Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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2 > . Published mo I y'l' J\ for employee lJ c* and Lydia < I t, Clinton, S. C lVACltl direction of t* w t ts t Crocker, Ind Member of South ir,r?c T Uantlc Council of lions i. Industrial Kdltors Calvin Cooper Truman Owens The publishers of The ( items of interest from i1 to your departments personn THE SLIGHT EDGE Recently, a fine textile p] regularly across our desk re] illustrated editorial which it h ago. The re-run was prompted fact that three of the compai are no longer purchasing the c edge" the company had in su had been dissolved in the m first used. The editorial said the "sli something a company gains th permits it to do a better job foi More specifically, the edit* * Willingness to accept ne * Ability to keep up wit provements in machiner * Loyalty, interest and e: personnel. * Ability to maintain a fa' competition with other products. * On-time delivery of goo ble to make. * Efficient control of sup tenance and all other ite * Enthusiasm, imagination of management and pr The "slight edge", obvious having it once doesn't mean v which has lost three of its four years. "MONEY CAN BEGET AND ITS OFFSPRING "It takes money to make r just as true now as when B w ->rds more than 200 years i experiences as individuals t progress comes only when we savings in a productive enterp grow. Take the U. S. business s> were built with the savings ( vested savings have provided and earned substantial profits businesses that succeeded. But in recent years all kir financial trouble. Taxes and aie rising steadily. Competitioi to keep pace. Profits are beir To rr et competition and stantly to modernize, to re-too But when profits are squee; harder to find, and the incen when business is cut off froi gives it life, it fails to growneeded for an expanding popu The moral of the story is cline, investment declines. A our economy slows down ani go around. It takes money t adeouate nrofits to make Ami WORLD TEXTILE LE4 FOR END TO TWO-PI Textile industry leaders fr proved a resolution urging tl cotton marketing system to a ( International Federation of C< tries, which includes all of the in the world, said the United price system in order to re re-establish normal marketing tern requires American mills 1 American-grown cotton than 1 nthly by and __ s of Clinton />, Cotton Mills, L J., under the Claude A. "V ustrial Rela- u . , . , . _ Member of American lirector. Aaaoelatlon of Induatrlal Kdltora Editor Photographer 31othmaker will welcome ;s readers. Turn them in il reporters or to the el office. lant's publication which comes peated "The Slight Edge", an ad prevously run several years I, the publication said, by the ay's largest customers in 1959 ompanv's products. The "slight pplying those three customers lonths since the editorial was ight edge" is "that little extra irough its own initiative which * its customers and itself". rial said, the "slight edge" is: w ideas and changes, h and make changes and imy and methods. nthusiasm among all company vorable position when in direct companies producing similar ds that are the best it is possiplies waste, machinery main:ms of cost. and effectiveness in all levels oduction. sly, doesn't "just happen", and ou'll keep it. Ask the company largest customers in the past MONEY CAN BEGET MORE. . ?Benjamin Franklin noney," we say today. And it's enjamin Franklin wrote those igo. For history and our own ^11 __1 _ 1 __ iL.i _ - - _ - en us piairuv inai economic first save and then invest our rise in the hope that they will 'stem. Our business enterprises if many individuals. Those inproductive jobs with good pay for the stockholders-owners of ids of businesses have run into other costs of doing business a is keen, and prices are failing lg squeezed. stay alive, business needs con1 with more efficient machines, '.cd, money for investment is tive to invest it declines. And m the investment money that -and to provide the new jobs lation. simply this: When profits dend when investment declines, el there aren't enough jobs to o make money. And it takes irica grow. Oi.v tders call {ice cotton om around the world have apde United States to return its >ne-price basis. Members of the :>tton and Allied Textile Indusmajor textile producing nations States should abandon the twolieve industry distress and to ; practices. The two-price systo pay $42.50 per bale more for foreign mills pay. THE CLOTHMAKER Jack - 0' - Li HALLO Jack-O'-Lanterns are probably the most prominent symbols of Halloween. We see them made from real pumpkins, grinning or scowling at us from front porches and windows, and novelty stores are full of papier-mache rep licas of all sizes. Yet, popular as they are, history does not tell us who was the first person to cut a face upon a pumpkin to make a jack-o'lantern. The name, "jack-o'-lantern," is a most appropriate one. The dictionary defines the word "jack" as a popular form meaning man, and jack-o'lantern becomes "man of the lantern." One of the many definitions is "to play the jack," which means to derive or lead astray. This is the true spirit of the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween is really a celebration of the harvest time. Much of the spirit of superstition of Halloween has come down through the ages from Europe. But the use of pumpkins was begun in America. The pumpkin is a native vegetable of America, and with the coming of the white man it was introduced all over TT 1 l- : - i 1 - Linr wuiiu. Ljuuei ins nanus 11 has been cultivated to enormous si/.e. Often a single pumpkin may weigh as much as fifty pounds. The Doors Of The Church Sometimes it seems that we treat our churches as a type of life preserver?to know where they are so that we can find them easily when we get in trouble and have someone to call on to help us. In fact, God must be very patient with us or He would have forgotten who we are. We push the church aside for our pleasure until something happens and then we rush in to take a seat and expect a miracle. Day by day we must wake up to find that we need God Find . the L strength I for your I. life... fm\ Worship 1L WEEK Lf4 l and the church every day, that there's nothing more important than our spiritual life, and nothing else gives more pleasure. When we understand all of this, then and then only will we live a better and more enjoyable life. interns for WEEN The pumpkin which is used to make jack-o'lanterns has an individuality all its own. It is marked in from five to eight ridges, with deep grooves between them. The grooves converge in the center toward the stem which holds the pumpkin strongly to the vine. The color is orange, and a pumpkin of no other color will make a real traditional jack-o'-lantern. iii^ ft at Wj0r -* vl-vVvvMld^Eitbk ^/i js^Kj^jjj^^^ ,***&& _^y . 4 ^ DDnnnrTinu r % v w v i l U ll When a football team wins a fjamc, which players are the ones who do the winning? Only a few of them ever carry the ball. One or two do most of the actual scoring. But all the players on the team are the winners. And so are the manager, trainers, coach, water boys and everyone who helped produce victory. They all backed the few who carried the ball over the line. They can all say, "We won." In industry, certain neonle actually make goods or perform services. They are like the ball carriers in a football game. Their skill and experience are important, and production couldn't happen without them. But others help equip, train, and direct them so that their efforts will count for most. These people, too, are producers. That is why owners, managers, overseers, supervisors, machine operators and all of us are right when we speak of "our production." OCTOBER. 1963 DID YOU KNOW The American textile industry employs about 850,000 persons in 7,500 nlants in 42 states. Many thousands more in allied industries look to the textile industry indirectly for their livelihood. * * Cotton is still the king of fibers, accounting for about 60 per cent of all fibers consumed by textile mills of the United States. Man-made fibers have climbed to a volume percentage of over 34 per cent, with wool claiming 6 per cent. * * * The American textile industry produces approximately 12 billion linear yards of fabric each year, or enough to w rap a yard-wide strip around the earth 333 times. * * * The American textile industry annuallv consumes be tween eight and nine million bales of cotton, or from twothirds to three-fourths of all the cotton produced in the United States. * * In the 1780's, about 75 per cent of American textile consumption was in woolen goods, 18 per cent in linen and only four per cent in cotton. This was changed sharply after the invention of the cotton gin, when cotton became available in large quantities. In fact, cotton at one time (1921) represented 88.6 per cent of all fibers consumed by United States mills. USE YOUR BRAIN AVOID BACK STRAIN DO NOT lift awkward or especially heavy materials by yourself. Get someone to help. INSPECT the object you're going to lift for sharp corners, nails, and other things that might cause injury. LOOK over the ground or floor for nhstnplpc iv^ uuvi 11 i|r ping hazards. SET your foot solidly, somewhat apart. Sometimes it may be best to get down on one knee. CROITCII as close to the load as possible. Keep your back straight but bend at the hips so you are over the load. The object is to do the work with your leg muscles and not the weaker back muscles. TO LIFT, straighten your legs and swing your back into a vertical position. REMEMBER. ? Let your leg muscles do the WORK? YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID!