Ex-School Teocher Operates Textile Machine Shop THE GASTONIA GAZETTE, Sun, Nov.

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D. L. Friday: He Works Every Day Of The Week

By DAVE BA1TV
GiiMttn CKy Editor
, Fu,dayanleaned back ta hls cnalr ln the <>ftlce
rf i Machlne
d mln!8ce
Supply Co., puffed leisurely on his
County ar
' '•* 'l about hl« life In GBJlon
Much of his talk was proudly of the children he fathered. He
• gawd occasionally about the room, pointing out pictures of "that's
BiU when he . . . ,' Indicating the particular snapshot with his
Friday his been a Gaston name for at lecst five generations
and past that I don't know," the 71-year-old textile machinery
representative said.
It to R name which has become definitely linked with educa-
tion In the past two decades.
And that's pretty good going for a fellow with only a high
school education.
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DAVID Latham Friday was born and raised on a farm about
four miles north of Dallas and moved to what was then the
county Ma». |n i914 at the age ot 14
"Dallas hasn't changed too much-atmosphere wise-since that
time,' Friday recalls. "We've added about 1,500 people, a few
more stores, and several industries, but we're still a small town
that looks like a small town and we like it."
The son of the late David F. and Susan Hooper Friday, D. L.
was one of nine children born to his father in two marriages.
Initially, he attended school in a one-room schoolhouse north
of Dallas. Ho graduated from Dallas High School after moving
there.
He attended one summer session at the University of North
Carolina and that ended his formal education.
But, it didn't end his interest in education.
In iact, his first job was as a teacher. That was in the days
when a high school graduate could stand the slate board examina-
tion for a teaching certificate.
D. L. stood the exam, passed it, and spent one year teaching
In a one-room schoo'.'-.ouse very similar to the one where he re-
ceived his early training. .
The next year he was hired as teacher of the seventh grade
and principal of McAdenville Elementary School.
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RUMBLINGS of war were being heard over Europe during that
time and in 1918 he went to Columbia, S.C., as payroll auditor on
the federally sponsored construction project which resulted in Ft.
Jackson.
After the construction job was completed, Krlday went into the
U. S. Army and was stationed at the base he helped build.
A member of a field artillery unit, lie fully expected to be
shipped to the European battlefront. However, a tew months alter
he entered service, the armistice was signed and Friday was
discharged.
"I not only didn't leave the States, I didn't even leave my
first base," he recalls with a laugh.
His army service behind him, the young man sought his niche
in life and joined Cocker Machine and Foundry Co. in his native
Gaston County as a general office worker.
He stayed with the firm for 33 years, coming up through the
ranks to hold positions as general manager, vice-president, and
member of the board of directors.
After 33 years, he resigned to join Walter Kidde Manufacturing
Co. as southern sales manager for textile machinery. The company
later bought Cocker Machine and Foundry.
Af'er two years with Kid'Je, he decided to go into business
for himself and founded Friday Textile Machine and Supply, and
is now a manufacturers representative for J. M. Nash Co. and
Dykcn Ma.iufacturing Co., both of Oshkosh, Wise., for their textile
equipment lines.
He also serves as president of Gastonia Belting and Supply
Co.
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HE'LL BE 71 years old next month and he's stil! going and
doesn't plan to retire. "I love to work and wouldn't know what to
do if I had to sit down and rest."
"I've been traveling for almost 50 years and I love meeting
people. That's the way you stay young," he says.
Friday's connection with education comes in ways other than
serving as a teacher and principal early in life. He was named a
member of the Gaston County School Board andd served on the
past for 20 years.
His son, Bill, took the cue from his father and pursued edu-
cation as a career. He is now president of the University of
North Carolina.
In fact, what Papa didn't do, the children did.
D. L. was father to five children. Between them, they hold
eight college degrees.
Bill graduated from N. C. State with a textile engineering de-
gree and then took a law degree at UNC.
D. L. Jr. graduated from Wake Forest College. He now man-
ages Gastonia Belting Co.
H. R. Friday graduated from Wake Forest College and then
took a lav/ degree at Emory University. He is an attorney for the
Army Engineering Corps in Savannah, Ga.
John R. Friday is a graduate of Wake Forest College and took
a law degree from UNC.
He pracliccs law in Lincolnton and is judge of Lincoln County
Recorder's Court.
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DAUGHTER Kay, now Mrs. Kay F. Harris, took a degree from
Brevard College. "Her mosc important decree, though, was her
Mrs. degree, which she's using to good advantage as a housewife
in Arlington. Va.," her father says with a smile.
These children were born to Friday through his marriage lo
the former Mary Elizabeth Rowan of Virginia.
His service lo his county and community was not limited to
the county school board.
He served as' an alderman in Dallas for five years and as
mayor of the town for an equal length of time.
That was during the depression.
"I remember we cut corners about every way in the world we
could Ihink of, bul we came oul in good shape. In fad, a good
part of the town's sewer system was installed in those WPA
days."
A lifelong member of Dallas Baplisl Church, he served for
many years as a deacon and chairman of the board of deacons.
He was appointed In the Gaston County Selective Service Board
when it was organized in 1940 and is still serving. "It's been 27
years and some of it was hectic," Friday recalls, "especially dur-
ing World War II. Sometimes we'd meet two and three nights
each week to hear all the business we had hefore us."
During the war he also served as a ..;jinber of the advisory
committee on textile machinery for the War Production Board and
made many trips to Washington, D.C., in relation to his duties.
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ALL in all, he says he's had a full and happy life. He some-
times wishes he'd taken a little more time for his favorite pastime
—fishing. "I'm just crazy about deep sea fishing," he say.
And he's no slouch with a fly rod at his acre and a half lake
on his farm.
He says great sport is "landing a good healthy bream on a
light fly rod. They'll really give you a fight."
In earlier days he enjoyed duck hunting .on the coast, but
"hasn't had much time for that sort of thing lately."
Friday was a member of the appointed school board which
was replaced this year by an elected board, but though his con-
nection wllh the school board has now ended, his interest in Gas-
Ion Counly schools is still keen. •
"I Ihink our people realize lhal an equalized and uniform
lax across the county lo supplement the schools would be the
system's salvation. This would put us on a competitive basis
so thai we could get the teachers we need to upgrade the
schools. I'm certainly hopeful that, if and when this business
cornes to a vole, that ihe people will support it," he says.
He sees Ihe supplementary school tax as even more important
than consolidation at this time, but both together would be even
better.
"We need money for current expenses such as teacher salary
supplements, and we need money for buildings. Without it, the
school system will only remain where it is."

PREVIEWING THE FUTURE

By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT
Associated Press Writer
In a flash of geologic time, the
Some Experts Look Ahead To 21st Century
21st , century—the third mille- wage to provide "the wherewi-
nium—will be upon us. thal for a life of leisure for all
Will it bring the good life for those who Ihink they have the
Americans? There are men to- lemperamenl."
day planning for it. To accommodale Ihe new age
FORESTRY EXHIBIT Will it be unbearably crowded of leisure, "the cily has to be ._
and clogged? The same plan- turned into a place for (man) to -
Visitors to the Schiele Museum of Natural History show years of age when cut in 1963. Eventi of history are shown on ners fear it, but have ideas for live in and enjoy, rather than a ;
much interest in the new Forestry o-.liibit s«ld to be the only one the various tree rings, such as the birth of the tree in 1703, the avoiding it. place for him to escape from to •
ol its kind. The large cross section of the Tulip tree donated by Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, the Revolution in 1776, the There probably will be men restore his senses." Educator
the Gennett Lumber Co. of Ashcville measures four feet in First World War in 1917 and World War H In 1941, etc. from earth on the moon 50 years Robert M. Hutchins sees a
diameter. Its growth rings show the tree to have been 254 hence. But-will it be easier to movement away from the theo-
make that journey than to com- ry of education aimed at meet-
mute to work, or to visit a dying ing the manpower needs of so-

"Christmas Star' At Planetarium relative halfway across the

By K. M. SCHIELE
Museum Director
THE DECEMBER Planeta-
rium program will be an attempt
to explain the mystery o.1 the
ages, The Christmas Star.
The setting will be Palestine
in the year 7 B.C. Since Pales-
tine is in almost the same lati-
tude as Gastonia, the night sky
will look the same as it does
now in the 20th century, with one
exception, the North Star is not
Polaris but a star in the Drag-
on's Tail.
Five scientific explanations
will be discussed and explained,
as possible causes of the bril-
liant star reported in the Bible
in the second chapter of Mat-
thew. The program will end with
the brilliant and beautiful star
in the wake of a beautiful red
sunrise.
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PLANETARIUM p r o g r a m s
have been witnessed by more
than 6,500 people since thoy start-
ed In October. In this number
6,000 school children in fourth
and eighth grade classes of Gas-
tonia and Gaston County Schools
attended the programs and also
viewed and studied the natural
history exhibits of the Museum.
Haley's Comet-The Encyclopedia
By LAWRENCE MALKIN
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) — During a
long career in some of the most
powerful posts In British jour-
nalism, Sir William Haley has
bought only one thing on tho in-
stallment plan-fl set of the En-
cyclopedia Brltannlca.
He bought it as a young news-
paperman in 1S22, nnd he con-
sults the same set to this day.
Haley, now 66 and recently re-
tired as editor of The Times of
London, will bo taking his old
Britannlca with him to Chicago
when ho becomes the encyclope-
dia's edltoi'-in-chlpf on Jan. 1.
In a way, that old hut still
useful set of volumes symboliz-
es Haley's chief problem as edi-
tor. Mow do you keep the Bri-
tannica up to date without hav-
ing it simply chose intellectual
fashion? ,,
Tn some scholarly critics of
the Brilannlca. it has not lived
up to its reputation as possibly
the English-speaking world's
most prestigious and complete
compendium of universal knowl-
edge They havo argued It has
fallen behind developments in
modern science, philosophy and
technology. To this dote, the
Brllannlca's editors reply Its a
milter of judgment and honest
dispute.
Thoy slopped tho presses of
the 1964 edition to include tho
assignation of President Ken-
nedy and tha rtonth ot Pop*
John XXIII In 1903. They once
Some 500 people attended pub-
lic programs on Saturday and
Sunday afternoons. Programs for
the public, except for children
under eight years of age, are
given every Saturday and Sun-
day atfernoon. One program at
3 o'clock and one at 4 o'clock.
Saturday afternoon programs
have not been fully attended but
it has not been possible to ac-
commodate all who come to the
Sunday afternoon programs.
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VISITORS from four states
registered at the museum during
the past week, coming f r o m
Richmond and Victoria, "Va.;
Kingsport, Tenn.; Batesburg,
Clover, Pacolet and Whitmire,
S.C.; and from Charlotte, Hick-
ory, Newton, ConoVer, States-
ville, West Jefferson, Henriet-
ta, Forest City, Lincolnton, Shel-
by, Morganton, Pilot Mountain,
Kings Mountain, Cherryville,
Meet Britannica's New Ruler
held them for an astronaut's
splashdown. .But they waited
several years to list India and
Pakistan as separate countries,
until they were certain the par-
tition <.vas an accomplished po-
litical fact.
Haley, aware of the criti-
cisms, told a recent interview-
er; "Everytliing is subject to
criticism and nothing is perfect.
The real problem of the Britan-
nica is that there has been an
explosion of knowledge at a hell
of a ratei and you have to keep
abreast as far as you can. There
are two difficult things. First,
what is absolescent? Second, if
you decide lo forget what is ab-
solesccnt, then .you forget histo-
ry."
He outlined the dilemma as it
has'faced him before, and may
face him yet again at the Brl-
, tannlca: "Tho problem of
changing any Institution Is to
havo it keep up with the times,
while preserving Its character,"
Haley's career spans a tre-
mendous range but It has one
connecting thread—a self-made
man working to combine the
past and present In some of
Britain's most venerable institu-
tions, and not always with total
success,
Haley's father died when ho
was a child, and he had to leave
school at 15. Ho went to sen as ,1
radio operator on a merchant
ship during World War I. Hero
ho began reading to past tho
I lino nnd worked up to a pace
Dallas, Lowell, Mt. Holly, Bel-
mont, and Gastonia.
Boy Scout Troop 30, sponsor-
ed by Olney Presbyterian
Church, and Mrs. Lutz and Mrs.
Marsh's fourth grade classes of
Morgan School of Shelby attend-
ed Planetarium programs and
toured the museum exhibits.
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PLANETARIUM LECTURER,
James Lynn, addressed the Gas-
tonia A.M. Optimist Club last
Wednesday morning speaking on
the programs of the Planetarium
and the museum exhibits.
Mr. Schiele and Mr. Stout ad-
dressed the Belmont Optimist
Club last oMnday night and
showed colored slides of many
of the museum exhibits.
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A SPECIMEN of a Coot (Fu-
lica Americana) often called
"Mud Hen" by hunters found
dead on a highway in Gaston
he still maintains—100 pages an
hour without losing the gist of
the book. A photographic memo-
ry helped. He can still remem-
ber the page numbers and posi-
tions of articles in his old Bri-
tannica, one reason why he
keeps it.
He joined The Times afier the
war as a telephone clerk taking
down the reports of foreign cor-
respondents. In 1922 he went to
The Manchester Evening News.
Ho was judged too shy lo be a
. reporter, went to work as an ed-
itor, and became managing edi-
tor at the age of 29. For the next
10 years he served on the board
JIALKY
County was brought to the mu-
seum during the past week and
has been mounted by Mr. Schiele
and added to the Beaver habi-
tat exhibit.
This large bird is common
during migrations and is often
found injured having flown into
obstructions or hit by cars. It
is slate - colored with a whitish
bill and a red crown plate. The
legs are heavy, usually d a r k
slate or greeenish, with scallop-
ed toe flaps which serve like
snow shoes in supporting t h e
bird as it steps on water lily
leaves or other water plants.
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FOR THOSE who are interest-
ed in Indians, the museum has
received a new shipment of the
book "Indians in North Caro-
lina" published by the North
Carolina Department of Archives
and History and sells for the
modest sum of 25 cents.
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SENIOR GIRL SCOUTS Miss-
es Tern Dickson, Susan Lewis
and Kathy Adams, and Mrs.
Lawrence Rankin Jr., represent-
ing the Junior League, served a:
museum guides and receptionists
at the museum and planetarium
last Sunday afternoon.
of the Manchester News and the
Guardian.
In 1943 Haley went to the Brit-
ish Broadcasting Corp. as Edi-
tor-in-chief, and next year was
made director-general.
Haley's great innovation at
the BBC was the Third Pro-
gram, a forum for discussions,
plays and music for Britain's in-
tellectuals, with few concessions
to popular taste.
In 1952 Haley capped his ca-
reer by becoming editor of The
Times, virtually a British insti-
tution as the spokesman for the
nation's waning Establishment.
Last year Canadian-born
newspaper millionaire Low!
Thomson of Fleet bought the
paper and installed a young edi-
tor appointing Haley chairman
of the board.
Haley now starts a fiflii major
career at a time when most
Englishmen of his age and sta-
tion would bo contcnl to accept
a peerage and a scat in the
House of Lords. But he could
hardly accept such a fate, Ho
stands tall and erect, and his
piercing blue eyes are dear and
alert. His demeanor seems to
havo mellowed with time, and
lo a visitor he smiles with a
warmth his staff members say
Ilicy rarely know.
Editing the Britannlca, he
says, "is the same kind of thins
as In broadcasting nnd newspa-
pers. You use your judgment,
init on n longer time scale. For
Iho Britannlca, you havo lo do-
lormlno whet will hold up."
land?
There will be technicians with
computers capable of the most
ingenious innovations. But will
their children have ready ac-
cess to the ABCs of human
knowledge? Will we breathe
clean air, drink good water,
boast good health?
Or will technology, moon-
geared and missile-oriented,
leave man, in his everyday ex-
istence, lagging far behind?
For a glimpse into that world,
the 50-year-old American Insti-
tute of Planners called recently
for the ideas of respected au-
thorities—not in missilery and
aerospace, but in housing, tran-
sportation, finance and the arts.
The responses produced some
intriguing previews of. a 21st
century America that, for tech-
nology and gadgetry, would
make Buck Rogers feel like a
relic of the horse and buggy
age.
But they also raised some
problems of enormous potential
that must be surmounted, if life
in the new century is to -be
. worth living at all.
To the extent that the future
is predictable, a fairly believ-
able portrait of the next half
century emerges from a blend-
ing of the ideas of these schol-
ars and planners.
Their composite view:
By the year 2020 the popula-
tion of the United States, now
200 million, will be about 350
million. About 80 per cent of the
population will be living in vast
metropolitan areas.
Four huge "megalapolitan'
regions will contain 60 per cent
of the people on less than 8 per
cent of the land. These giant
complexes will be in Florida.
California, along the lower
Great Lakes and the Atlantic
seaboard—with the last two pos-
sibly Wending into one gigantic
megalopolis.
One pessimistic view is that
unless enormous advances are
made, the homes of these mil-
lions will be little different from
today's. City planner Charles
Abrams cautioned: "If present
trends are any guide, the United
States should have put houses
on the moon long before it has
given all its families decent
communities on its own soil.
The disparity between house
cost and income will show no
sign of abating."
But a rosier vrew, also put
forth by Abrams, envisions au-
tomation and nuclear power
yielding tremendous benefits to
man in his quest for suitable
shelter. Picture thousands of
self-contained new towns in the
countryside; fully equipped,
capsule rooms to be bought in
department stores; sonic clean-
ing devices nnd air filtering sys-
tems banishing dirt; computer-
ized, microwave ovens automat-
ically mixing ingredients from
preselected recipes.
Or helicopters whirling above,
hauling geodesic domes to dis-
tant sites, where thoy will be
lacked to tho ground complete
with utilities; compact sowupc
systems converting dishwater to
pure drinking water. But
achievement of these dreams
may require a federal agency to
do "the long-range planning, buy
the land directly, arrange for its
use, and turn it over to the pri-
vate sector.
As planner Abrams foresees
it: "As more and more people
move into the metropolitan re-
gions, the competition for land
will stiffen, the traffic flow stow
to a halt, and the general prob-
lem of gelling around, finding a
bit of open space, brealhing
good air and gelling good drink-
ing waler will move up as
public concerns. We shall have
to build as many structures of
all kinds as we have built since
our earliest immigrants moved
from their hillside dugouts."
Transportation expert Max L.
Feldman, peering into the next
50 years, looks for the develop-
ment of "at least one high-
speed, long-distance transporta
lion- mode," and high-speed sys-
tems carrying air Iravclers
from all major airports to con-
nections with local traffic distri-
bution systems.
"Al leasl one east-west and
two north-south automatic high-
ways should be guiding and con-
trolling individual passenger ve-
hicles speeding from coast to
const nnd bordor to border.
Freight should bo moving
through at least one completed,
continuous freight system that
completely separates freight
from people."
City traffic threatens to be-
come so clogged as to change
drastically some long-accepted
values, Feldman said. "For ex-
ample, extreme freedom, the
ability of people to go where
they want to, when they want
to, in their own vehicles by the
route of their own choosing, will
eventually have to be limited in
order to prevent the complete
collapse of urban circulating
systems and save the cities
themselves."
The result: possibly a general
acceptance of more expensive,
but also more satisfactory, com-
munications devices, such as
visual phones.
For international travel, Feld-
man looks forward to develop-
ment of a low-fare sky bus,
"The jet set will be outnum-
bered imd overshadowed by a
great horde of middle-class peo-
ple from all nations exploring
their world. More people will
learn to understand people of
other lands."
By the year 2000, as Feldman
envisions it, "the larger U. S.
cities may have converted com-
pletely to electric transporta-
tion, and several completely
new citios should have been
built incorporating Ihe most re-
cently developed transportation
systems and offering maximum
convenience."
In those great cities, when the
private automobile passes from
the scene, public transportation
might even be free. Those who
hunger lor time off Iron? v/ork
may take heart from the fore-
cast of political scientist Sebas-
tian de <3razla thai the average
work week, by the year 2000,
will average 31 hours, and per-
haps as few as 21. Twenly years
later, on-the-job hours may
have dwindled to 26, or even 16.
But what will people do with
all that free time? The outlook
may not be cheery.
As De Graila sees it: "There
is reason to fear, as some do,
that free time, forced free time,
will bring on the restless tick of
boredom, idleness, immorality,
and increased personal vio-
lence. If the cause Is identified
as automation and the prefer-
ence for higher Intelligence,
nonautomsAod jobs may in-
creasa, but they will carry the
stigma of stupidity. Men will
prefer not to work rather than
to accept them. Those who do
accept will increasingly come to
be a politically inferior class."
One possible solution: a se-
paration of income from work;
perhaps a guarantee! annual
ciety. "An educational system
that aims at manpower ratter
than manhood will not suffice.
As the rate of technological
change is accelerated, it will be-
come clear that, almost by ne-
cessity, training for a job will
have to be given on the job or
immediately before hand. Edu-
calion takes time, and job re-
quiremenls can change in no
time at all."
Hutchins envisions an educa-
tional system geared not to "a
limited, partial life," but "to
prepare for a full life for all."
"A six-year e l e m e n t a r y
school, a three-year high school,
and a three-year college should
suffice to give everybody a bas-
ic, liberal education. Only those
students interested in and quali-
fied for independent study
should go on to the university."
A technological revolution in
education, Hutchins said, "may
go so far as to dissolve the insti-
tutions we have known. Imagine
a learning center in every
home. Its components might be
a telephone, a TV set, and a
console. Teachers might go,
from house to house like visiting
nurses. The bulk of the instruc-
tion and examinations would be
handled by computers. The saf-
est course will be to turn over J&;
tho machines the task of traiB-
ing and informing, thus relieve
ing teachers for the work of ed-
ucation."
The university, in Hutchins*.
view, must become a center of
independent thought and criti-
cism, geared to Ihe intellect,
abandoning irrelevant activi-
ties, such as intercollegiate ath-
letics.
A foretasle of the potential
contributions of science to 21st
century man's physical well-
being came from John R. Platt
of the University of Michigan's
Mental Health Research Insti-
tute.
Wouldn't it be possible, he
wondered, to regenerate a cut-
off finger or hand, instead of
just regenerating a bit ot skin
tissue over the- stump?
"Lobsters can regenerate
claws. Perhaps tile ability to do
this is simply turned off in his
o r g a n i s m s . Who knows?
Perhaps it wa» an evolutionary
defense against the unwanted
prolifcralion of cells that we Call
cancer. But perhaps- it might be
turned on again by some appli-
cation of embroynic fluids of tis-
sue inducei's."
Pervading the thoughts of
most of the planners is the fun-
damental question whether
space-age technology will end
up being man's master or his
servant. David T. Bazelon, wri-
ter and social critic, taking the
pessimistic viewpoint, contend^
ed; "Technology does notTr
change society; it' destroys IL
But August Hcducher, public
official and author, sees possi-
ble salvation in tire hippies o( to-
day.
"It is c;,sy." Hcckscher told
his fellow planners, "to dismiss
the hippies as one mom fad, a
new and passing phtue In tn«
dialogue between ftnttMlm
which hoi alw»ys ttteM,