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Page Two THE SLATER NEWS February 20, 1947

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

S T A F F
ROBERT H. ATKINSON_____Editor
CECIL S. ROSS________Asst. Editor
CLAUDE GUEST_______Photographer

REPORTERS
Weave Room: Ernestine McCall,
Nellie Barnette, Gladys Cox, Rosa-
lee Cox, Sara 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

Keep Them Lit!

A few days ago we were in
the shop at the plant. The
electrician called us in to see
a collection of light bulbs that
had been removed from the
street lights here at Slater.
There were 26 of these bulbs,
but the bad part about it was
these bulbs had been broken
out, leaving only the metal
bases.

This means that 50 percent
of the lights that had to be re-
placed had been knocked out,
or in some cases shot out, by
various persons on or off the
village. In a law-abiding com-
munity, we think this condition
serious.

The 13 lights were broken by
young people on or around Sla-
ter, which is an unhealthy con-
dition, for if such vandalism is
allowed to go on, it is certain
that young Americans who re-
ceive such trainiing will grow
up to be citizens without any
public spirit whatsoever, and
many drift into more ser-
ious crimes which will lead to
penitentiary offenses.

Street lights are placed in the
village to allow workers to go
to and from work at night to
better see their way. When a
light is destroyed, it has a tend-
ency to increase the possibility
of serious injury to some citi-
zen of our village who may
stumble over obstructions that
could have been seen if the light
had been burning. Most of us
like to quote the golden rule as
the finest standard by which to
live, and certainly we know of
no better place to begin than
right at home in helping our
neighbors by aiding them in
getting to and from their work.

The village deputy is doing
all in his power to see that law-
lessness is eliminated entirely
from Slater; however, he will

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find it very hard to accomplish
this unless the good citizens of
this village and community
come to his assistance. Won't
you, as a public spirited citizen,
aid this deputy and your fellow
citizens by doing all in your
power to keep the street lights
burning and not allowing your
children or other children to
destroy them? In the second
place, these lights are expen-
sive, for when one bursts, con-
siderable time, trouble, and cost
are involved in replacing it. The
man who replaces them has a
dangerous job in that he must
climb these poles in order to
replace them. A fall by the
electrician could be very serious
and damage the body of the man
badly.

This is an earnest appeal by
the Slater News for all to help
and to assist in every way pos-
sible, not only by keeping the
street lights burning, but also
to assist in any other way what-
soever to prevent lawlessness
from becoming rampant in this
village.

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SLATER
DAY BY DAY

When people have nothing
else to talk about, they talk
about the weather. Well, why
not? We always have weather.
In fact, since ground hog day
was so bright and sunshiny, and
Mr. Hyer insisted on running
outside to see his shadow, we
have had real winter weather.

Mr. Staton, who delivers our
Greenville papers here at Sla-
ter, said his thermometer reg-
istered 7° on a cold Sunday
morning recently. And one of
the very reliable members of
the local Baptist Church replied
that down at the mill gate the
thermometer said 3° that same
morning.

Why it was so cold a couple
of mornings that when the
wake-up whistle blew at 6:30
the sound froze into one huge
lump of noise and hung sus-
pended in the air like and in-
flated balloon!

And the ring of our neigh-
bor's axe, as he chopped his
morning supply of wood, was
so cold that it hit against the
house and bounced back to be
cut again.

When the pigeons flew around
over the village their shadows
froze in mid air.

Even the bark of a playful
puppy froze and bounced along
the sidewalk, to be picked up
and played with like a rubber
ball.

And the steam from the
kitchen kettle formed into ice,
and we had a miniature ice
storm for breakfast.

People walked alon the
streets hunched down into
themselves to keep warm.

Small boys, going to school
or out to play, added an extra
shirt and pair of pants to their
regular amount of cold weather
clothes. But the little girls,
doomed by dame fashion and
popular opinion to wear skirts
and sox, shivered and stumbled
along through the icy wind,
their bare legs numb from the
cold.

Oh, well, spring is just
around the corner, and by the
time this is printed, crocus and
pansies will be blooming and
our small fry will have the air
filled with flying kites.
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Cloth Room Chatter

Mr. and Mrs. Troy Galloway
and family visited Mrs. Gallo-
way's mother, Mrs. A. S. Ham-
mett, of Glassy Mountain last
Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hester and
family enjoyed visiting rela-
tives in Easley recently.

Mr. and Mrs. George Garland
and family were the recent
Sunday guests of Mrs. Gar-
land's sister, Mrs. James Med-
lin, of Biltmore, N. C.

We are happy to have John
Crabtree as a recent visitor in
the Cloth Room. John has
many friends here and we are
always glad to have him visit
us whenever possible.

Everyone is happy to hear
that Sallie Guest has returned
to her home from the hospital
and is showing improvement.
We hope it will not be long
until she will be able to be back
with us.
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Library Scene
(Con't. from page 1, col. 3)

Members of the cub were de-
lighted to have Mrs. Milton
Southerland join the club as a
new member at this meeting.

Mrs. Darrell Toby tendered
her resignation as secretary of
the club due to the fact that
she has moved to Greenville and
will not be able to attend club
meetings in the future. Mem-
bers of the club were very sorry
to lose Mrs. Toby. Mrs. Robert
H. Atkinson was elected to
serve as secretary to fill the un-
expired term left vacant by
Mrs. Toby's resignation.

During the social hour deli-
cious refreshments were served
by Mrs. J. A. White, Mrs. Mil-
ton Southerland, and Mrs. Al-
len Suttle.

The club adjourned until the
next meeting which will be held
in February.
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Everyone requests that you
do everything in your power at
this time to keep the street
lights lit.

[drug store advertisement, spans cols. 3 & 4]
[sketch of man]
[text bubble]
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[sketch of man with big nose]
[text bubble]
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[headline, spans cols. 4 & 5]
PREPARATION DEPARTMENT
NEWS

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones were
the recent dinner guests of
Paul's brother, Rev. Elmer
Jones, and family.

Hasolene Webb visited
friends in Anderson, S. C. Sun-
day.

We are sorry that Blanche
McCall has quit work due to
bad health. Blanche, we wish
you a speedy recovery.

Mr. and Mrs. Ibra Peterson
and son, Gene, visited relatives
in Easley Sunday.

Annie Peterson is very proud
of her nephew, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Hollis Peterson of
Travelers Rest.

Mrs. Norma Bowles enjoyed
having her daughter, Lorraine,
home for the week-end after
completing her exams at Fur-
man.

Mary Farthing had as her
guest the past week, her father
from West Virginia.

Clarence Jones has recently
moved, and he tells us he likes
his new home fine.

Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brooks en-
joyed a birthday dinner Saturday
honoring Mr. W. C. Brooks of
Danielsville, Ga.

We are sorry to learn that
Sylvester Crowe is leaving us
to start his farming. Good
luck, Sylvester, we will miss you.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dunn's
little daughter, Joyce, celebrat-
ed her eighth birthday Sunday.
She was honored with a party
and received lots of nice pres-
ents.

Mrs. Lillie Mae Childers vis-
ited her mother last Sunday in
Simpsonville, S. C.

Mrs. and Mrs. Tom McCombs
had as their Sunday guests, R.
B. Buchanan and Ruth Tenney.

Another one of our girls has
taken unto herself a husband.
Grace Calloway and Wyman
Raxter were married recently.
All their friends wish the young
couple a long and happy life
together.

It seems that Broadus Poole
has been having lots of car
trouble recently duing the cold
weather. He says he believes
it's worse than married life

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could possibly be. Just wait
until you're married, Broadus!

We are glad to have Ivadell
Hill back at work. She reports
that her husband is much bet-
ter.

Mr. and Mrs. Ibra Peterson
and son enjoyed dinner in
Greenville recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Crayton Brady
and family were the recent din-
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Turner Jones.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cole-
man and daughter recently en-
joyed a trip to Asheville and
returned home by way of Bre-
vard.

Mr. and Mrs. Carol Harris
spent last week-end with rela-
tives in York, S. C.

We are glad to hear that
Bertha Batson is improving and
hopes to be back on the job real
soon.

B. F. Barton, of the slasher
room, has returned to his home
from the Greenville General

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The SAFE Way
Is
RIGHT
_______________________________
the
LIGHTER
SIDE
by
WALT DITZEN
[cartoons from the National Safety Council]
[cartoon #1 of two workers, 1 is wearing a sling]
[text bubble]
EVERY TIME I WRITE
A TIME SAVING IDEA -
YOU LOSE THE TIME
I SAVE BY GETTIN'
HURT!

[cartoon #2 of two peole ice skating, one holds pillow under another]
TEAMWORK!

[cartoon #3, man showing reaction to ice and snow]
DRIVE SLOW
ON
ICE
AND
SNOW
[text bubble]
HO-HUM -
TH' SAME
OLD STUFF!

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