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Page Two; THE SLATER NEWS; December 19, 1946

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

STAFF

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

REPORTERS

Weave Room: Ernestine McCall,
Nellie Barnette, Gladys Cox, Rosa-
lee Cox, Sarah Canham, Louise
Bagwell, Pearl Price, Ethel Clary,
Doris Jones and Irene Cox.

Preparation Department: Jessie Vas-
sey, Julia Brown, Bertha Jones,
Sarah Singleton, Blanche Raxter,
Nellie Ruth Payne, Stanley Haw-
kins, Ruth Campbell, D. P. Gar-
rick, Tom Boggs, and Marguerite
Waddell.

Cloth Room: Opal W. Smith

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

EDITORIALS

Christmas 1946

Peace on Earth, Good Will
Toward Men - two phrases that
were mere promises to Ameri-
can men one year ago. To these
men, fighting desperately for
peace, Christmas was a place
and a time almost beyond their
short, young memories.

This Christmas is, for many
of those men, an unfilled prom-
ise, and their grateful home-
land cannot repay them where
they lie silently beyond the
cheery light of Christmas trees
and gaily-wrapped presents.

And if peace does come to a
frightened world, the cost will
be measured in terms of young
men who will not be present to
appreciate it. Perhaps, in the
inexorable passing of time, they
may know that what they
fought for came to be.,

But such a fragile gift as
peace must have a beginning
after the last sound of battle
floats away on a rain-washed
wind. The men who inhabit
crossed graves only lived long
enough to sound the starting
gun of the race for peace.

The race for peace, they left
to us, the living - a race in
which we must participate ev-
ery waking hour, every minute.
And there could be no better
choice of time to begin a united
effort for peace than at this
time, the anniversary of the
birth of the Prince of Peace
whose faith kept strong the
courage of those men who
bought us our peaceful oppor-
tunity.

Those who help to start this
race will find themselves sur-
rounded by no silver-noted fan-
fare nor banner headlines. No,
the start of this ceaseless strug-
gle for quiet and understanding
between men will be marked by
silent prayers in the hearts of
the grateful living. There will

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SLATER
DAY BY DAY

EVERYBODY
HERE
WISHES
EVERYBODY
THERE
A
PEACEFUL
AND A
JOYOUS
CHRISTMAS
AND A
NEW YEAR
FILLED WITH
HAPPINESS

be no earthshaking declaration
from top-ranking diplomats or
representatives. All that the
earth and the world will know
of the sudden, prayer-inspired
determination of men to live
together will be measured only
in the choking sob of a robbed
mother, remembering the cost
of no more war.

Such unsensational begin-
nings must be marked at least
by a propitious time. Let's
make it Christmas, 1946.

Christmas Play
(Con't. from page 1, col. 5)

dington, Josias, R. P. Canham.

The Magi, or Wise Men: Mel-
chior, Cecil G. Hyer; Gaspar,
Claude Guest; Balthazar, Ray-
mond Johnson.

Innkeeper of Bethlehem, W.
A. Woodruff; the boy of the
inn, Jesse White, Jr.; Martha

[article continues to middle of column 3]

(the innkeeper's daughter),
Faye Dean; Julius, (the Roman
officer), the Rev. Charles T.
Thompson; first and second
soldiers of the Roman army,
Ray Dean and Russell Hamp-
ton.

Joseph of the House of Da-
vid, Robert H. Atkinson; Mary
(his wife), Maragaret Lavender
Williams; first and second an-
gels of the Heavenly host, Billie
Hamilton and Jorene Vickers.

This cast has been working
faithfully for several weeks,
and the production is looked
forward to by a large number
of Slaterites who have seen
similar plays produced for the
past three years. This produc-
tion will be the fourth of this
series.

Admission to the play is free
and the public is cordially in-
vited to attend.

[Cartoon spansbottom half of column 2-3; Santa and the reindeer putting wreaths on crosses of fallen men and 2 children listening to a story by their mother]

[top of Column 3]
Cloth Room Chatter

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Duncan
and son of Greenville were the
recent dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. John Reaves.

Mrs. Annie Johnson has re-
ceived word that her brother,
S/Sgt. Eugene H. Southerlin,
who recenly re-enlisted in the
Army, has now returned to his
outfit in Regensburg, Germany.
We wish him the best of luck.

Mrs. Margaret Bryson was
recently honored at a house-
hold shower given at the home
of Mrs. Pauline Farmer, with
Mrs. Farmer, Mrs. Annie John-
son, Mrs. Willie Pace and Mrs.
Phillips, acting as joint host-
esses. About 40 guests were
present. Margaret received
many lovely and useful gifts.
After two hours of enjoyable
entertainment, the hostesses
served delicious refreshments.

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PREPERATION DEPARTMENT N-E-W-S

Mrs. James Blackwell visited
her mother and youngest son
in Newport, Tenn., the past
week-end. Her mother, Mrs. J.
N. Smith, and Haskell accom-
panied her on the return trip
Sunday.

Miss Frances Miller has the
pleasure of spending Thanks-
giving and the entire week-end
at home with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. G. Miller of Mari-
etta.

Mr and Mrs. Lawrence Fos-
ter and daughter were the Sun-
day dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Foster.

Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan re-
ports she likes the work just
fine here at Slater and says it
is a grand place to work.

Mr. J. N. Blackwell, Jr. vis-
ited relatives in Newport, Tenn.
during the Thanksgiving holi-
days.

We are glad to see Jack Led-
ford back on the job after a
few days absence due to an in-
fected tooth.

Mrs. Ezra Freeman and
daughter, Elizabeth, of Elber-
ton, Ga., were week-end guests
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Boggs.

Mrs. Bertha Meece spent
Sunday in Rosman, N. C.

''Pug'' Waddell reports he
has finished gathering a bump-
er corn crop this season.

Miss Alma Ledford, attrac-
tive sister of Miss Leona Led-
ford, was home from Winthrop
College for the week-end.

We are glad to see Stokes
Lingerfelt back on the job af-
ter an attack of influenza.

Sunday guests of Mrs. I. C.
Few in Pickens were Mr. and
Mrs. Rudolph Looper and fam-
ily.

Tom Boggs and D. P. Garricks
were in Charlotte to see Shrine
Bowl all-star football game.

Congratulations to Mr. O. H.
Burgess for having received his
diploma from LaSalle Exten-
sion University's Correspond-
ence Schools. Good work!

Visiting in the home of Mrs.
Clovie Trammell recently, were
Mr. and Mrs. Barnie Bayne.

There probably will be very
few rabbits left at New Year,
as Paul Goldsmith and Howard
Tolley seem to have killed a
great number.

Jessie Tate is all smiles over
the new highway that is being
built past her home.

James ''Mutt'' Dunn has
nearly completed his new house
on Geer highway just outside
Marietta.

Our third shift employees
seem to have a great Christmas
spirit, for one can see shoppers
from their midst in town most
any day.

We are happy to have Junior
Crowe back with us after hav-
ing served eighteen months in
the Navy.

Can anyone top this! Vin-
cent Morris tells us he has al-
ready killed 126 squirrels this
season.

Pearl Looper is able to be
back on the job after a recent
tonsil operation at Coleman's
Hospital.

Billy Craven, student at
Clemson College, was a recent
guest in the home of Billy Vas-
sey.

The Boosters Club held a re-
cent meeting in the form of a
Christmas party in the recrea-
tion hall at Blythe Shoals. A

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delicious chicken supper was
served, after which the group
enjoyed games and singing
of Christmas carols.

We are glad to have Effie Lee
Looper back at work after an
attack of influenza.

If Santa Claus should ask the
quiller operators of the first
shift what they had rather have
this Christmas, I am sure they
would say a new clock for the
department.

Mrs. Gussie Conner and Mrs.
Julie Revis were spend-the-day
guests of Mrs. Lillie Gilreath on
Sunday.

Rev. Dan Stockton was a
Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and
(Con't. on page 3. col. 3)

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The SAFE Way
Is
RIGHT

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[Cartoon]
STAY SAFE
OFF-THE-JOB, TOO

''MISTER-
YOU'LL NEVER
GET HOME
AT ALL!''

''HIC -
I WON'T GET
HOME UNTIL
MORNING''

J. A. K[???]
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

The biggest gambler in your
town may never have had a
card or a pair of dice in his
hand. We're talking about the
fellow who walks the streets
after drinking. The stakes are
his life.

Maybe you're this gambler.
The National Safety Council
says that liquor is a factor in
at least one in every five fatal
traffic accidents.

In cities, over half the acci-
dent victims are pedestrians.
Clearly your chances aren't too
good, even cold sober. When
you drink, you stack the cards
against yourself.

Just how and where do these
pedestrian deaths occur? Near-
ly half the pedestrians killed
are crossing in the middle of
the block or coming from be-
hind parked cars.

Hundreds are killed crossing
in the right place but at the
wrong time - for instance, when
the traffic light is against them.
Or, in the wrong way, diagonal-
ly across intersections.

Many, however, cross at the
right time and in the right
place. But they make some
other mistake, such as depend-
ing too much on drivers.

To be safe on the streets to-
day, you must be not only alert
but sober. When you've been
drinking your reponses are
slower. Also, drink makes you
careless. You've shoved a
couple of aces up the old Grim
Reaper's sleeve.

Stay sober if you want to
stay alive, and cross a street
only when you're sure you can
make it all the way to the other
side safely.