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MEL — ROSE — GLEN"
AUGUST ISSUE
MEL-ROSE-GLEIN
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 (ilenn Plants.
William S. Petree, Director
EVA VENABLE, Secretary
HUPORTERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
(Selected by workers to represent
various departments).
SEAMLESS PLANT
Office - - Beulah Rice
Inspecting Daisy Ring
Looping One Nell Cathhart
Looping Two Mae Beane
Boarding Two Wm. A. Burney
Finishing Two Ruby Oanford
Finishing One Sarah Hooper
Boarding One Jack Underwood
Miscclaneous - 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 Helen Martin
Looping Jennie Hauser
Finishing Gladys Dawson
FULL FASHIOJ^ED PLANT
Looping, Seaming and
Inspecting Mildred Hyde
Knitting One Mildred Hyde
Finishing Altah Wilson
Knitting Two Hoyle Morgan
Knitting Three John Kimball
THE WAY IT IS
You wouldn’t build a mile long
bridge across a little brook,
You wouldn’t use a roasting pan if
you’ve one egg to cook.
You wouldn’t want a great big bus
to be a car for two,
And where you need a bungalow,_
a skyscraper won’t do.
autos, ships and
wouldn’t deem it.
For building
planes, you
wise
To try to use a workroom that was
built to make knit ties.
A person, or a company, to prosper
in this land
Must fill the needs, both large and
small.
That those they serve demand.
For larger needs, the larger firms
—for smaller needs the small:
The customers alone decide if they
succeed or fall.
—L. S. S.
THE SIN OF GOSSIP
Gossip is the tool of the coward.
Christian courage never resorts to
the baspness of gossip to achieve
its end.
Gossip is the product of shallow
minds. They try to impress others
with what they pretend to know.
Gossip is the diversion of the
fool. Wisdom is painfully employed
in the application of knowledge.
Gossip is like a muddy stream
that seeks to find its own level.
Sincerity and love will have no
part of it.
Gossip is really lower than a
viper; only it strikes without
warning.
Gossip associates itself with ly
ing; and thrives on half-truths.
A RECIPE
By Annette Victorin
The recipe must be enscrolled
In gold upon your heart,
And every dawn you must consult
Its guiding, shiny chart.
Ingredients consist of this:
One pound of friendly deeds,
A cup of praise poured lovingly
To fill another’s needs.
Much understanding must be
mixed Into this recipe,
A dash of humo]' lieans and smiles.
HONORED THIS MONTH
MOTHER TO SON
Henry R. Field, Jr. came with M^'Irose July 1947 as
.Cti-
f-ritory. lie is
man ♦overittg the Greati
Montreal, Canada.
Prior to his coming with Melrose he was with MaWhant
Calculating Machine Company, Charlotte, N. C., and with
Monroe Calculating Machine Com.pany, Atlanta, Ga.
He is married to the former Margaret A. Venable and has
a six-months-old daughter, Margaret Susan. He is a veteran
of World War H and served as staff sergeant in Australia and
the Phillipine Islands.
Henry is the golf pro here at Melrose, and the lessons can
be very costly!
WHAT IS JOB SECURITY?
JJy FKED G. CLARK and RICHARD STANTON RIMANOCZY
I
Let’s put job security under the microscope of full-circle thinking and
see what it is and how to get it.
First, we have to know what a job is.
A job consists of being busy making something that somebody else
(called a customer) is willing and able to buy.
Without customers there can be no jobs.
Job security, therefore, requires customers.
II
Now, let’s prove this by finding out the source of factory payroll.
The manufacturer usually gets his income from the wholesalers who
buy his goods.
But the wholesaler gets his money from the retail stores to whom he
sells the goods.
The retailers, in turn, depend on customers: the people who walk into
the store and spend their money.
III
As soon as the customer stops going into the store, jobs all along the
line begin to dry up because all of the money paid to all the workers
in the store, the jobbing house and the factory comes from him.
So the customer is the real employer.
The “bosses” do decide who shall have jobs, but not how manv or what
their payroll shall be.
IV
Now let’s find out how the employees can get job security.
They can’t get it from management unless money is coming in from
customers.
They can get job security only by helping management get customer
security.
Customer security comes only when the goods are of the right quality
design and price to make the customer willing and able to buy them’
In a free country no management can force customers to buy.
Management must persuade the customer, and the employees’ best pro
tection is to help management do the persuading.
V
Mmpletely selfish and looking only for divi
be absolutely necessary because
place as job security: namely.
the same team and win
Reader’s Digest
In this world you will have to
make your own way. To do that
you must have friends. You can
make friends by being honest, and
you can keep them by being stead
fast. You must keep in mind that
friends wor;h having will, in the
long run, expect as much fi-om you
as they give to you. To forget an
obligation or be ungrateful for a
kindness is a base crime — not
merely a fault or a sin, but an ac
tual crime. Men guilty of it sooner
or later must suffer the penalty.
In personal conduct be always
polite, but never obsequious; no
one will respect you more than you
esteem yourself. Avoid quarrels
as long as yoti can without yield
ing to imposition. But sustain your
manhood always. Never bring a
suit at law for assault and battery
or for defaniation. The law affords
no remedy for such outrages that
can satisfy the feelings of a true
man. Never wound the feelings of
others. Never brook wanton out
rage upon your own feelings. If
ever you have to vindicate your
feelings or defend your honor, do
it calmly. If angry at first, wait
till your wrath cools before you
proceed.
(From Andrew Jackson’s last let
ter from his mother). v-
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugih—at yourself.
—Ethel Barrymore.
FOR THE RIGHT KIND
OF LEFTIES
Are you a southpaw? Ever have
trouble with egg beate*5-,"
openers, or with any such similar
things which generally are made
for right-handed people? Then
here’s good news—a lot of our
manufacturers (both right and left
handed) are now re-designing their
products for the benefit of all the
“lefties” — the right kind of
“lefties,” that is. ^ j
■you ?an now’^iir'a m the' stffis’
SUCH things as left-handed cork
screws, fountain pens, wrist-
watches, shears—and even check
books made for the convenience of
left-hand writers!
You are doing your best only
when you are trying to improve-^
what you are doing.
Then there’s the story of the
young machinist who went to the
hospital to see his new-born son.
Looking through the glass front of
the nursery, he asked the nurse
in charge why his son—as well as
all the rest of the newly-arrived
citizens—were bawling so.
“Well,” replied the nurse, “if
you were only a few hours old,
had no clothes and no money, were
out of a job and owed $1,700 as
your part of the Federal debt —
wouldn’t you put up a howl, too?”
Brigham Young said, “Bread is
the staff of life—especially, if it’s
browned well.” That’s the reason
for the old Mormon custom of giv
ing the crusts and heels of the
loaves of bread to elderly persons
as a special favor.
Speaking of real security, Amer
ican families now own 191,000,000
life insurance policies, which is an
average of more than four policies
to a family.
LEST WE FORGET
They that give up essential lib
erty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety.—Benjamin Franklin.
NOT WISE GUYS
I hate the guys who criticize,
and minimize the other guys,
whose enterprise has made them
rise, above the guys who criticize,
and minimize the other guys.
—Mountain States Assn. Bulletin
A teaspoonful of neutrons wo
weigh around 210 million