The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-09-17
risk of going unclothed?
High Point Will Help

sentative meeting OF SOIHe SoVSHly'
five of her best business men at a
called meeting in the Manufacture
ers Club Thursday evening empha-
sized this negative monosyllable,
and in their enthusiasm passed the
following resolutions:
Whereas, at meeting OF busl-
ness men of High Point assembled
in the Manufactures Club rooms on
the evening of September 10, 1914,
notice was taken f>the "buy-a-bale-
of-cotton" movement now agitating
the public mind, the following reso-
luton was unanimously passed.:
Resolved, That the people of High
Point most enthusiastically support
the "buy.a .bale-of-cotton" PROPOSE
ton which seems to be on the eve
of being properly launched and or
ganized and will lend their inf1u-
ence and their hearty support to
carry out successfully said PROPOSE
ton"
The meeting was presided over
by j. W. Harris, the unanimously.
elected chairman, and C. C. Prince
acted as secretary. A committee
IF three. consisting of S. H. Tomlin-
son. Quincy Kearns. and H. A.
White, was appointed to learn how
High Point might procure the sever
al bales which she would need in
way which would insure not so
much the certainty that each man
would get his bale and know just
where it was, holding collateral for
same, but more particularly that
the ten cents a pound paid therefor
would 60 straight into the pocket Of
the farmer who sWeated to raise the
cotton.
Lump 1t All Together.
Byrd S. Coler, New York capita
list who has large financial invest.
ments throughout the Piedmont
section of North Carolina, was pres
ent and expressed himself as heart
lily in accord with the movement,
giving it as his opinion that the
cotton bought by High Point could
better be handled ifconsidered, per-
haps. as just one bale, and the col
lateral paper to that effect could be
financed by our banks much more
readily than if there were many
separate certificates representing
everv bale.
High Point at the present time
has more money invested in the
cotton growing country than any
other North Carolina town,-per-
haps than any four Others, said j
Elwood Cox, PRECEDENT of the Com
mercial> National Bank. He is
heartily in favor of the movement
along conservative lines. and espec-
tally gave his complete assent as
expressed in the wording of the reso-
luton as passed.
The point made by Mr.. Coler was
emphasized by Homer Wheeler,
who said we were not so much buy
ing different grades of cotton at
different prices whereby one man
would get bale of stained middling
at $28 or $50, and another bale of
good middling at $50, but that a
500-pound bale of good middling at
ten cents pound represented the
basis of buying and each man in
vested $50 Or, the emphasis should
be put on $50 as basis instead of
one bale of cotton as basis.
A motion was made by Abram
Cook to canvass the town to learn
approximately how many bales
could be taken care of by the Fur
niture City was carried.
Send the Cash Home.
The committee appointed to de,
wise a sure method whereby the t
ten cents paid per pound for our
cotton would 60 directly into the
jeans" of the one-gallus salt-of-the
earth man who toiled to make the
cotton instead of swelling the bank
account of some spectators who
had bought the staple at the pres
ent prevailing price of seven and a
half cents, will report at another
meeting within few days.
But after all, one can but see in
looking into the future that with all
the fancy dress balls in Atlanta and
other places to popularize wider
use of cotton garments, with all the
buy-a-bale propositions acted upon,
and the quiet nights of sleep result
ing from a consciousness of having
helped the laboring men,-with all
these, and many other enthusiastic
and laudable present-moment move
ments, none of them nor all of them
will amount to the proverbial row
of pins unless some definite action
is taken in regard to next-year re-