The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-01
IMPROVEMENT IN BUSINESS IS
NOTED THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
Optimism the Keynote-Substantial Revival in CONNER:
cial and Industrial Activity Is at Hand-Efort te
Divert Public Mind From War.

I1dl, t1lC i11ChNiI VI |
ing a splendid coal business for the
Norfolk & Western and Virginian
railroads. October, however, brought
a slight decrease in that traffic, but
we believe it is now picking up
again."
Wants Less War News.
N. D.. Chaplin, president, The Bill
ings-Chapin Company, Cleveland. o.:
81 nave seriously thought Of taking
the matter up with our Chamber Of
Commerce to find out whether some
concerted action cannot be secured
among the newspapers of this coun-
try to reduce the amount of space
they are devoting to the war and
relegate this news to a more incon-
s%picuous portion Of their papers. We
believe we have been fed on war news
too literally.
The recent elections in a great
many of the States ave tended to
divert the public mind from the war,
and / am glad to see hat some eff
fort is being made to keep the peo-
pie from reverting to it again."
Frank c.. Burke, president, The
Manhattan Soap Company, New
York:
"Our sales are satisfactory and
plant running up to normal"
Of the Business Mems Association,
Mount Clemens, Mich:
Foul new industries have located
their factories in Mount Clemens this
year., which will make a total in
crease in our payroll from our fac
tories Of over two hundred thousand
dollars a year. Our Mount Clemens
Pottery Company, the sales volume
of which is $500, 900 a year, antici-
pates no trouble at all in reaching the
capacity Of the plant during the next
twelve months"
Improvements in Auburn.
Charles G. Adams, secretary of
the Business Mems Association Of
Auburn, N. Y:
There has been some improve
ment Of business in Auburn. The In
ternational Harvester Company's fac
tory here was closed for several
months, but is now running again and
is taking the men back The Nye &
Wait Kilmarnock Company has just
received a large order for blankets fOI
a foreign country"
: Washington Chamber of Commerce
: Washington, D. c.:
|" Il find a general belief among the
business men that the war new:
: should not absorb the entire from
\ page Of the newspapers to the exclu
sion Of stories of prospects,, at least
: for better business"
: Dull in Machine Tools.
Perrin G. March. president, TIL
e Cincinnati Shaper Company, Cincin
natl, o.:
"Our business is classed among ma
chine tools, and aside from tw
classes Of machine tools, namely
: lathes. including turrets and millini
machines, the trade is PRACTICAL
dead in this country. The lathes an
n milling machines are being bought i
J; very large numbers by the belligeren
nations as they can be used in tn
is production Of small hot and shrap
1T mel, and milling machines go int
factories to sustain it's equipment an
they can be used upon block pieces
l. ETC., for field guns"
Albert Morsbach, president, TIL
~ Graf-Morsbach Company, Cincir
natl, o.:
d w have had a tremendous IL
re crease in our business on account
SIS supplying goods for Europe"
ly j.. b. White, president of tt
rs White-Haines Optical Company, c.
lumbuS, o.:
in I'VE are very optimistic regarc.r
in the business conditions Of our cou1
%. try. We believe that the business
he here and that all it requires is a will
lis ingneSS to go after it.
at LAS a firm we nave never talkt
ms hard times. When other people di
he cuSS matters of that kind we Simp
he push the more, and as Il result u
a business has always increased, Il
list year 1914 being the best year we ha
tor ever had.
Sc I'VE are not given to DeSsimiSl
There are too many men in char
of business who are troubled with
p~eSSimiStic view and are always loo
h;c ing for something to complain of. Y
US are firmly Of the belief and alwa
have been hat such men create sta
nation Of business"
ave Auto IraOc In GOOd Shape.
full Alfred Reeves, general manag'
National Automobile
Up Commerce, New York:
The trade generally is in We
yer good shape, the demand for auton
me biles continuing consistently al
showing in some cases substant
our increases. ipmen
s a the month Of October were 10:
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