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Wednesday, October 12.
Daniel Augustus Tompkins.
No brief sketch can do ?ven partial
justice to the manifold activities of
Daniel Augustus Tompkins and his
work as a builder of the New South.
Few men in the United States had a
more diversified career or better ex
emplified in their lives the construc
tive spirit. Unlike most of the suc
cessful men of the South, Mr. Tomp- j
kins possessed little of the character
istics of the merchant. He was essen
tially a pioneer, a man of far-sighted
vision who fortunately possessed the
talents of an executive and an organ
izer which enabled him to practicalize
his ideas.
- He was a successful business man
?with perhaps just enough failures to
his credit to give him a sobering sense
of caution and responsibility. He was
a man of wealth, but no one in speak
ing of him laid stress on his accumu
lations, but rather upon his achieve
ments. It was more in what he did
for others in the way of enabling
them to help themselves than in what
he did for himself that made the life
of D. A. Tompkins- an example to his
. community.
A broad outline of his activities is
impressive even at a casual glance.
He was among th* first to recognize
the possibilities of the cotton oil in
dustry and make it one of the lead
ing enterprises of the South. He was
a builder of cotton mills. He design
ed and furnished machinery to all
manner of industi'ial plants in his
territory. He was a publicist, a jour
nalist, a writer, a promoter of edu
cation and a pioneer in the establish
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try.
He did much to instil in the South
a spirit of thrift i:hat had become al
most a lost virtue among thc Ameri
can people. He strove untiringly for
the establishment of building and
loan associations in Southern com
munities. His fine philosophy with re
spect to the social qualiti?s which
make men valuable citizens had much
of the flavor of Benjamin Franklin.
Never posing as a philanthropist, he
was at all times a friend of his fel
low men. He did more than help
them. He helped 'them to help them
selves. A crowning recognition of his
outstanding services was extended
through his appointment as a member
of the United States Industrial Com
mission by President McKinley. This
body, as is probably well known, was
formed to consider the problems pre
sented by the growing complexities
of our modern industrial life. The re
port of this commission presented in
nineteen volumes covers a vast field
involving almost every phase of
America's business activities-indus
try, agriculture, transportation, labor
and kindred questions.
Mr. Tompkins was a product of the
old South. He was born on a planta
tion in Edgefield County, S. C., in
1851, and with the exception of a !
few years spent as a student at the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at
Troy, N. Y., an apprenticeship served
under old John Fritz at the Bethle
hem Iron Works in Bethlehem, Pa.,
and a year in Germany in the intro
duction of American machinery, his
life was passed chiefly in the South
until his death in 1917. It probably
is not going toe far to say that he
was then the foremost citizen of
Charlotte, N. C.
It was in 1882, after Mr. Tompkins
had finished his studies, served his :
apprenticeship and developed his tal
ents abroad thal: he settled in Char- ;
lotte and hung out his sign as an en- i
gineer, machinist and contractor. He ?
obtained the agency for the leading i
machinery manufactures, and be- i
came very act've in the building and 1
installation of mills and power plants i
of various sorts. 3
The first shining example of the 1
use of vision came in his activities in '?
the building of fae South's infant cot- J
ton oil industry. He saw its possibili- 1
ties, and he set to work to realize (
them. Ever since the invention of (
Whitney's gin,, cotton seed had been *
ihe South's most objectionable waste
fe
product, the bane of the planter's
ife. Mr. Tompkins saw that it was a
real economic waste, and for several
/ears his activities were devoted to
he building and financing of cotton
iii mills. He lived to see the industry
me of the most prosperous in the
South backed by capital amounting
:o hundreds of millions , and a prod
act also running into hundreds of
millions annually. He not only strove
:o make the cotton oil business profit
able, but he fought to make it clean,
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to insist upon a superior product, one
that would bc highly acceptable to
the world as a food.
The larger activities of Mr. Tomp
kins, if any distinction can be made,
probably were devoted to the up
building of the Southern textile in
dustry. Here also he displayed ex
traordinary breadth of vision and ex
hibited the practical wisdom of a
Franklin. ' Help to establish manu
factures at home," he said, "and help
to get foreign markets and ships to
bring back three dollars upwards
where we now bring back one."
Mr. Tompkins always felt that the
South never would become really
un!i>i?nilli, H ? m iJ ' ?..'"**
raw material. He used to point out
that a crop of 10,000,000 bales at six
cents per pound was worth only $300
000,000, whereas in its manufactured
state, half of it could be easily worth
several times that amount. In one of
his speeches he said:
"In order to manufacture the en
tire cotton crop of the South into
plain white and coarse colored goods,
there would be required something
like 30,000,000 spindles and 1,000,
000 operatives. The population of the
Southern States may be ranked at
20,000,000. Does anybody doubt that
out of this who would be willing to
work, to furnish 1,000,000 operatives
in cotton factories? Go into ordinary
cotton market towns where no cotton
factories have as yet been tuiilt, and
at any time from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m.
count the people who are loafing, and
the number found would more than
make up the quota of people for its
share of the workers necessary to
manufacture the cotton crop."
Again he says:
"Practically all native people in
the South are farmers. The manufac
turing now being done by Southern
people furnishes evidence of the fa
cility with which the Southern far
mer extends his operations. Almost
every Southern man who has gone t
into manufacturing is still a farmer 1
and will continue to be so. The escape <
of the cotton farmer from approach- ?
ing poverty is not in trying to curtail I
production and increase the price, i
but in devising means to keep the *
cheap cotton at home and in utiliz- (
ing surplus time in turning it into i
cloth worth eighteen cents and up- <
wards per pound.
D. A. Tompkins did not stop with i
preaching the gospel of industrial ex- c
pansion. He did not stop with urging "v
capital to build mills or confine him- c
self to providing the new plants with ?
machinery. He strove with all his i
might to create a new industrial spir- 1
it among his people. He used several ?
agencies-in this missionary task. He 1
did all he could to promote liberal t
education, but the phase of the work t
that was dearest to his heart was the f
establishment of trade schools. For i:
nore than twenty years he served as S
i member of the Board of Trustees b
jf the North Carolina College of w
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and o
ie saw this institution work its way
mt of the handicap of poverty and ?vi
liscouragement into an agency of e
remendous value to the South. a
His work did not stop here. He saw tl
hat if the South was ever to develop
;extile skill that could" compare favor
ibly with that possessed by Lan
:ashire, Leel, Chemnitz, Fall River,
)r New Bedford, it would have to de
velop not only its own operatives but
managerial ability equipped with
technical skill and scientific knowl
edge of a world-old industry. It was
with this end in view that he inter
3sted himself in the establishment of
textile schools. One of the most not
able of these is the Clemson Textile
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School affiliated with Clemson Col
lege in South Carolina. Another re
sult of his efforts was the provision
for a textile department in the State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts. Encouraged by the work anc1
i enthusiasm of Mr. Tompkins, thc
! States of Mississippi and Texas fol
lowed suit and established textile
training schools.
No summary of the life of Mr
.Tompkins would be complete with
I out reference to his activities as ?
journalist and publicist. He was ac
tive in shaping the thought and sen
timent of the South through the me
dium cf the Charlotte Observer
^uuia UlliUUilLIM newspapers, off thc
country. He was untiring in his wort
among his fellow men. He was a fine
speaker, although making no pretense
to florid oratory. His manner in mak
ing an address bespoke clarity and
force without flamboyant ornamen
tation. In other words, he had the so
cial qualities of an industrial mis
sionary, and one of his biographers
sums up his splendid life in the fel
lowing words:
He built a New South-of mills
and factories, of skilled labor and
machinery, or diversified and intensi
fied agriculture, of improved railways
and highways, of savings banks and
loan associations-a New South also
of public schools, technical colleges
and expanded universities, of inde
pendent journalism and independent
thought, a New South of universal
education and democracy.-Com
merce and Finance.
The Disaster and the Game.
The professional players of the
:otton game, that is the buyers and
speculators in cotton, in New York,
Liverpool, New Orleans and other
:ities, apparently are dealing with a
?rop of 6.500,000 bales in much the
same way that they have regarded a
:rop of 16.500,000 bales. In a word,
he Southern cotton crop is their foot
jail to scuffle over and kick about,
m their own gridiron, and if, occa
?ionally, the bulls make a run for a
jain of $10 a bale that is their affair,
'rom which all players except bulls
md bears are excluded. The bear is
?xpected to get a run of $10 a bale
n his turn in the other direction a
lay or two later.
The bystanders, the rest of the
vorld, are looking on the Southern
:otton crop of this year and calling
vhat has happened by its name-a
lisaster. The people out of the game
ire saying , and it is true, that not
n the history of the cotton industry
las a thing so serious come to pass,
^.nd they are saying that soon or
ate wearers of cloth, users of a
housand articles made of cotton and
he manufacturers of them will suf
er on account of it. Unless all this
3 true, unless the failure of the
Southern crop is a bad dream, some
body obtaining cotton at a low price
/ill make a great deal of money out
f it
It would oe much better for the
rhole world if this money were
arned by the products of six and
half million bales than garnered by
ie gay gentlemen who buy and sell, J
who play the game, who have not
the faintest understanding that rais
ing cotton under the best auspices,
much the less under boll weevil con
ditions, is much mor2 of a job than a
game.
If in the future the world is to
have the cotton that it will sorely
need it would be wise for the world
to encourage the growers to plant
it. The good old days, when always
there was more than enough cotton
to go around, are gone. It looks now
that unless the growers shall be both
assisted and encouraged their num
bers will be tremendously reduced.
If the Southern men who have cot
ton at this time wish to have a hand
in the game, the thing for them to
to do is not to go into it too strong
or too quickly. If they dump their
cotton on the market they deliver the
controlling trumps into the hands of
the professional players.
The terrible poverty of Europe and
the destruction of the buying power
of war afflicted peoples has been and
st?T is a great factor in the cotton
situation, but the drop from a crop
of $16.500,000 bales to 6,500,000 is
a greater factor and so it will prove
in time.-The State.
A Patriotic Creed.,
I believe
_Jn my country and her destiny,
In the great dream of her found
?rs.
in her place among the nations.
In her ideals.
I believe
That her democracy must be pro
tected,
Her privileges cherished,
Her freedom defended.
I believe
That humbly before the Almighty,
But proudly before all mankind.
.We must safeguard her standards,
..The vision of her Washington,
The martyrdom of her Lincoln, .
With the patriotis ardor
Of the minute men
And her soldier boys
Of her glorious past.
I believe
jin loyalty to my country,
Utter, irrevocable, inviolate.
"Thou in whose sight
A thousand years are but as yes
terday
Andvas a watch in the night,
Help me
ray frailty
0 make* real
hat I believe.
NOTICE!
Concordia L^ge
No. 50, A. F. M?ill
|(|p^F hereafter hold its
regular communica
tion on the SECOND
MONDAY night of each month in
stead of Friday night as heretofore.'
All members are kindly requested
to observe the change and be pres
ent accordingly.
J. H. CANTELOU, W. M.
Edgefield, S. C., August 1, 1921.
Notice of Final Discharge.
I To All Whom These Presents May
Concern :
Whereas, J. Claude Johnson has
made application unto this court for
Final Discharge as General Guardian
in re the Estate of Maud Smith John
son, his ward this the 28th o^y of
September, 1921,
These Are Therefore, to cite any
and all kindred, creditors or parties
interested, to show cause before me
at Edgefield Court House, South Car
olina, on the 28th day of October,
1921, at ll o'clock a. m., why said
order of Discharge should not be
granted.
W. T. KINNAIRD,
J. P., E. C., S. C.
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Alfalfa Grown in the South.
Alfalfa grows well in a soil in
vhich there is plenty admixture of
ime. For that reason the lower part
)f Richmond, the whole of Burke and
portions of Jefferson counties should
produce fine alfalfa. There are large
deposits of marl near Shell Bluff and
ariffin's Landing, both of which are
.n Burke. These deposits contain sea
shell and the fossiliferous remains of
marine animslsi in the last stages of
decomposition, showing that the lime
formed has mingled with the soil.
With the principal ingredient sup- j
plied naturally by the soil, alfalfa
should flourish in Burke and in the
contiguous territory of a similar na
ture.
The farmers of York county, South
Carolina, have organized an alfalfa j
association and are going into it ex- i
tensively with other cover crops, in j
consequence of the damage incurred
I from the depradations of the boll wee
vii. They have made arrangements
to get their alfalfa seed direct from a
Nebraska alfalfa grower. But the de
mand for the seed is so great that
they sometimes are forced to procure
the seed nearer home to fill their or
ders. They are receiving' many or
ders for seed from Georgia and
North Carolina.
In addition to the item of seed,
much lime has been purchased
through the association for liming
the soil at a considerable saving to
the farmers. Since the organization
of the association was formed it has
saved the farmers who have affiliated
in the co-operative buying plan many
thousands of dollars on these two
items alone, the saving some years
amounting to $5,000 or $10,000.
The probability is that Burke county
farmers and farmers in the adjacent
territory would find their land had a
sufficient quantity of lime in it, con
sequently they could avoid the ex
pense of purchasing lime.-Augusta
Herald.
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