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. A. J . r v 1 . i b'3 -. A. V v' J, - ' ,::nrii::rD mi , LINCOLNTON, N.-C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18. 1022. 6 Cents Per Copy, $2.08 Per Tear. 1 .. 7 f & ; r r I ' i ! M nzi David mi r """"?c,?,p trim -MS UllllUUltiiW Telia Them It ig A Fact That First Cotton Mill In South Vu Built at Lincolntoa In The Tear 1113. At the regular weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis Club last Friday night ; Mr. David Clark of Cbartotta, editor of the Southern Textile Bulletin Viu the guest - of honor and principal speaker of the evening. ', '.vi' ' The program was in change of R. S. Abernethy, who had secured V Mr, Clark As the speaker. Mr. Clark was introduced by President Mangumi . ; -"Editor Clark dealt In facts and fig ures of interest to the club members. His 'Subject was "Cotton Manufac turing in the Piedmont section V'of NorUi Carolina." He said in partv "I node-stood fii-t ' the invitation extended that you wanted me to dis cuss cotton manufacturing in the Piedmont Bection of North Carolina, - and I assume tbat you want some thing of the past, something of the present and something of the future, and I vealiM thai yon are Specially interested in these matters as they re . late -to Lincoln Connty. : ' ; V - - While tie 'fact is disputed at tones, r " the most authentic records Hndicat that the first cotton mill in the South was built in '1813 on mill branch pn and n kail miles from Lincolnton. Michael $ebenck and Absolum War lick, his brother-in-law got "together $1301, lafge wm in those days, aad emyltyd Michael Beam to build them a cotton m4U with -1 picker,' 2 earns and spinning frames of 70 yera br -spindles each, Much of the machin ery was built by Michael Bearji on the pmaises. . ' '"'..'": ;'!y.'t--: In 1819 : John Hoke and pr. Swing ..bought . an interest in the . IU AOJ.I.,. J.UUI trio. iwv ul was .built, Joel Battle built a mill f ;a,i " the present site of the Rocky Mount Catton Mills, at Rocky Mount,, N. C. These two mills comprised the en-1 tir textiltfJndustry.of .SoaJtfr.!il til the Mt. Heccla Mill was built at Greensboro, N. C,' in 1830, The Mt. Heccie Mill was later bought by Slbon. JL'TTate and Amoved by ' wagon -to Mountain Island, N. C where it was . operated for many years. ' -v As slave labor made it mora jrcofi- table to''fann,ihan to engage in. nnn: ufactttring our cotton manufacturing turir.i?, our cotton manufacturing ,in industry did not grow very rapidlyand in 1860 "we had only 41,884 spindles and 71 looms in North Carolina and .due to destruction' by the Federal army .they were reduced to 38,000 ari-,,600 looms in 1872, but the spirit of our aection is shown by the fact that ,in snite of the'reconstruction period difficulties we had more than doubled by 1880,. having then 9280 ' spindles. ; By 1900 we had a total of l,134tf ' which expanded to 3,160,000 in . 191 v and now- we have 5,600,000 spindles .which places us next to MassacbB- setts and tbe time is not far distant when m shall pass that state. Lincoln Coanly has not grown per . hips, . as rapidly some of the other coaaties,Jbu yon ive today,- 15 cot ton mills vrt tU .10200 spindles aW 100 looinsrwbich are consuming ap-: proximately 25,008 bales -of cotton annually. You have only 100 looms and arc therefore, the only partially complet ing the job by producing yarn3 which men in the other sections weave or knit into fabrics which sell at much, higher prices. It is a safe estimate that the men who buy Lincom County ' yarns make annually more profit up on then than your mills receive from their manfacture. , like the people of every other pro gressive town you are interested in the question of the movement of the mills of New England to the South, but like most of the others you,, see the problem, from the wrong ngle. It 'is' true that Massachusetts per i mits her mills to operate; only 48 hours and taxes them almost out of existence, but the other New England , states permot 64 hours and are not as mnirJenoiy w inuuv.,; i.,.; -,: If it were only a question, ox hours, .r of labor restrictions no New Eng- iaiii miii would worry about the South but sAere we have advantages that legisltKK- cannot overcome. . - " v In thtf fiK place we have pure blood ed Englfsh akjng mm operatives at comparedUne foreign jora em- ployees 'bf Af land, many of whose" milla bavb K,rint their nies in eight WVT' Wpw England fnilla IK.- "been built !n the cities without mill villages and their employees renting front outsid- ers pay so to i per weeK wjm iigni and water extra as against the $1.00 to fl.2U whiob the houthern operativ-, 9s pay, including light and water. Many of the New England operatives pay 7 to 10 cents car t fare to and from the milL The fuel cost of, the average New England operative is given as $86 per year as against an average of $18,00 for Southern operatives. , ' Th; New England operative must buy more and heavier clothing in the winter and pay high prices in the summer for the vegetable that, the Southern operative gets from his gar den.-C .,.: ' I estimate' that the Southern opera tive has an advantage of $7.80 per week, which means that if ih South ern operative gets $15.00 per wec he can live fully as wll as the New England operatives who gets $22.80. ' .This gives you the real situation back of the present agitation. New England mills had hoped that the federal Child tabor Law would be held constitutional not because of their interest in eliminating child la bor bat if that act had been validated, 14ey could have thru Federal legisla tion put a 48 hour law on North Caro lina and by the passage "of a Winu mum yrage law forced North Caro lina to pay the same wages a Merssa olmsetta irrespective of the difference in the cost of living. , -, Th Federal Child Labor Law was not validated and the Supreme Court having denied one section f the country 'the right to regatete the in ternaj . affairs of other sections, Mas sachusetts has seen the beginning of the end and a great fear has come upon her. Before closing I want to aay a few words about cotton mills and their relation to 'the . prosperity f your county You cite with pride the position that Noiith Carolina now occupies in ; agriculture and yet do net realize ' t hat the development of rotten manu- facturiti m North Carolina has been latilesponsible for that vonditiofr. 'tYour 'cotton . jsiiHs are taking raw cotton at 26 cents today and increas ing its value to CO t 75 cents before jit leaves your ctnmty. A large )Ortion of that increase goes as wages to cotton mill people and their purchasing power "gives the fanner a market for food stuffs that he could not 'without them afford to raise. t .'t .. . " ' ' : Few men study tbe passage of the dollar thrbugh the channels of trade but it can be shown that the purcas ing. power of null operatives greatly aids, the farmers. :' ' ' : Xet your mills - shut down for a month' and your merchants Tniow that it meaps . a financial loes to fhem, therefore more mid and ' mre pay rolls, would mean more profits. If your merchants would sit down and Icarefully figure tbe indirect pro fits ifrom every new mTII -they -would see that it would pay tbein to take stock even though tbey never expect ed to get a cent of dividends. Cotton mills have bad years and they have just had twawery bad ones, bat' under .good ' management, ami taking the average - over any periol sf ten years, I do not believe there is any better . investment than eottoa mil! stocks. ., , The world has $15O,00OJW0 spindl es of which only 16,000,000 are in the Soulhei-n states of the United States. Having advantages-over every other secuon, snere neea De no tear of our building too many mills.'V A number of local men of the- tex tile industry j present as guests in cluded Messrs Blenkenship, Arney, Durham, J L. Stamey, W. N Will iams, Broome, Parker. ' . ' Secretary Anderson read a letter to the club from the Mayor of Newbern graciously thanking the "club for its donation to the fund to aid the home less .fire suffers of that city. PHYSICIANS ARE NOW ' GIVING COAL, ORDERS Lawrence,. Mass., Dec. 14. Pre scriptions for coal are Jeing gjyen by physicians and honored by coal deal ers In this city.; " One ciealer said to day that within two weeks he had re Wvtid a dozen prescriptions written on regular prescription . 'blanks and each calling for, half a ton. Such or- ders were given preference over all others, he said. , . If Secretary Denby has his, way wo(the n;mber of has been in. noil nova fi nA o eiiVkof ifiif -? ' ..... . . ... . C, " . r V ireased from 85,500 in 18X0 to to av oid amue:. "Drunk as a sailor." i 000 in 1920" Jf!ITfPJ, C0TFi II lU01Uil 0.1 1 U .. Wv J 11 . smATfl mnrn tlUiLJ WllllLil White Population Has Increased Over Am Rnadrjtft Par Cm la Vrttr lean Whereas I He Megro Popula tion Has Increased Only Forty . Per Cent" -' '' . "An investment in North Carolina is worth 60 per cent more new thatj its white population has doubled and its white population is three times as large as its colored," said Hon. David; F. Houston, former Secretary of the Treasury, who was in Raleigh Mon day, v-:, .;'''- . "I have been studying," said Mr. Houston, 'Hhe census of figures. They show that the South is growing whit er. A comparison of the census fig ures for the last 40 yeaa shows that the white population in this period in the South has more than doubled while the increase of negro popula tion has been only 40.02 per cent. In 1880 the negroes were 1-5 of the to tal population ia the Southern Sjates. whereas in' 1920 the negro popula tion was only 1-4 of the total popu lation. 0 " 'Upon first blush, many will be inclined to - believe that this small decrease of negro population in ' the South can be traced to the treking of the negroes to the Northern States, particularly daring the war ' when there was a 'great demand for labor. I confess that when I first examine ed the figures 1 expected to see , tbat such was the case, but an examina tion Shows . that In 1880 the negro popualtion of tbe Nortihern ; States was 506,800 and in 1320 it was in creased to 1,534.000. There baa been a drift of the negro population 'to the north,' and west, hot it is not very large ' of significant The total gain hv ,40 years- is 1,028,200. Much of this was the natwal gain, tbe bal ance immigration from the South. 'I waS particularly interestes, Mr, Houston added, , to note the figures in South Carolina, where I limed for sometime, ..When I lived in South Ca'Iu'Ttbe-rgTos: Tnnnumbere the wites by nearly;, 500,000. - In 40 years,, the increase of negro popula tion in South Carolina has been only 60,000,.. whereas the Increase of whites has been in. round, figures, 400,000, That is to say that where the negroes frrmerlv hod ' . 2 and " 2 1-2 ?f pep pie f tthe vBe, ithey tojw only have 1 1-3. In North Carolina in 1830 there were 300,000 more whiles than negroes. Now their are in round fi gures 1,000,000 more whites in North Carolina ' than negroes. This fict makes an investment in North Carolina 56 ipei'.cent .better than it was in 1880. , In "North Carolina in 1880 ere were 531,000 negroes and the number bas gone in 1920 to 763,- 000, a gain of much less than '200, 000 negroes and a gain of 900,000 whites. In Virginia the figures are still more striking. Jn 3.-880 t&ere - were 631,000 negroes and in 40 years these were increased to 690,000, or about 70,000, while tbe white , population of Virginia increased 808y000." Mr. Houston, who js a noted au thority on econoniics, was very much interested in the - econonuc import ance f these changes. He thanks that the fact that tbe South is grow ing whiter is. a sure evidence , that the South is growing more ' produc live. :. - " : - "I was greatly sui-prised," he went 'a to say, "in the examination of these figures to see that the general impression that the negroes had gone in large numbers to the north were not correct , I had obtained the idea from superficial . reading that the drift to the north had been at the rate of hundreds of thousands, but the figures show that there was 80, 000 negroes ! in Indiana in 1920 as aeainst 39.200 in 1880. I was also surprised that : the increase in negroes in Illinois was not so large as the reports from Chicago papers led the people of the country to be lieve. It was said that a quarter of a million .negoess bad immigrated from the South in the last few years, but in fact the number - of negroes in Illinois in 1920 was 183,300 as against 46,000 . m 1880. This i ' a large increase, as compared with o er' states, but is much smaller than is generally supposed. "My greatest surprise was to note v.. hiti in,.,Ma tW i,or 1m migration to the North was not to uch state as Ohio, Illionois and In- tlonii Vint tn ' Pnnnavlvunlii where : CARE CF THE SICK Objects and Advantages Of The In stwetion. ;';' ' (By Miss Alexander, Health Nurse.) : Jhe primary objecw of the instruc tion in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick are: , To furnish elementary . knowledge of the principles of ' personal hygiene and household sanitation. To instruct in the causes, symptoms and preren tion of communicable and 'other dis- phe carrying on of various work in eases. To give instruction to young. the county: v girls and women in elementary nurs inf procedure, in order Jhat they may cafe for members of their families wlio are - suffering from minor aij- mcnts and may intelligently carry ojt the orders of a physicion in the ab sence of a graduate nurse. To teach initiative, especlaly in the use of sp pliances and equipment at hand and the Contriving of home made articles for the comfort .necessities of the sick when more expensive onos cannot- be had., ,; -! ::" r . ;':' ; ' Some of tbe direct aims of the in struction offered, which is an essen tial part of the health training of a community where ever it is carried on are: '.'';. .':?','.,- .. ; v.'" : To check infant and child mortali ty by:-(v-' ;:.; '...':,-.:.V.; '' " Teaching mothers sucb personal hy giene as will; be of benefit to them,. Giving instruction in care of babk? and small children, to combat as far as possible, domestic emergencies and epidemics,- . ; .. To promote , industrial health ; and efficiency by teaching meAods for caring for personal bealtb. To elevate the Btandaria .of com mintty and national life by cultivate ing intelligent public apinion upon and interest in public bealth require ments. : :.'.'';,; -v1'.. (;'..' " ":: '. -' ,; ' The Standard Course in Home Hy giene and Care of the Sick consist of fifteen lessons wii!k practical demon- Crousa. Asourv scnoois. ana in . bihk- pelnh eonnmniTty, Upon completion examinations certificates will bfc glt enby the American' Red Cross. i Any scbool or community desiring thik eoarse please notify Miss Lilliaa M.! Alexander, the County Nurse'. Miimbers of these' classes 'are 'as follows: v',v Asbwry School Zelda Wingato, Lettia Gooflswi, Addie 'Hauss, Mry Mullen, Verona Hovis, CHanna Ga briel Mary 'Joy, Jaunita Procter; Mary Killian. Hcpeljih Community Mrs. J- L. Abernethy, "Mrs. R. O. Kineaid, Mrs. S. 3S. Finger, Miss Fannie Edwards, Mrs. C R. 'Canipe, Mrs. C. E. BUaner; Mrs G. I. Sherrili, Mrs. H. F. Ballard, Mrp. PiercTval Hall, Mrs. C. A. Maun ey, Mrs. Graham Morrison, Mrs. 5ihn Bernhardt, "Mrs. Luther Sigmon, 3Gth. R. J McCortle, Mrs. H. V, Keever, Mrs. Jamea Sigmon, Mrs. Rob Rbyno, Mrs. Julhra Sigmon, Miss - Mauda Jones, Mrs. Zettie Sigmon, Mjss Frankie Loftin, and Miss Louise Mc Corkle. .'...': Crouse School Frances Rudisill, Veola Heafner, Josephene Rudisill, Nellie Harvey, Lois Carpenter,, Jessie Heafner, Far Carpenter, Anis Sulli-. van. ARBUCKLE TO OPEN ' A CAFE IN NIPPON Tokyo, Dec 14. Kumors mat Roscoe Arbuckle plans to return to Japan in the early suring ana es tablish a cafe in Tokyo have been un officially confirmed. , ' His depleted finances and Y un popularity in the United; States are 'said to have combined to induce the comedian to launch the Jajanese res taurant venture. V The scandal which resulted in ban ning Arbuckle's pictures in Ameri ca apparently has not affected Jap anese "movie" - fans who appiauoea iPow" nn h9 few aDDearencos in theaters here . ' " . . According to reports the restaurant will be called the "Cafe Debu" from "Debukun." nieaning "Mr. Fatty," which be ia called by Japanese admir ers. You will be spending" some money thisj Christinas perhaps a consider able amount. - We all do,' , If you spend it with our home mer chants at least a portion of it may find its way back into youf own poc kets. It often, does. . if it is spent outside of our com munity you will never see it again. They never do. 4,"" ?D MEETINCt OF ' " Uu;ytlf AGENTS AT RALEIGH i . County Agent J. G. Morrison, re turned from Raleigh on Friday after spending two -.weeks at the state meeting of County Agents aha home gents. He reports a very interest ing meeting. , The Agents worked out a proposed plan of work for the coming year and a plan whereby the Co. Agents and Home Agents can co-operate closef in the County Work. . ; The Agents got in close contact to all the specialist and made dates for The state has just added to its force of Extension workers a forest i vf ill TJ,1rt Co an give demonstrations Vin setting out new trees and the proper care of old forests. ." ,' The last night in Jtaleigh the agents had lota of fun when they I tried the "Scrub Bull' for bis life, for .th damage he had done the jersey breed. , He had two lawyers to appear for him and two against. ' A great deal of wit was displayed on both sides. But the jersey condemned the "scrub bull" to be put to death, and be replaced by a registered bull. V, TOUNG GASTONIA MAN FOUND DEAD IN BATH ROOM (Gastonia Gaiette) -Charles Shuford, aged 16, employed as a floor man by T. Lv Craig, atito- mobile dealer, was found !ead in the bath room at the Craig automobile establishment on West Airline avenue Saturday afternoon about 3.45 o'dojt, A negro office, boy employed m tbe place discovered the prostrate body of young Shuford lying nftcj'bath room floor and called Mri.Nobletti.'a mechanic who was ne!1.' "tlw Matter brought the body oulf of the .baUi anln ti QnA that. IA . an. I . AA T, nfW fowe was at once notified and Dfi' , 'Gartison and Hunter were imrnediately: sum nmjy, arriving . within ten minutes. Tbe physicians found that he was About 3:30 Mr Lea Rainey, nWao', u",e,,,w" clianic, stepped into the bathroom to wash- his hands' and found Shuford dressing, he baving finished bis bath. He talked to Shuford and say, tbat he in fh f ha.Hh and seemed s to be in ' the best : of spirits, f Ramey was tnc last:" man to see Shuford alive. . ' i V-: Coroner L. E, Kjneaid was sum moned and,, after an investigation, ordered the . body removed to the undertaking establishment ' of ; the Ford Undertaking" . company. He summoned a jury composed of N. B. Davis, W, D. Aycock, W. H. Grady, G. J. Harris, F. L. Fergeraon, and J. R. Broom.: This jury met at the court house Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and examined witnesses, after which they rendered a verdict to the effect tw. Shuford came to .his death f rom i n. ane'' unknown, to the iury. - There was no suspicion of 'fool play of any kind, the supposition of the tor- nhvsicians. emoloyers and coJ late Sheriff T. E. Shuford. He had in th mnlnv nf Mr. Crai mostJ li -" ' " " O . - f tv, Hm for the nasi four years., He was apparently strong and heal thy, a clean up standing boy without I bad habits and .was vwry popular with . all the men with whom he came. in. contact in the . establishment wiere . worke an( on tne outside also. The average minister preaches about 100 sermons a year. This i requires intelligence,' educa tion, research,, and concentrated thought. . i. In addition, he must keep a watch ful eye on the work of the Sunday School-conduct mid week prayer meet ings foster and encourage all sorts of church societies and activities.visit the sick and oppressed, emile sweetly over the indifference of many of the brethren, and blaze the path to heaven 'for people, who. are too en grossed In worldly affairs to perform this important duty for themselves. We dole him out a sum that, with rigid, economy', will cover his naked nes and keep sfpul and body together and feel that we have done, wonder fully well. . '.' -'...". ,. '. ; ' . .- ' : : The devil smiles at our parsimony, the preacher doesn't complain of it, and we, apparently, prefer to remain ignorant of it - -. ,. ;. It's a gay world for everyone but th.e preacher, vorkers being that he died from some. . ovemoer- i, ii, gudden attack of heart disease. 146.49. From November 1, 1921 to Ynnmr Shuford was a son of the Detemben. 1, 1922, $966,940.75 Total SHORT HEWS IIEI.IS A resolution was offered in house by Representative Newton, of Mis souri, endorsed by 20 other Republi can representatives for a $70,000,000 appropriation to relieve famine con ditions in Germany and Austria. The census bureau reported that cotton consumption in November was -the greatest in any month since Oc tober 1917 . Representative Keller, Republican, Minnesota, refused to proceed fur ther before the house judiciary com mittee with his impeachment charges against Attorney General Daughterty Glaring the proceedings were "a comM5 OP- He was summoned to l" bforf the commi'te. row to give testimony under oath as to his charges of high crimes and misdemeanors against Mr. Daughterly- STATE BAPTISTS VOTE .... .... TO SUPPORT POTEAT IN WORK AT WAKE FOREST Resolution Commending His Action Unanimously Adopted. : Winston-Salem, Dec. 14. Starting with next year the work of the board of missions of the Baptist State con vention will be ' systematized, even more-than' has already been accom plished. ' The department of religious education i3 established by authority of the convention. This department will have three sub-divisions : Sun day schools, Baptist young people's union and student activities. Each of khese - sub-divisions ... will have . a wmpetent secretary, in. charge, all forking under the; direction of Cor responding Secretary Charles E. Mad-, dry. ( ' v Positive commendation of Wake Forest college and President William ,lS .Poteat. was the action of the ' convention in adopting a resolution offered by Rev. W. C. Meadows, pas- tor of the Pores Knob church in Wilk es county. The resolution as' adopted unanimously read a3 follows: cunim nu.fons. .uiueg. u. us Prent Pf 5 as expressed m the i freshen ,. w. uiam , wur. ot? at indort ing the Btble as the basis , of. .faith and we are glad to . as9ureU bv th board .of trs that the present policy will be con- tinued." . ., . . Secretary Charles E. Maddry made report of the reinforcement campaign and it appears that notwithstanding the fact that all reports are not yet In the hands of the secretary that at least $50,000 in new pledges wera made for ,the 75 million campaign1. Dr.' Maddry gave a full report of the, 75 million campaign to date. In that campaign the quota asked of North Carolina' was $6,140,000 for the ftvu ? year period. The state however pledged $7,054,562.44; since the begin- i1"" of the campaign the contribu- tlons h been as follows: Fro- May 1, 1919, to December 1, - ". $1,299,868.63. Fnmi December contributions to date $a,i!i)U,954.87, or la"K '4,04o.l J in meeting the luoU anct a lack ot ?adl,S8i:.57 In meeting the pledges made".' An in teresting fact in this connection, nowever, is mas we women oi mirin i f 1 1.li. rti 1 An T ?. Al. . t A, I ,T It. -arcnna were asaea vo raise )i,wv,- """ ""s- n "y nave coiunoutea to aate over ?;iuu,uuu or within $200,000 of their five year I quato. The women pledged $2,167,- 000 and they say that they will be able to meet the entire pledge within ' the five ear period and it looks like they will. The location'. of.. Meredith co'.'ege, the Baptist institution lor gir's lo cated at Raleigh was settled last week by the Baptist State convention in session at Winston-Salem when it was decided to "move the college to Method, near Raleigh, where larger grounds are available for the expan sion of the institution. ' New County Home Keeper. Mr, "C. Silvester Royster of Forest City, is fhe new county home keep- . er who will succeed Mr. J. B. Guffey. next week. Mr. Royster is the son of Mr. James Royster, and has had experience in . keeping the county home in Lincoln county. He has threo children and is. well qualified for the job. He has been with the Farmer Hardware Co.,' at Forest City fo l some- time. Rutherfordton, Sun.... . . 1 iT rv a. - IT 1 4 Ana usn ' "'V. "I. :-v;.,;A,'';- ',V). X,
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