JC"I T'.VO THE CASTONIA (N. C.) DAILY GAZETTE TUESDAY, A U C UjT 15, 1S22 FORECASTS PERIOD PROSPERITY FOR SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS Bv E. IT. Prinze, President, Bank .t,f n.arhstcm, X. B. A., Charles tt.a, 8. C.) , Cumin? events east their shadows be for?, and the crvping bull market in Hoii'.bern eottnn mill stocks, which has been tiiiohii.ing for .tli last Bis weeks, . wen: to forecast a period of prosperity ' fi.r Southern ir.innfaotnrers who had so t Jong a period of hanl times for almost wvra yi:T4 prior to July, '1915. lm 'advantage' which New Kngland, to S ime estent, nnd old Kngland, to a iiiiuli cccfltiT extent, ha wemed to pos f oss over "PI Southern mills,' has been tin ir grvnb-r success in catching the ritrlit -tiiiio to buy cotton, bo that the liffiuvnee iu freight has been more fthjn overcome, because this is only a riiU fraction of the difference between the low prices of the season and the high. Commission merchants and bank ers have generally discouraged the pur chase of raw material except when liodired either by future sales on the Cotton Kxclianfce, or when the goods were sold for future delivery, and they have been especially insistent upon, this jxdiey J.-cinjf, followed by Southern mills, that our manufacturers r3y well feed entitled to take tlte position, - that it is not for them to try to choose the rieht time of' the wrong time to boy Votton, except in conuection with the alo of their manufactured product. The chcaixfjjt cotton year in nnd year 'out, is almost all spun iu KnRland, be cause, the English seem to bo particu larly skillful in discerning the opportune iii'iment to cuter the raw material mat kcts'ut or near the bottom. They have a ureal Advantage in their banks, each' Kino directly or indirectly, in intimate! touch, with economic conditions all over "the "world, and moreover, each is so large that it has a considerable number tit men of the highest ability on its FffSIT. There an eiocial reason why American banks haVa diseourntfed the jiurchnsc of raw material by Houthern fpinners beforo the goods were sold, nnd that is because so many of our 'companies have been operating with a working capital entirely too limited for the successful financing of the .business, ho that there lias been no reserve of liquid aAsets to withstand a loss, if one houJd be inade, anil one bad miniate, Jdrieed the manager in the position of ."having wagered the , existence of his icruniauy on a single market situation. 'Uotn abroad nud in New Kngland Vie 'importance of adequate working capital ja appreciated more than has been the caiso with ns, as well for the stability which it gives to a business as for the greater latitude in using bis own judg ment, which makes it wise and prudent for a skillful manufacturer to take upon himself . The Southern textile district lies along the Eastern slope of the Appalachian mountains, and all but the Northeastern extremity is readily accessible to the transmission lines of the great power companies, which constantly are extend ing their facilities for turning into elec tric energy the lit reams flowing towards the Southeast, and to the Atlantic. The Northeastern extremity is near the, Virgiuia coal fields, anil toward the Southwestern end, from just over the mountains, with but a short haul, Toll the trains from the mines of Tennessee. Throughout this whole region Nature has provided cheap and abundant stored up energy to be put to service by man's contrivance. New Kngland maintains that it is the lower wage scabs in the Bouth which enables our mills to make cheaper goods than they. Close investigation would seem to disclose that it is not low wng but a low labor cost which given to our manufacturers their admitted advant age, II recreation and welfare work, carried on by our Houthern manufac turers, are counted as part of the pay received by the operatives, our mills spend as much for wages as New Eng laud, and our operatives are far more comfortable. In the South, our cotton factories are filled with native born Americans, in dustrious, efficient nnd many generations in civilization above the foreign hordes from Southern and Central Kurope, which make up the mill villages in New England, where formerly the inhabitants were" of British or Celtic stock. Not only are our employees more efficient and more intelligent, but they are cap able of developing, and generally do Ue velop, a high degree of loyalty to the company, and of enthusiasm for their work, whereas the ignorant alien is an easy prey to the labor agitator and to the anarchist, and is readily led to adopt an attitude of constantly seeking alter less wore ana more pay. At last, the flnul exodus of the cotton mills to tho cotton fields seem to have commenced, and, strangely, it appears to be due, not to the saving through proximity to the raw material, but to the superior industrial efficiency of the pure-blooded American atock which hive inhabited the Appalachian mountains from before the days of the American Revolution. -.,. v GASTON COUNTY MADE RECORD SHOWING IN THE, NEAR EAST CAMPAIGN Other Counties Were Gull ford, Polk and Forsyth Rev. George R. Gillespie Was County Chairman. CLOVER CALLINGS. Correspondence of The Daily Gazette.) S CLOVER, S. C, Aug. 14. The t - .... 1., ..... .... .. B a. ... : 11 r.t liouaiug. breen formerly known as th Heyoolds cotton mills has been given fnMt. A. T. L. Smith of Charlotte. jTlie idP,itiryi.will be .200 feet long, sit ted north of the present mill build in jj and., bo modern - in- construction. The mill will bo equipped with 'Whiting iii.iehinery for a 5,000 spindle mill. It tull have electric drivo and seeut tho jiower from tho Southern Power Co., Those lines run noar the site, The j'lill will bo finished., by November 1 nd will be known as The Bowling "finvn Spinning Will. New houses will bnilt for the increased number of ieraties that 'vill.be required to run the mill. . ilisa Alary Jackson was hontess to She bridtro club on Tuesday afternoon .t her home on-the (lastonia' road. Jiridge was played at four tables and lc!i-ious refreshments were served. i Hisses Caroline and Margaret Sledge, "rf Charlotte are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. it. K. Love. ilr. Jomes Sifford has returned from 4tap Hill where he attended Summer fcchonl at the University of North Caro lina. "- Mi -s Bertie Lee Ilambright cutgr r;ml the younger get at a party on Thursday evening. ihs. Walter McElwee, spent eeveral ?1uys in York last 4eek. Mi Agnes Youugblood visited lcla- un'n in uran ami uocu inn last weea. Mrs. W. 1'. Smith, Miss Klyizabeth Piiil Cora Maxwell have returned from liicbburg in here they attended "the dis trict conference of the Woman 'a Mis sionary society. Mrs. C. It. Ferguson spent last week wifh her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stewart on route 2. Mr. Bianton Stacy of the Clover Ttrng Co. spent lant week with his tistcr V,t. W. Wj Bindcman, of F.'i.vetteviile, N. C. Mr. James Sifford is with the Clover l)n;(j; Co. during Mr. Stacy's absence. '?.iisa Martha Faulkner is upending some time in Atlauta, Ga. little IVrfV Currv th( thrv mnntha dd l:uiKtit4-r of Mr. and Mrs. Daw son t.'uiry, was carried to the Char bitte faitiiturium on Wednesday where the underwent a very ' aerious operation mil ;.t tUa writing is in a critical condition. . Ir. and Mrs. Ed Brison and chil ir"n, Mr. Ed Adams and Miss Edith JncktKin, of tinstouia fjicnt Sunday af tei n"on ia town. ' tr. find Mrg. Eob Brandon spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John M. Smith. ' Dr. Chris Allen of Shelby spent Sun day v.ith lioniefolks. Mr. Jim Kennedy of Cireat Falls, $;ieiit Saturday night in Clover. Miss illefkcr Ueamguard left Sun day for a visit to Great Falls. M ."infer Ciin'on Kankin, of Gastonin, r'.f.itil his uncle, Mr. Thad P. Clinton . wcA. .'Ir. Jcin D. McNeil, of Greenville, S. C, ia yjiending two weeks with l.er pv.renfs Mr. and Mrs. W. M-. Matthew. Mr. Moore Harden, of Lenoir spent MMiday i.iK'it with Mr. Kobert Moore. Messrs. James and Hubert Page, J'.'.n i'res-'y Smith, Odis Bobinson and t i:, e Harvey attended the ball fflrn- in Charlotte on Wednesday. Mrs. J. lyan Adams and Mrs. W. K. A'.mr, were visitors in Clover Tvi d.iv oft.-rtioon. y-or-i to lr. and Mrs. Waldo Mc ' '. Sun.i-iy, August 6th a son. Mrs. ls..nr SingHary, of Charlotte, i i-;t'iitf )-r "brother. Dr. and . Mrs. . 1.. V,,,.-, i . V.r. and Mm. Snm Brison left on '.i .,!.!! .i .v for their home in Kershaw n-j. !:.;..! .y Mrs. John Abel. y.r. Y. J. Gotd is fj-endiug ar vaca tion in the mountains of western North Carolina. - Rev. N. A. Hnnirick is sjiending some time in Ua. Mrs. O. E. " Fifzslmmons, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A, Draper in Chnrlotte last week. Mr. John Allen, of Chester visited the family of Mr. Ellie Moore on Thursday. Mr. Herbert Smith, has returned home after doing summer work at Trinity College. . : Mr, C. N, Alexander has gone to Philadelphia on business. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Matthews and daughter, Mrs. John D. McNeil, sjient Tuesday in (fast on ia, guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Campbetl. ' Miss Roberta Moore has had as her guest for the past ten days the follow ing ladies, her sister Miss Lots Moore. Of Kicninond,, Va., Misses Margaret and Alberta Harden and Salue Gladden, of Chester and .Francis Harden, of Gas toma. mis Moore .entertained at a lawn party for her guests on '.'Tues day evening, v Miss Margaret Fain, of Dandrldze. Tenn., sjient several uays last week with Mihsos ' Louise and Christine Smith. Mis Fain, Miss Christine Smith, Mr, M. L. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. John Hart, of York, 8. C left Monday for a weeks stay in New York. Miss I let tie May Alexander of Wil mington, N. C, is visiting her brother, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Alexander. Miss Nannie Plonk, of Kings Moun tain is spending the week with Miss Bertie Lee Hambrlght. , Master Jack Page spent the week end in York with John Hart, Jr. . Mr. and Mrs. John Moore and daughter, Miss Lois Moore and little Shirley Mickey, h ft Saturday for their homo in ; Richmond, Va., after Spend ing two ' weeks with ; , relatives in Clover i 1 - i.- Dr, ' E, W. rressly,' 'of Greenville, 8. ., was a welcome visitor in Clover last week. -The many friends of Dr. Prefsly are delighted to know that, he expects to move his family back to Clover in the near future. ; Messrs.' Moore Harden and Gladden, of Chester, 8. C, spent Sunday in town. - Mr. Ebbic Matthews, of nigh Point, is visiting his parents, Mr. , and Mrs. W. M. Matthews,, , RALEIGH. Aug. 14. Twenty-seven onnticg in North Carolina raised their quota forvNcnr East Relief, four doubl ing their 'allotments and the state went oyer it's L'00,000 quota by a small mar gin, for the fiscal year just ended, ac cording to figiireiTKiven out hint uiglit by Col. George H. Bellamy, state chair man. Guilford county led in aggregate sub scriptions with a total of I17.973J50. In the various clusses of Counties, Guilford, GaHton, Iee and Polk led in over-subscriptions. Guilford showed an over sub scription of 20 per cent, Guston of seventy-eight, Lee of seventy-six and Polk of seventy-seven. The most remarkable showing of the campaign was Polk which more than doubled its cash quota without a chair man, all of these funds coming in entire ly unsolicited. E. W. Deduiond of Columbus took charge in time for the cothing campaign which boosted the county's total to within a few cents of $1,000. Its quota was S-iliO. In his annual report to the county chairmen CoL Bellamy congratulated each for the work they have done this year under very adverne conditions. Jn addition to the financiul atrigency which is nation-wide the preliminary work which should have been started in July did not get under way until the first of January, Only twenty of last year's chairmen were ready to start then. Fifty newcomers to Near East Belief ranks were added but it was found lm possible by the State Director, Morris A.'Jieallc, to orgiinixe all 100 counties in time for the year's campaign. In valuable aid was given the organization by the honorary state cairman, Josephus Daniels and members of the executive committee, all of them men and women high in social and official life of the state. McDowell was the county to first raino It's quota. Mrs. D. F. Giles of Marion reporting on February 2'.i that her coun ty was over the top. , Thi county ruined S total of $1,751.55 on its' l,.'iK0 sharo. ouston put on a remariuinie campaigi and netted $14,248 with a quota of only $7,P80. Rev. George R. Gillespw, county chairman, was luter picked as Near East Relief commissioner from North .Caro lina and was refused leave of absence by his church board two days before he was booked to sail for Armenia on June 10, This was too late to choose an alternate. Late in the year D. B. Teague, nn at torney of Sniiford, was informed that Col. Bellamy had been unable to secure a chairman in Lee county. He volunteer-1 ed for the job, made a bung-up campaign and raised $2,U50.o, with a quota of $1,380. Charles A. Hines, GreenKboro Attorney, raised the lurgest amount io the state without a canvass. Col. Bellamy took occasion to thank the newsnnpers of the state which have cooperated in fine style and helped greatly in a number of cities to make tne campaign a success. The counties which raised their quotas and their percentages of oversubscrip. tion were: Polk 177; Dare, 127; Clay, 109; Hyde 100; Gnston, 78; Lee, 76; Cumberland, 72; Caswell, 70; Bladen, 68; Rutherford, CS; Currabus, 57; Hen derson, 56; Tyrell, 51; Alamance, 39; Orangs, 37; Lincoln, 36; McDowell, 24; Guilford 20; Harnett, 15; Anson, 12; Rockingham, 10; Pender, 10; Craven, B J Richmond 7j Alleghany, 4 nnd Swain 3. UL I.EVS ITB.1S OF INTEREST FROM BEUM MISS JENKINS TAJIES JP METHODIST S. S. WORK (Salisbury Tost.) Miss Virginia Jenkins, who has for several years been principal of the West Ward grammar school, is to engage jn Sunday school work nnd has been W-hosen Sunday aehool secretary iu charge of elementary work in the Western North Carolina Methodist conference, succeeding Miss IdaWoinack, of RoidsviUe, who recently gave up this work and will return to teaching in Reidsville. Miss Jenkins will make her headquarters in Lexington, where Secre tary Woolsey is located, and where the conference offices are maintained, ' She was in Lexington the first of this week in conference .with Mr. Woosley regard ing her . work, and is now in New York where she will remain several weeks preparing herself for her new work.'r, -..'.' ' -V' '.. Miss Jenkins is a graduate of the North Carolina College for ' Women and has been teaching for twelve yean j and was at one time president of the j grammar grade teachers association of the North Carolina Teachers Assembly. She has also held the position at super intendent of the junior department of the first 31. K. Sunday school of Salisbury, and has taken eiiecial religi ous training at Lake Junaluska. -False Bumors Causing 'Patrons and School Authorities . Much Worry School To Open Positively By Qe- topsr 1, . . 7 A false rumor . has been going the rounds in Belmont as to the opening of school, and although Bupt. Risk has repeatedly denied it and- the matter has been straightened out in this column before, a great many people are still coining 'to the school authorities asking if it is true that school will not start until mid-winter. Superintendent Sisk has asked that' the people set their winds st rest as to this subject, that school will begin positively before the first of October Jf it does not begin at the uidal -time, the middle of Sep tember, ' The primary and grammar grades will go hnlf day to East Bel mont as was in effect after the Central school burned but . jt has not as yet been decided . where the high school classes will be held.' So all the ichool children can get their traps together and get ready, for it will not. be many more weeks before they will have to take up their school duties. Enthusiastic House Greets Oxford . Performers. , The East Belmont scliool auditorium was filled to capacity Monday evening to welcome the Oxford Orphanage sing ing class on their annual visit to Bel mont, and from the applause and laugh ter that greeted the little performers the crowd greatly enjoyed tlm perform ance. The entire class acquitted them selves splendidly, and upheld the splen did reputation that f they have always had in Belmont. East Belmont Merchant Enlarges Store. Mr. G. W, Rumfelt, a successful merchant of East Belmont, who operates a store at the Climax Mill, has greatly improved his place.' of business. Mr. Rumfelt has built an addition to his store adding quite a lnrge amount of extra room and greatly enlarging . his storage and selling space. Painting and other improvements are making the tore much more convenient and attrac tive. . .v Personals, . The; many, friends of Mrs. Marion Crawford will be glad, to hear that she is improving after being indisposed for the past two weeks, ." , Mrs. Lejs' Travenger lias returned to her home in Bristol, Tenn., after spend ing the past six weeks here with her father, Mr. John Loftin. Mr. T. F. Walters siient the week end with his family in Huntersville. He was accompanied Dy .Misses iiivie ana Ada Crouse, "who visfted his daughter, ;jibs .Laiieue waiters. Miss Wihmt Toomey, of Mt. Holly, spent the week-end with Mis Mamie Duke, . - v Mr and Ms. C; N.'- Jackson re turned to their home in Dunn Monday after visiting Irer -parents. Mr. and Mrs, G. F . Hedricks. Mrs. Jackson and little niece, 'Miss Haftie Hedricks. spent the week-end in ; Clover visiting relatives. ,'' . . Mrs. J. A. Funderburk and children, Lucille, Frank and" Robert, spent the week-end in Lexington with Mrs. Fun derburke's daughter. Mrs. Hawkins. Miss Jennie Teague, of Lowell, has returned home- aftre spending several days here with her sister, Mrs. W. L Kennedy. .. - ' Mr. Girnrd ' Ripppy,' of Blncksburg, h. c, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C 8 Kennedy. : the latter his sister. Mrs. John Stubbs, of -Linoolnton, has been very ill for the past week at. the Home or her daughter, Mrs. C. I Nichols, in Belmont. Mrs. Stubbs came here on a visit to her daughter several weeks ago but was' taken sick nnd went to the Tranquil Park Sanato rium in Charlotte for treatment. She improved and came back to Belmont last week, but took much , worse and continued, so for nearly a week. Re ports from her Monday were that sho seemed somewhat improved. . Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Hall and chil dren, of Statesville, and Mrs. D. H. MeCuIlough spent Sunday here with Mr. Annie Hall. The little Hall chil dren, Celeste and Estelle,' remained over for a visit to their grandmother. BILLINGS BOOTH MUSICAL KEVUE SCORES HEAVILY ; - AT THE MAJESTIC Billings Booth's Musical Revue opened an indefinite engagement at the Majes- tic Theater last mght to s capacity audience, preaenting -a hilarious, side splitting : comedy in two acts entitled the "Oriental Princess. " The theater goers in Gnstonia have seldom bad the opportunity of witnessing such an excel lent cast in such -a clean, classy, rip roaring performance, replete with de lightful musical offerings which took encore after encore. Thelma 'Booth, as the statue which came to life, was charming in her role of the Oriental Princess and won her way into the hearts of the audience. The innocent 'cause of all the trouble, Billy Kelly in the part of Curtis How ard, who, tries to extricate bimsulf from the entanglements caused Jiy the pres ence of the statue, ' was ' nn excellent model husband, although Effle, his wife, literally "ran him ragged" over his apparent uafaithfulnetis. . . Last but by far tha Lining light of the whole company are the two come dians, Nick Wilkey, who was exquisite as the droll old bachelor who finally I bought the statue , to become bis wife, and Al Pbarr, undoubtedly the best blacrk-face eomsiliaa ever seen in this city. These two boys are unquestion ably a show in themselves. The chorus of "sweet. sixteens" "consisting of Jean Wilkey.'Lea Pharr, MabU Davis,. Mar garet Hebert and Viviai Holmes ia ex ceptionally well balanced, singing sweet ly, dancing daintily and wearing attrac tive costumes. Takig it all in all the entire company is first class in every respect, and with plays like the "Orien tal P.rincess" will attract capacity houses as Jong as it remains. adv. BIG DAY IN BURLINGTON ; BURLIXTOV. Aug. 15. The measur ed tread and ominous beat of drums will resound in the valleys of the Alemance in Burlington on Alamance Day when five hundred red-coats led by the Crown's Governor of North Carolina, Tryon, march to subdue the re-iucarnated rebels of 1771. The celebration to be held on August J7th will be one of the biggest events of the season and thousands are expected to be in Burlington for the day. Hint For Burbank. The, real . fisherman's pawJise is a place where they've eOfcsed the mosquito with the fish, insuring 'S bite efery min ute. Life. , ; . . ' Adopted by' the ' Session of Olney PrAal.vtArian ' jlini...li C. ........ I ' V - rn - . -.-. una.., Whereas our former beloved pastor and brother -in Christ, Rev. G. A. Sparrowy has been called from earthly Ecenes to ' Lis 'eternal 'reward", ' Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the Session of Olney church, which h served so faithfully for twenty eight years, go on record as - to his hi eh standard as a preacher, .pastor and citizen. - , That we bow in humble submission to the will of Divine Providence and nn God's richest . bleiiing upon the be reaved wife and family. " ... . That we set aside a page and dedi cate it to his memory itr our Sessional Records, and that a copy of this paper be sent to Mrs. Suarrow." The Gastonia Gazette, and the church papers. x . (i. Tate Mod. It. Q. HOWE, Clerk. " , K. P. LINEHEltGER. . ' . Committee. BURLINGTON, Aug. 15. Backwoods- men with their coon-skin caps; colonial farmers in smock and Jeggins and co lonial gentlemen in their beautiful eo tume of 1771 will constitute the men of the Regulation who will participate iii 'the re-staging of the Battle of Alninanee in Burlington on Alamance Day, August 17fbv,'Two brass cannon convened by Tryon, Governor of North Onrcina. . to Alamance'', to assist his eleven hundred red-coated 'militia in suhdninff the rebels, have-.been reproduced and will be used InHhe battle. . V' .,. ,j . :- ; Sounds a little queer.-but one "may get drunk on water. "' Knpxville Jour nal and Tribune. . ! .'.' We met the champion optimist .in a drug store the other. Mlay'. ',. 'He . was totally bald, but he was .buying a bottle of hair restorer and a brush and comb, all. at the same time. ' Let Us Repaint Your Car Also retop it and put it in first class shape for the summer. Only- expert workmen. Work promptly and satisfactorily. 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