Show a Icet hes hesI ies I Maroon M ion S CRUMPLE A BUBLE RUBLE Our family has found that a visit to a factory makes an Interesting Interesting interesting In in- break in a vacation trip Last summer we took a atour atour atour tour through the Dow Chemical company in Midland Michigan Our guide offered to lendus lend lendus us a pair of unbreakable glasses glasses glasses glas glas- ses for the afternoon but re regretted regretted regretted re- re that he had only two sizes too large and too small Many of the chemi chemicals als produced produced produced pro pro- in Midland are sold to other manufacturers so they dont don't reach the public under the Dow label Our guide told us they make 60 per cent of the aspirin manufactured in this country but they sell seIl all of it to other firms This reminded me of the fact that all aspirin is chemically the same so one brand is just as good as another no matter what the price One product the Dow people market themselves is Saran Saran- wrap I found that the way they make it so thin is to blow it up like a balloon On the production tion line there is a big bubble of the stuff A small smaIl tube nine inches in diameter feeds into the bubble through a pair of rollers and the expanded tub tube three feet in diameter is drawn away from the bubble through a pair of rollers Because the rollers in front and back of the bubble are tight air-tight the same air stays in the bubble while the tube keeps passing around it Occasionally the bubble bursts then a crew of workers rush Into action act to Inflate the tube again and get it into production This indicates one of the new viewpoints that automation has brought into alto being when hen a man Is sitting down and doing not nothing ing said our guide then hes he's making momey mon mom money money ey for lor the company When he is busily at work we know something some thing is out of order Since the company has nearly invested in vested in plant and equipment for each man who has a job it is Important to keep the machinery machinery ma ma- chinery working constantly There are some people peo pie working in the Midland plant but I l was surprised not notto notto notto to see any Negroes The gut guide de said the company never hud had employed a Negro So you see segregation 1 Is not confined to the south Like Uke most of the large manu manu- compares companies the Dow Pow people reward tourists with a afree afree free IreI sample of one of 01 their pro ducts As the guide handed Usa us usa usa a gift package of 01 wrap Saran-wrap for lor the kitchen he invited us to come back hack and take the tour again when the package was used up And he gave us a money money mon ey saving tip If II you want to save gave wrap Saran-wrap to use it n again dont don't fold old it crumple It Its It's e easier uler to flatten it out than It itIs itis Is j to unfold It |