A PBOGBBiSSIVE BE?UBUCAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMEKIGAN HOM^ AND AMEKICAX INDUSTHIES.
BURLINGTON, ALAMAXCE COUNTY, \ORTH CAHyLlXA, j UESDAY, NOVEMBER J7. 1914
Business Conditions Improv-Traveling Men Are Future of State’s Textile
ing. i In Pptimistlc Mind,: Industry Full of Promise
The Recent Election Has Re-Ass«red The Country-Confidence Indications Are That Business Is Improving Exceptionally Since Carolina Rapidly Working Toward the Point Where Cotton
D—iji.. 1T..1—, Election. '
Is R&pidly BeinK Restored.
The business interests of the country feel that as the political
sanity of the voters appears to be returning, they are justified!
Will Be Sold in the Web Rather Than the Bale.
By Bion H. Butler in The News and Observer.
Gastonia, Nov. 7.—After looking over the work the South-
Judging from all. the information that can be gathei'ed from
in taking chances as to ti)e future, that if the present tariff laws i that many traveling men who make Greensboro headquarter.^;, |
rure «rrong, it wiu not be long before they will be righted, there- ; business conditions are slowly but surely getting back to normal. |
fore they are willing to risk the judgment of the American peo-1 at least that is the case in the section of countrj^ travel^ by the 'gj^ Power Company is doing in this State the ne.xt thing that
pie to deal fairly with the business interests of the coantry^^. Con-, many commercial salesmen who represent practically everj" line ; suggests itself to an inquirer is what the eoton milts are going
ditions seem more hopeful than for the past year, THE ONE.that is sold. The conditions as found l^st week by these men profit by the enormous available power. I brought this
GREAT DARK CLOUD IS THE TARIFF. It should be given were nearly on a par with the first week in November, 1913, and question up to some of the cotton mill men of Gaston County
a chance to prove whether right or wrong. The Americian peo- nearly as many different reasons are giyeii for the improvement ■ cheering confidence they have in the future of the tex-
ple cait bo depended upon to judge it correctly, and if wrong tho as there are men traveling out of this city. Since election day industry of North Carolina would be good stuff for the im^
5>arty of protection will be restored to power at the next elef;tion, when the Republicans made big gains throughout the country niigration department of the State to put in print and scatter
and the American workingman and American industries will be business has been on the increase in all lines and one or two sales-' quarters of the globe.
protected. Tlie present administration is in full control of all men have been questioned who did ot hesitate to answer that in | Possibly I had a longer talk with E. C. Hutchison, of Mount
branches of the Government and will have ample opportunity to their opinion the increased .»trength of the G. O. P., which to Holly, than with any other one man, and what he said i.s sienifi-
make good, in the meantime conditions are improving and let’s many people represents the adoption in part of the Republicans’ them
pet plank, the high protective tariff, has had much to do with re* ■ Without attempting to reproduce what he said on the sub
hustle lor what is coming to us.
RUNNING FULL TIME.
ITie Osftipee and Altaroahaw Mills are running full time, and
have been about all the year. We trust they may be abfe to keep
it up. Our people should appreciate the efforts of these people
■who are trying so hard to keep their employes upon full time
when KO many others are standing or running part time. Ala
mance county has the best mill owners in the State and all oar
people are proud of them. We write this to let them knov.- that
we know f.»f their efforts and appreciate them.
THIS PAPER NEEDS MONEY.
We regret to have to remind our subsci’iber.s again that
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not cost-anything to get out a newspaper and they take our paper
. read it, en.ioy its coiitents, lay itiiside and forget us. Please send
us at least a dollar if no more, we will appreciate your .nssiftance
.lUst at this time. Kindly do what you can.
ARE OUR FRIENDS.
The firms nanii:;.' who appear as achertisers in this paper avc
our friends. We ai.fain a.sk you to Efive them yotir patronage,
everything beinj*' equal see that these people get the preference.
This is due them bwau.'se they are anxious for your business am!
ar bidding for it. Look carefully over the pages of this paper aiid
you wilJ see who are entitled to your support, because they ask
for it—the dead ones are content to have you hunt them up. the
live ones are hunting you. There is a difference, and you know
the reason why.
storing business conditions, not only in this section, but through
out the country as well to almost a normal state.
Others state that from what they gather the reopening of the
Liverpool Cotton E.xchange has had much to do with bettering
of conditions. These men .state that even if cottoiL is selling at
a very iow fiKure, the simple fact that there ia a market dealing in
and with the staple product of the South i.s sufFcient to restore
confidence to every man who is not too easily and badly a!ref>1;ed
with the war and hard times s"are. The people who are affected
by the cotton market are cheering up considerably on account of
the opening of the Liverpool exchange and as if to further em
phasize their belief in the .statement that busines.s will soon get
back to a norm.al state, attention is called to the fact that the Nev.-
jeet of c-otton mil! expansion I will try to tell what I gathered from
him in a general way.
The war in Europe has set the people to thinking about using
the cotton of the United States at the mills of the United States.
Where the cotton is raised it .'veems that the cotton should be
made into the goods in which it is to be used by the final buyer.
Majiufacturmg is an evolution. It follows the simpler occupa
tions, like hunting, nshing. farming, etc.. and that it has not
gained more of a footing in N'orth Carolina i;'. simply because thi-
people bare been living their attention tft providing for the less
complicated products, anti ■■.'lowing the skilled t:‘sk-^ to those
v.'ho have been longer isarning iiow.
\Vhen the steam rngine \va.' invented Englj'.nci v-as given
\ork Cotton E>,.change open at any tsme, such a h'ovenierit, j.g^ c.ver there-, Proulii'-g by thesn
pov'er and the machinery that foflowed power. Manchester built
up a biiT textile industry. Our people in this I'ouritry were M'rkcd
for ,ui increasing -.i:anti!y of cutton, the ainount "n'wuig ye;ir
by year, r-.iul bw:;i;se making t/'-ik the and I'A.tention
of the pi.'ople of North they fi!)- ;s lonu: time gave little
attunti!i:i to usiiuf ’iie .jnUon ii;=;y ra'sed.
having been talked in cotton circles for the past raaiiy weeks.
The men who.se business it is lo sell automobiles have ao
kick in the world over the amount of busines.s they are doing. The
only trouble experienced by k)cal dealers in the .swpp(jse.'i luxury
is in getting the cars from the manufacturers and the fact that
the people of this coiintjry are willing to put heir nioitey auto
mobiles, which are a luxury to most ptop’c and not a nacessify.
does much to prove that the people feel such that tho financial
■situation will be well handled and that !!0 panic or undue lightnw;
in the money market will arise.
Dolls, the little and big articles that ar(? sold in ruch iarce
numbers along this season of tho year, will not be haci in such
hu'ge
toy.
jders across the big pond from Germany before the outbreak of
;the war of cour.'ie will have their it.sual large assortment but
Coiirtfv Commh.-k>nei\% J. D. Webb, H. J. Walker. W. who were expecting to put in orders at the last minute
Reynolds and W. R- T-loyd, met here Monday and went out to{W*» unable to fill in now. The salesmen .selling these lines
Patterson’s Mill to locate and let the contract for a steel bridge this section c;ui stsll siippiy some (jcrman .niade dolls,
over New Hope Creek at the mill. The contract was awarded t>i I they can not sell the large line or assortment they lOrmerlj
the Curtis-Thornton Bridge Company, at Burlington. The,^ of the kid body, celluloid and jointed Iwdy doils
bridge is to be about 100 feet in length, and -will be erected a few i*^””’® from Germany and it is those three cla.'sses that .-American
u . Character dolls of all grade? '
feet above the old wooden bridse at the ford. The building of .a j^hildren will be short.
steel bridge there will be a great benefit to the public as the trav- i
, (States.
hfefwy and a good substantial steel bridge is needed.-
News.
-tJhapel Hill
TOBACCO SELLS HIGH ON THE ROCKY MOUNT iViARKET
DURING THE WEEK.
Rocky Mount, Nov. 14.—Tobacco sold as high as 62 cents;
per pound on the Rocky Mount market this week, which is said i
to be about the highest that any grade or quality of the weed
COTTitN BKC'OMES
i-'i:>ii''y tlu! roit'Mi ni'M sri'-'w to such prjijci tioii.^ i!i this State
j that it been me ji fucfor in the U'sfiie b'udc. Quite i-jsnidiy miiis
I multiplied after tl'.e was oiu c really mado. >nu of ir.rp
I the growth of the Carolina cotton mills have been oni> of the mit-
as.sortment^■. by the many dealers in the child,vns’ chieiVj,!^^,,.^,,^:. in Amt-nVan indu.-trial history.
The foresighted merchants who happened to get their or-1 j we have seen sq far csiily the enterir.,? wedg.'.
I-’rom now on we ;u-e goirig fi»rward in North Carolina on the
road to a te.Ktile lievelopment that will make this StatJ the home
of the greatest testilo industry of the world !t may r,ot all work
out in the ne.xt live yejirs, but it is as certain to com.e as tho tex
tile mills :>f Maiiehester were ccrt.-iin to foiiow the invention
of the steam engine.
The reason we sio not manufacture in tiie United States ;'.ll
of the eottoft we raise i.s hecau.=;e we have not yet turned our at
tention in that direction. Before v.e can manufacture uH oitr
cotton we have some things to do. Mills must be built to handle
much more raw material. To do this lakes men money.
Men are necessary to build mills and to manage them. In rill of
the mills now at work young men are ^earning the bu.siness of
running cotton mills. A big crop is coming along and every year
as K'iills multiply the number who are trained for the work is
greater. This is taking care of one factor. Witliin the next few
years we \?ili have in the territory of the Southern Power Com-
j pany a large number of men competent to handle an increased
Mrs. J. N. Cates di^'last night at St. Lso’s Hospital, Greens-1 number of mills. They will agitate the question of more mills.
u\d loader?
particular class for the, world are made in the Uniti^
They will be and are plentiful and more of these will be
sold that ever brfore. So. notwithstanding the terrible war in
Europe there is no reason, from the manufacturer.s' and retail
ers’ standpoint, why every .American kiddie should not be pre
sented a doll by its parents or the saint of the holiday season.
Ssnta Claus.—Greensboro News.
MRS. J. N. CATES.
has brought on this market this season. All grades of good, boro. The remains will be buried at Moore’s Chape! tomorrow and under their agitiition will corae more mills. When capable
medium tobaccos have advanced during the week, and it appears* at 12 o’clock. There will be a short service at the home and one j men are ready to i's.«ume the manage of more mills more capitf\l
that thtre is more of the wrapper quality than at any time during | at the church. ^ j will be willing to go into new ei^tablishments, and the new nien
the season. ■ | will be able to take some of the stock in the new mills as they
: are mailing out a few extra copies of The Dispatch this!have been doing right along in the mills now in operation.
$540 FOB LOAD OF TOBACCO. i week. If you receive a copy, you may know that it is paid for,'
Kinston, Nov. 13.—Rufus Everett, a Lenoir county planter.land is an invitation to you to join the army of Dispatch readers. PEOPLE TO RUN THE CHINES,
yesterday sold one wagon load of tobacco here which brought him j We are issuing the best and most readable, up-to-date twice-a- ■ With the question of m.en to manag;' .lew^ mills conges anoih-
$540.06. The weed averaged 25 cents a pound. i week paper in North Carolina, and we want you for a membsr of er question equally important, .and th;” s the hands to run the
i our Dispatch family. Subscribe now, do it today.
French State tobacco factorifes are working day and night j
to supply the needs of the sjrmy and large quantities of Virginia!
tobacco are being imported specially for use of t^ British troops, i j^^xlCO 3.y 3lVC
Winter Paralyzes
Tioop Movements.
Peace, As Carranza
Offers To Resign.
Russians oh Border in East Prussia .\re Battling With Snow—; Report Reaches Washington That First Chief of Constitutiona!-
Tbey Are Clad in Sheep Skin Jackets to Keep Warm—^Mcnj
Suffer From Cold—Lare Area of West Flanders Around Dix-;
mude Flooded by Heavy Rains.—Reports Don’t Agree—Ber-1
iin Says There Was Only Slight Activity Because of Snow j
Storm; Paris Announces That Germans Have Been Thrust;
Back. I
ists Will Leave the Republic Until After the Election—Offer
Has Not Yet Come Direct—Fightins Between Factions Stops
—Silliman Wires Prom Mexico That Troops Have Ceased
Fighting—President Wilson Receives Letter from Outierre?
Promising Stable Government.
machines. Some years ago I was -last Livei'pool, Ohio, the
home of the great pottery industry if the United States, and
there I inquired why North Carolina kaolin was sent to Ohio to
be worked up into pottery instead of being made into pottery
at home. Tho answer was that the East Liverpool workmen have
learned how to make pottery and the North Carolina folks have
not. Nearly any big industry in any section is a process of the
education of the people, that work in' the estabiishments. V/hen
the F.ast Liverpool potteries made their first W'are it was the
coarse yellow stuff that is not made scarcely at all there now.
As he hands became proficiena they took up finer-grades of w'are,
Sind now East Liverpool is dotted with enormous potteries in all
sections of the city, and in everj' one are capable hands who can
make the finest grades of china ware that we find.
When North Carolina commenced to make cotton goods the
coarsest quality of textiles were turned out. W^eek by week the
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