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The conditio* of the cotton textile indus try throughout the world, therefore, is a matter ■ of prime importance to the south, whether that textile in dustry be in continental Europe, in Great Britain, in New England or anywhere. The problems of the cot ton manufacturing industry any where in the world are relatively im portant to the south and as the grower of two-thirds of the world’s raw cotton it is a matter ’of serious concern to us of the south there are unsettled conditions anywhere in the manufacturing countries of the world. Naturally,1 the 1922 strike of the cotton mill operatives in New Eng-, land was viewed with dismay in the cotton during some three or four months of a critical period for cotton growers, and certainly the cotton grow ing industry of the south share with the cotton textile industry of New England the ruinous consequences of that strike. It was at a distance but it came home to us, just as also has the demoralized condition of the cot ton manufacturing industry in con tinental Europe. The south depends on world demand for its ability to dis tribute the cotton it grows; and nat urally the price of the staple depends on the world-wide demand. As grow ers and manufacturers of cotton we have the reasons to take seriously the cotton milling problems in New Eng land. It is not a question whether the New Englanders can or will come south, or not, for there are economic phases of a disconcerting character. Problems in New England may drive some New Englanders south, but those same problems are just as apt to drive New England capital entirely out of cotton milling industry. So long as the south has a New Engfand market for raw cotton, we - have a very distinct and material in . terest in the prosperity and stability ; of the New England cotton textile in-' ; dustry. -It is to the interest of New • Englanders to come south, and many will do so, but it is just as much to the interest of the south to have a : flourishing cotton milling industry in . the north. Were northern mills com • pelled to migrhte south, bag and . baggage, the result would also bring economic changes, not to even men ; tion the possibilities for both social and' political changes, even for the , better or otherwise. It all means a ' new era for the south and a new era in more particulars than one. Con templation of it rather gratifies us, but we must not forget that revolu - tionizing southern industry is bound to revolutionize us, too. Conditions will change gradually, but they will change to be sure. Textile manufacturers from Fall ' River, New Bedford, Lawrence, Boston and various textile centers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecti cut, numbering 3.00, attended the cen : tenni^l meeting of the Southern New, England Textile club, at- Providence, last Saturday afternoon, to celebrate “founders day.” Following dinner, there were many interesting ad t dresses, and they were mostly fea tured with views of the general con iiltiorKof the textile industry in New , \ m ■■ & England, generally represented in the 700 members of the textile club | now a hundred years old. We gather j ed from the addresses that the pro blgm of the textile industry is more of a political character than it is ecqnomic. Legislation in force and legislation proposed tends to harm a great industry, already handicapped in its competion with the southern j textile industry, grown up and oper | ated on different economic basis. ' Those serious minded New England | manufacturers adopted resolutions ad | dressed to Governor Flynn, of Rhode j Island, urging him to use his influ; j ence against hasty legislation harm j ful to an industry already handicap i ped by economic conditions. The i resolutions sent to the governor were, in par, as follows: : The present situation of cotton - manufacturing: in Rhode Island is [ such as to cause serious appre I hension to many, forward looking j citizens of the state. For nearly a century. New ! England was supr.eme in this in ! dustrv, but as a result of the ! last 25 years of competition sub i stantially half of. the industry is today located in the south. At ] the beginning of the last decade and about the time of the out I break of the Avar, there had been such a growing together of labor costs in these tw.o sections that many manufacturer's thought the original disparity had in a. great measure permanently ceased. The developments of the last two years have for the time being T'.yway shown this belief was an - illusion We have reasons to hope at least that present conditions will not continue indefinitely,- but we think it is no exaggeration to say that there has at no time been a wider difference .between manu facturing costs in the two sec tions than exists at the present moment. Thee are so great in deed that there is scarcely a pro gressive manufacturer in New England who is not studying the situation with extreme anxiety. As you are probably aware, several important compaines have already decided to move in part at least to the smith, and we know that others seriously contemplate it.' In fact, this ■ movement has so repidly assumed . disquieting proportions that it already par takes more the aspect of a stam1 pede thaif of any orderly exodus. While, the proposed legislation which concerns the New England manufacturers is supposed to be for the benefit of textile operators, it will actually be harmful to them should the textile industry become so handi capped that it will affect the em ployment situation. -.-_o ' Rotarians and Hogs. —_o Twenty-six farm boys were the guests of the Rotary club, of Andalu sia, Ala. one day last week, as noted by the Montgomery Advertiser. , The boys’ were entertained at luncheon, and they were taken out in automo biles to ihe Andalusia packing house of Swift and Company. At the con clusion of an enjoyable luncheon, each of the twenty-six boys’ received present worth from $20 to $100. These boys’ were presented a thoroughbred gilt or sow to be kept out on the farm for breeding purposes. Of the first increase, each boy is to return to the club two gilts at the age of four months each as full payment for the one given at the meeting. Those boys’ had a fine time and they became enthusiastic over the oppor tunity given them to bo into the business of breeding thoroughbred hogs. They were posted about their opportunities to promote the raising of the best types of hogs by selling their share of the thoroughbred pigs or by retaining them all for breeding purposes. They saw in the packing house plant the market for all the hogs that can be raised in Alabama, and they got an intimate knowledge of the possibility of sharing in the development of two industries—the hog raising industry and the packing house industry. Those Alabama boys’ left Andalusia with e* very high idea of Rotarians, and nobody has to tell them that Rotarians are fine hosts and clever about their plan to promote hog raising in the right way. The Montgomery paper says this about the Rotary plan: Each of these boys represented a rural school of the county and were- selected by a vote of the respective schools as befng the logical ones to keep the pigs. A Rotary club committee con sisting of Dr. R. X. Kearley, D. I,. Henson, Dr. L. E. Broughton, T. E. Henderson and Albert Kellar, assembled the hogs- which ranged in value from $20 to $100. The total costs will be apportioned among the club membership. This program is one to stimulate hog production in the county and promises to be a great stimulus. Each of the boys is paired with a Rotarian to whom he must re port from time to time on, how his hog is progressing. • The Rotarian gilt fund consisted of several hundred dollars and their plan will bring back to the club two pigs for every one they give away as , capital stock in a safe industry. It can be imagined that a fine corprade ship will spring up between each boy and his Rotary pal. There is nothihg to keep every Rotary club in North i Carolina from doing like those thoughtful Andalusians. , -Kiwanis clubs do all sorts of things like that, and, the fact is, it is presumed that chambers of commerce and banks all over North Carolina are apt to get busy right away and start boys’ and giri3 in business with through ' bred hog pigs and purebred calves, J. ; ’ V it:- : _ 1 tf. '• V v/SA i - t,.t.i j Not Waiting For George To ! Dolt. . --0 ‘ The New York Daily News Record • announces that citizens of Bennetts j ville, S. C., is to have another cot 1 ton mills, for which the capital stock | is subscribed by citizens, of Renetts ville and Marlboro county. The new | mill is to have 10,000' spindles, and home financed iters are E. P. j,Miller, president of the Upion Sav (f ingrs bank, of Bennettsville, and Mar ! vin W. Adams, of McColl. Mr. Adams ! tendered his services gratis to super l intend the construction and operation ! of the new enterprise “till the mill is on a paying basis.” That means , about a year in the industrial Caro I linas. jiit is to be a strictly [enterprise. The prom i -Mill building in the Carolinas con tinues on an amazing scale, and the I home,folk are putting their own initi ! ative ; and capital in industrial en ! terprises, regardless of new comers who are coming in to share the Jfield with local enterprise. Taylorsville, N. C., is also to have another yarn mill, for the building of which $300, 000 has been subscribed by home peo ple and New York capitalists. The Watts Spinning company near Taylors ville. has been completed and has be gun operating on a day and' night schedule. It operates 6»000 spindles, and is a one-man cotton mill, owned and operated by A. L. Watts. Owing to the keen demand on his factory, Mr. Watts has purchased 4,000 more spindles and ‘ will increase the capa. city of his factory to 10,000 spindles. Doing things surely keeps it from being dull. Making progress gets publicity. A dozen trades papers in the north are keeping in close touch with the industrial development of j the south. The announcement about j the new Bennettsville mill appeared in- a “boxed” special on page one of the New York Daily Record last Mon day. America’s industrial romances i centers in the Carolinas. -o ■ Don’t Play Against North i Carolina. -o We have been told that Governor Morrison’s progressive program will have c-asy sailing duriiig the first oi | this week, but the prediction is made that thg end of the week .is to find the opposition getting itself in fighting trim: To fight what? It seems that the opposition, has not mobilized yet, because it does not know exactly just what it is that it is going to fight, but anyhow the opposition hopes to have something or other it can buck against. We shall have to trust to I the good sense of the legislature to examine throughly every construc j tive proposition before the general as | sembly and deal with it on its merits, not because of personal reasons and grown animosities or triumphs. A partisan triumph for any group over J the otlier on anything but logical i lines might set North Carolina pro | gress back many moons. Wllen all the j cards are on the table face up and i unmarked, there will be time enough for all of us to take a hand, provided we don’t play the game against North Carolina. ' -o CONTEMPORARY VIEWS. s IX AM, FAIRNESS You never killed anybody; you never robbed a bank; you never forged a neighbor’s name to a check; you never stole anything more valuable than a kiss or a watermelon. You have one wife, and pay your debts, and whilo you many nut-be an ideal citizen in all respects, you lead an orderly life. You are not anti-social, but adapta ble. All right; we are agreed as to that. Then why should you be re proached, by implication, for taking a man who has done one or more of the things which society forbids by I its laws, and sending him to work I for society? There are many people who re gard the convict as the unfortunate victim of society, and on some vague theory hold that society ought to be rapped on the knuckles for what it has done to this unfortunate. It is. true that society has-obeyed its o(vn laws and refrained from the things which the convict is supposed to have done. Nevertheless, we should stand by the convict and ease his burdens when the time comes for him to make some measure of restitution to society for the wrongs which he has done it. Frown on society, smile on the con vict. Put a tax on society for the benefit of the convict; put a rose on the convict, and serve him ice cream for breakfast. There are wellmeaning people who entertain this point of view.—Montgomery Advertiser. -0 EDMONDS ON PORT DEVELOPMENT Mr. Richard H. Edmonds is express ing the opinion in The Manufacturers Record that the governor’s message outlines progressive policies which "set the pace for the nation.” Mr. EdrAonds believes that "the whole program is one worthy of North Caro lina’s adoption." He is particularly impressed with the. shipping proposi tion. The state', he maintains, needs state-owned terminal 'facilftieA, and when these have him provided, if the state cannot have them operated bn a basis of securing low water freight rates by independent concerns then the state could well afford to. try the ex periment of a state steamship line. Mr. Edmonds reminds that -the own ership of terminal facilities has been recognized as of vital importance In building up the bommeree of surest cities in all parts of the world. ’ He cites the case of Baltimore. That city a few years ago voted a bond issue of $50,000,000 for harbor and terminal Improvements, which will Include the building and ownership by the city pf wharves and warehouses to be teased to operating companies. Liverpool has recently decided-^to expend $70,000,000 on harbor improvement -^or-k, .and here Si? : . . ■ . ' ' i . ' ' . A and there all pycr the world great cities and great ; cofhnjunities have found the ownership of terminal facili ties extremely important, giving to these places an opportunity for the de velopment of their trade which crfuld not be secured by independence wholly upon railroad or steamship owned ter minals. As Mr. Edmonds sees the situation and views the prospect, North Carolina has water transportation advantages which fully utilized—and they are not now utilized except to- a ve^y limi ted exkent—would increase the trade and the wealth of this state to an ex tent which our people can probably but . slightly realize at present. "The whole south, with three-fifths of th« coast line of the United States, says Mr. Edmonds, "is getting only a medi um of benefit from this enormous water line, because some of the steam ship lines operating between south ern and northern ports either work in connection with railroads or under railroad influence or ownership, in -such a way as not to secure the largest possible results for the benefit of the south." Mr. Edmonds recalls that a few years ago one of the greatest developers ot the enormous transportation interests of the lakes, after a thorough study of coastwise transportation at the south, said to The Manufacturers Record that this section had never yet begun to touch its water transportation poten tialities. He was amazed that the sputh was so far behind, the lake re gion In this respect, and what he saw as .needed at southern ports was the development ...of. enlarged terminal facilities and steamship transportation by Independent lines in competition ■with the -transportation which we then had and which was largely controlled or influenced by railroad compaines. "It may not be at all out of place for railroads to expand their facilities by the utilization of water transporta tion along the Atlantic coast and elsewhere,” Mr. Edmonds declares, "but it is equally as important that in some way there should be developed independent water transportation, and Governor Morrison wants North Caro lina to test the matter. .The Manufac turers Record believes "that he is wise in' this proposition.”—Charlote Ob server. orR PART JN THE IMPASSE For a good many months the at titude and acts of France in inter national affairs has not pleased us. and we have not hesitated to say so plainly. It has seemed to us, and rightly so, that nothing wras to be gained by a policy that stubbornly in sisted upon more from Germany than that prostrate country, whatever her just debts, was able to pay; time and again we have pointed out the faulty logic of what appeared to be -the de termination of France to colect huge sums from Germany and at the same time to prevent that nation from re gaining her industrial health and strength; we have not been slow In the past few days to set forth the im possibility of digging coal with bay onets, and as for the alleged purpose of France to take permanent posses sion of the Ruhr (and in all probabili ty stage another Alsace-Lorraine tragedy) merely to state it is to con demn it. ' ■ In al of this pur reasoning is sound enough; so strong in fact that it is more than a pity that we can not apply' some of its wisdom to our own affairs. But befor* wd cast too many stones to consider whether we our selves are entirely without blame in this matter. Without doubt the war left Franco in a revengeful frame of mind; it would have been strange Jf it had not." In the minds of the rank and file of the French people there was also a deep rooted fear and sus picion 9f Germany; that. too. was natural enough. Both the spirit of "revanche” and the dread of her east ern neighbor and ancient enemy were prominently in evidence throughout the period’in .which the peace treaty was being framed. The Versailles pact bore only too much evidence of both. President Wilson and our other rep resentatives at the peace conference, no doubt, •saw'the danger and sought both in the treaty and outside it to allay the fears of France and to giv6 her people an opportunity to regain their mental poise. An imperfect treaty was submitted to the senate. Instead of adopting it with what reservations seemed clearly necessary and pro ceeding to work from within, tb the end' that Imperfections be gradually eliminated, that body proceeded, fot purely partisan reasons, to reject thi whole structure. To cap the climax/ we next proceeded, largely to satisfy personal animosities, to place in pow er an administration whose whole for eign policy was avowedly one of nega tion. We, the strongest of the Allies, having retreated to our own affairs and closed the doors behind us, it is hardly strange that the Frenqh peo ple, swayed by extreme nationalists and under the Influence of demagogues, determined, albeit by unwise methods, to take care of themselves. But, however easily explained, the policy of France is unwise and cal culated to keep Europe and the world In an unsettled state, is nothing worse. 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It is oertain that the golden op I portunity that was ours has for the time being at least fled. Probably I it will never return in the same form. I Our position is such, howevenf that sooner or later we are very apt to be ; presented with an opoprtunity to fee of very important sense to our own selves, in this matter oL-stralghtening Europe out. Shall we be ready when that time comes? Opportunity ought j not again to find us napping. Now is the time we should be giv ing sober thought to the lessons ol our experience and be making up our own minds just what we are willing to do to aid in world reconstruction. One thing is clear beyond dispi^te: •we can play no importance and '“manly part without being willing to bear out share of the responsibility for the af fairs of the world. There never has been any excuse for "unoffiical ob USE BOTH! •say dentists everywhere Use both a dental “paste" and “liquid". Tooth-PASTE removes film, whitens teeth. 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