The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-09-26

tude that had gotten along without these
things simply because all their nelghbors
had done likewise for years. But the
pride that had been satisfied in the noun
tains and back country made them ambi-
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 az 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 10 crafty them.
The sun of civilization was rising.
"In many respects this is the very best
result OF the indus!rial awakening in
South Carolina. The mill towns are bound
to become c ntres 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 ps nniless and igno-
rant, and have been by industry and thrift
converted into law-abding, temperate. in
dependent and self-respecting Americans"
All that Mr. Dunnail has to say is correct,
but more so here as the mill owners real
ize that the b5st 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
ali the year round if they wish 10 and 1t
is not here as 1t is up in the New England
States, that the cold weather interferes
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THE BEST OF OFFICERS.
The Olympia Cotton Mill mas collected
all the best things that are 10 be had. 1t
has the finest mill building, the finest ma
chinery, the latest looms, spindles and
other machinery, but the policy Of the mill
has bien and Is 10 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 20 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 unsklled help and train
the workers with the skilled and compe-
tent h:ip now used. II is matter Of but
a short time-a very short time-before the
new help can and does earn as much az
any in the mills. AT Olympia there will be
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 that
they change. Families who had been
mere to!lers and eked 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 the
lien syste 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 a healthy and
satisfied community, and to that end ev-
erythinS pA,sible has been, and Is being,
done I'd De health and pleasure OF the
operatives.
There is no healthier community than
that at the olympia Mil. The company
has an exceptional sewerage and drainage
system; all garbage is carried away by the
garbage carts owned by the mill. The
comnany has employed a competent, we'll
known physician, whose business and