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PAGE TWO . - L A- T * S “““Ttk ’,„n^lil«,u. Telephone 78, Tribune Officer With Our Sicto The condition of Mr. John Earn hardt. who is undergoing treatment, at jthe Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, is reported today as slightly improved. Aks. Merle Lifaker is confined to her home by a severe cold. The condition of Mrs. Lloyd Cook, who has been ill for the past week, re ' mains unchanged. j Mrs. Everett Cook, who has been confined to her home for several days with an attack *f appendicitis, is re ported as somewhat improved today. Master Buford Bost, son -of Mr. and Sirs. S. L. Bost, is confined to his home by illness. • 4 » Colonial Dames to Meet. The Colonial . Dames Society will meet Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. W. W. Floxre at her home on Georgia Avenue. Born. Mr. and\Mrs. A. G. Odell are receiv ing congratulations on the birth of a son, January 24th. • * • Square Dance. The following invitations have been issued here: 'The Members of the and Manufacturers Club invite you to Ik? present at An Old-Time Square Dance —at their Club Rooms Concord, North Carolina . Friday evening. January twenty-sixth nineteen hundred and twenty-three eight to Twelve o'clock » • » Liliiputiofi Club Meets. The Liiliputiou Club mc.t last Satur day with Alias Bettie Gfiy Coltra-m* at her home on North Union street. Each little member brought with her hand , kerchiefs and dresses to be made for her dollies, and after much Chatter and work they decided to add the study of songs to their program, such as Eugene Field's and "Little Songs of Long .Ago.” Nursery Rhymes. Little Miss Colt rant* ..proved a de lightful hostess, and served refresh ments to her little'guests. The meeting then adjourned to meet again the following Saturday with lit tle Miss Mariam Winslow Cannon. % With Our Sick; Mr. R. K. BlaCk had the misfortune to fall Tuesday and hurt his head so that severe! stiff-lies had to be taken in - it. He is unable, to be at his work to day. Miss Mary Peek, teacher at No. 2 school, is confined to her, home at Mt. Pleasant by an attack of the fin. Mrs Lindsay Ross is confined to her home on West Djepot street by an at tack of the flu. \Miss Dorothy (Fisher is confined to jflbej home by illness. •««* \Miss Annie Rulenhoitr is unable to !>e at her work at l’arks-Belk's because / • of illness. _ , Mr. J. T. Fisher -is confined to his f home by a severe cold. L ... /What the Parent-Teachers Association Is Doing. This fs a question which Mr. or Mrs. Average Citizen might naturally ask: —and one. we want to answer in the most enlightening way possible. - Our first undertaking, after we or ganized, was to start a fund for the purpose of /furnishing milk daily to the little children of the -primary J grades who were undernourished, and for. that raison, much underweight and lacking in energy and vitality. This undertaking has met with great success and remarkable improvement has been noted in most of the chil dren in weight, health and energy, and in many cases, even in their class standing. Seventeen half pints are furnished the children daily and this work is supported entirely by volun tary donations. The amount donated to this milk fund thus far since Sep tember is $88.25. Two dollars is do nated weekly by the Grier Bible Class of the First Presbyterian Church, and SI.OO per month by Mrs. Stockton. Out of the success of this first en terprise developed the decision this year to furnish hot lunches to supple ment what the children of the two higher primary grades and some of the grammar grades, who lived tpo far to go home, brought for their dinner. These are prepared by Miss Spurgeon, of the "Economic Department, and her classes, and her splendid system and . management of the whole thing can. not be too warmly praised. She and ' Miss King, with what volunteer aid they can get. serve about 30 children p. day. A nominal sum of r»c per day fs charged and those who are unable to pay that receive their lunches free*, voluntary offerings covering the cost. The Association is 'deeply interest- ed in Dr. Foster's work in 0 the dental :, . clinic and most anxious that the mon ey may be raised to keep bim in Con cord. another month. It has donated $45 toward the S3OO needed for the * continuance of the clinic. Besides this amount several of our mom tiers have ~generomdy contributed and the teacli / of the School have donat ed $25. We are planning to have some inex pensive playground equipment made for the Primary School and we hope to have it ready for the children to enjoy in the spring. E. 11. With Our Sick.» The friends of Mrs. W. M. Morris will he glad to know that she is get ting along nicely, following an opera tion for appendicitis at the Presby terian Hospital iu Charlotte Monday. Miss Velma Lyles is confined to fier i btune by illness. 7 The condition of Mtv K. L. Craven, who has been sick for several weeks, fe-i. is slowly improving. Miss Dorothy HariseJJ*is confined to | her hoine'by an attack of the "flu.'X t S . % The condition of Mrs. Everett Cook, who has t»een ill since last Wednesday is reported to<lay as no better. ' Mr. P. ,G. Cook is confined u> his H home by illness. Mr. J- W. Cline, is confined to his home - on East Depot Street by an at - tack of "flu/ . The many friends of Mr. ,T. S. Hill I will be glad to know that his condi j tion is improving. The condition of Mrs. Joe Deaton, who has been ill for several days, is reported today a& slightly improved. PERSONALS Mr. Henry Smith, who has been | -spending several days here with his j parents, Re.v. and Mrs. T. W. Smith, 1 left Monday night for Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. White and chil dren. of Greenwood, S. C., spent Mon day here with Mrs. T L Alexander, sister of Mr. White, en route to High Point, where they will make their home in the future. Mr. Roger Bost returned Monday to M. I\ C. 1.. after being confined to-his home for the past week by innless. ; Mr. Miles Jones returned Tuesday to | M. I*. C. I. after spending the week j end here with Mrs. Sam Eud.v. Mr. C. M Sappenfield spent Monday afternoon in Charlotte, on business. Mrs. A. E. Harris is spending a week or. ten days with her father, Mr. J. E. Efird, in Anson county. Charlotte Observer: Mrs. Charles E. Lambeth and son, Harvey, spending the week in Concord with Mrs. Lambeth’s mother, Mrs. ,T. W. Cannon, while Mr. Lambeth is out of the city on a hunting trip. Miss Blanche Armtield is visiting her father. Santpr Frank Armtield. in Ra leigh. Before returning home* Miss Armtield will visit relatives' in High Point. Miss Martha Creighton, district home demonstration agent, spent last Tuesday here with Miss Cathleen Wil son. Miss Alice Stockton, who has been visiting her mother. Mrs. Martha Stockon, for * several days returned Monday to her home in Greensgoro. Mr. Olin Hoover, of Asheville, spent Tuesday here with his mother, Mrs. D. 'R. Hoover. Mr. and Mrs. C.|A. McAnulty attend ed the funeral of Mr Roy Kiser at Mid land Tuesday. Mr. Albert Vestal returned to M. P. C. I. Tuesday after spending several days here wiNi friends. Mrs. Laura Corn, of Hendersonville, is visitihg her daughter, Mrs. Bond. Mr. Robert Snfrit, of Winston-Salem, spent Tuesday here with home folks. Mrs. J. W. Pike wassailed to Mid dlebrook. Va.. Tuesday, ro be at the bedside of her mother. Mrs. J. A. L. Miller. PERSONALS. i Mr. E. M. Wolff, of Gettysburg. Pa., j is visiting his brother, Mr. S. A. Wolff on Tribune street. Alias Pat Adams attended the funer eal of Mr. Charlie Davison in Char ! lotto Wednesday and from there she jjweiit on to Monroe to spend several | days with relatives. Messrs. Hugh Broome and Eustace , Griffin are spending Several days in Hickory on business. .Air. J. T. Cress si»ent Wednesday af ternoon in Charlotte on business/ t Mr. MaeLareu, of Charlotte, is , spending the day here on business for Belk Brothers. Air. Grover Huffman, of Hickory, ! spent last night and a part of today I with Air. and Mrs. C. A. Alie^. Airs. J E Morgan, of Cleveland, will * arrive tomorrow to visit Airs. C. A. i Aleis. Air. and Mrs. R. Lingley, of New 'Castle, New Brunswick. Canada, are j visiting at the home of Airs. R. W. Fleming in No. 3 township. Airs. | Lingley is a sister of Airs. Fleming, i Air. Ralph Smith, of New Bern, spent last night and today here, as the J guest of Mr. and Airs. I. I. Davis, Jr. iIJOI HAS NARROW ESCAPE f FROM BURNING TO DEATH Was Penned in Stable Which Was Being , Rapid,!) Enveloped With Flames. 1 Monroe, Jan. 24.—Penned in the stable of a burning barn. Harold Long. 13-year-old son of IMr. Zeb Long of Goose Creek township, had a nar row escape from death yesterday morning. The young fellow was aiding bis father in rescuing the stock rrom the blazing structure. Entering a stab e which housed two mules, he succeeded in driving one of the ani mals out. With whip in hand, he had the other one almost out when its mate rushed ba'ck into its quarters. Both stuck in the door, one trying to get out, the other trying to get in. Harold as cut off from all avenue of escape with the flames rapidly tore, velopingf' that part of the barn. The frightened animals struggled to re lease themselves. Terrified.' the ooy la&lied-them with his whip, urging them to greater effort. One of the mu es finally made a terrific lunge 'ihat carried it free of the stable. Harold followed it to safety, just in time to avoid being ‘overcome with smoke, neighbors said here this morn ing. Air. Long, the father, met with painful injuries as a result of his ef forts to rescue the stock, a mule kicking him in the chest. While not serious, his injuries are very pain ful. , Os the eight mules, five were res cued, three being burned to death Three cows, it is reported, met a similar fate. Other losses included several hundred bushels of corn aud a large quantity of cotton seed. The barn, a new building, was one of the largest in that section, aud LMr. Ding's loss, though parti*- cover ed with insurance is heavy. Origin of, the fire is unknown, but occurring at an early hour of the morning, when none of tlie family were about, leads many to be'ievc that it was fired by a human hand. On the' high Andean plateau in Bq livia live dwarfs with the cluvsts of giants. These men are Bolivian lib dians. and liviug as they do at a height of 12,000 to 14,000 feet above sea level, they ha vet developed immense '•lung power to enable them to breathe prop j erly iu the. rarefied air cf those regions Southward the Star of Cotton Mill Industry (Takes Its Way Manufacturers Record. Aliout a quarter of a century ago the editor of the Manufacturers Record ar ranged for a visit of a committee from : the Arkwright Club of Boston, of five leading cotton manufacturers to visit the south as the guests of the Sea board Air Line. As an outcome of that trip five cotton mills, each over a mil lion-dollars, were built, including the Dwight mills near Gadsden, the Alns sachusetts Alills at Linda le; Ga.; the Merrimae Alills at Huntersville, alul others. These gentlemen were cordially re ceived by all of the cotton mills which they visited. They were given an op portunity to study the conditions un der which mill labor lived and _ the character of the operatives. As we came out of one* of these mills Mr. Lovering turned to the writer and in substance said: "You have in the southern mills ex actly tlie same class of labor that we had in the New England mills fifty years ago. Then our mill people England we have no native American from the New England farms and. vil lages, people of character and ability. You have the same kind of people in your southern mills. Now in New England we have no native American labor. AA'e have the foreigners, and tlie lower classes of foreigners at that. First, the French Canadians came in. They were followed by Poles and Greeks and Hungarians, and the na tive went entirely from the mills. If anybody should ever say to' you that southern mill operatives can not be trained to do as fine work as ran be done in New England, you can •simplay say to them that their state meat means that in their opinion the lowest class of foreigners are' superior in ability to the best class of native Anglo-Saxon.” / In that statement of Air. Levering, which *we have often quoted, is to be found a germ of the longing desire of New England manufacturers to get in to a section where they will be free from, the foreign labor element and have the benefit of native Anglo-Sax on operatives, with all of their limit less inherent possibilities for develop -juenf. New England is being cursed with its foreign population. In Rhode Island <l9 per cent., of the population is foreign stock: ni Massachusetts <>C> per cent. ; in all of New England <SO per cent., while North Carolina lias only seventenths of one per cent.: South Carolina. 1 per cent.: Georgia. 1.0 per cent, and, Alabama 2.2 per cent.: the whole south including Alis souri and Texas only S per cent. The American population of New England is being submerged iu this mighty' mass of foreign stock which is domi nating the polities of that section, is violating the laws and fomenting la bor troubles. The native Americans are losing out as against this horde of foreigners, since they do not want to work alongside the lower classes of this foreign element, or to live* under the' conditions under which'they are willing,to live*. *r The situation may Ik* \ve*ll illustrat <*d in the conditions existing in the south in slavery days. The poorer white men of the south were unwilling to work alongside the slave and to be* rid of this condition many moved from the richer lowbfuds, where slavery ihrivetkrfirst to the*. Piedmont region or to the foothills of the mountains; then to valleys in the mountains: and then, crossing the mountains, pushed out in- ' to the far west and became strong J factors in the development of the west. As early as 18150 there were ov er 930,000 southern-born whffes liv ing outside of the south. To at large extent the/ went out of the south be eause of their unwillingness to endure the strain and degredation of work-' ing with slave labor. In the same way native Americans of the better class are unwilling so ‘work side by side with the lower classes of foreigners and when labor ers of (his e-lass go into a cotton mil! tlie native Amreicans go out. This is also true of nearly all other industries. Massachusetts and. to some extent nearly all of New England, is suffer ing In political u.i i religious an I so cial lile*. and to ; n even greater ex tent in business life, by the incoming of this foreign eletu i wuie.-h seeks to dominate legislation and all labor conditions. The south is free* from this. If lias a great supply of the purest Anglo-Sax on labor in the world. Nowimre else* on earth can be* found in one region from 4,000,090 to 5,000,000 people of the purest Anglo-Saxon strain as in the mountain regions of the south, from which a large proportion of e-ot ton mill labor has come*. In these mountain homes big families are still popular, and from these mountains is poured out an unending stream of mill operatives, as well as of and merchants, and manufacturers. yoars, doctors and preachers. Many of the greatest men in the south, exert ing the widest influence in business, iq the ministry, and in lawr+tave eomci out of these* mountain families. South ern -cotton mills are still drawing up on that labor. At present there is al so an increasing drift of tenant farm ers and small land owners away from cotton growing into the cotton mills, because the boll weevil makes cotton raising so difficult that they can make more money and live under better con ditions in the mill villages than on their small farms. The building of new mills, there fore, becomes a matter- of interest for the creation of vemployment for the people who are abaudoniiHt the farms, but if ever the boil weevil is elimi nated as a factor in cotton growing some of these people will go back to their farms. The New England mill owners who are moviug south either by .purchase of existing mills or by building new ones, are going there be cause they can reach this labor—the 1 best mill labor in America—and be cause the cost of living in the south is so much less than the cost in New England, due to better housing in tlie* pi ill villages, and the lower cost for rent than must Ik? paid in -New Eng-.,,, land. They are going south too. cause, according to the Malden ( Mass.) Evening News, "most of tlie great cit ies where our textile mills are locat ed are incompetently conducted and of fer no inducement for the present lidll corporations to extend their plants or ♦ v THE CONcJoRD DAILY TRIBUNE for new industries to eerie.” It is to be hoped that the foreign mill opera tives who are such a handicap to New England will never he permitted to come south. Their would be justly • resented by southern mill op eratives and mill owners. In the south, there is a welcome op en to new enterprises. In many places excellent mill sites can be secured a-t a low cost. Great hydro-electric devel opments which are furnishing cheap power, the low cost of mill construc tion, better labor, qf pure American stock, lower cost of living for labor, belter management of southern towns than New England mill towns ‘are able to- get. better climatic conditions, are all appealing mightily *to New England cotton mill m,en to abandon. New England and come south. The builders of textile machinery will \soon have to follow, for where cotton mills are increasing in number ; as rapidly as they are in tin* south, with New England papers and people: claiming that there (tin lie no fur ther growth of the textile industry in , that section, it is but natural that tex-: tile machinery makers will soon estab lish themselves in what is the predes -1 limited center of the world's cotton | mill building. Southward the star of textile em pire takes its way, and despite all the misrepresentations that are made by some New England papers, and sometime/ by narrow minded New ! England politicians, the husim-*ss men ! df New England know the reasons ; why they are going south. What cot- ! ton mill people are doing in tfieir! southward trend will soon be seen in j many other lines of industry to an : increasing extent. This section will I soon begin to show a rate of growth i in keeping with its unmatcliable ad- ‘ vantages for practically every line of j human endeavor, just as it is doing in ! the cqtton mill industry.” Just now there Is a great tendency for New England cotton maiwifactur-' ers to buy or build mills In the south, i The tendency is more marked than it I has been 'at any time since about 25 i years ago when there was a great, movement of New England capital in- \ to the south. This has stirred up j some New England papers in, a way} which causes them to disregard the i facts and denounce the South. i One illustration out of many is to 1 t j found in a late, issue of Tin* Aialder, i E veiling New s, in which, under the j heading "industries Going South," j tlffit paper editorially says: "One of Lowell's most successful! iextile concerns is planning large! plant extensions iu the south. A gen eration ago that addition to its plant! would have been made at in?wadi. Yet today we find scores of mill owners i building their new mills not in the j great industrial centers of the north. ; but in tin* soulU and longer! hours. That is a big factor and can- ; not be overcome until iedei'al labor! laws are enacted which will eliminate. child labor in all states and make the! hours of women in factories the saiiiej in every-stale. When the age <tf <-!iil-| (Iren is limited’ and then* hours for women the hours for men i will take care of themselves. We could J not expect such national laws under eight years of democratic ruie, for j She soitlh was in tic* saddle. But the : republican parjy is essentially the 1 ; ' 'The Sale of Sales SUITS AND OVERCOATS 11'rS) 1-4 off - ! Here’s a Sale that will rank as the most .ffjiK \ > I\m?\ m unexpected event of years. It’s not because p/ / / Ja| °f the number of Suits and Overcoats we offer ■I x \jL 1 % but because of the High Quality involved, JKjHHBvy/ 1 . V together with radically Reduced Prices. J /|\ ‘f-(yi§ * This announcement-should carry much la. y _Jf weight in view of the rising woolen market mhS pi Jll resu^ i ncreas o of all clothing for fINL J I J SUITS AND OVERCOATS WMW 111 S2O Cut to $15.00 T . - > W\\ I If- S3O Cut to $22.50 . \ . $35 Cut to. $25.25 J j y If S4O Cut to . $30.00 1 / \ SSO Cut to $37.50 % Browns-Cannon Co. > ' r V - . '' » * J party of the'north and our manofac -1 tutors have reason to 1 omf-for it for I relief. Another factor that is eom j polling these manufacturers to erect [dants in the south is the Question of | taxation. The'state tax here has been growing apace. We lirtir a good deal about reductions during campaign | time and there is a little pretty i oaring here and there, but the . (lax hills fail to grow less. Most of the i great- cities where our textile mills I are located, are incompetently/ con ducted and offer no inducement for the : present mill corporations to extend | tlvoir plants or for new industries to j come. We are spending a great deal j of time and money cm foreign trade I relations .while, the very business that ought to be ours is slipping through ! our lingers.” The editorial answers itself. Th starts out by claiming that child la bor and longer hours in the south are : responsible for this trend oFcapital to - southern mills, hut it gives the real explanation without so intending when jit says that the movement southward | is largely due to: .“The increasing taxation in New | England, and that the promises of're dticed taxation are never curried out: that the textile cities of New England jure incompetently. conducted, and of fer no inducement for the present mill j c orporations to extent their plants or for new' industries to come.’ Surely no clearer statement lias been made in New England in criticism of j the management of New England i towns as reason/t why cotton mill people are seeking to go south. The Malden News says that scores ■of New England mill owners hre ; building new juills in the/hnutli. That iis incorrect. There are [only a few j New England mill- building in ihe South. Preeminently it is today, jus it lias always been, that southerni people are the ones who ha ve been j j building southern mills. There are j’ | 104 cotton mills for instance in (4as- , | ion county. North Carolina, nearly ev- j j ery one of them built by southern men ! land southern initiative and southern! i cifpital. __ v . i ! Uilcl Fires Burning in 1 lam Sandhills ' ' Country. Southern Pines, Jan. -24. —Forest 1 fires have been burning over a wide I range of territory in this section. ! ; One big fire has run over much of the ! j vast side of the Fort Bragg range, ! J’hnd others are showing up in differ- ! 1 cut directions. The wind has besn j high for a week or more and the j 'grass dry, which, with the warm \ weather, has stimulated fires to an : I unusual degree. Not much serious I barm i 3 reported, for it is generally j j looked on as a wholesome measure to 1 j get the dry grass burned if it can be I dons without getting into buildings j or other property. Forest fives through j 'this section are not so destructive') as in the other parts of the state j whore the timber is more liable to be harmed. Here the most Hiat burns is j the wire grass, and as it is not dense ; enough to kill the trees except under 1 extraordinary conditions. The aim | of the peop'e is to hold the fire away 1 from buildings and let it go. The \ -shaped opening of a waistcoat ! is really a piece of vanity, giving- the ! wearer a chane< v 4o show what sort of! shirt he wears. ’ It originated in the! j days-when linen was first worn, arid,] the man who could sport a linen shirt 1 i was considered something of a “swell.” : He had the opening cut in bis waist ' coat so that all could see liis elegance. 0 Your Surplus Funds BThe Certificates of Deposit issued by this . bank afford a safe and profitable form of in- ? vestment for surplus funds Os any kind. U |f These Certificates are issued for periods of , [1 three months or longer, in any amount to suit ( i the convenience of the depositor and bear four | per cent, interest. 1 We will be glad to furnish further informa- 1 a tion regarding this safe plan of invest- . j|§hgL CITIZENS I BANK St TRUST H HMMBM COMPANY n CONCORD | ♦ NEW BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION 1 1 a s' j January Clearance Sale Gossard Clearance f 1 " $2.00 Gossards sl./9 $7.50, $i4.50 Gossards _54.95 $3.50 to $5.00 Gossards $2.95 $0.95 and $12.50 Gossards $5 thru SG.SO Gossards $3.95 $6.85 j - Cozy Warm Nighties Will Make the Cold Nights Warm 89c, $1.39 and $1.69 Sale Prices CLEARANCE OF ALL COATS, FURS, WRAPS f~ ■ - You Can Make a Saving Worth While—s9.9s upward See FISHER’S It Pays , J P. S. —Millinery at Half and Less Than Half Price *t *■ . • -> • * i / - * *»(«••-( • ■ ' V I 7 IPlf II MSGf T Tilf MS t Thursday, January 25, 1923. ' ~k.> * w .- ■- - ■ :
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