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©©©© © © © i © FAIS AND $ INDUSTRIAL $ EDITION ©©©© © © © ■ VOLUME XXIII Concord Has a Tine System of Modern Schools New High School and Also Colored Graded School Will Be Completed by End of Year Are Being Erected at a Cost of Nearly $140,000. and Will Round Out the Already Fine Group of Educational Buildings A high school building which will com l>nie favorably with anything in the state, is fast nearing completion in Con cord. It will be turned over to the school authorities not later than January Ist. and by that time will have been ex actly one year under', construction. ■ - Located at Cedar and Beach streets, the building presents a most handsome and impressive appearance. Os three stories with terracotta trim, and of rough texture brick, of a full range of colors, the new high school is the latest step in the forward march of the educa tional system of Concord. The struc ture is of the type known as semi-tire proof, having concrete stairs and floors and when completed will cost about $107.- 000. The general contractor is John R. Query, Concord : the electrical contractor, The Morrow Company, Newport News, Vo.; the heating contractor the Pearmont Heating Company. Durham, N. C. The architect.is C, G. Sayre, Anderson. S. C. Entering the building from the main entrance, which is located in the centre. NEW INDUSTRIES FLOCKING SOUTH FEATURE OP 1923 This Movement Was Marked Along All Lines, Particu larly in Textiles and Steel. —Labor Situation Partly Responsible. Keeping pace with record construction in every line, the south's industry made gratifying progress during 1023, with in dicntiofia pointing to the greatest year in soutneru industrial history to follow in 1i)24. Featured by a marked revival in tex tile building after # lapse of three years, by the renewed invasion of the south by New England textile capitalists, by sev eral important steel developments and by the opening of many large plants in a great variety of industries, 'the record of the-.vear emphasizes strongly the com manding position being assumed by the industrial south. While announcement relating to the , location of several large steel plants in the territory are -of prime importance ] and rapid progress of several of the larg-1 est cement plants in the eoyintry is re-1 ported from Alabama and Tennessee, as are also glass factories, carbon black plants and oil refineries in the southwest, nevertheless, the dominant factor in the. year’s developments relate the textile ex pansion which, thanks to the determined efforts of local capitalists in Oklahoma artd Texas, is now becoming southwide in scope. New England Comes South. Attention was directed to the fact that the Jenckes Spinning Company, of Pawtucket. R. 1., had not only acquired mill properties in the Carolinas, but that after' deliberate consideration based upon the actual operation of these properties, they had decided to remove their New England equipment bodily to the Caro lines. This unprecedented, step has since nt tractedethe attention of the. country and has resulted in much publicity in the . -I—--.-. I -I ■ ' - I I ! , .1 II II VIEW OF THE NEW RACING STAB EES AT THE FAIR GROUNDS ~ r ‘ v:--y- 1 T 77" ... ~; v- rr—- —— —- ■ ■ 7- 7'V r ; v‘- v y'V •' a " ' - * . * StoMfis i. I The Concord Daily Tribune a roomy bull is found leading/in to a long wide high corridor running the full length of the building at right an gles to the hall way. On the left of the hall is a kitchen, to the right a case. Botli ate finished with composition floors, and plastered walls, with gum wood trim. This is the finish throughout the build ing, except that on the second and third floors the floors are of maple. Locker rooms for boys ami girls, a biological laboratory, a chemical laboratory" and a science lecture room are located facing on tiie corridor to the left of the stair way. On the right there is a domestic science laboratOTy. At the rear in the form of a wing to the main building is a gymnasium 52xfi7 feet. On the second floor there are offices for the administration, both public and private anil six class rooms. An audi torium seating about 800 is also on this floor, with a good stage .‘lox2o feet equipped with stage dressing rooms. On the third floor, there is a reading loom, a book room, a library and six class New England mill interests. President Robert Amor.v of the National Associa tion of Cotton Manufacturers, has ex pressed the reason for it clearly when he said, speaking for the New England mills anil their southern competition: ,- Our principal competition -comes from the Piedmont district and South Caroli na. There the climate is good and brac ing. TKe/operatives are pure-bred Amer ican stock, from tile mountains. Like oiy original New Englanders they have had hard work to make a living and ap preciate opportunity. Work is not only a necessity but a pleasure. These peo ple are of great native intelligence , and quick to learn. Mills have sprung up on every hand. Every little town wants a mill and offers free land, exemption from taxation, and all sorts of encourage ment to the man who knows how to make cloth and will 'start a mill." Joel M. Barnes, consulting engineer of the Manhasset Manufacturing Company, of Providence, gives another angle to the lttbor situation when he said in an ar ticle recently in the Daily News Rec ord ; "The southern mill owner has as his working basis of efficiency the spirit of co-operation. He requires firstclass service and pays for it. not only in ade quate daily wages, but also by working toward the interest of the employes, ev en as they are expected to work toward bis."’ After all, it is the labor situation, quite as much as nearness to the source of supply and to hydro-electric power, which is causing the present migration. Colonel Henry G. Hester, in his reeent annual cotton report, states : ‘‘lt is be lieved in some well informed' quarters that the strike among the eastern mills is but a symptom of what may be ex pected in the future. With wages high and reductions so strenuously resisted and with the shorter hours, it is not un likely that most of the new mills erected within the next few years will be locat ed in the south." For the year ending July 31, 1022. southern cotton mills numbered 066 as against !MS7 in 1021 and 045 in 1020. The year showed an increase of 341.110 S spindles, bringing the totals to 16,232,- 624. Looms increased SJBB, bringing the total to 300,236. . The most important movement from I New England during the year was the decision of the Appleton mills to reect a gigantic plant at Forest City, N. C., to accommodate 115,000 spindles and 25,000 looms. OT equal interest is the uncon firmed rumor that the Pacific Mills, of Lowell, are having plans drawn for a :prcss as well ns many statements from rooms and the entrance to the balcony of the auditorium. • K will interest Concord iieople to know that the heaviest building steel so far used in any building in Concord has gone into tiie new high school, some of the pieces weighing six tons. Another flue addition to the educa tional system of Concord is the new col ored school being built at SmitJ| Grove at a cost of about $33,000. It is to be com pleted January Ist. by the general con tractor, John R. Query. The architect is 0. G. Sayre, of Anderson, S. C.: the plumbing contract went to Hewitt Bros., Greensboro; the heating to Pearmont Heating Company, Durham, N. O. and the electrical work to W. B. Sloop, Con cord. The school will have nine class rooms, and an auditorium with a stage to seat 500. people. The interior finish is in plaster with maple floors, and pine trim. The building is of brick veneer with a tin roof. The dimensions overall of the building are 115x65 feet. mammoth bleaeliery and finishing plant at Greenville, S. C., to cost $2,000,000 or over. IxK'kwood. Green and Company, of Boston, are similarly reported to plan the erection of a worsted plant at Green ville to cost between four and five mil lions. The Lancaster mills, of Clinton, Mass., tiave recently acquired 200 acres of land at Winnshoro, S. C„ and will probably erect an immense mill in the near future. Not the lease interesting of the sever al statements - recently made in regard to the New England textile immigration in the south was made by a southern development expert who made if trip to the east in an effort to have one of the large plants projected by eastern innmA faeturers located ill his home city. After making extensive investigations relative to plans ami projHisals of these manufac turers, lie stated that northern mill in terests are prepared to place in the south 500,000 to 1,000,000 spindles, which would involve an investment of SIOO.- 000,000 if southern mill owners will agree to take over, and operate the plants. Cotton Mills in Texas. Os especial significance at the present time, especially as it relates to indus trial expansion in the future, is the movement in Texas to create a textile center in that state. A committee was formed in the fall to investigate condi tions in the textile belt of the Carolinas anil also in New England. Its report, as given out by Cliatrihau Herbert Post, manager of the Post-Texas Cotton mills, was highly favorable to the immediate location of mills in west Texas, especial ly at Fort Worth, where labor conditions were favorable. As a result, the forma tion of a 20,006 spindle mill at Fort Worth is now in progress and a mill building is already available. It is pointed out that although Texas raises one-third of the nation's cotton, there are but IS mills in the state. Such mills as liuve been built and are now running are in prosperous condition. The Texas Cotton mills, at McKinney, has increased its capital stock from $440,000 to $1,000,(100 and will double its capac ity during 1023; the Dallas Cotton mills, at Dallas, one of the oldest plants in the state, increased its capital from $275,- 000 to $750,000; and the Post Cotton mills at Post, from $550,000 to $857,000. One of the most important develop ments of the year was at New Braunfels, Texas, where Mill No. 1 for the Plant ers and Merchants Mills was erected to contain 10,000 spindles and .350 looms. The mill will produce gingham cloth. NEW CONCORD' HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING ’ ’ .s i m Architect C. GA DSDEN SAYRE Rotary Club Is Active In Many Forms of Good Work Promotes Better Schools, Better Industrial Relations; Bet ter Roads and Gives Deserving Boys a Helping Hand Concord has a live Rotary Club that is counted as one of its strongest civic assets. The club *was organized on Oc tober 14th, 1021, and in its history lias many tangible accomplishments for* the good of the city and county, to its cred it. Probably its biggest achievement, however, is one of intangible value to the community, that of bringing togeth od in good fellowship and community ser vice many of file leading men in Con cord's businesses and professions. Ev erything tiie elub does is not in the clubs name, one of its functions being to inspire its members to work in other organizations r.lia t exist for activity along various lines. There is thus no way to measure the real value of Rotary to Concord. However, certain accomp lishments stand out. such as its work for boys. Tiie elub follows with close at tention the school careers of a group of boys, with special attention to those who would be unable to finance them selves through college, but. who give promise of unusual attainment if given the advantage of a college education. Four boys have been helped in this way, two of whom would otherwise not have been able to have got beyond high school. Two students liMped by the club are at the State university, and. one each at Wake Forest and Trinity. The club each week sends a member to the schools of the city, where chapel exercises are held and instructive vocational talks giv en. Tiie Rotary club promoted tile school bond issue, and in association with other organizations in the city *sue ceeded In carrying tiie law by a large majority, thus making possible the erec tion of the new high school and the new colored school ami other extensions to the educational system of Concord. The elub is also active in county school affairs. Recently a meeting was held at which the county school board mem bers were present and a thorough discus sion followed in regard to the proposed consolidation plan for the county, which the Rotary Club is desirous of seeing put into full execution as soon as possi ble. The club also promotes work among the high school boys and assists substan tially in all the work of all departments of the Y. M. C. A. Material things such as good roads al so receive their share of attention in the Rotary club, the paving of the Kan napolis-Coneord Highway being largely due to the campaigning of Rotarinus to this eild. A problem now engaging tiie attention of the dub is to make a survey of the number of crippled children in Hie county, with the object of endeavor ing to have them given a proper exami nation and have their handicap overcome. A -recent picnic to which about 256 executives of mills were invited, was held at the country club, with tiie ob ject of discussing relations between em ployers and employes, with what is ‘bought to have been beneficial results. Law enforcement is of course, also sup lorted heartily by the elub. Much interest is being shown in tiie •vork of the Business Methods commit tee which Ims as its objective the adopt ion of which might well be described as the “golden rule" as a business policy by members and those whom they can in luence. The fellowship committee of the dub works in a particularly happy manner, lending a card to each member on his birthday and to his wife on eacii anni versary of her wedding. The standing •ommittees of the elub indicate in a general way the activity of the members, these committees being as follows: Entertainment and music; program; boys' work ; publicity ; business methods; initiation; fellowship; education in Ro tary; public affairs; education fund committee and orthopaedic committee. The dub iheets each Wednesday at 12:80 in the Y. M. G. A. The officers and directors are: Hr. Samuel W. Rankin, president; A. G. Odell, vice president; W. G. Caswell, treasurer; Martin Verburg, secretary; R. E. Ridenhour. Jr, sergeant at arms. Directors—Hr. Samuel S. Rankin. A. G. Odell, W. G. Caswell, J. Archie Can non. Frank C. Xiblock. Earl H. Brown. L. D. Coltrane. Martin L. Cannon, A. R. Howard, Maury Richmond. Charter members of the dub are: L. D. Coltrane, C. B. Wagoner, W. G. Cas well, F. C. Xiblock, Martin Verburg, 3'. X. .Lawrence. J. V. Davis. A. E. Harris. W, W. Flowe, IMaury Richmond, C. F. Ritchie, S. Iv. Patterson, L. T. Hart sell. T. H. Webb, A. R. Hoover, J. B. Womble, W. H. Gibson, A. S. Webb. W. M. Sherrill. S. W. Rankin. J. M. Og lesby. A. F. Hartsell. What Rotary Is. A RotarianJ asked to tell just what Rotary is, said: “Rotary is the spirit of unselfish ser vice applied to the practical affairs of every-day life in personal, business, pro fessional and’ community development." The sole objects of the organization are: “To ENCOURAGE and FOSTER. First: The ideal of SERVICE as the basis of all worthy enterprise. “Second: High ethical standards in business and professions. “Third: The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his per sonal, business and community life. ' “Fourth: The development of ac quaintance as an opportunity for ser vice. “Fifth: The recognition of tiie worth iness of all useful occupations and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occu pation as an opportunity to serve socie ty. •“Sixth: The advancement of under standing, good will and international peace through a world fellowship of bus iness and professional men united in the Rotary ideal of service.” Rotary International. j tVhht. (is Rotary International awl how is it related to the Rotary clubs? he was asked and what is a Rotary club? | “Thousands of people have asked that question during the past few yers. Brief - Jy it is this: I “Rotary International is the organiza tion of which all Rotary clubs are mem bers. On May 1, 1923, it consisted of 1,420 member clubs, with approximately 1)0,000 members in 20 countries. , “Rotary' is more than an organization, it is a great social movement; it has al ready found congenial soil among the diverse peoples of 20 nations. Rotary International may be the means of a new social order, and, with the further extension of Rotary, a force of great potentiality for world peace and good will. , “Rotary is more than a mere luncheon club: Rotary is a philosophy of life. Rotary not only teaches the doctrine of service, but Itotarians are pledged to practice it. In Rotary the static ethical principle of the Golden Rule becomes dynamic. . . . “Rotabv came into being in Chicago, February' 23, 1905. with a group of four men —one a coal dealer, one a mining op erator, one a merchant tailor, and the ■ fourth an attorney. i "Rotary was chosen as the name ot the new club because the members met in ‘rotation’ at their places of busines. I “In 1908 —three years after the first J meeting—the second Rotary club was Kiwanis Active Force For Civic Betterrpefii Has Done Much to Promote the Interests of Concofd.— The Membership Includes Some of the Leaders in All Classes PRACTOLLf ILL MODERN MAKES OF CARS SOLD HERE Pioneer Distributing Point For Vehicles of Nearly All Makes of Cars The automobile sales industry is au essential part of the modern development of any city today. In fact, the motor vehicle is the biggest and fastest growing, commodity that modern commercial enterprise lias taken hold of, and the increasing number of machines of all kinds is evidence of its importance. From an insignifieent beginning with one agency, the sales business has grown and expanded by leaps and hounds un til today Concord can boast of some of the largest, best equipped and most pros perous garages in the entire state. Concord’s importance as a commercial and trading center has been advanced to a Considerable degree through the ex pansion of automobile sales, and every line of business in the city has felt its effect. . For Concord agencies not only handle practically all of the modern makes of pleasure cars, and motor vehicles for business purposes, but also supply the farmers with tractors and other motor driven machines. organized in Sail Francisco. Other clubs followed on the l'aoifie coast and then the movement spread to the East and then to the South until sixteen clubs had been organized by tiie end of 1010. "It was in 1010 that tiie.first conven tion was held in Chicago and the 'Nat ional Association’ formed. Rotary emerg ed from a national organization to ail international organization two years lat er at the Dublin convention. A short time previous to this convention a club laid been organized at Winnipeg. Cana da, and during the convention a cable gram was rqgeived from the Rotary elub of London. England, asking for a char ter. Rotary had thus quickly evolved from one club to 1005 to an international organization in 1012. Over L4OO Clubs. “Since 1012 the organization / has grown even more rapidly than during Hie first seven years. Today there are more than .fourteen hundred Rotary clubs in tin- world. Although the great er number are ill the United States, where the movement originated, and in the Brit ish Isles and Canada —there are now Ro tary Clubs in Newfoundland, Porto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, Republic of Panama. Uru guay, Argentine Republic, China, Nor way, British India, Spain, France. Den mark. Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Peru, South Africa. Japan, Holland and Brazil. Extreme care lias always been exercised in sur veying cities and towns applying for membership to make sure that such com munities are ready for a Rotary club and are of sufficient size from which to secure a group of representative men and still have tiie membership restricted to one man from each business or proses •‘lion. “Each Rotary elub is a complete work ing unit in itself, entirely independent of every other club, and is supposed to make itself a part of the community in which it is established and to adapt itself to the peculiar problems of that commun ity. During th* last few years a model constitution has been provided that all new clubs are required to adopt. 41 Districts. "In order that the board of directors may keep itself informed of the desires and wishes of tiie clubs, there lias been established a system of arbitrary group ing of clubs in what are called districts. There are 41 Rotary districts in the world at the present time. Each dis trict lias a governor, who is elected by the annual convention from nominations made by clubs of the district, and the governor is an international officer and the accredited representative of the in ternational board to the clubs. He is re quired to make frequent reports to the board. The members of the international board and the district governors are all volunteer workers and receive no pay for their services. In a very lurge dis trict—-and there are some in Rotary that have as man* ns 77 clubs in a large territory—a very heavy burden is placed upon the district governor, but Rotariuns regard selection foi* the office of district governor a very high honor and every man who has been chosen for that office has given a very remarkable example of sacrifice and devotion to the organiza tion. "At the convention which met in law Angeles (June, 1022) a new constitution and set of by-laws were adopted which made provision for the organization of national associations of Rotary by groups of clubs in separate uatious through pe tition to the convention. This gives an additional administrative unit between the club and the International Board, but these national associations function under authority of the International Board, which is still the supreme gov erning body of Rotary.” istvpistv&wnrilfisr © FAIR AND © INDUSTRIAL © EDITION © © © © © © © © Kiwanis International was bora Jan uary 21st, 1915, in the city of Detroit. On March 17. 1922. Kiwanis was in troduced to Concord and Cabarrus when the local dub was organized. Today about 36 business and professional men in the city and county are spreading the gospel of Kiwanis. The club meets each week on Friday. The present of ficers are as follows: I>r. T. X. Spencer, president; A. Camp bell Cline, secretary-treasurer; directors, J. A. Kennett, Chas. A. Cannon, J. B. Sherrill, J. Lee Crowell, Jacob O. Moose, Fred R. Shepherd, Albert B. Palmer, Morrison King and Caleb W. Swink. Charter members of the Cohcord Ki wanis Club were: C. 11. Barrier, Robert P. Benson. H. D. Black, W. B. Bruton, Dr. S. E. Buchanan, K. E. Caldwell, M. H. Caldwell Jr., A. C. Cline, R. C. Cor zine, J. Lee Crowell, Jr., I. I. Davis, Jr., J. H. Dorton, Julius Fisher, H. Clifford Hahn, Dr. Joe A. Hartsell, G. H. Hen drix, .T. W. Hendrix, Dr. H. C. Her ring, Jas. A. Kennett, Dr. R. Morrison King. Paris Kidd, M. M. Linker, Dr. P. R. MacFadyen, M. Luther Marsh, Chas. A. Ueiss, Jno. L. Miller, Jacob O. Moose, A. B. Palmer, Jno. S. ' Palmer, C. H. Peck, E. E. Peele, J. W. Pike, Ernest Porter, M. R. Pounds, C. L. Propst, G. Pat Ritchie, J. Buxton Robertson, Dr. .1. A. Skauers. E. F. Shepherd, F. R. Shepherd. C. S. Smart. Dr. T. X. Spen cer, C. W. Swink, E. C. Tucker, Dr. W. A. Wadsworth, Wm. B. Ward, A. C. Wolfe. “Kiwanis” is a euphonic, coined word, which originally had no meaning save that ascribed to it by its originators. Yet it lias come to have a very definite mean ing through the constructive work of Ki wanians. In every community in which Kiwanis exists- its members are found standing for unselfish service in the in terests of the community, the state, and the nation. The organization's motto: “AVe Build,” is the outward expression of the spirit which is Kiwanis. Organized in Detroit in January. 1915, two clubs were formed the following year, one in Cleveland, the other in Pittsburgh. In the second year 35 clubs were formed—and so on dowA, the years until 1923 finds Kiwanis International numbering within its membership, 1,040 clubs on whose roster appears the names of approximately. 80.000 men—leaders in their respective communities. Kiwanis has spread from the terri torial limits of one city to that of the entire northern half of the Western hem isphere—the I'nited States and Canada. The Mission of Kiwanis. The mission of Kiwanis in a commun ity is not in the largest sense the ac complishment of a specific thing. The mission is two-fold. First, it creates that spirit in a community which enables other existing organizations to accomp lish more easily the things for which they were organized. Kiwanis readily lends its support to the church, the Chamber of Commerce, the school, Ro tary, the Boy Scouts, the Young Men’s Christian Association, and other organi zations working for the public good. The second mission of Kiwanis is the development of community leaders. It is taking the man who has been indif ferent to community affairs and teaching him that he has a definite responsibility to his community. Kiwanis is trans forming the indifferent American busi ness man into a worker who is thinking along the lines of civic betterment and national improvement. A Kiwanis club is organized on the dual classification plan. That is, not more than two men from any given line of business, or profession, may be in cluded in the membership. This insures a representation of all the various indus tries and professions which makes the Kiwanis club a true cross-section of the business interests of a city. The chief work of the local Kiwanis Club has been in connection with agitat ing for a public playground for children in Concord; endorsing and campaigning with success to put over the .$225,000 bond issue for additional school facili ties ; secured passage of a meat and milk inspection ordinance by the city and the appointment of an inspector, and suc ceeded in getting the county to make an appropriation for a bovine tuberculosis test of all cattle in the county. Fair Treasurer kT r MR. C. W. SWINK
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