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Show Terminal Employees Knit for Sammies 0 .0 mgn Puf on f ie Finishing Touches TjiPLOYEES of the Utah Power & Light company at Terminal substation, six miles west of , Salt Lake, operating their electric automatic sock knitting machine, making socks for the Red C ross. rx s f x?l u t s r v Hf ss v ! ! .r iJaJtJJJ-1 : sx ' " : ' ' 4 ! J- L v...,....,,.,.,..,.. Men of Utah Power & Light Company Turn Out 115 Pairs' of Socks. SOME few weeks ai;o employees of the l.'tah Power & Light company at t he terminal substation just west of the city took stock of their abilities and resources to help win the war. They found that they had elect ririty, spare time and patriotism. After some rlelibenuion they concluded that the best way to put these three things to beneficial benefi-cial use in "licking the kaiser" was to add two more, tilings, namely, yarn ami an electric knitting machine, and to turn out socks for the soldiers ils fast as they co i.ild. This conclusion reached, they straightaway straight-away took up a subscription of about and secured a Gearhart sock knitting machine. ma-chine. They then made arrangements with one of the loeaJ societies in Salt Lake doing; Red Cross work whereby they could got a supply of yarn. And then the output of socka began. Tlie first week they had thirty-five pairs, neatly piled up ready for shipment. The next week there were a few inre, and the output increased steadily until last week they had a production of pairs. The knitters now eonf iik-ntly assert that they will soon average 130 pairs of socks per wcpk. The knitting machine Is small, weighing weigh-ing about ten pounds, abd simple to operate. op-erate. The ribhed top of the pocks is maie separate from the other part. Several Sev-eral yards of tops can be nuule and then cut up into proper lengths about four and one-half Inches. The attachment for making mak-ing the ribbed tops is then taken off and one of the tops attached to the machine. A completed sock is then turned out. The toes are made the same as the heMs, and they have to be closed with a needle, which requires but a few minutes. min-utes. Here is where the women of the terminal termi-nal corne in. As soon as the socks are complete the women turn thern wronir side out and press out the knots in the yarn and remedy other defects. They then wash the socks t h rough three changes of water, press and pair them, and then they are ready for shipment. The women feel that in helping in this way they are accomplishing a ereat deal more tiian they could by 'the slow process of knitting with needles. Expressive of the patriotism and enthusiasm en-thusiasm of he t erminnl employees is their favorite poem on the war, written by Kipling, which reads in part as follows fol-lows "It ain't the guns nor armament, Nor funds that they can pay. But the close co-operation T hat makes them win the day. "It ain't the individuals Nor the army as a whole. But the everlastin" teamwork Of every bloomin' soul." j Officials of the L'tah Power & Light j company are giving publicity to the sock knitting activities of the terminal employees em-ployees through the July issue of "Pep," the company employees' ' magazine, and is endeavoring to have other groups of employees over the. company's system organize or-ganize similar knitting corps. |