
home on furlough. We are sure
they are glad to have him home.
Wonder why Millie came in so
happy ? We think she is expecting
her husband home from overseas
soon.
We wonder why Jack went to
court Monday.
Why is Dot and Carleen all
«miles. Guess the fleet’s coming
in.
Irene Kersey’s boy friend was
here to see her from Montana.
Watch out Irene, these boys don’t
make long distance visits for noth
ing.
Wonder what could be so inter
esting (or good looking) to cause
all that low whistling back there
with the top turners.
Somebody thinks the new board
ers are cute for what would cause
a girl to give some one else’s pen
cil to them and then be too em
barrassed to get it back.
Mrs. Winters is having quite a
bit of Company, relatives from
Eagle Springs and Metuchin, N. J.
She is expecting her grandson,
Lewis Ray Curtis, home from over
seas. Mr. Covington had dinner
with Mrs. Cowan on her birthday
last Sunday.
Polly took a flying trip to Nash
ville, Tenn.. and had a big time
with friends and relatives.
Mamie Curtis is recovering after
having some teeth pulled.
Mrs. Dawson and Dot are taking
all the weddings in.
Home Is Dangerous
Industry has made the work
shop, mill and other places of em
ployment a reasonably safe place
for workmen through years of
study and sustained effort. Untold
millions of dollars have been spent
to make machinery safe and more
millions to educate the working
man and his suoervisors to follow
safe practices through industry.
The whistle blows, the work day
is over, but instead of homeward
plodding his weary way, today’s
workman climbs into his car, now
from four to ten years of age, or
even older and steers it through
a maze of traffic made up of autos
of the same vintage and out on the
highway. Now our man, tired
from a loing work day is stimulat
ed by the fresh outdoor air and
with no one to say nay to him, he
steps on the gas and lets her go.
Arriving at his home in the com
munity, more because of good luck
than caution, it is not surprising
that our friend is in a state of
mind to take more chances.
Instead of entering a haven of
safety when he passes over the
threshold of his home, Mr. Work
ingman enters the most dangerous
place he has been all day, because
more accidents occur in the home
than in industry or on the high
way.
The records show that the three
most frequent causes of accidents
in the home are falls, burns, and
poisons. Forewarned is forearmed.
Breathes there a man with soul
so dead who never turned around
and said, “Hummijim . . . not bad!”