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News that interests. Advertising that pays. MANAGEMENT <♦ -/222 CO-OPER. T \\\W' « o m ~ EMPLOYEES yy Zzzz^ They Advertise. Let’s Patronize. 4 AIM HIGH AND STRIVE TO HITTHE MARK^> $1.50 Per Year. Single Copy 5c. Carolina Co-operative Council Will Begin New Year Next Tuesday Night And New Officers Will Be Elected Chairman o f Permanent Committees Also To Be Elected. FULL MEMBERSHIP EXPECTED TO ATTEND Council Has Proven Popular In Years Past. The Carolina Co-operative Council will begin its new year oh Septem ber 18th, Tuesday night, by holding its regular annual business meeting. At this meeting plans will be de veloped for pexp gear’s programs and a good running start will be made by announcements as definite ly as possible. Officers will be elected and the Chairman of permanent committees will also be elected at this time. Ac cording to a ruling in the Constitu tion and By-Laws the officers will be changed this year. The full membership is expected out at this meeting so that they may be fully acquainted with the new organiza tion for the coming year. The years before have proved that the Council has been quite popular and a great year is expected for it in 1923-24. Chicken Talk (By R. L. Seekins) Real chickens or just chickens is the problem of today for the prospec tive or already established chicken! fancier. That “real” ones pay can be proven if we talk with some of our j men who put it on a business basis about town. i Take Mr. Miller for instance down i at the gate at the Draper mill. Mr. [ Miller has about forty mature stock j and has raised about 200 young ones j this season all on a back yard lot. And j sold eggs? I’ll say he has. Here is how he does it. He has comfortable houses built for business. Plenty of yard divisions so as to properly sep arate the different sizes and pens. He feeds dry mash and scratch feed and buys real wheat too. Gives them fresh water and every day you see him go ing home to dinner with a bucket of grass on his arm pulled at leisure minutes during the morning hours when grass is fresh. What is he go ing to do when winter comes? Well see the spaces he has growing to rye and you won’t ask. And while he gives over the back lot to chick ens. he has some beautiful peach trees and grape trellises, and fruit on them too, to keep the chickens shad ed from the hot sun and the manure from the chickens make them grow. Mr. Miller has the laying strain of barred Plymouth Rock and they lay too. Just talk with Mr. Miller and he will tell you all about his matings etc. at the same time. About time some of us should wake up and get the same kind of stock and take care of them as Mr. Miller does. Miss Jones Entertains Miss Ethel Jones was hostess to several of her friends at the home of Claude H. Jones on Thursday evening. The guests were met at the door by Misses Audrey Hodges and Olivia Fowler who ushered them to the punch bowl where Miss Bessie Gunn served refreshing punch. They were then shown into the parlor and living room which were beautifully decorated in Autumn flowers. After Very enjoyable music and conversation all the guests indulged in an observation contest in which , Clyde Strong was the lucky winner of a miniature Ford Sedan. Then they were invited into the dining room which was tastefully decorated with flowers, using the color scheme of white and yellow. Miss Jones assisted by Mrs. Claude Jones and Mrs. G. L. Bobbitt served a delicious ice course follow 'd by mints. Community Music Music In Industry. j We have come to realize that there I >» a big field for music in the in dustrial and commercial world. Modern business colleges today teach their courses in typewriting and other machine operations by the aid of metrophones and phono graphs, and it is claimed that the students accomplish more and be come better operators in a shorter time than in classes where the older methods of teaching are used. A few years ago the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor made a suvrey of the wel fare work in industrial establish ments, and for the purpose of its investigation 431 establishments representing 1,662,000 employees were visited. The great variety of industries covered practically the entire field of industrial endeavor. It was found that musical organizations such as bands, orchestras and glee dubs were' numerous. Fifty-six companies reported bands which ranged from ten or twelve pieces to organizations with j 100 instruments. One company having foreign-born employees had! four bands, one of them being com posed exclusively of Slavic and one exclusively of Hungarian players The companies contributed to the j bands in many ways. Many of them I contributed instruments and uni- j forms and hired leaders and most of, them provided a place for the band i to prac lice. liven traveling is to become a continuous vaudeville under the plan cf the Pullman company which has i undertaken the musical education of as many of its 9,000 porters as have any natural talent. The time may come when we can order a special car and insist upon its being manned with'operatic singers. So it is not alone in our relations with our Government institutions that music must play its part. j Every factory is a miniature re-1 public and the responsibilities of its' statesmen are as great, in propor- j tion, as the responsibilities of those; who guide the destinies of the na tion. In each of these miniature repub lics throughout the land music has its function. Music makes for contentment, and a contented workman is a good work man, just as a contented citizen is a good citizen. Music as an aid to the workman is nowadays an accepted fact. It will inspire him with lresh vigor and energy and send him to his daily task with a light heart and willing hands. —Address by Hon. James J. Davis. SWIMMING POOL COMMITTEE HAD MEETING YESTERDAY The Swimming Pool Committee has not as yet been able to get a lease on the land upon which the pool is to be located. A meeting was held yester day afternoon, and it is hoped the lease may be obtained soon. “Pleasures,” said Uncle Ezra, m much like mushrooms. De •ht kind am fine, but you has to on the looukout for toadstools. Most every man who uses tobac co wishes he didn’t, says Joe, but you never hear one who doesn’t wish he did. If she had to drink the laughing water we get nowadays, Minnie wouldn’t ha, ha. President Coolidge is a good man; he has no vice. Woman is a failure—doesn’t she go into the hands of a receiver? NEXT WEEK'S POSTER Dissatisfied Men Make Everybody Miserable. One kind of a man always has a grievance. The world is against him. He thinks so much about himself, he is always miserable . —and he’ll make you miserable too, if you’ll listen. • , . TELL THE GROUCH TO SMILE AND FORGET IT. How To Advance Yourself In the Mill.. (By H. D. Martin.) There is nothing so interesting in this world as that of advancing one’s self. Many a man finds the years rolling along but finds himself mak ing little or no vdacnaement. He ap pears to be still in the rut and won dering how long it is going to last. So a man often asks himself, or asks some confidential friend, “How can advance myself in the textile industry? What is the matter with me?” Upon the favorable (answer to this personal question the man must put his greatest energy. It is re gretable that there are not enough big positions to go thq rounds if all men were competent to fill them. The converse of this has its pecu liar middle bearing. When the big position are open there are not many men who have properly pre pared themselves for the advance ment to fill them. So they are opened for the downright good ambitions man who has made the most of himself and is prepared to fill them. But alas! when many men are called upon to match up what they know about a particular situation available, they are found to be short of knowing how to do certain things which are necessary to know and which at the least, is required to know in order to secure the position. That what is being driven at may be fully understood, we will draw up the particulars surrounding the conditions of some recent openings. A western manufacturer of threads wanted a good man to take charge of its growing small plant. In or der to give satisfaction the man who aspired to fill this place had to know the thread business thorough ly, particularly that part of the busi ness which has to do with the fin ishing of the goods. Finishing is one of the most important parts of the thread making business. The threads may be ever so well spun twisted and spooled, but if the fin ishing is not right it will be useless to try to market it as first class goods and make a profit. In this small plant, the trouble was to get the right finish and the man wanted must know how to fin ish especially well. Well, the man ager of this plant advertised for a good man. The first man who re sponded was a most excellent gen tleman and the manager had as much hoped to land him into his service, as the applicant did to land the job. But when the applicant was asked if he knew how to glaze threads, and not only knew the me chanical process of glaze finishing, but also did he understand the re cipes of how to mix the\ grazing compounds, and so forth, he was obliged to state that he could not personally glaze, neither did he know anyfthtng about the chemis try of the compounds used. This man needed this job very much, but could not do one thing necessary to capture the job. This was peculiar ly unfortunate. Here was a case where the man wanted and needed the job very much. The thread works wanted and needed him very much, (a mighty good combination of two things.) But the man’s own ability was lacking in his own bus iness. It is known for a fact that this man had previously had every opportunity to learn this special part of his own trade, but had not prepared himself with a thorough knowledge of every detail of his own business. He had had charge of thread making plants before, but he had always depended upon his subordinates to perform some of the special tasks in their own way without ever having found out how they did it nor how the compounds were mixed. The above explains why this man remained in the ruts. It also shows why many men answer the call to advance themselves in the indus try. They are not prepared. They lack the one needful thing, viz: practical technical knowledge. This is an age of technicalities and spe cialists. A man cannot always shift the burden of what he does not know onto others. People nowadays move fast, changes in positions are rapid. If the head glaze finisher in a small plant leaves or is sick, and nobody else can do the work, the superintendent must know at once just what to do even if he has to take hold and do it himself. The works must be kept going. The market does not wait for any mill’s mishaps. It buys the best goods and gets them from the other fellow if he can produce better goods and deliver them on time. Therefore the superintendent must know how to keep things moving. Next. In the bleachery of a very successful plant the superintendent could step in, when the boss bleach er was out, and show the boys ex actly how to do the best job of bleaching that could be done. He could do the bleaching himself, per sonally. One day he was doing one of these personal stunts in first class bleaching; a young man came to him and said, “What would you do if you happened to be out sick, too, at the same time as the boss bleacher?” The superintendent re plied, “I guess we’d have to shut down the mill.” The young man saw his chance and offered to assist in the bleachery during his spare time and learn how to bleach. This young man was the boss in the fin ishing room. He was a good one too. He knew how to get off good work and he knew when these goods he handled were properly bleached. But he did not know anything about how to bleach them. So this young man had plenty of spare time as all good men do who know their business well. He was given a chance to learn during any of his spare time. The writer can see this man now, sweat as he did then! Oh, how that man worked! He did not stand around and ask questions. He took hold and worked himself. He took the scoop in his own hands and mixed the compounded djd it rap_ idly. He timed the kiers himself. He became an expert bleacher him self in that plant, and operated the bleachery along with the finishing plant after the boss bleacher left. Finally the superintendent left and this maa became the successful su perintendent’s successor. He has been in charge of thjs plant many j years—all because he had prepared himself at the right time. He had seized his chance and made the most of himself. This shows one way of how to advance one’s self in the textile industry. He was not afraid of doing much extra dirty work himself. Another thing that this new su perintendent did, he was as careful to train his own successor in the ] finishing and bleachery, as he was trained himself. This is also im portant. Many men fail because they have not trained good men to succeed them. One of the most important things .abont any plant is to have good men in tow and learning the game of being worthy successors. It is a solemn fact that many men have lost their own good jobs because they were afraid of having any men under them learn ing enough to be able to succeed to take their places. The strongest industries we have are those where men are being trained especially well to take the bosses places when. they are sick or leave. Also those places are the strongest where these men are trained by their own bosses. Oh, yes, mill men, it pays to be friendly and let the other fellow learn as much about your own job as possible. Give the ambitious man a chance, and they will be loyal. They will not be so selfish as to want to succeed you until you re tire or take a bigger job; and they will rejioce as much at your own promotion as they will about their own rise as a consequence. Many men do not advance because of this great failure to make friends. The man higher up loses out be cause he has made no loyal compe tent friends to amply supporc him in carrying the load at all times. The would-be coming man loses out because he is disloyal to his supe rior in office. Yes, make friends by all means and every day make your self more friendly, by helping your superior in office more and more. And the superior in office in turn assist his assistants to climb by giv ing them a loyal helping hand. Teach them many of the stunts that you have found worthwhile. When this is done, these very men would rather follow a3 your assistants than to succeed you unless you have re tired or been promoted. This is loyalty divine; and until men learn this manufacturing refining process they will not become superior men in their own trade. One man in charge of a large department was forced to be absent on account of sickness. He had trained nobody to take his place. Things went to smash and he went with it. It was unsafe to have things go on like that. Therefore some men are real ly advanced because they have not trained men coming along behind them. Another valuable asset of any mill man is to know designirg. The writer knows of no more valuable trade to know in connection with cot ton manufacturing than that of fab ric designing. It is not hard to learn and it is of invaluable importance to the well rounded out doth mill overseer, supervisor, agent or man ager. The importance of this can be well attested by the fact that on ly recently a fancy goods mill want ed a superintendent. The new man came. The first matters which came up the new “super” was shown samples of cloth. He was asked about the construction of them. What would be the cost of manufac turing them; could they be made in this mill, and so forth. But as this superintendent had only a rudimen tary knowledge of designing he was at once floored. The treasurer liked and wanted this man very much. Did everything he could to carry him along. He wanted him to suc ceed, but without a thoroughly trained knowledge of designing, the man was simply useless to him. It is true that the mills in question had competent designing weavers, and this new superintendent could have hired a good specialist in designing. But this would not have wholly met the situation. These mills were very fancy goods mills. The treasurer was well posted and knew design ing himself. He wanted a compan ion in his superintendent. He wanted to be able to talk with a man who knew at first hand all of the designing technicalities and who could step in and show his design ers and weavers how to do things, and what things to do. So this su perintendent had to give up and which was all honorably done. It was a mutual misunderstanding that these two men ever came to gether. But the treasurer took all the blame and saw to it that this otherwise good and valuable man. lost nothing financially by the fail ure. Both of these men are good friends, now, although they had never previously known each other. The retiring superintendent even suggested and recommended his own successor and the treasurer, fully appreciated the favor. This superintendent could blame only himself. It is well known that he could have mastered designing in full, particularly if he had taken his wife’s timely advice. Meantime, the foregoing shows that that there are places for the advancement of men who know the details of their own business well. What should a man learn? Learn how to grind cards; study loom fix ing; learn to weave fancy goods; study the loom; their various makes and capacities; master designing; learn to clothe cards; how to slash yarn and make the various sizings for the various weighing of the goods; cost finding; efficiency; learn the harder things about cotton man lwo Days ot Rockingham County bair Have Passed—Many Fine Exhibits of Superior Native Products May Be Seen Thrilling Free Attractions Please the Many On-lookers. FIRE-WORKS ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL Tomorrow Will Be Day For The School Children. Two days of the Rockingham Coun ty Fair have passed and apparently the Fair is meeting the highest ex pectations of all who attend. The exhibits this year are unusually attractive. Especially is this true of the poultry show. The exhibit of wil low Oaks Farm, with one hundred and fifty-four different.products from that place is also outstanding. The free attractions, both in the afternoon and evenings are proving attractive. The balloonist, the aerial performances and the beautiful fire works are out-standing among these attractions. Tomorrow will be school day. All school children and teachers will be admitted to the grounds free of charge until live o’clock P. 11. A SLAM ON DAD The daughter of a certain strict principled old deacon had attended a dance -the previous nfght, much against her father’s wishes. When she appeared for breakfast the next morning, he greeted her with the words: “Good morning, daughter Satan.” To which the maiden respectful ly replied: “Goodmorning, father. First time we ever dreamed that the Ford was a political machine. Another great trouble in most of the cities is that nearly every woman driver thinks she is pretty enough and nearly every man thinks he is influential enough, to violate traf fic rules and get away with it. “America has been left out of the song books to be used in the Chicago public schools. Prof. John son says probably “Bfcoanas” 1 has been substituted for it. There is one race on which no isndcapper can figure the odds— and that is the human race. Leaksville, Spray and Draper Schools Open With Enrollment on First Day Of Twenty-eight Hundred Pupils ARROW REPORTERS ANNUAL PICNIC LAST SATURDAY Reporters Gathered At Mr. George Chatham’s Home For Good Time. GAMES AND CONTESTS WERE INTERESTING Those faithful souls who illumine places of darkness, and bring to light things that happen within our com munity, who, believing “the truth shall make you free” live it in every Thursday’s issue of The Arrow, gath i ered last Saturday at the home of Mr. i George Chatham on the Draper road j for their annual picinc. In addition to the fact that The J Arrow reporters always enjoy a get ! Gng together, the particular environ j ment on this occasion added no little | enjoyment to the occasion. Indeed, | Mr. Chatham’s front yard is becom | ing a veritable picnicers paradise. Horse-shoe pitching, volley ball, j and boxing were had. Watermelons j were enjoyed, sandwiches were eaten j and punch added kick to the occasion. A cracker eating contest in which i about fifteen of the girls took part proved interesting. The picnicers stayed on the grounds j until dark. Perhaps they would have stayed later but—“You’re not the only girl who has a date tonight,” said a Lily girl to one who deals in Wool i en Blankets, as the former feared the | latter would take her place in the earliest car home. Then they all went homeward. ufacturing; learn them because they are hard to learn, and because you don’t want to learn them. It is be cause some men have not learned these things that they are not pre pared for advancement. There are plenty of men who want to be ad vanced. There are plenty of places for the men especially well trained. They must know the specialty required of them before taking the job. Of course, life is too short to learn all about cotton manufacturing. Cotton man ufacturing is a Vast, intricate in dustry, and cannot be wholly learn ed a life time. But the trouble is that so many men who want to ad vance know only the easy things about the industry, and the positions to be filled need the men who know some of the hard things about the industry. Moreover, they must know that they know some of the hard things. It is useless to imagine that they know. This is not a dream, but facts. We close with the famous “Arab Philosophy”: “Men are four: 1. “He who knows not and knows .not he knows not; he is a fool. Shun him. 2. “He who knows not, and knows he knows not—he is simple. Teach | him. Additional Enrollment of Five Hundred In Next Few Weeks SPRAY GRADED HAS SEVEN HUNDRED Rooms at Spray Are Taxed Beyond Capacity. The schools of Leaksville, Spray and Draper have opened with large enrollments. The combined enroll^ ment in the white schools for the first day was about twenty-eight hundred pupils. There will be something like five hundred more to enroll during the next few weeks. The Spray Graded School with about seven hundred pupils has the larg est enrollment of any single school. The new buildings at Draper and in the New Leaksville section are filled with pupils. These splendid buildings greatly relieve the congest ion at these two places. Pupils, teachers and principals are fortun ate, indeed, to have such buildings in which to work. The reports from Spray show that there is not much more than half enough room provid ed there for the children who attend that school. It is evident that more room must be provided for children in that section. The superintendent and principals are urging all pupils who expect to attend school this year to report at once. It will be necessary for all pupils who are entering school for the first time to enroll on or before October 8th. Pupils who enter after that date cannot be enrolled in the primer classes. Draper School Opens With 600 Pupils Seventeen Teachers Draper school opened in the new building Thursday and while every detail is not complete, the school ma chinery is able to proceed. Exercises were as follows. Address—Supt. Holmes. Prayer—Rev. Jenkins. Music by the school. Scripture and explanations by Rev. Overby. Remarks by the Principal D. A. Snow. There are seventeen teachers this year in place of the fifteen as last year. Of these, six are last years while of this number three have been here three years. We are indeed fortunate to have with us for this year Prof. Snow. This is his third year and he is fully in touch with the work, of proven ability. While the enrollment is not complete it is stimated that it will reach 650 pupils. 3. “He who knows, and knows not he knows; he is asleep; awaken him. 4. “He who knows, and knows he knows—-he is wise; follow him!” Which Do You Smoke? Once upon a time a young man got a job in a factory. He was rather a bright guy, and he knew a lot about things in general, but didn’t know all about anything. But he managed to do pretty well what he was told and at the end of ten years was getting just money enough to buy his “Fatimas.” Some of the other guys who had been there but a few years had passed him and were on the salary list. He saw it and it got his goat. If it hadn’t been for the good blood that he had, he would have joined the Union Knock er’s Club—with his prospects at an end then and there. However, about that time his best girl told him he might have brains but he surely didn’t know how to use them. He went home mad! Next day the mad was all gone. He began to look around and before quitting time came he saw the light. Instead of paying attention only to his own work, he began to study the whole factory. Instead of stringing his own work out, he found how to do it in less time, and went and asked for more to do. Instead of fixing his work so that only he could do it, he arranged it systematically, so that any intelligent person could do it By and by, as he expected, he began to be noticed. His employers said, “Here is the right kind of a man; let’s encourage him.” So to encourage him they piled RESPONSIBILITIES on him, knowing that responsibility encourages only good men. : :,i- > ; • ' • • - _ } ■ • -/ He saw he was on the right track, took these responsi bilities and made good, and now he buys cigars—by the box. •. ./■■vg In other words, promotion does not come to a man until he grows bigger titan his present job. Then he is too i good a man to waste on that job and he gets a better one. j Copyright by Babson Institute, Babson Perk, Maas. •' y/v /.j.
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