New Officials Of Fieldcrest Mills, In*
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■^pyright 1953, Marshall Field & Company
Issued Every Two Weeks By and For
the Employees of Fieldcrest Mills, Divi
sion of Marshall Field & Company, Inc.,
Spray, North Carolina
OTIS MARLOWE Editor
Vol. XII Monday, Sept. 28, 1953 No. 5
The People and
the Government
In 1787 the people of a new nation
created for themselves a new kind of
government. Nothing like it had ever
existed before.
Abraham Lincoln called it a govern
ment “of the people, by the people,
for the people.”
And so it is.
For government in the United States
is an instrument of the people. Some
of the things the people wanted done
could best be managed by the Federal
government—postal service, for exam
ple. Others might best be done by
local governments; schools illustrate
the point.
But the great bulk of the work the
people wanted done was not assigned
to government. It was put in the
hands of individuals or groups of indi
viduals—the production of food and
clothing, transportation, insurance,
banking, and all the other work dele
gated to so-called “private enterprise.”
Such enterprise is sometimes
thought to be the property of business.
In reality, it is another instrument of
the people, used mostly to keep them
well fed, well clothed, well housed.
These were the several ways the
people worked to fill their needs, to
carve out for themselves a better
future. And the plan worked well. No
people anywhere on earth, at any tteie
in history, have accomplished more.
Over the past score of years, events
in some of the nations overseas (and
some events here at home) have
worked to create the illusion that gov
ernment is something apart from and
above the people. The illusion that
government elevates living standards;
that government has things to give
the people; that government is, in fact,
the all-seeing, all-doing beneficent
father of the people.
It is not so.
What is done for the people, must
be done by the people. Government
works best when it does superlatively
well those chores the people have
assigned it—and leaves to other agen
cies of the people the things they do
best.
When, in the memory of man, has
any other arrangement worked?
Courtesy, N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc.
JAMES C. WALSH
, . Secretary-Treasurer
G. LAWSON IVIE
General Sales Manager
E. W. MEDBERY
. Production Manage*"
textile industry and the addition
Fieldcrest Mills increases their
in the field. I look forward with I
greatest confidence to the years
With our experienced mill m^'^‘
ment and selling force we can
forward.
It is good to know that the
owners intend to keep the high /
ity standards of Fieldcrest pro^.j;
and policies unchanged. Our vaf'^
trade names will continue on ^
goods—and will continue to
what they always have; the best ^
can be had in their field and fair ® .
ing in every respect. It is equally
to know that the fine program ot ^
ployee benefits, including the pe®^
and annuity plans, will be continU®
I personally am convinced that
change will be good for our custorC
our employees and these commui"
and I look forward with real ple^^
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to the continuing relationship
Fieldcrest.
Mumford Statement
(Continued from page one)
at heart, and that the change of own
ership offers all of us great oppor
tunities for the future.
The management of Marshall Field
& Company made a basic decision in
its plans to concentrate all its atten
tion and financial resources in the re
tailing field. I am certain that every
one here wishes them the greatest
success in increasing the part Field’s
plays in retail distribution throughout
the nation.
Our new owners and associates have
long concentrated their interest in the
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Whitcomb Statement
(Continued from page one)
the group who will take over Octol^jj
I have known personally Mr- ,
guire, Mr. Klein and their assoC
for many years. They are
integrity and character. They i*’
to operate these mills accordiw^
the same high standards of ,
that we have in the past and ^ ,i
confident they will continue the
high type of employee relations i
we have always enjoyed in the
I am pleased and honored tha jj
new owners have invited me to ^
the new company in a respo^
capacity, and I feel sure we
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tinue to make progress and mai>’
our high reputation in the great t®'
industry.
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LDCREST MILL WHIS'I