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i ' 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. WINTER COMES TO SUBURBIA gSv 1*4* : COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Follows In Father’s Footsteps IVe referred often to Mr. W. H. Regnery of Chicago. He has left this world and this world is poorer without him. Mr. Regnery was progressive and constructive: constructive in all his relations, not only as a manufacturer but as a leader of men. The late Mr. Regnery has been succeded by his able, re sourceful and constructive son, Mr. Walter Regnery. Recently Mr. Walter Regnery was quoted in The Joanna ^Vay, the very attractive and readable monthly magazine of The Joanna Cotton Mills Co., of Joanna, S. C. I wish to quote in part: “Nineteen Fifty-four was a most difficult year in textiles, and Joanna’s experience was no exception. The volume of goods which moved into markets was fair as compared with other years, but prices were reduced to an extremely low point. Any business must have profits to live, just as we must have wages to meet our everyday needs. Many textile firms found it necessary to go out of business, others had to dig into reserves, earned in thepast, to keep going; the remaining ones earned very modest incomes — far below the overall general industry level. Fortunately, Joanna came in this latter category. I am sure the main reason for our generally better showing in our type industry was due to the outstanding cooperative spirit among all of us. We have been confronted with many problems, changes, new work habits, etc., but each of these was solved successfully due to this wonderful teamwork. We certainly wanted to keep all of our looms running at least five days a week and so it was necessary to find new outlets for this production. For some time now v/e have been diverting this production into the standard print cloth market. We were not the only mill doing this; also, new mills have been built to make these fabrics, so that by the early part of this year over-production in this field was so .great that prices were gradually being forced down to the break-even or losing point. We were faced then with two alternatives; one, stay in the print cloth market by cutting our costs, at the expense of quality, by using mass pro- ducion methods, or second, find new fields where we could reap the benefits of our many years of high quality pro duction. We decided, wisely I am sure, upon this latter idea. This change has been going on gradually all year and is now complete. We are out of the highly competitive, low return print cloth market. Today, all of our looms are operating on specialties demanding all of our maximum efforts of know-how and skill that, in years to come, will make all of our positions at Joanna much more secure. The above changes might be easy to write or talk about, but all of us know they have taxed all of our utmost skills and capacities. It hasn’t been easy for any of us. The Card Room employees had to learn how to handle much longer and finer fibered cotton, install and learn the new combing operation, and produce much lighter rovings. You spinners had the task of handling lighter carded yards, producing - much finer combed yarns of the highest quality, and even changing to reverse twist yarns. The Weave Rooms had to set up looms on multi-harness from two-harness operation, change over to lighter yams, and at the same time maintain the highest type of quality production. Those in charge of selling our product had to seek out new customers and develop new contacts. - Another big event for all of us was the distribution of the wage dividend for the sixteenth year. This year, $261,769.47 was distributed among 1,650 Joanna employees in keeping with our company’s profit-sharing plan. Because of the wholehearted cooperation of each and everyone at v Joanna, this check was made possible. The fine Joanna spirit of tackling difficult problems in changing our products, as already mentioned, best shows why we at Joanna can con sistently pay these bonuses.” That is an example of fine management. Mr. Regnery, like his extraordinary father, will say it was leadership and splended cooperation Well certainly everybody at Joanna is happy. were on hand, except for the stiff guards on every landing and door. Paris Headquarters had more swank than even Chaumont. Harts. It was a Sunday and only a captain and a sergeant The Captain was ready for dinner and said “Have I any right to give you a pass” ? “Certainly”, I said, and I pointed to the fluer de lis on my sleeve. It was a stroke of luck. The Captain authorized the pass and the sergeant prepared it. Sergeants did most of the work, as I recall. That pass was authorized for eleven days, but grew into several weeks before I boarded ship at Boulogne for Folkstone, across the English Channel. But thereby hangs a tale, to quote again from Shakespeare. Many interesting incidents of my trip may be rehashed during the year but here is one: Some one at Washington Inn suggested that it would be interesting to see the change of the guard at Buckingham Palace. That, you know, is the London residence of the King and Queen. Several of us went, all eager to see the brilliant uniforms of the King’s guard, not overlooking the march with the goose-step up and down the parade ground. As we Americans were in uniform a British officer in vited us to attend a special occasion on the inside — the King was to bestow honors. * We were given seats near the front. Tfye King bestowed the Order of Merit on the supreme commandere, Lord Beatty, Grand Admiral; and Lord Haig, Field Marshall and Commander in France. During the ceremony the King Knighted an officer and conferred the Victoria Cross on a private soldier. I can still see Tommy’s hand shaking as he saluted the King. I must tell a tale on myself. When he King entered the band played. I thought the band was playing “My Country tis of thee”; and I remarked to a fellow-American “That is remarkably gracious of , the King, to recognize us”. But my friend said: “Sh, that is ‘God save the King’.” Well, well: So it is with the world; we had borrowed their music, as someone borrowed the music of “Jerusalem the Golden” and made America America, for the Second World War. My friend spoiled it. If he had not set me straight I would al ways have admired the King. Even so. S HARP debate over the domes tic economic and monetary pol icy of the govemrnent looms as a question of great importance as this first session of the 84th Con gress gears itself for legislative action. First, the Congress gets under way with the predictions of admin istration fiscal leaders such as Treasury Secretary George Hum phreys and Budget Director Row land R. Huges. that the adminis tration faces deficit financing for the rest of this fiscal year 1955 and for fiscal year 1956. Second is the sharp difference in opinion, generally, as between the Republican and Democratic thinking over what constitutes sound economic and monetary policy. 'Die Republican leadership is steeped in the. traditional thinking that, sound policy must be geared to the law of supply and demand in a free market and with free competition; that savings and pro duction play a more important role than employment "and con sumption, and that the supply of money, credit and Interest rates should be determined by this un regulated play of supply and de mand. On the Democratic side, there are those who believe that in pres ent-day economics there is no such thing as so-called free markets nor free competition; that interest rates should be regulated in the interest of lower prices, rather than in increasing prices; that unemployment should not exist and tnat full employment is more important to the national econ omy than so-called price stability; that money supply and interest rates should be regulated by the Federal Reserve Board to pre vent increases in prevailing prices and that consumption of products 'in the true measure of prosperity rather than production of products. This difference in economic thinking as between the two par ties was pointed up in the Decem ber hearings of the Joint Commit tee on the Economic Report on basic problems of the Administra tion’s money and credit policies. The debate was set-off when Democrats questioned the hard money policy adopted by the Ad ministration during the Spring of 1953 which boosted interest rates, not only on Government securities, but on commercial loans through out the country. One of the economists before the Committee, Professor Clyde Mitch ell, Chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska, contend ed our monetary policy should not be left «o the operation of the so-called free market whose abso lute freedom was challenged by the Professor. There may be a move made in this Congress for labor union representation on the Federal Re serve Board, which is now con fined to Business, Agriculture and Banking. yea teO me briefiy what the 950 million achoei mflh A—Congress provided 980 mnMmi a year to subsidize milk c tion for school children last summer. Schools already milk were allowed 4# a half pint for milk consumed above year. Schools providing milk for first time are allowed 3# per pint for all consumed. Some states were slow In Joining the gram, so money left over was diverted to states whose share exhausted before end of school year. In 1963 about 400 ml quarts at milk was consumed in school programs The $90 ml would add about 390 million more quarts. This would ai about half a glass a day par school child. But only about of school children were able to participate hi 1904 The milk glus In 1954 was between 9 end 4 mflHoa pounds All would appear if every child in school could get aa much milk as who did participate In die 1954 program. The ISO million wilt be sufficient to do this through 196ft. Q—What la the date far the White Beuee A—The date has been set for November Q—Why im the Tariff i A—On Durum wheat or flour br semolina produced whether it should be authorized during the 28. 195ft. On potash from East Germany, la it such quantities as to violate the anti-dumping dr-la the $19 million allowed Indie te buy U. 8. A—-No. The authorization came under the Mt sets up $320 million of mutual security funds to be sales abroad for surplus U. 8. farm commodities «.j"; ; f mm: c l ; g ■rmT ’t is yi ’’ i _ f 1 ; ^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STAR • , • >< . • . A J f ' * ' % r -I . *.y •/ { z v s f-v « M RS. IDA UROV. 125 So. Oakhurstor. Beverly Hills, California, tells us that when her husband had a very severe attack of arthritis, the doctor first told him to go to the hospital to have his spine tapped. Then he said he should go tp Florida. So they got rid of their busi ness in a hurry stored their furniture. A short while after that her son enlisted in the Navy. Was she worried? Tes, indeed, for a time, then she said to herself, *T am not going to sit and worry. I win get busy.** She loved to cater to the public, so she looked in the paper and saw advertised a job for a waitress. She answered it and they asked whether she had had any experience. She said **no.** “Sorry, we can’t use you.’’ Then she went to another place and again they said “no.” However, when she went Into the third place she told them that she was experienced. So they hired her. When she began to work the head waiter no- CARNEGIE ticed that she wasn’t experienced, so she admitted the truth to him. But he took a liking to her and showed her how to carry the dishes on her arm. After working there a short while the owner discharged an ex perienced waitress who had worked there five years and- kept Mrs. Urov on the Job. She had always given the customers a big smile which seemed to have inspired their confidence. As a result, they allowed her to select | whatever she thought was “fresh and good on the menu. She was tipped liberally. V-'-V She enjoyed her work so much and was so busy at it, that she had very little time to worry. And that is how she conquered the worry habit. to separate 1 x 2a on 1 » top with 'iM' if® Witnesses Change Of Guard One of my friends seems to like little stories about my years in other countries. A little experience in England may bring a chuckle to him. I say “chuckle” because that’s what we say when we have our hair down. When I was in France I thought of England, so near, yet so far. Far if you had to break through the chains of mili tary control. I spoke of my wanting a pass to a friend, a Colonel from Alabama. He snorted and said “I have had my application in six weeks; how do you expect to get one just so”? I had an idea; my friend had applied to General Head quarters at Chaumont, where General Pershing and the other “top-brass” held forth in solemn state. I decided on a ew approach: I went to the Paris Headquarters — General * Device Measures Effort Expended You’ve heard it said that there is no rest for the weary. It is a fact, however, that many folk are weary without cause. So the world has conspired to put us to the test. What think you of this? “A stenographer filing papers in a four-drawer cabinet has an energy output nearly twice that of a housewife iron ing a man’s shirt. That is one finding from experiments with a Lauru Plat form at I. E. duPont de Nemours’ Haskell Laboratory for Toxicology and Industrial Medicine. The instrument jje- cords accurately the physical effort required for any job. The laboratory do&s research on problems affecting the health of workers in DuPont’s plants. Dr. Lucien A. Brouha, head of the Haskell physiology division, believes the instrument will help Du Pont evalu ate training programs, plan better working methods, design worker aids and screen employees for certain jobs. His ob jective: To reduce worker fatigue and increase job efficien cy. Du Pont got its Lauru Platform, one of two in the world, last April. The first project, still under way, is a study of workers stacking 50-pound bags. Dr. Brouha has found that stacking the fifth row requires nearly 80% more physical effort than stacking the first row, with a 20% increase in heart rate. He says the ex periment shows that, in terms of the physical cost of a job to the worker, it is not economical to stack bags above the forth row. A loading platform that sinks as the weight on it increases would materially lessen worker fatigue during bag stack ing, Dr. Brouha comments. As soon as the current experiment is finished, Dr. Brouha plans to start a study of wrenches and bolts for Du Pont’s industrial engineering department. ‘We will try to find out what wrench for a given bolt is the most efficient’. Dr. Brouha explains. An increase in ef ficiency for this kind of Work would add up to savings of several million dollars a year for Du Pont, he adds. The Lauru Platform is so sensitive that it measures the energy used by* a white rat running across it. If a' man stands per fectly still on the platform, it will record each heartbeat. THE BIG TRAIN RIDE By F. L Rowley 99 M Y TEN-YEAR-ODD brother George had always wanted to ride on a train. He used to sit pj the hour watching freight-trains puffing across the old trestle- bridge that spanned Wilson’s Creek. One sunny day as I was mend ing fences at the lower end of the north-forty George came bound ing over the hill. He looked for all the world like a jackrabbit trying to outrun a charge of buckshot. *T just saw a big train rob- oeryl** George panted. “No kidding? Good for you! Fve been watching flying-horses my self. And Fd keep away from that clump of bushes if I were you-— there's a tiger threshing around in It.** ’ George frowned. *T*m not Jok ing,” he insisted. “I Just saw some men hold up a freight-train over at Wilson’s Creek. The train is still there. Just ’caiufe you're fifteen you don’t have to make fun of everything I say.” “Where you headed now?” I asked. The note of urgency in George’s voice had aroused my interest. “To get the sheriff. H somebody got hurt he’ll be needing help.” “If somebody got hurt he’ll die before the sheriff gets here,” I said, starting up the hill. “Let's take a look.” George was right. The long train had stopped with its snout on the bridge. As we ran alongside the box-cars we could see where some of them had been cut open—prob ably with axes. The locomotive hissed softly; there was no other sign of life. George climbed aboaxd quickly. “It’s the engineerl” he cried ex citedly. “He’s dead!” “Dead people don’t moan,” I said, climbing Into the cab. Upon closer inspection I determined that the man was breathing—ever so softly. “Let’s get him out of here,” 1 said without looking up: George didn't answer. When I did look up George was standing before a cluster of gauges with a far-away look in his eyes. Even before he phrased the question I knew what he was thinking. “It’s only a short run to Shelby- ville,” he said wistfully. “Do you think—?’’ “No,” I Interrupted sharply, “I don’t. You’re not old enough to drive a car. much less a locomo tive.” George looked so dejected that 1 turned quickly aside to hide a smite. My gaze settled on the un conscious man; then I remem bered something that our football: coach had told us about concus sion. Prying open the big man's eyelids I soon saw that the pupils were unequal In size; it looked bad. “Do you really think you can get this train going?” I asked. The light that came into George’s ; eyes was wonderful to see. With-: out a word he stepped oven, to a : big lever and nudged it. To my | surprise the freight began to inch, its way forward. “By thunder, you did itl” I cried approvingly. “Full steam ahead!" ! "Not yet,” George cautioned. “We got to get her rolling first.” : And the way my little brother l coaxed that old engine along made ! me proud of him. I even went to • work with the coal shoveL Twen- \ ty minutes later we pulled into the: Shelbyville station. “Nice going boys!” said a well-! dressed man swinging easily into : the cab. “You sure gave us a ; scare though, bringing the train in like this. How’s Monty?” “I think he’s suffering from concussion,” I said. “But how did you know that the engineer was hurt?** “The brakeman reported the robbery from a farmhouse. He said they’d killed Monty; I’m hap py to see that he was wrong. We’d better get hirp to a doctor in a hurry.” We did that and Monty recov ered. When he came to visit us a few weeks later he brought a free pass for George—a pass to ride on a real express-train. jdgmS * Los 'doc food. 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