textile manufacture today constitutes one of our largest industries the wide variety of fabrics that pour out of textile mills plays a great part in your daily life a far bigger role perhaps than you realize and your home and in every home r board from coast to coast whether the bell of the senior prom is turned out by scupper alley or by your own home sewing you live with and by a text or see through all the years of your life and everywhere you look around the drapes at your windows to the spread in heaps on your bed at every hour at every meal text will serve you well protected you from infection and from the element when you want to keep the sunshine out or when you want to let the sunshine and for help or john you set on kind of texters on walk on another and you walk and text those to the lining  your shoes as fabric and when you ride you set on textiles comfortable and safe as you speed along on tired cords of variety of woven material of global strategy our military leaders must face and solve problems never even dreamed of before the way a soldier is equipped may be the difference between life and death in battle he must have what it takes to survive then and to get himself out of the most precarious situations cold weather clothing especially developed by america's textile industry plays a vital role in a national emergency warmth with lightness and selection by many layers of tightly woven fabric this but when you think of taxes you're most likely to think first of dress material workers turn out an almost endless variety of fabric and more than two thousand yarn and fabric pretty acing and vanishing plants these people make the materials and furnish the end spiration for tens of thousands of designers cutters clothing manufacturers and distributors to enter and stock the shelves of hundreds of thousands of stores to satisfy the needs of america's million fundamentals that market historic beginning the textile industry has been built on the american principle of free competition down through the years that progress has been a steady march forward and step by the nation's own dynamic economic development it has known depressions yet one only has to look to see the typical american pattern of success and texters as an all of our and the stresses the race to compete as lead as it inevitably must do better males better methods better men and eventually to a better way of life the united states is today the one shining hope of free peoples everywhere the world has turned to us and its need for food and fiber from our vast agricultural resources for our steel and our all but they seek something else here also they seek the way of life which is created this industrial might strength deeply rooted in personal freedom a productive strength far greater than the sum total of all our founders factories and fields former generations once took american industry for granted the bigger it became the more m personality it took the threat of world destruction to make us realize this nation's greatness lies behind our mills and factory walls and that each of us has a tremendous personal stake and its prosperity and continued so for the next few minutes let's look into the heart of the textile industry not just as a trip through a mill but as one living robing example of america's real wealth and material and social progress the same for all fibers and the processes and machinery called the cotton system which you will see here are typical of the workings of all branches of the industry the raw cotton partially cleaned his wound in thick blankets and a large rolls like painstaking step next carving this machine passes the cotton between fine wire brushes which clean away the last bits of foreign matter eliminating the shorter fibers and shaping the remaining longer ones and do a film a web  now a number of sliders twenty four of them here are combined laid side by side forming another type of roll call the lab this is the first of several operations which combine and draw out the fibers on their way to the coming yarn here began several continuous process is called drawing and roving where the combined vibert are drawn up still more and given a slight twist gradually reducing the thickness by out encreasing the tensile streng different kinds of fabric are then placed in the warping creel positioning each thread for winding onto the huge war being these threads not be wound on the beam exactly parallel and precisely the right distance  next to the flash or a multiple battery which combines several warp beams under one loom being here the yarn also gets a sizing bath a starchy coating to protect it from the rubbing and shaping of the shuttle and harnesses in the weaving operation are ready at last to begin making cloth has there been a set aside until needed and the weaving room but first each individual end of yarn has gone through the harness the operators which raises and lowers the l to make a path for the crosswise flight of the shuttle back and forth the loom is a basic tool of the textile industry a marvel of entry good and high speed precision and a classic example of the end dust real efficiency that is made ours the strongest and wealthiest nation on earth here they are as being often on the this strange machine is a jack our gloom which we've the most complicated designs right into the clock each watch thread is raised and lowered by a mechanism controlled by a pattern card punch like player piano rolls one jack cardroom does the work  of jack are perfected this machine an eighteen five live was threatened by fellow workers who feared for their jobs and said it created more jobs by lowering cost and bringing this highly prized material within reach every inch of carter's examined at these lighted inspection tables where even the slightest em perfection is part of the material is still in a gray or unfinished state a long way to get from being ready for your you have goals now to the finishing plant where the first step is bleating this particular process is called rope bleaching the newest quickest and best it puts miles of material through a chemical saturation then washing steaming and more washing it comes out knowing quite ready to be made whatever or colored material sometimes the yarn itself has died first under high pressure but mostly the color isn't parted to the woven cloth this is continuous that dein a series of heat control color bad in which the dye is applied and fixed in one of course not all materials are solid colors many have designs here a couple roller is at weather pattern for machine printing just as a printer prepares his plates for reproducing the pictures in your magazine and operation each color is picked up by the high places on the engraved roll it across goes through a process which fixes the colors permanently and the fabric colored printed napped or glaze wrapped around a bolt ready now to be made into the thousand and one garment of products that you and your family use every day every hour of your life it's on its way to other kinds of metals and plants the sawing rooms dressmakers upholsterers and retail shops the world over but the real story of an industry is what it means to people the american workers power to produce has created a standard of living that is as much a part of any modern industrial story as mills or machines textiles in all its branches employs a million and a quarter people with their families that means five to six millions one out of every twenty five americans who look to tax the for their  livelihood there says and the man a small town and a stray new england textiles birthplace in america is a stronghold of one man was that good today the carolinas georgia alabama and virginia constitute the biggest cotton tech still producing area middle atlantic states have their share of males and there is rapid growth toward the southwest and the typical small textile town the mill is literally the focal point for the entire community life revolves around the modern textile community particularly in the newer areas of the industry's expansion bears little or no resemblance to old fashion concepts of a mill town that's a thriving place whose prosperity stem from one source the mills payroll salaries and wages paid out of profits provide the spending power which in turn promptly creates profits for others this is a simple example of how america's free economy works to multiply wealth and the town as a nation locally or nationally there must first be basic profit from a basic and a straight the financial core which splits and spreads and a chain reaction of many profits and security for  security is something a man or an industry must build and it's never merely a matter of dollars success in any major industry today depends not only on the quality of its products but also on the way of life that can support not all of the older text towns are as pretty as the years but with the endless grey spreading out constantly creating its own better world scenes like these are fast becoming typical the production of the smell does not stop with cloth perhaps its most important p in america we measure our aims not alone in dollars but in personal contentment and satisfaction leisure is an important byproduct of our capacity to work together as one great industrial team constantly building a better life and creating the time to enjoy it good middle management does not stop at the mill dollar a company picnic is a common example of when this great as a social enterprise and there's nothing cynical in saying that this pleasant scene of people eating barbecue chicken as a symbol of good business or good fellowship begets cooperation and cooperation is what turns up more and better goods means more sales more profit more wages and more fun for everybody country club like priscilla does such as these are usually operated by the employees themselves they're simply an investment in people even more important than investments and mills and material modern ideas of management in the textile industry very often include new swimming pools right along with new loans and machinery whenever possible to do so away from established industrial centers america's oldest industry  creating a new atmosphere the reason is both simple and practical there's the good life is also good business for sports schedule makes for a full production schedule faith and the american way of doing things with all its past mistakes and it still to be corrected and perfections has produced and is producing a better living than anywhere else on earth our future yours and mine is linked to end whether we work in a mill on a farm or in an artist we're benefited by anderson not alone by the material goods it produces but by the many social gains it creates and supports and a hospital is a social gain but this one is even industry is uni ten tax those schools that college level throughout the country turn out trained young men and women well prepared to use the opportunities of an industry which the oldest known to man is always looking for a better way the freedom of fresh minds with know how has always been the greatest single asset and all american and new mines are constantly coming up with new methods and machinery this is a spectrophotometer which scientifically checks the crudeness of color the pilgrim fathers who brought the industry to america would surely be amazed at these electronic devices for controlling are constantly being poured back into better ways of making a finer product at a lower cost the secret of america's leadership in manufacturing last year this industry really invested six hundred million dollars and plant and equipment here a revolutionary type of loom is being installed it has no shuttle or button an automatic arm or finger draws the crosswise threads into the warp yet and during any trip through modern textile mills you will notice something else and the newer ones particularly you will be impressed by how bright and cheerful everything is lighting engineers are brought artificial daylight to every corner of this huge winding room and the under our climate is as near perfect as science can make it air conditioning has been a great boon  especially in the south and some plants even the wall colors are scientifically chosen usually restful pastels such improvements pay dividends and human comfort and convenience which in turn produce a better finished product the natural result of people the remarkable ingenuity that characterizes america's industries as to be found in all measure and text and laboratories like this unending research also claims an important portion of tax those earnings new products for tomorrow are born and an even closer watch is kept on the quality of today's production here and test that check everything from color miraculous may withstand stain here's a newly developed material which needs only to be hung up and without the aid of a pressing iron recovers it smooths on wrinkle beauty textile research is constantly working on projects which to you are everyday problems these are only a few examples of solid evidence of the rewarding and just real and social enterprise which he is the mainspring all around him are indications that america is learning to use our industrial resources to ever greater advantage in the midst of new and challenging social responsibility products of this great understood go out across the broad highways of the nation and even beyond our national borders world trade that works both ways or even as shipments marked made in the usa go to far off ports we receive from equally strange sounding places the raw materials we need long staple cotton from egypt from australia kashmir from india alpaca from south america blacks from europe silk from japan unloaded ships sail to help create a better world across a seventy they're contributing also to the preservation of an even better world here at home people who made club even before america was discovered today be the pathway by to our shores a tribute to the skill of the american worker his looms and his mail to a way of life and which human beings are the masters of the machine to a system in which our vast industrial resources are but the generating force of the greatest social enterprise the world has ever seen the highest standard of living in all history has been earned bought and paid for by a nation's capacity to produce important than mills and machinery is a man who has made know how and to a fine art the man everyone relies upon to make things go perhaps the most important man in the world and the world's best hope for a brighter future the american