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'-"W'TS PAGE TEN THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. & C. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1937 Asto ISOUTHERN TEXTILE JMfflISIML • '='^“ VIEWS WITH DEEP CONCERN New England had 4;210 textile ^ liahments ^employing ^,542/ pc^o«: n 1890, “W EIX, Ratty, we’ll be handing ourselves a grand present by this time tomorrow.*' UNCERTAINTY^F FUTURE Charlotte, N. C., D^. 11. — The "Yah, I don’t hanker after the $1,000,000,000 textile indue- )ob. Somebody in this home-town | jj, d^jt^ribed by Secretary W. W. of mine might get wise to me. ‘‘Scared? You been away ten McLaurine of the American Cotton In the South, the industry and its feeders constitute a major gauge of The blue book of Southern pro gress, published by The Manufac turers Record, says the South has and free. No one ain’t going to see .turbed by uncertainty’’ over pending I more than 2,200 establishments pro years doing time. You’re out now. , Manufacturers’ association as dis- you. You can lift plenty from that ‘log-jalation] and “general, business house you been telling about. You Ifem-” - — know every inch of it, by your .sajr/’ I ^hey "Sure I do. .1 lived in it for nearly ^ looked with less optimi.sm on pros- twenty years. . . , , . ■ pects for the approaching year than The man beside hirn in the speed. j937 ^ ^ ^ ^ A. A t .A aJ 4 4 M ^ ^ ! A bumper cotton crop, war scares, a drop in wbol, general economic de- whistled. "Never knew your trap shut. ing car that.’’ “You keep Slinky.’’ - i Clouds .‘!\vept across the moon, ' now revealing it round and bright, now hiding it. "Stormy," said Slinky, "all the better for u.s." They entered a broad village street. Elms lined .either side. "Right pretty, ain’t it?" snarled Slinky. "But too neighborly for rrjy blood.’’ . J'lfey,” criiid car. "Look at there behind the church steeple?^ A cross of light streamed from four corners. "Nothing but moon- dogs." "Shut up, you. I’m telling you ducing annually more than <1,000,- 000,000“6T“goods. In addition ,are cotton seed oil mills with an output of $106,000,000 in 1935 and about 14,775 cotton gins, to say nothing of the agricultural activities supply ing them. at wages of $91388,951 in 1890, co/oi- pared with the South’s 486 plants at that time employing 44,768 persons for_|9,77l,05il_„ . - -Winter Govm» Ofnp Protection To Land — Keeping’ as much of the lan^ cov-1 ered with close growing vegetation for as much of the time as possible i has been found in the Soil Conserva- Since that time the industry has moved Southward. The blue book of Southern progress says the South in 1935 reported 75;tion Service areas of the state to be per cent of the country’s total of 72,>-'‘>ne of the best methods of controlling 526,000,000 operating spindle hours, erosion and'general farm experience It estimated Southern mills’ con* this out, .says County Agent C. sumption of cotton that year at 81 (B. Cannon. > per cent of the total used in all Amer-, Summer cover crops that were left .mill ,Ufcffle8.ion,thg.ia.iuLkt£.**t.ill daing a.<oo«i-iQb Ww^.^ENJAMIf SERVICE STATION standard Products Cars Wash sad Grssssi Tost Bssiaeu Apprsdatsd growth in productive capacity of cot- iton spinning had enabled the South were reports ,at 4,204,000 bales com-i of erosion^ control, even though the parttl with 1,263,000 bales for North-^ plant.s ar«^-dead, the agfent states. Par-j em mills. jticularly striking at this time of the' Since the World war, it added,'year for example, is the cover whichj a good growth of^lesi:^eza provides.' The root.<5 bind the soil and the dead leaves and plants protect the ground against the beating action of rain and the erosive effects of run-off water. He recommends leaving lespedeza on the land tw’o years wherever pos sible, as this greatly increases the value of lespedeza for the erosion The United States census bu-.Uo produce each year approximately velopiments and the periodic business j reau’s October report said the cotton- ^" per cent of the cotton goods made cycle were mentione<l. ! growing states—Alabama, Arkansas, |>u the United States, iit added that Economic experts generally agreed,! Georgia, Loui.siana, Mississippi, North j f^e South also had 70 per cent of however, that whatever the general j Carolina, Oklahoma, .South Carolina, I the country’s rayon capacity, business trend next year was, the tex-t Tennessee, Texas and Virginia—had! The size of the South’s textile in- tile industry would ^ one of the first 118,756,644 of the nation’s 26,757,298 j dustrj' naturally makeS it an impor- to nd’lect it because of the wide use i cotton mill spindles—the thread spin-1 tant economic and social factor ih|(.ontrol because the last year’s grow’th of the prwlucts. ning unit—in place and that 17,604,-jthe area. Mill men said it was one of provides protection for the and dur- The Textile World reported mijl ac- r-: * tivity in 1936 as approximately 8 per ClintcHi Finance Co., Inc. —Auto Financing Fire Insurance ^ V * OflBce: JACOBS & CO. BLDG. 590 of the 23,724,272 active ones were j the bigge.st tax-yielding sources -in imr the winter nrevents well in the .South. ;the South and added it provided em-L ^oH These figures compared with 7.169.-. P'^yment for hundreds of thousands ^^ures a much better growth the iiid Ratty stopping the li^29 and satd in an outline of pros-l2jg..)4j4f|,}j^j4-j|^ in IN^w-England.Wages ,pstimatoo~to average fromj5t.cond year. It the moon shining up P‘‘‘’t» for 1937 that if activities should (^^here 5,444,236 t^e active, do cent above the peak operations of| fall off as much a.s 10 per cent, this Tere active. The South regards its textile in- <iustry as comparatively young. •fc Actually, it got its start in the' Mcl^aurine said the industry in it-: Mr. Cannon suggests further cut- self alone tNTipIoyed around 300,000. . n . l . T» I J ^ au especially where heavy, gives a good Despite Its .scope, leaders of the,, , . . • „a:i ;_j ^ I form of much protection in winter. yet avail-k, *, • . , • , . ..textile industry .say, it pre.sents no Z . ... South in a water-drive factory of I . -in , . he textile . e. . u greater social problem. They explain- a. , . meager (Hjuipment near .Stateburg, ■ , „ * , V. .u -n * , BLAJ ha.s WenL, ed most large Southern mi s owned " . ^ uS. C., about 1190—around the same;., , sizes, cent. One ‘ villages in which their workers, ~r'r y<‘ar might still he considered a goml one, '• Few figures for 1937 are yet avail able, hut spokesmiyi for the something. I’m not rol^bing the 'indu.stry e.stimate the <lrop hou.se I was horn in. I’m tougli much sharper than 10 per w.a. r .u 11 „.„v.i nn-n «uifn-i,, ^ leader estinmted Southern mill oper-i.^ ^ ^ lives! and endeavor to promote edu-j .Many political and scK’ial leaders - j Chnstma.s me«-n,oa like I u.sed to :ncrniul. • > ' lopj.osed encouragement of manbfac-‘ ’ he he.srtat«>tl. "with ; There have l.een many theories t'" 'Mg m the .South, holding that 'i over what is wrong. noniic <leveIoprnent of the area could llOIIie CaXCmpilOIl ' .Some textile operators Havi- ad- arromiili.riKMl by an agricul i ting down of cotton and cornstalks. Gray Funeral Home Ginton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ••• tuid ••• EMBALMERS . Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J L RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgra. BLANK BOOKS —Every rnllnr. aO Letter File Boxes. Colle^oa but not that tough.’ "You crawling dirty rat!’’ ation.s had been cuitailisl 10 per centi "And I’m ifoing to church on •‘summer and .still were suh- CHROjjllCLE PUBLISHING CO. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLI ‘The Paper Everybody Raad^ \vith rny, my. my folks We got decent clothes Tin going. That there," he pointed at tlie streaming light, "well, for vanced among others these: tiiral p<»pulace. just ;i minute 1 felt like I used to U Merry Chri V ithouf voire was Ifinky, ".shows me up for j<luc(‘<l to a currimt <Iemand scale just what 1 ain . . a rat. You and j, 2.—Mills no longiT can^ the heavy me. slinky, are going to be decent .stock.s of former years heraii.se of I. Orders cesulting from increased, Nevertheless, there wa.s sporadic To Be Proposed '(•'when I Iivc'd hero as a l)oy. Itii i purclia.sing power stim,iilat(‘d by gov-, f'*the beginning of the’ Union, Dec. 14. ,S(*riator .1. Boyd oing. and so are you We can say ^emment programs have been filled T’onfe<lerate war it was estimaltsl Lancaster said today he would intro- Christmas then, for once, -and warehouses, again rdocki-sl nnr-J were 126 cotton mills tn ,duce a bill providing for “a $500 tax faking it. That cross," his ^ mally, causing operations to he. re-*l ‘South with fewer than ^OO.OtM) exemption on homesteads’’ when the 1Kl<il e .ll •. .« • m M aiLo. Akkia Vv I ■ ■ •.».> ^ a. A — Martha Banning tomorrow; Thomas. © WcBlern NpwMpaper Union, spindles and a .few .scattered woolen general assembly meets’!: mills. - ' The exemption, he said, would ap- After the war, a movement to en- ply only to home.s wcupied by the. constantly changing .standanls of COM-icourage TTianufactures began and by owners, jstriK’tion, the bearish effect of stwkl^^^l return from investments be-[ “I helieve’'that if this bill becomes j I surpluses on the market an<l price j came «o general a building boom; a law^ it would encourage home build- .change dangers. ‘.swept the .Southern .states. Some[ing in South Carolina,’’ Lancaster 3.—An interstate commerce com- pa'<s‘‘<i laws, exempting new mills,said. < ]eM( na wina m Tlu'ouplrihe CIol^^s .■mission freight rate ruling eff«*ctiv<‘ .last Juno 8, which Southern mill men from taxation for ten years. The American W’ool ami Cotton Re porter (piortwl cruyus- figuiT's that SUBSCRIBE 'TO THE CHRONICLE 4- trip fare* ar* only I/S tha coat a tmall cirl You can buy many a Chriatmaa gift with what you aatrt on fares that coat lam than any other kind ot transportation.. Thert’a no extra coat for the extra comforts of Super-Coach travel. For information call: (Greyhound Terminal * Kellers Drug Storf_ —^ in Time for Chri.stmas 1“ T I^HE plane, "The Bet.sy Lee," ' had climbed to 10,000 feet. The ! man at the controls peered through the mi.sted glas.s at the den.se hank of clouds ahead. He | had alreatly encountered one .squall, and there was a coating of icc on the w’lngs. Shonkl he turn Ixick, and take the train that wttuld get him home too late for Christm.'is? Then he thought how di.sappointetl Lucy and'the kids would he Ciiristmas w’ithout Dad dy. IJe squared his jaw and mut tered: "Hill Parkt'r, you’re no quit ter, Betsy, we an* going through!” He grasp(‘d the stick with a steady hand as the hank of clouds loomed closer, and plunged in>i) them. The wind tore at the plane, caus ing it to /ii’/.ng crazily and it took all tlie strength of Hill’s iron mus- t les to jirevent a tailspm. Rain and hail fell in torrents, with an occa sional flash of lightning piercing the inky darkness. "Wliat a storm to fight!" If he fontd rhnih high enough he might gel above it. The roar of the en gine ansuered, as lu' opened up the Itirottle, and the plane began to climb. Twenty thousand feet, the instruments registered. The storm was still with him. Five thousand more -he felt dizzy and numb. Then a lull as the plane roared into a calm, moon-silvered night. Hill pounded his numb hands. "We're going through, Betsy, old girl, but It was closg to 'Another plane crashed’ headline. We missed the front page but we’ll soon be home."—Jocile Webb Pearson. C Wextern Newspaper Union. "■A • NO CIIRISTMAS COAT --1 Snake—Mrs. Bunny asked her lui? hand for a new coat for Christmas Leopold—What did he say? Snake—That she had no busines.s shedding her old gne. l.OOO-Year-Old Play Hampshire mummers still pc^r form a play which is said to bo 1,000 years old and for which there is no written script. The mummers are farm laborers who wear cos tumes made of coIoi:ed wallpaper They give the play at Christmas tune.—Pearson’s London Weekly. Christmas Salads Gelatin salads colored g.-een or red and cut out in various Christmas designs make effective salads. /• Are the Cotton Mills Worth Keeping? Sometimes our blessings seem so commonplace, and are so close to us, that we take them for granted and do not adequately evaluate them. “ The cotton textile mills in.South Carolina, for instance, have for years been an integral part , ^ of oui’ life, at our very elliows wherever we turn. We have become so accustomed to them that we actually look upon them as our just due, our very own, like the climate and like the many public facilities which we jointly own and enjoy. In reality, however, the cotton textile mills are not ^ public institutions at all. They are privately owned corporations, though actually they produce benefits which are publicly enjoyed. Together oui* cotton mills supply a very large proportion of the man-made assets vvhich the state affords. So many are the advanUiges which we as citizens derive from this industry, that hardly a man, woman or child can be found in the state who has not benefited from the payrolls or the sundry purchases of the mills, or the taxes which they pay. * It is suggesTed that you study the figures below in the light of the benefits which you derive as a citizen, and ask yourself the question, “Are the cotton mills worth keeping?” First, consider the payrolls (wages only) $56,498,852.()0 in 19.%, according to the Depart ment of Lahoi*. Is it worth while to preserve this to supply the trade and income for our mer chants, farmers, educators, hankers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, insurance men, and other trade and professional men and women? In the face of the decrease in our agricultural income, what would we do without our industrial payrolls? The hulk of these payrolls are spent right here in our state. / Then consider the huge purchases of the mills: 1,155,094 Bales of Cotton in 1936. _ 774,085,408 K. W. flours of Electncity in 1936. ZI 597.322 Tons of Coal in 1936. —^ f >“6 \ X IS. C. Dept, of Labor Report of 1936). And the huge amount of gasoline, oil, cord wood, building materials, freight, express and postal services, and hundreds of other services and general equipment and supplies purchased each year by the cotton mills. Together the mills’ purchases rum into hundreds of millions of dollars as they buy from individuals and corporations throughout the state. Together they rep- ■ resent the state’s largest customer. / These expenditures, when added to the millions of dollars of taxes paid by the mills, repre sent a figure spent in South Carolina totaling over $150,()(X),()()0.00. This is greater than the value of the state’s farm crops, greater than the expenditures for highway purposes, greater than the expenditures of the railroads within the state, the. power companies or any other single class of industry. It is greater than the total of individual bank deposits within the state, nearly six times greater than the total savings deposits within the state, greater than the total value of the annual products of all other industries in the state, and thirteen times greater than annual public school expenditures in South Carolina. The value to each South Carolina citizen of the annual expenditures of the cotton mills with in the state is apparent. If these advantages* are worth keeping, are they worth protecting? ~— • A . The Cotton Manufacturers Association of S. C /. $ 4' itimiiimuimtiM liiOfi A'iiiiilfe