The Pulaskian., 1920-11-18
Why Not a Cotton Mill?

The price of cotton regulated almost entirely when left supply and demand by the price paid by spinner The mill fix the selling price which determines the ap- proximate the consumer until he has manufactured his product This does that the mill controls by ganzaton the price of coton but there considerable eewaY between his high and low price be paid for the material Otherwise, the manufacturer could not buy in Texas and work 1t into cloth North Carolina, paymg the prce tar Texas cotton that he would for the grade close to the mill There difference of at least pound
 freight and the mill disposed that be given the grower in the vicinity of the mill.
 Cotton mills have always when properly managed been good investment There time when they looked upon because of the character of labor employed undesirable Conditions have changed and today the mill the model The homes of the operators modern and located according carefully drawn plans for city building The mills maintain welfare organizations making the community life in the m towns ideal People cannot reside this atmosphere without being tented and at the tme ambitious Educational facilities of the best and the health of all citizens carefully guarded The mills provide wholesome recreation and again will be the salloW complexioned mill operative.
 If these conditions desirable in the big growing centers why should Arkansas parake their toward greater prosperity There cotton mill in the state small the expense which accompanies the foundation of modern mill This mi however, has paid good dividend years and demonstrates the fact that cotton cloth factories will pay n Arkansas
 is customary those portions of the South which have the mills locate them the larger cities the operators being apparently of the opinion that the mill should be the whole town the dominant part of It. Mills located particularly with respect accessibility either power fuel and though they Arkansas has hundreds of locations which would fill the bill.
 cotton mill Pulaski county would give employment large number of people, Of employment is not sought
 this time, but the time rapidly approaching when industries will be shorthanded Cotton mill employees today well paid those in other industries they would consequently if mill established somewhere in Pulaski county it would only furnish desirable employment and put considerable money crcuaon but would be highly beneficial the farmer we'll
 Cotton grown this section today goes East abroad be manufactured The cloth into which it back with heavy freight charge attached mill in Pulaski county could pay for its than Carolina Georgia miller for Pulaski county cotton and then ship the the mills and the merchandise back We do believe that community mill would pay, for there community Pulaski county that could the funds sufficient for mill of the necessary but there ample money in the seeking investment for ceponay large mill and the big planters of Pulaski county could take enough the of the mill in this If cotton mill located here should increase more pound and cent pound all grown within radius of hundred miles of Little Rock would pay the of a mill, no matter how large it be.