The MILL Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees WHISTLE MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC, Manufacturing Division, Spray, North Carolina Volume Two Monday, June 5, 1944 Number 24 WINNER IN FIELDALE BEAUTY CONTEST Miss Lillian Skeen.—Lillian recently won the beauty conte-ot held at the Fieldale school building during the an nual beauty pageant. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Skeen and is very popular in local society circles. She is a graduate of Fieldale high school and has been employed in the hosiery mill for the past year. Service Men, Attention! We’re grateful to you for sending us your change of address, but we’re get ting back an awful lot of papers, due to the fact that you’ve been transferred to another post. In order to keep our files up to date and speed your paper on its way, won’t you send us your change of address as soon as possible? Your commanding officer will give you a card printed for that purpose. The best of luck, fellows. V I am an A-1 planter, the biggest in the state, said the undertaker to the draft board—seeking deferment. Draft Board; But nothing you plant ever comes up—you’re in 1-A. V Help pave the road to Berlin with bombs—Buy Bonds Now! Welcome, Scholars! Since the close of school in our com munities a good many students have found employment with the company. To these fine young boys and girls we extend a hearty welcome for it is you youngsters, today, who will be our leader-j tomorrow. Many of you, we know, will be with us only during the summer months. Many others will have finished scholas tic work and settled down to a career To the former we repeat that we’re glad to have you. You can’t work for Marshall Field & Co. for even three months without absorbing some of the traditions of our company; traditions that you will carry with you into schools and colleges all over the coun try. You will be a sort of “unofficial ambassador” for our company; you’ll tell others of the work we are doing and after working a few months with us we know that you’ll be a good am bassador. Just what the Marshall Field & Co. tradition is would be hard to explain, if not impossible. But it’s there. To those of us who have been employed for several years the answer is still impossible but perhaps this comes close to it: Not many years ago Marsh all Field & Co. was just another man ufacturing firm. Today it is near the top. And we have gone along with it. We feel that r ir small efforts have helped to make he company what it is today. Our pride in our company is somewhat personal, but we feel that our own individual efforts have con tributed in a small way towards mak ing Marshall Field & Co. known around the world. You youngsters have, for several years, been deeply imbued with what is known as “the school spirit”. You boys have been ready and willing to suffer physical pain on the athletic fields for the sake and honor of your school. You girls have been equally willins; to “go down the line” for the dear old school. That, in a way, is how we feel about our company; that, brief ly, is what the Marshall Field & Co. tradition is. You attended your school for years, your thoughts were nearly always connected with the school, your actions as well. In short, your personal (Continued on Page 7) M. F. & Co. Man Elected To Important Office H. E. Latham, Employment Manager, Marshall Field & Co., Manufacturing Division, Spray, N. C., has been elect ed vice-president of the Credit Union National Association representing the twelve Southern States. By virtue of this office, Latham automatically be comes a member of the Executive Com mittee of the Board of Directors of the Credit Union National Association. Latham has had several years ex perience in credit union work, having served three terms as president of the North Carolina Credit Union League, and five years as member of the Board of Directors of the National Associa tion. Still True Husband: If a man steals, no matter what, he will live to regret it. Wife (coyly): You used to steal kisses from me before we were married. Husband: Well, you heard what I said. V . . . — Let’s Bomb the Bums with Bonds! 'V