Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-09-25

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 ambi-
ttous to Keep up with the order of things
IN the region to which they had migra ted.
The children must be clothed like other
children; the wife must not be compelled
10 i've IN sun bonnet.
SCHOOLS FOR ALL
THE public schools were at once pa .ron-
lied by children who might have devel-
ooped like their parents IL 1t had not been
Tor 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-
Veioping appetite for necessary and luxu-
rlous surroundings. and, with the passing
OF years and the accumulation OF means,
groups of tho owned homes OF thousands
who came TO the towns penniless and igno-
rant and have been by industry and thrift
converted into law-abding, temperate. in
dependent and self-respectng Am ricans"
All that Mr. Dunnei1 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 tho grea test Of home COM
forts, and that Is the purpose of the Olyn,-
pias management.
WORK ALL THE YEAR ROUND
Operatives In the South can and do work
ali the year round If they wish to and It
is not here as It is up In the New England
States, that the cold weather interfercs
with work for several months in each year.
TIE BEST OF OFFICERS.
The Olympia Cotton Mill has collected
all the best things that are to be had. 1t
has the finest mill building, the finest ma
chinery, the latest looms, spindes and
other machinery, but the policy Of the mill
has been and is to put the most expe-
rlenced 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 topmost 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 the
line, and that Is why its management is
anxious to secure unskilled help and train
the workers with the skilled and compc-
tent help now used. 1t Is matter OF but
a short time--a very short time-,bcfore tho
new help can and does earn as much as
any In the mills. AT Olympia there will be
room for all.
THE BEST PEOPLE AT WORK.
There are today thousands OF tho best
people In South Carolina who are working
IN the mills, and who are delighted that
they change. Families who had been
mere toers and ekcd out an existence are
to-day living comfortably In mill communi-
ties; their children have the best OF school
facilities they have the best of church OPP
portunities, and when payday comes
around they and their working family re-
ceive their pay and can and do put aside
money Families who worked under tho
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.
1t Is the constant aim of such corpora
tions as the Olympia to have competent
and happy help. and to have healthy and
satisfied community, and to that end ev-
erythng possible has been. and is being,
done for the health and pleasure Of the
operatives.
There is no healthier community than
that at the olympia Mill. The company
has an exceptional sewerage and drainage
system; all garbage is carted away by the
garbage carts owned by She min. The
comnany has employed competent. we'll
known physician, whose business and