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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 30, 1921. 4 The Charlotte News Published By THE NEWS PUBLISHING CO. Corner Fourth and Church Sts. W C. DOWD Pres. and Gen. MgT. JULIAN S. MILLER Editor JASPER C. IIUTTO City Editor V. M. BELL Advertising MfcT. Telephones. Business Office Circulation Department 2793 Citv Editor 377 Editorial Rooms 3fi2 Printing House 1530 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for reoublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this nanef and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein also are reserved- SUBSCRIPTIOX RATES By Carrier. One year $10.00 Six months 5AM Three months ;. . . . 2.50 One month 85 One week 20 By Mail. One year 8.00 Six months 4.0' Three months 2 AY) One month T5 Sunday Only. (By Mail or Carrier) One year 2.60 Six months . : 1.30 TIMES-DEMOCRAT. (Semi-Weekly) One year 1.50 Six months 75 THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921. WHY BUSINESS STANDS STILL It is not so very difficult to under stand why it is that business is so far below normal and why it is going to continue below normal until certain fundamental laws of logic are enforced on the part of the major elements in trade and commerce. The firm of N. W. Ayer and Co., has sent out a state ment from J. S. Crutchfield of Pittsburgh, Pa., regarded as one of the most outstanding business men in that great city, in which Mr. Crutch field lays down this explanation of the situation: that the "depression is caus ed by the unwillingness of both capital and labor to bow before inevitable econ omic forces". That is plain and con cise and, we accept it as a definite, incontrovertible statement Of the busi ness situation today. In its strong entrenchments capital has been hesitant to make such con cessions as a normal readjustment calls for from it. In other words, the capi talistic world would pass the buck on to other agencies in the trade Structure. It still insists upon making its profits as large as possible and realizing as heavily as it can upon its investments. And labor, strongly fortified, also, is disposed to insist that capital should bear the burden in the declension-. prices, that even though the output of factories can not be sold at anything like former profits, this reduced income should not be passed over to the labor employed in the production of commodi ties. And thus the two great factors in the structure of business are trying to stand from under the obligation to make the concessions which a rational readjustment is demanding and whiCh i; will continue to demand. We need not look for a normal flow of business again until both .of these, capital and labor, move in concert toward a defi hite establishment of proper conditions. Each will be forced to share its pro portionate part in the sacrifices demand ed in the premises. Neither up to this time has suffered anything like the great body of Ameri can producers, the farmers. They are the people upon whom so far the bur den of liquidation has fallen. Their losses run up into the many millions, losses which are actual and not ficti tious. If we estimate their losses in terms of what they might have been re ceiving for their products, then we shall be forced to deal in terms of billions. But taking their actual losses, losses sustained by producing crops on which they failed to realize as much as they put into them, weare confront ed with the fact that they represent the body of producers who have suffered the major burden of deflation. Suppose that either capital or labor, as we have come to know those who own and maintain the mills and those who produce the finished goods in such mills, had been forced to such limits of loss as have faced the farmers! Or if the vast body of people in this coun try who sell had been forced to liqui date on the same basis as the farmers of the country, they, along with both capi talistic and labor classes, would have found thpmsplvea in n uniu . . . wjiuiuuu mure commensurate with the plight of the! agricultural elements today. But they! have not yet been driven to that limit and the adjustment may be worked out now before any such emergency will confront them, but it is not likely to be worked out until they, the sellers of goods and the producing capital and producing labor together have all been forced to share even more generally in the collapse of prices, more nearly in keeping with the terrific burdens of loss which the farming classes have been sharing. EFFORT TOWARD MEDIATION IN TEXTILE CONTROVERSY Mr. W. H. Hall has a communication in The News today relative to efforts which have been made toward a recon ciliation in the cotton mill strike, show ing what he, together with Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick and Mayor Walker, did in the interest of bringing the contend fing fa-Jtions together. Mr. Hall 'is entitled to commendation for his inter est in seeing this strike ended and fof engaging the interest and effort of these other gentlemen, whose subsequent ef forts were also praiseworthy.- Inquiring as to why there have been no results from the conference which developed between the employes and the employers through the agencies of these men, it is discovered that the spirit which animated the meeting had bout as much to do with the fruitfess- BOOSTING THE STATE The Raleigh Times is disposed to make mockery of the suggestion that the State needs a chamber of com merce for the purpose of aiding in its development, but The Times does not undertake to disprove the contention that a chamber of commerce is just as much a part of the progressive and aggressive State as of the progressive and aggressive municipality. 7 It con tents itself with Imagining, that such an organization as this is largely for the purpose of furnishing orators to prey upon an unsuspecting public, which, of course, it is not: even so, one that did no more than arouse the peo ple of North Carolina to a conscious ness of their own resources and wake up such slumbering citizens as The Times would be worth all the money it would cost. Clarence Kuester was saying the oth ness of the effort as anything else, per- j er day, after having flown north and haps more than anything else: that there was no approach to the issue in question in a spirit, of mutual inter est and sympathy and that there was, rather, a disposition on the part of the representatives of 'the operatives to throw the entire burden of settlement upon the operators. And that is not the spirit upon which a settlement can . be predicated, either in this case or in any other similar case. The only spirit out of which a successful termin ation of this deadlock will come is that which is willing to give as much as is asked, a spirit of perfect understand ing and willingness to do the just and right and fair thiny. Did the representatives of the em ployes go to the mill managers and tell them that they had come into the conference for the purpose of discuss ing the situation with them in a per fectly friendly and harmonious fashion or did they come, on the other hand, south and west throughout North Caro lina, that he told Governor Morrison during the mountain trip he made with His Excellency that what North Caro lina needs is a million-dollar fund for self-exploitation. Mr. Kuester some times speaks in hyperbole but his in tense zeal for this State, together with his knowlege of chamber of commerce efficacy, prompted the thought in him, and with it we are not disposed to argue except in terms of volume of money needed. North Carolina does sincerely need to get the scales off its eyes, look about itself and see what it is, then under take to give the world the benefit of its own observation about itself. We are rather in agreement with the thought of The Greensboro News that if this country must depend upon one such as Jack Dempsey to hold its pugil istin rhnmninn.ehiiv w TnaA hotter let rather with the attitude of "Well, you i France have it for a while and be glad have sent for us: now what do you want"? That may seem to be imma terial point, but, as a matter of fact, in that attitude is involved the great gulf of differences between the contend ing parties. If the mill operatives -would send a committee to the mill managers for the purpose of entering into a discussion of the merits of their case and with open minds to hear the mill managers discuss the merits of their attitude, and then, in this atmosphere of clear mu tuality of interests, both would be will ing to lay their cards fairly upon the table and abide by the results, then some virtue will come out of this ar rangement. Otherwise, tHe results will be only a muddying of the waters and an aggravation of the issue. This community is increasingly in terested in the situation. It wants to see the strike ended on a basis that will stand the tests which the future may impose upon the parties involved. A larger part of our industrial ma chinery here is stopped: with it has stop ped also the earning power and activ ity of a goodly portion of our people. The harm resultant in two-edged. It consists in the mills being unable to sell .their goods and thus create new capital for the benefit of the commun ity and it consists, on the other hand, of the deprivation among mill workers of the right of earning their living. Obviously such a condition, working hurt so fatal as this, can not endure indefinitely. People can not indetermin ately quit work and subsist.. Manufac turing plants can not indeterminately shut down and protect the capital al ready invested. Such being so patently the situation, it does appear as if the parties who are responsible for such a condition would be moved to a display of the proper spirit upon which this matter can be settled and settled aright. There is no likelihood, however, of an ad justment so long as either, or both, sit complacently in their respective camps and expect the natural development of conditions to work out a satisfactory conclusion of the trouble. Initiative is called for, therefore, and that of the proper and unchallengeable sort. "I like to think" is One of Mr. Hard ing's pet phrases and from the condi tion of the country, it would seem to be about time he is getting at It. SEASON OF DIVIDENDS The fact that the banks of Char lotte are passing out their usual divi dends during this mid-year period may well give that part of the public which does not share in this good fortune cause for felicitation also as showing that the financial Institutions of the community are running along at their normal gait. And what the banks are doing, other institutions in this section are doing also, passing out their semi annual checks to their stockholders, perhaps not in such bulk as was the case some time ago,- but at least in average size and scope. WILL PUT NO UNIFORM ON Mr.- Harding intimates that while there is no chance to get this country into the league of nations, the United States is friendly to the purpose of the league and at any time, when the league is in need of the sympathy or the actual services of America, it shall Have it so long as he is President. In other words, the United States is a sort of reserve policeman or volunteer fireman. It will have nothing to do with staving off war, but if, unfortun ately, the other countries now in the league are not able to prevent war; then the United States will line un with them. We have no idea how such a plan can effectually work for the promotion of international peace, but, for that matter, w& doubt if the President has himself. He is still try ing to carry water on both shoulders and that task is no easier now than it was in the earliest times of humanity. to give it away. WHO ELSE WOULD HAVE DONE THIS? Fifty delegates to the first conven tion of disabled veterans of - the World War stormed the citadels of Sosialism in Detroit Wednesday and laid down some very practical law unto the as sembled hosts of Red Terrorism. The invasion was for the purpose of inform ing the Socialists that whenever it be came necessary for these wounded serv ants of America to use their weapons again in defense either of humanity or the flag of their country, they would not hesitate to pull the trigger. Having said this, they left the hall, their mission fulfilled and their consciences at ease. There was more than a mere exhibit of spectacular daring in such a visit as the soldiers made. We read into it an intense zeal for America and an intense, Impassioned hatred for those things for which the Socialists are stand ing, a loyalty to the Stars and Stripes which makes one want to transmit ap plause by wireless to those wounded soldiers and a grim determination to utilize what is left of their bodies and their minds and their energies to the preservation of those things . that are sacred and hallowed in this land. What other organization we wonder, could boast even fifty delegates who had such a spirit of fealty to the flag as was here displayed and such a pass ionate type of Americanism as this handful of torn and tattered fragments of former service men? The teachers of the State may be disposed to criticise the educational au thorities about their certifications and salaries, but so long as Dr. Brooks is able, to show that they are being paic7 $600,000 more than the State has with which to pay them, the State can not be accused of profiteering on them. Jack Dempsey is still several pounds overweight and he has but two more days to reduce. However, if he can lose his flesh as he lost his nerve dur ing the war, he can get down to noth ing by Saturday if he chooses. CITIES ARE READY The municipalities of the. State have prepared their case to submit to the council of State showing their balance sheets and their financial standing at this time for the purpose of convinc ing the authorities In Raleigh of the inoperative necessity of a special session of the Legislature. If the situation is as serious as the cities are Inclined to make it, and we have no reason to question their statistics, it is obvious that the State must move at, an early moment to grant the relief so urgent ly demanded. Otherwise, the error may be more costly than the $40,000 mis take made in the clerical department of the last-Legislature. FRANK COUNSEL Senator Carraway, speaking at the annual dinner of the chamber of com merce Of Gastonia, passed along some time advice when he admonished busi ness men and manufacturers to stav away from Washington with their com plaints because they "know as much about how to solve these problems as 90 per cent of the representatives in Congress". Wre suspect as much. Wh'iie It ought not to be a fact that the reD- resentatives of the people concern- them selves largely with issues about which the average citizen is but little inter ested, such, nevertheless, is the situ ation and the Arkansas senator hnri the hardihood to tell the truth about it. COMMUNICATIONS MILL WORKER TAKES OTHER SDDE. To The Editor The News: I would like to reply to Mr. C. P. Lockey, Jr., in regard to his article in your paper of June 25. I will be brief In what I say. Now to begin I will state I also am a native Tar Heel, born in Gaston'a 36 years ago and have worked in and around Southern cotton mills for 20 years. Mr. Lockey would have the public believe, as McMahon says, that the Southern cotton- mill owner is a crook and a thief and that all the in terest the mill owners have in their em ployes is for what they can steal away from them. Mr. Lockey's argument -"s the same as one McMahon, John Dean, Mary Kelleher, and in fact, all the no called organizers who have come to our Southland and preached their doctrine of hate to the Southern mill workers until there are several thousand idie now. Now I am no highly educated man, but I do think I have a reason able amount of common sense and I am frank to sav the reason the mill situation is in its present state is be cause this bunch has caused it. I have heard numerous speeches made by those who have caused all this and in every one they either began or ended up their speech by cussing the mill owna'y and telling the wofkers the mill own ers were thieves and crooks. Now, this stuff has been preached to the Southern mill workers by these great would-be emancipators until through misunderstanding more than anything else, quit their jobs to their futuro sorrow. Mr. Lockv savs th mill in terests have heretofore lined up solid ly against any and all progressive movement that would benefit the mi.'l worker. That is McMahonism. If I mistake not the manufacturers of North Carolina had the present State child labor laws enacted. I, as I said, am a mill worker, a speeder hand, and in my humble position, naturally, would not come in contact with many mill owners. But I have seen several and. in fact, I am personally acquainted with a lot of mill owners, and I have my first on to ever see either here or in Charlotte who I thought was a thief. Mr. Lockey says they wore forced under the present wage reduc tion to call aloud to the outsiders to come to their rescue. Does he not know John Dean, Mary Kelleher anl Callagahan, who used to be "Callan have been in Charlotte for two yea.-s? They were there Johnny-on-the-snot during the peak of wages in 1920, and Mr. Lockey,' you people will -still have them tell you do as the Columbus, Gh., mill workers did in 1919, drive thm further down or up the road. Now, I am a mill worker, no paid agent nor gun man of the mill men and I certainly would not write or say a word against anything that would be bmeflcial tc mill workers, but I do say that mill workers can never gain even the sym pathy of a community as long as ve, or some, I will say, listen to such a bunch as I have referred to. To show the public that this strike is lot necessary but only a part of these rad icals' propaganda I will refer to Jan uary, 1920. Now it was during the highest wage period that this same radical bunch pulled a strike at Ranlo mill in Gaston count.w. The. l Q flora sf the strike were drawing over $1 an hour, in fact on Thursday, which waa pay day, one great Deanite drew th. pitiful sum of $56.25 for one week s work of 55 hours. They had struck on Monday previous to this pay day men tioned. Now this will go to show the reader that this bunch will strike in spite of the devil himself. I, as well as every; one, anx making less nr.v man uunng ine war, out there ire several thousand peaceable, prosperous mill workers in Gaston county today, Where there likely is a like number of hungry ones nearby. Now, Mr. Mill Worker, shake that bunch, and If you have any differences with your em ployer, take it up with him yourself. But, first of all, get .the idea out of your head that this radical bunch has any interest in your" condition or wel fare, except for what they themselves can swindle you out of. I don't know Who constitutes the managing heads of the Charlotte cotton mills, but I wou'd go dollars to doughnuts that who ever it is, they would do more real charitv work than McMahon or even any of his bunch. Such have only been sent to our fair Southland with one and orlv goal in view, which is to wreck the cotton mill industry, Cause women and little innocent children to go Inmry and cause so many good honest cotton mill workers to be rebuked arid pos sibly blamed for their deeds arid SPEEDER HAND - Box SO, Gastonia, N. C. When old men kick the young men down and will not lend a hand to help them up around the town it's time to understand that it's suicide to treat them so, for all young men are hound to grow and cause the old men surplus woe, and take away their land. It's better to assist the youth who has a high ambition or else he may get mad, forsooth, and snatch your good posi. tion. If you give the boys good starts you'll win a way into their hearts. But lay off of the pointed darts. They're bad for your condition. Without ex perience and knowledge young men find it tough to get along when they leave college. The road is pretty rough, and when -the people where they dwell refuse point blank to treat them well it taks no length of time to tell that they soon get enough. Later on they rise in " life, and woe be to the nuts who tried tc- fill their lives with strife and keen them in the ruts. ' A harsh old man will stir up hate. The young !men will retaliate. The wise old man will hesitate tOv do a deed that cuts The man who's had to kill a jinx will profit by the deed if he tells young men what he thinks are weapons they will need. Experience is always sought It's sometimes very dearly bought, but after all, it can be taught and made into a creed. Unless young men are taught, how ever, the day is bound to come when they will get a bit too clever to be fooled by some, and all the old men in the town who tried to hold the young men down will cry out with a sigh and frown, "They put me on the bum." Copyright, 1921, by News Publishing Co! An editorial prediction is at hand to the effect that West Point will turn out no more , "snobs'.. The supply which it has already turned out is ample for the future demands. THE BEST NEW SPAPER Students of journalism in Syracuse University have been examining news papers from all parts of the country lor the purposf of discovering which, in their judgment, is the "best news paper in the United States". The re sult of their symposium gives The Phil adelphia Public Ledger the premiership with The New York World following and The New York Times third. Perhaps, it ought to be said in justifi cation of The News that the judges con fined themselves almost exclusively to the papers of the" metropolitan cen ters: otherwise, this newspaper would not have failed at least to receive hon orable mention for the honor which has fallen to The Public Ledger. F. D. A. A READY FRIEND IN TIME OF TROUBLE ATTESTED BT LONG RECORDS OF "MONEY FOR ASHES" ALEXANDER'S . F. D. THOS. L. Insurance. Aiwuya Protect Never ' Sleep. STATEMENT RELATIVE TO THE TEXTILE STRIKE. Editor The News: On last Wednesday, June 22nd, I sug gested to the striking textile employes that they submit their differences with the employing manufacturers to arbl tration by a disinterested tribunal, to be composed of persons engaged neither as employers or employes, to which they agreed. On Thursday morning, June 23rd, I took this matter up with Col. .Kirk Patrick, president of the Chamber Of commerce, ana col. Kirkpatrick com municated my suggestion to Mayor vvaiKer. un Thursday afternoon Col. Kirkpatrick told me that the employers had expressed a TrefermrA committee composed of employes who weie worKing in tneir respective mills at the date of the strike, and I was in formed on Friday morning by Col. Kirkpatrick that the Mayor had ar ranged with the mill managers to meet these committees, and that these mill managers were then readv to meet them, whereupon I advised Col. Kirk patrick that these committees would have to be appointed at a special meet ing to be held that afternoon at 4 o'clock, and that the employes could not meet the employers before Satur day, and according to suggestion made by Col. Kirkpatrick that i should call the mill managers when the committees from the employes were ready, I did, on Saturday morning, telephone to Mr. C. W. Johnston representing his mills, and to Mr. H. H. Boyd, representing the Chadwick-Hoskins chain of mills, and referred to this arrangement, and told them that the employes committee would meet them at such time as thev might suggest, and Mr. Johnston told me that he did not know .when he could meet them, Mr. Boyd told me that he would meet them at his office at any time after ten o'clock Saturds v morn. ing. About thirty minutes after my first conversation with Mr. Johnston, he called mo on the telephone and ad vised me that he was on his way to his office, and would meet the committee from the employes at any tirne after ten o'clock. These committees were appointed and went to the respective offices of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Boyd at the time sug gested and the committees reported to the managers, and the committees were informed by the managers that they had nothing to offer different from the conditions existing at the date of the strike. Respectfully, W. H. HALL. Sterling Silver Every woman knows the- value of silverware as a necessary adjunct to the home beautiful. We are sure, our varied showing of silverware will offer many help ful suggestions. B. F. R0ARK Jeweler, Diamond Merchant Silversmith 10 North Tryon St. MARRIED WOMEN CAN'T TEACH Newport, R. I. June 30.--Married wo men have been barred from teaching in the public schools of Warwick coun ty, the members of the school board decided to employ only single women in th,e future. "The place for a married woman is home with children of her own," one of the trustees declared at a meeting last night.- - - - - MOST FOR YOUR MONEY Shop the town! You can't find as much for your money in any other store as we offer you in that STRAW HATS When it comes to the right hat at the right price, you come to us. ALL SIZES AND STYLES $3.00 Up. The Men's Store 34 So. Tryon N II Ik Bros Important Savings For Friday and Saturday On The 2nd Floor New SlipOver Dresses This sleeveless dress is new and very popular. We are showing them in plaid and checked gingham. Also in plain col ors, made of Belgian Cloth and Hague Cloth. Priced: $m $m $5ii Blouses A remarkable opportunity to secure beautiful sheer voile Blouses at very lit tle cost. The models are the very smart est for wear with slip-over dresses, sweater or sports coat. Priced: .50 to 0M.95 1 Porch Dresses Beautiful House and Porch Dresses, made of best quality Gingham and per cale. In stripes, plaids, checks and plain colors. Trimmings used are braids and Organdies. All priced at a great saving. $1 M $im $2M t0 $7M Infants Dresses Another Sale of Tots' White Dresses. These Dresses are made of Crisp Organ dies and Sheer Voiles, in sizes 1 to 6. Regular values $1.00 to $3.00, now priced 50c98c$iaand$ij Blk IBroSo BELK BROS. SELL IT FOR LESS
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