THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921.
COMMUNICATIONS
31 R. LONG ACRE REPLIES.
j.;.;t(r The Kfcws:
1 have just returned home . to Wash
ington and found in my mall that you
vri'te an editorial in your paper at
tacking me for some things I stated in
;i s. riaon which I preached at the Sev
, r, '. day Adventist camp ground in
Charlotto, a synopsis of which was
jrinrid in your newspaper. You had
; ; .orfvct right to attack me and and
(iiitor with me upon the issues involved
1 I also notice that you printed a taL
o an attack that was made by Dr
L.. Bowlby, General Secretary of
; ;c i.wuo i '".v -hio.hi;b oi me united
s.ites, m which he tharges me of mak
j, x false statements and misrepresenta
t;0:'3 concerning the Lord's Day Al'i
f ! r program in behalf of Sunday legis
1, ;i I think it ia not more than fair
to h.1'"v nie to reply to this attack of
I Uowlby's and have the public read
j i wn statements, which he has made
(V;:i-erning the purposes and aims of
;!;, Lord's Day Alliance and the legisla.
t v, program they intend to put" into
rvrvt, and let the public judge as to
v or I have misstated things or
whether Dr. Bowlby has.
r; you will do me the favor of print
jvcr .his enclosed statement I will re
c; ;,1 you as a fair and square man,
iV..:ing justly with this issue. I have
, i , ;! reason to believe that you will
w.;.i the facts presented. ,
Most respectfully submitted.
C S. LONGACUi:.
attention has been called to an
- printed in the column. of The
News bv rr Wo t ..
.ecretary of the 'ord's Da y'4frneral
printed fu tPhiladelphia, 'whh was
h,at paper of November 28
1920 in winch he outlined the plfcy of
Sir L?uDay AUiance wnSSni
nr, "ti. futur1f. Pro-am before Congress
Dr Bowwf w f ,Sunda legislation!
foliowsr y nterView as Pted is as
"e aYe wel1 financed. Our lobbv at
Washington will be an effective anfl ex
perienced one. We afl work in every
Congressional district in every State
W e shall aeitate anrt 9nro JZ. zl Tf:
to thefr1186 VterS t0 cealingly
m representatives in Congress un
ir, ConSressman who cares to stay
S,J Cngress wm dare refuse to vote-fo?
used r86- ATH6e,Were the methods
thel wlreeffettTve8"10011 LeaSUe' and
"We propose to pass no blue laws.
There are no such things as blue laws
wl-wr Were', And we don,t Propose to
legislate people into church. In other
words, we shall try to close the 'base-
Sl?ark8U th.t eolf links the motion
Siii euand ther theaters, the concert
nails, the amusement parks, the bath
ing beaches, and so on. We shall flt-ht
an amusements .wehere an admission
fee is charged. We shall oppose golf
tennis, baseball, football, and other
sports, even if purely amateur and void
or financial cost to those watching or
taking part, because they set bad exam
ples for children who otherwise might
be content to go to Sunday school.
ve shall seek to restrict the sale of
gasoline for-pleasure automnhilps and
ursre othpr nwaciirsn u .. i , !
day automobil and Toy riding P This t.11 are Pple I
will not brinp tho m ?Lm !" v. have lived and labored with and for
and buleS w h old-fashioned horse them, in the mill and out for 30 -long
!totf?hei"?S. JL6. S?!2i ars and I am living with them now'
rest for man and ht " I Through the Y. M. C. A., T. W. C. A.,
steamer, rides on Snndv wm " cnurcn' ni?nt scnooi, etc. i have given
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Season
F
Men
of
With' the first cool breezes man
begins to think of his Fall
Clothes.
It is the time of year when he
want to look his best. We have
for your choosing the most com
plete selection of
Quality
mis
and
Overcoats
to be had in the Carolinas at
prices that are considerably low
er than a year ago.
And with these lower prices go
the newest, the latest and the
finest clothes we've offered in a
long, long time.
MELLOM'S
posed by us or T the ground th .J and W laJ?r with- tlnf and
are unnecessacv to the rv,i win aiw-ays love mem ana ram willing
of -Christian America."
"How many churches are behind this
movement?" the reporter asked.
Sixteen denominations," he replied.
Really, we have seventeen, for while
the Lutheran Synod did not indorse this
movement officially, the Lutherans are
with us. Only the Roman Catholics,
the Unitarians, the Seventhday Advent
ists, and the Jews are outside this
movement. And, to be perfectly frank
with you, they will have to conform to
the laws if we succeed. The Jew will
have to observe our Sabbath. As a mat
ter of fact, he might as well, because
Saturday is not. after all, his Sabbath.
He is wrong by the revised calendar.
Therefore, it will work no hardship for
him to attend his synagogue on the
same day we attend our churches.
"No, I see no reason why the public
libraries or the art galleries should re
main open on Sunday. We shall seek
to eliminate the huge Sunday newspa
pers and establish a censorship over the another.
stun: that gets into ' them on
willing
at any time to taKe up the cudgel to
fight for their good, and certainly do not
believe that further labor organization
is for their good and I wanted to tell
you, Mr. Editor, that I and a vast host
of our people are behind you1 in, any
fight you may make to prevent agita
tors from dominating the workers-
You may use this in your columns
over my name if you wish.
Yours truly.
C. T. FALLIN,
Care Louise Cotton Mill, Chadwick-Hos-.
kins Co.
MONUMENTS AND MONUMENTS.
Editor The News:
We are a race of monument builders.
From the time and place where the
ancient pyramids lift their proud heads
above the shifting sands that hide their
feet from curious eyes, down to the
present time, the pathway of man is
marked by monuments of one kind or
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days
"Of course, we shall back no law that
would compel a man or a woman to
attend church. But we believe that it
we take away a man's motor car, his
P fhnv In 1
i unukiici, xjai. ui Liicxi& xiiivfc; nfPTi rnv-
other ered by the" dust from the
progress, and have been forgotten.
Some have been ruthlessly , torn down,
because, of changing sentiment, or cirl
cumstance. History, both sacred md
profane, points to such expressions on
golf sticks, his Sunday newsnaner. his : thp nan nf man in all no-o
horses, his pleasure steamships, amuse-j ditions. "Let us build here -a- monu
ment houses, and parks, and prohibit I jnent," has been the excellent cry of
him from playing outdoor games oriiovinsr hearts and eratefni line rfhi
witnessing field sports, he naturally jis right, we do well, to eommemsrate
win UUll USUI tU UI1UICI1.
"We propose to close all stores, phar
macies, excepted. And it is our hope
that pharmacies may be limited to the
sale of medicines only on Sundays.
"We are not contemplating any drive
for funds at present. We have ample
financial resources. The Protestant
churches and other religious societies
and organizations give no (little) money,
and we have received large sums from
wealthy men." "Mr. Rockefeller?"
"Well, I shall not answer 'No' to that,
but I shall say that I have no personal
knowledge of any gift from him."
I will leave this statement with the
public and let them judge as to who
misrepresented the aims and purposes
of the Lord's Day Alliance, Dr. Bowlby
or myself, when he printed his reply
to the newspaper article " which was
printed in The Charlotte Observer, Sep
tember 6th.
C. S. LONGACR'E.
International Secretary of the Religious
Liberty Association, Washington, D. C.
COTTON MILL OPTRATIVE WRITES.
Editor The News:
Want to let you know that your edito
rial, "Labor's Campaign Here and in
the South" was appreciated by at least
one man not a mill owner. During my 30
years' experience as operative and over
seer in southern cotton mills I have seen
no more concise and accurate summing
up of real conditions as they exist in
our southern cotton mills and I am
sure the better informed of the opera
tives are behind you, for these labor
agitators are our worst enemy toaay,
while the mill owners have proven our
best friends. For 30 years I have been
either in the direct center or in very
close distance of all the trouble these
agitators have caused and I have failed
to see even the slightest good they have
done; they have brought only discontent,
want, and misery to the men they pro
fess to help arid have caused the mills to
lose money, a reasonable part of which
the "mill owners" have always been
willing to spend for their operatives'
good. I have never known of anything
they have done, but deceive the people
and get their money, very little or none
of which was ever spent only for their
personal benefit." One thing sure, the
operatives got but little back, yet I do
know that the mill managements have
often, not only sacrificed ; profits, but
have shouldered heavy losses that they
might take care of their operatives,
J keep them from want and cary on work
among them looking to their ultimate
uplift to a position in the social scale
where they would pass out from the
cotton mill industry into higher avocations-
I remember having often heard
the late Lewis W- Parker say that
the vast sums of money he spent in
welfare work was not to make better
operatives in his mill, but to make
better citizens, that "he only aimed to
improve h'is men to a place where they
would aspire to places beyond any cot
ton mill and that he succeeded I can
prove by the listing of many names I
know who are now mechanics, book
keepers in the professions and in busi
nesses of their own. Yet what have the
labor unions done for their people even
in the best organized centers. Take Eng
land, the best and New England the
next best organized centers. When war
conditions made enormous profits pos
sible, what did they do for their opera
tives? Pay good wages! nothing more!
when the crash came, what did they do?
shut down flat, with the result, that
their operatives in many cases went
hungry, naked and cold. Soup lines and
bread riots were the rule not the ex
ceptions. What did the labor unions do
to relieve their want? very little or noth
ing, but howl calamity and try to shift
responsibility onto the government. For
contrast, what did the southern mill
owners do? Shouldered their loss and
where curtailment was absolutely nes
essary, they distributed the shut down
over a period of short time so there was
no excuse for real suffering in many
cases, either furnishing rent, fuel and
many of the necessities free or at very
low cost, and when you look over the
depreciations in mill stocks now and a
year ago and compare the deflation in
their value you can see how they did
this, namely by assuming the loss them
selves and when profits were enormous
did southern mills do as those in Eng
land and New England, pocket all the
cash? not much! Very few or none of the
southern mill villages but that show
large expenditures, money they did not
have to spend, and that their eastern
and European rivals did not spend and
spent only with a view of improving
living conditions for their help- Would
they, could they, the labor organizations
do this? Well hardly!
In conclusion is it to our common in
terest, the interest of the new south
which is just beginning to see the possi
bility and benefits of manufacturing
their cotton crop, is it to the people's
interest as a whole to have textile labor
organized. Strikes, walkouts, agitators,
and troubles galore, especially so long
as the southern mill owners have and
do show their willingness to carry so
fair with their operatives, even asuming
loss for their good, something they could
not be expected to do if they were at
the mercy of a gang of cutthroats and
radicals who openly raved to get every
thing and give nothing? Then from our,
the operative's standpoint is it desirahle,
can we afford to turn our back on
proven friends who have cared for us
through good and bad so that none of
us who were worth while has ever suf
fered, however great the calamity to in
dividual plant or business in general?
Friends that have even been willing to
give huge slices of profit to us when
times were good, can we turn our back
bn these to, follow men who have never
done us nor our f ellowse in any country
any good, who have never kept a prom
ise and never done anything but bring;
trouble to us.
Lest I be accused of self interest, let
me say that I have not now, nor have
I ever had a. single dollars worth of
stock in any mill, nor have I anything
to sell to such at present, I do not have
even a job of any kind with any mill,
nor has anyone connected with any mill
any knowledge of this letter. I wrote it
of mv own volition and only because
deeds of valor in story and in sone.
We stood a while ago, in Trafalgar
Square, London, and looked with swell
ing heart,' upon the crumbling statue
of Lord Nelson, and through the
years we seemed to hear the words
ring out above, the voice of the sea:
"England expects every, man to do hi
duty!" What a pity that such a me
morial should ever perish, but it will.
I thought of it last night, as I read
an article in your columns of "The Me
morial Tower" being erected by the
alumnae of the "Old North State Col
lege," in Raleigh, splendid expressions
of noble hearts. Heroes, every one of
the alumni who gave their all, (for no
man can do more than give his life)
and most worthy of the very best we
can give. What is $80,000 compare.!
to even one life, rightly lived? Sup
posed it was your boy? Life! It's th?
sweetest, most precious and divinest of
all God's gifts. Just after I had read
the story from Raleigh, there came to
my desk two letters, one from a young
woman of 21, who has had three years
in college, and who has a consuming
desire to return this year, that she
may graduate, and then give her life
to teaching the mountain boys and
girls. She said she wants to teach
them because she loves them. But,,
she says, "Because of father's illness
and my inability to get work last sum
mer I cannot go back." What a pity! The
other is-from a young man of 20, who
says: "I am both deformed and crip
pled, but, feel that if I can get an
education, I can and will make a good
pharmacist, as I am working in a drug
store and love the work." I wish that
every loyal American, whose heart
swells with gratitude, would "club to
gether" (as we boys used to say) arid
raise a, sum of money worth while,
and call it a living memorial or mon
ument to the flower of American man
hood, yes, and womanhood. Thesa
young people need help. Who will help?
Can you possibly invest your money in
anything that will bring larger returns
than brains and character?
Just before the World war, . while
president of a Western college, a youn
girl, graduate of high school, was mak
ing ready to enter college -to prepare
herself to go as a missionary to China,
but a few - weeks before she was to
come to usj' her- father had his back
broken in a railroad wreck, and the
doctor said he would never be able o
work again. . There was the crippled
father, and the mother with six young
children.' The girl went to work in a
telephone exchange in order to help
support the family. She wrote us that
she was working and praying that God
would open the way for her. She said
she would wash dishes, scrub thn
floors, wait on tables or do anything
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honorable, if she might have a chance.
Our small "aid fund" was overdrawn
but I published the facts in a Kansas
City paper, and before the paper reach
ed my desk, we received a telegram
from a lady living in Kansas City,
saying: "Wire the girl to come on, hr
prayers are answered. Send me th3
bills."
We wired; she came. She conquered,
and is now a flaming torch among th
heathen. What of the woman hr
benefactor? Listen, when we told th
story of the girl, before an audience. 'i
few weeks later, she arose in the audi
ence, and said, as only such a woman
could say: "I decided to wear cah-o
dresses and do my own work, and make
any sacrifice possible to help such a
noble girl," and I want to give $5,000
to help others, (she was a widow). The
effect was electric, and in a little while
$100,000 was given as a "student aid
fund."
I would not have one monument
less, but as one who shared the for
tunes of war, with our honored dead,
may I suggest a nation-wide memorial
fund, properly conserved and adminis
tered, so that the thousands who ara
thirsty, may drink at the highest and
clearest fountains of knowledga,
through all time. A monument that
will cheer and warm human hearts and
bless generations yet unborn.
Such a monument, would live and
grow larger, with the passing years, as
nearly every student would repay the
loan with interest, so that it will be
growing larger while every other mon
ument will be crumbling to dust.
Let's make such a monument nation
wide, and tall enough io cast its shad
ow from sea to sea and from the lakes
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to the gulf, and upon its radiant brow,
let us write, in letters large and
bright, "Ho!" every one who is ear
to have an education, come, though
you have no money, come and drink.
A WORLD WAR VETERAN AND E-
COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
Columbia, Mo.
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