THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921.
BOBBY JONES IS
LEADING HUNTER
Immense Gallery Follows In
ternational Contest and
Sees Great Golf.
St. Louis, Sept. 22. The survival of
the fittest from the first two match
rounds of golf was demonstrated today
by the closeness of the contests in the
third round for the national amateur
championship at the St- Louis Country
Clud. None of the matches varied by
more than a hole or so during the first
18 holes, and none of the players took
more than 38 strokes for the first nine
and substantially as good scores were
made on the second half.
The international struggle between
Willie Hunter, the British champion,
and Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, was the
star affair and the American pleased
an immense gallary by shooting a 34 on
the first nine and turning two up to the
finish of the first 18 holes.
The match was staged with great for
mality frecardies using American and
British flags to mark the balls of th
contestants and James Standish, of De
troit, with a book of rules under his
arm, accompanying the players closely
as referee.
Hunter had the better drive at the
start. Jones all but going out of bounds,
but he was barely im the green in two
while Jones was well inside, but they
halved when the Atlantan failed on his
lS-foot putt. Both players pulled to the
trap at the left of the 221 yard second
green, but Jones chipped out dead from
a hanging lie. while Hunter laid him
self a half stymie and was 15 feet short.
Jrle conceded Jones the putt and then
missed and was one down. They halved
the next four holes in perfect figures.
Then Bobby won the baby seventh with
a 3, Hunter being wide with his tee
shot and was two up, a lead he main
tained to the turn, as the 8th was shar
ed in perfect fours and the ninth with
a fine birdie 4.
Revival Ahead For Business
Reserve Board Head Insists
(Continued From Pme Om.)
Banks was to reduce the degree of
expansion of their loans, although the
volume of Federal Reserve discounts
still continued to show a tendency to
increase. At the end of January, 1920,
the total earning assets of the Federr.l
Reserve Banks, which include redis
counts for member banks, amounted to
$3,039,191,000. as compared with $3,
396,043,000 at the end of October, 1920.
During this period the drastic decline
in prices had already set in, although
there had been a very substantial in
crease both in the volume of redis-
"Weel that -I should not close with
out saying something about present
conditions and future prospects. The
banking situation has greatly improv
ed and with respect to it the gloomv
forebodings of last winter are no long
er justified and can be dismissed. The
TO INTERROGATE
KLAN OFFICIALS?
Attorney General Orders
Investigation Throughout
the Country.
Washington, Sept. 22. High officials
of the Ku Klux Klan may be sum-
OPPOSE HULTEN
AS NEW PASTOR
Former Charlotte Minister
Objected to by Portland
Congregation.
For his connection with stock sell
Ine schemes Dr. H. H. Hulten. for
IlieiV UC BUlil- - . A. TTM Tr-
moned to Washington for interroga- i 1, i v, i, i, T nHti
' i . it-, -r-v "s-" , tist church here. Is under severe criti
cism from the officials of the Portland
process of readjustment has not yet . tjon by the Department of Justice. At
tiplying that the corner has been tun
ed and that we have passed the most
acuts stage of the readjustment pe
riod. CROP .MARKETING.
Much will depend upon-developments
in tV,o Qorripnltnrul fsrtinn tif tl"t" COU11-
counts of the Federal Reserve Banks try and the manner in ,vhlch the
and in the amount of their Federal Ke-Jcl are marketed. While ill sections.
HARDING HANDS
CRITICSNSWER
Calls John Sharp Williams
to Task for His Late
Accusation.
(Continued From Page One.)
proven otherwise. He is correct, cei.
tainly, as to the salary commanded by
Benjamin Strong, Governor of the New
York Citv bank.
AS TO MR. STRONG.
"Mr. Strong was persuaded six years
ago to give up the presidency of the,
Bankers Trust Company of that city,
lie was commanding a salary twice as
large as he could be offered by the
board of directors of the bank, bue be
cause of the opportunities afforded, he
consented to make the financial sacri
fice and took the presidency.
"At the last meeting of the directors
of the card in Washington in 1918 the
directors of the New York bank sent
down a recommendation that the salary
ft Governor Strong be raised to $50,000
in order to regain his services. Mr.
McAdoo was secretary of the treasury
and also chairman ex-officio of the
board of directors of the system. He
maije an impassioned appeal that the
salary be approved and if Mr. Williams
will consult the minutes of that meet
ing, I am sure, because of what I know
his relations were with Mr. McAdoo. he
would find that he. too, gave his ap
proval to that salary.
MORE MORE
Mr. Harding proceeded to a defense
of the salaries being commanded by Fed
eral reserve bank officers on the ground
that these men could ;iot be retained in
this service for any less. "It has been
difficult," he said, "for the federal re
serve board to hold a large number of
officers because they have been offered
substantial increases in salaries even
from member banks. "I know of a host
of officers in member brinks, who get
twice as much as officers in the federal
bank." he said.
THE NEW YORK BANK
He declared that the Federal bank
in New York City is the largest bank
in the country and one of the largest in
the world. Tt is the fiscal agent of the
United States and is now performing
the functions formerly performed by
the sub-treasury in that city. It has a
capital and surplus of 85 millions; cash
reserves of over a billion and employs
3.000 men, with 30 officers over them.
The officers hold positions not of honor
and preferment, but because of their in
dividual capacity to fill the vitally im
portant posts. They are hred on tho
basis of what they are worth and not
because these are positions, like the
officer of Cabinet member or senators,
which are largely in the way of political
honor.
"No man goes into the cabinet for
the purpose of making a living. He
knows before he goes there, that all of
his salary of $12,500 will not be sufficient
to keep him going, but he takes it be
cause it offers an opportunity for great
public service. The same is true of senators-
They can not live on their salary
and they understand, when they get
these great offices, that it will cost them
money, but they like the opportunity!
offered them for serving their country.
No such position is that of the officer of
the federal reserve bank. He is paid on a
basis of what he is worth as a banker."
ILLUSTRIOUS EVENT.
The banquet at which Governor
Harding spoke was one of the mot
illustrious events of its sort ever held
in Charlotte in the representative
number of bankers, business men and
industrial leaders who attended. Plates
were laid for more than 500 and with
the exception of less than 100, they
Were taken by bankers and industrial
chieftains from out of the city. Re
mote sections of the two Carolina s
"were represented as well as leading
banks in the more- widely known cities
of the two States.
Mr. David Ovens was toastmaster
and at the head table sat Governor
Harding between President Wood of
the American Trust Company, host of
the occasion, and George J. Seay, of
Richmond, governor of the fifth dis
trict Reserve Bank. At this table also
,sat J. B. Duke, B. E. Geer, J. D. Ham
mett, B. B. Gossett, of Anderson; W. E.
Beattie, of Greenville; J. W. Cannon,
of Concord; Dr. D. W. Daniel, of Clem
son College; United States Judge Wat
kins, of South Carolina; A. J. Draper,
Henry M. McAden, Julian H. , Little,
iH. M. Victor, R. A. Dunn, John .VI.
Scott and others. The guests practi
cally occupied the entire floor of the
spacious auditorium.
' Mr. Ovens made a few remarks .by
way of a pertinent welcome to the
host of visitors, and "as a director of
the Carolinas Exposition," he bespoke
the feeling of appreciation which the
directors of that event entertain to
ward the American Trust Company
"in putting over such a tremendous
thing for Charlotte and for the Ex
position." The reference brought a
thunder of applause.
The Empire Quartet started the pro
gram with two selections, after the
New .York City Band had played a
number of pieces during the hour of
eating. Immediately after the quar
tet's two songs, Mr. Ovens presented
Mr. Harding. Miss Marie Caslova
rendered a violin solo and Governor
George J. Seay was introduced, speak
ing only a few words of appreciation
of the honors and courtesies extended
feifn during the dav.
serv3 notes in circulation
REACTION OVERDUE.
"Th?re is no occasion for me to sav
that the year 1920 was a critical and
disastrous one. inere are inousamsj
of people in this State who can bear
witness to this out of their own knowl
edge and experience, but the ordeal
through which you have passed yis the
same ordeal which was undergone at
the same time by people in all othtr
States in this country and by millions
of people throughout the civilized
world. The reaction, when it came,
was overdue and was brought about
by world-wide economic causes, which
were entirely beyond the control of
any group of banks, of any board or of
any Government.
"The President of the United States
in an address to the Senate last July
said: 'Our land has its share of the
financial chaos and the industrial de
pression of the world. We little heel
ed the growth of indebtedness or th?
limits of expenditure during the war
because we could not stop to count the
cost. Our one thought then was the
winning of the war and the survival
of the Nation. We borrowed and loan
ed individuals to the Nation and the
Government to other Governments, and
to those who served the Nation, with
little thought of settlement. It was rel
atively easy then, because national Hf3
was at stake. In ths sober aftermt.ih
we face .the order of reason, rather
than act amid the passions of war, and
our own land and the world are fac
ing problems never solved before.
There can be no solution unless we
faca the grim truths and seek to solve
them in resolution devotion, to duty.
It is unthinkable to expect a business
revival and the resumption of the nor
mal ways of peace while maintaining
the excessive taxes of war. The slump
which is now upon us is an inevitable
part of war's aftermath. It has fol
lowed in the wake of war since the
world began. There was the unavoid
able readjustment, the inevitable
charge-off, the unfailing attendance of
losses in the wake of high prices, thr
inexorable deflation which inflation had
preceded. It has been wholly proper j do tne impossible. It is not a panacea
to seen to appiy government renei o for &l economic and financial ills ana
have suffered, the burden of 'lebt and
the lack of buying power is felt more
keenly in the farming districts and no
sustained forward movement n com
merce and industry can be expecr.-d un
less an improvement i seen ani felt in
these districts, in which normally so
large a part of the country's purchas
ing power lies. With proper co-operation
on the part of merchants and
bankers, those engaged in agriculture
have now opportunities and prospects
which were not anticipated a few
months ago and it is of vital import
ance that this co-operation be given.
FOREIGN TRADE.
"It should be remembered, also, that
in order to maintain our rate of pro
duction we must push our foreign trade.
Wo produce more cotton, more food
stuffs, more copper and more manufac
tured articles of great variety than wo
need for our own use. In the changed
conditions resulting from the war,
America occupies a new relationship to
the world. We are no longer a debtor
nation, as we were in 1914, but today
we are the world's great creditor na
tion. We have an enormous stock of
gold, much of which has come to us
during recent months from all quart
ers of the globe in payment of commod
ities purchased from us.
"We cannot forever maintain our
foreign trade .however, on the basis of
the gold stock of other nations. Some
means must be devised for extending
long time credits abroad or of interest
ing American investors in foreign prop
erties and securities, in order that tho
exchange which now runs so heavily
against other nations may be corrected-
'We must continue to buy from for
eign countries those things which they
can produce better or more cheaply
than we can and excahnge commodi
ties with them. If we determine to do
business with and for ourselves alone.
it seems inevitable that we must re
duce our production to meet merely
American requirements.
SYSTEM NO PANACEA.
"One word more about the Federal
Reserve System. Do not expect it to
torney General Dausrherty indicated to
day. Director Burns, of the Depart
ment's Bureau of Investigation, Mr.
Daugherty announced, has been in
structed to set his agents at work on
an investigation of the Klan's organ
ization in various parts of the coun
try; In connection with the possible sum
moning of Klan leaders to Washington
the Attorney General said the Depart
ment of Justice had the authority to
summon any one and it was its po,.i-;y September 10, has the following to say
in the course of an investigation to
talk the matter over with the persons
involved.
The Attorney General said that any
criminal prosecutions would for the
most part be matters of State law, un
less there had been some violations of
the Federal statutes through the ufce
of the mails to defraud.
There is no need in this country,
Mr. Daugherty said, for vigilance or
ganizations. The country does not
need, he added, any self-constituted or
ganization to define and enforce The
laws for American citizens. It has, hn
contended, a well organized Depart
ment of Justice to enforce the Fede-al
law and well organized State authori
ties to maintain the laws of the sev
eral States.
SOCIETY LEADERS OF
CHICAGO GO TO WORK
Ore., First Baptist church, where he
has been called to be pastor.
Some time after Dr. Hulten left
Charlotte to become pastor of the First
Baptist church at Oklahoma City, Okla.
he began to sell leases on property in
Brown county, Texas. According to
a number of people in Charlotte, he
returned to this dfty last Summer to
sell these leases.
A story in the Portland Oregonian,
Chicago, Sept. 22. Several Chicago
women society leaders went into busi
ness for themselves today as their
"contribution to the new era for wo
men." They announced the formation of
two business enterprises, one an in
vestment and the other an advertising
agency.
The women, all of whom gained rec
ognition for their war work, announced
their intention of conducting the busi
ness themselves, but, for some reason
not divulged, neither firm bears the
names of women connected with it.
NEED NOT REMOVE
HONORED FOOTRAIL
minimize the hardships and the Gov
ernment has aided wherever possible,
and is aiding now, but all the special
acts ever dreamed of, all the particular
favors ever conceived will not avoid
all the distresses nor ward off all the
losses. The proper mental state of our
people will commit us resolutely and
confidently to our tasks, and definite
assurances as to taxation and expendi
ture will contribute to that helpful
mental order. The only sure way to
normalcy is over ths paths nature has
marked throughout all human experi
ence.' "PERSONAL SCAPEGOATS."
"When things go wrong, especia'ly
in matters pertaining to economics and
finance, there are always many peotle
who are unwilling to consider the ab
stract causes, but prefer to seek the
concrete and the personal. They do
it cannot, however skillful its admin
istration may be, prevent periods of
depression in the future, although it
can do much to modify them. Other
nations, such as Great Britain and
France, with their great central bank
ing institutions, have always had their
years of prosperity and their periods
of depression, although they have been
free from the money panics which we
formerly had in this country as a re
sult of our inadequate banking sys
tem. PROSPERITY CYCLES.
"All history shows that periods of
prosperity and depression come in cy
cles, the rotation being about as fol
lows: (1) Prosperity. (2) Liquidation,
(3) Stagnation, and (4) Revival. . At the
present time the process of liquidation
is well advanced and the end of stagna
tion and the beginning of the period of
mand a personal scapegoat. Some p-o- revival seem noAV to depend upon cer
tain things which are susceptible of
accomplishment in the near future,
among which may be enumerated the
financial rehabilitation of our great
transportation systems and the determ
ination of the policy of the Government
with respect to revenues and the tariff.
i "When the period of revival does de-
not brought about by them. On the finiteK- set in, to be followed by a new
other hand they did everything with- era cf prosperity, let us remember that
m the bounds of reason ana tne limita
tions of law to relieve the crisis -ind
pie have made it their business tj
charge, and may have deluded others
into believing, that the Federal Re
serve Banks and the Federal Reserve
Board, particularly, have caused i
great economic crisis, which indeed was
foreseen by those responsible for tho
management of the Federal Reserve
Svstem. but which was most certainly
Madison. Wis., Sept. 22. Bars in sa
loons need not be removed or altered
to comply with the new State prohibi
tion law, Judge L. R. Stevens today
told attorneys for Milwaukee saloon in
terests, who have brought a test case to
determine the constitutionality of the
statute.
The judge said that he was satisfied
about the matter, after objections had
been raised in the Portland Fir3t Bap
tist church against extending a call to
Dr. Hulten:
"In an interview by telephone late
Wednesday night. Dr. Hulten brand
ed as 'untrue and utterly ridiculous
charges that he had been connected in
any way with a stock selling enterprise
or that he had left his pastorate at
any time to devote his energies to the
sale of sticks. This denial cf Dr.;
Hutten is not borne out by evidence
presented by A. L. Veazie, chairman of
the advisory board, in summarizing a
report of the church pulpit committee.
The statement given out Thursday by
Mr. Veazie says:
" 'More particularly respecting the
charges that arose out of the sale by
Dr. Hulten of mining stocks, a full
statement is in the hands of the com
mittee from Paul M. Pope an attorney
at law, who had a full acquaintance
with the facts in that connection, who
gives a full statement of the facts. It
appears that after Dr. Hutten termin
ated his pastorate of the Oklahoma
church, he undertook the sale on com
mission of stock in a mining company
which prominent members of his
church were promoting and went to
Ardmore and sold a large amount.
There was nothing connected with the
transaction to indicate any bad faith
on Dr. Hulten's part. The stock turn
ed out to be worthless. Dr. Hulten.
without any legal obligation to himself
exhausted all his own resources and
borrowed a large amount of money as
well to make good to the people at Ard
more every dollar they had lost in the
purchase of the stock they had bought
through him. Mr. Popein connection
with his review of the facts says that
'from them no reasonable, fair minded,
honest-to-goodness square man could'
hold aught against Dr. Hulten.'
"The foregoing statement was part of
a mass of correspondence and detailed
report gathered by the pulpit supply
committee of White temple in the
course of a thorough investigation of
Dr. Hulten before he came hereabout
August 1. to supply the pulpit with the
BORAH OPPOSED
TO PEACE PACTS
Is Entrance Through Back
Instead of Front Door,
Committee is Told.
Washington, Sept. 22. Opposition to
the peace treaties negotiated recently
by the Administration with Germany,
Austria and Hungary developed tod;.y
when the Senate foreign relations com
mittee began consideration of the pac.s
transmitted yesterday by President
Harding. M . ,
Senator Borah, Republican. Ida,
leader of the "irreconcilables m wi
fight against the Treaty of Versailles,
explained the basis of his opposition to
ratification of the new treaties to the
committee, which considered only the
German pact and adjourned until -o
morrow wihout taking any action.
Senator Borah's objections to in?
new peace arrangement, it was said,
were based primarily on the acceptance
in the new pacts of provisions of -.he
Treaty of Versailles. The effect, it was
understood Senator Borah contend-.nl.
was tn take America "through the
back instead of the front loor" intoj
European entanglements.
WOULD ENTAIL OBLIGATION.
tlOn UU IMC iwcaiauuiis 01nm!
Appointment of such an Amrin ;i
missioner, he was said to have -'
would follow necessarily ani :"
American representation in pi'..'
financial affairs, entailing jmV.J
Europe's political problems. fnr"a;l
40 years the period fixed f0i-
The points brought out bv ?
XUI ail r. - ' c "Ctrl Tan.
Wltn yalUtuiai iiiLcicst II Olfi
Johnson. -Republican. Calif ;."
degee. Republican, Connecticut
Shields, democrat, Tennessc ' '
Senate "irreconcilables." " ':
Chairman Lodge, Senator ft
diana, and other Republican n,e:
present were said to be less in,'.r;:t
with Senator Borah's vn,
while the attitude of Ser.t0-S "i''
erene, Ohio, and Swanson. vs'.
Democrats, "was not disclose '
RAILROAD CAR TRUST
CERTIFICATES SOI
Reports from the committee's execu
tive' session were that Senator Borah
contended that ratification of the new
treaties would entail a moral if not a
legal obligation to retain American
troops in Germany Another major
point of his opposition was said to
revolve around American representa-
22. SaU
Washington, Sept.
road car trust certificates hpM
Government amounting to $303;i
was announced today by the
nance Corporation.
The sale was the fourth ar,d j...
block of these securities d:
date by Director General cf piV
Davis, with the approval cf th, '
dent, through the War Finnr.c? o-1
ation. Total sales to dat:
$63,482,6000.
The securities were sMd a p,..
accrued interest to a trr- ;;. 0
York bankers, the proce to ve"
voted to railroad financial rei:;
ing Congressional action m :h 2
way funding; bill.
PURCELL'S Women's Garments of Quality PURCELL'g
i
that the Attorney General was wronj general understanding that a perman
in his opinion that bars must be al
tered or removed to give a free and
unobstructed view of the space behind
them.
MINISTER SHORTAGE
CRITICAL AND GRAVE
Pittsburg. Sept. 22. The present
shortage of ministers is "acute, criti
cal and grave" and the problem must
be solved at once if the church is to
go forward under the proper guiding
hands, according to the report of Tho
committee on home missions of the
European sect'on, presented by the Rev.
John Hall, of Edinburgh, Scotland, at
today's session of the general council
of the Alliance of Reformed Churches
throughout the world, holding the Pres
byterian system.
MISS RAPPED FILMS
ORDERED WITHDRAWN
to avert a financial panic, which ev
eryone will now admit has been avert
ed, whether the Federal Reserve Sys
tem be commended or criticised for the
part it played in the drama, which but
for its existence would have developed
into the greatest financial tragedy oZ
modern times.
Los Angeles. Calif., Sept. 22. All
First National Film excahnges were or
dered today to withdraw all films from
exhibition in which appeared Virginia
Rappe. the actress for whose death Ros-
t he greater the wave of prosperity and SLoe (Fatty) Arbuckle is held at San
,oti,i -rvari I Francisco on a charge of murder, it
mu.3 iiiiiiuuiiceu iiere louay
the more unrestrained the expansion
and the speculation accompanying it.
the sharper "will be the repression that
will follow. If, however, the lessons
of the past two years are remembered,
the next period of prosperity will be of
longer durtation than any we have had
before and the subsequent reaction will
be far less severe."
ASKS DEMURRER
IN TRIBUNE SUIT
City of Chicago Seeks Pro
tection from Criticism
Claim of Attorney.
Chicago, Sept. 22. Protection of "en
trenched authority from Inquiry and
criticism" was declared to be the "end
and animus" of The City of Chicago's
$10,000,000 libel suit against The Chi
cago Tribune by Weymouth Kirkland,
of The Tribune counsel, who opened
argument in the case today.
The suit, he said, was an attempt ty
a government to restrict the due frc-
doom of the press and the court w.-s
asked to uphold a general demurrer
which, if upheld, would rule that the
City had "no case." Criticism of the
financial administration of City busi
ness, printed in The Tribune, is the
basis of the suit which, if it is won,
would virtually absorb the value of
the entire Tribune plant. The City
contends that The Tribune criticisms
embarrassed the administration in ob
taining loans and was detrimental to
the city's credit.
Mr. Kirkland reviewed the attempts
to throttle free speech from the timo
of the Roman Empire to the presn-.
day.
"Only arbitrary, oppressive or cor
rupt power has sought to enslave or
destroy the free utterance of the pres.v'
Mr. Kirkland said. "The City's form of
attack is novel, and in America, et
least, without precedent, but the end
and animus are the same as marked
the whole course of obstruction to frae
expression: Namely, to protect n
trenched authority from inquiry and
criticism."
NAVY ENLISTMENTS
WILL BE RESUMED
Naval enlistments will be resumed at
the local recruiting station in accord
ance with orders received by John L.
Ferris, botswain's mate, first class,
from state headquarters. Qnly five
men will be accepted a week from the
state for the time being. A waiting
list of applicants will be kept and men
will be called according to their po
sition on the list. Men who have had
previous service in the navy will be
re-enlisted at once.
The following ratings are open to
men without prior service, and also
to men who have been out of service
more than four months or men dis
charged by special order: seaman, first
class and second class; apprentice sea
man; firemen, first, second and third
class, musicians, first and second class:
J enginemen, first and second class, and
LAYFIELD BUYS
KING'S COLLEGE
Old Business Institutions in
Raleigh and Charlotte
Disposed Of.
King's Business Collegp, one branch
located here and one located at Ra1
eigh, has been sold by J. H. King,
founder and proprietor of the coPege.
to E. L. Layfie'.d, according to an
nouncement mad in Raleigh and cor
roborated by Mr. King in Charlotte to
day. Mr. Layfield cmi? to North Caro.in i
a year ago aui became as.-cciated
with Mr. King i-i the conduct of tln
two business colVg-s and has now ac
quired full own-.vship of the institu
tions. F. L. Risbee, who ha3 been
in active charge- of the school in Char
lotte for several jvti-g. will continue
here in that car.iciiy Mr. Layfield giv
ing his attention to llic two scaoois in
a supervisory way.
Mr. King's professional ;,f hag
stretched over ? perioo of about 35
years, 20 of whi;h hae been spent in
this State. Betvreen 15,000 ana 20,010
men and wom.M have :sken the busi
ness course in r-is two schools. Kimr s
Business College i.s o.-.t of the f:w
business colleges evor started in Ni rth
Carolina thaf has h.;en a success. Tt
is said Mr. King has made money on
the proposition an I retires able to jive
comfortably on the bounty accunvil.
ted.
A law governing the operation of
business colleges in vNorth Carolina
was inspired by Professor King and is
credited with preventing the organiza
tion and operation of mushroom busi
ness colleges formed for money-making
purposes gnly.
The CMarlotte institution has been
one of the most popular and flourish
ing of business colleges in the whele
South, every year laTge numbers of
young men and women entering it for
a course of study in practical busi
ness methods. Thousands of graduates
of the King institutions fill places of
trust and responsibility in the busi
ness realm of North Carolina and in
this city.
Mr. King, who has spent the great
er part of his time In Raleigh, has slv
en the Charlotte college not only ni.s
supervisory interest, but his direct,
personal superintendence and has come
to be pleasantly known by a host cf
citizens of this community.
STORE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Chester, Sept. 22. John S. Stone, big
Fairfield county planter, suffered a
heavy loss last night when his sto-e
was struck by lightning, completely de
stroying it.
Thirty-two
hundred exhibitors are represented in
the action.
MISSOURI GOVERNOR
CONDEMNS KU KLUX
St. Louis, Sept. 22. Governor Arthur
M. Hyde condemned the Ku Klux Klan
aa an organization before 500 members
of the Grand Lodge of Missouri, A. F.
and M.. last night, declaring it a "sec
ret, furtive organization whose meth
ods are subversive to American ideals
and the rule of the law.'
Governor Hyde declared that Masons
have 'no connection with the organiza
tion and want nothing to do with it."
BEER BILL IS BACK
BEFORE THE SENATE
Washington, Sept 22. The beer bill
got before the Senate today by a vote
of 31 to 23 after Chairman Penrose, of
the finance committee, had sought t
have the tax revision bill taken up
first. Senator Penrose said while he
was not entirely ready to proceed witii
the revenue measure, progress could
be made by reading the bulky document.
ent call to him would be considered
"Mr. Veazie stated Thursday that
a file of correspondence of some 50
pages, including letters from more than
30 of the leading members of T)r. Hul
ten's church in Oklahoma City, were
laid before the advisory committee. The
former members of the Oklahoma
church, according to Mr. Veazie, de
clared that Dr. Hulten is blameless and
testify to his high standing.
"Thorough investigatio n of Dr. Hul
ten proves that he is entirely blameless
of any wrongdoing," said Grant
Phegley, treasurer of White Temple,
in discussing the situation. 'Any fac
tion opposed to Dr. Hulten's coming
here is so minute that it hardly can
be considered seriously. Dr. Hulten
made things too hot for a certain Okla
homa promoter who sold worthless
stock and the promoter and a few per
sonal enemies are making an attempt
to "get" Dr. Hulten.
"Mr. E. M. Runyan, secretary of the
pulpit supply committee and H. W.
Stone, a member of the advisory board
declared themselves behind Dr. Hul
ten to the limit. The general impres
sion among the officers of the church
interviewed Thursday was that Dr.
Hulten was merely an unfortunate in
vestor, who had been made a scapegoat
by unscrupulous promoters. N.
"That the congregation will ratify the
recommendation of the advisory board
of the church, and that Dr. Hulten will
accept the call was the expressed be
lief of prominent churchmen of White
temple.
"The financial offer to be proposed
to Dr. Hulten, if the call is ratified by j
the church membership, is a salary
of $6,000 and $1,000 to defray the cost
of moving his family and goods here."
KIWANIS CLUBS OF
FOUR STATES MEET
8,000 OIL WORKERS TO
STRIKE IN SYMPATHY
Los Angeles, Calif.. Sept. 22. All lo
cals of the oil workers international
union in southern California, represent
ing 8,000 men. have' voted to strike
in sympathy with the Kern county oil
field strikers, It was announced today
by James G. Bates, an official of the
union.
PERMISSION TO INTERVENE.
Washington, Sept. 22. Permission io
intervene in the case before the Inter
state Commerce Commission involving
freight rates on lumber from the South
and Southwest to Northern and East
ern points was granted to the Associa
ted Co-operage Industries of America
today by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The permission was granted
with the provision that the intervenor
would be allowed to introduce no evi
dence "which will unduly broaden tha
issues" raised in the complaint which
was brought by the Southern Hard
wood Traffic Association and others.
BAR SILVER PRICE ADVANCES.
New York. Sept. 22. An advance in
the price of bar silver in London to
day, due mainlv to a continuance of
the demand from China nad India, was
met by an advance here to 68 3-4 cents
an ounce. This is an increase of about
2 1-2 cents from yesterday's lowest
quotation, 3 1-4 cents from that of Sep.
tember 15, and 6 1-2 cents over the
price quoted three weeks ago.
MRS. MAXFIELD ARRIVES.
New York, Sept. 22. Mrs. Harriet
Page Maxfield, of Washington, widow
of Commander Louis H. Maxfield, who
was to have commanded the ZR-2 on its
flight to America, but who fell to death
with the ship in England," arrived here
today on the steamship City of Luck
now from Cardiff. She was acompanied
by her two oMklren.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 22. Represen
tatives of virtually every Kiwanis Club
in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and
Arkansas attended the opening session
here today of the first annual convn
tion of the district organization of tho
four States.
Officers will be elected tomorrow. To
day's business sessions were devotcj
largely to addresses of welcome and tne
reading of reports. Senator John Sharp
Williams, of Mississippi, will be the
principal speaker at a banquet tonight.
The convention will be in a session
two days.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
GETS HIGH PRAISES
Sustaining Our Enviable
Reputation for Carrying
0
Nothing But Really
High-class Merchandise
We again mention the fact that we
have acquired tre agency for CENTE
MERI GLOVES and can . supply your
season's wants. "
The CENTEMERI is a Glove we feel
keeps us in the sie class as do our La
Camille, Nemo and LaVictoire Corsets,
Kayser Underwear an4 other Nationally
known garments which you may always
count on finding at
Dr. J. S. Mitchell of the bureau of
epidemiology, State department of
health, considers the Charlotte health
department one of the best equipped in
the south, he told Dr. W. A. McPhaul
after an inspection of the department
Thursday. Dr. Mitchell is in the city j
.on a visit ana iook aavaniage or his
presence here to look over the clinics
of the local department.
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BUSINESS IS VOTED
I
Wilson, Sept. 22. Because of the de-!
cision of President W. P. Bradley, of
the Virginia League, throwing out a
number of games played by the Wilson
club on account of alleged violation of
the salary limit, thus forcing Wilson
out of first place in the pennant race,
the Merchants' Association of this city
today went on record with only two
disssenting votes as opposing trading
with Virginia firms.
LABOR LEADERS
(Continued From Pace One.)
garded Thursday as strong. It is
known that the mill owners are watch
ing developments in connection with
the conference. Most of them are
strongly opposed to textile unionism,
and its death in the South would not
bring tears to their eyes.
In the campaign for strengthening
the union, the textile leaders will
have the support and co-operation of
all branches of the American Federa
tion of Labor, according to statements
of textile officials. Mr. Gompers has
taken a personal interest in the pro
posed campaign, and his selection of
Mr. Jones as his personal representa
tiva is taken by textile people to mean
that he will lend every effort to thv
successful consummation of the con
ference's plans.
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