Clipper, Vol. 1, No. 9, February 1954

              Vol. 1, No. 9	Published by and for PAA Employees at N. Y. and Washington, D. C. System General Offices	FEBRUARY, 1954
IRON CURTAIN PROOF AMERICAN IDEA WANTED
Speakers shown at 0)>ening Night Banquet with chairman of the. 19r>i Women’s Forum on National Security, held, in Washington January 28-30, are (left to right) Senator Dwight Griswold, of Nebraska; Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, who gave the Banquet address; Mrs. Wilson; Mrs. EUie II. Schill, of New Orleans, national president, Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW, and chairman of the Forum; Samuel F. Pryor, vice president and assistant to the president of Pan American World Airways, ivho gave the closing Forum address on Saturday, January 30th; and Ellie H. Schill.
“The mere existence of the Iron Curtain is the greatest proof that the American idea is wanted and that the American soul, with all its defects, is a healthy soul,” Samuel F. Pryor, executive vice president and assistant to the president of PAA, told the 1954 Women’s Forum on National Security meeting in Washington last month.
Concluding speaker of a 3 day program for members of 12 organizations of veteran’s wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, Mr. Pryor asked his audience to “Take home this idea, and tell it to your neighbors — ‘If the American idea were not dynamic; if people everywhere were not reaching for it, Stalin would never have had to erect the Iron Curtain to keep it out.’ ”
Mr. Pryor stated that every fact gathered on business trips to 83 countries indicates one thing — humanity is at the crossroads.
Points in our favor were signs that the great lie of Communist interest in the underprivileged is being exposed; signs of serious unrest in China and East Germany and, the “great inherent, weakness of Soviet Russia itself . . . dangerous to the extreme . . . but . . . gasping for life behind an Iron Curtain it has rung down to hide its own fatal impotence.”
PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT..
The “Iceorama” staged every Wednesday evening at Wollman Memorial Rink, Central Park, when members of PAA get together to try pirouettes, figure-eights, or just try to maintain their equilibrium on skates. So far, this venture seems to have been monopolized by SOS-Purchasing, but everyone is welcome. Rink price is $.50, bring your own skates or rent them at the rink for $.50. Skating from 8 til 10:45 P.M.
Mr. Pryor reviewed some of the peace time potentials of electronically-controlled, pilotless rockets for carrying mail and cargo across oceans and continents at terrific speeds. However, he pointed out that the Russians have control of paper knowledge of a man-made earth satellite and also of German scientists who worked on V-2 and other rocket projects.
Since the only argument that the Kremlin respects is strength, Mr. Pryor indicated that “all of us, citizens in the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known, the United States of America . . . must rally public opinion behind our Air Force and behind the great scientific work being done by the Air Research and Development Command . . .”
Reiterating the belief that if we have faith in ourselves here at home in our own community, others, abroad will rally to our standard and gain faith, Mr. Pryor told his audience, “Your job, my job, every U. S. citizen’s job, is above all else to preserve our form of government, and make our American idea of freedom, under written law, even more dynamic; and with God’s help, the salvation of the world.”
WEDDING BELLS FOR . . .
Helen Fulkeson, Pax Rev, January 16. Gloria Vives, Traffic and Sales, January 23, in Maryland, Clippered to Bermuda on Honeymoon, Florence Bodine, SOS-Purchasing, January 30. Coming up this month are the weddings of Ann Addesso, SOS-Purchasing, on the 13th, with honeymoon plans for Miami, Jessi Baffi, SOS-Catalog on the 21st, honeymoon follows upstate N. Y., and Pauline Leoutsakos, Pax Rev, February, followed by a Bermuda trip.
NEW TREASURE FOR TIP/TOP WINNERS
At its last meeting, the System General Office Tip/Top Committee approved the establishment of incentive prizes to be awarded to each departmental winner in the Tip/Top Treasure Hunt.
Now, the person leading in each department (and the sections of larger departments) in the number of points accumulated at the end of the contest, March 31, may choose any one of the following incentive awards as his or her reward: a Duralux Automatic Electric Percolator, a knotty pine wall Hutch Cabinet with 24 piece set, table model radio, steak knife set, 7 jewel Semca Travel Clock (women’s), 7 jewel Semca Desk and Travel Clock (men’s), Ronson gold-filled Pencil Lighter, Ladies’ cowhide Train Case, 21" Men’s Companion Case, triple strand Richelieu simulated pearls, or an onyx-base Penholder (with nameplate).
The race for the Grand Prize of a NOSUB (not subject to load) round-trip for two to Paris and Rome (or equivalent) is still wide open and anyone may win, all it takes is Tips On Prospects!
A LITTLE THOUGHT PAYS OFF
Norma Ament, Traffic and Sales, and Joseph Huber and Frank Galovich, both of Pax Rev, went through the various stages of thinking, writing and collecting ten dollars in cash as a result of the adoption of their suggestions last month.
Norma’s idea of crediting rentals toward the purchase price of calculators did not alter alreadv existing policy, but it did signify a degree of improvement which merited an award. Joe collected on a suggestion that will result in the elimination of an excessive amount of PAD Intercompanies in connection with Travel Orders, and Frank came up with a refinement in the process of auditing tickets that will save many man hours a day.