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THE MILL WHISTLE
November 6, 1944
The
MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
SPRAY, North Carolina J. U. NEWMAN, JR., Editor
A LITTLE OF THIS AND SOME OF THAT: We’ve had so many
requests to publish something of a political, religious, or otherwise
controversional nature that we think this is a good time to restate our
editorial policy—such as it is. Ihe Mill Whistle is an employe publica
tion. Its sole interest is in the activities of our company and the em
ployes of the company. Outside news does not concern us except
where it may interest our service nien and women.
Many people send in material that is of such a personal nature
that it couldn’t possibly interest anyone outside of their own families.
We don’t feel that the boys and girls in camps and foxholes are great
ly concerned over family affairs in families other than their own. And
the Mill Whistle, first of all, is being published for the expressed pur
pose of keeping the boys and girls in the armed service posted on the
doings back home.
So, if you have a “beef”, if you want to tell the world you are
going to vote for Roosevelt or Dewey, and why, or if you feel that you
have an argument that everyone ought to hear you should send it to
the daily or weekly papers who provide a space in their columns for
just such things.
We are strictly a Marshall Field & Company paper. Among our
thousands of employes are men and women of every religious faith,
of every political belief. The sole aim of The Mill Whistle is to keep
faith with our fellow workers. And publishing something that express
es the beliefs of half of the people would be breaking faith with the
other half.
BASEBALL COMES BACK TO THE TRI-CITIES: We can’t help
but get a little excited over the prospect of having baseball again next
summer. The company, as usual, is solidly behind this movement, just
as they are anything that interests us. The park will be put in fine
.shape by next April, and already the dyed-in-the-wool fans are pre
dicting to beat the band.
The new league—for the information of you fellows far from
home—will be Class C, one class higher than the old Bi-State, and
will be composed- of eight towns. At present it appears that the towns
will be Danville, Leaksville-Spray-Draper, Burlington, Greensboro,
Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh and Rocky Mount. That covers the
state pretty thoroughly, and the name of the new league will be the
Carolina League.
Of special interest to us is that Dr. Tom Wilson, brother of our
J. F., will be president of the league. You fellows need no introduction
to either of those men. Both were fine ball players.
Just where the players will come from is a matter of speculation.
The great majority of ball players are now wearing Uncle Sam’s uni
form, so the class of ball we will see next summer may not be better
than that we saw in the Bi-State, but it will be good. And after two
years without baseball the fans will welcome almost any kind.
The league, and the new name, is of special interest to this edi
tor, for away back in 1912 or 1913 we were a member of the Raleigh
team in the original Carolina League. So it’s like meeting an old
friend to see this league come to the Tri-Cities. Incidentally, the Ral
eigh manager in those days was Earl Mack, son of the immortal Con
nie, and who is now being groomed to succeed his father as manager
of the Philadelphia Athletics when Connie steps down—if he ever
does.
Hurry home, you fellows, and let’s go out to the ball game once
again and tell those umpires a few things. You ought to be good now,
after yelling at the Japs and Nazis for so long.
TOOTS
From the General Office
By L. H. Sheffield
John Burns, of the Auditing Staff, is
sure getting around. He is attending
every dance within a radius of a hun
dred miles of Leaksville-Spray. John
says that he is going to teach these
Southern gals to jitterbug if he breaks
both legs doing it. (He means his
legs.)
Most of you remember Mr. John
Crompton, Chief Auditor of the Cor
porate Office. He is spending some
time with us in connection with the
audit. We are glad to have you with
us, Mr. Crompton.
We are also glad to see Lawson Ivie,
of the New York Sales Division,
around. He is visiting the mills this
week.
Earle Brown and Hugh Bundy are
in New York this week on business.
This correspondent asked Hugh, as he
was leaving the office Friday, if he
could furnish any news relative to his
trip—he replied, “Heck no! You will
write it to suit yourself anyway!” I
have no more to say, Hugh, except—
hurry home, I don’t want to have to
pay for all my Coca-Colas.
Monty Cooke and her young daugh
ter, Elizabeth Anne, spent last week
end in Atlanta visiting Mr. Cooke.
“Wig”, we all missed your column
last week—hope the censors haven’t
got you in the dog house.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick is visiting her son,
Lt. Thomas Kirkpatrick, of the Army
Air Service, in Topeka, Kansas.
The following gals celebrated some
body’s birthday or something-or-other
last week-end in Martinsville, Va.—
Frances and Rachel Cowan, Louise
Cook, Mabel Smith, Margaret Edwards
and Mary Stevens—Rachel permitted
your correspondent to quote her as
saying, “Hen parties are very dull af
fairs.”
Avis Jamison and Marguerite Ben
digo both report having had a very
pleasant visit in New York. However,
they say that my advice came too late
to be of any service to them; anyway
girls you will know what to do the
next time you visit New York.
Anne Dillard Grogan is having trou
ble with a letter she received from her
best boy friend stationed somewhere
in the Chinese War Theatre. She could
read what he had written but there
were a lot of Chinese characters on the
stationery he used—Anne is afraid that
some pretty Chinese gal has added a
postscript to his letter—G r e t c h e n
Becker is doing the translation.
This is drab news, folks, but it is
the best I could get. John Powell let
me down this time. Just remembea-,
Poddner, thar’s news in that there
General Office—help me dig it out.