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ffiije (Eprijran 3xmrnal 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. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE SI.OO PER YEAR 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. Good r<-mils always follow the use of Foley Kidney Pills. They -ontain just the ingredients ne<vs ■'ar.v to tone, strengthen and regu late the kidneys and bladder, and to cure the barka he. For sale by Taylor <A Kennington. 3RAND tcE =-,A‘ jLjg SASK of QUALITY IH EVEF, COAT. V4l Men Ci Cjb.aio.cier Men who really care about | H th'-u appearance, always select E B Shield Brand Clothing Id E Style, fit ar.d individuality gj are all combined to produce Ik ■ that air of dishnetien which H marks the well dressed man. Not too extreme —not too jl conservative but just right B for men of discrimination. 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