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Thursday, June 22nd, Will Be DOLLAR DAY in Gastonia SfONIA PUBLISHED TWICK A WEEK TUESDAYS AND ETTE TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. vol. xxxvn. NO. 47. SECOND SECTION. GASTONIA, N. &, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 16, 1016. 1.60 A YEAR Ef ADVANC3. GAZ MANUFACTURES IN Census Bureau's Summary -Special to The Gazette. ; WASHINGTON, D. C, May 24. A preliminary statement of the gen eral results of the census of manu factures for North Carolina has been issued by Director Sam L. Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census, Depart ment of Commerce. It consists of a summary comparing the figures for 2 909 and 1914, by totals, prepared under the direction of Mr. William 51. Stewart, chief statistician for manufactures, ufactures. The figures are preliminary and subject to such change and correc tion as may be found necessary from a further examination of the origin al reports. The census of 1914, like that of 1909, with reference to manufac tures, excluded the hand trades, the building trades and the neighbor hood industries, and took account only of establishments conducted un der the factory system. In the la6t census, also, as in that for 1909, sta tistics were not collected for estab lishments having products for the census year valued at less than $500 except that reports were taken Tor establishments idle during a portion of the census year, or which began operation during that year, and whose products for such reason were valued at less than $500. The word "establishment" as used in the census reports may mean more than one mill or plant, provid ed they are owned or controlled and operated by a single individual, part nership, corporation, or other owner or operator, and are located in the same town or city. The reports were taken for the cal endar year ending December 31, 1914, wherever the system of book keeping permitted figures for that period to be secured, but when the fiscal year of an establishment dif fered from the calendar year a re port was obtained for the operations of that establishment for its fiscal year falling most largely within the calendar year 1914, PERCENTAGES OF INCREASE. The population of North Carolina at the census of 1910 was 2,206,000, and it is estimated that it was 2, 339,000 on July 1. 1914. The summary shows a considera ble increase at the census of 1914, as compared with that of 1909. In the order of their Importance, from a percentage standpoint, tne increases for the several items rank as follows: Salaries, 48.4 per cent; materials, 39.5 per cent; primary horsepower, 34.3 percent; wages, 34 per cent; value of products, 33.6 per cent; salaried employees. 30.9 per cent; value added by manufacture. 2 6 per cent; capital. 16.9 per cent, and number of establishments 11.7 per cent. CAPITAL INVESTED. The capital invested, as reported in 1914, was $253,842,000, a gain or $36,656,000, or 16.9 per cent, over $217,186,000 in 1909. The average capital per establishment was ap proximately $46,000 in 1914 and $44,000 in 1909. In this connection it should be stated that the inquiry contained in the census schedule calls for the total amount of capital, both owned and borrowed, invested in the business, but excludes the val ue of rented property, plant, or equipment which was employed in the conduct of manufacturing enter prises. In the final bulletins and re ports the rental paid for such prop erty will be shown separately. COST OF MATERIALS. The cost of materials used was $169,942,000 in 1914 as against $121,861,000 in 1909, an increase of $48,080,000, or 39.5 per cent. The average cost of materials per estab lishment was approximately $30,859 in 1914 and $24,713 in 1909. In ad dition to the component materials which enter into the products of the establishment for the census year there are included the cost of fuel, mill supplies and rent of power and heat. The cost of materials,1 howev er, does not include unused mater ials and supplies bought either for speculation or for use during a sub sequent period. The census Inquiry does not in clude amounts paid for miscellane ous expenses, such as rent of offices, royalties, insurance, ordinary re pairs, advertising, traveling expen ses. or allowance tor depreciation. VALUE OF PRODUCTS. The value of products was $289, 412,000 in 1914 and $216,656,000 in 1909, the increase being $72, 756,000, or 33.6 per cent. The av erage per establishment was approx imately $53000 in 1914 and $44,000 in 1909. The value of products represents their selling value or price at the plants as actually turned out by the factories during the census year and does not necessarily have any rela tion to the amount of sales for that year. The values under this head also include amounts received for work done on materials furnished by others. VALUE ADDED BY MANUFAC-' TURE. . , . The value added by manufacture represents the difference between the cost of materials used and tne value of the products manufactured from them. The value added hy manufacture was $119,470000 ' in 1914 and $94,795,000 in' 1909, the Increase being 24,665,000,ior 26 per cent. - The false added, by man ufacture formed ,4 f. 3 per cent of the total value of products In 1914 and NORTH CAROLINA Conccruinj The State For 1914. 43.8 per cent in 1909. SALARIES AND WAGES. The salaries add wages amounted to $56,283,000 in 1914 and to $41, 259,000 in 1909. the increase being $15,024,00'0, or 36.4 per cent. The number of salaried employees was 8,541 in 1914, as compared with 6,529 in 1909. making an in crease of 2,012, or 30.9 per cent. The average number of wage earn ers was 136,844 in 1914 and 121, 473 in 1909, the increase being 15, 371, or 12.6 per cent. The maximum number of wage earners ( 141,486) for 1914 were employed during March, while tne maximum number ( 128,754 ) for 1909 were employed during Decem ber. The minimum number of wage earners (132,919) reported for 1914 were employed during Decern ber and the minimum number ( 1 17,007) for 1909 were employed during January. SUMMARY FOR THE STATE. A comparative summary for the state for 190a and 1914 follows: Number of establishments in 1914 was 5,507 as against 4,931 in 1909, an increase of 11.7 per cent. Persons engaged in manufactures 151,333 in 1914 as against 133,453 in 1909, an increase of 13.4 per cent. Proprietors and firm members 950 in 1914 as against 5,451 in 1909, an increase of 9.1 per cent. Salaried employes 8.541 in 191 4 as against 6,529 in 1 909, an increase of 30.9 per cent. Wage earners (average number during year) 136,844 in 1914 as against 121,473, an increase of 12.6 per cent. Primary horse-power 508,235 in 1914 as against 378,556 in 1909, an increase of 34.3 per cent. Capital $253,842,000 in 1914 as against $217,186,000 in 1909, an in crease of 16.9 per cent. Services $56,283,000 in 1914 as against $41,259,000 in 1909, an in crease of 36.4 per cent. Materials $169,942,000 In 1914 as against $121,861,000 in 1909, an Increase of 39.5 per cent. Value of products $289,412,000 in 1914 as against $216,656,000 in 1909, an increase of 33.6 per cent. Value added by manufacture (value of products less cost of mate rials) $119,470,000 in 1914 as a gainst $94,795,000 in 1909, an in crease of 26 per cent. WHERE IT THRIVES. A Peculiar Truth About the Mall Or der Business. Monroe Journal. Now and then, and quite frequent ly, much complaint is heard about mail order houses taking out money. There will always be some mail order business, for in the great field of merchandise there are many articles which may not be found in every community. There are so many hun dreds of things that people will buy when their attention is called to them that no local merchant can antici pate the fact and have the goods on hand. It would not pay him to have them for the irregular demand. But the great merchandise staples in ev ery line can always be supplied by lo cal merchants and the people will buy from them in preference to mail order houses if the local merchants do their part. Merely cussing the mail order houses gets nowhere. Any town which has a bunch of live mer chants who are alert to attract their natural trade will not be troubled much by mail order houses. Mr. Rosenfield, of Sears, Roebuck & Co.. is said to have stated at a recent meeting of the American Ad. Club that his company makes a careful survey of the country to ascertain what communities are dead on the advertising proposition and that, where local merchants are not adver tising in their town papers, right there is sent a flood of Sears-Roebuck catalouges. He said, "It always brings results far in excess of the same efforts put forth in territory where the local merchants use their newspapers." IK) YOU KNOW THAT Dirty hands spread much disease? A high bred dog has a right to have his birth registered so has a baby? The U. S. Public Health Service guards American ports to exclude foreign disease? Health is a credit with the bank of nature? A clean garbage can is a good ex ample to the family. Filth breeds flies flies carry fe ver? Slouchy postures menace healtii.? Health brings happiness sick ness sorrow? Spend Your Money With Home Merchants. Rowel Complaints In India. In a lecture at one of the Des Moines, Iowa, churches a missionary, from India told of going Into the In terior of India, where he wa taken sick, that he had a bottle of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy with him and believed that it saved his life. This remedy Is used successfully in India both as a preventive and care for cholera. Tou may know from this that it can be depended upon for the milder forme of bowel complaint that oc cur. la thig country. Obtainable everywhere.- Adv. IN llEARItf COUNTIES HEWS AM0N6 OURKEAR KQCHBORHOODS Lincoln Locals. Lincoln County News, 12tn. Born. Thursday, to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Shuford, a son. Mrs. S. W. McLean attended the Browning meeting in Gastonia one day last week. Messrs. R. K. Babington and E. D. Houser, of Gastonia, were bus iness visitors in town Saturday. Miss Louise Browning entertained with Hearts Dice Friday in honor or her sister, who has arrived and will spend several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Browning. Miss Mary McKee arrived home from Charlotte Saturday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. McKee. Miss Laura Torrence, of Charlotte, accompanied Miss McKee, and is her guests for a few days. Miss Ruth Rhodes will give her graduating recital Friday evening, June 16, at the graded school audi torium. Miss Rhodes will be assist ed by Miss Elizabeth Hoke and Mr. Leonard Bell, of Gastonia. violinist. A number of ladies of the city are agitating a movement to beautify the city, by grassing the lawns and planting flowers. This is a -worthy- move, and there is no reason why Lincolnton could not be made tne city beautiful. During the month of May the creamery purchased and shipped 2,- 364 dozen eggs, which was consid ered a fairly good business in this line. During May 6,409 pounds of butter fat was paid for at the rate of 28 centB per pound to stockhold ers and 2 cents per pound to non stockholders. The creamery now has a total of 174 patrons. Cleveland Cullings. The Star, 13th. Miss Helen Dover left yesterdav for A8heville, where she will spend several days. Mr. and Mrs. Ab Harrill, of Char lotte, were week-end visitors, tne guests of Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Ham- ick. Messrs. Douglas Welch and Joe O'Brian, of Mayworth, motored over Sunday and were guests at the home of Judge and Mrs. J. L. WebD. Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Warren, of Gastonia, spent Sunday with Mrs. Warren s mother, Mrs. S. A. Hoey, who has been ill for quite a while but is convalescent. Miss Maggie Ella Davis, age 23, died in Gastonia Sunday. She was the daughter of J. L. Davis, who re cently moved from .thiB place, and a brother of Will Davis, a visitor here yesterday. Mr. Charles L. Eskrldge. our pro gressive auto dealer, made a trip to Winston-Salem last Friday ana brought home some handsome Over land cars. He was accompanied there by Messrs. J. C. Smith and O. M. Gardner. York and Yorkville. The Knquirer, 13th. The Loray Mill team of Gastonia defeated the Neely Mill team of Yorkville in a baseball game played in Gastonia Saturday afternoon, 'ihe score was 6 to 3. William Jones has been appointed rural mail carrier on Yorkville R. K. D. No. 5, to succeed his father, tne late John S. Jones. The tender trucks of Carolina & North-Western train No. 10, south bound, was derailed by some un known cause Sunday afternoon at the southern end of Allison creek trestle. About 30 minutes' time was required to get the derailed truck back on the track. The cross ties were cut up pretty badly for some distance. B. P. Lilley. of Clover, on Friday, June 2, drove his Ford car with four passengers besides himself from Charleston to Columbia, 138 miles, and from Columbia to Clover, 100 miles, a total of 238 miles, in a run ning time of nine and one-half hours. He used 1 1 gallons of gas oline. Mr. William N. Abernathy died at bis home on Clover, route one, Friday morning and was buried in the cemetery at Bethany Friday ar ternoon following funeral services conducted by Rev. W. P. Grier. Mr. Abernathy was a life-long member, of Bethany church. Had he lived un til July 2 he would have been 71 years of age. He served throughout the War Between the Sections as a member of Company H, 18th South Carolina Volunteers. On learning Sunday that several of the stores were doing business openly and without interference from the police, the reporter made Inquiry that developed the informa tion that, "we have been told that we could keep open and sell anything we have from 8 a. m. to 10 a. Bl and from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m." Tbe reporter called upon Mayor Wilborn yesterday for confirmatipn. He said that the statement was correct; that the council had passed an ordinance to that effect on last Tuesday. Arthur Nivens, aged 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Nivens, of York ville, route five, died at the home of his parents at 10 o'clock Friday morning of congestion of the longs and was buried in Rose Hill ceme tery on Saturday following funeral services conducted at his latehome by the Rev. Henry Stokes. Mr. Nlv ena bad been in bad health a long time and his death was not unex Library Notes "If you want to make the ac quaintance of a very delightful little boy, you will like to know Jinks." This Jinks is the star in the book of Harriet Hobson entitled "Jinks' In side." Besides being a most enter taining story for old or young, this is a remarkable study of the worit- ings of a child s mind. Jinks is tne child of the gutter, a rough, untu tored, tattered lad, but he has an "inside" as he calls it, that compels him to do or not to do certain things and is really exceedingly trouble some. What he Buffers for the sake of -his "inside" is very pathetic, and we cannot help loving the brave lit tle fellow, who is a real hero at heart. "Sis Within," by the same author of "Jinks Inside, Harriet Hobson, is not a sequel to "Jinks' Inside" but some of the characters appear tn both books. It is a novel of today in which the higher woman in Diantha King is brought out by her love Tor a man who has been tempted, has fallen, repented, then risen to ttie very loftiest manhood. We watch with interest and sympathy the de velopment of "Sis" until at last she comes to her own, a very beautiful own, and well worth waiting for. "A Cathedral Singer," by Lane Allen, is an exquisite backgrounded by the great dral of St. John the Divine on ingside Heights in New York James story and the reader of this story one of the most exquisite and ing stories in recent American ture. is told touch-litera- "Nan of Music Mountain" by F. H. Spearman is a thrilling story, and may well be called the masterpiece of the author of "Whispering Smith." It is a veritable "Lorna Doone" of the West. The love of Nan, a member of an outlaw family, for a man whose life is devoted to exterminating their clan, forms the central theme of this intensely ab sorbing story of primitive life in the high country. APRIL KKIORT. Southern Hallway's IHwburHement for That Month Were More Tlmn Three Millions Two Millions lall Out In the South. Specail to The Gazette. WASHINGTON. D. C, June 5. During April 1916. the Southern Railway Company disbursed for la bor, material, supplies, and other purposes $3,195,831.95 of which $2, 674.O58.09 or 83.67 per cent was paid to individuals and industries located in the South. This amount represents more than 61 per cent or the moneys paid to the company Tor transportation by (hose located on the lines, according to figures an nounced today by Comptroller A. H. Plant, showing the results of opear tion of the company for the month of April 1916, and for the period or ten months ended April 30, 1916, compared with the same month and period in 1915 and 1914, exclusive of interest, rentals and other in come charges. The comparison with 1914 is made for the reason that in 1915 the effect of the busi ness depression was reflected through the revenues of the compa ny. Gross revenue, April 1916, $6,181, 4 98, an increase as compared with 1915 of $968,71 3 or 18.58 percent, and as compared with 1914 or $379,352 or 6.54 per cent. Operating Expenses, Taxes and Un collectible Railway Revenues. April 1916, $4,143, 251, an increase as compared with 1915 of $230,610 or 5.89 per cent, and a decrease as compared with 1914 of $4 62, or 10. 0 5 per cent. In addition to the fonsgoing Oper ating Expenses, the Company spent in April 1916, for improvements to its Roadway and Structures $914, 823.88 as against $778,425.44 dur ing April 1915 and $217,560,411 during April 1914. Corresponding results for the 10 months periods are as follows: Gross Revenue this year $58,05 8, 277, an increase as compared with 1915 of $5,519,259 or 10.50 per cent, and a decrease as compared with 1914 of $1,839,481 or 3.07 per cent. Operating Expenses, Taxes and Uncollectible Railway Revenues this year $40,742,350, a decrease as com pared with 1915 of $873,584 or 2.10 per cent, and as compared with 1914 of $4,573,519 or 10.09 per cent. In addition to the foregoing Op erating Expenses, the Company spent during the ten months this year, ror improvements to its Roadway and Structures, $7,056,814.12, as against $7,730,272.33 during the same pe riod in 1915 and $2,315,720.73 cur ing the same period in 1914. Adv. -' J " 1 1 - 1 ' ' : ! . j'l wmmmm m l- fa w ml tmmi ami mfMf it Tr. : ill rmr RAT CORN Caetoaia, N. O. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS CLOSE GREAT MISSIONARY TEAR Splendid Advance at Home and Abroad Nearly Two "Million Dollars for Missions, State, Home and Foreign Greatest In crease in Board's History 6,473 Members Added in Mission Lands -Membership Now 42,630 Converts Give $129,054. BY SOUTHERN MISSIONARY NEWS BUREAU ' The Southern Baptist Vonventton in annual session in Asheville, N. C, last week, was enthused by the won derful record of missionary giving made by the denomination during the year ending April 30. For Foreign Missions the total was $805,844, an increase of $126, 145 over that for the previous year. For Home Missions the aomunt was $466,365, as against $400,053 for the year before, an increase of $6e, 312. The total, for the two causes was $1.272,209j as against $1,079.- 752 for the previous year, an aggre gate increase of $192,457. Not only is this far and away the great est increase in mission gifts ever made by tbe denomoninatloo in any year, but it Is greater than the ag gregate increase for the past six years. Nor is this all Southern Baptists are giving to missions by any means. There is yet the immense sum of 1724,477 to be added, the amount contributed to the cause of State missions during the fiscal year. ThiB makes a grand total for all missions of $1,996,986, or in round numbers two millions of dollars. No wonder the report was received with enthu siasm! The phenomenal increase for For eign Missions was due largely to tne Judson Centennial Campaign for $1,- 250,000. to be used as a building and equipment fund. During the year just ended, $288,401 was collected on this fund and $302,280 taken in pledges. The entire fund has now been Becured in pledges or cash and will go far in equipping more ade quately the mission work of the de nomination in Mexico, Brazil, Argen tina, Japan, China, Africa and Eu rope. Not at home alone has the work been prospering. In the several mis sion fields an increase in member ship of 6,473 carries the total South ern Baptist membership tn mission lands to 42,630. Other interesting statistics follow, taken from the an nual report. Number missionaries, 315; ordain ed natives, 166; unordalned native helpers, 531; number churc hes, 4 59; number churches self-supporting, 95; native contributions, $129,054; houses of worship, 203; Sunday schools. 609; Sunday school pupils, i7.561; day schools. boarding schools, etc., 4 53; pupils, 13,531; hospitals and dslpensaries, 19; pa tients treated, 74,866. A Year of ProgreHN in Korea. Dr. S. H. Chester, of Nashville, Tenn., in his annual report as Cor responding Secretary of the South ern Presbyterian Committee of For eign Missions, states that the past year has been one of phenomenal progress in Korea. He says: "In spite of some serious prob lems connected with our missionary work In Korea and some very deli cate matters that have arisen in the relations of the Missions with the Government, the past year has been one of phenomenal progress along all lines of church activity. According to the figures in the Christian Move ment in Japan, the total number ot additions by baptism to all the Pro testant churches was 9,019. The total number of communicants tn the Protestant churches is reported as being-82,325, of which number a bout 60,000 were in connection with the Presbyterian churches. I letter Relations With the Govern ment. "Some progress has been made in establishing better relations between the Christian churches and the pow ers that be. The Government has made less use of Us military arm, and has pursued on the whole a more kindly and conciliatory policy in dealing with the native people than was the case two years ago, tbe results of which, we are satisfied, will show them the wisdom of that policy. Irayer uid Bible Study. "in the early part of the year a special season of prayer and Bible study was observed by the mission aries In almost every Mission Station in the country. The result was a genuine spirit of revival, which gave a healthy tone to the missionary er fort of the whole year, and which was manifest In the large Ingather ing mentioned above." The Ileal Yellow Peril. J. Campbell White, president of Wooster College, O., delivered a no table address at the National - Mis sionary Congress at Washington a few days ago in which he said: "We are spending in this country $21.50 per capita per year on liquor, $10.91 on tobacco, $10 on amuse ments, and a like sum oh churches. But of the $10 we are giving to the churches, only $2 are for missions and benevolence, and of this only 70 eents go abroad. "The millionaires could easily fi nance the missionary enterprise If 4they would. If 20,000.000 church members should give 5 cents a week per member In addition to what Is "now being given, we should have j$5O,0OO,000' a year. Can they do it? Let tbe crowd at the moving pictures answer. We could get this fifty mil lions a year if ten million people . gave 10 cents a week, or four million i 25 cents a week, or one million onto dollar a week. We shall have - 10. give this money in order to save our selves. Unless there be some such outlet for our prosperity our nation, will be pagan some day." MeihcxllHt Mission in Africa After Twenty Years. , Twenty years ago Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell took charge of tbe Afri can mission of the Methodist Episco pal church. In presenting his re port to the General Conference la Saratoga a few days ago, be compar ed the conditions of the work today with what it was 20 year ago. Then there were 12 missionaries engaged in the work; now there are S 5. Then there were 95 native preacher and ; teachers; now there are over 400. Forty-nine Sunday schools, with I, 000 members, have grown " to 271 Sunday schools, with 14,709. mem bers. The church membership, which was then 4,000, is now more than 14,000. HEALTH IXSUIIANCE. I'. H. Public Health Service Issue Bulletin on Important and Inter efttlng Subject. -i ' ' Twenty-five out of every 1,000 employees in American Industries, according to recent statitstics. , are constantly incapacitated by sick ness, the average worker losing ap proximately nine days each year oa this account. This "non-effective rate" for the great army of indus trial worker in the United State barely suggests the total money low to employers and employees. The lessened efficiency, tbe effect ot re duced earnings in time of sicknes. -as well as the cost of medical atten tion, and the economic loss from deaths, swell the cost to industry and to the Nation to almost Incalcul-' able figures. That much of this loss Is nothing less than preventable waste and that this waste can be largely reduced by a properly conducted system of gov- , ernmental health insurance for wageworkers are conclusions set forth In Public Health Bulletin No. 7 6, containing the results of a study of "Health Insurance Its Relation to the Public Health", just Issued by the United States Public Health Ser vice. The preventive value of health In surance is given especial emphasis in this study. "Any system of health insurance for the United States or any State should at it In ception have prevention of sickness as one of Its fundamental purposes,", says the bulletin. "This country should profit by the experience of European countries where preven tion is being recognized as the cen tral idea necessary to health Insur ance if health insurance is to attain its greatest success in Improving t&e health and efficiency of the indust rial population." Such a system, it is pointed out in the bulletin, would 1. Provide cash benefits and med ical service for all wage-earners in times of sickness at much less cost than is now possible. Adequate med ical relief would thus be placed ' within the reach of even the lowest paid workers. who are most subject to ill health. 2. Distribute the cost among em ployers, employees, and the public as the groups responsible for disease causing conditions and afford these groups a definite financial Incentive for removing these conditions. Thi can be done by means of small week ly payments from employees, sup plemented by proportionate contri butions from employers and govern ment at a rate reducible in propoK" tion to the reduction of sickness. 3. Become an effective health measure by linking the co-operative efforts of these three responsible groups with the work of National, State and local health agencies, and by utilizing these agencies in the . administration of the health insur ance system. 4. Afford a better basis for the co-operation of the medical profes sion with public health agencies. 5. Eliminate the elements of pa ternalism and charity-giving by mak ing employees and the public, as . well as employers, joint agent tn the control of this fund. - ' , - "A governmental system of health insurance", concludes the study, "can be adapted to American condi tions, and when adapted will prove' to be a health measure of extraordi nary value." - The Stron Withstand the Heat of ' Summer Better Thaa th Weak .. Old people who are feeble, and younger people who are weak .will be streogtbeaei and enabled to go through, the depress ing heat of summer by taking regularly Grove ' s Tasteless Chill Took. It parties and enriches the blood and builds tp the whole system. , 50c
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