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Entered May 23rd, 1908, at the
Post-office at Cochran, Ga., as
Second Class Mail Matter
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
(Sip ttarfyratt JJublißljmg (Co.
T. L. BAILEY, Editor.
J. H. MULLIS, JR. Business Mgr.
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Mass Meeting
To-night.
As the Journal goes to press
Thursday afternoon before the mass
meeting Thursday night, we will
not be able to give any informa
tion in regard tA this meeting un
til our next issue. However, we
are sure that our people will rally
together and begin to f .rmulate
plans that will insure success.
,It means more for Cochran than
any movement that has ever been
up before the people. A new rail
road not only means that we will
secure better freight rates, thereby
enableing our cotton buyers to pay
more for cotton, and placing our
merchants on an equal footing with
the common jwiints in this territory,
but one enterprise calls for another,
ami when a town begins to develop
it naturally arouses, a spirit of en
terprise and civic pride among her
people, and they will begin to form
ulate plans for carrying out their
designs. An individual is the pro
duct of his own thoughts. As a
man thinkelh so is he. 1 his ap
plies to communities as well as in
dividuals; for a community is no
thing more or less than an aggrega
tion of individuals.
Should the psychological, move
ment ever arrive in the history of
Cochran when people shall be
come thoroughly aroused over h
future industrial weharc to such an
extent that tli-y will never cease to
think and talk about lew possibil
ities, then and not until then will
she reap the saccess die deserves.
J believe in the unerring laws of
nature, not only when these laws
pertain to material things, but
whenever applied to human nature
in all of its myriad and varied com
plications. If we will sew in the
garden of our minds seeds of suc
cess, enterprise and prosperity,
(barring unforseen calamities) we
shall most certainly reap what we
sow. We naturally begin to labor
in line with our thoughts and de
terminations.
If we have a good man in this
community he is the product of his
own thoughts. The pure women
that we have in our city are abso
lutely the creation of their own
chaste meditations. However, in
one sense of the word, most all oi
us are-more or less hyi>ocritical.
\\'e present to the world a person
ality that we endeavour to make
equal to the emergencies of an oc
casion that arises in the ordinary
exigencies of human affairs and our
predominant thought is invariably
selfish, while we are careful it- may
he to guard our own thoughts in
order that our interests may not he
jeopardized.
- However this is an inherent e.lia-
of mankind and is closely
4o that natural instinct .of
■fc- creation, “self preservation”
which is regarded the second law
Ttf nature.
Let us develop enough self ip to rest
to be loyal to Cochran. Let useon
tinue to plant in the garden of our
minds such thoughts that will ever
rebound to the future welfare of our
community.
Over-Production?
Authority Contends Too Many
Southern Mills Being Built
S. B. Tanner, of the Henrietta
Mills, Caroleen. N. C., an ex-pres
ident of the American Cotton Man
ufacturers association, than whom
ijhere is no more careful student of
conditions in the manufacturing in
dustry, in a recent interview in the
Charlotte (X.C.) Observer touches
upon the subject of cotton mill
building in the Bouth and expresses
some very decided views on the
subject of over-production. He is
quoted as follows:
“If this cotton crop is as short as
it is generally believed to be, the
congested and depressed condition
of the cotton mills will be relieved
just as the worn-out and almost
starving farmers were relieved from
the effects of selling an oversupply
of cotton below the cost of produc
tion years ago. But this ralief
came only after they had lost what
ever surplus they had and in many
cases after they had actually lost
their farms themselves. In those
days the farmers showed no indica
tion of having sufficient business
capacity to relieve themselves of
over-production by diversifying and
making something else besides cot
ton until Providence came to their
aid by giving them a short crop,
which convinced them that a short
crop would bring them more mon
ey than a large one and that they
could make a better living by di
versifying and making less cotton
and more grain and other products.
“The cotton manufacturers are
now passing through exactly the
same experience and so far have
shown themselves no more capable
of looking after themselves, with
all their vaunted business experi
ence, than was the farmer years a
go. It seems that this country has
been trying to build cotton mills to
supply the entire world with goods
wi.ile tin* foreign countries have
been trying to do the same thing.
Consequently the facilities for tuan
j nfacturing cotton goods have nearly
doubled the world’s capacity to con
sume them, and unless we have a
erop below the requirements of tin
world, so that the mill men will be
; forced to curtail and diver-ii'y their
: investments and other channels un
j til the world can consume the pn>-
jd; cl ion of the mills now in opera
jiion, the industry will experience
1 the seine disaster as that which hc
! fell the farniers.
“I nve tors- in new mills will no
I doubt he enlightened and surprised
!to learn that the ‘l’.luo Book,’ a
textile directory, advertises a list of
5(50 new mills for the past year i:t
addition to the already overpro
duced market.
“It is considered by some people
almost criminal now instead of be
ing beneficial to the country to
build cotton mills, not only localise
of the uncertainty of a profitable in
vestment hut for the reason that the
employees cannot hope to gia regu
lar employment and they are likely
to he a charge and burden upon the
community in which they are loca
ted instead of a benefit and a source
of wealth as should he the ease un- 1
der normal circumstances.”—*Tex j
tile Manufacturers Journal.
Big Fire at Macon
The cold storage room of the ice
! plant was totally destroyed, and as
j this was equipped with expensive
i air pipes and maehinery and con
tained lot) ears of lumber in the
construction of the air-tight inner
wall, it is believed the loss will
amount to $150,0)0. The loss id
the seed room of the Southern Cot
ton Oil Company, containing seve
ral thousand tons of cotton seed, in
cluding maehinory, will probably
reach §50,000.
The lire started about 2 o’clock
in the seed room of the Southern
Cotton Oil Company, where one
thousand tons of cotton seed were
stored. It is stated that the, blaze
had its origin from friction of the
machinery causing heat sufficient
to produce ignition.
Employees of the plant discover
ed the fire in its early stages and
made efforts to put it out, but they
were unsuccessful. They then sent
in an alarm for the fire department.
When the engines and fire appara
tus reached the scene the efforts of
the firemen were devoted to keep
ing the flames from spreading to the
storage plant of the ice company, as
the fire in the large shed, where the
cotton seed was stored, had gained
considerable headway and was be-
yond control.
A string of box cars on a track
near the ice plant was in danger
from the fire, bnt they were pulled
out by an engine, and removed to
places of safety.
The firemen were unable to cope
with the flames on account of the
poor water pressure. The employ
ees of both the cotton oil company
and the ice plant helped to fight the
flames and tried to keep them from
spreading. The auto engine was
put into service and did good work.
A line of hose was run from a plug
several hundred yards down the
Waterville road, and hose was at
tached to the private plugs of the
two plants and streams of water
were kept going all the lime.
O. A. Bowen, manager of the
Southern Cotton Oil Company, was
seen at the fire. He estimated the
loss of the seed room, including the
machinery in it, at 810,(M/J. The
value of the seed damaged was
placed at 820,000. About half of
this will be an actual loss. Part of
the seed can he sold as salvage or
consumed as an inferior grade. The
large pile of seed was scorched over
the surface, but it is thought the
seed underneath can he used.
Manager Glenn Toole, of the ice
plant, estimated the loss of his plant
t > Ik: about 8150,000. The heaviest
loss was iii the cold storage room,
where expensive materials were used
in building. This large room was
lined all around with wood and
made air-tight. The lining was
about four feet-thick, with an air
chamber between. Ammonia pipes
and other machinery were arranged
in this room. It was not in use at
the time of the fire, as it is used
largely in summer when the fruit
season is on. .Mr. Tuple stated that
the tire should not in any way in
terfere with the rnanufaeture ot ice,
as tlie company can make plenty of
ice at their plant at the brewery,
lie stated that the destroyed por
tion of the plant would lit rebuilt at
once. —.Macon Telegraph.
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