The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25

tude that had gotten along without these
thinks 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 anaoi-
tious to keep up with the order OF Things
in the region to which they had migrated.
The children must be clothed like otner
children; the wife must not be compelled
to live in sun bonnet.
i 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 ef intelligence, taste, de-
velopiag appetite fol- necessary ana Iuxu-
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 iaw-abiding, 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 Olyul-
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 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 mill building, the finest ma
chinery, the latest looms, spindles and
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-
partnents. President WHB. 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 50 General Manager J. S. Moore has
been brought up in the mill business, and
knows It's every detail, and so on down the
line. and that IS why its management IS
anxious to secure lnskilled help and train
t1e workers with the skilled and compe-
tent help now used. It is matter OF but
a. short ttre-a very short tiIne-before the
new help can and does earn as much as
any In the mills Att Olympia there will be
room for all
THE BEST PEOPLE ATWoRK
There are to-day thousands Of the best
people in South Carolina who are working
In the mills, and who are delighted mat
they change. Families who had been
mere to.Iers and eked out an. existence are
to-day living comfortably IN mill conmunl-
ties; their children have theSoest OF scnoot
facilities; they nave the best Of church OPP
portunities, and when payday comes
around they and their working family re-;
ceiye their pay and can and do put ASIDE
money. Families whoi worked under the
lien system and were constantly in Geot,
and that debt growing month by montn
and year by year, finally abandoned farm
inp and the debt basis, and went into the
mills with their grown children and soon
enioved comfortable and regular incomes.
It IS the constant aim OF, such corpora
ttoas as the Olympia to have competent
and happy help, and to have heaithy ana
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 tnan
that at the Olympia Mill. The company
has an exceptional sewerage and drainage
system; aI1 garbage IS carted away oy the
earoaee carts owned by the mill. .The
company has employed a competent, well.
known physician, whose business and