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JHAKLOTTE NEWS, APRIL 18, 1913 I being tea and camphor. Some import- The Charlotte News. TP J2 to tave paid. There was a great stir about it and a reduction was made. But the of passenger rates was unimportant as compared to the correction of inequitable freight rates.

Passenger rates are a 'direct tax while freight rates are an 'indirect tax'; hence the difference in status ant lines are as follows: 1911 Lakhs Lakhs. Rs. Rs. Cotton Yarn 4S0 330 Cotton Tissues. 100 75 Vests and Drawers 90 75 Matting Go 54 Matches 136 115 Straw, Chip and Hemp 168 93 Bass Remainder of Stod orrow- OF ff in the public mind.

But the average man and he is the man Craig and his commission are working for has occasion to travel on the railroads only a comparatively few times during the course of a year, while he pays tribute in the shape of freight rates 265 days a year. "The job of securing equitable readjustment in freight rates is a big one. It cannot come by legislative enactment. It should come by sincere cooperation between the railroads and the state's representatives. Otherwise it would have to come through a long and tedious procedure before the interstate commerce commission.

But the rate commissioners are now on the right track and the whole state will applaud them in maintaining an unvarying course until port has been Clot Sh 9 i i i fj '-r'-J' 1 11 ff Goo Fure ds IrtdlT atd Sunday by THE XEWS PUBLISHING CO Cmcr 4tk Chnrck Sts. isnin expansion. But prices, as usual, were not so low as they would be with an unprotected industry, and what with this and other rising prices, people are inclined to cut their luxuries. Consequently the market was overstocked, there was a slump in prices, and a good many small dealers, forced to dispose of stocks at a sacrifice, failed. The weavers did not do badly, as theirs were all forward contracts, and the large dealers weathered the breeze all right, but they feel that unless something extraordinary happens, they will not do so well this year.

The making i of buttons is a small industry which has often been recommended to Indian swadeshists with moderate capittal Japan is generally mentioned as offering examples of how it should be done. But the trade is not exactly flourishing here. Last month the Japan Shell Button Guild had a meeting, at which their leader, Mr. Aoyagi, explained the situation. Shell, he said, had risen in price, while buttons had not.

Some makers have gone out of business, and others Lave gone in for the equally suicidal policy of producing inferior wares, with the result that their reputation had been lost abroad. A European gentleman present at the meeting was in favor of fixing prices by common agreement, though he owned that he was doubtful whether it would work. Last time he was in Europe, he said, he had come across instances of Japanese there, hawking buttons from door to Ndoor a method which he considered fatal to the maintenance of fair prices. Opinions differ, of course; in other circumstances we should hav heard of this as an example of the wonderful enterprise of the Japanese. The same critic, however, had some practical advice to offer with regard to the manufacture itself.

First, he said, makers must fulfil contracts that commonest of complaints in Japan; and for the rest they must make the holes in the buttons uniform, and must polish the buttons perfectly, both back and front. He might have added that it is neccary to apply a wide-pointed drill to the ends of the holes, so as to take of the cutting edge which a good many of them have. W. C. DOWD Pres.

Gen. Ms. J. PATTON J. MRS.

J. Editor. W. iL BELL. Advertising: Some of these are remarkable increases, symptomatic of an expanding trade; others are mainly local the individual progress of a go-ahead port.

The principal import amounting to nearly half the total imports is raw cotton, practically all from India, amounting to over 20 crores of rupees. The value of imports, however, exceeds that of exports by over 22 crores of rupees a state of things which, the new minister for agriculture and commerce says, makes his Stood run cold which means that he looks forward to building Japan's tariff walls higher and higher. The Spinning Industry. The total output of cotton yarn by Japanese mills during last year in this country amounted to 1,352,000 bales, showing an increase of 223,000 bales on the figures for the preceding year and making a new record. In consequence of the.

activity in the home market and the export to China, no congestion was seen on the market. The Kobe Yushin gives the following table, comparing the output and export of yarn last year with the preceding four years: Sale Saturday, Monday and AH Next Week 115 27T 362 1530 BubIdms Offln City Editor Editorial Kmbu job Ufflc And the Spartanburg Herald adds: "Governor Craig, of North Carolina, is taking the lead in the movement in that state to iiave freight rates readjusted upon a basis that will give North Carolina cities what they have long claimed they were entitled to. Speaking the other evening in Charlotte, where he held a conference with the business men of that city, Governor Craig said: "'We have put our hands to the plough: we have pledged the people of the state of North Carolina relief from unjust and discriminatory freight rates: We have said to the railroads that we intend to settle the great issue on a basis of justice and equal in Our Clothing and Shoe Department We Only Have Space to Mention Few Prices Below; SUBSCRIPTTOX RATES. Tk Chariot tc New. (Dally and Sunday.) On year Sir montll On montjl One week J6.00 .50 12 11 fficaday Only.) One year i 2.00 1.00 .60 Six Tireo months Morrow-Bass $15 to $20.00 Suits reduced to $7.95 Morrow-Bass $12.50 Suits reduced to $6.95 $10.00 Suits reduced $4.95 11.00 .50 One year six month Three month Output Export.

Year. Bales Bales. 190S 87S.570 167,843 1909 1,025.244 258,878 1910 347,632 1911 1,129,267 285,009 1912. 1,352,779 371,617 FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1913. ity and I for one firmly believe that we are about to secure it and that the question now is rather one of arithmetical calculation than anything else.

"In this portion of South Carolina our grievances are much the same as those of North Carolina cities, and we shall not be surprised if in the $7.50 Short Cut Suits reduced Men's Shoes and Oxfords, $2.50 value, reduced to $1.24 Ladies' Shoes and Oxfords, $2.00 i0 $2.50 value, reduced to 93C Children's Shoes and Oxfords, at 43, 69, 79 and 93c Men's Water Proof Work Shoes, at $1.93, $2.48 and $2.93 Men's Odd Coats reduced to $1.98 and $2.43 Men's 25c Lisle Socks reduced to 12 1-2c pair to $2.93 -Indian Textile Journal. readjustment that will be made, Piedmont South Carolina will come in for her rights." HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECT UPON COTTON CARDING. The mayor of Greensboro says he would swallow the proposed commis Men's $1.50 and $2.00 Pants reduced to 98c Men's Work Pants 69c Men's $3.00 Dress Pants $1.93 Men's $5.00 Rain Coats. $2.93 All Men's and Boys' Hats at a sacrifice. MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S SHOES AND OXFORDS AT HALF PRICE.

Men's $3.50 to $5.00 Regal Shoes reduced to $1.95 and $2.43 SOMETHING NEW FOR CHARLOTTE. The News regrets exceedingly that charges of irregularity in registration have been carried before tbe public in the manner they have been. General charges, without any evidence oSered, made through ihe newspapers, are regrettable. The registration books are open. Everything is conducted above board.

There is a way provided to reach ana punish any man who is guilty of election frauds. Instead of following the regular course of challenge, a circular as issued late yesterday afternoon caking sensational charges of a general nature. The ward where the al Although the Japanese are commend-ably enterprising, and are always ready to take up anything new, the idea of maintaining prices by suppressing competition is one that has got hold of them rather badly, and it has been so successful that no country suffers more from the rise in the cost of living, especially, of course, (he poorer classes. On December 26th there was a price-maintaining meeting at Kokohama, of the hemp-braid manufacturers over four hundred of them. The chief recommendations put forward were a cessation of work throughout January, except for the fulfillment of orders already on hand, and a request to government! That humidity greatly affects cotton carding is well understood by every mill manager.Too low humidiay means static electricity, and other troubles, while excessive humidity means rolling up, sticking and probably rusting of the clothing.

Nearly every mill manager will tell you that he has great trouble in operating his carding room in summer on dry hot days due to the ALL MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING AT A SACRIFICE. Boys' $10.00 Suits reduced to $4.95 Boys' $7.50 Suits reduced to $3.95 Boys' $5.00 Suits reduced to $2.93 Boys' $3.50 Suits reduced to. Boys' $1.50 Suits reduced S3c sion charter here tooth and toenail. In fact, if he had a chance he could eat it and swear it tasted good, regardless of the fact that it lacks several vital features contained in the Greensboro charter. Therein the mayor of Greensboro differs from that learned attorney who drew up the Greensboro charter upon which Mayor Murhpy was elected.

The author of the Greensboro draft would not vote for any commission charter which did not contain the initiative, referendum and other vital commission features. leged crookedness was said to occur was not named. The registrar guilty cf alleged irregularity was not named The names of alleged illegally register ins" iiumiuay. nme ana again we have heard cotton overseers complain that the humidities on certain hot days were so high that their production fell off and they had any amount of trouble in operating at all. It has been proven that the real reason for these troubles is not always due to high humidities, but rather to high temperatures.

Most mills desire to run the card rooms at from 50 per cent to 55 per cent humidity. Whereautomatic hu cd men were not given. The result be ing that these grave charges fell upon to intimate to ail local authorities that the establishment of new factories in their districts was detrimental to the progress of the industry. I suppose there is no country except Japan, where economic theories spring in such rank growth, where a group of manufacturers would have the assurance to ask government to suppress competition for their benefit. An instance of the great extent to which London is the world's godown is to be noticed in the reports concerning the demand for Japanese hemp-braid.

The Japanese Consul-Gene ral in New York states that the American demand is brisk enough though orders all registrars alike. In an extra edition yesterday after-toon The News carried emphatic de Although the mayor of Greensboro claimed that he could crack the nuts offered by The News with his "teeth," somehow he failed to do any great amount of cracking. We challenged him to show a record of growth in his commission city which would compare with that made in Charlotte under the nials' from ten of the eleven regis trars. The eleventh could not be locat ed before going to press. VIOLET PERFUMED AND present charter.

He didn't do it for a Mrfr' fair 1 ine isewg regrets that tne name of such a god man as Mr. Mayer should very good reason. midity control it provided humidities as high as 60 per cent may be employed to an advantage. Of course 60 per cent i3 practically out of the question where automatic humidity control is not used, for without some automatic arrangement the humidity at times would greatly exceed 60 per cent and would immediately cause trouble. It will be found that the average humidities in cotton carding rooms on these very hot days is not BORATED TALCUM POWDEH have been signed to this statement.

It believes that good men have been 25c One Pound Cans. The mayor of Greensboro declares that half the people of Charlotte do misrepresented by these charges. have fallen lately owing to Jarge stocks being on hand. Consul-Gen in London mentions the smaller exports of Japanese hemp-braid from London to America. The consumption in Britain has also been less of late, owing to fashion for the time dictating the use of smaller hats.

Manufacturers are not inclined, however, to be satisfied with consular reports, but dis If there has been any irregularity rojga Daughter. net know what ward they live ia ex or corruption, The News stands ready cept on election day. Now this state to denounce The leaders of the REESE ALEXANDER ment might be considered a slander anti-commission fight are just as anx Of course you'd like upon the intelligence of Charlotte peo ious to denounce corruption as are the cussed the sending out of agents to the chief consuming countries. Some Cor. 4th and Trjoa Sts.

Phones No. 583 and 584. excessive and in fact not as high as those mills equipped with humidifica-tion, maintained at other times during the year. In those mills which are equipped with a system for ventilating, cooling and humidifying, and which supply air to the card room in her grow up charming, accom of the commission campaign pie did it not come from the lips of an over zealous campaign orator. It i3 Japanese manufacturers have already The mayor and city attorney are ready plished, musical! There's gone even further than this.

There is more amusing than serious. to do their duty. a Japanese commercial museum at '4 'if -7 't '4 '4 fj-- v--i -r sufficient quantities to hold down the Seattle (Washington) in charge of Mr "Why was such a circular issued on greater incentive to progress in music than a sweet-toned piano. It always pays to offer proof when Miyatake, who has lately been visiting temperature so the card room may be held lower than the temeprature of the Japan to get more merchants and making charges against the honesty of good men. outsme, card room troubles from at manufacturers to co-operate.

He is so mospheric conditions are entirely well satisfied with its utility that he urses the establishment of similar eliminated. Last summer for a whole week dur museums in all the chief foreign cities ihe extra has been complimented from one end of the town to There is A Reason ing the very hot spell in the middle Indian readers will all be aware of the other. of Julj considerable trouble was ex the ve of the. election? This kind of campaigning is new in Charlotte. The resutl is that much bitterness exists today that should not exist.

Not before in our memory have election officials been subjected to such a wild and sensational set of charges? Not before have we seen good men arraigned without their accusers offering one particle of evidence. It was a serious move on the part of the commision leaders. the great development that has taken place in the export trade of hosiery Is the outward expression of the highest quality of construction and workmanship. You can't buy a better piano than the Stieff at any price. The Rich, Golden Tone of The STIEFF PIANO It's sensible economy to come direct to the makers and save the middleman's profit on this splendid piano.

"Easy Terms" if you want them. perienced in carding throughout the Mohawk Valley, and very few carding -f it. to India. This, like several other Ja About the most deserted looking sec The increase in our Canft rooms were able to run at all. A mil panese industries of considerable sta equipped with the Carrier System of tions of the city today were the polling places.

tistical bulk, is largely a cottage in Air Conditioning located near Utica Lusiess has more thai doubled the past year) is dje to dustry. The foreign commercial com munity here are just now interested however, continued to run throughout this hot spell, and procured full pro- Will those fellows who swear they in the case of Mr. Wheeler, an employ auction rrom their carding room dur ESTABLISHED 1S42: ee of Genz, Wheeler who here, as in India, have been pushing the sale ing this time. The humidity main were not sworn consider their votes illegal and refuse to cast them? of knitting machines with considerable tained in this room was approximately 60 per cent but the temperature was the- merit of the famous Gutl i Apollo lines. THE WORLD'S 3EST CANDIES Tryon Drug Co.

success. Here also as in India, the The eleventh-hour circular seems to maintained lower than it would have conditions have been that Messrs CMS. M. STIEFF 219 S. Trjon Street have had a flareback effect.

Genz, Wheeler Co. have supplied been possible to maintain without this system. The temperatures in the carding rooms were lower than the the yarn and bought the products. THE COTTON INDUSTRY OF OPPOSITE ACADEMY OF MUSIC outside wnenever the outside tempera am given to understand that they treat their clients very straigtforwardly, and even buy goods which are com Phone 2t and 22. North Tryon Street.

ture was much above SO degrees. The 11 As regards the spinning trade in fact that several mills in this same mercially valueless, so as not to dis Japan, the year opened decidedlv locaty, and a mill operated by this -4 '4 "4 'i '4ir 74 k- vr hopefully. The latest reports from same company in a nearby town. courage beginners. Since May, Mr.

Wheeler has sold over 700 cf his machines, and seemed to be going ahead very well, when suddenly he was put Shanghai say that while the stocks of Indian yarn at Shanghai stand at 72- could not operate their card rooms during this hot spell, is conclusive it proof that the troubles are due not to We want to fill your Prescrip- into prison by the Yokohama police, high humidities but rather to high a 1 and I believe, is still there, awaiting temperatures. This mill was carry tions. We want to sell vnn BLAKE'S DRUG SHOP On the Square. Prescriptions Filled Cay fend Night. ing higher humidities than was possi his preliminary examination.

What he is accused of nobody seems to know. He was arrested at nobody's ble to obtain in any of the other instance, but the police have been mills, but the temperatures were also many degrees lower than the other worrying him for six months past with inquiries fan inquisitorial nature. It mills could prScure with the systems of Air Conditioning which had been applied to them. is suggested that there may be a everything you need in our complete line We can sell you a nice Soap at 10c. per box 3 cakes to the box.

Call for it. charge of swindling, but the only foundation known on which it would With the Carrier System of Air Con be possible to base it, was a delay in ditioning, it is possible to maintain weave rooms on the hottest days as delivering some machines for which FRESH CANDIES WHITMAN'S CANDY KERN'S CANDY deposits had been paid the delay be FREIGHT RATE DISCRIMINATION. For years The News has been stressing the importance of having freight rates corrected. Due to the fact that Vorth Carolina points are discriminat-d againsL the state has lost heavily. The recent conference here wiil re-milt In much good.

It has re-aroused tie people of the state to the necessity correcting this discrimination. The Kingston Free Press says: "Charlotte is said to lose over $00-000 annually in consequence of discriminatory freight rates. And Charlotte ia only one of our markets. The whole tate-is affected more largely than it ii aware of. Freight rates are an in-aldious burden to a people.

"Like the burden of a high tariff it is borne patiently and unwittingly until its existence is discovered. Then there is a big kick and a readjustment It made. "That we are carrying an unnecessary load In the name of tariff protection has become apparent to people. And the time has come when readjustment ia urgently demanded practically all sides. For a number of years we have heard more or less bout discriminatory freight rates as ippllcable to North Carolina points.

A knowledge of this fact has become widely prevalent. When Governor Craig came into office, by vigorous action he crystalized the widespread demand for readjustment, and under his leadership a very far-reaching re-; form is about to be effected. "Should the governor, with the help tot the legislative rate commission, suc-; caed in relieving thestate of its unjust burden he will hare done as much if more for the prosperity of the state 'than has been accomplished by any -ther of North Carolina's chief executives. "A few years ago a great deal was ajjd about passenger rates; and there was need of readjustment. The public "was paying a higher rate than it ought ing due to the ship, by which they much as 10 degrees to 15 degrees lower than the outside temperature, and spinning rooms which under ordinary conditions would be from 15 degrees Phone yy were consigned, being put in quarantine.

One suspicious point about the proceedings is that the vernacular pa Woodall Sheppard to 25 degrees higher than the outside 69-166 Wl temperature, can be maintained at temperatures at or below that of the ilr norm etc pers published an account of Mr. Wheeler's arrest, wh'ch was substan DOLLY MADISON CANDY All By Express This Week. tially accurate, except in the import uuy oaies, against C3.000 last year, Japanese stocks in the same city stand at 11,850 bales, against 14.400 last year year. These figures by themselves, of course, indicate nothing, unless it is that the Indian trade still preponderates, but with other factors added, they are taken as an indication of Japan's steady progress in the Chinese market. Japan being near at hand, looks out very eagerly for any opportunity of dealing with China, especially when there is more money about than usual.

The new Six Power Loan of 27,000,000 is regarded mainly as something that Japan may earn a part of. The other day there was a report that the Six Power Loan had been arranged. It was not true, though it was an intelligent anticipation of what has since happened, but it caused the leather market to experience a sudden rise. The explanation of this was that China's soldiers being terribly down-at-heels, one of the first things that would be done with the loan would be to buy boots. These are interesting items, no doubt, to the merchant, but the steady demand of a well-shod army must be infinitely more valuable.

How easily the extent of erratic demands can be misjudged is shown in the case of the mousseline When the tariff was revised in 1911, there was not only a rush to import mousselines in anticipation of the new duties, but many weaving companies extended their plants, and new companies were started. Dealers issued large forward orders, and the protected industry looked forward to rapid ant detail that it was published on VS1 zzz-j January 9th, whereas the arrest did AT not take place till the 10th. It is surmised that the whole thing may be a put-up job on the part of Japanese rivals in trade. 9 The Kobe customs return for 1912 Blake Drug Co. On the 3qure' 1 Wh en You Buy Jno.

S. Phone 41. have been issued, and shew a prosperous year's trade, the only principal outside atmosphere. The accompanying cut shows the Carrier apparatus as usually installed in a mill, the one system doing the heating, ventilating, cooling and humidifying and is supplied with Automatic Humidity Control for maintaining constant temperatures and constant humidities throughout the year. This company guarantees to maintain the humidities, during all seasons of the year without regard to the outside weather condition, and we understand they back up this guarantee to the limit.

They have been successful in installing their apparatus in some of the larger New England mills, and have only recently procured a very large contract for equipping the new mill and neiua oi export that have declined a piece of JEWELRY or SILVER It is worth something yoa to know that you have th BEST. That Is the class of goods we carry, bought only from known manufacturers with our personal guarantee, and when you find our merchandise is not as represented you get your money back. GARIBALDI, BRUNS DIXON DIAMONDS, SILVER AND JEWELRY C.S. ELAJf 3323' Cure 25c Jewelry of Qu, 5, weave suea oi me itiversiae ana uan I furely vegetable. Best The Littie store amily cathartic.

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