Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1901-09-25

, tude that had gotten along without these
things simply because all their neigEbors
! had done likewise for years. But the
pride that had been satisfied in the noun
tains and back country made them amb-
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.
1.-The public schools were at once patron
lied by children who might have devel-
oped like their parents If 1t 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-abiding, temperate, in
dependent and self-respectiug 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 Olyn1-
pia's management
WORK ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
Operatives in the South can and do work
all the year round If they wish to and 1t
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 mill building, the finest ma
chinery the latest looms, spindles aEd
other machinery, but the policy of the mill
has been and is to put the most expe-
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 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 unsk]led help and train
| the workers with the skilled and compe-
| tent help now used. 1t Is matter OF but
a short time-a very short time-before the
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 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 toers and eked out an existence are
! to-day living comfortably in mill conmuni-
| ties: their children have the best OF school
facilities they. have the best of church or
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 system and were constantly in debt,
and that debt growing month by month
and year by year, finally abandoned farm
| ing and the deb. 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-
erything 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 the mill. The
company has employed a competent, we'll
known physician, whose business ana