The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-04-01
WEAR COTTON CLOTHES.

WEAR COTTON CLOTHES.
F. Gordon Cobb, a mill man Of
Lancaster, has suggested that move
ment be launched urging all Southern
women to wear dresses made of cot
ton goods alone, in an effort to put
the business of cotton farmers, cot
ton mills and allied industries back on
the tracks of good business. The
Greenville chamber of commerce has
taken up the suggestion and will at
tempt to popularize the idea.
Mr.. Cobb suggests that silks and
satins be passed up during the period
of depression and that the, hundreds
of thousands of women connected
with the farms and textile trades
spend their money only on dress
goods made from cotton. 1t is very
sensible suggestion, and one that
ought to be adopted.
There is a mill right here in An
derson that makes dress goods fit for
the wardrobe of queen, and yet we
daresay, not more than handful OF
women of this city have ever worn
dresses made of this material manu-
factured here at their doors. Many
of them do not know that such goods
are made here. If the goods bore a
foreign stamp and were given some
high-sounding name, together with a
little advertising, they would be "ail
the rage" but home products are
somewhat like the local prophet-rot
without honor save in their own land
Anderson Daily Mail.
Now is the time for overalls clubs to
begin to function and the other peo-
ple who wear clothes. When the
craze started some year or more ago
for the formation of overall CLUBS
we said they would not amount to
anything because the people who were
making the noise about the high price
of clothes would go on buying them
just the same but as overalls are
made out of cotton if. more people
wore them E.would increase the de-
mand for cotton cloth and thus in
crease the demand for the raw mate
rial.
But the suggestion for the women
to wear cotton dresses is good one
and to tell the truth good looking
woman looks better in a neat cot
ton frock than she does in silks and
satins. We have often wondered why
more of our women did not wear co.,
ton shirt waists and cotton skirts.
There is nothing neater and nicer
than a pretty white cotton shirt walst
and a neat skirt to go along makes 1t
so much the nicer and then Of course
the under garments of cotton, but
the trouble is, to speak the truth,
too many of the good women have
almost, if not entirely, abandoned
the wearing of the underskirt and
that has caused a reduction in the
consumption of cotton.
Then, why could not men wear cot
ton pants and cotton shirts and cotton
coats and many other things could be
made out of cotton.
As matter of fact one of the mills
here, the Mollohon Manufacturing
company, at one time made line OF
cotton goods that looked just as nice
as silk and it was great deal better.
We are not sure that they are manu-
featuring the same line Of goods now
or not, but when this mill made the
line we are talking about it was
beautiful and just as nice as SILK 1t
self. If there was a demand for II
we are sure the mill would make the
same line again, if it is not now doing
so.
Wear Cotton Clothes is good slo-
gan, and then grow all you need to
eat on the farm and the same for the
beasts that you use, and spend less,
and everything will work out right.
ne whole trouble with this section
of the country, if there be trouble,
is that we spent too freely when the
spending was good. And we have not
got the habit out of our systems yet,
but the difficulty in getting the cash
will help very materially in getting
rid of the habit.