The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
FUTURE OF STATES TEXTILE
INDUSTRY FULL OF PROMISE
North Carolina Rapidly Working Toward The POINT
Where Cotton Will Be Sold in The Web Rattle, Than
In The Bale.

potterieS III all sections ,f tbe city
ana IN every one are capable hands |
VINO can make the finest grades of
emma ware that we find.
When North Carolina couomancaa |
10 make cotton goods the coarsest
quality of textiles was turned ont
Week by week the change is going on
at the mills, and finer yarns and finer
weave are steadily cataloeued among
the products of the mills. Just as at
filsh Point the population has learn
ed the art of manufacturing furniture.
so IN the mill centers of the State the
population has learned the art Of
making cotton products.
This matter Of available trained
labor is probably the biggest feature
III the whole story. of cotton mill de
velopment of the future. That old
story of the cotton mill hand comes
up every time mill discussion is com
menced but it is we'll known to mill
men that the mill has had q wonderful
forward stimulus on the people of
much OF the South. In the more
isolated farm sections progress in the
past was not SO marked as it might
save been. The cotton mill has open
ed the back woods to modern ways.
and it has brought the rural folks out
! into contact with modern "onven-
fences. 1t has not done this as a bit
of philanthropy at all. but for the
benefit Of the mill. In benefitting the
mill the mill has benefited the people
who have come out to find employ
ment. benefited the community which
they become instrumental in develop
ing, and in a-brOader way the mill
hands have helped the whole State
and nation by broadening the indus
trial horizon Of the world.
EOOd Stock in Country Homes.
The country homes of North Caro-
lima are full of the best Kind Of stocI,
that is capable of being trained into
thoroughly capable hands for every
place about a mill. Because these
folks have lived away from contact
with the busy world does not say that
they are in the slightes. degree the
mental interiors of anybody who lives
for they are not. Their stock is the
same good European blood that set
tied and developed this lively nation
and if anybody tells you it has de
Perforated don't you believe that fol-
a minute. Tt has simply vegetateC
temporarily. The cotton mill bring:
this material into action, and it is Al
enormous reserve force, for it gives tx
an expanded mill development a biz
reserve from which to steadily draw
new hands for a long time to come.
don't propose to enter on a dis
cuSSion of the social conditions o
the mill population. That has gon'
ON in the spheres of certain sOcia
workers until it is time to give it
rest. But it is my impression from
constant contact with d mill popu
!, lation that no factory worker on tn
. continent are better served than In
!. workers in the average North Caro-
: lima cotton mill. One reason for thi
= ), conclusion is because in most of tn
mill towns the people live and wOrI
in small communities where they ar
: in the country, and l believe q man o
. a child can thrive setter in the coun
!, try than in the town. The cotton mi
of North Carolina has brought to tn
rural communities the advantages c
factory e~mployments and of factor
neiehbOrhOOds.
Rapidly the great school which In
, many mills constitute, are trainln
men who will be managers, men VIII
; will be superintendent, men who wi
be operatives, men who Will be every
thing about the mills. The quality {
the labor from the best paid ma
down to the lowest in the mills.
= good. The great technical trainin
- school is running daily all the yea
l. round, and is bringing in new studen
y constantly. From the mountal
o counties can come an army eyel
:. month, and as they are trained the
e help to build up n vast intelligel
II manufacturing force that can hand
III any question that comes into IT
II textile plane.
'e Making Finer Goods.
AS new students come into II
coarser lines of work the older on
~ keep pushing ahead, growing MOI
skillful from year to year, and
their hands grow more profcie1
=. mills are changing from the coar
grades of products to the finest al
40 more complicated. n deilca
40 weaves like scrims, curtains, the cor
:, plex patterns of the loom
-. the finer underwear II hosiery, a
all crowding into places for ther
~ selves in the North Carolina factorie
pointing out what is close in sight t
the future.
R 1t is the old story Of the ton OF IT.
-, worth seventeen dollar as pig ire
,.n thirty dollars as steel billets. five hu
dred dollars as edged tools. and n