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PERMOLD CO.!:d,PRESENTATION(Continued from Paqe One)year and “I know that next year it will he doubled.Given Pin To VetMaple then turned and presented his pin. Riven him by Lieut. CommanderBaron, to a Spanish-American war worker at Permold, Charles Egge-brecht, who fought, under Gen. Douglas MncArthur's fnther, Gen. Arthur MneArthur in the Philippines.Music at the ceremony was furnish-j ed by the LeRoy Boy Scout band, whose director, Jenn C. Hiostnnd, was in the navy during the tirst World war. The plnying and singing of God Bless America closed the program.Over 100 guests attended the Navy E banquet given by the Permold company in the West Held Country club house Saturday night. The social gathering was highlighted by a number of informal speeches and the showing of a color film on the development of the aluminum industry.Produced by the Aluminum Company of America and entitled Unfinished Rainbows, the half hour sound movie was staged about the development of aluminum at Oberiin college by Charles Martin Hall and the subsequent growth of the industry.L. E. DeGroat, Permold sales manager. was toastmaster. Speakers included Captain Lofquist, Captain K. G. Castleman. U. S. Navy; Captain H. S. Karch, U. S. Army; L. Maringer, industrial planning supervisor, U. S. Army; R. R. Batt Jr., magnesium and aluminum section, O. P. M.; William Angus, auditor of the Nntional Smelting company, Cleveland; Walter Maple, Permold employee; Paul Jones of Medina; George Stanley, vice president, Aluhiinum Company of America, and H. L. Erlicher, vice president, General Electric company.Papt IiOfquLst's AddressMr. Fahlman, distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen:One hundred and fifty years ago the founders of this nation, in their farsighted wisdom, wrote:We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.”That, as you know', was the preamble to our constitution, and under that constitution w-e have preserved our freedom and become a great people.It is entirely appropriate that weshould pause very eravelv here todavsay with confidence—to you, and to those who depend upon you that youwill not fail! For you have beenweiged in the balance( and you hav^ weighed in the balance, and you have We nte an easy-going, an enthusiastic, and above all u democratic peoples. Because of that fact it is not surprising that some of our most descriptive our most trenchant andmeaningful phrases are found not inthe polished products of our distinguished writers, of whom we havemore than our share, but in the slang the vernacular which all our people shnre,A phrase dear to the heart of every, American and understood by everyAmerican is, he can cany the ball!”What lies behind that phrase?Much that is pertinent here today! When you hear it, what image springs to your mind? A football player, of course, tearing down the Held to make a touchdown or give everything he has in him in the effort. But you, as Americans, see more than that! You see the team. You know' that the player, by himself, couldn’t get to first base — to inject a baseball metaphor Into a football picture. He needs the strategy given him by the coach. He needs in-, terference. In flne. he needs the total, complete, and coordinated cooperation, in a degree equal to his, of ten othermen.Permold occupies an unusual position on our nntionnl defense team. Your efforts here spread out through the whole national defense activity like the ripples on a quiet pond into which a stone has been cast. You supply this prime contractor, and that prime contractor, and the other prime contractor. They rely upon you. Without you, they could never makft good their own nntional defense efforts.Out. of all the firms engaged in thisgreat modem crusade, only a few haveattained that degree of excellence forwhich is accorded the highly coveted Navy E” for outstanding performance, and one of these is the Permold company of Medina, Ohio. And w-ith this award is presented the flag of the Bureau of Ordnance of Ihe United States Navy, for whom you are producing these vital materials.This flag bears the Dnhlgren guns which revolutionized gunnery in their day. Into this flag is woven the tradition that has brought victory to ourarms since the early days of the republic. 1May yours be a shining example ofwhat American industrv and Americanworkmen can do in defense of this God-given land.We will show' the V’orld that factories Hying the Navy E can and will do a better job than those which fly ♦he senseless swastika or the so-called
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Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Tue, Jan 27, 1942
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OH, USA 02 Aug 2019
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