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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, J ANUARY 14, 1914. V 1 Tile ClianOttC NeVS. ' jpT' ' TmS i lilMi ! tTlBSSbSSkSSmT 1 pfi? j Pdhlishsd Daily and .Sunday by THE EWs lTMLiSIUXf; CO. Corner 4r. nnl Ctanreli Sts. W. C. DOWD Pre-3. & Gen. .Algr. .7. C. PATTON. .-. ............. Editor ; MRS. J. P. CALDWETX..City Editor' V. M. BELL Adv. Mgr.; MBCIUPTION BATES .Ia!y and Sunday.) ne year six month ' n month .. . One weefc .... (Sunday Only.) One year men the Throe maitiis 21 i !! 1 Too I 'i';nieOemoci,t. One y -ar .so ! 1 Six months . . Three months Tclfpiioae Kusiness OfSca Citv Editor Koitcrial Rooms Job Office ' - i 1530 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. 1914 PROFIT SHARING AND WAGES. We believe in making twenty-five Mis ; "i t5 on. thousand men prosperous and con- i provided they made a systematic ef tented rather than follow the system j fort, similar to that being put forth of making a few slaveholders in the i y other cities even less fortunately establishment millionaires.' Henry prepared for the reception and the Ford, of the Ford -Motor Car Com- j maintenance of the reserve institution, yany is credited with having said: ; Xews wants Charlotte to secure Alt this may be true. Henry Fora j tl -,ank. It. means much to the city, .vas probably influenced by the highest j jt ?s afl0ther step in the fight for humanitarian motives. But when he more payrolls, and it is up to Char :eliberately unloosed the purse strings ictte vhich turned a tide of ten million del- j Charlotte bankers who will present ars free among twenty-five thousand the caim3 0f tie city are busy mak- : his workmen, thereby establishing i ing investigation and studying the prop- a minimum -oge scale of five dollars I per day for labor, skilled or unskilled.: he created a standard of wa-ees that an : in tnc connne (r iiis un laciory. As a Jesuit a mob ui ten thousand men stormed the factory early Monday :aorning and instigated a serious riot when th-.ir demand i'or employment at the rate of five dollars per day was not met. It was not the principle of profit -baring that swept over these ten thousand men. It was the hope, vain, may be, but a hope just the same obtaining a wage scale high above : heir wildest dreams. There were others, i. heir frkmle, probably, mem bers of the same famiiy unon whom the shower of Hem y Ford's gold had : alien, ?r.d who ?hhov.gh no better; -.vorkmeii nr a no more -l'vir-e and deserving efficiency ihroush lone than thousand- of others, are set apart to receive e bonus that almost means ine.'jpendence after a few years. Wouid there have been the iren ;:ied c-xe'tment if the report had t?one torth that the employes of the Ford -Motor Car Company 'would, beginning with the new year reccive an increase according to the length of service? Profit shark:? is no new thing:. The principle is the same when a mercan tile house presents its traveling sales men Tvith a bonus for new business or for business that passes a certain figure, it was Henry Ford's millions, the enormous profits of his concern reaped thvouah the application of ev ery known law of efficiency and scien tific management that swept sober, thinking men off their feet in the wild est extasie.s of praise for the unselfish when Ford set up an artificial wage standard, based neither on service nor efficiency and which would be practi cally impossible for any other con cern to successfully duplicate. GOOD FOR SUMTER. Sumter did a fine thing a few years ago in raisin over $ift.i)0Q m six days for an As-oction Build ing. And recently another very cred itable thing has been don'' by ten or he rbusiness men. It was found that the money raised was not sufficient to provide an ade quate building and a debt of some ; $16,000 was incurred. The interest on this debt has seriously embarrass ed the Association and crippled its work but after enduring this cnodi tion for awhile two of the Directors decided to give $H0 a year for five years and have .secured eight other men. for the same amount, thus pro viding for the interest charges and giving the Association all the income from the dormitories, Membership fees, etc. This will make possible a strong religious and educational work and greatly increase the influence of the Association. There are a num ' her of cities in the Carolinas where a similar group of men might add greatly to the effectiveness f othe local Association by giving like sup lort. President Woodrow Wilson ban i well said: ' , ...... "You can test .'th.jno'dern Vommu jnity by the degree'1 of its interest I in its Young Men's : Christian Asso i 'iatioa. A cmomon investment that t.vields a moc-t beautiful usury to 1 lie ; common benefit of ail mankind." THAT RESERVE BANK. ! Charlotte bankers are still in thej fight for a regional reserve bank for) Charlotte. So are the bankers ot'j j Richmond, Columbia, Atlanta, and : ! one might add Phoenix, Arizona. It has been pointed out by The News that in , all the.-;1 cities of the southeastern! district which hanker this reserve bank. for the location j Charlotte stands j i in position separaie and apart as distinctively the proper setting for thej new hank. Here are more facts: A local banker of prominence has prepared an exhibit of statistics set- the choice or location. These hgures show the total ' apimlization and the surplus of the states in the sont'-5- east. According so these figures: t i Virginia I X. Carolina 11.319,000 i S. Carolina S.51 3,000 Georgia 24,301,000 F3prida 10.392,0n Aiabama 3G.O81.0OO j Total $100,314,000 This just means that Virginia, bear- slooiiS friendliness and good feeling in one hand aud excessive and discriminatory freight rates in the other may be left out of the count entirely and still there would be "sufficient capital leK ro make Charlotte easih eligible for the selection. Although it was not intended so, yesterday's News might aave been termed the financial edition. A large part of the paper was devoted to the campaign now being waged by the bankers of the city to land the re gional reserve bank for Charlotte. The Xews in a story from Washing ton first called the attention to Char- j lotto bankers that they stood iu a good way to get the regional bank, osition from every hand so that it may be presented to the reaprve bank or aanization committee on January 13. It is safe to assert that these men, close to the real financial condition of the city, alive- to its needs, will spare no pains to make their arguments to the committee in compelling manner. When they leave Charlotte tonight on this errand they will carry the united support of the entire citizenship. BIRDS OF ILL OM3N. Quoting the fact that the steel mills in Alabama are now working double night and day shifts in spite of the fact that their product has been put on the free list, Democratic Leader Underwood yesterday delivered a straight from the shoulder blow ia the face of the panic preachers who are setting up their dismal forebod ings of hard times to come: "What I have to say to the birds of ill omen who preach disaster, hoping to bring their party back into power," Mr. Underwood said, "is this: "The industrial depression we have been passing through has lasted i'or more than a year. It began before Woodrow Wilson was elected. Before the coming elections next fall there will be an industrial awakening that will put to shame the panic preaching brokers who cry disaster in order to bring about depression." The. democratic administration has set a precedent for maintaining a con sistent policy in office by making good the pledges upon which the people of the United States' gave- it support. Within a year two of the foremost is sues of recent times have been met fairly and squarely and have been set tled. Now comes the report from the white house that the next message will bear direct jy upon trust legislation and will not only meet he approval of the various committees but ..'ill be another step in the realization of the democratic party principles. No wonder that the uig interests ore setting up a wail. The school teacher from New Jersey upset erery known calculation by wading into pol itics andv showing himself to be a bet ter politician than any - man in the field. Then he said there would be to riff revision. Tariff revision there was. Then currency reform. And it was so Now he talks -of effective trust legislation. It is safe to say that trust legislation there will be. The remarkable campaign for rais-1 ing $4,000,000, in fifteen days in New j York City, for the Y. M- C. A. and Y. W. C. A. is the greatest one ever undertaken in the world. There was an organied committee of 1.000 peo ple at work, and the total amount raised was $1,061,500. On Thanksgiv ing Day, Secretary Daniels of the Navy, gave out the following to the Associated Pres: "The specific achievement which has made this Thanksgiving notable is the success of the movement in New York to raise four million dol lars for the Young Men'e Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association. This is not sig nificant so much because of the large amount of money raised, but becauee it emphasized the fact that these Associations are appraised at their true value, it is a matter for sincere thanksgiving that the leaders in the churches recognize the need of reach ing young people and of employing this new and modern agency. Helped Her Knee A Quick Improvement Mrs. T. E. "Wil- Mr. L. Roland Bishop. of Soranton. M,ss H- s- Spokesfield, iiams. of Chicago. Pa., v.rites: "As I was leaving my f-Lmwood, Mass., writes: 111., writes: '"This office for lunch, I slijved and fell. The other day I called on winter I sprained spraining mv wrist, an.l at four mr r'ghlwr, a beautiful my knee, and a o'eta-k could not hold a pencil in mv old lady 73 years old, who friend recom- hand. At Ave o'clock I purchased :i had iallen upstairs and nieuded ' Sloan's bottle of vour Liniment, used it ve fPramed her wrist. I asked Liniment. I used it or six times before I went to beri. ncr v. hat she wasdoinsfor ana it did me lots and the next dav I was of jfood." my hand as usual." has great antiseptic power. Use the sting of poisonous i;. sects. At a!! dealer . Price, DR. EARL S. SLOAN, CHftRLOTTESHOU 10 AFTER RESERVE BANK Editor News: Enclosed you will find a letter that is being sent out by the Richmond business houses in regard to locating one of th "Regional Reserve Hanks" in Richmond, asking as you wiil see North Carolina support, and on ac count of the treatment North Carolina has received from Virginia in regard to North Carolina freight rates I for one am not willing to give Virginia any aid at all in any way but want to sfe this "Rank" located in Charlotte, X. C, if stales mentioned are to only have cnf. I contend that North Car olina is more central and that Char lotte is the point. I notice Raleigh and some other towns that have no ambition of their own are offering their little support to Richmond. Now I know from past experience if Char lotte is stirred up just a little along this line by the "News'" and other ways she will get a move on and go after and get this "Bank." Hoping to see Charlotte wake up and go after this "bank"' before other towns in the state pledge their support to Richmond. I am yours truly, SUBSCRIBER. Washington, Jan. 14. The diploma tic and consular bill which is to be reported by the house committee on foreign affairs within a fortnight will include an appropriation of S150.00O for an American embassy building at Mexico City. There are two other em bassy buildings estimated for by the state department at Tokio and Berne. The total estirna; for all three was $440,000 but the fate cf the Tokio and Berne projects is uncertain. i ne iNew Effective February 1, 1914 In conlomrity with the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission The following table is illustrative of some of the differences between the new and old rates 5 Tbs. j 10 tbs. 20 Tbs. Between j ; Charlotte : Express insured I Express insured j Express insured and the ! j 1 following ' New Old j New j Old New f 018 points: ; Rates Rates i Rates ' Rates i Rates '' Rates New York 30 65 40 SO 61 j $1.10 Chicago 33 70 46 $1.00 72 ; 1.25 Cincinnati 31 70 41 ' tQ 63 j 1.20 Savannah 28 35 ' 35 70 51 ' .85 St. Louis 33 75 j 47 1.00 j 74 j 1.30 ! Jacksonville 30 60 40 75 i 60 ; 1.00 ' 1 1 - : Food Products Carried at Still Lower Rates Express Service Means Highest Class of Transportation Free Insurance up to $50 A Receipt for Each Shipment . Responsibility -Safety -Efficiency Telephone or write to your nearest Express Office. pstr,tfsat$ orSPRASSS I You've only put it on twice, and the pain's all gone, and my arm's 'bout as well as ever. I sure never saw anything so, quick as Sloan's." So say thousands of oth ers who have used Sloan's Liniment for many years for burns, scalds, cuts and sprains. Best for Sprained Wrist able to use t, and she said she was usnif- Sloan s tne best liniment there is." it for cuts, wounds, burns, and 25c, 50c. end $1.00 Inc., BOSTON, MASS. Sixteen Million Church Members Represented Washington, Jan. 14. Representa tives of fourteen denominations said to embrace a constituency of more than 16,00,000 gathered here today at a meeting of the council of church boards of education in the United States. Vice President Marshall is to speak at a meeting tonight. Commis sioner Claxton of the federal bureau of education will greet the delegates. The church and public education, the efficiency movement in education, an international propaganda for Christian education are some of the topics cn the program. DAVIDSON ITT MS. Special to The News. Davidson, Jan. 14. The six frater nities represented here, initiated last night the following: Beta Theta J. T. Crayton. W. A. Julian, E. P. Neebit,' S.'R. Keesler, B. D. Roddey end W. R. Keesler. Pi Kappa Alpha J. H. Watkins, J C. McCaskill, M. E. Mattison, .and W. G. Somerville. Kappar Alpha A. B. -Reese, Jr., A. M. Currie, C. A. Ansley. Sigma Alpha. Epsilon B. F. Ha good, E. C. Hampton, C. B. Wil liams. , Kappa Sigma D. C. Crawford, li. Critz. T. H. Somerville, J. P. Laird, G. Walker, J. D. Smith, T. A. Smith, T. A. Finley. .V. M. McNair, and D. C. McLeod. Pi Kappa Phi S. T. Henderson. H. F. Mayfield, R. Howard, J. W. Smith. Mr. Jackson Bell, of Charlotte, spent, yesterday here. , " Mr. G. A. Howell, of Charlotte, was a visitor here yesterday. Mr. R. W. Graves, of Elberton, Ga., was among the visitors here lately. Mr. William Cowies, of Statesville, stopped over a few days on his re turn trip home. Received the and water damage in our recent fire. Th will have to be m i Aid Your Daughter's Education By giving her a Piano tha t will help her to cultivate a keen and discriminating musical ear. From her childhood teach h er the value of a GOOD PIANO, by giving her the Piano that great musicians recommend, the STIEFF. Visit our Factory Wareroom s and see the great values we offer you. 3ther Good Pianos of Different Makes as Low as $175 Come in and hear the Stieff, and let us tell you how easy it is to own one. ESTABLISHED 1842. 219 S. TryoE St OPPOSITE ACADEMY OF MUSIO YOU ARE If You Are INCORPORATED This school is endorsed by State Officials, Leading Bankers and bus iness men. The largest, oldest and best equipped school in the state, and one of the leading schools of the South. CHARLOTTE, N. C, RALEIGH N. C. FDR JOB P RIM MECKLENBURG MARBLE & GRANiTECO. WORTH OF .LinoleumSp On Our Third Floor full benefit of the sold at a terrific Musica Charlotte, N. C. IN DEMAND a Graduate of ANYTHING in Cemetery work From a Headstone to a Vault. All work manufactured in our own plant Skilled workmen. Guaranteed material. Ask for ilst of names of prominent Carolinians for whom we have fur nished work. Phone 557. East Second and BrevatQ. Pay You to Wait PHONE IS 0 rpe i if terrible smoke sacrifice. V - For a Swell Perfume Use Bralle Illusion Which is the Juice of the Violet ' , Without Alcohol. $2.25 a Dottle. REESE & ALEXINS! - Druggists Ccr. 41h aai Trjoa 3t. 4 I This Is "IT" S Always Look SiRpM For the Big h LIZ BLAKE'S DRUG SHC On the Square. Prescriptions Filled Day and Night Blake's Cleansing Cream 10c and 25c. So much bettetr than Gasoline and Benzine it's Cheap Enough, toe. J at i Jno. S. Blake Bra? Co. Phone 41 and 300. On the Square. J5W ft m BH
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