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CLARK-WIGGINS HARDWARE CO. - “if it U Hardwar* Wk Have It” PHONE 4154 CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 23, 1923 TO ALL USERS OF HARDWARE AND BUYERS OF GOOD MERCHANDISE:'*’ You are cordially invited to call and inspect our new home at 235 South Tryon Street. We carry a complete line of builders hardware, Acme and Kurfees paints, Shellac and Varnishes as well as lead, oil and turpentine. To thp Housewife, we extend a cordial invitation to you to visit our store and inspect our complete line of China, Glassware, Silverware, Aluminum, Enamel and other household utensils. We also carry in our Toy Department, toy wagons of all sizes as well as tricycles and velocipedes. ^ We feel sure if a visit is made to our store and you price our goods, that you will become a regular customer of ours.. We emphasize quality as well as price in our store. ^t will be a pleasure to show you over our entire store, and give you prices on anything and everything that we carry. We shall anticipate your visit with pleasure. Yours very truly, CLARK-WIGGINS HARDWARE CO., 'v By E. B. Clark. r PHONE 4154 235 SOUTH TRYON ST , FVE SAID IT, I REPEAT IT TODAY 1‘The Mutual Building & Loan is the best in America.” That means the best in the world. I believe that just as I believe in the survival of the fittiest, that truth is eternal, and that the saving Grace of he Almighty is free and airiple for all. I’VE TRAVELED THE ATLANTIC COAST from Florida to the extreme north; I’ve hugged the Pacific from San Diego |*> Seattle; I’ve crossed the desert in different routes from Ocean to Ocean, topping at the great cities that are found toward the Golden West, and all search of a B. & L. better than our own Mutual, but believe me, Mabel, doesn't exist. I wouldn’t exchange this marvelous old ship for anything f?ve seen or heard of, neither would I part with Charlotte or North Carolina Tor the whole darned shooting match, Hollywood and all the movie stars fhrown in. PAYING OUT $140,000.00 »$his week for one series matured, and selling new shares like killing snakes— why shouldnt we, sweetheart? Is there another savings systm in our (glass? Is there a home-buying plan that stands in comparison with this? 1-4 per cent on all shares carried to maturity, and net at that. GET IN OUR NEW SERIES Uet in now, for we’re marching on towards a great and mighty destiny.^ ‘J^his is where homes, happy homes get their baptism and where the weary Cease from troubling and where gloom and sorrow are displaced by sunshine ind hope and ultimate success. JOHN R. PHARR, E. L. KEESLER, f: President Secretary and Treasurer. F Summer Vacationist! •;v The season for summer vacations is here. < ■ Where are you going to Spend yours? t Do you prefer the mountains with their scenic grandeur, babbling brooks and shady nooks, and affording all out-door amusements such as Hiking, Horseback Riding, Golf, Tennis, Etc., with cool nights for rest and refreshment, or would you rather go to the seashore with its Cool Breezes, Bathing, Boating, Sailing and Fishing? \ . 1 Consult nearest Southern Railway System Pas senger Representative or Ticket Agent for full particulars and assistance in making your plans. Reduced summer tourist fares to all resort sec tions in the United States and Canada. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM The Successful Finish 50ME people are apt to forget ’ ^ that there can be no successful !3. finish without an intelligent be ginning. Certainly if you never begin you can never finish. The beginning of almost every finan cial success is right in a man’s \ savings account. \ Security Savings Bank SECURITY---PROGRESS- SERVICE 4 SOUTH TRYON STREET Secretary Davis Praises Hardings Labor Record Address of HON. J. J. DAVIS, Sec’y. of Labor, Birmingham, Alabama. Labor Day, September 3, 1923. Labor Day this year, finds the workingmen and women of America at the close of twelve months of steajdy progress, of peace and of prosperity, but marked by one great loss, the death of Warren G. Hard ing, our late Pjrpsident, a great friend of America’s toilers. During the more than two years of his ser vice, labor in America made greater strides in steady, consistent, mater ial and moral progress than it had during any similar period in the his tory of our country. Under his calm guidance, without beating of drums or sounding of trumpets, the Ameri can workman was led from the verge of economic chaos, to stable employ ment,5 record wages, and improved conditions. Not since the' founda tion of the Republic has American labor, organized and unorganized, been in a better condition than it is on this Labor Day. The late President Harding was no visionary, seeking to attain perfec tion through useless theory. He faced conditions as he found them, and in solid practical everyday achievement he obtained results for American labor. He was my leader and my friend. His memory will ever live in the hearts of American labor for the advances which his efforts brought to the workers of the coun try. He was the first President of this country, with the courage and the vision to approve legislation restrict ing immigration to this country, thus protecting the American worker from foreign, low-wage competition. He did this at a time when, as he as sumed office, we had more than 5, 000,000 men walking the streets of America seeking employment, in the depression which followed the Great War. By this measure, and by the wise economic policies which he fol lowed, he soon brought the country out Of the trough of industrial col lapse and out again on the plain straight road of industrial stability. It was through his untiring indus try and devotion to the ideals of American labor that this Labor Day finds that archaic institution the twelve-hour workday and the seven day week practically eliminated from the great basic industry of our coun try, the steel industry. Following his leadership,' the Department of Labor has secured an agreement among manufacturers of boxboard looking to the end of the twelve-hour day in that industry. It is my confident be lief that the spirit of President Hard ing will continue to fight the cause of American labor, and that the time is not far distant when no workman in this country will be forced to work more than eight hours a day, six days a week. There can be no high er ideal for American labor, than President Harding’s wage creed, which may well become one of his greatest monuments, reared in the heart of every true American. This was his creed: “The workman’s lowest wage must be enough for comfort, enough to make his house a home, enough to insure him that the struggle for existence shall not crowd out the things worth existing for.” Just as President Harding stood in the forefront of the world seekers of a practical, workable method of se curing peace among nations, he stood in the forefront of the workers for industrial peace at home. He rea lized that America, to lead the world to lasting peace, must find the means for insuring industrial peace in America—must set the world an ex ample of a united, industrious, hap py, and prosperous nation. Through out his career he sought to press home the lesson that the place for settling industrial disputes is around the council table where workers and em ployers sit down together on equal terms. He insisted that the time to settle industrial disputes was before they reached the point of the em ployment of force. His teachings have borne fruit for today we are nearer industrial peace in America than we have ever been before. No better proof of this can be found than in the work of the Division of Con ciliation of the Department of Labor for the last year. The services of the Department Commissioners of Conciliation have been called for in 534 cases during the year, involving strikes or threat ened strikes. Of these 428 disputes have been adjusted or settled. In ad dition 87 disputes were were pend ing at the beginning of the year have been adjusted. Year by year exper ience is demonstrating both to labor and managment the fact that the best time to settle an industrial dispute is before it has come to the point of an appeal to force. A suspension of production in any industry today means loss to both employer and worker, as well as to the public which the industry serves, andjthe prosper ity of the whole country*which is ul timately based upon continuous pro duction. I hope to live to see that Labor Day of the future when «• American industry will allow any dis pute between worker and employer to reach the strike stage with its misery, sorrow and despair. Here in the United States too we h&ve reached a new era for labor— the era of the educated workman. We have always prided ourselves on our American thirst for education, but within the past few years—since the great war-educated Americans have been turning more and more to the manual and mechanical trades We are making progress away from the fetich of the White Collar Job. The patriotic impulses of the war, together with the increased wages caused by war demands for produc tion, taught many of our young men that in the ranks of manual labor they could find healthy employment at remunerative wages. Most of these young men were of the so called educated classes, and* they brought to the field of manual labor an educational standard which has been bearing results, for the intelli gent workman trained in his craft is the best workman, for himself, for his employer and for his community. That education which combines the training of head and heart and hand is the education which will elevate labor to its proper place in the human scale of things. Both employer and employee in Ajmerica are steadily realizing the im portance of cooperation, are more and more convinced that they are partners in production, and that in telligent working together offers the best results for both of them. As standards of intelligence among our workers improve they are reaching the point where they stand on a more nearly equal basis with the employer in their negotiations and in their daily life. Many causes are contri buting to this better feeling between the workers who make industry pos sible and the men who manage in dustry. Labor in many crafts has already established apprentice schools where beginners may be trained in the trades, and where at the same time, they may have their full share of academic instructions. Labor is coming to know that the worker who can visualize his completed task, the carpenter who can see in the future the great building for which he saws the board, is the worker who gets the most out of life ifi material and spir itual things. President Hoarding’s faith in the equality of worker and employer in industry, based on intelligent crafts manship and intelligent management was strikingly illustrated during the coal strike of 1922 when a mixed delegation of some sixty operators and miners met with him at the White House. As he looked about him at the men who st6od in a scat tered group, he said, with that kindly smile Of his w.hich endeared him to all who knew hitft: “Men, except for some of you whom I know personally, I can not tell who here are the oper ators and who are the workers.” Then, with a nod of satisfaction, he added: “And this is as its hould be.” YOU CAN WEAR BIFOCALS” Provided they are properly fitted and correctly adjusted. The effi«i ciency, comfort and satisfaction of such, in the invisible style, will be a revelation to you. Wear CORRECT, BECOMING glasses. Or. J. C. Denison, 305 Realty Bldg. PHONE 1888-J GET YOUR MATTRESSES AND BOX SPRINGS RENOVATED Made over like new. Our /work and service is first class in every particu lar. J. T. A. LA WING’S MATTRESS FACTORY Charlotte, N. C. TEN DAY CLEARANCE USED CAR SALE REDUCED PRICES Biggest Values In Town COME QUICK We Are Going To Sell Them HUPMOBILES R-Touring-$335.08 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) R-Sport Touring (Demonstrator)_$475.23 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) R-Touring__$175.20 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) R-Roadster---$164.25 Cash (BALANCE LN TEN MONTHS) OTHER MAKES Mitchell Touring_$124.83 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Nash Touring_$284.70 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Maxwell Touring_^$80.00 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Dodge Touring_$164.25 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Essex Touring _•*_$208.05 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Milburn Electric_$175.20 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Apperpson Touring_$438.00 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Oakland. Sedan _$153.30 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Oakland Touring, ____$153.30 Cash (BALAiNCE IN TEN MONTHS) Overland Tburing_$70.00 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Ford Roadsjter_$135.00 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Ford Touring__$60.00 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) Chevrolet Touring_$124.83 Cash (BALANCE IN TEN MONTHS) A good used car, bought of a re liable, trustworthy concern, is as good, or better investment than a new one. Think it over. We trade, buy or sell.. “THE GOLD SEAL HOUSE” Charlotte Motor Car Co. 501 E= Trade St. Phone 961 The steady common-sense, the ster ling integrity, the high ideals of this man have borne fruit. I have re cently returned fropa Europe, and I am convinced that both workman and employer are better off in America than anywhere in the world today. Mlore and more I am convinced of the wisdom of the conviction of our late President Harding in his belief that the hope of the world lies in this country. Everywhere else there is political and economic chaos, and it is only in this country that employer and workman are moving steadily forward under the banner of indus trial peace and prosperity. Abroad unemployment is | the rule, while in America every workman who is will ing and able to; work has the oppor tunity to fill a job. Abroad wages are low, and many workers are being paid a mere subsistence wage. Here wages are generally as high as they ever have been. Both through the pay envelope and through various sys tems of profit sharing, many indus tries are reaching that condition of an equitable division of the proceeds of production between the men who manage labor and the men whose labor makes industry possible. On this basis alone can we insure per manent progress and growing pros perity. While abroad I talked with many foreign investors and almost all of them declared their intention of transferring their funds to American investments, because the industrial and economic stability which this courttry has reached promised them greater security for their funds than they could find abroad. The great leader under whose guidance we have reached this point of prosperity is gone to his own reward. We have lost him, but an other has come in his place, taking up the tasks that he laid dawn, as suming the great burdens which the American people impose upon its chief executive. Truly Divine Prov idence guides the destinies of our nation. For President Harding for thp first time in our history, called the Vice-President into the councils of the executive branch of the Gov ernment, and Calvin Coolege comes to his task knowing in detail the problems which confront him. He has been from the first, part and part of the administrative machinery of the Government, and he has sat with the President and his cabinet con stantly during his more than two years of service as Vice-President. There I have come to know his un swerving devotion to the public ser vice. His great strength and sim plicity of character have been dem onstrated throughout his boyhood, his college life, and his public life. In all his career he has shown that conscientiousness of pyblic service which is the greatest attribute of the man who serves the public. H|is de votion to duty and to principle have marked his progress from the begin ning of his public life. And justly so. For he comes of a race that has long known hard work and simple lives. In his family life this same simplicity reigns. With his wife and his two sons he makes up a typcal American family, the kind of a fam ily upon which we have based all of that great structure of liberty, and law which we call America. In. myvaspoeiatiQn with ,,him at the Cahm'fet 'tame T hhve fotifid film ev&r1 warm-hearted,, with a generous and actiTO-35Empatfe^.^<5fc.thfe,iwnbl^i»sof others. Mpre than once he has given me that word of sympathetic help which is the truest aid in times of weariness and stress and difficulty. America will find in him ftot alone a brain and conscience to lead, but a kindly heart to help. He will be a true friend of the American work man, for he has known hard work all his life. He will follow no wild phantasies in a search foh the millen ium, no will-of-the-wisp of thought less experiment. Hie will move for ward step by step, guided by the iight of progress, by experimence and by studious reasoning. He preach es the gospel of the square deal, and in whatever lies before him he can be depended upon to be just, fair and kindly. We have come far in the cause of labor during the last year. We have marched steadily forward through difficulty and over obstacles to the heights of prosperity. We have lost the leader who brougslU us out of chaos into order; we have gained a leader to whom we owe our whole allegiance. Let us gird up our loins and in the strength of our de votion to the cause of mankind, the betterment of our fellowmen, and the improvement of our own souls, let us continue our steady progress toward the goal of social, material and spiritual well-being which is the ultimate end of man. EVADE EIGHT-HOUR LAW. Denver, Sept. 6.—Those workers who believe all that is necessary to secure the eight-hour day is to pass a law are being disillusioned. There is an eight-hour law for wo men in this state, but it is being ig nored in this city. A laundry pro prietor openly flaunts the law and ha» declared: “I have a dozen big busi ness men behind me.” The state in dustrial commission refuses to act, and the district attorney takes the same position, Ujnder the law, it is illegal for a woman to work overtime. This places her between two firps—she is dis charged by the boss if she refuses to work overtime, and she is fined if she does. / ■ This brilliant piece of statemen ship is taken advantage of by long hour employes who tell women em ployes that they will be fined' if they admit that they work more than eighth hours. TRADE COMMISSION FINDS “TRUST” BARS COMPETITION IN DRESS PATTERN PRICES By International Labor New* Service. New York, Sept. 5.—A well de veloped "dress pattern trust” taking a large toll from the women of America, has been revealed by an investigation made by the Federal Trade Commission. The “Trust” is composed of the Butterick company, the Federal Publishing company, Standard Fash ion company, Butterick Publishing company, New Idea Pattern company and Designer Publishing company, all of New York City. The concerns are affiliated through consolidation in somef instances and in others by joint stock ownership and control approximately 40 per cent of the dress pattern industry. The trade commission’s investiga tion reveals why dress patterns are sold at thje same uniformly high prices in every city and why a dealer sells only one particular 'make of pattern. It was found that the six companies mentioned above made contracts with dealers throughout the coun try specifying that the dealers must agree not to sell any other make of patterns and not to sell Butterick' patterns except at labeled prices. It was also fonjbd that each of tha com panies has uniformly refused to per mit any dealer, with whom it has a contract for the sale of its products, to sell any other make of pattern. A<s a result of the investigation, the trade commission has issued an or-, der' prohibiting the members of the pattern truaf from selling their pat terns on any agreement fixing retail prices. The companies are also for bidden to enforce contracts that the dealers shall not sell makes of pat terns produced by other manufactur ers. PRITCHARD PAINT CO. • • :: f; ■ ■ ' } Successors to Ezell-Pritehard Company Paint, Glass and Painters’ Supplies 12 and 14 West Fifth Street Charlotte, N. C. A PAINT STORE FOR 25 YEARS Make Your Plans For Painting Your Property Now COME TO SEE US OR PHONE 765 ITS TOO BIG A RISK If your infcome should be cut off tomorrow would you have anything to tide you over!* Why Not Start an Account Now and be on the Safe Side? We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest Merchants and Farmers National Bank V CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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