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FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 3, 1919. Success of 5 (Maufacturers Record.) The linking together of industry and schools in the way that would he of the mdst benefit alike to stu dents and industry has long been prorated. Especially In the textile jrHustry the need for a system of training so that the practical as well ts the theoretical side could be developed and all the while the student enabled to earn his living, was clearly - aeeH. Such a method of Joining industry and education is illustrated by the successful operation of the Te""'-e Industrial Institute at Spartanshurg, South Carolina. A short history of this unique scheme is given by A. B. Bryan of | Clenison College, S. C., who writes the Manufacturers Record that notable progress has been made since its! small beginning nine years ago, when with one tenant-house, $100 of borrowed captitai, a president, a principal and a student body of one, an Institution sufficiently equipped to train 250 students in all phases of the textile industry has heen developed. In fact, the instructors had to resort to novel methods in teaching, and some Interesting results have been worked out. The first student of the institute, r% tiwi ? wiiu maul iv 11 mi?7u nine yearn ago, was 33 years old, a married man and a father of three children. Today all of the 250 students are mature men at work, who can give only a year or so to the further preparation of themselves for their life work in a special school of this kind where they can earn thelr'livlng while studying. The president of the institute is Iter r>. K. Camak, a Methodist minister. who saw the great need for such training in mill centers like Spartanburg. The school now has a reuular force of principals, superlntendants, domestic science teachers, etc A new feature of the institute is the model mill donated to the school by the cotton mills of the South. Practically all of the machinery used was donated by the cotton machinery manufacturers of the country. The president of the institute, In ttfcent announcement nays that wing pictures will be used as a regular feature of the curriculum. Studies of industrial, scientific, historical and geograhlcal facts will be on through that medium of " Inst raction. The model mill, when completed, it Is said, will he the best built, best equipped, the best organized cotton mill in the world. A "self-help" department for students and endowment for the school and a laboratory for teaching textiles are.embodied In the plan of operation. The plant will be operated entirely by the students of the institute, to whom will be given the best textile course possible. It is the aim of the promoters to make it a "clearing-house," a kind of "public service station" for the textile industry of the South. The product of the mill, in addition to the successful training of intelligent textile workers, will be "character cloth" which is claimed to be the best cotton cloth made anywhere In the world It consist of towels, sheeting, pillow cases, window curtains, tablecloth1;, napkins to match, fine shirting and dress goods, and will be sold "by parcel post direct to the consumer under the guarantee that it will not fade, shrink, and seldom wear out. Fifteen months ago the model mill *??-> oniv outlined In the minds of n few men. The plant, which Is prac tically completed, now consist of a main building, manager's house, boll er and pump house, opening-room and warehouse, the whole costinc about $200,000. The men who had faith In the enterprise took the mat ter before the Bpartansburg Countj Mill Presidents, and financial support was secured. The mills of Spartans burg contributed six cents per spin die to the establishment of the mode mill, and those In the county gav? three rents per spindle. Cotton mach lnerv manufacturers have contributed over $?0.000. J. K Slrrlne of Green y|lleg#as secured as engineer anc r prepared the plans for the mill. H< contributed largely toward the plant and is due great credit for the mode Mlll *- - - ini i oeing able to claim that it la th< Jfbesi^bullt. equipped and orgaalxer rotton mill In the world." The Flake Carter ConHtruction Co. of Oreen vllle conatructed the plant and don ated largely toward* Its erection. The hulidlng In of reinforced con crete, fireproof ronatructlon. wit! ateel sash and doom The walla an nlmoHt Bolid glass, the windowa l?c Ing. heating and humidifying ay item 1-2-foot concrete pillar between, glv Ing a maximum amount of light. The fire protection, artificial light lng. heating and humldlgylng ayatemi represent the climax In modern engi neering The last two of theae, heat ? Spartanburg i Ing and humidifying, have uutomatieI control devices which Insure a predetermined degree of tempedature and humidity, providing the beat working conditions for operatives and material being worked. The bleaching, dyeing and mercerizing rooms especially represent keen engineering skill. All the buildings are beautifully designed from an architectural standpoint. The massive carved sandstone entrances and the red pressed-brick corner panels give the main building a pleasing effect. The equipment of the plant, both in the character of the individual I machines and In their variety, is said to be beyond anything ever installed in a cotton mill before. There will be 65 different kinds of machines, all of the latest design. There are about 15 kinds of machines that are not in the ordinary cotton mills in that section. Nearly all of the machines will be driven by individual ' motors. Kach motor is so wired that an ammeter can be attached for calculating the amount of power being consumed by the machine. The cotton goes through more than 40 processes in being manufactured into "character cloth." The students will operate the mill. The superintendent and all the overseers, as well as all the operatives, will be students in the Textile Industrial Institute. They work in uniform, and when the day's work is done, go to their dressing-rooms, take a shower bath, put on clean clothes, and go to their rooms in the dorlnltory or j to other school work feeling fresh ana clean. The entire student body of the 'nstitute will in the future, as in. the past, be self-supporting. All of 'he students that work in the model mill will earn their school expenses by working every other week. That is, they will be paid for their work during their work week sufficiently to enable them to pay their expenses for two weeks. The plans are to operate the mill by two separate student organizations. Kach of these organizations will have a superintendent, corps of overseers, section hands, loom fixers, and operatives. There will even be y About K N Gone E i Many thousand* of women suffering from |V , womanly trouble, have been benefited by the use , of Cardui, the woman's ^ j tonic, according to letters we receive, similar to this one from Mrs. Z.V. Spell, oIHayne.N.C. "I could not stand on my feet, and IV Just suffered terribly," she says. "As my suf- |V fering was so great, and I ^ he had tried other remeV dies, Dr. had us get Cardui. . ? I began Improving, and it cured |V ' me. I know, and my , doctor knows, what Cardui did for me, for my IV I nerves and health were about gone." ^ TAKE ^ CARDUI The Woman's Tonic i VB Sha writes further* *1 |W ? la KmIHi . . _ h] can do my work. I ted I ffe I ?wt it to Cardul, lor I was in dreadful condition/' II II you are nervous, run? down and weak, or suffer from headache, backache, I etc., every month, try ? Cardul. Thousands of j women praise this medldne for the good tt has ^ 1 done thern, and many physicians who have used Cardul successfully with their women patients, for years, endorse this medl1 dne. Think what it means to be in splendid health, Uke Mrs. Spell. Olve J AD Druggist^ J . .. m ,-.-r-. >.- V'' THE LANCASTER two sets of stenographers and book keepers. One organization will oper ate the plant one week and the othe j organization will operate it the nex week. Everything from the opening of the bale and firing the boiler t< i the taking of the ninllbiies to tin ! train, will be done by students of th? school. The two sets of shifts of students will operate the plant for 16 hour a day. Each set will work 10 hours I For four hours the two shifts wil {overlap. Two hours of this time on< , set will teach on Its regular job th< I other set on a new Job. Thus eacl ! student will run his job alone for si: i hours, run it with the Ijelp of a learn er and teach that learner for tw* hours, and study as learner on a nev job for two hours. This system wil enable a student to learn a new pro cess before he is put in charge .> that process. Every student in mill will be givei special training in the classroom s< | that he will understand the theory t | the process of which he is doing th< practice. He will have an intelligen i interest in his work. It is an intel | lectual cotton mill, and every opei ative will have to think every tim he moves. Some of the students will ente the school as mechanical spinner | and go away Intelligent spinners | Some will go as mechanical weaver . and go away with an intelligent ir I terest in weaving. Some will speclsi jlize in loom fixing, designing, weave room management, bleaching, dyeini i and mercerizing, carding and spit ning, bookkeeping, stenography am cost accounting. A few of the mos worthy and capable will be started ii the picker-room and taught that pre cess both theoretically and practl cally. When he* has mastered it h will be advanced to the cards an* taught this process in the same way then to the combers, and on througl Hie nun. w nen ne nas masierea eani Individual procesa he will be taugh the organization and efficient managf ment of each department both theort tlcally and practically. After thea have been mastered he will be taugh the organization and management o the entire plant and given the actua experience as superintendent of th mill with its responsibility for a fe\ i months. With this training frAm the bes textile textbooks in print, in the bes i built, equipped and organized mi in existence, with this ?" s*omi r |; teaching th'e practical pa-* r^f hi I course, not in an experimental laboi atory. but in a real efficiently organi; | ed mill running on an efficient prodm ' tion basis, it is claimed that the Te: | tile Institute will give the best te: jtile course given in America. I fan There lie Any Serious Decline I | Food Prices? I ( Manufacturers Record.) , 1 Mr llprhnrt ITnnvor lo a ? < *? | derful man. but when he predicts big decline in the cost of foodstufl | it may be well to remember that tw years ago. in a public meeting i I Washington. Mr. Hoover made a sin ' ilar prediction. The writer took i | sue with him at that time and poin | ed out in the meeting why he though I Mr. Hoover was wrong. We are again willing to go on rt cord In venturing the prediction tha I there will be no serious decline i the cost of foodstuffs for at least I year or two. There will be tomporar fluctuations. Prices will be force . down here and there to some exter II for political effect, but the fundamci ital conditions which have caused hig I prices will continue for a long tim I to come. If against these fundament | a 1 conditions the power of the mo i spirit of hysteria should be suffteiei I tly great to seriously curtail the prii es of foodstuffs, then the inevitabl ' result would be a serious decreas in the production of food. This woul certainly ultimately mean very muc higher prices. The situation is about like this There is a farm In Raltlmore count the condition of which Is typical c thousands and tens of thousands c l'#nrmAP? IhrniivhAiil tYta nnnnix. i 'has standing in the fields a good cro I of corn, but man to gather the CTo connot be found at any price wh\ I ever. One negro laborer has occuh onally been had at )4 a day, but h Ills lazy and inefficient, and when h gets the $4^or one day's work, loal until all of it in gone. There is atan< | Ing in the field on this farm a spei did crop of hay; a portion of the fief I, has been cut. The uncut portlo stands In that condition because n Ij one can be found at any price to ct jit, and the cut hay Is lying on th ground because no one can be foun I to gather it Into the barn. There ni |also three of four acres intended fc I a silo crop, but the owner of the fan I has worked in vain throughout h: | entire section to find' anybody wh ltuh-My-Tlsm is a great pain klllci I It relieves |ialn and "oreness cause hv Itlieuiiiatlsm. Neuralgia. Snraln ' etc. NEWS, LANCASTER, S. C. {ran rut it and put it into the silo. < -.The men who have machines for this j r I business cannot find any men to work j < t the machines. The farmer who man-, 1 ;' a Res the property lias within the last' ^ )I few days advised the owner not to c e plant a corn crop next vear. I i j' This is an exact condition existing J | on that farm. Every effort has been J 1 i j made to secure labor and practically i s, without regard to the price, since,] \ . as the crops stand in the field, they < 1 will be completely lost if they cannot 1 gibe gathered. But the owner of the < a; farm and the farmer who manages ] lithe property have worked in vain to i J.secure labor. 1 This case is typical of conditions i > prevailing throughout the country. I vjThe exorbitant wages paid by the l 1. Government to munition workers, to i- carpenters and others during the war f have almost completely ruined the j whole labor situation of the country, i Under these conditions will Mr. Hoov* , r> er or anyone else give any real reaf son why he can expect any reduction e in the cost of foodstuffs, when, as a t matter of fact, Ihe cost to the farm. or is steadily increasing and the difileulty of securing labor tends steadily e to decrease the acreage? ! . The mistake made by Mr. Hoover r two years ago misled a great many s people in the country at that time, i.l His present mistake will mislead R them in the same way and produce increased social unrest when the dei . 1 Hnnl'a Salw. fnrmc"rlT railed t ~ \1 Hunt's, Cure is especially com' >. <var 11 pounded for tbe treatment of a Wny KlJltcb. Kciema, Ring worm, and / || lri Tetter, and la sold by tne drugV 1A glat on tbe strict guarantee tbat |. tbe purchase price, 75c, will be promptly refunded to any dlHaat?i MR fsfled customer. Try Hunt'sS alve I ^HuMH at our risk. For sale locally by 5 ; t " 4 : % L 4 m? ri .f,f ( l > H* ^ ' * 1 S n ! IT -iV tin <x wno ? : ? y jji Sacr "l$ ;; ? COLEMAN PHII WENDELL WIL! y ? WILLIE CAUTH MARTIN STALL *t* THOS. LOVIC B ;; BEAURGARD L ?!Y SAMUEL DUNG# .1 b( What have we (I ! Y i:j? History shows t >r Y soldiers tJian thus ?r V [t have our opportui & & might live in peai p j"i & Lot us all join ii e Y our allotmont in t X Monday Sept. 29tl L .X Lancaster Courn . n Do not nvait to ? t 11 X same in to the Co e x '*! " ? MISS MAROAKh ?X T r- & ? X reaso in price does not take place. We urged this sit tion as vlgormsly as posible in personal letters lo President Wilson two years ago, and >ve warned him then that the claim! )f an abundant supply, of foodstuffs vould be certain to ree.ct and produce Socialistic and Anarchistic unrest. President YVitsnn ill I. Iiofonn..] * ? . , .? >IWVM >i i* j/v i ouuai inii"i idmitted the correctness of the figjres given hiui as to the food proiuction, but regarded it as unwise Jiat they should be published. We ;ould not accept his views on that point, and stated that the suppresdon of information as to the real food condition of the country would Inevitably produce trouble in the future. We are now seeing the fulfillment of that statement. Made A Sorry Showing. (Yorkviile Enquirer) Senators Johnson and Poindextcr who were sent ou on the trail of the president in opposition to the peace treaty have been recalled by Senator Lodge ostensibly for the reason that Senator Hitchcock, the Democratic leader is threatening to force a vote on amendments at any time, and it is desirable to have the full Republican strength on hand. That may be the reason why the senators have been recalled; but since there is so much politics in it all, it occurs to us that there may be another reason, that other reason being the fear of the sorry showing that Senator Johnson is likely to make in his own state of California right on the heels of the enthusiastic reception with which the president has been meeting. ([(Wilms proven it will cure Malaria, <'hills and Fever, Itilinu* Fever, Folds and laifirippe. It kills the jjernts that eause the fever. Fine Tonir. ancastei ounty oldiers Made the Su if ice for Free jLIPS THOMAS 30N WARD K EN IKE CON INGS STAFFO! ALLARD ROBERT ANGLEY OLIN SM LN STEVE IV GANSON MOBLEY lone to honor these heroes' hat no State ever sent forth II will i IL'llIlt t'l'iilll SI I .1 1 f 1. / '.v. V. vv 1IV III 11U1II HUIUI1 I ell lity to honor those soldiers :e. u the Campaign and no over lie Memorial Campaign Fn h. ty's Quota is $4,825.00 he called upon for your con unty Chairman. 1.* I I / 11 W \ VflU W* / < ' r? m. m/.\ i u.n, < ounty IT MOOKE, County Clinimii ) ^AAAAAAA aAAAJU ' ?"' " PAGE SEVF" Yearn to the greatness of in . ! Rally the god in the depths of thyself. * ?Mathew Ajrnold. Hurry across the lowlands tha? you may spend more time on the mountain tops.?lloia.es. "Gets-It" Peels Your Corns Right Off Two Drop* Will Do It Without Fu* * or Trouble. Never Fails. There's only one way to net rid Of a corn, and that is to peel It oft as you would a banana akin. There Is I only one corn remover In all ths world that does It that way. and that f There's No Corn "GeU-It" Will Not "Get.* is "Gets-It." It is because of this fact that "Gets-It" is today the biggest seller among corn-removers on this planet. It means the end of "corn-ftddling." For hard corns, soft corns, very old corns, young corns, corns between the toes and | calluses. It means a quick, certain (! finish. "Gets-It" Is applied in 2 or 1 3 seconds. All you need Is 2 or 3 j drops. As easy to do as signing | your name. It does away forever I with tape, plasters, bandages, j knives, corn-diggers, scissors, flies and blood-bringing rarord. Ease ' your corn-pains, be corn-free at last. "Gets-It," the onlysure.guaranteed. | money-back corn-remover, costs but | a trillo at any drug store. MTd by j E. Lawrence & Co . Chicago. 111. Sold In Lancaster and recommended as the world's best corn remedy by I J. F. Mackey Co.. Standard Drug j Company.?Adv. t i b* I t Y T ? Y Y 0 % f preme $ idom f f Y >. J. LANGLEY ;night TNOR !? RD GRAHAM y WHITE NEILL % ALL ^ v IcNEELY > f f braver and better olina and we now who died that we the tt?)> in raising nd which starts V T I % tribution but send X Chairman, & jn for the Women.