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> PICTURE OF A MAN TALKING TO HIMSELF Well, Browning, you know you’ve got it to do, so there’s no use fooling around any longer.’ It doesn’t make any dif ference if folks don’t read it, it’s part of your job. So take your feet off the desk and get busy. Sure, you had business down town a while ago. It was very important you go to the drug store and lean on the soda fountain. That’s a habit,' and also a very convenient way of killing time. And we’ll grant that perhaps you should have stopped on the corner by the bank and watched Will Snow playing in the slush and water with a small shovel. Anyone could see the melting snow had banked up there and caused a puddle. And maybe it” was to your interest to stop and watch the town workmen till ing up the water sprinkler on the corner by the Music Box. But was it also necessary for you to stand there in sort of a daze after the truck had left? And was it necessary for you to spend at least five minutes debating whether or not the backed up water on Market street was going to overflow the sidewalk and run into the basement of the tele phone building? As a columnist of a sort, you're awfully hard to get started. It doesn’t matter particularly what you write about. After all, people who aren’t going to read it any way would just as soon not read about one thing as not read about another. So get some paper in the typewriter and get going. Now what? So you’ve decided you’ve just got to put your car keys in that little leather key hold er Kelly Rose gave you this morn ing? Haven't you been carrying your car keys on a piece of wire for the past seven months? Then why all the rush? And for 15 years you’ve been around job printing presses, so why the sud den interest in going back into the shop to watch Fred Laffoon feed envelopes? Well, at last you've put paper in the typewriter. At least that’s a start. Now, we reckon, will come the usual 30-minute period of staring out the window. Why? Goodness knows you’ve looked out that window so much in years past there’s nothing new to see. And besides, those workmen put ting up that scaffold have been putting up scaffolds just like it for the past six months, with you watching the driving of every nail, so why pay attention to them? Besides, the ladder might break and one of them fall right through the plate glass window into your" lap. So move back to the type writer. Now what? It hasn't been 10 minutes since you had a drink of water. One would think you have the capacity of a camel. Or do you just pretend to be drinking? From the looks of things it’s just a stall. And was there any neces sity for also feeling the steam pipes by the water cooler and then going back to complain because they weren’t warm? If they had been hot you'd have gone back to complain because they weren't cool. To be perfectly frank, you make an awful nuisance of your self sometimes. For goodness sakes, are you off again? This is three times you’ve been to the postoffice today. You know you are expecting no im portant mail. And is it really necessary to stop by Tom Red •mon’s studio and worry him? Aft er all, he has to work for a living, and hasn’t time to listen to silly questions. Now get on out and back to the office. Hold on, don’t go in the movie theatre. You’re planning to see the show tonight anyway, so why spoil it by seeing part of the pic ture now? Think what the boss would say if he knew? So, he hasn’t found out in all these years, eh? Maybe not, but the time might come. What about that time he caught you playing mumbley-peg in the basement when you were supposed to be de veloping some pictures? Or the day you were curled up asleep in the dark room when you were supposed to be downtown selling advertising? Come on, let’s get back to the office and get going on that column. Well, maybe you do need an other coke. Anyway, you'll never get by the drug store without go ing in. And perhaps it’s best that you look over all the magazines while you’re about it, for if you don’t now, you'll think about it later and have to come all the way back down here. Uli huh, you’re running true to form, mix ing up all the magazines as usual. That’s fine. Now why not go over and stand in front of that sign which says “Please do not stand here.” After all, you’ve been batting a hundred per cent How Well Has ctric Met These Objectives? WAGES Here’s how General Electric’s increased production and ef ficiency have affected G-E workers. Average hourly earnings for men, not includ ing overtime pay, have gone up as follows: PliClS 1936 ... 1937 ... 1938 -- 1939 .. 1940 .. 1941 .. 1942 . 1943 .—. 1944 . 1945 (Sept.)... $ .73 .81 .87 . .86 .85 . .89 . .96 .. 1.05 .. 1.09 . 1.09 Overtime pay gave G-E work ers more on top of this. G.E. has made jobs for nearly three times as many. 61,781 worked for G.E. nine years ago. In 1945 an average of 145, 000 had jobs at G.E. and at much higher pay. G.E. has an obligation to a second group of people — the public. The public wants im proved products at fair prices. “More goods for more peo ple at less cost”—G.E.’s goal —is not a part-time assign ment. It is a job for manage ment and worker alike if G.E. is to keep growing, keep rais ing wages, keep making more jobs for more workers. A few figures show typical price decreases: Refrigerator 1935.$199.00 1941. 129.95 PH! it PROFITS G. E. during the war earned 4.7(S on each dollar of sales. Of this, 4.1^ was paid to its more than 200,000 stock holders and the remaining six tenths of a cent on each dol lar was retained in the busi ness to assist in carrying on and expanding its operations. All money earned over this 4.71 was turned back to the U. S. Government. G-E cost saving methods had made war goods for less money than the Government expected. These dividends have been declared per share of common stock since 1936: Lamp 1935. 1945.... Transformer 1935. 1941. Motor 1935 1941 Radio 1935.. 1941.. .15 .10 iHUS TAX) . 76.32 . 69.30 . 12.80 . 8.50 . 47.50 . 27.95 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 . 1945 . IMIlHUMMtllH $1.50 2.20 , - .90 1.40 . 1.84 . 1.75 . 1.40 1.40 1.40 1.60 GENERAL ELECTRIC’S OBJECTIVE ha? been to keep prices moving downward, keep wages going up, and to earn a fair profit. This calls for volume production, more efficient work and methods. With the help of every single employee, General Electric believes it can show our country; as it did in wartime, an example of American enterprise at its best; GENERAL Wt ELECTRIC thus far, so let's don't overlook anything. There you go again! Didn’t you stand in front of the State thea tre for 20 minutes this morning reading those posters? You know them by heart now, so why stop this time? At last you’re back and actually hitting the typewriter keys. And without looking it's dollars to doughnuts here’s what your first paragraph will say: “Due to having a great many things to do today, it's hard to finally get settled down to enter tain you nine readers. Sometimes we think there ought to be two of us, we work so hard, if it's not doing this, it’s doing that, and never a spare moment to catch our breath. Sometimes we wash we hadn’t given up our job of be ing vice-president of a bank to enter the newspaper business, for it’s toil, toil, toil all day long;” See what we mean? AT THE CHURCHES FIRST BAPTIST Sunday school will meet at 9:45. Rev. Howard J. Ford, pastor, will speak at the 11 o’clock morn ing hour of worship on “The Joy of Living.” At the evening hour at 7:30 Rev. Ford will use as his subject “Our High Mission.” METHODIST Sunday school will meet at 9:45. The pastor, Rev. Robert G. Tut tle, will speak at the morning hour of worship on»the subject, “I Be lieve In God.” This will be a con tinuation of the six weeks’ pro gram of loyalty which began at the 11 "o’clock hour last Sunday. There has been a good response to this campaign. At the evening service the pas tor will continue with the theme ♦ of “The Christian Home” and will speak on “Education For Life, In The Christian Home.” Dr. P. E. Lindley, Dean of High Point Col lege, is Expected to be present at this tittle. EAST ELKIN BAPTIST Sunday school will be at 9:45. The pastor, Rev. J. L. Powers, will bring the message at the 11 o’clock morning hour of devotions and at the evening service at 7 o’clock. The young people will meet at 6:30. PRESBYTERIAN Sunday school will be at 10 o’clock. J. M. Wells, of the Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, will be guest speaker at the morning ser vice at 11 o’clock. 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