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The Caromount News
NOVEMBER, 1955
THE CAROMOUNT NEWS
Published each month by and for
the Employees of the Wilson and
Caromount Divisions of Sidney
Blumenthal and Co., Inc.
NOVEMBER, 1955
EDITORIAL BOARD
MACON MILLER
GEORGE HARPER
GEORGE MATTHEWS
DOROTHY SMITH
Send News for the December Is
sue to personnel Office before Dec
ember 10 th.
Safety Council Meets
At Braswell School
Devotional Thoughts
Your Job
In a plant the size of ours, it
is a recognized fact that we can
not always make perfect goods.
Practically speaking, it is impos
sible to produce as much fabric
Ihe fourth quarterly meeting
of the Eastern Carolina Safety
Council will be held in Rocky
Mount on Friday, December 9,
at the James C. Braswell school
auditorium. The program be
gins at 7:30 p. m.
The Eastern Council is one of
eight regional councils sponsor
ed by the North Carolina Indus
trial Commission for the promo
tion of safety.
Our Company has always ac
tively supported this council and
it is hojDed that a large number
of Caromount and Wilson em
ployees and their families will at
tend.
as we do without turning out
some inferior goods.
When estimating the cost of
each fabric, we have always made
an allowance for losses to cover
“seconds” and “reprocessing”.
For years, this allowance has
been sufficient. However, in the
past ten months, the cost of “sec
onds” and “reprocessing” over
the standard allowance has
amounted to $458,000. This fig
ure accounts for a sizeable part
of the total loss that the Company
shows for the year.
Every time a piece of goods
has to be sent back for “reproc
essing” and every time a piece
of goods is put into “seconds”,
the company loses money. To
give you an idea of how serious
the situation is, we had to “re
process” 34% of our fabrics dur
ing the month of October. In
other words, one out of every
three pieces was not made right
the first time. The work had
to be done over.
Whenever a piece of goods has
to be “reprocessed”, it is an in
dication that a worker or super
visor did not have his mind on
his job. Otherwise the machines
would have been stopped and the
imperfection corrected before the
piece of goods was ruined.
When goods cannot be sold
at a profit, the company loses
money, and, in the end, the man
in the mill is the one who suf
fers. We all take great pride in
good workmanship and the
pionths to come will prove we
The program has not been an
nounced but council president,
Russell Lamm, promises a good
program well worth attending.
Suit Made technical
Superintendent
W. H. Suit formerly Super
visor of Methods & Standards
was appointed Technical Super
intendent effective November 15,
1955. Bob Hill, former Methods
Engineer, becomes Supervisor of
Methods & Standards and Frank
Johnson is now responsible for
Standards reporting to Bob Hill.
The Technical Division also in
cludes Quality Control with Steve
Bennett as Supervisor; Color Lab
oratory with R. C. Ellis in charge;
and Chemical and Physical Test
ing Laboratory with Tom Howie
in charge.
Special Assignment Engineers
A. W. Drobile, Charles Lane, and
H. H. Taylor will also report to
the Technical Superintendent.
Quillen Ward, Supervisor of
Manuals will be in the Technical
Division upon completion of his
present project.
The Rubber Laboratory has
been transferred from the Tech
nical Division to the Converting
Department, and Bill Nescot and
J. B. Corinth, rubber chemists will
report to M. H. Thompson.
Thanksgiving Day is a time of
looking backward, first of all.
How true it is that the present
generation lives by the efforts
and achievements of the past gen
erations!
Lo, what we have been given:
Church, Nation, School, Hospital,
Automobiles, Radio, Telephone,
Lights, Medicine. We are in
heritors of these things. The
Holy Bible, The Prayer Book,
the works of Dickens or Shake
speare were written by others.
We are thankful that so many of
these things we cherish most were
here before we were. How true
it is: One man soweth and an
other reapeth.
We need only think of the Pil
grims and their perilous journey
across uncharted waters; of their
arrival on a hostile soil in the
dead of winter; of the time when
there were only seven well adults
in the whole of the Plymouth
colony to nurse the sick and hunt
for food; to rejoice in our prec
ious heritage and to be thankful.
But we look back on the past
in Thanksgiving only to receive
the inspiration for the task that
is of the present. ft was the
writer of the Epistle to the He
brews who wrote, “They without
us should not be made perfect.”
We, who are the inheritors, have
a responsibility to future genera
tions. In one of Archibald Mac-
Leish’s war poems he has a line
about the dead soldiers who seem
to say “We give you our lives,
give them their meaning?.” The
finest way to express our grati
tude is to improve that which we
have received.
Sitting still and wishing
Makes no person great
The good Lord sends the jish-
ing
But you must dig the bait.
can produce the same fine fabrics
that we have in the past.
A man was once watching an
old umbrella mender at his work.
He noticed with what care he
pursued his task. He seemed to
be unsatisfied until the work was
perfect. The man’s curiosity was
aroused, and he asked the um
brella mender why he was so
conscientious. Was he afraid that
the work might be turned back?
“No,” said the old man; “not one
person in a hundred even takes
the trouble to see whether the
work is well or poorly done.”
“fhen”, continued the question
er, “is it because you expect busi
ness from the same people in the
future?” “No, 1 never come
again to the same town.” “Then”,
asked the man, “what is the ex
planation? Why are you so con
scientious” And the old man an-
Wherever you’re working—in
office or shop.
And however far you may be
from the top—
And though you may think
you’re just treading the mill.
Don’t ever belittle the job that
you fill;
For, however little your job
may appear,
You’re just as important as
some little gear
That meshes with others in some
big machine,
lhat helps keep it going
though never is seen.
They could do without you
we’ll have to admit—
But business keeps on, when
the big fellows quit!
And always remember, my lad,
if you can,
Ihe job’s more important—oh
yes—than the man!
So if it’s your hope to stay off
the shelf.
Think 'more of your job than
you do of yourself.
Your job is important—don’t
think it is not—
So try hard to give it the best
that you’ve got!
And don’t ever think you’re of
little account—
Remember, you’re part of the
total amount.
If they didn’t need you, you
wouldn’t be there—
So always, my lad, keep your
chin in the air.
A digger of ditches, mechanic,
or clerk—
THINK WELL OF YOLK
COMPANY, YOURSELF AND
YOUR WORK!
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after me, perhaps your son or
mine. If I put on shoddy cloth
or do bad work the people will
find it out soon and the next
mender who comes along will get
the cold shoulder or the bull
dog.”
Our Thanksgiving is shown in
our attempt to pass on to the
next generation a stronger Church,
a finer nation and a more peace
ful world.
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