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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thnndaj, March IS, 195S
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COMMENTS
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MEN AND THINGS
A very handsome full figure pic
ture of General Robert E Lee fills
the front cover of the fine monthly
magazine. The Joama Way, pub-
lushed by the Joanna Cotton Mills of
whcih Mr Walter Regnery is the
head The back cover' carries a
sketch of General Lee
The Joanna Way is a welcome ar
rival in my mail every month. I
know of no company publication
which surpasses it and but few that
are as excellently presented.
Glancing through the January is
sue* I was impressed by a few words
from Mr Regnery to the employees
of the big mill I quote his remarks
because they clearly and persua
sively present the problem facing
all textile establishments through
out the nation
’ The new year, in business as in
our personal hves, brings about an
a counting: How did we do in 1957?
How can we improve in 1958?
A newspaper headline, over the!
date, December 27, sununed up the
situation in the textile industry:
Cotton Cloth M a k e r s in Big
Squeeze The article further stated:
‘The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture reports that cotton mill mar
gins—the spread between the prices
of raw cotton and textile products—
are the narrowest since June, 1946.’
The spread averaged 24.69 cents last
month, compared with 26.36 the pre
vious month and 30 37 in November,
1956 The value of cloth obtainable
from a pound of cotton, based on
wholesale prices for 17 selected con
structions, declined last month for
the 13th month in a row. The No
vember average was 59.2 cents, the
lowest monthly average for more
than 11 months—since June, 1946.
“At the same time, prices of the
cotton used in these 17 constructions
averaged 35.03 cents a pound deliv
ered at Carolina mills, which repre
sented an upward trend. And this
upward trend is continuing.”
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As with the industry as a whole,
so it was with Joanna Cotton Mills
Company When the costs of raw
materials, supplies, and manufac
turing were balanced against intake
from sales, the result was most dis
couraging—a very slight profit.
Proud of its record of paying a
wage dividend nineteen years out
of twenty years since the profit-
sharing plan was instituted in 1937,
Joanna Cotton Mills Company, after
a most difficult year, ‘raked and
scraped" and was able to come up
with a one per cent bonus, which
has the unenviable distinction of
being the lowest percentage ever
approved. We heartily'■wish it could
have been more!
As w e face 1958, we should all put
our heads togther and find ways of
cutting costs, avoiding waste, im
proving quality, increasing effic
iency-all the things which will
make our products sell in a high
ly competitive market. We are
warned by textile experts that 1958
will be 'a year of sharper textile
competition; a year when added ef
forts will be needed to maintain mill
sales and profits; a year when the
spotlight will be directed at every
item of cost in order to effect eco
nomics ’
Each of you can spotlight any
waste in supplies, any lack in ef
ficiency or quality in your particu
lar area as no one else can. You
alone are close enough to your job
to spot some of the improvements
that can be made. Through your
departmental representatives on the
Employee Advisory Committee you
can get attention for your sugges
tions; and start the ball rolling to
bring about desirable changes. This
year as never before you have a di
rect path for your ideas to reach the
persons who can puf them into ef
fect We are counting on you, for
only by the best efforts of all of us,
working together, can we keep our
products up in quality, yet eompeti
tive in price.
With our committee plan we now
have sixty people studying and
planning to make Joanna a more
efficient operation, whereas this
was eonfmed to only a few people
in the past. The committees do not
cut across supervisory lines, there
by fostering free discussion. The
meetings are frequent and well or
ganized, all of which will add up to
greater efficiency, fewer seconds,
and a happier place to work through
better understanding of each other’s
problems in 1958.
Every penny saved by more effic
ient operations, by reduced waste
of supplies, by elimination of gouts,
oil spots, and other defects will
mean that much more security for
all of us, that much more to be
shared as a wage dividend at the
end of 1958
Walter Regnery.”
* * *
No nobler spirit ever lived than
Robert E. Lee. He was a man of
deep piety, a gracious person, a
figure of dignity and poise, a genius
in \lar, a leader in peace. General
Lee is forever enshrined in the
hearts of our people as a shining
example of Christian Knighthood.
Without selfish ambition, without
bitterness, he lived in humble sub
mission to his Master.
* * •
Concerning the loss of trained
scientific personnel I quote an ar
ticle from The Wall Street Journal:
' Despite the clamor for increased
research activity to meet the Soviet
scientific challenge, a number of
j research institutions are cutting
I bask on their work and laying off
employees.
"Interviews with a score of re
search executives turn up this this
common plaint: The government’s
short-lived economy drive late in
1957,-combined with the dip in busi
ness activity, choked off funds for
a multitude of projects—some to
tally non-military, but others con
nected with the long-run defense
picture
“No funds have been released to
us for basic research since last
June,” mourns Dr Robert Thomas,
coordinator of research for Cleve
land's Intitule of Technology.
“We re now at the point where
frankly we must cut some people,
and that's the last thing we want
to do," says an official of Hoizons,
Inc., a pm ate research company in
Cleveland ‘ Our business is off 25%
and our margin of profit is gone,”
he explains
“Not all research programs have
been affected to the same extent,
of course, and some, such as mis
sile programs, have been affected
hardly at all. Several resarch cen
ters even say funds now are be
ginning to flow in again.
“A major factor in the slowdown,
of course, was last year’s govern
ment economy drive. Former De
fense Secretary Wilson last August
ordered a 10% cut in military re
search and development spending,
originally set at $1.7 billion for this
fiscal .year But his successor, Neil
McEjroy, cancelled Mr. Wilson’s or
der. This year’s outlay now is ex
pected to total $1.8 billion, and the
figure probably will rise to nearly
$2.1 billion in the year starting
July 1.
But it takes time, of course, to
negotiate new research contacts and
to step up flow of funds to research
centers. Though the flow of funds to
several centers is beginning to in
crease again, many expect the
drought of research funds to con
tinue for several months
“We see stepped-up spending
ahead, but we expect the next four
or five months to be the lean part of
the year,” remarks a spokesman
for General Electric Co.’s big pro
pulsion laboratory at Evandale,
Ohio, near Cincinnati
At Battelle Memorial Institute, a
big Columbus, Ohio, center which
handled $24 million in research
contracts in 1957, the permanent
staff has been reduced by 115 from
a total employment Of nearly*.2,500
in early fall. Most of the cut was
accomplished through normal turn
over, but 33 staff members were
dropped as funds for projects ran
out. Naturally, none of those were
top scientists or experienced re
search assistants, but they were
rated as valuable research man
power, nonetheless.
“And when it comes time to hire
permanent and summer help from
college campuses, only a third as
many will be needed this year,”
says an Institute offeiial, adding
sadly, "the work just isn’t there.
Researchers say it’s difficult to
pinpoint the loss of time—if any—in
the scientific race with the Russians
that results from the current lag
in fimds. Observes an official of
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory,
Inc., Buffalo, ‘Missile work itself
rode through last fall undamaged,
but other projects, such as one on
radar, which definitely are con
nected to missiles in the long run,
were delayed when our annual ap
propriations were held up.’ Although
these funds since have come in, this
official observes, ‘You can’t always
buy back time with money.’
Still less tangible, say these re
search executives, is the loss in con
tinuity when a research scientist is
forced to switch from one project
to another. One official notes, for
example, the recefot cuts in lesser
personnel have caused some of his
top people to accept job offers from
rival centers. Because these re
searchers carry in their heads much
of the background information on
a given project, he explains, ‘our
loss in research value is not always
the new employer’s gain on a new
project’.”
* * •
The South Carolina Senate paid
an extraordinary tribute to two
Senators, Messrs. Edgar Brown of
Barnwell, and Richard M. Jefferies,
of Colleton. Strangely, but true,
neither of these gentlemen is a na-
tvie of the county which has claim
ed his service over more than thir
ty years. Senator Brown is a native
of Aiken County, while Senator
Jefferies comes from what was once
a part of Union County, now Chero
kee County. Not only several excel
lent tribute* were paid each Senator
by his fellow Senators, but the great
crowd from all over the state elo
quently attested the genuine interest
of the citizenry of the state. The
two handsomely done portraits of
the Senators hang in the Senate,
speaking to coming generations of
long and faithful service of two
self-made men, for both men rose
to distinction by hard work, in the
most stimulating tradition of our
nation. I hope to discuss both Sena
tors later-1 claim the friendship of
both and rejoice in the enthusiastic
recognition of their high dedication
to the public service.
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Dr. Herbert Speayb
Many people suffered frozen and
bursted plumbing in the recent pe
riod of freezing weather. Some did
it from sheer neglect, and others
from ignorance. Some suffered to
the extent that they had no water
in their houses for several days.
Plumbers issued warnings and sug
gestions though the press and over
radio but still many failed to heed
them. They offered three principal
suggestions to prevent frozen pipes:
(I) Turn the water off at the shut
off in the ground. (2) Permit the
faucets to run slowly. (3) Pour salt,
alcohol, or some other anti freeze in
traps and toilet bowls.
Many people couldn’t turn their
water off because they didn’t know
where the shut-off was located. Oth
ers found that the shut-off would
not operate from disuse. Others suc
ceeded in turning the water off, but
the pipes still froze because the
drain cock of the shut-off was stop
ped up.
Many of us have trouble in other
areas of our lives .simply because
we are not prepared for emergen
cies. We know the emergency is go
ing to come sometime. We budget
our money up to the hilt for current
expenses which often includes
things we d^not need. Then when
an emergency comes which cells
for r extra funds, we don’t have the
money.
Every householder should know
where the water can be shut off
from his house. He should test the
cut-off occasionally to see that it is
in working order.
We likewise should know where
and how to turn off and control our
personal ahd family expenditures.
All of us also haye a mental shut
off which shoud be kept in operating
order. Here’s where we turn off
negative thinking 4>efore it develops
into jealousy, bitterness, resent
ment, and hate. We can turn off
these thoughts in our mind if we
do it when the process commences.
There is a moral parallel also to
the running faucet, which keeps the
water in motion and prevents free
zing. Life, when kept in outgoing
emotion, neither freezes nor stag
nates.
It is strange how this simple but
fundamental principle of living is
disregarded by so many. When fi-
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Phone 3493 Joanna
nsocial difficulties loom up, and we
have to cut expenses, the first place
so many start is with the church
and with the doctor. This is a se
rious mistake, because through
these come the care and nurture of
our spiritual and physical hves.
If you have to cut, don’t com
mence with the Lord. If you do, you
commence the whole reverse pro
cess which moves back through
your whole financial program.
Life to be vital has to be oot-go-
ing, in-flowing. It is a strange para
dox, but true, that the more we give
away, in the broad sense of the
term, the more we have.
‘Learn a lesson from the care of
your water pipes. Apply it to your
si ritual life. It will save suffering
and add to your joy and useful
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