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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-07
True Economy.

Economy consists not In going with
out needed things 50 much as " uSina
al things, money Ia ltsH tnihe bes
possible advant
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EPISCOPAL TEA ROOM
SECURES NEW QUARTERS

The management of the Episcopal
Tea Room today closed a lease upon
the quarters formerly occupied by
Barnett's harness shop above their
present quarters and as soon as the
rooms ca nbe reinished, painted and
decorated, the Tea Room will be
moved there. The ladies announce
they have arranged for the mainten-
ance of a private dining room and
other accommodation not heretofore
possible, which will make the Tea
Room most desirable among those
who wish to entertain their friends
at meals, as well as for banquets
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WEATHER

ForGeorgia, showers tonight and
thunderstorms probably tonight and
Friday.
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COTTON MARKET
AMERIcUs SPOTS.
Good middling 20 lie.
NEW YORK COTTON.

PreV.
Close Open High Low Close
Dec. 32.40 80 32.3G.80 Ais 31.95
Oct, 1922 31.32 31.02 30.98
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Optimistic Thought.

Men should be temperate in eatinp
: "o'' y drinking.
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Southern
NeWSP aPeF foF
Southern People
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1919-10-22
LOCAL ITEMS.

-
and children, of Norton. spent
sunday III the Gap with rela.
tives.
MFR. and Mrs. +. A. Compton
and children, of Dunbar, spent
sunday in the Gap with relu.
tivus.
Mr.. and Mis-. +. f. Burgess
left Saturday night for Frank
fort, KY. where they were call.
ci on account Of tue sudden
death Of Mis-. Burgess father.
MIR. Cox, who was ninety three.
years old.
Miss Lena Reese, of Cleve
land, ONO. arrived IN the Gap
Saturday night, where she will
spend several DAYS visiting
Miss PaDsy Thompson. Miss
Reese formerly llved in thu
Gap.
Mrs. Morgan Orr, of Dryden,
has been spending few days
in the Gap visiting her Sister,
Mrs. Blake Wampler.
Mrs. Cornie Flunary, of Dry
den, and sou, Guy, who recent.
y returned from France, spent
Friday in the Gap with rela-
tives.
James w. Rush, representa-
tive of the w. Il. Sistrunk Com.
pany, Of Lexington, Ky, and
Sam McCluen motored TO Blue
iield Saturday, returning Mon
day morning in Mr.. Rush's new
Dodge roadster.
Mrs. Clark, of West Virginia.
is spending several days in the
Gap the guest of Mrs. j l.. Nc
| Cormick and Mrs. G.. w. Dean.
Miss Florence Mccormick re
turned Saturday to her home i'm
the Gap from three weeks
visit to friends in Radford and
other points.
Robert Wren, assistant man.
ager of the Oakland Motor Com
pany at New York city, spent a
few days in the Gap last week
visiting his brother, w. H..
Wren.
Thomas j. Heninger, who
spent several days here visiting
his niece, Mrs. W. II. Wren
returned to his home at Cleve-
land, Ohio, last Friday.
Mrs. Il. w, NickeIs went to
Scott county Tuesday morning
where she will spend several
days visiting relatives.
j. ). Hamblen was "A bust
ness visitor at Coeburn few
hours last Friday.
Harry Wallace, who is en-
ployed on the Coalfield Progress
at Norton, spent Sunday in
town visiting homefolks.
Rev. G. b. Livesay, pastor OF
the Christian church at Bristol,
will conduct a series of meet.
lngs at the Christian church at
this place, beginning on the
night of November l7lh. All
ministers and members of 9th
er denominations are cordially
invited TO attend these services.
Miss Lena Reese and brother,
Ralph, of Cleveland, Ohio, ar
rived in the Gap Saturday night
and will spend a week here Wis
iting at the home of Mrs Sarah
Thompson.
Jack Horsley left last week
for Frankfort, Ky, where he
has accepted position as en-
gineer with the state on high
way construction work.
The Lloyd Guild will meet
with Mrs. ID. B. Pierson Friday
afternoon at $3.50.
Andrew Reeder, of Washing.
ton, arrived in the Gap last
week and visited friends hore
for a few days. He went to
Stonega Sunday night, where
he has accepted a position with
the Stonega Coke & Coal Com
pany.
The Monte Vista Hotel has
bought a new Ford passenger
bus, which will be operated be-
tween the l.. & N. and South
ern depots for the accommod,.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR.

money to me- says MT. Galloway. "The cost of the extras, in addition to higher wages is but so much bread cast upon the waters It has enabled me to turn out 35 per cent more pro- duction, in proportion to my force, than the United States Steel Corporation which is considered one of the most efficiently conducted organizations Tn the world"
 Strange that it required so many thousands of years of bitter expert ence to teach people that neither labor nor capital, nor both combined, con- stitutes the wealth upon which the we1l-being of the world is established. but that it is properly distributed pro- duction, the offspring of the union of capital and labor, to which the term wealth is applicable and to which the exalted mission to bring a more gen. eral happiness into the world belongs. Writing in the January IS number of The Public. which calls itself "a jour- nal of democracy" Richard Spillane says:
 HeI S lS Ol1S u uS gauge u dpply to labor, and one only. That is the element of production. Wages come from production. Capital simply is a link between production and wage. In their blindness and antagonism, capital and labor ignore this basic fact One encroaches upon the rights or the other and thinks it is a vIc- tory achieved when, in reality, injury is done to both.
 When Henry Ford established the $5 day minimum wage scale, em- ployers the country over had a chill. Highly paid labor is cheap labor if it produces approximately more than low-paid labor. The problem of the employer in America is not so much to lower the wage scale as to increase the scale of production.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
Upbuilding Citizenship

Then Mr. Galloway began the ex- pertinent of paying as high wages as the nature of the work allowed and he put up nice, cozy houses for his employees to dwell in, with gardens both for beauty and to serve as minia- ture truck farms; schools and other educational advantages and club houses followed. Gradually the men, whose mental horizon had been bounded by their immediate physical needs, and who, consequently, had never known the joy of intellectual diversion, began to take an interest in the wider, more objective affairs of life. they began to discuss economic and political problems; saloons ceased tC attract: gambling became one of the Host arts" a spiritual atmosphere invaded and pervaded their homes; within an incredibly short time their emancipatiOn from the sOrdid condl- tions which had held them fettered and enslaved was complete. The thousands of employees in his great steel plants are as fine citizens today as can be found anywhere on earth. And it is probably no exaggeration to say that every one of them is as con- tented as it is given the human heart to be under any conditions at all.
 And all this means so much more
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
Opponents Letters, But Honest Said
 Comes When Is Best to Keep the Lips

door. She said that Mir Lincoln had gone out and to leave the message. I told her that my instructions were to deliver it to Mir. Lincoln only. Then message. I stated that to give it's contents was against orders. She did not take my answer graciousIy. There was silence for a minute or two F'i, nally, she said MT. Lincoln would prob ably be found at Hoppcr's news depot l went there and found him reading the New York Tribune. I said to him, as l had said many times before, MT. Lincoln, message He Ia i'd the paper he was reading on the counter, took my receipt book, signed it and handed it to me. Then he took the message deliberately, tore the envelope to the end, took out the message, seemed to read it twice, made a slight movement with his head, crumpled the paper be- tween the right thumb and two fin gers showed the message into his right-hand vest pocket and resumed reading the neWspa per, Not word was said by MT. Lincoln to me"
 The evening of the second day after the nomination brought to Springfield a committee of notification, composed of some of the most distinguished men of that day and others who were des.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

think myself fit for the presidency. I certainly am f1attered and gratlhed that some partial friends think Of me in that connection
 About January 1, 1860, there was a conference at. Springfield of the Re publican leaders of the State. One of the men present said
 We asked him if his name might be used in connection with the nom ination, With characteristic rnodesty he doubted whether he could get the nomination even if he wished it, and asked until the next morning to answer. The next day he authorlze0 US if we thought proper to do so, to place him in the field.'
 The Illinois State Convention gave Lincoln d hearty indorsCment and sent an enthusiastic delegati tion to Chicago composed of personal friends of great ability, political experience and personal influence.
 "The news Of his nomination, '' writes William H. fierndon, his law parfner. found Lincoln at Spring field. When the telegram con lainin4 the result of the last ballot cano in, although apparently calm and undisturbed. q close observer could have detected iu the compressed lip
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

taken by the employees. At the Min nequa plant of the company, the en- ployes subscribed toward the first loan Sl33, 400; second loan, $251, 800; third loan, $325 900, and fourth loan, S485,- 400; d total of $1,196,5O0. And to the Red Cross they contributed $53,399; to the United War Work Fund, $22,- III, in addition to $6426 directly to the Y. M c. A. War Work Fund. And, in war and thrift stamps, they in- vested $237,5O
 And it was not so very long ago that this very same company and it's employees stood opposed to each other with a hatred which made that of the furious Guelfs and Ghibellines of the Middle Ages look like well-wishlng fraternal benevolence.
 Another big concern which has adopted the plan of treating labor as the partner of capital is that of Fuller Galloway, head of an Ohio steel com pany, which is said to have a 135 per cent production per man as compared with 100 per cent of the United States Steel Corporation.
 MT. Galloway is most emphatic to have it understood that neither he nor
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

and serious countenance evidence or deep. and unusual emotion.
 Later he hastened to tell a little woman down the street the news.
 Norman Hapgood has written:
 Under the adroit mana cement of the Republican State Committee, who was preparing the ground all through 1S59 the Illinois papers came out, one at d time, at considerable inter- vals, for Lincoln, as if by natural growth of public opinion, culminating February 16, 1860, in the Chicago Tribune, whose editor was one of the leading workers of this scheme"
 The following was told me, while in Kansas, by George J. Talmage who was, i'll 1860, the boy who delivered the telegram to Lincoln announcing his nomination as President by the Republicans at Chicago:
 "Mr J. J. s. Wilson. superintendent of tho Illinois and Mississippi tele. graph lines, sent the message from the Wrigwam' at Chicago Mir. Frank McIntire received the message ar Springfield. Ill l delivered it. My instructions Were 10 give the message ln Mr. Lincoln only; also to note how he took it. l went to the Lincoln home and met Mrs. Lincoln at the
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
JOHN N. WILLYS

any other captain of industry who is
 trying to make labor the equal and
 coordinate factor with capital in the production of wealth is moved thereto by anything like a feeling of philan- thrOpy. It is a sheer business propo- sitiOn, he says; and it is the only safe, sound and sane way of dealing with so delicate and intricate a problem.
 Before he inauguraled the era of cooperative cordiality many of his employees were a ragged, shiftless, ire sponsible lot, he said, upon whom he could never count in an emergency. They would leave him by hundreds in response to the lure of a few pennies more offered by another employer. They lived in squalor and their fam lies were neglected and ill-fed and the children of many of them were compelled to go barefoot even in in- element weather.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
Lic0s Letter Accepting Nomination One Wods Literary Gems

tined to play conspicuous part In national affairs. Among them were Carl Schurz. William M. Evarts and Pig Iron" Kelley, of Pennsylvania.
 The opposing candidates prepared long letters of acceptance. Lincoln had already recognized the wisdom of reticence. The night of his nomina- ton, standing in his own doorway, he told those who demanded speech:
 The time comes upon every man when it is best to keep his lips closed. That time has come to me-
 Hence his letter of acceptance was the briefest ever written by a presi- dential candidate:
 The declaration of principles which accompanies your letter meets my ap- proval, and it shall be my care not to violate it or disregard it in any way or part lmploring the assistance of Divine Providence, and with due re- gard for the views and feelings of all who were represented in the conven- tion, to the rights of all the states and territories and people of the na- tion, to the inviolahility of the Con- stitution and the perpetual union of prosperity and harmony of all, I am most happy to cooperate for the prac- tical success of the principles de clared by the convention. Your obliged friend and fellow citizen.
 "A. LINCOLN"
 What Chostcrton has written is true of Abraham Lincoln: "A sane man Is one who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head"
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

AT THE age of twenty-one, when
 seeking a political office, Lincoln, as was the method i'll those days caused these words to be printed i'll the form of a handbill:
 If the good people i'll their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the back ground, I have been too familiar with disappointment to be very much cha grined."
 In 1856 he wrote what now seems to be prophettc:
 T go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist ill bear ing it's burdens, consequently 1 go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by uo means excluding the females" :"
 Lincoln was the leader ill causing the. capital of Illinois to be, moved from Vandali;t to Springfield: At d banquet in his. honor the following toast was offered:
 Abraham Lincoln-one of nature 8 noblemen. He has fulfilled the expec- tations of his friends and disappointed the hopes of his enemies"
 In 1858 all editorial fpiend in Hi nois wrote to Lincoln:
 T would like to have q talk with you on political matters. as to the policy of announcing your name for the presidency"
 Lincoln replied:
 Il must ill candor say that ] do not
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

neither can attain the fullest measure of prosperity at the expense of the other, but only in association with the other.
 Second. The purpose of industry is quite as much to advance social we'll being as material well-being, and in the pursuit of that purpose the inter eSts of the community should be care fully considered, the well-being of the employees as respects living and work ing conditions should be fully guarded, management should be adequately recognized and capital should be justly compensated, and failure in any of these particulars means loss to all.
 Third Every man is entitled to an opportunity to earn a living, to fair wages, to reasonable hours of work and proper working conditions, to decent home, to the opportunity to play, to learn, to worship and to love as well as to toil and the respon- siblity rests as heavily upon industry as upon government or society to see that these conditions and opportuni- ties prevail.
 Fourth. Industry, efficiency and in-
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
Helping the Sailor

Some men in their folly, do all they the age-long combat between capital and labor employer and employed. Ed ward N Hurley, of our shipping board. went abroad in the hope of arranging with shipmasters of the principal for eign countries to accept the wage
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

itiative, wherever found, should be en- couraged and adequately rewarded and incidence, indifference, restriction of production should be discounten. anced.
 Fifth. The provision of adequate means for uncovering grievances and promptly adjusting them is of funda mental importance to the successful conduct of industry.
 Sixth. The most potent measure in bringing about industrial harmony and prosperity is adequate representa-, tion of the parties in interest; exist. ing forms of representation should be carefully studied and availed of in so far as they may be found to have merit and are adaptable to the peCuliar conditions in the various industries.
 Seventh. The applicat ton of right principles never fails to effect right re- lations; the letter killcth and ths spirit maketh alive; forms are wholly secondary, whilo attitude and spirit are all-importanU, and only as tEo parties in industry are animated by the spirit of fair play, justice to all and brotherhood, will any plans which may mutually work out succeed.
 Eighth. That man renders the greatest social service who so coop crates in the organization of industry as to afford to the largest number e p1en the greatest opportunity for self development and the enjoyment Ky every man Of those benefits which his CWn work adds to tho wealth oS civli- zation."
 Lest it be thought that MT. Eocke- feller is merely q scft-spUkeu theoriSt let it not be forgotten that he is the head of the big Colorado Fuel and Iron Company which is doing so much fo- it's employees. and that at Bayonns N. J., and everywhere else where the Standard Ol Company has a foolhold conditions similar to tn, SC of the t'uel and Iron Company prevail
 Stamping Out Anarchy
 The step in advance of all otner captains of industry which Mir. Willvs has just taken by making his employees his actual partners will no doubt ,-o far toward neutralizing the venom in the fang of the more rabid Reds ir,
 
 this country. A great deal has already been accomplished in this respect by the Fords, the Calloways, the Hersh. eys the Lesters, the Harrimans. the John H. Pattersons, the, George NJ |, ,Veritys@and several other aenlightened and far-seeing capitalists If other en. ployers show an even approximately conciliatory spirit such as theirs, tho chances are that the fang of anarchy will quickly be extracted altogether. and capital and labor be allowed to go arm ins arm, unmOlested, in their triumphal march toward a country wide reign of prosperity and happi- ness, And, with the prestige and as. cendancy which America has acquired in world politics, it's example would soon become wholesomely infectious and the condition Of labor every where be improves,
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10
By Irving R. Bacors
XTTHY force?
 uyL- ohanSo

WTHY force?
 w Why chaos?
 Why the brambly, circuitous route when there is a straight, smooth, com fortable one to take you to the goal you aim at?
 John N. Willys has given @ practi- cal reply to the threats of anarchists, who base their reason for revenge upon the toilers' inadequate share in Gae distribution of wealth. He has taken his employees into partnership on a ''ffty-fifty'' basis. And, as his business includes the manufacture of automobiles, farm tractors and other things which fetch big prices in the market, not one of his ten thousand employees but feels new stimulus in his work and new gladness in life.
 Other captains of industry are also taking the sting out of discontent in @ne way or another and leading their armies of workers into regions of com fort, ease and elegance scarcely even dreamed of before.
 Comparatively few years ago Colo rado was the scene of strikes in which the government troops had to be called out. Riots, bullpen and stockade inn prisonments, bloodshed and venomous hatreds complicated with murders, were the order of the day Capital Rud labor were deadlocked in a stub- born struggle for supremacy and anarchy reared its head and showed fGs fangs.
 The Rockefeller Experiment
 Take a look at Colorado today The BlIel and Iron Company no longer need fear an uprising of it's employees Hike the Wtllys plants, this company, too, has inaugurated 8 system for bringing sunshine and contentment Into the hearts of it's employees Cap ftal and labor there are also working hand in hand. Labor sings joyously in the performance of it's tasks, for it realizes that the more cheerfully it produces what Is asked of it the richer will be its own returns.
 An advisory board on social and in dustriaI betterfnent has been estab- nshed to study and develop methods for putting into effect any feature that may be of value to the employees and the company. It is empowered and even expected to call to it's aid the best experts in the country. The task it has set itself just now is to ascertain the most modern develop ments in industriaIShousing, and meth ods of employing and fitting men for better jobs. This, includes co-opera- tion with the State and Federal au- thorities in vocational education, be- sides inquiries into plans for promot- ing thrift and protecting employees against loan injusttces.
 If any more were needed to be said to show the vast difference in results brought about by the two angles at which it is possible for capital and labor to view each other-that of hos tility or that of friendly cooperation 1t would be supplied by the statistics of the winning the war" interes
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

scale and the general ?~ts,II regulations America has NSAA established in relation to S seamen's wages and the manning uL
 vessels. Some of the leading ship
 ping men of Great Britain have
 scoffed at his mission and gone so
 far as to call his suggestion an inn
 peftlnence. And yet every man
 who has been in sea service knows
 the pay of a sailor is unjustly low,
 that the food he gets is poor,
 that little effort is expended to provide decent accommodations for him and that he is treated more as an animal than a human being The men who, sail the ships of commerce may not be of the best estate, but what q mockery We would make of our war slogan of making the world a better place to live in if we should accept the purblind view of British shipown- CTS who rise up in wrath at sugges- tion of improving the lot of the sailor man! k
 Rockefeller's Program
 If such selfish view as that os the British shipowners paid in the long run it might have some merit, but it does not pay. 1t breeds dissa tisfac- ton, trouble and agitation as any, thing that is unjust in principle and effect is certain to do. It does not make for better men or better service, and only through better men and bet. ter service by men do We progress"
 Perhaps if the anarchists ceased to be introspective long enough to shift their eyes from their own miseries. to which no doubt those of them who are sincere owe their mental attitude they might discover to their amaZement that one of the stanchest allies labor ever had is John D. Rockefeller, Jr If there is any definite program a, all in the creed of anarchy, it surely must be to attain happiness for indi- viduals And what else than this is the program which MT. Rockefeller set forth in a paper which he read several weeks ago at a meeting of the Recon struction Congress of American Indus tries, at Atlantic City? Here are it's most salient features:
 First. Labor and capital are part ners, not enemies; their interests are common interests not opposed, and
New Britain herald., 1919-04-10

scale and the general regulations America has established in relation to