The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-06-18
WINSTON-SALEM.

When we looked at a handsome
autographed picture, or map OF Win
ston Salem, just published, showing a
correct concise birds eye view of the
progressive and enterprising Twin
City, we agreed entirely with the Raj
eigh Meas and Observer when it said
recently:
Winston has been built up by the
business energy of its own people, at
tracted to it from the surrounding
country, and from the tobacco belt Of
Virginia and North Carolina. 1t has
a factory for every 40 people living
in it. 1t has 100 factories of all sorts,
embracing nearly every kind Of in
dustry.
That's it. They have not sat still
and waited for outsiders to come
along and with the hand spike of some
fortuitous circumstance lift them into
prominence and prosperity. They
have gone right ahead and done it
themselves. They have built factories
and thereby laid the foundation for
private fortunes besides helping to
build up the town. When one man
starts an enterprise it is not damned
with faint praise by others simply be-
cause they were not the originators of
it. They work together for the pub
lie good. They believe in promoting
and encouraging individual prosper
ity knowing that means community
welfare. And they are not afraid to
spend their money when they see it
is necessary and the town will receive
the benefit. They have faith in Win
ston- Salem and work for it as they do
for the advancement of their own pri-
vate interests.
1t is this sort of spirit that has made
Winston-Salem what it is to-day-one
of the best towns in North Carolina
a town with present basis of solid
prosperity, and for which the future
holds in store still brighter prospects
and greater possibilities.
Deserves Success.
The man who supports his home
paper, who advertises in it and works
for it, always deserves success, and
generally gets what he deserves. We
have long watched the career of the
most successful warehouseman in the
State-we refer to Mr.. D. Y. Cooper,
of Henderson-and his is a case in
point. Mr.. Cooper has always been
one of the most liberal patrons Of
the GOLD LEAF, advertising largely,
and often sending out large editions at
bis own expense. While Mr.. Cooper
is so built that he would succeed any
where and under almost any circum-
stances, we cannot help but believing
that his success in Henderson is largely
due to the very liberal manner in which
he advertises in his home paper, the
GOLD LEAF. It has cost him compar-
atively little, and yet it has built up
an immense business for him. Let
other business men read the secret of
success in the above case, and 60 and
do likewise. Winston Tobacco Journal.
The above is we'll put. Mr.. Cooper
has always had proper regard for the
value of his home paper, and is ever
ready to accord to it conspicuous
place among the forces that have been
instrumental in establishing his trade
and building up his immense business.
Broad minded and far sighted as he is,
he sees in printers ink one of the
greatest aids the aggressive business
man can invoke in his behalf, and that
article he uses with liberal hand
and he pays for What he gets. That it
pays him the persistence with which
he exercises his faith and judgment in
advertising is the best evidence. Mr..
Cooper is too smart man to continue
to put money where he does not OBJ
tain satisfactory results.
And not only does he believe in the
efficacy of the newspaper in advertising
his own private business, but he recog-
nizes its worth to the community and
to the market as well, and many times
he has proposed to pay for the publica-
ton of such items as were purely Of a
general Or public character-not in
themselves personal to him-but be.
cause he knew if the Henderson tobacco
market received benefit, Cooper ware.
house would be benefited also. Hence
he was willing and if permitted to dc
so would cheerfully pay for such things
as were entirely in the line of duty Oh
the part of the paper to publish, in the
discharge of its obligations to its con
stituents and in the exercise Of its 10y
atty to the town and community.
We say this much by way of more
fully illustrating the high estimate Mr.
Cooper places upon his local paper
which is run in his interest to the ex
tent that he pays for and any othe
man doing a legitimate business, il
whatever line, can get some of the SAM
goods at the same price.
EDITOR Latham, of the Washington