The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-11-30

| "u -AuSio'1dAou worthy oi tue
name and an African than there is Of
collision between passenger and o
freight train running in the same
direction on parallel tracks. One
was born master-the other servant.
God made them SO, and centuries are
needed to change racial characteristics.
It's the negro who is trying to be o
bad white man, and the white man
without ambition who make trouble.
Theee are but eddies on the stream oe
time. The proportion Of white litter
acy among US is one Of the weights
that besets us. We need all the
schools we have and more, too. An
inundation of intelligence would be
welcome, whether it came as white
immigration or compulsory education
for the native population. The argu-
ment that compulsory education is
paternalism is meeting a condition
with moss-backed theory Of Govern
ment.
That manufacturing planti is worth
most to any town which employs the
largest number of skilled laborers.
Skilled labor is high priced labor.
This class is already employed some
where else and it is hard to move
them. Many of the smaller indus
tries need chiefly this kind. It is
better to bear this fact in mind than
to ignore it, and trust to luck. There
is today small manufactory in South
Carolina that is struggling for an exis-
tence and while not their clly handi-
cap their greatest difficulty is that of
securing enough competent workmen
and keeping them satisfied. They
have some, but their output could be
doubled on the same administrative
expense if they could get the kind of
labor they need. Hence my admoni-
tion IS to ample capital. The man
who has to meet the pay rolls
must know where the money is to
come from until he can make repu-
tation for his product, establish trade
relations and influence workmen to
come South
"You are pessimistic I fear," said
the reporter. ;
No, [ am not-hayen' I express.
ed my confidence in the future for
the South as manufacturing people?
| want to see us build only on solid
foundations. One ill-advised venture
IN manufacturing way will operate
as brake on the wheels of progress
in that vicinity for many moons.
am only locking at present conditions
through common sense spectacles-
that's all. There is no excus fol
communities or individuals making
the same mistake twice. Success is
true economy, practically applied. A
mistake common with US for small in.
dustries is organizing with only
enough capital to erect the cheapest
of buildings. That's false economy
STANDARD brick construction il
best for large or small industry
Good buildings mean lower insurance
! rates. Brick buildings are cooler ir
our hot summers and more ohesply
heated-fuel will be saved in the win
ter months.
"Then the question of fuel and
water for engines and boilers should
be studied. Up my way wood is toe
scarce to be counted on. When I wal
a young man with my aesthetic ideas
in the ascendant, perhaps, I asked 8
shrewd old individual one day why he
had located his little plant down in 6
fat, close beside miserable little
stream, when just above was beauti
fully wooded knoll. This was his re-
ply: It's easier to go to the waite,
than to bring the water to you.
Many have found this out after it was
too late. The soft water of running
streams is better for boilers than wei
L
water.
"No up-to-date cotton mill is nov
built with the picker room in the mair
building. It is the most hazardou.
part of the risk, and is detached from
the factory proper so that fire there
can, at the worst, be confined to itl
| point of origin and mt andapoer th.
entire plant.
I'm woodworking plants it's money
(and sometimes faotories) saved t
bear this in mind. The boiler, tn,
dry kiln and the finishing rooms-tht
most dangerous parts Of these risks
should be detached from each other
or where space will not permit of this
separated by FIRE walls.