The Monroe journal., 1922-10-24
HE is A BUSINESS MAN
WITH AN IMAGINATION
Predicts That Just As Likely As Not
He'll Turn Creamery Back to Own
ers After Putting Ii on Its Feet
WHEN A COTTON MILL GOES
LAME THEY SEND FOR ICEMAN
Reared in a Cotton Mill. He knows All
Ends of the Game, Production. Buy
ing, Selling and Everything Else;
Loves TO Dash in and Do Something
Tha, Is Hard.
BY X. F. BEASLEY

Goldsboro. Oct. 22.-Charles Ice
man, the wizard cotton mill man of
North and South Carolina, living at
Monroe, is going to run a creamery.
He is already running three or four
cotton and knitting mills, and is the
Henry Ford of that section. When a
cotton mill goes lame they send for
Iceman to come and put it Gil its
feet.
viii he succeed with 4 Creamery?
You bet he will. He succeeds with
anything. Henry Ford does not
know more about making Fords than
Chas Iceman knows about cotton
mills. And if Henry could pick up a
decrepit railroad and max, it pay
we'll gamble that Iceman can make a
creamery pay after everybody else
has failed.
Running a creamery in cotton
county is no child's play and no busi-
ness man accustomed % ret in large
way would bother with it except a
man like Iceman. Iceman is bus!-
ness man with an imagination. He
came up in the mill business from The
spindles and there is not a detail of
machinery, of spinning and knitting,
of selling the products or buying the
raw material, that he does not know
to a gnat's heel. But he has more than
knowledge and business experience;
he has the salt of life, Imagination.
II keeps business from getting mo-
notonous and success stale. He loves
to dash in and do something that is
hard, that requires variety, that
drives away dullness, that brings out
latent talent
mark that. The other day at Monroe
the stockholders of the creamery
which has been limping along for
many years, met in the chamber of
commerce and sent for Iceman-they
just love to send for Iceman down
there--and told him that something
had to be done about the creamery.
II couldn't stop, for the boil weevil
was there; and it couldn't go on be-
cause it was in debt and was about
to be shut down by creditors. Ten
thousand dollars was necessary to
meet bills and then some operating
money was necessary. The stockhol-
ders had been nursing it along for
many years as kind of public enter
prise and had come to the end of their
row. Somebody had TO DO something
about the creamery.
"All right, boys" said 1ceman in
that quick, snappy way of his, after
the matter had been laid before him,
"lf | am to pay the debts and guaran-
tee TO run the creamery right on,
what are you going to let me have
Your stock for ?"
twenty-five per cent of face val
ue,' they said, and when Iceman
agreed to take it and pay the money
one can fancy that there was a quick
divestment of all the stock held by
those present.
So Iceman has the creamery and is
going to run it and make it pay. He
is gong to do what the stockholders
we're never able to do--get a man
who knows me business, pay him a
real salary If he earns it and ship
him if he doesn't, and put enough
capital in to operate on.
And that is the way one large bus
mess man is going to do his bit with
th~ boil weevil situation, for lceman
doesn't care a hang about the money
he is going to make with the cream
cry, he just loves to turn a trick like
that II WI be just like him to
let the old stockholders have that
creamery back at the same twenty
Ave cents on the dollar after he has
changed it from white elephant in
TO a dividend paying concern.