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SEE ONLY PROSPERITY.
Carpet Mm Predict Permanent Recovery of Trad«—^Deride Talk
of “Calamity” OptLtnlstic Speeches Made by OflScers of
$12.5000,000 BigeluW'Hartford Company at Dinner in New
■ York City—Declare Business Should Cease Wail Raised
Against the Administration.
New York, Nov. 7.—That the business of this country is
about to enter a new era of prosperity was the belief expressed
by John F. Norman, general manager of the Bigelow-Hartford
Carpet Company, at a dinner «iven in his honor by the sales
department of the newly con^lidated-company at the Hotel Astor.
His opinion was reflected in. optithistic remarks of President
K. P. Perkins and other speakers, who advised the business men
of the country to believe in the national administration and stop
"calamity howling.” i
Evidences of prosperity in the carpet trade, which was one
of the industries hardest hit by the new tariff, was taken by. every
one present as a sure indication that any other depressions which
may exist in other trades will be effaced, and that the business of
the country will sewn be booming.
“It is true,” said Mr. Norman, “that a sharp blow y/as struck
at the beginning, of the industries of the country, but the grit
the business men of the United States has brought hiin bacTc
fighting harder than ever. There is no place in the ranks for the
calaniity howler. The man who cannot stand a little adversity
without immediately denoimcing the administration must go
down. There has never been a place in the business world for this
type of man, and there never will be.
“The spirit which riiade San Francisco greater than ever af
ter the eai^thquake; the spirit that made Galveston the grater
after its flood; the spirit which made Baltimore the greater after
its fire, is the spirit which will prevail in this country and make
the tinted States trade greater than the world has ever known
My agents report normal conditions throughout the country, and
all of their letters contain wonderfully good news concerning tn&
carpet trade.”
Mr. Perkins said that the carpet trade was very good ani
much better than could be e.\pected in face of existing conditions.
“Business men of the country must believe in the country,”
continued Mr. Perkins, “for ‘as a man thinketh, so he shall he.’
Reports from all over the country are remarkably hopeful and the
export possibilities are enormous.
“This business boom we are now experiencing is not merelj'
a temporary one, but it is going to be permanent. This countr^’
is a great one, its industries are many, and we have too many re
sources to lose the trade which must now belong to the United
States. I am not optimistic for the sake of optimism, but because
the truth warrants it, and because v;e are entering the new
era of prosperiy.”
Alvin D. Higgins, vice president; George E. Perkins, treasur
er, and George S. Squires, secretary of the company, who were
guests of honor, also spoke optimistically.
The Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company is a consolidation of
the Bigelow Carpet Company, with factories at Clinton and
Loweil, Mass., and the Hartford Carpet Company, of Thompkins-
ville, Conn. It was consolidated on October 24 last, with a capital
ization of .^12,500,000, and is now the largest carpet manufactur
ing' concern in the world.
business, large business, as they have before them at this time,
before enjoyed such opportunities to do profitable business, safe
^-Greensboro News.
BUS!
LARGE BUSINESS, SAFE B^JS^NESS, PROFITABLE
NESS IN THE liNSTED STATES.
The estimates as to the values of the crops of the United
States for the year 1914 place ihem as the highest in aggregate
that have ever been recorded.
This is the result after allowing for a shrinkage of value
of more than $400,000,000 in the cotton crop, and that allowance
is surely the maximum of any shrinkage in values.
The most important of our crops? shows an increase in total
values of $104,000,000 over the totals of the same crops last year,
and this with everything indicating larger yields and higher
prices than those employed bj' the basis for computations.
We invite the closest attention of our readers to these factors
of national prosperity, and reminding them of the great demand
abroad for the wheat, the corn, the oats, the barley, the rye, and
so many other products of our fanns, we feel certain they will
realise that the country is entering an era of unexampled activ
ity in trade, both foreign and domestic.
These facts show conclusively that our agriculturists are
THE ORGANIZED FARMERS.
We may talk of what this political party has done and what
that one has failed to do, but after all the greatest work ever ac
complished in our country has been done by the organized farm
ers. ■
Up to 1890 the issues resulting from and growing out of the
war were threshed over and over again, and hatred of the Yan
kees had gradually welded the white vote of the South into a
sectional democratic Party, while at the North disrus of every-
hing Soutiiem and dislike for the ssection had cry-staiized the
brain and heart of the North around the Republican standaM.
Contest after contest between these sectional parties had result
ed uniformly in success for the richest and most popular and the
flopping of the bloody shirt in . every campaign kept the “bloody
chasm” wide and deep. Along in the ’90’s, the Farmers’ Alliance
entered the field and Polk and Watson and Peffer and Simpson
active with the Alliance, did more in one year to obliterate the
bitterness, hatred, and prejudices engendered by the Civil War,
than the politicians had accomplished in a generation.
The Alliance looking at the sitiiation from a patriotic stand
point demanded that the dead past be buried, that the living is
sues on which the welfare of the republic depended be taken up
and settled. The Democratic and Republican parties, reeking
with sectionalism, ignored its demands and the People’s Party,
based on these demands entered the political arena. It made the
mistake of trying to put “new wine into old bottles” by fussing
with the Democratc in the North and the Republicans in the
South and this disreputed its organization, but the issues it
stood for were forced upon the old parties. Hence we have today
an Interstate Commerce Commission, Corporation Commission
ers, Rural Free Delivery, Postal Savings Banks, wide-spread ag
ricultural education and many other benefits and blessings solely
due to the efforts of the organized farmers. The only import
ant issues old parties have so far persistently refused to recog
nize is the Sub-Treasury plan of the Alliance, This lies at the
very base of all the reforms the farmers of the past and of today
demand. It mean.s a financial system that recognizes the farmer
as the foundation of the nation’s prosperity and we believe the
Union should take it up and add it to the long list of splendid
achi^ements of the organized famers of the Republic.—J. M. T.
in The Carolina Farmer.
COTTON TAKES A LEAP.
That cotton is steadily finding its way back to higher levels is
indicateii by the fact that the prevailing price for the staple
on he local market yesterday was 7 1-2 cents at v/hich figure 55
bales were sold. For several days the mai-ket has been clinging
around seven cents with 7 1-4 the best price offered. The jump to
the e.vtent of half a cent yesterday wa.s the best indication the
market has lately afforded that it is regaining il-> tone in some
measure. On the sanie date last year the price was 13 8-4 and
92 bales ’.sere sold.—Chai'lotte Observer.
SECURITY PRICES RISE.
Buying orders fur outnumber offers to sell. Broker.s bor
row in London. Time loans negotiated on favonible terms, af-
frding proof of imprving conditions there—Fresh rumrs circu
lated of large German credit. More gold is exported to Canada,
Turkey is off one cent a pound. And yet some people think
we have no eau.se to ?ive tliank.s.
NOT AFFECTED BY COTTON CRISIS.
North Carolina Papers Show Steady Growth.—Many Enlar,"ng
PSaiits.—New Buildings Going Up for Newspapers in Sev
eral Towns, While Other Papers Are Buying Equipment to
('arc for Increa.!ed Business.
B.y J. L. Horne, of Rocky Mount Evening Telegram.
Afternoon newspapers in North Carolina, while located in
the very heart of the cotton belt, seem to be hit but little by
the present cotton crisis, for with few exceptions plans of en
largement have been put into execution, and while some are stand-
receiving greater sums of cash for a y^r’s products of their I ing back the newspapers are preaching better times, and as far as
lands than they have ever received since our history began. That! la possible with them they are practicing what they are preach-
means that their purchasing power this year will be increased
mora than $100,000,000 from the direct production of their lands.
To this gain must be added fully another $100,000,000
through increased receipts of cash by them from sales of horses,
* cattle, sheep, poultry, and dairy products. The farmers of the
United States have had their purchasing power, their paying
power, increased fully $200,000,000 this year over that of 1913,
and this is proving the greatest stimulus to business in the manu
facturing districts, and will necessarily cause a greatly increased
home demand upon the outputs \f those districts.
It is unnecessary to refer to the huge demand from abroad
for not only the products of our farms, but for the outputs of our
mills, our shops, our factories, and our coal mines.
The columns of every daily journal set forth the orders re-
'’ceived in the United States for every kind of supply for armies
and navies, for food, for clothing, for every article that will save
life or produce comfort, for every materia! or instrument that
will kill, injure or d^troy.
The populations of three continents are rapidly becoming
more and more dependent upon the people of the United States
for the means of existence, as well as for the means of terminat-
♦ijjg existence. If the war closed tomorrow, the foreign demand
upon our supplies would not diminish during the next five years.
The ravages of war have already rendered many nations ab
solutely dependent in many articles upon the products and out
puts of the United States.
Thejre is no theory as to these statements.
They state facts patent to eyery one.
The merchants and manufacturers of the United States are
assured of ample supplies of currency through the new banking
system.
' » They can proceed to care for their increasing trade with con
fidence and without fear of depression or panic.
Now they are neither dependent upon London or New York
for currency supplies; the business men of the country never
mg.
Elkin, N. C.—^Ths Chatham Manufacturing Co., the largest
manufactory of blankers, exclusively in the South, has secured
the order from the French Government for, we understand, a
million blankets, or five hundred thousand pairs. Upon the mer
it of their blankets, and their national reputation as manufactur
ers they succeeded in getting the order, which the mill is now
filling as fast as possible. The plant is running at night, gejtting
in several hours cvertime, in order to handle the contract as
promptly, and to maintain a contract promise, and to maintain a
sufficient output to fill their present output in addition to the
Government orders.
BUSINESS IS NOW GETING NORMAL.
Movement .of cotton which has been accelerated is helping.
An air of opimism, Businsss men and people generally are ex
pressing convictions of better times.
“Savannah Crying for Cotton at Eight Cents.”
to the farmers to make Savannah happy.
Well, it’s up
I have opened up an up to-date Lunch room on
Spring St. next to Chinese Laundry and will ap
preciate all patronage ladies served also. For
prompt service see me.
ALBERT FOWLER.
FRUIT! FRUIT! FRUIT! FRUIT!
Headquarters for fancy eating fruit. 500 barrels and 100
boxes, ^1 selection, 1,000 Jamaica cocoanuts 5 and 6c. Very nice
and cheap. Buy your fruits and confectionaries from F. J. Stra
der, where you can get your money's worth, both quality and
quantity guaranteed. Large stock of fruits at all times. Your
business will be appreciated, large or small.
Phone 526 F. J. STRADER.
V
GUILFORD CREAMER
We want your Cream and will pay good prices in checks
twice a month. By selling us your fcutter fat in cream, you
will mai-ket it much more economically than by marketing
it in butter.
For particulars and direerion for ifaippio; cream, write or
call on
THE GUILfBRO CREAMERY,
GREENSBORO. N. C.
FRESH GOODS!
We solicit the trade of our farmer friends and
others who pay ca.!h.
We are here to stay and to i>iease.
All goods delivered within the corporate limits.
We will appreciate your patronage.
Give nt a trial.
HOLT BROTHERS,
Sanitary Grocery - - Phone 130, Main St,
Burlington, N. C.
Work in
a Warm Room
\X7HEN you take your
' ’ sewing upstairs, take
the Ae/7/ along too. The
Perfection oil heater is eas
ily carried anywhere. You
draw it up beside you and
work in comfort, even if the
room has no other source
of heat.
PERFJ^TION
SMORSLES^Cm K EATERS
The Perfection is solid, rood-
looking, easy to clean and take care
of. ft is smokeless and odorless.
Ar hardware, furniture and general
stores everywhere.
Look for the Triangle trademark.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Wuhingtu, B. C. (NEW JERSEY) Ouittitte, K. C.
BALTIMORE *•!*■
Clwrlestoa, S. .C