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MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY, INC
Manufacturing Division, Spray, North Careikn
Volume Four
Monday, August 27, 1945
Hold Those Bonds!
The war is over, and we’re all happy
about it. But while we’re rejoicing we
must keep in mind that it is only the
actual fighting that is over. We have
accumulated an enormous national debt
in bringing the war to a successful close
and that debt, of course, must be paid.
If we start cashing in our bonds now
it will take that much longer to pay the
national debt. By holding them we are
giving Uncle Sam just that much more
time to “get back on his feet,” and we’ll
be doing ourselves a nice favor by letting
the interest accumulate. It is, by long
odds, the best investment in the world
today, and the safest.
Of course. Uncle Sam will refund your
money at any time, but you don’t need
it and the government does. So by hold
ing to your bonds you’ll be doing a
k double'favor—to yourself and to your
r country.
Your bonds are the same as money in
the bank, and you show sound personal
investment sense by keeping them intact.
Moreover, when the inevitable “rainy
day” does'eome you’ll be prepared.
And always remember this; Thou
sands of fine young men have" fought
and died gloriously for the country they
loved; the country you love. The least
you can do is to help in every manner
to bring back this great country to the
peaceful prosperity for which these men
fought and died. That prosperity can
only come—to stay—when our huge na
tional debt is paid.
Hold it, brother, hold that bond. Some
day it may mean the difference be
tween hunger and happiness to you and
your family.
V . . . —
A raw recruit, who in civilian life
had been a professor of English lit
erature, was utterly exhausted after
several hours of drilling on his first
day at camp.
“At ease,” finally ordered the offi
cer.
“How wonderful is death,” mutter
ed the recruit.
The officer turned like a flash. “Who
kSaid that?” he demanded.
f The culprit smiled wanly and re
plied, “Shelley, I believe, sir.”
V . . . —
“You like bathing beauties, don’t you.
Bill?”
“Don’t know, never bathed one yet.”
Here’s the standing
on August
22nd:
Danville
82
36
.695
Raleigh
67
50
.573
Martinsville
57
59
.491
Leaksville
57
61
.483
Burlington
55
62
.470
Durham
52
64
.448
Winston-Salem
48
65
.425
Greensboro
46
67
.407
V . . . —
“Is there hot water
in your
house?”
asked one small boy of another.
“There is,” replied the other, “and
I am always in it.”
Number Four
About the Cubs
The past fortnight has seen little or
no change in the Cubs standing. We’re
playing about .500 ball, which is good
enough to keep us in the first division
for the remainder of the season, and
there i.s a chance of catching and passing
Martinsville.
We’ve got to take back something we
said last time. We wrote that Zam was
a whale of a center fielder, “but didn’t
hit much.” The boy has been hitting
since then, and his hits are both hard
and timely. Yes, he’ll go up in a year or
two.
And some of the fellows took issue
with us for saying that most of our
pitchers were just so-so. We won’t re
tract that, but we would like to add
that any pitcher who makes good on a
team in Class C baseball has got to be
pretty good. There are no such things
as bad pitchers in organized baseball.
The way to put it, we think, is to say
that there is, on most teams, at least
one or two outstanding pitchers—which
certainly doesn’t mean that the others
are bad.
It’s a pity—in a way—that Crawford
is a hard hitter, for to our mind he is an
ideal lead-off man. He hits often, gets
on base about as much as the next fel
low, is the fastest man in the club on
the base paths, and takes daring chances.
What more could anyone want in a
lead-off man? And he’s a left handed
hitter, too.
Perchak certainly plays in tough luck
at home. The little first baseman gets
up there time after time and smacks the
ball right on the nose and hard! But it
seems he invariably hits into a waiting
fielder’s glove. Well, kid, the luck is
bound to change.
Luther Hodges
Directs Audit
(From the Greensboro Daily News)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—A crew of
about 30 department of agriculture em
ployees drafted especially for the job
are working on an audit of'the Com
modity Credit corporation records here
which is expected to be completed in
about a month, agriculture officials said
today.
The audit is being conducted under
supervision of Luther Hodges, vice-
president of Marshall Field and com
pany, a native of Leaksville-Spray, who
was brought to Washington by the tex
tile industry several months ago as an
advisor to the office of price admini
stration, and was retained by CCC for
the inventory audit.
The audit was instituted, it was ex
plained, to provide the CCC with its
own check against the figures arrived
at by the official government accounting
office which regularly checks records of
all government offices. Criticism was
directed at CCC from several sources
several months ago and officials explain
ed at the time that huge purchases of
supplies for lend-lease and other purpos
es have run into billions of dollars, the
supplies moving in and out daily, which
has made it impossible for the agency to
maintain its inventory on a current
basis.
Hodges was retained to try to bring
the CCC audit operations and those of
the government accounting office in ac
cord, and to work out a system under
which the inventory reports can be kept
current.
Under the new production and mar
keting administration in which CCC
was incorporated several days ago, the
agency will continue to function as the
banking institution for all buying and
selling operations of the program.
V . . . —
A chap was arraigned for assault,
and brought before the judge.
Judge: “What’s your name and oc
cupation, and what are you charged
with?”
Prisoner; “My name is Sparks, I’m
an electrician, and I’m charged with
battery.”.
Judge (after recovering his equi
librium); “Officer, put this guy in a
dry cell.”