El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-24

, trial and financial life of Charlotte must
be credited.
Saturday Night n Gala Occasion
If the delegates to the United States
league will remain in Charlotte untH
Saturday they will see things which
will make even professional building
and loan men open their eyes The
streets will be crowded with working
men and women. white and black, old
and young They have been paid off
and they are ready to spend their
money 1t is the great Saturday night
Everybody is gay and the carnival spir-
1t is in the air-'it looks like big
night tonight
! But no one goes into the saloons. for
the very good reason that there are no
saloons in which to go No one seems
TO be intoxicated with anything more
| than the joy of living But they all
! have money and they are all bound
down the street to the same section of
the city. What are they going to do?
/ chilly Malone Well Known.
''NVanta shoot some craps?" whispers
| a sIouchy and addressed negro to one
; of the passing throEg. Come or.
! We've gotta game" You ain taIkfn'
| TO me. niggah," comes the reply from
/ the colored gentleman with the cash IN
his pocket, Use gwine to pay Ole Billy
I Malone"
! more prosperous than any other town
! of its size in the south, that is the
l reason why more Of its wOrkingmen
! Csgn their own home, that is the rea-
| son why the hands" in Charlotte cot
ton mills are not nOmadic, that is the
reason why Charlotte negroes stay out
of trouble and out of poverty. that is
| the reason why Charlotte is the Char
lOtte Of today. 1t is Ole Billy Malone.
The Mecklenburg Building and Loan
| Association" or any other sort of build
ing and loan association was too much
Of a mOuthful for the Tarheel negro
The first one was tOlled into paying his
money into the little window every
Saturday. 1t wasn't long before he
| found himself q landed proprietor, the
owner of a house and lot Other ne
groes looked upon him and envied his
! high and mighty estate From the su-
pernal heights of his dignity he con-
descended 10 tell them that the build
ing and loan association did the work.
| Building and loan. building and loan
Billy Malone, billy Malone echoed the
! other negroes and they began to save
| their money Now they are landed pro-
prietors. too. and the Charlotte negro
! begins at u years old to lay up his saw
ings with Ole Billy Malone
Negroes Own Property.
As result there is large population
or property owning negroes in Char
! lOtte which stands for law and order.
1t is said that a land-owning negro is
a good negro Charlotte has many cot
ton mills, and a greater percentage of
/ the cotton mill operatives live in their
own homes than in any manufacturing
town of the south. As one of the chief
! difficulties Of the southern cotton man
| ufacturer lies in the nOmadic and ire
spOnsible character of his labor. this
home owning has done much for Char
lotte mills
Newspaper Owes for Existence.
| But me work OF the associations in
Charlotte has not been confined TO cot
! ton mill workers and negroes. Every
! class Of people in the community is
I largely represented among the share
: holders Of the local associations. The
/ building occupied by the Charlotte OBJ
/ server, the leading newspaper of the
city, was built through a building and
J loan association Every Saturday at
| terroon the negro porter takes the
! weekly payments for the Observer. for
f. the editorial staff, for the counting room
force. for the printers and pressmen.
and goes down the street to make the
| weekly deposit which is paying for the
, building in which he works the homes
! in which his fellow employees live and
for-his own landed estate.
Built Many Philadelphia Homes.
Philadelphia. where the first Ameri-
can building and loan association was
( organized and where the associations
I are now greatest in number. has more
working men living in their own homes
( than any other city in the world. Sew
! eral years ago q telegrapher left Phila-
! delphia for New York. He found his
/ working associates in the metropolis to
/ be thriftless, unhappy, nomadic and
nothing like so well-tO-do as the teleg-
raphers of Philadelphia. He looked
I about and found that none of them was
{ saving anything.
He started a building and loan So
] ciety among the telegraphers and after
/ a few years conditions IN that office
/ became what they had been in Phna-
/ Gelphia- The men saved and had some
] thing to live for and work for 1t is
! this kind of cOntentment and security
which makes Philadelphia sleepy
I Dayton. Ohio. is another city where
! the building and loan associations have
/ enabled the workirgnen to own their
! homes Baltimore. also, has made great
| progress The cities where these asso-
/ Citations have flourished are the cities
1 in which the laboring men have pros
/ pered. Great is the name of Ole Billy
/ Malone.
Tomorrow. Railroad Claim Agents"