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October 15, 195b Bible Class Office An impressive service for the installation of officers of the T.E.L. Bible Class, taught by Mrs. Joe Land, was conducted by Reverend J. W. Spillers during the monthly meeting, Thursday evening, September 13, at the Community Building. A covered dish supper for the occasion was served in the dining room. Mrs. Clinton West, President, presided over the meeting. "Living for Jesus" sung by the class, was the first feature of the program. Scrip\9V4 Minutes BJ ^RNH A great many of us seem to have a greatly exaggerated notion as to the profit made by the average company. Statistics show that the average company in a normal eight hour day has only lim minutes left for profits?and we must all agree that this is a pretty small part. In other words it is close to quitting lime before these few minutes, all that is left of the day are "minutes for profit" in the average manufactur ing company. Further only about half of the 19!/4 minutes result in dividends for the owners. It is imperative that the rest of the profit minutes are used for reinvestment in the business? lor new buildings, machines and other improvements necessary to a company's progress and its ability to provide steady jobs. Furthermore profit minutes must always be put at the end of the day because all of our average company's bills and expenses (including wages) must be paid before profit-or-loss can be estimated. Assume our average company's working day starts at 7:00 A. M., three hours and 55 minutes will be used to pay for materials and supplies. The clock moves to 10:55. To moot voai?o? -mri rs Installed jm 1^2 i^ jyflH I jturc reading bv the president and prayer by Mr. Hall King comprised the devotion. After a short business session the individual officers were installed to the respective offices, emphasis being upon duties and responsibilities. Program folders featured the order of the meeting and were used in connection with the installation. "Class Officers at Work", a film for training officers, was projected in the television room. salaries will take two hours and 49 minutes. The clock moves to 1:44 P. M. To nav all tavps foHorii > u ?vwv?a., state and local uses up another 43V4 minutes. It is 2:27Va P. M. Repair and replacement of facilities will require 29 minutes. For research and promotion to stay ahead of competition requires 141 -j minutes. Bv now it is 19l/4 minutes before the day ends at 3:30 P. M. In this short time, the company must earn the profits it must make in order to stay in business. If you were one of the owners of our average manufacturing companies wouldn't you wonder at times whether or not the game is u'MHU nut ill IIIC* UUIIUIC.' CUSTOMER TRAINING A man who was a dog trainer suddenly found himself nearly bankrupt and was forced to go to work until Uc* ~~..ij * 1 ... iiv tuuiu i t\"uup I11S 1OSS0S so that he could start out in the dog raising business again. He found a job as a waiter in a small restaurant in a nearby town and after working for a few days, he said brightly to the owner of the place: "I'm turning out to be a pretty good waiter, don't you think?" "Well," said the owner, "if ,>uu uun i mina, i m going to make a couple of suggestions about your work." "Such as?" asked the waiter. "Well," said the owner, "u-Vl^n tho wiv- (.UOU'IIIL'I IClUSt'S to e. t li s food. we don t rub his nose in it!"?Wall Street Journal. It doesn't do any good to sit and take notice if you keep sitting. THE CLOTHMAKER AUTOMATIC - Push I Several news articles recen worker of the future will have checkers, and tell jokes. Such a ) the much-heralded ace of autom; what a nation of deadheads we c Of course, the coming of moi more time away from manual la er is going to be on hand at all t regardless of how infrequently h a button? What kind of worker break down or wear out? Who proved machinery? All of this knowledge of the intricate work a-d it will not be learned whi checkers. Many people have voiced th create vast unemployment amor was at the dawn of the Industrie think that with the productive e 1850's, it would be possible to s certainly more business enterpri were then. The same crv was ] time, "technological unemployn far more jobs today than then. Granted that in the distant more leisure time due to work < any better off unless ho lpsms structiveiv? We hate to think what kind < majority of people had no actua to do but play. Man, by nature, ^enuitv should lead him to high in-day?out checker playing am men can't do that anymore sine* vention programs keep them bu: There is nothing to fear in t ?it is already here to some exte is bound to grow in order to ac tion of the future, offering plen and exertion of creative, human Eight Gridiron Sit i . ^ ft jfij^ j , /^jt High School Stars From Clinior Clinton-Lydia Employees, are on the Shown kneeling are Ronnie Hedspe Cranford. RE; Bobby Fuller. LHB; Don Copeland, LT; Michael Starnes are receiving instructions from Coa recently named Up-State "Player ol play against Union. SUNNY SIDE You would never guess it i from the doom-shaped gloom currently being dispensed by Washington columnists, Democratic politicians. New York Giants fans and other chronic < worriers, but all is not lost. For instance, the CATHOLIC DIGEST brightly observes that there are 162.922,000 American who are not members of the Communist Party. Furthermore, some 37.- | 011,400 couples in the United States will not apply for divorce, the Internal Revenue I Service will get 43,846,154 correctly filed income tax returns, approximately 33.293.- J 000 children are really learning something in school and tt.i countries in the world do not have the hydrogen bomb. Feel better now? It is better to tell the truth than to try to remember j what you said. , lutton Future? tly have predicted that the nothing to do but rest, play prediction refers, of course, to ition. If that is to be the case, ould turn out to be! re machines should give man bor. But what kind of workimes to operate the machines, ie has to turn a dial or punch will repair them when they will invent the new and imwill take a vast amount of ings of such mastermachines, ile everyone rests and plays ie fear that automation will ig production workers. So it ll Revolution, but can anyone quipment and methods of the urvive the 1950's? There are ises and jobs now than there popular in the 1930's; at that lent'' was feared. There are future, the worker will have done by machines, will he be how to spend that time con:)f nation this would be if the 1 work to perform ? nothing is a creative being whose inler achievements ? not day1 joke swapping. Even fire2 their well-planned fire prehe coming age of automation ?nt. The American entei prise commodate the great popula ty of opportunity for growth energy. iI warts * l-Lydia?Eiaht boy* all c/ * nf 1956 Clinton High School Team. Ih. LE; Ray Fuller. RHB; Billy Bobby Thomas. RE. Standing: , LE; Joe Lark. LT. These boys ch Thornton. Bobby Fuller was ! The Week" for his outstanding Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough. Tour Donaldson i The Guardians of Petaga Distri ind Horizon Club girls enjoyed i r*orce Base on Friday, Sept. 28. T egislration for this group. The He I ' v ''''' Jimmie Gregory is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gregory, and works in No. 2 Weaving. Lydia Mills. Mrs. Ada Center 77 Years Young ^^ Mrs. Ada Center Miss Bessie Holtzclaw and Mrs. Vesta F.iihanks hnnnrnd their mother, Mrs. Ada Center, wth a birthday dinner Sunday. Sept. 30, in honor of her 77th birthday. Dinner was served buffet style. Those er.io. the occasion were r?i. i, ciiid M rs j Hi i.-i i << i '.'V, Mr. and Mrs. J. IT. Hughes, Jimmie and Iris Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Rollins, Jane and Lyn, and Marvin Holtzclaw. Out of town guests \\- ro r n ?-* J TV/T T nwn. 1UI. anu mi ?. Lite J. Holtzclaw, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Holtzclaw. Jr. and children, Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell, Karan Holtzclaw of Greer, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Fuller and Gail of Greenwood. Mrs. Center received many useful gifts. am t nVBHBBjQflPV ^^ H T^H^^hT SVtKii 9 > 1^ icl with 83 Camp Fire. Blue Bird i planned tour of Donaldson Air 'his trip marked the beginning of >rison Club group is shown above.