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THE SLATER NEWS
October 24, 1946

The Slater News
Published Every Two Weeks
By
Slater Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Established 1790
In The Interest of Its Employees

Photo of two logos.

STAFF

ROBERT H. ATKINSON Editor
CECIL S. ROSS Asst. Editor
CLAUDE GUEST Photographer

REPORTERS

Weave Room: Ernestine McCall,
Nellie Barnette, Walker Reid,
Gladys Cox, Rosalee Cox, Sarah
Canham, Dovie Faust, Louise Bag-
well, Geneva Rampey, Leora Ward,
and Pearl Price.

Preparation Dept.: Jessie Vassey, Julia
Brown, Mary Wallace, Bertha
Jones, Sarah Singleton, Blanche
Raxter, Nellie Ruth Payne, Stanley
Hawkins, and Ruth Campbell.

Cloth Room: Opal W. Smith.

Community: Mrs. Raymond Johnson,
W. Earle Reid, Ruby P. Reid,
Doris F. Atkinson.

EDITORIALS

Halloween Spectres

October means Halloween.
Halloween means ghosts and
goblins, witches and broom-
sticks, ghouls and spirits.

This Halloween, two great
spectres face the world. But
they are not to be taken light-
heartedly, nor can one make
sport of them. They stand as
awesome monsters in a world
already shaking with forebod-
ing, trembling with terrifying
expectations of atom bombs
and World War III.

The first of these is hunger,
gaunt forerunner of world dis-
integration. Wherever one
looks the spectre stands, wait-
ing like a formless vulture. In
Europe and Asia, a majority of
the population face slow star-
vation and perhaps eventual
death. And significantly, as in
all Halloween stories, the spec-
tre claims little children first.

Only the generosity of rich
America can help destroy this
monster. This generosity,
coupled with cooperation
among nations contributing to
UNRRA, can do much to put
this spectre to flight.

The second spectre, hazy but
insidious, is misunderstanding.
He thrives on poorly-informed
people and his best hunting
ground is where there is preju-
dice or fear due to ignorance.

Only honest thinking and
digging for facts will put him
to flight. In the light of truth
and straight thinking he
shrinks and cowers-and flies.
But if he survives, the preju-
dices will mount, the fear
heighten and finally, like a
great epidemic, he will envelop
the world.

Then once again, men will
kill from fear and without rea-
son.

This October, the world can-
not afford spectres, at least not
serious, ominous ones. Gen-
erosity and understanding will

SLATER
DAY BY DAY

Another automobile wreck
has occurred in our village at
the intersection of Second
Street and Edison Avenue. This
makes three accidents that
have happened at this same
corner within a period of much
less than two years.

Two of the wrecks occurred
at night, and all three of them
happened in much the same
manner. Two cars arrived at
the same place at the same time
and neither of the cars stopped
or even slowed down at the in-
tersection enough to see if the
road was clear or if another car
was approaching.

Luckily, no one was seriously
hurt in any of the accidents,
but there was a big damage to
automobiles in all three cases
and quite a big shake up of
nerves and morales to those in-
volved and also to those who
saw and heard these accidents.

Now the question is, why do
people seem to pick this partic-
ular corner of our village to
attempt to bump each other off
the street?

We need more people in our
village who have the conviction
of the man-about-town who
called a young swain to him
and proceeded in no uncertain
terms to tell the youngster just
what he thought of reckless
driving of the kind the young
man was doing. The young
man toned down his speed a
few notches.

If the people of Slater should
censor reckless driving as the
citizens of a town need to cen-
sor it, by talking to the reck-
less drivers in plain language
and by insisting on law en-
forcement, our village would
not be exposed to speeders, and
there would be greater safety.

And while we are speaking
of safety, we might mention the
fire cracker situation. But just
whom shall we criticize, the lit-
tle boy who shoots fire crackers
in milk bottles, or the merchant
who sells them, or the parents
who permit the children to buy
them?

destroy them. To rid the world
of one, only a neighborly hand
is needed. To erase the other,
a little thought and digging
will carry the day.

LEATHERWOOD-JONES

Of interest to their many
friends in this section is the
marriage of Miss Robbie Leath-
erwood and Mr. Ernest Jones,
which took place on October 5,
1946.

The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leather-
wood, of Newport, Tenn. She
has been employed in the
Weaving Department of the
Slater plant for over two years.

Mr. Jones is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Jones, of Mari-
etta, S. C. He served in the
U. S. Army for three years, two
years of which were spent in
the Pacific area. He received
his discharge in January , 1946,
and returned to his old job in
the Weaving Department here
at that time.

The young couple are mak-
ing their home at Cleveland,
S. C.

Cloth Room Chatter

Cpl. Carl J. Bryson was home
for the week-end visiting his
wife, Mrs. Margaret Bryson.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Coleman,
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Coleman,
Helen Coleman, and Mrs. El-
liott Batson visited the Chero-
kee Indian Fair recently.

The family of Mrs. Beulah
Stroud honored her with a
birthday dinner Sunday given
at her home. They also present-
ed her with a lovely necklace
as a gift.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Smith re-
cently enjoyed visiting rela-
tives in Ware Shoals.

Equipment Cost

(Con't. from page 1, col. 1)

$56.18; per cent difference
compared with 1945, minus
12.1

Barrack equipment - 1944,
$31.31; 1945, $31.65; 1946,
$63.42; per cent difference com-
pared with 1945, plus 100.3

Totals-1944, $465.16; 1945,
$533.88; 1946, $590.68; per cent
difference compared with 1945,
plus 10.7

Individual equipment is the
only group showing a reduc-
tion, and this may be accounted
for because of a number of
items being cheaper to produce,
and the substitution of improv-
ed equipment such as substitut-
ing of a field pack at $2.97 for
the former haversack and car-
rier pack at $7.22.

Barrack equipment shows a
sharper increase than any other
group because, since the bulk
of the Army is now in the
United States, more troops are
requiring full barrack equip-
ment, also because in 1945 bar-
rack equipment consisted of
ten item while this year there
are fifteen. The five additional
items consist of pieces of equip-
ment that were restricted dur-
ing the war because they were
not considered essential to the
prosecution of the war mission.

The rest of the difference in
the cost of barrack equipment
is accounted for by the improv-
ed quality of some items and
the general price increase of
material. The figures shown

PREPARATION
DEPARTMENT N - E - W - S

Mr. and Mrs. Tom McCombs
were the Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. P. M. Johnson of
Travelers Rest.

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Single-
ton visited Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Friddle of Greer over the week-
end.

Mr. Fred Cisson has recently
accepted a transfer to a slash-
er helper's job on the third
shift for Mr. Burgess in order
to make room for a returned
veteran on the second shift.
Thanks, Fred, for your coop-
eration.

We welcome Mr. Floyd Gar-
land back on his old job as
slasher helper on the second
shift. He has recently returned
from service.

Mrs. Lillie Mae Childress re-
cently visited her mother in
Simpsonville.

Mrs. Wilma Elrod and sons
visited her sister, Mrs. Robert
Oates, of Easley over the week-
end.

Jack McCall, S-1/C, recently
spent a 15-day furlough with
his sister, Edna Forrest.

Pfc. and Mrs. Sidney McCall,
Edna Forrest, and Jack McCall
recently visited relatives in
Asheville, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Crayton Brady
and family visited Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Jones, of Travelers Rest,
Sunday.

The Table Rock baseball
team defeated the Pickens team
last Sunday 26-25. Several
members of the Preparation
Department attended this
game.

We are sorry to hear that
Mr. Phillips' little son fell and
broke his collar bone. We wish
for him a very speedy recovery.

Mr. J. S. Ragan, of Crosby,
Tenn., recently spent a week
with his son, Mr. D. O. Ragan.
His son carried him home. Mr.
Ragan said he had a delightful
stay.

represent the cost of items is-
sued by the Quartermaster
Corps only, and do not include
the cost of weapons, ammuni-
tion, transportation, shelter,
pay, and similar expenses. In
arriving at these costs, the fact
that, due to the different re-
quirements of the many
branches of the service, each
soldier does not receive identi-
cal clothing and equipment, is
taken into consideration and
evaluated in a table of "allow-
ances." The table shows an al-
lowance factor for each item of
supply. For instance, every
soldier, regardless of his branch
of the service, requires a belt;
therefore, the allowance factor
for a belt is one. Wool over-
coats are issued to 67.32 per-
cent of the total force, making
the allowance factor .6732; so
the coat now costing $19.48
would therefore be listed in the
composite cost at 67.32 percent
of the unit cost, or $13.11.
Maintenance costs for troops in
the United States are consider-
ably lower than they were in
theaters of operations during
the war. Service boots, for ex-
ample, had no allowance for
maintenance in the U. S. for

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"ONE MORE STEP AND I'LL BE
LOOKING INTO HER DARK EYES

the first year, but were allowed
$7.23 for maintenance in com-
bat areas.

The SAFE Way
Is
RIGHT

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the
LIGHTER
SIDE
by WALT
DITZEN

I'M LOSING
PATIENTS WITH YOU!!

GOOD!

HOW'D IT HAPPEN?

HE WAS SAYIN'-
BE CAREFUL-AN'
I WAS SAYIN'-
NUTS! LOOK'T
ALL THEM BATTLES
I WAS THROUGH, AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN-
WHAMY!

WHERE'DJA
GET THAT?

I BROUGHT
IT FROM
HOME!

OFF THE JOB
SAFETY
IS IMPORTANT
TOO!

WHAT DO WE
DO IN A CASE
LIKE THIS?

FROM NATIONAL SAFETY NEWS
PUBLISHED BY
THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL