The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-09-26

tude that had gotten along without these
things simply because all their neighbors
had done likewise for years. But the
pride that had been satisfied in the noun
tains and back country made them annbi-
tious to keep up with the order of things
in the region to which they had migrated.
The children must be clothed like other
children; the wife must not be compelled
to live In sun bonnet
SCHOOLS FOR ALL.
THE public schools were at once patron
lied by children who might have devel-
oped like their parents if it had not been
for the building Of new cotton mills. New
needs demanded money to crafty them.
The sun Of civilization was rising.
"In many respects this Is the very best
result OF the industrial awakening In
South Carolina. The mill towns are bound
to become centres Of intelligence, taste. de-
veloping appetite for necessary and luxu-
rious surroundings, and, with the passing
Of years and the accumulation OF means,
groups Of the owned homes Of thousands
who came to the towns penniless and igno-
rant and have been by industry and thrift
converted into law-abiddng, temperate, In
dependent and self-respecting Americans.
All that Mr Dunnell has to say Is correct,
but more so here, as the mill owners real
ize that the best help is that which is best
paid and given the greatest OF home COM
forts and that Is the purpose OF the Olym-
pia's management.
WORK ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
Operatives in the South can and do work
all the ysar round If they wish to and it
Is not here as it is up in the New England
States, that the cold weather interferes
with work for several months in each year.
THE BEST OF OFFICERS.
The Olympia Cotton Mill has collected
all the best things that are to be had. It
has the finest min building, the finest ma
chinerS, the latest looms, spindles and
other machinery, but the policy OF the mill
has been and is to put the most exre-
rienced men at the head of the various de-
partments. President w. B. Smith Whaley
knows the mill business from the ground
floor UP. He worked his way from the bot
tom to the topnost rung OF the ladder.
and so General Manager J. s. Moore has
been brought up in the mill business, and
knows Its every detail, and so on down tins
line, and that is why its management Is
anxious to secure unskilled help and train
the workers with the skilled and compe-
tent help now used. It is matter OF but
a short time-a very short time before the
new help can and does earn as mucn 40
any in the mills. At Olympia there Will 1e
room for all.
THE BEST PEOPLE AT WORK.
There are to-day thousands Of the best
people in South Carolina who are working
In the mills, and who are delighted tnae
they change. Families who had been
mere toilers and eked out an existence are
to-day living comfortably In mill commupi.
ties: their children have the best OF sehoof
facilities; they have the best OF church op.
portunities, and when payday comes
around they and their working family re-
ceiye their pay and can and do put aside
money. Families who worked under the
lien system and were constantly In debt,
and that debt growing month by month
and year by year, finally abandoned farm-
ing and the debt basis, and went into the
mills with their grown children and soon
enjoyed comfortable and regular incomes.
It is the constant aim Of such corpora
tions as the Olympia to have competent
and happy help and to have healthy ana
satisfied community, and to that END ev.
eryehing possible has been, and IS being,
done for the health and pleasure OF ths
operatives.
There is no healthier community thau
that at the Olympia Mill. The company
has an exceptional sewerage and drainage
system; all garbage Is carted away by tne
garbage carts owned by the mill. Tae
company has employed competent, Well
known physician, whose business ana