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Page 2 MEL — ROSE — GLEN SEPTEMBER ISSUE MEL-ROSE-aLEN Voice of Melrose and Glenn Mills Published Monthly by Melrose Hosiery Mills» Inc., High Point, N. C. A Co-operative Endeavor Sponsored by 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 - Beulah Rice Inspecting Daisy Rinf? Looping: One Nell Cathhart Looping Two jjlae Beane Boarding: Two Wm. A. Burney Finishing Two - Margaret Cain Finishing One Sarah Hooper Boarding One Jack Underwood Miscellaneous Agnes Butler Knitting Two Thelma Edwards Knitting Three Agnes Carter Boarding Two M. J. Setzer Looping Two Irene Bryant Knitting One Mary Johnson GLENN PLANT Knitting One Helen Dailey Knitting Two Edith Sands Looping Jennie Hauser Finishing Gladys Dawson FULL FASHIONED PLANT Looping, Seaming and Inspecting Mildred Hyde Knitting One Mildred Hyde Finishing Altah Wilson Knitting Two Hoyle Morgan Knitting Three John Kimball THE ART OF GETTING ALONG Sooner or later, a man, if he is virise, discovers that life is a mix ture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. He learns that it doesn’t pay to be a sensitive soul; that he should let some things go over his head like water off a duck’s 'lack. He learns that he who loses his temper usually loses out. He learns that all men hav^e burnt toast for break fast now and then, and that he shouldn’t take the other fellow’s grouch too seriously. He learns that carrying a chip on his shoul der is the easiest way to get into a fight. He learns that the quickest way to become unpopular is to carry tales and gosip about others. He learns that buck-passing al ways turns out to be a boomerang and that it never pays. He comes to realize that the business could run along perfectly well without him. He learns that it doesn’t matter so much who gets the credit so long as the business shows a profit. He learns that even the janitor is human and that it doesn’t do any harm to smile and say “Good Morning,” even if it rain ing. He .learns that most of the other fellows are as ambitious as he is, that they have brains that are as good or better, and that hard work and not cleverness is the se cret of success. He learns to sym pathize with the youngster coming into the business, because he re members how bewildered he was when he first started out. He learns not to worry when he loses an order, because experience has shown that if he always gives his best, his average will break pretty well. He learns that no man ever got to first base alone, and that it is only through cooperative effort that we, move on to better things. He learns that bosses are no mon sters, trying to get the last ounce of work out of him for the least amount of pay, but are usually fine men who have succeeded through hard work and who want to do the right things. He learns that folks are not harder to get along with in one place than another, and that “GETTING ALONG” depends about ninety-eight per cent on his own behavior. —Consolidated Textile News “If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” —W. Somerset Maugham ABOUT NYLON (Continued from Page One) secured directly.) From whatever source the “ny lon salt” is made, it is produced immediately by running adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine together in stainless steel equip ment. In dry form it looks much like table salt. In handling, it is dissolved in water and transported in tank cars to nylon yarn plants where it is piped to the top floor of a building to evaporotors where a more concentrated solution is formed. This fluid flows into a giant pressure cooker—an auto clave—where polymerization takes place. On a large scale the link ing together of small molecules in to giant ones is set up. The “linking up” process can be controlled by introducing at the proper moment a chemical which blocks off the linking up. To help visualize this performance chem ists picture adipic acid and hexa methylene diamine, each as a short chain with a hook at either end. When two parts are “hooked,” there is still a hook at either end of the longer chain. This continues until the long chains, or polymers, are formed. The stoppage, or blockage of polymerization is con trolled by introducing a chemical which closes the hooks. A slot in the bottom of the au toclave is opened and the sticky mixture is allowed to flow out on the surface of a broad revolving wheel. A shower of water causes the polymer to harden. Air jets whisk the water away leaving a milky-white ribbon which is chip ped into flakes. The flakes from several auto claves are blended to secure uni formity. The new mixture is then “washed” by passing it into a blast of nitrogen which purges out the oxygen. All of this takes place in what is called the spinning hop per. A valve at the lower end of the hopper is now opened and the flake falls onto a melting grid. which looks much like the coiled heating unit of an electric stove. The molten polymer passes thru the grid into a chamber from which it is squeezed by a special pump into and through the spin neret, which is a large scale hy- perdermic needle. The spinneret in a thick disc of metal about the diameter of a silver dollar. It is pierced with fine holes. Before the polymer starts through the spin neret, however, it is “filtered” thru a layer of sand to insure smoothness and purity. The pump ing process is quite important and it must deliver the polymer to the spinneret at a constant rate. This determines denier, or thickness. A one-denier fibre is one of such size that 9,842 yards weigh only one gram. A one-denier filament, or thread, of nylon has a diameter of about 2.sooths of an inch. (About 20 denier yarn is used in 51 guage SOMEONEONCESAD) “Liberty is the one thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.” —William Allen White full fashion hose.) The thick po lymer is squeezed through the holes of a spinneret and drawn off at the rate of 3,000 feet per min ute. The filaments are air cooled, pased over a lubricating roll, that puts a finish on the surface and prevents the accumulation of stat ic electricity. It also helps the fil aments stick together. Up to this stage the yarn has undergone no change within itself since leaving the spinneret. Now it is drawn, or stretched, by trav eling between rolls revolving at different speeds. This cold draw ing process lines up the mole cules parallel with each other and close together. The result is a strong fibre, ready to be sized and tested. “WORK” Is the Word By Melvin Jones At the present time there are many predictions with respect to another depression and future wars. We had hoped that the hu man race had developed to the point where man would be able to meet any situation that arose. We had contended that there are more opportunities now, for the use of intelligence, wisdom and diplo macy, than there ever have been before. And what is Opportunity? John F. Ingalls writes: Master of human destinies am I; Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk. I pene trate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleening, wake—if feasting, rise, before I turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death: but to those who doubt or hesitate. Condemned to failure, penury, and woe. Seek me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more. Walter Malone answers Ingalls’ version of Opportunity and writes: They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in: For every day I stand outside your door. And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away, Weep not for golden ages on the wane; Fc-oh night I burn the records of the day. At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come. Though in the mire, wring not your hands and weep! I lend my arm to all who say, “I can!” No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep But he might rise and be again a man. Van Amburgh takes another view of Opportunity, as follows; Impractical, absurd! They both do wrong the word. The Pessimist grants no value to experience gone before. The Optimist burns the records at the door. You have the key to human des tiny—the Will to Win. Opportunity is but the door— bravely walk right in— And go to work. “Work” is the word! Here the poet brings out the thought that “work” is the word. So why can’t we get busy and work to avoid depressions and wars, both on the home front and on the international front ? The best verse hasn’t been rhymed yet. The best house hasn’t been planned. The_ highest peaks haven’t been climbed yet. The mightiest rivers aren’t spanned. Don’t worry and fret, faint hearted. The chances have just begun. For the best jobs haven’t been started. The best work hasn’t been done. Diana: “I think your husband dresses nattily.” Milly: “Natalie who?” Voice Of The Past The honored voice if the late Ju.dicp Oliver Wendell Holmes of tbf U S. Supreme Court comes out of the past to warn consumers: "I cannot believe that in the long run the public will profit by permitting knaves to cut reasonable prices for some ulterior purpose of their own and thus, to impair, if not to destroy, the production and sale of articles- «'hich the public should be able to get.” Fair Trade laws have been enactcd in 4.5 States to protect the put)lic -Tgainst nhony bargains and centr.^Jized control over the Na tion's rotail stores '
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