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2 eg CLoth ^ Published monl *] ' ( 1 ! for employees I 1 of and Lydia C< t Clinton, S. C., direction of ? , B . Crocker, Indui Member of South r*;, Atlantic Council of tions Dll Industrial Kdltors Calvin Cooper E. C. Huffstetler The publishers of The CI items of interest from its to your departmental personnel Imoorts Al All of us hear a lot these da These are not merely strange other people but not us. They a way of life. Here's how it works. Each c that other countries need, and < from beyond our shores. The United States doesn't { them from overseas. We don't e it from South America. We don' so we import it from Japan. Japan doesn't produce any c< from us and some from other < silk in this country. The idea behind the whoh imports what it needs and expc or can produce in abundance. Ten years ago the United Si half yards of cloth a year. IN billion. We don't need any textile millions of yards of textile proi Every yard of cloth broug means one less yard of cloth Eventually the amount of exp American jobs are being sac amounts of cloth our governrr from elsewhere. We think more of the iobs c of the jobs of the Japanese or < sending goods to our markets. Inflation Cuts Benea 111 Man seems to deal more capably with unavoidable troubles than with those he brings down on himself. In the last 20 years, we have made better progress in overcoming physical diseases, which come from nature, than in overcoming inflation?an entirely man-made affliction. Thorp i? nn (inn cimnln .?v planation for inflation. But chiefly, the cause is a childish insistence upon eating our cake and having it, too. Inflation takes place when government spending gets too far ahead of revenues. Inflation also occurs when the costs of operating the private economy rise faster than productivity values. :hly by and _ of Clinton ( ~/t\ nJvV^\J jtton Mills, under the Claude A. "V strial Rela- ? . Member of American retior. Association of Industrial Editors Editor Staff Artist othmaker will welcome readers. Turn them in reporters or to the office. ffect You vs about imports and exports, '-sounding words that affect ffect our jobs, our living, our country produces some things ?ach country needs something jroduce spices, so we import [row any coffee, so we import t produce any silk to speak of, 3tton. so she buys some cotton :ountries. Japan sells a lot of ? thing is that any country >rts what it has in abundance, tates exported a billion and a fow we export about a half s from other countries, yet ducts are imported each year. ht in from another country that our people can produce. orts gets to the point where rificed because of the large lent allows to be brought in >f our own people than we do other foreign peoples who are the Ground th Us Continuous inflation means that we have no firm economic ground under our feet Wages and salaries buy less and less. We cannot plan wit! confidence for retirement 01 ior our cnnciren s education If we have saved to buy a cai or a house next year or th< year after, the savings w< have counted on may not b< sufficient. Yet inflation, which rot: our dollars much as cancel destroys the body, is curable Hevitalization of such simph virtues as prudence, thrift anc commonsense in our publi< and private affairs would g< a long way toward stopping this insidious economic dis ease called inflation. THE CLOTHMAKER PROGRESS IS FOR ALL OF US Productivity has doubled in the last 30 years or so. That is, the amount of goods an average American worker can turn out in one hour has increased by 100 per cent over the past three decades. Although productivity usually is measured as output per man-hour, the fact that it. has doubled in 30 vears doos not mean that industrial employees of today are working twice as hard ? or that they are twice as skillful. There are numerous reasons for advances in productivity. Certainly employee skills and cooperation are important factors. But chiefly, output per man-hour is increased by the use of better machines, equipment and methods. In our industrial economy, an increase in productivity is simply another term for progress. And in a complex society such as ours, progress depends upon the contributions of all?whether as employees, consumers, or investors. Consumers' dollars help to make productivity increases possible. Consumers are entitled to benefit, through lower prices or better values. Investors contribute directly to better plants and equip men i and deserve rewards. Employees should and do share in the fruits of productivity advances. But no group is entitled to all of productivity's benefits. In a free nation, nobody "owns" progress. The Weaver Mv life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times he weaveth sorrow And I in foolish pride Forget he sees the upper And I, the underside. Not 'til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly Shall God unroll the canvas A * u ...I... xuivt vAjjicnii me reason wiiy. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand As the threads of gold and Silver In the pattern He has ; planned. /r'f AN OIP AMEUfCAN . mtvinuyoue rzopuc JUNE. ] CLINTON Cluricy Casey?Spinning Mattie Wright?Spinning William R. Hanley?Spooling Richard Tinsley?Spooling William A. Adams?Weaving David P. Cook?Weaving t vnr x x, I L/in JL? Mildred Snow?Spinning Inez Wood?Spinning Shirley A. Dunawa Avoid Mental In considering the efforts \ various programs in which we ar victims of our own mental stagna negative attitude or pessimistic ( kind of progress. Often the easy way out of a : we stand up and be counted in f; levels is to flash on our own "He are licked before we start to arj feated. We state that this is on understand why it has drawbacks it?etc.. etc.?and bv apologizing necessary and urgent recommer eyes of the recipient. How many times have you roadblocks, as the easy way out 1. We tried that before. (b 2. It cost too much, (but whc 2. We have never done it th autos before they were i 4 Wo nrn nnt rnnrKr f/M* 4 li unless you sell them). 5. That is not our responsibi get wet?) 6. We arc doing alright w closely) 7. It won't work, (sure as h r|(g) \Wk A NEW The Plasi It seems that every once in s the public about unusual bazar at play. Several years ago it \v; alcohol and gasoline drums behii the discarded refrigerator problc of suffication inside old ice box Well, this time it's the thin uses to wrap your suit in, or fruit from the super market. The danger of the plastic m;i a Phoenix, Arizona, Physician, the deaths of four children thei issue of the Journal of the A the doctor found that some pai bags to their children as "toys.' Probably encouraged by s| place the bags over their heads. is an electrostatic charge gener by friction from handling. A \ this material, is apt to have it li trical contraction to his face, prompt intervention of an adu Jarrett warns. "This dangerous child fights it." Save your plastic bags for 1 keep them out of the childrens' them. Tear them to shreds. An Ounce of Parental A Pound Of JULY, 1959 //at 1959 MILLS Cecil Davenport?Weaving Tony M. Hooper?Weaving Clarence King?Weaving John Philip McGee?Cloth Mae S. Waldrop?Cloth Mary E. Cunningham? Community 1ILLS Blanch B. Campbell?Draw-In Rose Wilson?Cloth y?Community P/i/f/ZAZ/irlrr M1 VWUI/fVifl J vhich we lend towards the e involved, how often are we ition? The stoplight approach, >utlook is a roadblock to any situation which requires that ice of opposition from higher d Light". We assume that we ^uc, and in doing so. are deIv a suggestion, that we can ;, that we are merely offering ; for what may have been a idation, undermine it in the succumbed to the following ut how, where? by whom?) it is the cost of not doing it?) lat way. (thev never rode in nvcnted either). at. (and they never will be lity. (so, let him drown, why ithout it. (unless you look eck won't, unless it is tried!) ISI'S GOL UMN \ KILLER! tic Bag i while a scare is thrown into ds confronting active kiddies is the danger of "empty" oil. id service stations. INext came >m. Hundreds of children died es. plastic bag that the laundry the bag containing the fresh iterial was first discovered by Dr. Jarrett, in investigating e. As reported in the current merican Medical Association, rents were tossing the plastic >ace-age trends, the children According to the doctor, there ated on the very thin plastic ouni'stor ill hi'orimr tlirmnili , | ...h . . . . . . I terallv ?jrab him through elec"If this happens only the It will prevent tragedy." Dr. material won't tear when a lousehold use if you like, but reach. Better still, don't reuse Prevention is Worth Child Cure.