THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1921.
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By C. Mo PAYKE p A
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NASH OUTPUT
BELOWDEMAND
Voorhis Declares Orders for
August Exceeded Produc
tion by 50 Per Cent.
The- Nash Motors Company have
again ended the month in an oversold
condition, it was announced by the
Carolinas Nash Motors Company, cf
Charlotte, distributers for this terri
tory. The demand for Nash cars fol
lowed immediately the price reduction
July 2 and has continued since that
time. Both the Milwaukee and Ka
nosha plants of the company are mak
ing every effort consistent with high
standards, to catch up to the demand
but August orders on the books .ire
50 per cent In excess of production,
itjsvas explained. Indications point to
an unusually busy Fall season at prac
tically all Nash distributing points.
"There is just one reason, in my
opinion, for the demand for Nash cars
in its present proportions," said Charles
B. Voorhis. vice-president and generjl
sales-manager of the Nash Motors
Company, "the buying public in a mar
ket such as this naturally turns to
that product in which it has confidence.
I am stating no secret when I say
that since the very day itw as est.tb
lished the Nash Motors Company set
out deliberately to win confidence in
itself and in its product. More tho.i
that, the same deliberate and deter
mined effort has been made to hold
that confidence, for we regard confi
dence as the vei' cornerstone upon
which business of this company i.s
built.
"This confidence on the part of the
automobile buyer is reposed very firm
ly, I believe, in the product itself, in
the Nash Motors Company whijh
stands back of that product and in the
Nash organization of distributors and
dealers with whom the public comes in
to direct contact. Even' effort is be
ing made to catoh up with the demand
for cars but in spite of an overso'd
condition increased production is being
attained only through methods that
will continue to safeguard the quality
of the Nash product so that confidence
od the part of the owner, the most
highly prized asset of our business, will
in no way be impaired."
FARM LOAN OFFICERS
GOING TO COLUMBIA
Officers and directors of the Carnel
Farm Loan Association met at the
court house Saturday and. among oth
er business transacted, decided to a
trip nejct Wednesday by automobile
to Columbia to visit the federal land
bank there. The object of the trip is
to allow the members of the local as
sociation to become familiar with the
methods of lending money to local as
sociations and to inquire about the
big appropriation which, it was an
nounced a few days ago from Washing
ton, was going to be placed in federal
land banks for immediate farm relief.
J. C. Reid is president of the Car
mel association, which is one of the
oldest associations in 1he State, and
the directors are A. B. Hood, N. O.
Alexander, W., R. Alexander and W. H.
Pharr.
THREE KILLED; THREE INJURED.
Norristown, Pa.. Sept. 10. Three per
sons were killed and three injured near
here late today when the Allentown
Electric Limited train on the Lehigh
Valley Traction Company struck a
taxicab demolishing it. The taxicab
kas struck when the driver mistook
the watchman's single, which he was
giving to the electric limited, for a
signal for him to go ahead.
You can have full' faith
in prices asked you here
the lowered prices do
not mean lowered quality.
Kuppenheimer
Good Clothes
at one-third less than
last year
See the new ideas in la
pels and looser coat backs
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IMPENDING CABINET
(Continued From Page One.)
Secreatry Weeks, now in the War De
partment, would naturally fall heir to
the position. As a matter of fact, when
the Cabinet was being formed last Jan
uary and February. Mr. Weeks was
considered as Secretary of the Treas
ury, but later was shifted to be head
odf the War Department when Senator
Knox and others urged Mr. Mellon, re
puted to be the second richest man in
the United States, for the Treasury.
It was said to be Mr. Weeks' ambition
to be Secretary of the Treasury and1
there is now reason to believe he will
achieve that ambition in a comparative
ly short time.
There is no doubt tbat Secretary
Mellon has found his position as head
of the Treasury Department, at this
critical period in the finance of the na
tion, a much more onerous duty than
he expected wh?n he gave his consent
to serve last Winter.
It is related here that recently a di
rector in one of the many Mellon insti
tutions came to Washington and went
to the Treasury Department to pay his
respects to the Secretary.
"Well, A. W." he is reported to have
said, "how do you like your new task."
The Secretary placed his left hand on
a stack of letters about two feet high.
His right hand waved in the direction
of other piles of papers in the big ma
hognay desk.
"I have been used to hard work all
of my life," ths Secretary replied ac
cording to the story, "but this is the
hrdest job I ever had. I come to the
office as early as half past eight in the
morning and often I must remain here
until nine or ten o'clock at night. Lots
of tims I feel that I am too old a man
for this work. I have reached the time
of life when men rest, or when they
are relegated to positions which have
nominal duties only. The long years I
have labored naturally have entitled
me to a rest at this time. And yet I
find myself engaged in the hardest
work I ever undertook. I have accumu
lated enough to live on (the Secretary is
reputed to be worth anywhere from
two hundred to eight hundred million
dollars). I don't know that I shall stay
here very long."
Secretary Mellon is 69 years of age.
the oldest' member of the Cabinet, and
there is no question but that his posi
tion has been a difficult one. It is said
that he fully realizes what he would be
"in for" as head of the Treasury De
partment during the period of recon
struction and that he demurred to un
dertaking so heavy a task at his time
of life. This reluctance reached Senator
Penrose, so the story goes, and the lat
ter dismissed it with a gesture of im
patience. "Wiry, to a man of your experience,"
he . pooh-poohed "it would only be a
matter of a couple of hours a day."
Despite his well-known wizardry at
finance, Mr. Mellon has found it a ten
and twelve hour task daily. The ru
mors as to his retoirement are directly
traceable to the reported interview with
one of his directors, and Washinton
feels that, when the Secretary has
acomplished a little more in the way of
getting the Treasury on its feet, he will
ask to be relieved to enjoy some of
the leisure he craves and which he
feels he has won.
It is thus seen that the placing of
Mr. Weeks in the Treasury Department
would solve one of the problems which
will face the Presidentwhen Congress
authorizes the merging of the War and
Navy Departments. However, another
problem is arising. Mr. Harding is
committed definitely to the creation of
a department of Public Welfare. It is
now understood the Department of
Labor will be merged with the new
Welfare Department. Secretary James
J. Davis is head of the Department of
Labor, but General Chmarles Sawyer
the President's prssonal physician, has
gnerally been accepted as the probable
head of the Department of Public Wel
fare, when created. This situation,
therefore, presents a problem which
the President himself must solve.
All of the other department heads in
the Cabinet seem very well contented
and to be accomplishing all that the
President desires. Secretary Hughes is
one of the main elements of strength
of the Administtration. Postmaster
General Hays has proved a real "live
Wire" in a department which needed
galvanizing. Attorney General Daugh
erty has frequently characterized him
self as the "trouble clerk" of the Ad
ministration and there havs been ru
mors that he might find it necessary
for financial reasons to return to pri
vate practice, but those rumors can be
put down as premature if not wholly
false. Secretaries Hoover, Wallace and
Fall seem especially happy in their
respective positions and are "carrying
on" to the President's evident satis
faction.
UNEMPLOYMENT
(Continued Trom Pate One.)
the country nine business men out
of every ten have quit talking
about hard times and are feeling the
first effects of returning prosperity.
6. That buying orders fqr al
most everything the people of the
country usually purchase are be
ginning to seep over the barriers
of the" buyer's strike and that the
full force of the buying movement
is expected soon.
Labor Department officials making
the survey are cheered by the pros
pects. They have figures in hand
which will show that the number of
unemployed will reach into the millions
arid hence do not minimize the un
happiness of the present; but they also
have figures showing that the numbers
are diminishing fast and indications
that they will diminish still faster in
the next thirty days.
Surface indications of the revival
during the week include a sensational
rise in the price of totton; a marked
increase in production of iron, steel
and coal; an apparent solution of
some of the difficulties of the oil in
dustry; a bullish stock market; a new
high mark for the year in railroad
income and a further strengthening of
the credit situation.
The nation-wide census of the idle is
a new thing. Heretofore the Labor
Department, has issued a monthly sur
vey of employment, showing the num
ber of men employed on the last day
of each month at 1,428 identical plants
throughout the country. No attempt
was made to collect figures showing
the number of men idle. Various com
munities, . however, notably New York
City, have compiled their own unem
ployment surveys.
FIGURES NOT ACCURATE.
In New York, the number of idle
was placed at half a million. The
figure is much too. high, it is thought
at the Labor Department. It contains
not only the number of men idle
through no faults of their own but
the number of men out on strike
obviously different conditions of unem
ployment. In one case the unemploy
ment is involuntary; in the other op
tional. The Government's census, if it can
be avoided, is not going to list a
single worker out on strike. Its aim is
to show only the number of men who
are involuntarily idle.
In making the survey, the Depart
ment's workers have obtained the
views of many business men. They
have reported that stocks are down
to rock bottom. " Many firms are not
placing sizable orders, however, on
the rising market. Manufacturers,
anticipating good business, are adding
to their forces moderately. Six months
ago the manufacturer with only a few
orders would have closed down. Now
he is going ahead and sending his
salesmen out; and they are sending
back orders.
The manufacturer of a nationally
known brand of men's hats, for in
stance, said today that he had oniy
enough actual orders on hand to keep
his plant going until October 1.
"Will you close down then?" he
was asked.
"Oh, no," he replied. "In fact, we
are taking on a few more men. We
have salesmen out and we know that
orders are coming along soon. We will
accumulate a stock if we have to but
we are going to keep running."
And that is the new spirit, say re
ports to Washington, of industry in
the United States today.
Columbus Circle, New York, is the
world's busiest corner, 3,266 vehicles
passing every hour.
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J. M. HAMMERLY IS TO
PRACTICE LAW HERE
TnconVi "XTnCanta HammprlV has Open
ed an office at No. 12 Scott Building,
No. 208 South Tryon street, for the prac
tice of law. He will be a general prac
titioner in the courts of the city and
countv here. He read law privately
and afterward attended the law school
at tho University of North Carolina f0r
nearly iwu jio, aucaaiuuy Passin
the state bar examination in August 0
this year.
For a number of years Mr- Kammer'v
was connected with the Western Vnvj
Telegraph company here and filled,
ing his period of service with it, severe'
important executive positions with con
spicuous abilty.
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prices -this Fall are much lower than a
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