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THE SLATER NEWS
September 20, 1945

The Slater News
Published Every Two Weeks
By S. Slater & Sons, Inc.
Established 1790
In The Interest of Its Employees

S T A F F
ROBERT H. ATKINSON_____Editor
CECIL SPEIGHTS_____Asst. Editor

REPORTERS

Weave Room: Ernestine McCall,
Nellie Barnette, Walker Reid,
Gladys Cox, Rosalee Cox, Sara C.
Chitwood, Dovie Faust, Louise
Bagwell, and Margaret Johnson.

Preparation Dept: Jessie Vassey,
Dorothy Hawkins, Julia Brown,
Mildred Mull, Mary Wallace,
Lucille Tate, Ruby Drury, Nellie
Ruth Payne, Stanley Hawkins,
Irene Cox.

Cloth Room: Jessie M. Smith.

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

EDITORIALS

Not Sufficient

In winning the late global
war, it was necessary for the
United States to raise and train
the greatest Army and Navy
in its history, and, as a result,
practically every family in the
land has had a member in the
Armed Services. Consequently,
this nation is more military
minded than every before.

From this condition, has
been advanced the idea that we
should do certain things in
order to preserve the peace
which has so recently been won.
First among these ideas seems
to be that every young man in
this country should serve one
or two years in the Armed
Forces immediately upon reaching
his eighteenth birthday.
We see no fault with this idea
except it does not go far
enough, and will not, of itself,
be sufficient to accomplish the
results desired.

If we will harken back to
the days before the war when
we were beginning to train our
Army and Navy, 50% or one
out of every two men were rejected
for military service due
to physical disabilities. This,
in our opinion, is a serious condition
and represents the cause
of the greatest of our peace-time
problems.

The health of our nation
naturally comes first in importance
as without health, no one
can accomplish very much. In
our opinion, military training
for one or two years would be
very much like a certain community
which had a very
dangerous curve in a highway
that ran through it. Autos were
constantly failing to make this
curve and tumbling off into a
gorge below. In an attempt to
remedy this condition, the
good people of that neighborhood
erected in the gorge one
of the finest hospitals to be
found anywhere, but this did
not cure the situation as
wrecks continued to occur. It

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SLATER
DAY BY DAY

One by one our Service boys
and girls will be coming home.
Some of them are here already.
Apparently, they will be the
same boys and girls who went
away, but actually they will be
entirely different because they
have fought and won a war.

They have lived through
cold and heat and mud and
rain. They have gone through
rigid training and in order to
wage war from the air, on the
land and out of the sea. They
have been lonely and homesick,
and maybe they have
cried some. They have thought
deeply about life and death
and God and the Beyond.

They have waded through
murderous gun fire to set free
peoples that were oppressed.
They have watched their comrades
die and cursed and
fought with renewed frenzy
the foe that was responsible
for such death. In short, they
have been through hell.

Now they are coming back
home to the quietness of their
little mountain village — back
to the tree shaded streets and
the peaceful Sunday afternoons
— back home to take
up the broken threads of their
lives and weave their interrupted
dreams into firm realities.

They are bringing their battle
scars with them, and these
scars are as widely different as
the individuals who carry
them, physical scars from
wounds received in combat and
mental scars from having seen
too much of the ugly side of
human suffering — all scars
that only time can heal.

To say that we are proud to
have them home is putting it
mildly, we are grateful to
every last one of them for having
done an unwelcome job and
having done it well.

Our hats are off and our
hearts are open to welcome
every Slaterite back from the
wars!
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was not until an engineer surveyed
the situation and relocated
the highway so as to eliminate
the curve that the cure
for this condition was found.

Why not get to the seat of
the trouble and begin a health
program in this country which
begins before the individual is
born and continues throughout
his life? Pre-natal care for
prospective mothers has apparently
been sadly neglected
throughout the country, although
the problem has been attacked
and some results gained.
Proper feeding and nutrition
has also been neglected,
and many of our physical specimens
reflect this when called
upon for military service.

Not being experts on the
matter, we do not have a definite
program to offer, but
would suggest that every child
entering the public school system
be examined by a physician
and a case record be kept
for each child throughout his
school career. Perhaps equally
as important as the teacher
would be the school nurse who
could combat many of the deficiencies
to be found in the
health of the school. In this
connection, a suitable physical
educational program could be
worked out for every individu-

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PREPARATION
DEPARTMENT

Miss Joyce Garrett enjoyed
a recent trip to Glassy Mountain.

We rejoice with Virginia
Duncan in her good fortune of
having her husband home
again after serving several
years overseas.

Gertrude Lyda and friends
spent a delightful afternoon at
Table Rock State Park recently.

Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mull
and family had as their dinner
guest last Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. Shirby Kelly and daughter,
Sylvia, of Central, also
Mrs. J. C. Mullinax and Clarence
Mull, both of Greenville.

Lila Wood has received word
that her brother 1/Sgt. Leslie
Wood is to sail from England,
September 10th on the Queen
Mary.

Clovie Henson has just received
word that her boy
friend, who has been in the
Philippines, is home. He reported
that he would be seeing her
soon.

A surprise birthday dinner
was given at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Toy Tate on Sunday,
August 26th, honoring Mrs.
Tate's grandmother, Mrs. M. B.
Williamson of Greenville. A
large group of friends and
relatives were present for this
occasion. Picnic lunches were
brought by all who attended.
Mrs. Williamson received many
lovely and useful gifts.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams
of Marietta, S. C., had as
their guest recently, Mr. David
Batson.

Charles McCall of the Slasher
Room informs us that his
brother, M. P. Robert McCall
is with the Army in France,
while Emmett and English,
both in the Navy, are on Okinawa.

David Batson's aunt, Mrs.
Alpha R. Witter, of Woodstock
Valley, Conn., paid him
a recent visit.

Mrs. LeRoy Baldwin and
children of Greenville, S. C.,
are visiting Mrs. Nora Buchanan
and family.

Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Rice, Sr.
and Mrs. Elma Rice and children
were the recent guests of
Mrs. Ruth Rice.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cisson and
family were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Sherman Pearson recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Wade Grant
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al. Schools should probably
serve at least one well cooked
and prepared balanced meal
for each child in connection
with a serious attempt to combat
malnutrition. This scheme,
in connection with other problems
which would arise, and
would have to be solved as they
arose, should at least have a
tendency to greatly improve
the health of both girls and
boys throughout the nation.

If it were then seen fit to
give each boy reaching 18
years of age a year or two of
military training, this would be
fine, and no doubt, Army and
Navy authorities would have a
much better specimen on which
to work than ever before. We,
therefore, believe that one or
two years military training is
not sufficient unless these other
things are done which will accomplish
results by attacking
the root of the problem.

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and Mrs. Maude Hill were the
Sunday guests of Mr. aand Mrs.
Charlie Hill.

Mr. W. H. Belk, father of
Mrs. C. D. Rice, spent a recent
week-end with her.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coleman
were the Sunday guests of Mrs.
Walter Coleman.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Batson
visited Mrs. Batson's Grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Jane Jones
of Hendersonville, N. C., recently.

Little Sarah Coleman is
spending a week with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Coleman.

Mrs. Mary Wallace has returned
to work after a three
weeks' visit with her husband,
James T. Wallace, A. M. M.-2/C,
in Memphis, Tenn., where
he was in school for four weeks.
He has again returned to Seattle,
Washington.

Mrs. Lois Jewell is visiting
her husband, Sgt. W. A. Jewell,
in Tuscula, Ala. Sgt. Jewell is
a patient at Northan General
Hospital.

John Earl Guest, S-2/C, has
returned to Camp Peary, Va.,
after spending an eleven-day
furlough with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Guest of Travelers
Rest, S. C.

Sgt. R. B. Dugger, Jr. has
returned from overseas where
he served with the 165th Combat
Engineers. He and his wife
are spending two weeks of his
thirty-day furlough with his
mother, Mrs. Harriett Dugger,
of Marietta, S. C.

Flora A. Batson, S-1/C, of
Patuxent, Maryland was an
overnight guest of her sister,
Mrs. Allie Mae Stockton recently.

Miss Renee Dowe of Greenville
was a recent visitor of Mr.
and Mrs. Billie Phillips.

Miss Louise McCauley of
Travelers Rest visited in the
home of Mrs. Bessie Robinson
recently.

Mrs. Gladys Child's mother,
Mrs. B. F. Tumblin, Mrs. Herman
Batson and Mrs. Tom
Raines recently visited her.
Mrs. Batson and Mrs. Raines
are sisters of Mrs. Childs.

Mr. and Mrs. Billie Phillips
recently visited Mr. and Mrs.
Roscoe Brady of Greenville.

S-1/C Clyde Ellerbee, of Ashburn,
Ga., recently visited
Frances Hall.

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Lee and
son, Donald, Misses Frances
and Margaret Campbell and
Charles Campbell of Shelby, N.
C. were recent guests of Mrs.
Bessie Robinson and Miss Ruth
Campbell. Mrs. J. C. Campbell,
mother of Mrs. Robinson and
Miss Campbell, who spent
several weeks with her daughters,
has returned to her home
in Shelby, N. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Terrel
and children spent a recent
week-end in Elberton, Ga., and
attended a family reunion for
Mrs. Terrell's family.

Margaret and Martha Robinson
visited Miss Sarah Bates
Fortune in Spartanburg recently.

S-1/C ed Bates, brother of
Mrs. Lois Jewell, is home on
leave. He has been serving aboard
a destroyed in the Pacific.

The Preparation Department
extends sincere sympathy to
Mrs. Clyde Hall in the death of

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

ments. A little lost time is better
than a long sojourn in the
hospital.

7. Clean chips from a lathe
with a brush.

8. Never, under any circumstances,
leave a wrench in the
chuck.

9. Become familiar with the
locations of fire fighting equipment,
and, above all, know how
to use it!

10. Last, but not least, don't
hold social gatherings around
loving machinery. If the operation
of machinery didn't require
constant attention, you'd
be out of a job!

Not hard rules to follow, are
they? Read them over a few
times and spread the gospel of
safe machine operation among
your co-workers. Do this and
you'll find that the percentage
of accidents to machine operators
will diminish to a nice, fat
zero practically overnight. And
you'll find deep personal satisfaction
in the knowing that
you've played a vital part in
protecting the safety of yourself
and your fellow worker.

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Tiny Tots Please
(Con't. from page 1, col. 2)

Southerlin; helpers, Sara Jo
Johnson, Freida Thornton and
Joyce Bryant. Truman Dickson,
member of the Boys' Library
Club, helped with the
stage properties.

On the following Saturday
afternoon, the children who
took part in the above program,
accompanied by a number
of parents, were taken to
a circus in Greenville. This
trip was a compliment of the
Slater Community Association
for the good work the tiny tots
did in preparing and presenting
their program for the public.
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her husband.

Randolph Hightower, brother
of Mary Hightower, has
been discharged from the Army
on the point system.

The Boosters Club of the
Preparation Department enjoyed
a delicious chicken supper
and square dance at Table
Rock State Park Lodge on Aug.
31st.

Effie Lee Looper is back on
the job after being off several
days due to the illness of her
mother.

Friends of Miss Vara Lindsey
will be interested to know
she has returned to North
Greenville Junior College to resume
her studies.

Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Albright
and sons, B. J. and Alfred, recently
visited Mr. Albright's
sister, Mrs. J. C. Duncan, in
Virginia last week-end.
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Don't let
FAMILIARITY
WITH YOUR
JOB
make you
forget
to be
CAREFUL
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