The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-21
Series OF Little Essays Wins
High Praise From Edi-
tor OF School Page

This is another of those Sun
days when our plans for a FEATURE
Of OUR own manufacture went dim
ming. We have a couple written.
There's one about old and vanished
schools: another about "a Males
Eyeyiew of the PTA." It's just this;
An inspection of the news gather
ed Monday forced us to change our
mind.
Delgado's weekly new is to
blame. And the third grade, at that!
Those youngsters have prepared Tor
our page and the city's 5000 gram
mar school pupils a series OF nttle
ESSAYS about their parents Wolk.
Good Reading
To anyone with the faintest itch
Of discovery, to all those who are
fascinated by man and his !lveli-
hood" these stories should make
corking good reading.
There are, in and around Will
mington, a dozen or more industries
of which so many of US know so lit
tie, The naval stores business, for
one. Add to that the fertilizer plants.
Toss in wholesale fish selling. But
what concerns us here is Spofford
Mills. Delgado, if you must.
1t is a world within itself, made
up of skilled and unskilled workers
who are employed It the mill, and
one of the most interesting spots
within the reaches of New Han
over county.
At an unusl ally early age-as
these stories viii prove-the chill
dren learn a language, with the ra.
indications of technicalities, which
is somewhat startling. The word,
perhaps, for those children is preco-
cious.
When we were in the third grade
we supposed, with that happy bleak
ness of the very young, that cloth
came from stores. Delgado children
tell You it's comes from cotton. What
is more, they can tell you how. And
the difference from rayon, Bingham,
broadcloth, and all the rest. Sup
pose your little girl, age eight or
nine years old, said, MY daddy
doff's in the spinning room. He
takes full bobbins off the frame and
puts empty ones on" You would
look bewildered, now wouldn't you,
and wonder if baby was suffering
from too much heat,
Means Something
But that means something in the
language all Delgado folk use. So
let's be on. Here are third grade
children giving you interesting facts
about their side of the world:
NY father is overseer of the weave
room On the third shift at the mill.
He sees that the people stay on
their job and do their work. When
a loom breaks down, he shows the
loom fixer how to fix it. He hires
people when he needs them. He has
to keep the time of each employed
person.
My mother works. spare hand on
the third shift in the weave room.
She helps when the weavers get
behind. She substitutes when a
worker leaves the room. She fixes
warps after they are tied with the
tying-in machine. She also helps
the pick-out hands.-Clarles Blan.
ton.
My father is a loom fixer. When a
loom breaks or is making bad cloth,
he is flaged by the weave running
the looms. Loom fixers must have
some wrenches, hammers and other
tools. Rosa Lee Potter.
A Loom Fixer
My father is a loom fixer. When
a flag goes up he gets busy. He al.
so fixes the shuttles. Lille May
Bridgeman.
My daddy doffs in the spinning
room. He takes full bobbins off the
frame and puts empty ones on. The
yarn is then taken to the winding
room where it is wound on cones
Elma June Shipman.
My father is a section hand in the
spinning room. When anything
freaks he fixes it. He sees that the
frames are running sn1oothly.-Jose.
phine Carter.
MY father is a weave of white
broadcloth that you make shirts out
OF. It is run on draper looms. And
when the end breaks he ties it to.
gether and draws it back in the
harness, through the reel and starts
up. He looks for bad cloth, such as
thin places and misspicks and bad
selvage. When he spots a bad place
he flags the loom fixer. After the
loom runs four cuts of cloth It is
taken to the cloth room where it
is inspected, baled, and shipped to
Spartanburg, S. c., and other places,
to be bleached and sold. -Talmadge
Sashley.
My father gets up each morning
from four to five o'clock. He takes
the truck and goes to the city and
various places and gathers paper
placed there for him. He takes it
to the warehouse. Each bale weighs
about 800 to 900 pounds. The bales
are shipped off and more good paper
is made out Of them. j. c. Nc.
Donald, Grade III.
MY mother works in a shirt fac.
tory where shirts are made from
start to finish. They make about L.
875 dozen shirts a week. They are
sold all over the United States and
Canada. The shirt factory has been
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