The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-17
SPINNERS
NOWON SHORT TIME.
Raw Material Forced Up to
Such High Price That the
Trade Is Suffering.
MORE POPULAR EACH DAY
DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH IN
TEREsTED IN LoNDoN's POOR.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

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raw material, who. foreseeing a short
crop, have been able to force up the
! price. Cotton splnners, not only III
/ Lancashire, but in the United states
! and on the continent, have IounQ lhdt
they cannot run their mills full zine
prodtably. and short time running has
| been resOrted to. BY reason OF the IN
| ternational federation Of master cotton
| spinners this short time movement Is
now more general than on previous oc-
| casions. when Lancashire had to nght
| against a cotton corner and the users
of American cotton throughout the
world are making common cause
! against the present conditions Whleh
| are hampering trade.
! c.. W. NIAGARA, president Of the indus
/ trial cotton committee, at Manchester,
/ yesterday received from the president
! of the American Cotton Manufacturers
! association a letter stating that the
consumption of cotton in the southern
/ territory of America at present is ~
| per cent less than it was this time iast
year.
Ali Suffering Alike.
In an interview Mr.. NIAGARA said that
| from reports published in the press
/ the public might Judge that Lancashire
/ was the only cotton center suHeTlng
/ from depression. Nothing could be
/ more erroneous. Every cotton center
/ was suffering alike, and the reason was
/ that an anticipated short crop or cot
/ ton and the action of spectators had
! advanced the price of raw cotton near
I ly 80 per cent and had made the manu-
| featured article SO dear that trade was
restricted to the smallest possible linn
! it's. The question of tariff did not enter
/ into the subject in any degree. only
! by the continuance of shOTt-time run
ming could the evils at present existing
be ayerted.
A telegram received here from Milan
! last night states that as an outcome Of
/ the understanding with the English cot
| ton industry Italian mill owners, VINO
/ use American raw cotton TO the extent
/ of 900 spindles, have agreed to smut
! down one day weekly during the next
| ten weeks. A further step towards reg
ulating the cotton output is the fOrma-
| ton of a syndicate there, with capt.
! tai of $500, 900, which will guarantee
! surplus stocks with the banks SO as to
! reduce by about one-half the actual
| average production of nine pounds per
/ spindle.
Popular American Duchess.
The Duchess Of Marlborough, who is
! daily becoming more popular in London
/ because of her increasing personal eff
/ forts to improve the condition OF the
Door. and especially. of the children OF
/ the slums. the other day presided at
/ meeting at her residence, sunderland
! House, CurzOn street, in aid Of DR.. Bar
/ nardo's homes. In an address she said
| that it was a terrible fact that every
/ day the number of unfit and uncared-
/ for children, and the percentage of
/ parents morally and physically inca
I pable of providing for their children
! was growing TO an alarming rate. The
/ answer, she thought, to those who hold
/ the opinion that to take away children
/ from their parents was to undermine
/ parental authority, was that no mother
/ who was fit to bring them up would vol
| unfairly give them up.
Drink, unemployment and the cOndi-
/ tons of tenement life were to some eX-
| tent responsible for unfit parents. but
| the root of the evil lay deeper and, TO
/ the speakers mind, was the want of
] practical and technical education in the
! schools. Young people were taught to
/ read and write but the schools were un-
able to make them healthy and useful
! citizens. The apprenticeship system
was dying out, and we were now suffer
! ing from the effect Of being in a transit
ton state, for our educational system
had not vet completed the equivalent
for apprenticeship. 1t was the sound
moral and physical bringing up of the
children I'm Dr. BarnardO's homes, and
the practical and technical education
/ given them. that transformed them into
useful citizens.
Ancient Coionnade Destroyed.
Indignation was aroused among artists
and antiquaries some time ago by the
threatened destruction of the north side
of Bath street, Bath, with its fine
Georgian colonnade, in connection
with the rebuilding Of the Grand Pump
Room hotel. 1t was hoped that the act
OF vandalism had been 'averted, but yes
terday morning a firm Of local contract
ors, acting under orders from the own
ers of the property, commenced the
work of demolition.
The Royal Institute of British Archi-
I tects, the Society Of Antiquaries, the
/ Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings and the National Trust for
! Places of Historic Interest had all OPP
/ posed the destruction. In reply 10 the
criticism, the Bath corporation issued
an official statement defending their
proposed action.
To diminish the owl Of the existing
| condition of child slavery in England.
the British Constitution association at
its annual conference at Cambridge
proposed that an act be passed by par
| lament raising the age for leaving the
public schools to 10 for children of both
sexes.
$. II. Butcher NJ p, thought it
| could be carried out without any Sc
| riOus disturbance. He mentioned that
OF the $50 900 children who now left
/ school between the ages of IS and II
only 10000 carried on their education
to some extent in evening schools. This
left 140 600 who absolutely ceased to
learn anything after the age of II.
! There was surely a pathetic irony in
| the fact that for a few years in life.
| when they were least fitted for labor
/ they had to follow some employment
| while for the rest of their lives they
/ were either unemployed or unemploy-
| able. For the most part, indeed, these
I boys were in the downward grade for
the rest of their existence. That was
an evil so enormous that it was per-
fectiy clear that some remedy for it
must be adopted.
Lady Darwin also appealed for some
| Improvement in our education system
which would tend to place young men
I'M a position TO earn a livelihood and
/ furnish an efficient antidOte for pau
perism. Boys now were turned out into
the world having learned little or moth
ing, and forgetting even the little
| knowledge they had gained. In such
circumstances they drifteds inevitably to
| unskilled labor, and often ended by be-
| coming both unemployed and unem-
playable. She agreed with a Cambridge
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