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THE MILL WHISTLE
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MILL WHISTLE
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For the Employees of
MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY
MANUFACTURING DIVISION
SPRAY, NORTH CAROLINA
J. U. NEWMAN, JR., Editoi
August 27, 1945
WE HAVE BEEN LIVING in a house that no longer stands—the
House of War. We must now move to another house — the House of
Peace. This moving business has many complications and now, more
than at any other time during the past four years, we must keep busy
until the moving is completed.
True, Victory is ours, and a lot of people feel that the task is over.
Nothing could be further from the truth. As President Truman said in
announcing the Jap surrender, “we have a hard task ahead.” That
task, as we understand it, is in individual cooperation (by every single
one of us) with industry, business and the government.
Fighting is over, but that’s all. The war will not be completely
won until all of our fighting men are back home and until the country
once again is living, thinking, working peace.
As in the past, we must help feed and clothe the world—or most
of it. We must do that while working our way back to normalcy. This
certainly is no time to let-up in cur work. On the contrary it is more
important than ever that we stick to our .jobs, work as hard, or harder,
than ever before. That should be a real pleasure, for now we can real
ly look forward to peace and prosperity, secure in the knowledge that
we have done everything in our power to aid our men in bringing Wc-
tory to us; we can look ahead and see, not bloodshed and desolution,
but a country united in its efforts to bring lasting peace and prosperity
to all.
No, there must be no slackening of work, no laying off a day or
two because “the necessity no longer exists.” We are, as during the
past few years, all working towards a common goal, and we must con
tinue to work regularly and hard. Those of us in the textile industry
are indeed fortunate that there isn’t a great deal of reconverting to do,
and we should be equally thankful that there is still a great and urgent
need of all the goods we can produce — for our own needs as well as
those of peoples in war-torn lands.
Let’s compare the present to moving — as we mentioned in the
beginning — from the House of War to the House of Peace. Most of
us, doubtlessly, have at one time or another moved from one town to
another, or from one house to another. So we know that moving means
a lot of work, both in dismantling the old house and preparing the new
one. We know that changes have to be made in the new one, that it
must be thoroughly cleaned before we .start moving in our belongings.
Then things must be arranged and re-arranged until everything ap
pears to be in its proper place.
So, that’s the situation now. Before we can settle down and enjoy
living in the House of Peace that house must be prepared. Everybody
must pitch in and work hard to get the house ready. Everybody must
help to move the furniture in; help to arrange it.
Then there’s the grounds. That, too requires work. Only when ev
erything is in its right place can we settle down and enjoy ourselves.
The house is our work, our daily lives. The people preparing to
move in are ourselves. The grounds are the foreign countries. So the
war isn’t really over until we have bought the new house (by buying
War Bonds and refusing to cash in the ones we have), until we realize
that we must work as hard as ever before, and help those war-torn
countries back to normalcy.
Then, and only then, can we say the war is really over.
The picture shown above at right was
taken while Pvt. Walter T. Curry was at
home on a 10-day leave. He train :d
at Camp Robinson and is now station
ed at Fort Ord, Calif. He is a former
employee of the Blanket Mill.
Pvt. Eugene R. Cobb, left, who has
been in service one year, is now located
somewhere in the South Pacific. He
has three brothers in service—Her
man, David and Robert. Another
brother, Jasper, was killed in France
October 1944. He is a son of Mrs.
Annie Cobb of Draper.
TOOTS
From the General Office
By Helen Redmon
Mountains Ho!
Vacationing at Banner Elk, N. C., thi.si
week are Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Smith andf
their son John Rand, Miss Annie Baughn
and Mr. June Lineback.
Far From Quiet
Among a group celebrating the end
of the war were Margaret Edwards, Ann
Dillard Grogan and Helen Redmon. Bell
ringing, whistle blowing and singing
gave them all a big appetite for hot dogs
and buttermilk.
Vacationist
Mae Roberts back from two weeks
at Virginia Beach—boy, what a grand
tan, Elaine Collins and “Elaine Jr.,” Zig-
lar are spending two weeks at Atlantic
Beach. Marguerite Bendigo vacationed
in Greensboro. Maggie Bowling visit
ing in Roanoke and Mr. C. C. Campbell
and family vacationing at Pauley Beach,
S. C.
Fortune Telling-
Wanted: Star gazer, crystal ganer,
card readers, tea leaf readers, or any
reasonable facsimile t o relieve over
worked fortune tellers of this sector.
Visitors
Velma Minter of the New York Office
is spending a few days in Spray. Irene
Boone and Jane Simmons visited the
New York Office last week.
Back Yard Sun-Tan
No discomfort for Howard Sheffield,^
he acquired his sun-tan at home.-
Gretchen Becker, likewise—nice too.
Missing
Ruth Robertson of the purchasinjg
department is ill. Hurry back, Ruth.