MEL - ROSE - GLEN
THE VOICE OF MELROSE AND GLENN MILLS
Volume 3
high point, N. C., march issue, 1947
GLENN HOSIERY MILLS
(Infanta* and Misses* Goods)
No. 7
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BELIEVE ITorNoT
H.C.
HAS ONLY
2300
DOCTORS
FOR
3'/z
million
PEOPLE
North carouha
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THE
Number OF
DOCTORS AMVE
55yRS,OFA3E
HAS INCREASED
34 COUNTIES HAVE NO HOSPITAL BEPS
Bl COUNTIES HAVE LESS THAN 2 BEDS PER lOOO
31 COUNTIES HAVE LESS THAN 2to4 BEM PER 1000
OF OUR RURAL BABIES
HAVE NO DOCTOR ATTENDING
AT birth/ —
North Carolina Good
Health Program
Almost everybody likes a riddle.
Here’s one. What is it that every
person, needs, wants and would
spend a fortune to get; yet some
thing that everybody has within
easy reach, often already possess
es without appreciating, and as
often loses by one’s carelessness;
and something that all who have a
sense of responsibility in society
should be willing to help all oth
ers attain and keep?
The answer is just one word—
health. That is everybody’s num
ber one problem It is definitely
“N o r t h Carolina’s number one
problem.”
Too many things in our modern
and complex society rest in the
realm of the visionary and even
impossible, but here is a great need
that we can do something about.
And an interested group of North
Carolinians are out to do some
thing about it.
Recognizing the perilous state
of the health of North Carolinians
causing North Carolina to be rank
ed woefully near the bottom in a
comparison of health factors in
the nation, these citizens through
the North Carolina Good Health
Association are out to sell good
I RED CROSS I
I Red Cross is asking for twos
I hours pay deducted in one pay |
I day. This is the lowest asking |
i in a number of years. Let usi
jail please put it over 100%. |
health to the people of Tar Heelia.
This means providing medical
care of every citizen of the state,
placing hospitalization within a
25-mile reach of every citizen,
preaching the practice of preven
tive medicine to lessen disease and
its results, and providing more
doctors, dentists, nurses, and
medical associates to serve North
Carolinians.
A great program but not an im
possible one! The general assem
bly of North Carolina has already
put its blessing on such a pro
gram. Now it i^emains for thiei
money to be provided, and that
will be provided if the people of
North Carolina want it.
Last November 9, the Good
Health campaign was launched in
the state with a radio broadcast
from Hollywood. Get behind this
good health program and see to
it that no longer North Carolina
neglects the health of its people.
INDUSTRIAL
Num
Miss Idol, Melrose’s industrial
nurse, has completed one year’s
full activities with the company.
This is a service which our mills
have provided for employees in
addition to sick and hospital care
provided thru the insurance
agency. Melrose felt the need for
this day to day in the shop assis
tance for workers, and, in line with
an attempt to safeguard the wel
fare of all employees, the indus
trial nurse program was substi
tuted for the old time first-aid kits
in departments.
The following tabulation will
give some idea of the many serv
ices given personally by Miss Idol
to our employees. In addition to
assistance in accidents referred to
insurance companies, during the
past year there were 331 minor
first aid treatments. Other activi
ties are listed: 168 home visita
tions 244 conferences; 86 referrals
to agencies and physicians; 166
redressings; 166 typhoid vaccina
tions.
This general program has been
welcomed by all Melrose and Glenn
employees and has justified its
continuance as one of the person
nel projects of our company.
WAGE INCREASE
EFFECTIVLFEB. 17
Effective February 17 a wage
increase has been released in the
three mills. It is the announced
policy of the company to raise
wages, from time to time as need
arises. This procedure has been
followed repeatedly during the
past five or six years.
It is the intention of Melrose
and Glenn mills to keep wages in
line with competitive conditions in
our industry. There have been
many and complex problems lead
ing up to the war, during the war
and during post war months. Our
management has said that while
our company may not lead the in
dustry, we can all depend upon it
that Melrose will stay among the
top 10% in the industry.
Changes in piece rates and hour
ly rates have been placed in the
hands of foremen and the wage
adjustments have been explained
in all of our shops.
IT’S UP TO YOU
Even Superman
Supports the Good Health Plan;
He knows what it will do.
It’s all up to you.
It’s all up to you.
Spread the health alarm
Through every town and farm
And preach the Good Health view.
It’s all up to you.
It’s all up to you.
You”ll find being healthy
Means more than a well filled
purse.
What good’s being wealthy
When you can’t buy a doctor or a
nurse?
When the job is done
We”ll wind up number onC
Instead of forty-two.
It’s all up to you.
It’s all up to you.
We need vitamins and medicine
and beds to spare.
Places where the sick can go to
get some, care
Lots of new equipment to com
bat disease.
Clinics where the poor can go
for moderate fees,
Free examinations for the kids in
class,
A kid whose health is good will
have a chance to pass.
If we do these things then we will
be the state
Where the weak grow strong and
the strong grow great.
Do your state a favor
The task is yours alone.
Be a real life-saver
And the chance is that you will
save your own.
What a spot we’re in
We’ve simply got to win
The job is overdue.
It’s all up to you.
It’s all up to you.
House Parties
When any employees of Mel
rose are having house parties—
wedding anniversaries, etc, involv
ing workers from our mills, if you
will please notify personnel in ad
vance a photographer will be avail
able without cost to you so that we
can get pictures for Melrose-Glen.
Jesus went about doing good—
so many paonle just go about.
-r-The Speakers Library