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2 HaUMVGDM CLol Published it 13 i Vr^l f?* Clinton I 1, ,1 ployees, Clin |?Aft'| ihe direciioi Crocker. Dii Member of South muniiy and Atlantic Council of latinne Industrial Editors Calvin A. Cooper Truman J. Owens James R. Braswell Betty S. Tyson The publishers of The items of interest from to your department person: A WARNING FROM I In 1788 Edward Gibbon c Decline and Fall of the Ror book sets forth five basic reas The undermining of tl home, which is the basis for Higher and higher taxp< 0 o for free bread and circuses The mad craze for pie year more exciting, more bi The building of great ar was within ? the decay of The decay of religion; losing touch with life, losinj We are told that "history the Roman Empire provides civilization. THE BIG EDUCATION Economic To be a leader, a nation or a which earn this designation. / is EDUCATION. Never has t cialized education been more : this era of life and death knov There is evidence ? all too < in a segment of the educatioi cancerous. The primary area nomics state of mind. A pro] "economic illiteracy." Fact: Fewer than one out < takes even one course in econ< of all college students do. In sidered a "fill-in" for credit, j Fact: Fewer than one-tenth tors and less than one-fourth (majoring in social sciences) ts while in college. Fact: It is estimated that ni leges fail to have a single e< three-fourths of our states d nomics for even social scienc certification. Since the economic system c days of our forefathers, has 1 of enterprise, opportunity an have created the greatest ind the story of this economic syi iect matter for our school systc It is said that too much edui situation, too little economic r?i 11 all tVir> hlnmp fnr tV-?n orni the school systems ? but ou great portion of this guilt by ducing this ignorance with a s< and eliminating that big edu training. QUALITY PERFORMA Productivity means a lot 1 True, we measure produ* to goods produced. But this i real story of productivity. Along with man-hours, t _ i.x n.i _ a i t^oiion raoncs requires con machines, equipment and met Many other factors mak productivity. The most important sinji quality performance. You can into productivity and they st product ? without the indisp And quality can be suppl Q&ffSM lonthly by and and Lydia em- f lion, S. C., under 1 of Claude A. rector of Com- \j Employee Re- Member of Ameerlcan Association of Industrial Editors Editor Photographer Photographer - Editorial Assistant Clothmaker will welcome its readers. Turn them in al reporters or to tne nel office. HSTORY completed his great classic, "The nan Empire." This often-quoted ons for that "decline and fall": ip Hicrnitv anH cartpfitv nf fVtp human society. ?; the spending of public money for the populace. ?asure; sports becoming every *utal, more immoral, maments when the real enemy individual responsibility, faith fading into mere form, 5 power to guide the people repeats itself." The wreckage of ample warning for present day iAL GAP c Education man must nave tne qualilications Unong the most valuable of these he importance of mass and spespotlighted than it is now during vn as the Space Age. obvious ? indicating a weakness lal processes which is becoming of this weakness is in the eoooerly descriptive term would be of every 20 high school students omics ? and only about one-fifth most schools, this subject is conrather than a prerequisite, of all elementary school instruc~n ,J ?i 1 * 1 ui cm y dtuuui teciciiers ike even one course in economics ine out of every 10 teachers' colconomist on their faculty. Over o not demand a course in ecoe teachers as a requirement for )f this nation, beginning with the been predicated on the freedom d achievement ? all of which ustrial economy in the world ? stem becomes an important subms to project. cation is dangerous ? but in this ?ducation is dangerous. We can't lomic illiteracy of the nation on r schools can certainly unload a laKing a giant step toward reound plan for teaching economics icational gap in our youngsters' NCE nore than man-hours and output. :tivity by man-hours in relation s too simple a device to tell the he making of Superior Quality on of high standards, the best hods. e up the 'in put' that go into ;le ingredient in productivity is take all the other things that go ill may not add up to a salable ensable factor of quality. ied only by people. THECLOTHMAKER Would You Sign Your Name to the Last Piece of Work You Did? Where is the man who is proud of his work? Where is the man who would eagerly sign his name to the job he just completed? Where is the man who builds a product of "lasting solidity and exactness of beauty?" The careful man who loves his tools, who takes a walk before bedtime and thinks about his job . . . To Uo. ~ 1 1 ao 11c uciilg piuuglieu ill lO history by featherbedding, planned obsolescence, indifference? Doesn't a man who unashamedly builds an inferior product tarnish himself and his industry? Will the people of the 21st century collect our handiwork as proudly as we collect that of the 19th century? A Faith To Live By A good farmer knows his crop needs: sunlight, soil, enough rain?and time. Each contributes; each is important. In fact, any one of them can spell the difference between a good harvest and a meager one. People have to grow, too, and a growing season lasts a lifetime. Like plants, we also need outside help along the way: a family to grow up in, friends to prow nn with anri faith to guide and strengthen us. Most of us take our faith in God pretty much for granted. Like all familiar things, we just assume it will be there when we need it. But our faith is needed all the time ? every day, every week, throughout our lives. Begin now to make sure your faith is strong enough to face whatever lies ahead and give vour children a faith to live by. Take them with you to your church this week. Having worshiped, put your faith to work daily. The Importance Of Words Most important 6 words: I admit I made a mistake. Most important 5 words: I am proud of you. Most important 4 words: What is your opinion? Most important 3 words: If you please. Most important 2 words: Thank you. Most important 1 word: We. Least important word: I. ''Hold everything," answered the lead buffalo. "I just heard a discouraging word!" It is fitting as we approach I recall some of our tuition s inspii so at this time, tchen many An self-criticism, hut ignore the , their country. Here is "I Am tl Whit taker, now copy supervisor Chicago. tic wrote this Credo advertisement for the Norfolk i Whittakers copy first was reject accepted. It since has appeared around the worhl. Never has it July 4th, 1965. I AM THE "I was born July 4, 1776, and th is my birth certificate. The bloo< veins because I offered freedom things, and many people. I am living souls ? and the ghost of mi for me. I am Nathan Hale and ington and fired the shot heard a ington, Jefferson and Patrick H and Green Mountain Boys, and 1 Grant and Abe Lincoln. "I remember the Alamo, the M freedom called, I answered and : there. I left my heroic dead in 1 o VA/-1 ?v? LI ^ ~ 1 _ ?1 w/iit^iuui uiiu uii tiitr uicuK biupc Bridge, the wheat lands of Kar Vermont ... I am big, I sprawl cific. I am more than 4,000,000 fa tain and desert. I am quiet villaj. "You can look at me and see B< streets of Philadelphia with his I Babe Ruth and the World Serb colleges and 250.000 churches, w as they think best. I am a ballc of a crowd in a stadium, and the I am an editorial in a newspaper I am Eli Whitney and Stephen Fo Einstein and Billy Graham. I arr and the Wright Brothers. I am Daniel Webster and Jonas Sail Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, "Yes. I am the nation T u;nc r> willing, in freedom I will spend possess always the integrity, the keep myself unshackled, to rema beacon of hope to the world. "This is my wish, my goal, rr one hundred and eighty-nine yej Your Nest Egg ? A Must! It once was a practice among farmers to leave one egg in each nest when gathering eggs in the barnyard. This egg was called a "nest egg" and was believed to be an incentive for the hen and kept her from abandoning the nest and going elsewhere. Artificial e{jgs made of glass, ceramic, or even wood were used as nest eggs. The practice is no longer common, but the expression "nest egg" still has wide usage. It means something put aside ? usually money ? as a saving for a special purpose. JUNE. 1965 Tnclc Sam's 189th birthday to infi moments. It is especially nericans arc qtiick to render glorious accomplishments of ie Nation," authored by Otto of Leo Burnett ad aaencti. iti 1954 as a public service - Western Ry. Paradoxically, cd, then, on second thought, in thousands of publications seemed more timely than on NATION e Declaration of Independence dlines of the world run in my to the oppressed. I am many the nation. I am 185,000,000 llions who have lived and died Paul Revere. I stood at Lexround the world. I am Washenry. I am John Paul Jones Davy Crockett. I am Lee and aine ana Heari Harbor. When stayed until it was over, over Flanders Field, on the rock of s of Korea. I am the Brooklyn isas, and the granite hills of from the Atlantic to the Parms. 1 am forest, field, mounjes and cities that never sleep, en Franklin walking down the >readloaf under his arm. I am ?s. I am 169,000 schools and here my people worship God Jt dropped in a box, the roar voice of a choir in a cathedral, and a letter to a congressman, ster. I am Tom Edison Alhort i Horace Greeley, Will Rogers i George Washington Carver, < 1 am Longfellow. Harriet Thomas Paine. onceived in freedom and God the rest of my days. May I > courage and the strength to lin a citadel of freedom and a ly prayer, on July 4. 1965 ? irs after I was born." The pen i& still Mightier ihvn (he $word! 1776-1965