WAR GIVES IMPETUS TO BUSINESS OF UNITED STATES
A PKOGKESStVE REPUBLICAN N:WSPAPEK DEVpTEP;'J'0 THE tTPBDn.DING OtlAMmUCX^.^OilES AND AMERICAN INDUSTKIES.
BURLINGTON, ALASIANCE COXJJrryrNORtH CAfiOLINA. TUESDAY. BECEw^BER 1, 1914
Trade licks Up All Over
-feves^gattfin by f be Chici§c Tribiiie Disclosis dptimism
^ ; of Bosieess Men- War as m loipetus.
A survey of the buMness and trade
conditions throughout the country in- j
dicates an upward teniTency compar-t
able with that which has been report-1
ed in the Ciucago District.
In many smaller manufacturing cit
ies the plants that make mat«ria?
needed by the armies of Europe are
experiencing more of a rush of busi
ness than the factories whose output
is for othev purposes.
than they ever did before.”
KUNS NIGHT AND DAY.
A manufacturer of electrical Ma
chinery in North Chicago, chiefly mag
netos, talked a month ago about clos-
iing bis factory. Now he is running
night and day. with larger orders than
he ever received before. This is the
time of year that the farm implement
i
LET TOE ADVERTiStNG HELP YOU.
if there were ever a time when this paper can be of a gr^ | jT Ui Clgll V>/l QCrS
senrice it is NOW when'its. readers are facing the hurries aacSf
worries of Christinas shopping.
The advertising columns from now until Christmas eve will be
brimming over with helps to shoppers.
They will give suggestions to those who have hard work to
decide. ■
They will present the news of goods and prices all turned to
the moment. Thie wise shopper will make f\ill and free use of thie
advertising. \ .
i manufacturers start full blast on their
However, the reports from corres- . ' .
. . j, ^ , Spring machinery. Reports from cit-
pondents of The Tribune in industrial I 7 ... , . ,
centers such as Pitteburgh, Cleveland,
and Detroit are invariably optimistic.
In nearly all eases the improved con
ies where these -plants are located
state that large numbers of men have
been placed at work.
The farmers of the middle west are
ditions are indicated I'y tangible cvi- ,
. , prosperous, the implement manutac
dences such as the increased employ- ^ ,
ment of nten, the reopening of plants,
and the receipt of large orders.
ADO TO FACTORY FORCES.
Factory forces are being enlarged
cautiously and in such industrie.^! fts
steel and railway equipment the re
turn to r.ormal is -stiil matter for the
future.
Neverthelcsii a canvass of the iatiu-
msrable .^mall manufacturing cities,
especially uf the middle west, shows
an undoublod turn to belter times.
T5«! mild weather has held back
activity i:i dtmand for winter gar-
nttnts and s,'jods, except where ordcrj
?iave come from Europe.
The exl5.it lo which American fac
tories are (ji’uvidijijr supplies for Ku-
rope, of a r.orl that ususilly would be
furnished in Kuropc l?.j':elf, is an iir.-
pres>'lvo Ti.'.'.tin c' of the reporU.
CONUITiONS FAVOKABLI-: HERE.
An tnidentc of the condition in th'j
Chicago territory is shown thif; week
by the addition of Iwenty-twiv new
members t-j the Chicn^o Assooiutio”.
of Commerce.
For the ksst three wc«k.s the num
ber oi new irstmljor.s iicided tv the rtillss
of the i-cmmercfal orpjanixation
amounis to more than 100. Oncers
of the asfOciiUirtu nay thsil no better
barometer ct the business conditions
of the city'can be found than the
membership sidditions to the n;soi;ia-
tion.
Among: tlio new members is a fac
tory jti Pi.jua, 0. which cni’olied un
der the new ruling of the association
nermittiny: outside firms lo join for
the participr^rion in the fortsign trade
campaign of the asesoeiation.
QUijS^CY PLANTS PROSPER. ..
’ Prom Qunicy, 111., comes word of
prosperity ’.n the sh^pe of orders for
machinery. I. E. Calkins, president
of a ^teei wagon and wheel manu
facturing cf mpany in that city, said
his concern in the last few days had
received orders which caused them to
operate at capacity. The orders came
from all sections of the country, and
. ivere for parts which other factories
use in assembling various kind.s of
machinery. -
“The oniy difference I have noticed
between this season and previous sea
sons has been the dislike on the part
of purcha'jei-s to sign up for long time
contracts," Mr. CalKins said. “Now,
however, we are getting down to con
tract business with largej orders than
usual.
“In addition our company has sent
a salesman to South America to study
the conditions tisere. We told him to
stay a yeai- without mi5dag an effort
to get orders. Other manufacturing
plant-s in our territory aro doing more
business because of "foreign orders
turers report. They have the money
to buy just as^ heavily next spring as
they ever have.
The manufacturing industries look
forward to a spring as prosperou.s as
any in the history of the nation.
CONDITIONS !N THE DIFFERENT
STATES.
I)isp;^tclits from The Tribune cor
respondents are here classified by
Slates:
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ILLINOIS.
GALEiSBURG—Ovviitfr to the mild
weather, prevalenee of .^tock disea:?^.
and crops, “‘business hcr? has
been much depressed, but the general
rt'clincr now is that the worst is over.
The !*urrj;igton Paving Brick ('om-
r;pt>ri;: that the prospects for
Mf'Xt year arc good thiit large plants
v.'il! be oj)friit*d all winter. Tl’.e Hurl-
ifigt Oil R;tilroad is adding incii lo its
cnjri neering and train depurlmcnts,
aMticipatin^T largely increased busi
ness. i'aciories and mercantile estab
lishments agree that the outlook is
much improved.
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PKOSPKCiS GOOD AT BELVIHERK
J^ELVniHRK-Belvidero manufr.c^
turevs rcpovL a marked in('ri*a>e in let
ters of iiujuiry and prospective ord*.>r.j,
most of which are based on anl.icipat-
od lu'ttermeiiV in business coridilic»::s
afte*r the (ii-st oC"the year. They
agree that prospects aro good foj‘ fine
busi;iess year.
Booming Trade
Orders for Goods by Fighting; Nations Are Booming Trade—Four
Hundred Million Dollars' Will Be S«at Over From Europe
to Pay for ‘^Made in Ameriea” Goods.
Chicago, Nov, 27.—A huge' river of gokl—more than ?400.-
000,000 will soon be flowing into the United States.
It \\’ill come afi payment for the war .stipplies which Europeau
nations have aLready ordered from this country. The figure of
^400,000,000 astounding as it is, covers only«the value of orders
for manufactured goods already hooked, and is exclu,si\ e of cere
als, provisions and normal exports.
Were the field of American industry a.s arid as the Sahai'a.
it could hardly fail to grow fertile lindef the irrigation of so rich
a stream of gold. But advices from all over the country sho^v
that noiroal domestic business, unaffected by war stimulus, i.‘
WAR ORDERS PLACED.
' Among the latest business done in war material is an order
for 1,000,000 pairs of shoes, costing ?3 a pair, reported to have
been plae^ by the Grand Duke Michael of Russia with Webster,
Mass., factories. These shoes are for the French army, and large
contracts for shoes for Russian soldiers have also been placed.
The American Tool Works Co., of Cincinnati, has replaced
most of-the men who were laid off and is running sis days a w^eek i also beginning to thrive,
instead of four. I That is why big business men who a short time ago sat in
Carloads of knit goods, automobile trucks, shoes and “cater- j the dumps, undisguisedly pessimitic over the business situation
pillar’’ traction engines are arriving each day in New York from i have suddenly .iumped up and hailed prosperity with a veritable
New England and the Middle West. The Pennsylvania Railroad | explosion of enthusiasm.
and the New York Central are handling most of the horses and! Consider the case of Charles M. Sehvrab, president of the
mules shiped to the East. Exports of supplies from the Central I Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
West are going largely through Gulf port^, and automobiles are i A month ago, Mr. Schwab said that conditions in the steel
going from Detroit and Chicago by way of Canada.—Wall Street j business were “the worst I have ever seen,’’ and that the outlot'k
Journal. - I “couldn’t be more discouraging.”
. ! ■ “TEN YEARS OF UNEQUALLED i’ROSPERITY.”
“A BUILDING STITCH IN TIME—’’
Among those who are now demonstrating their faith in the
buiid-now movement by works is the Southern Railway Company.
This company provided funds last Spring for e.xtensive construc
tion work for the improvement of its lines but did not allow the
business depression to intex'fere with the progress of the work.
The mariaeement of the road rightly consider-ed that any slow-
ing-up of the- movement of commerce in the South today could be
only temporary.
This road is everywhere encouraging the build-now idea,
'i'hrough its publicity department it is iirging e\ery one who
■' But hardly had he set foot in this country the other day, on
his return from Europe, when he made the now famou.s assertion;
“I look for ten years of unequalled pros];erity in the United
States”
He brought back, besides that cheerfiil conviction, steel or
ders from Great Britain and France amounting approximately to
$20,000,000. The orders will be divided fjnong the other steel
plants of the country, for the Bethlehem Corporation cannot po.s-
sibl;r handle more than a minor part of that huge quantity.
This seems to assure the needed stimulus to the steel indus
try, which is notoriously the slowest in pi-’kiisss up Sifter a piH’iod
I -i- ii- busmess depres.sion. The signs ol thi-; new pro.spentv have
contemplates buildmg to taise advar.tage of the opportunities the , • i u * -u n-- t.
/ ®. , , .1. been seen in Pittsburgh, ccnter ot the Tne People a Isa-
pre.sent .situation offers and build now. In commenting on the]
editorial the road says;
“The man who builds now will not only make money l.u' hiiri-
self, but will hell) the general -sititat I on by putting money into
circulation and pro'.'idinii work for men who arc now idle."
The advantages of building now are ouvious. the chief of
these beiiij: the fact tiial: many skiliod workmen in the con.strMC-
tion ti’adcs are m>w idle; that given emp!o>niont they will prtj-
\'ide a nuich. greater retuni upon the money expended for theh‘
\\ages tiian would be the case with a -sinui.'.r amount of nione\
expended for the l-ibor of less efficient workmen when the bi;ilv?
ing trader-; are merrun wit)i work. Building material, too, is
fairly cheap and the alleviation of the mov.'vv .situation ha.s ;d-
tional Bank of Pittsburgh after a careful st'Kfy of conditions has
just responded as follows tf) the n;ition-wid-,? “jjrosDerity surv(.>y”
which, is being made:
‘‘in a generj'.l vv.-iy it may be said that in this gmit indii.stri-
a! (Sistrict sentiment a;, regards the future is as optimistic as in
the most i'a i-oreii sccti'jns of the couiitiy.
“The roa.son tiiat Pittsburgh feels optimistic for the future
despite the rade contraction of the pre.-;ent is that our mamiiac-
turers are clpse studt;nts at history. They ! i-ow that there is, a
limit to retrenchment, and they are looliia^^ forward to increased
bu.s’iiess based upon the nece.ssities of their customers.”
PACKING HOUSES GET BIG ORDERS.
Another leading business man who is . ubiiant over the oai-
reatiy become apparent. ! ■ , , , .
The m:in who build.s now will be perfonning a patriotic ser- j everybody to know it, is H. il. Merrick, heal of tho
Vico. He will not be providing charity. No one connected with department of Armour & Co.. the great Chtcdgo packers,
the biiildin!r trades wants that, kut he will be providins work fori .
craftsmen who can give tiie greatest possible reiurn for thej‘^'^> our present
1 I -t! Siiip. our future certjii!i_
nionev received for their labor and sKili. :
it its
s
BOOM AT CH.-VMPAIGN.
CHAMP.\IGN—ImprovemeiiLs
businoss is unaniDiOui^ly I'oportecJ
Chnmpaij^n fixctorics aiui other con-
ceriis. “O.'ie month njjo We laid off
25 per ceni:. of our help/’ Charlt?.s
Strauss, jiresident of the Textile Man
ufacturing: Company, said. “Now we
have them all back and have a!! the
orders we can fill.’' The Fitted Steel
Sash Company is running full capac
ity. The .\n.erican Piano Player Co.,
has its full fcree at work. The E. M.
Burr Company, stractural manufac
turers, which was handicapped by in-
abilUy to secnfe^ sufficient steel, re
ports a' Rencral betterment of condi
tions. .\n upward movement in farm
Iniiil deals is another sig^n of the times.
DIXON BUSINESS BETTER.
DIXONV--A return of belter busi
ness conditions is shov\Ti today by the
statement of President E. B. Alax-
ander, of the Tri-County Light & Pow
er Co. Work on 40 miles of high ten-
siair power lines has beg:un;.cost $120,-
000.
IMPROVING AT CHICAGO'
HEIGHTS.
CHICAGO'^HEIGHTS: Conditions
Continued on Page 2,
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Build NOW. put it off six months or a year and ,\ou will
doubtless, find j'ourself in the midst of the greatest building re
vival the whole nation has ever seen. All business will have aris
en like a young giant with strength renewed. The great influx
of people fi'om other countries due to the desolation left by the
war will add definitely to the population not only of our farms
but of our cities. The building trade will experience a treniend-
by ous activity necessary to meet that condition.
Build now at the low prices "prevailing. Avoid the coming
era of rush and rising costs. IJl'ILil NOW.
ED. WILLIS’ HOME BURNS.
Saturday morning at about eleve;;
oVlocH, {ire was discovered in the resi
dence of Mr. Ed. Wilii.s, near
250,000 pounds of the \vee;i was'.^aki
on the waveiioiise fioors hcic in ihe
four sales d.«ys. Tuesday wa.-i a
the ord day fo;* the tveek aiid about 1(>0,-
000 pounds v/as sold on ihat The
tSbacco crop in this seelion ii .•hnn,
the crop beijijr estimated at sboui iwo-
thirUs crop, and the quality is not tlie
00(i, cor:-
city pumrUMfT .'!tatio!i on Tarpley St.
extension, which practically totally de
stroyed 'the hou.se and contents. It
seems that there was some several
minutes delay in telephoning the . best, but thp prices, are
alarm to the Fire Station, and after • sidering- ths quality.
the alarm was sounded, the firemen O
were unabU to locate exactly j -w.^R STAMPS IN USE TODAY,
where the fire was. However, after j The special-war tax stamps are Boston alone!
■'Big business from now on is a fact and not a theory. De
pression in some lines is more than counteraalanced by the boom
in other lines. The October export balance in favor of Ahiericaa
trade was over $60,000,000, as against .^li!,000,000 in September.
‘‘Domestic trade is increasing !?i almost all lines.. Easy
money—which is assured—plus confidence, plus tremendous ex-
liorts on a cash basis, make prosperity in domestic trade a cer
tainty. For us opportunity violates tradilion :ind thunders at
our doors. It cannot be denied admission.”
War orders have brought optimism io another packing house
—the Cudahy Company—which is about to open for the first time
in several years its big canning plant in South Omaha. Neb., in
order to nil a British order for 5.000.000 onc-poiuid tins of canned
beef.
-Another tremendous order from tJrciit Britain has .just been
l)ix)ught back by Frederick S. Fish, president of the Studebaker
Corporation, of South Bend, !nd. To supply more than $1-5,000.000
worth of automobiles, wagffns, sleds, harness and other equipment
is the prize .iob which he picked up aijroa-.l. Filling it will bring
employment to thousands of men.
i At Bridgeport and New Haven, Conn., Alton, 111., Bosttrn,
iand Pittsburgh, are other factories v iiich have started work
• within the last few days on huge or ^ rs ior cartridges, shells,
bullets and rifles. Eighteen millior; ...^llars worth will be made
a run of over a mile with both wagons to-day and from now on much
the firemen reached the scene and : of the Wusint'ss transacted of the coun-
qusckly cxtinguisl.ed the fire which'try will be subject to the tax. The
had already practically destroyed the special ta;; on tobacco for the war
house. Tho house belonged to a Mr. I^^apted on November 1. This tax i=
Wag'nerand was ro>t insured. Mr. j 54,80 per yt-ar for all tobacco retail-
Willis suffered a total loss .also as hejers who do nr much as $2{>0 worth of
carried no insurance, and saved very annual business. Double tax will be
little of his furniture. The total loss
was about $J,250 to $1,500.
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TOBACCO MARKET ACTIVE.
Our tobacco maricet has been very
active during the past week, and about
charged from today on all who failed
to pay up to last night,
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The party wiEh the limited voca'ou-
lary often talks longer than the man
who is a scholar.
Thus, many sections of the nation are sharing in the big
boom. One of the most intere.'-^ng of the war orders is that now
being filled in St. Paul, by a con, which lias agreed to supply
the French army with 4,000 sheepskin coats a week—at $8 each.
That means SS2.000 a week to go 1 > the Twin Citys for this in
dustry alone!
In fields not directly affected by the European demand many
sings of better-than-ever times are seen. Federal authorities
will soon be able to lift completely the quarantine on live stock.
The Wakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota, banks report that
fai'mers in that region hav« an extra-quality corn crop, and will
receive record prices for it. The cotton men of the South find
that according to last week’s figures, cotton exports are now prac-
ticall^'^at the weekly mark of. last year.