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THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 192S
(From Manufacturers Record)
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J. N. Hodgson, of Athens, Georgia,
cotton mill president, roeently asked
The Manufacturers Record why Georgia
lagged behind in cotton mill develop
ment ns compared with North Carolina.
In reply the editor of this paper gavo
his views on the matter and Mr. Hodg
son has uskod the privilege of publish
ing that letter in Georgia, On that ac
count wo uro giving it to our readers
as of possible interest in indicating
how politics may injure a State and
how one man or ono paper may set the
pace for a wholo State. The letter to
Mr. Hodgson is ns follows:
“Acknowledging receipt of yours of
.Time 25tli, itis somewhat difficult to
give you a full or satisfactory answer
in regard to tho location of cotton
mills in tho Carolinas rather than in
Georgia and other States.
“I think some of this is duo to the
intensity of the political campaigns in
Georgia during former years. At a
time when North Carolina was concen
trating its energy upon industrial and
agricultural development, Georgia was
for years engaged in a bitter and most
vindictive political campaign, in which
rival candidates for tho gubernatorial
chair denounced each other with n bit
terness which only resulted in injury
to tho State.
“I once attended a dinner in New
York at which a number of
were studying the question of consoli
dating somo large iron interests in Ala
bama. Two iron company presidents
were in attendance, sitting somo dis
t nncq apart. I was so located that
could hear what each said. Tire presi
dent of ono company, a splendid gentle
man but rathor bitter in his feeling
against his rivnl president, talking to
some bankers at liis end of tire table,
praised his property as very desirable
and of large possibilities but mention
ing tho other property, which it was
proposer to consolidate into tho general
scheme, he denounced that with as much
aggressiveness as he had praised hiq
own property. The other president, sit
ting somo distance away, was repeating
exactly the same kind of a story to
tho other bankers who were near him
and ho too was telling how his own
property was not fit to bo included in
such a consolidation. When the din
ner was over one of tho New Yorkers
interested in bringing tho bankers and
these iron people together said to these
two presidents: ‘Do you know that
when each of you denounce the other
man’s property ns you have been doing
Now York bankers will have no faith
whatever in any iron property in tho
South! Youi will simply kill the possi
bility of securing capital from theso
bankers, because they are bound to con
sult each other, and they will hear that,,
ono of you said tho other man’s prop
erty was no good and the other one
said that the other man’s property was
no good and the bankers will have no
faith in anything which either of you
about the matter.’
“I think tho story somewhat illus
trntes the situation in Georgia. For
yenrs you had a bitter, vindictive cam
paign surpassing in its bitterness any
other gubernatorial campaign of my
knowledge. Tlvo statements made in
that campaign were scattered broad
cast throughout the country and I think
they had a certain effect in deterring
investors from considering Georgia as
a field for investment in cotton mills,
or other industries, commensurate with
what was being done in some other
States.
“For years there existed in Alabama
local jealousies between the leading
towns and cities of the State and be
tween some of the leading individuals,
each successful in his own way, which
prevented any united work for the de
velopment of the State. Birmingham
criticized Anniston and Anniston criti
cized Gadsden and Gadsden criticized
somo other place and when furnaces
were built in Florence and Sheffield,
other iron interests in the State pre
dicted their failure and said that none
of these places were good sites for fur
nace plants. Alabama is breaking
away from some of that local and per
sonal jealousy, which I think very large
ly retarded the development of that
State for many years.
“Gcorgi aand Alabama have just as
many natural advantages for cotton
industry and for furniture making and
for other lines of diversified manufac
turing as the Carolinas, but the Caroli
nas havo been getting the mills. Gas
ton county, ‘North Carolina, for in-)
stance, has over one hundred cotton
mills and the progress of that State in
this industry has been commanding not
only national but international inter
est.
“If you will go back some years,
you will find that Alabama and Geor
gia 25 years ago were commanding the
attention of New England cotton mill
people. At that time they built the
Massachusetts mill near Rome and the
Dwight mills near Gadsden and Mer-
rimae mill lit Huntville. New England
then was looking to Alabama and Geor
gia as sites for cotton manufacturing to
a greater extent than to the Carolinas
and the mills which New Englanders
built in Georgia and Alabama were J
believe without exception profitable
Naturally the location of these mills
should have drawn other New England
investments to these States and stimu
lated local peoplo to put money into
cotton mills. The Carolinas have never
depended upon outsido capital for cot
ton mill building. When it has come
it has been of its own accord and not
so much of their seeking. A large por
tion of tho mills in North Carolina
have been built by local capital. Men
of means, large and small have re
garded cotton mills as a sound and safe
investment and the result has been
that cotton mills and cotton mill stocks
are talked of in every village in these
states and the local people are tho larg
est owners of the capital of tho mills.
This very faith in their own mills has
caused Northern capital to seek invest
ment of these mills and thus tho com
bined power of local and outside capital
has been concentrated upon this work.
“I think, moreover, that the Caroli
nas were the first two of the Sotuhern
States to fully appreciate tho meaning
of water powor and hydro electric de
velopment for the cotton mill industry. ,irt>
Thirty years ago D. A. Tompkins of
Charlotte, ono of the greatest industrial
developers and most far seeing men
which the South has ever produced,
concentrated li is wholo lifo upon teach
ing nnd preaching and practicing in
vestment in cotton mills. As ono of tin)
owners of Tho Charlotte Observer, he
made that paper tho outstanding expo
nent among daily papers of industrial
and business development. Ho estab
lished a rule in that office that murders
end suicides nnd other crimes wore to
be given as little attention ns possi
ble, that only a few lines would bo
necessary to tell of any crime, even of
a murder, while great space should be
given to the story of industrial inter
ests, to tho building of a new mill, or
even to the bettering of the conditions
of any particular farm. ‘There is’,
said Mr. Tompkins, in talking with mo
about, the matter, ‘more vital interest
in tho work of a farmer in improving
the, soil and diversifying his crops than
there is in reporting somo cutting scrape
of negroes or even somo murder.’ Ho
told his staff that if they wanted sen
sations to keep a man stationed at the
Chicago morgue and let him from day
to dav telegraph all tho sensational
bankers | ,j wanted about crimes of every
1 kind which would center around the
Chicago morgue, but bo far as news is
concerned they wore to give every at
tention to every improvement made, to
every industry established, to every in
dication of hotter farming.
“in furthering this work, Mr. Tomp
kins employed a very gifted woman to
visit all of tho cotton mills ia tire sec
tion tributary to Charlotte and publish
every day in the afternoon paper which
lie also owned, reports from tho factory
employes, lie said it was just as im
portant, to tell about the social events
among theso factory employes as it
was for New York ‘Four Hundred.’
Ho stressed, by his personal work in
visiting these factories and through the
work of this good woman editor, the
point that the cotton mill operatives
should never think themselves ns down
trodden or unfortunate people because
of their employment. Ho sought to
build up the morale of tho people, to
make them proud of the work they were
doing, to make them realize they were
taking part in world affairs in the man
ufacture of cotton. Day after day his
nfternoon paper published pictures of
exceptionally good looking ypung wo
men employed in these cotton mills
and he would never accept a photograph
for publication unless the operativo was
dressed up in her best ‘Sunday go-to-
meeting gown,’ so that she might be
proud of the nppoarune she made in
the Charlotte paper.
“All of this helped to create a spirit
of enthusiasm among the mill opera
tives and among tho people of the Car
olinas, for his paper circulated largely
tn both States. What Henry Grady was
to Atlanta, as a moving power in devel
oping the Atlanta spirit nnd in unit
ing tho peoplq for the development of
that city -and to that work of HenTy
Grady is due much of tho w'ondorful
progress that Atlanta is still making—
D. A. Tompkins was to tho industrial
interests of the entire South. In his
death the South lost ono of its greatest
forces for constructive upbuilding and
for the betterment of the thought of its
people in the things which make for
progress and prosperity.
North Carolina is no bettor loca
ted for furniture making than is Gcor
gia or Alabama, but certain sections of
North Carolina arc literally alive with
furniture factories. Higli Point, for in
stance, is shipping furniture to South
Africa on the one side nnd to the Pa-
ific Const on the other. It is making
furniture which rivals that of the best
made ia the United States and is sec
ond in quantitty only to Grand Rap
ids. This industry too wns built by lo
cal capital and local people, for most
the men who have headed the fur
niture factories of North Carolina have
grown up in tho community. Many of
them have advanced from mechanics to
become superintendents nnd then to be
come owners of the factories, or the ex
ecutives of companies organized to
build furniture factories. A somewhat
similar condition exists as to cotton
mills. Many of the most successful
cotton mill people in the Carolinas have
come right out of tho factories.
“There are also other things in con
nection with this industry which are
interesting and important to consider
For the, last few years North Carolina
has been carrying on the greatest road
building campaign in the United States.
The State and counties, have been ex
pending a hundred and twenty million
dollars on road building and that State
has been expending twenty million dol
lars or more on construction of universi
ties and colleges and school buildings.
In this resepet, it has been carrying on
a campaign of educational advancement
matching that of its highway building.
Georgia has not kept pace with North
Carolina, either in its road building
cnlmp^ign or its educational work.
North Carolina has found great inspira
tion in the building of highways and in
the enlargement of schools and collloges.
All of this has stimulated the whole
State and given to it an intensification
of interest in every line of development
Moreover theso things have attracted
more general attention throughout the
United States and callod forth more
editorial commendation and more news
articles during tho last two years than
have been given to any other State in
the South, unless perhaps Florida may
have had an equal share of public at
tention in this respect. South Carolina
was lagging behind in the development
of cotton mills, but recently it has
caught a new step and great enterprises
ore being developed in that State.
In connection with hydro-eloctric
development, and most of tho mills of
tho Carolinas aro run by electric power.
Mr. Duke, a native of Nortip Carolina!
who made his vast fortune "out of the
tobacco business, which in his case had
its origin in that State, has expended
over $70,000,000 in hydro-oleotric de
velopment in the Carolinas. It is esti
mated that his investments there are
now worth one hundred million dollars.
Thus to Air, Duke’s wonderful far-see
ing vision in beginning years ago hy
dra-electric development on a large
esale must bo attributed a very large
measure of tho textile progress of the
Carolinas.
“The climatic advantages of Georgia
are in many respects very similar to
those of the Carolinas. You have the
elevation of the Piedmont, section nnd
tho higher mountain regions. You pro
duce tho cotton. You have tho water
powers which are now boing developed
to a larger extent than formerly. You
have tho sumo kind of Anglo-Saxon
white labor thnl has proved so success
ful in the Carolina mills, but you have
lacked that, concentration upon indus
trial development, by the press and the
people of the Stato which made possi
ble the wonderful growth of tho textile
nnd other industries in the Carolinas.
Too many Georgia papers were for yonrs
absorbed in politics. They did not givt-
as much attention as they should have
given to industrial potentialities, for
tho quickening of tho interests of the
whole people, tho building of highways,
the betterment of school conditions, in
the payment of adequate salaries of
school teachers and the maintenance of
ttie Georgia School of Technology on a
scale worthy of its superb work. In
theso respects Georgia foil short of its
opportunities.
‘ ‘ For many years after tho days of
Reconstruction, Georgia led tho whole
South. It received more editorial com
mendation and more news in other pa
pers than any other State in tho South.
It was heralded everywhere as tho ‘Em
pire State’ of the South. Hundreds of
thousands of people came to believe
that tlioro was nothing' else much in
the South except Atlanta nnd Georgia
lint when Georgia concentrated it:
thought, nnd its energy upon politics it
changed the thought of its people from
industrial pursuits to hot politics—red
hot burning politics that absorbed more
time and attention and moro thought
than anything else in the State.
“This is a diagnosis which I long
ago made in my own mind ns to why
Georgia, nnd I would include Alabama
in tho same entegory, failed with all
of its superb advantages to koop in the
lend in the South’s industrial develop
ment and why North Carolina especi
ally stepped into the broach and led
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CARROLLTON, OA
the advancing hosts of Southorn pro
gress. The spirit of energy, of tiro
less work, of enthusiasm for matorial
and educational advancement, tho won
derful work of highway construction, of
educational achievement, of cotton
mill and furniture making industries.,
have quickened the very lifo blood of
the Carolinas, but Georgia nnd Alabama
have the same kind of resources, the
same kind of people, tho same kind of
climate and, in somo respects, mauy
mineral advantages which the Carolinas
do not possess. It is up to tho people
of Georgia nnd Alabama whether they
will lag behind in tho raeo or whether
they will keep step with tho
North Carolina has set,.
“If all tho States of the South would
hear what has been called ‘tho music
of progress—the whirr of tho spindbo
the roar of tho furnace and tho throb
of the locomotive’ to tho snmo extent
that North Carolina has heard this mu
sic the South would soon boeomo the
most prosperous section of all the
world. ’ ’
pace
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CARD OF THANKS
Wo desire to thank our friends who
were so thoughtful and kind to us dos
ing the sickness and at the death
onr son, Willie, which occurred August
3rd, 3923, at our home near Bowdon,
Ga. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Miles
And Family.
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