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WINTER COMES TO SUBURBIA
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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