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TEXTILE INDUSTRY MOVING SOUTH NEW HEAD OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION THINKS NEW ENGLAND DOOMED TO LOSE. The New York Journal of Commerce is quoted as follows: "The new president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Robert Amory, in accepting the office at the close of today's election, delivered an address in which he pointed out with vigorous force the probability that Massachusetts and other New England states are doomed to lose the textile industry, and that its future field will be in the South. It was due, he said, almost wholly to the antagonistic legislation inspired by labor organizations and even if corrective measures were taken now, J it is doubtful if the situation could j be changed. "The members of the National As- j sociation of Cotton Manufacturers rep- [ 1. ?Ml, Hfrn'nA 4-^x PolifAimin I resent iiuus irum manic ^ vbiuvi??. , The majority of the members are' here in New England," he said. "Tne cotton manufacturing indus- j try started in New England over a 1 century ago, ;jh1 has been for a long j time its largest and most important j source of livelihood. Throughout the ' history of the industry it has been I highly competitive and is unlike many i other industries, not dominated by any one nan or group of men. Its largest unit does not represent as much as 5 per cent, of the whole. "The membership of the association represents nearly 20,000,000 spindles, of which over half are in Massachusetts. In 1900 there were 15,000,000 spindles in New England and 4,500, GOO in the cotton growing states. Today tnere afre 20,000,000 spindles in New England and 15,000,000 in the cotton growing states, an increase of S4 per cent, in New England against 248 per cent, in the cotton growing states And last month the cotton growing states spun 65 per cent, of the cotton against 35 per cent, for all other states. It is time to study this situation and act. "Massachusetts alone contains over half the spindles in New England, or nearly one-third of those in the whole United States; this against about one half in 1900. She is rapidly losing her position. Since 1900 there have been installed in Massachusetts 4,000,000 new spindles against 8,500,C00 in North and South Carolina and Virginia. "It stop and examine the reasons the skill and capital. But capital will always go where % it can get the largest return and it ? ran move easily. Skilled management moves slowly because these men like to live in New England, but they too, will eventually go where there is the largest opportunity, and they have been going faster than is generally realized "In 1837 a New England mill ran innig jNew 1 ! lake er - MONDAY AN i May 29 and 30 9t jnv^ ^ONG. OP TWC MANY TWO D.W. GR.I F "WAY DO 1 Performance Begins | ADMISSION: . ( t seventy-four hours a week at an aver- 1 age wage of $3 45 per week, and a < barrel of flour cost $6.50 then. These i operatives were born and bred New i Englanders. With these long hours .and these wages opeiatives were ( drawn from the farms. 1 "The hours were reduced in Mas- i sachusetts in 1874 to sixty, in 1892 to fifty-eight, in 1908 to fifty-six, in } 1918 to fifty-four and in February,, i 1919, durii.g the post-war boom, to ( forty-eight. Taxes have grown enor-: i mnot all hp PAmpd in i I iIIUUCJI y cuiu luuuv k*44 vw ? _ these rapidly shortening liours. Holi-11 days have been increased and usually J i in the winter tint when most of us; t can not use them to advantage. 1 s "Other states have encouraged in- j i (iustry at least bv keeping their laws \ more liberal and their taxes less. J1 j Our principal competition comes from j s | the Piedmont district of North and J t i South Carolina. There the climate is j e good and bracing. The operatives are ' i i u re-bred American stock from the c mountains. Like our original New j .? Englanders they have hat! hard work j t to make a living, and appreciate op-;;, portunity. Work is not only a nec- j c essity but also a pleasure. These 11 people are of great native intelligence 11 and quick to learn. Mills have sprung i up on every hand. Every little town r wants a mill and offers free land, \ exemption from taxation and all sorts of encouragement for the man who c knows how to make cloth and will h start the mill. ji "One of the principal reasons for j this rapid growth is the assistance v our Massachusetts laws have given t the Carolina mills by restricting our li hours of work way below theirs. In li many ways our laws hamper and re- o strict our greatest home industry by ^ ether annoying and expensive pieces r tf legislation, not to mention far higher taxes. ? "The record is clear enough, the li cotton industry is gradually slipping t away. In the past various factors 1 have helped us. Massachusetts has a far more skilled help and oversight h We had the finishing works where t Southern goods must be shipped to o be bleached, dyed, or printed. Now t there is excellent siuiieo neip ana a supervision in the South. Finishing a works are starting up by leaps and f bounds. t "In the past the difference between c sixty hours in Massachusetts and t sity-six hours in the South was not t the handicap that it seems, for the r fatigue of the worker made the ex- f tra houijs much less productive. Then c we came to fifty-four hours and the r South to sixty. Here we were under a greater handicap and the industry s moved away frdm us faster. Then a Massachusetts goes to forty-eight { hours, the only industrial state to 1 have such a law, and has to compete r with fifty-five and sixty hours in the v South. The results are appalling, g North and South Carolina together t liave now approximately the same r number of spindles as Massachusetts. In September the production of the c Carolinas was 265,000,000 spindle s hours, or 35.7 per cent, more than 1: t t lieatre \ TY, S. C S i D TUESDAY 1 [ B - Matinee 3:30 |? . 1 ILLI NIG SCEWES -PITH'S WN EAST' at 8 P. M. Sharp! j . . 25 and 55c | Massachusetts; in November 58.1 per rent. more; in December 43.4 per cent, nore. These two states and Virginia done erected 8,500,000 new spindles dnce 1900 against Massachusetts' 4,>00,000. These figures are from the United States Department of Comnerce. "Many well posted manufacturers lave gravely considered and state that t is folly to enlarge Massachusetts' :otton mills?it is better to go where ndustry is wanted and encouraged, investors arc .alarmed and investment rouses have asked that this sort of nformatio.. be suppressed, but is is irne to ask Massachusetts whether ;hc wants industry or wants to be t summer resort. "She must act and act quickly, rhe legislature or its committee on iocial welfare has recently refused o consider a bill to repeal the fortylight hour law and substitute fifty'our hours to give Massachusetts an qual chance with the most progressive of her competitors. This means hat the legislature has refused to illow Massachusetts' mills to run the xtra hours which would bring into he state, to workers alone, over $12. '00,000 annually for them to spend n the state. What would not that nean for local prosperity and preention of unemployment. "The forty-eight hour law for womn and minors prevents any woman, lowever much she desires, from workr.g a minute over forty-eight hours ?er week in a factory. To limit the working hours of men is unconstituior.al, but the great wisdom of our egislature has s-id that forty-eight iours was all that women should work n account of the public health. Voman has the vote, but not yet the lght of freedom of contract. "Now, of all the jobs available for , woman who wishes to earn her own iving or help out the family purse, he cotton mill is one of the best, lie air is better than schoolrooms nd far better than moving picture touses. The work is light, most of he jobs only consuming 50 per cent, r less of the time of a skilled operaive. Of all the various studies here nd in England on 'fatigue in the inustry,' none has shown that fiftyour or even fifty-six hours for womn in similar work to cotton mills auses undue fatigue or breaks down he worker. A cotton mill is one of he few places where women earn as ouch as men. On account of paying or work actually done the women ften earn more because of their n'mhle fine-ers. "The economic situation of Masachusetts demands that her mills run is many hours per week as her cometitors, for she is now rapidly losing er^ position of supremacy. It reaains to inquire whether the 54-hour reek allows her workers to become food citizens. Our New England raditions and our rocky soil speak lore of hart! work and thrift and ess of play. The 54-hour week, with >ur present legal holidays, Sundays ind Saturday half-holidays, would lave us work only 31 per cent of he time, sleep 33% per cent, of the ime, leaving 35 2-3 of our time for ating and playing. "You gentlemen are the managers if the cotton mills of New England. I majority of you are Massachusetts itizens. You live here and you do lot want to move. Tell your legis ators that if Massachusetts wishes o keep her largest industry her laws r-ust be as liberal as those in com;eting states. If the situation can ?e made clear to the public and the egislature we can then 'Have Faith n Massachusetts' and her position in ndustry will not diminish as now, ;ut increase." May Meeting of Medical Society. The Williamsburg County Medical society met in regular monthly session Thursday, May 11, 1922, Kelley sanatorium, Kingstree, S. C., at 12 m., vith Dr. W. G. Gamble in the chair. The following answered roll call: Drs. W. G. Gamble, T. S. Hemingway, S. T. Kelley, T. C Harper and B M. Montgomery. Minutes of the previous meeting A-ere read and approved. The program of this occasion consisted of: 1. Report of a case of Subtemporal Decompression for the relief of Intracranial pressure, by Dr. E. T. Kelley. 2. The X-Ray as an Aid in Diagnosis, by Dr. B. M. Montgomery. Program announced for next meeting: Drs. W. M. O'Bryan and W. C. Rogers. At the Clinic held in the afternoon. SIX reported xur exammauun u..u treatment. B. M. Montgomery, Secretary. o Col. Jas. Keene Munnerlyn, 85, member of an old southern family and a Confederate veteran, died at his home in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday. He was a native of South Carolina. o Card of Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sexton and family wish to thank their friends for services extended during their recent bereavement. i When you are in need of printing, phone III? Record and they will call for yonr order. 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CLEMS SOUTH CAROLINA'S C REGULAR S Four-Year Courses AGRICULTURE ( Agronomy Animal Husbandry Agricultural Teaching Agriculture Chemistry' Dairying Entomology Horticulture ENGINEERING Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Textile Engineering Architecture Chemical Engineering Industrial Education CHEMISTRY AND GENERAL SCIENCE Chemistry i General Science SHORT COURSES Agriculture (1 year) Agriculture (2 year*) Agriculture Aits (2 years) ^ Mechanic Arts (2 years) Textile Industry (2 years) SUMME1 Professional and subject College Couses?Courses for renr FOR I THE REGIST] APPLICATIONS Vi i rank; The four o'clocks were striking five, , To daylight saving rules alive. i \ i The foxglove was a trifle scuffed; , The mignonette the candytuft; Verbenas threw the adverbs back; The pansy called the pot herb slack. j With phlox that multiply each night, , And all the cosmos brave and bright, The farmer should make lots of kale? , . If May means can, he carina fafi..? 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RIGGS, President IESSION BEGINNING SEPTEM1 EXPENSES For the regular session 192223 the living expenses including board, laundry, medical and all fees will be Scholarship Students $115.40 Free Tuition Students 215.40 Pay Tuition Students 255.40 The cost of uniforms and books varies with the class and course and is not included in the above figures. Scholarships and Membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (R. 0. T. C.) will reduce I the above cost by $100 to $200. IrfcfflOOL?JUNE 12 TO JUL matterCTJli*^for Teachers. Sci loval of entrancl^onditions. Cours< I'ULL INFORMAT^f WRITE OI RAR, CLEMSON C< ILL BE CONSIDERED IN THE I mes J i 4 % ' lords an abundance of I \ s as well as moments of - < i j i >RK CAST : | y Night :: , JATH AUQUAl < lid Attrartinncf i: rU) 111U UVUUUUi ;; ets Only $3.00 ; KiiiiiinimnniHimii ?????????? / LLEGE IRE and ENGINEERING BER 6. 1922. Scholarships and Free Tuition The college maintains over 200 Sholarships in the Agricultural and Textile Courses. Each scholarship is worth $100 per session and free tuition qf $40. The scholarships must be won by competitive examinations held by each County Superin- . tendent of Education on July 14th. Write for the necessary application blanks and information. The tuition of $40 is free to those found unable to pay. R. 0. T. C. All R. O. T. C. students receive financial assistance from ai - n. J 1 n 1. me r eaerai uuvcuiiaeut, tnis reaching over $100 during the junior and senior years. Y 22, 1922. , ence Courses. Cotton Grading? ;s for Agricultural Cub Boys. I WIRE DLLEGE, S. C. ORDER RECEIVED. 1