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MEL — ROSE — GLEN
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
MEL-RO SE-GLEN
Voice of Melrose and
Glenn Mills.
Published Monthly by Melrose Hosiery
Mills. Inc., High 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.
EVA VENABLE, Secretary
REPORTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
(Selected by workers to represent
various departments).
SEAMLESS PLANT:
Office Mary Moore
Knittinjr, No. 1, 1st
Knitting No. 2—1st Helen Sheffield
Knitting No. 1—2nd Thelma Edwards
Knitting No. 1—3rd . Almcdia Dennis
Looping Room No. 1— Lois Harrison
Looping No. 2—1st Nona Sechrest
Looping No. 2 ... Belle Poole
Finishing Room 1-lst Ethel Leatherman
Finishing Rm. No. 2 Lillian Anderson
Betty Easter
Boarding No. 1—1st
Boarding No. 1—2nd, Edith Whitaker
Boarding No. 2—1st, Virginia Bizzell
Boarding No. 2-2nd J. D. Crose
Sewing No. 2—1st Ethel Millikan
Sewing No. 2—2nd -
Miscellaneous Agnes Butler
GLENN PLANT
Knitting 1st Edith Haltom
Knitting—2nd Jeraldine Trogdon
Looping Jennie Hauser
Finishing Room . Gladys Dawson
FULL FASHIONED PLANT.
Looping, Inspecting and
Seamin? Depts. Maxine Hobby
Finishing—1st Altah W'ilson
Knitting—1st Hoyle Morgan
Knitting—2nd K athryn Snow
Knitting—3rd Hoyle Morgan
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Editorial
MENTAL BARRIERS
(From Slater News)
Houdini, the magician and es
cape ai-tist, could get out of any
jail, handcuffs, or strait-jacket
that he ever tried — that is all
save one.
That one place v.'?s little jail
in the British IsleL. Houdini
worked at the cell lock for more
than two hours. He worked with
that terrific speed that usually
unlocked doors in thirty seconds.
But he couldn’t get the lock to
spring. Finally, tired out by his
strenuous efforts, he fell against
the door. It swung open—it had
never been locked!
Life is something like that, isn’t
it? We build up in our minds
barriers that do not exist. We
lock ourselves up in the jail of
failure by doubts and fears that
live only in our imaginations.
Some of us have stopped try
ing because of past failures; we
think there is no use. We think
that the door to success has been
locked against us. Maybe, if in
stead of sitting down and giving
up, we I would just lean against
the door, it would swing open.
John L. Sullivan licked his op
ponents by licking their minds
first—by making them fear him.
Let’s not be licked by MENTAL
BARRIERS!
Garland Frank, Jr., son of
Blanche Amos.
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SOMEONE ONCE SAID
“The pessimist says—
‘IF I DON’T TRY, I CAN’T
FAIL.’
The optimist says—
‘IF I DON’T TRY, I CAN’T
WIN.’ ’’—Anon.
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“Cheer up, friend,” said the
parson to a dying editor, “you
have a bright future ahead of
you.”
“That’s what’s bothering me,”
gasped the editor, “I can see it
blazing.”
The face of the world looks as
though it had shaved itself with
a broken beer bottle while stand
ing on a barrel in a cyclone.
The man whose pants wear out
before his shoes is making too
many contacts at the wrong end.
It's A Joke Son!
(The following is taken from
Charley Jones’ Famous “LAUGH
BOOK.” It is copyright material
and used with the special permissi-
ion of Charley Jones.)
Skeptic
Pat was walking thru a country
church-yard, quite at peace with
the world and reading over the
names on the stones, when he
came to one that particularly in
terested him—
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you must be.
Prepare for death
And follow me.
Pat alternately scratched his
head and read it over, several
times, then dug a stub of pencil
from his pocket and wrote just
beneath it:
Where you are now, I wish you
well.
If up in Heaven, or down in
hell.
But to follow you. I’ll not
consent
Till I find out which way you
went.
—R. L. Erskine, Portland.
“We were so happy for over a
year. Your Honor, and then—then
the baby came.”
“Boy or girl?”
“Girl—she was a blonde and
moved in next door.’—C. B. L.
Sanatorium, N. C.
High School Lad (doing home
work): “Dad, what happens when
a boy is completely in water?”
His Pop: “The telephone rings.”
Every so often we take the
solemn pledge to lay off puns.
Then a court in Oregon sends a
girdle thief up for a stretch.
100 Percent American
Two Indians obtained a room in
a big city hotel. Two days elapsed
and the manager having heard
nothing from his guests, became
worried and opened the door with
his master key. He found a tepee
set up in the room, and one of the
Indians sitting in front of it
smoking a pipe.
“How,” said the Indian.
“Where’s your friend?” asked
the manager.
“In there,’ grunted the Indian,
indicating the bathroom.
The manager looked in the
bathroom and found the other In
dian on the floor with an arrow
in his heart.
“My Lord, who killed him?”
asked the manager.
“Me, I killed him,” grunted the
Indian.
“Why did you do it?’
“Him spit in spring!”
Big Chance
“What a change has come over
your husband Zeke since we per
suaded him to join the church,”
exulted a preacher in the hill-billy
country. “Have you noticed it?”
“Sure have,” agreed Zeke’s
wife. “Before, when he went visit
ing on Sundays he carried his jug
o’ corn whiskey on his shoulders.
Now he hides it under his coat.”
The cute little calves at the
beach are what makes the old men
horse around!
The longest word in the English
language is the one following the
phrase; “And now just a word
from our sponsor.”
I saw a car one day with two
little signs set into the control
panel. On the left it said, pilot,
and on the right, co-pilot. On the
same car on the left and right of
the rear bumper, was lettered:
“passing side” and “suicide.”—B.
M., Malden, Mass.
Tough On Hubby
Man: “My wife says that if I
don’t give up drinking she’ll leave
me.”
Friend: “That’s going to be
pretty hard, isn’t it?”
Man: “Yes, I’ll miss her.”—C.
W., Atlantic City, N. J.
“I finally broke my husband of
biting his nails.”
“You did! How?”
“I hid his teeth.”
Confusing
An old judge who was known
for the remarkable speed with
which he disposed of his cases,
was asked by a friend to explain
it.
“I always listen to the plaintiff,
and then I make my decision.”
“Never to the defendant?”
“Well, I did at first, but I found
that it confused me.
Some widows get rid of the
darkness in their lives by striking
another match.
Amen!
A visitor at the capitol was ac
companied by his small son. The
little boy watched from the gal
lery when the House came to
order.
“Why did the minister pray
for all those men. Pop?’
“He didn’t. He looked them
over and then prayed for the
country.”
Convinced
Officer: “Look here, fella,
what’s the idea of coming down
the street in a barrel? Are you
a poker player?”
Offender: “Nope, but I spent a
couple of hours with some guys
who are.”
Grandma Wize says the reason
the average girl would rather
have beauty than brains is be
cause the average man can see
better than he can think!
Overheard in a department
store: “Listen, Myrt, if you just
keep your back turned, the cus
tomer will go away.”—T. L., Se
attle.
Whether you are at the beach
or the old swimming hole, before
you dive into the water the Na
tional Safety Council suggests
you ask yourself three questions:
do you know that the water is
deep enough and free of obstruc
tions ? If there is someone around
who can help you if you have
trouble? Has it been two hours
since your last meal?
Better be dead 'sure than sure
dead!