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WEATHER FORECAST:
For Georgia—Cloudy, showers to
night and in south portion Saturday;
cooler Saturday and in north and
central portions tonight,
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 212.
German Peace Solely Up to Senate As Berlin
GOVERNMENT IS
ABLE TO ERASE
KU KLUX KLAN
Congress and Federal Courts Are
Empowered to Break Up
“Invisible Empire”
ALLEGIANCE TO U. S.
IMPERILLED BY OATH
Organization Broken Up in 1871
By Enforcement of Act
of Congress
WASHINGTON. Sept. 30.—Con
g.~ess and the Federal courts can
break up the Ku Klux Klan, num
bering, it is said, 700,000 members.
This is the conviction of government
officials, following newspaper expo
sures of the Ku Klux Klan and pre
liminary investigations by the De
partment of Justice and the Postof
fice Department.
Federal action against the Knig. O
of the Ku Klux Klan probably will
be based on these specific charge:
made by tiie'Klan’s opponents: :
That the ‘‘lnvisible Empire” of
the K. K. K. is setting up a govern
ment within the government.
That it is inciting religious, racial
and class hatred.
That it’s program is an attack on
individual freedom and the personal
rights as guaranteed by the Con
stitution of the United States.
Os the charges against the Ku Klux
Klan, which prompt government in
vestigation, this is the chief one:
While the Klan claims that its
purpose is “maintenance of white
supremacy,” thei Klan’s ritual asks
questions, of applicants, which indi
cate that the organization is against
the Jews, Catholics, Masons, the
negroes and the foreign-born.
The Oath.
Members of the Klan, it is charged,
are bound by oath to obey without
.question all orders of the head,
known as the “Imperial Wizard.”
Such an oath imperils undivided
allegiance to the United States gov
ernment.
Seizure, trial and punishment of
any resident of the United States, by
any except legally constituted author
ities, such as the police and court
officers, is a violation of Articles IV,
V and VI of the national constitu
tion of the United States.
Any movement for exile or sup
pression of 'individuals because of
their racial origin or religious belief
is a violation of Articles I, XIII and
XV of the constitution.
li'ence, Federal authorities say they
can take legal action against the Ku
Klux Klan and its officers and m’em
bers, if charges that have been made
arc confirmed by investigations.
The K. K. K. has four degrees of
membership, initiation fee being $lO
a degree. About 700.000 are believed
to Jiave joined the Klan since its re
organization, October 26, 1915.
Initiation fees are estimated all
the way from seven to thirty million
dollars.
The K. K. K. also makes a profit
on the uniforms and relagia which it
sells to members.
Klan’s History.
William Joseph Simmons, . of At
lanta, Ga., is the present head of the
Klan. His title is “Imperial Wiz
ard,” and he operates from the “Im
perial Palace of the Invisible Em
pire,” Atlanta.
Simmons and 33 others resurrect
ed the K. K. K. in 1915 and incor
porated it under the laws of Georgia.
Klan officials disclaim most of the
(harges made against them. They
claim that their real purpose is “pure
Americanism” and that they really
seek enforcement of existing laws.
The organization has gotten so big
that it is passing beyond control of
its heads, it is claimed.
The Klan has a woman’s auxiliary.
The original Ku Klux Klan is be
lieved to have started in Pulaski,
Tenn., in 1865. Its early activities
were directed against negroes in
Southern politics and the “carpet
baggers” fro mthc North who flooded
the Sou ( h after the Civil War.
It was broken up April 20, 1871,
by the Enforcement Act, passed by
Congress, popularly known as the Ku
Klux Klan Act or Force Bill. This
act. gave the Federal courts jursidic
tion over all K. K. K. cases. It em
powered the President to employ the
military forces and to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus during K. K
K. disorders. It also barred from the
juries, in Ku Klux cases, all klans
men. This act speedily checked the
growth of Klan and gradually caused
it to die out.
SINN FEIN REPLY TO
GO FORWARD TONIGHT
DUBLIN; Sept. 30 (By Associated
Press). -Sinn Fern Ireland’s reply to
the, Britis’ government’s invitation
to a conference in London. October
11, was expected to be ready for the
Dail Eireann cabinet when it assem
bled here today. The meeting was
set for 3 o’clock this afternoon, but
it was not expected the reply would
be dispatched until 6 o’clock tonight.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rgxail Pharmacy. 1
'4 pm 88 4 am 76
6pm 84 .6 am ...76.
8 pm .80 -Siam .h,..79
•10 nm ;.79 ' 10 arts.*,.. w . 8-
Midflight .... *;76 Noon -84
mu ....84
SINGS POPULAR SONG AS 1
HE STANDS ON GALLOWS
Carl Wanderer, Triple Murderer,
Goes To Death With Firm
. Step
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Singing a
popular song, Carl Wanderer, con-1
victed of the murder of his wife and
her unborn baby, and a “ragged
stranger,” whom he hired to stage!
a fake hold-up, was hanged at the!
YOU AND jj
> \RE NOT IN DANGER OF i)
; DISEASE, IF WE GUARD 7
;GENERAL HEALTH. OUR I
I DEFENSE AGAINST GERMS
’J’UBERCULOSIS death rate is ■
high. But you wonder why it 1
doesn’t swiftly exterminate its hu-•
mans, when you Jearn that nearly I
every one at some time or other be-1
comes infected with the tuberculosis!
germ. That information comes from ’
the mediae! research organization of I
the Knights of Columbus.
The reason most of us shake off i
the tuberculosis germ is because the !
average body normally has the power |
to kill invading diseases.
The great danger to health is not!
disease germs, but in allowing the;
body, the general health, to grow|
weak and lose its defensive powers j
Are you keeping your body healthy j
by fresh air, exercise and proper)
food? Isl so, don’t worry about [
germs. I f not, select your doctor.
CHAPLIN
The most foolish occupation in I
the world is writing letters to celeb- ‘
rities. An absolute waste of time, it ■
docs, however, give laughs to movie i
stars, ball players, pugilists and scan- j
dal figures.
Occasionally one of these letters is
a gem.
An English lad lost bis bat in the
mob that stormed Charlie Chaplin
when he arrived in London. K'is
mother wrote Chaplin: “I enclose
the bill for the new hat.”
Chaplin wrote back: “As result of
the demonstration, I am suffering
from nervous collapse. I enclose a
bill for SI,OOO for medical attend
ance.”
INDEMNITY
France fears that Germany may
have a financial crash next spring.;
That would wreck the indemnity I
program.
Rat.henau, German business giant, !
wants to avert the crash by stopping
payment of reparations in gold and
delivering, instead actual goods.
Germany cannot manufacture gold j
but she can manufacture enough!
machinery and goods to meet her I
payments. But such a flood of com- I
modifies would hurt manufacturing •
in Allied countries. A war is a loss |
no matter who wins.
DISCOVERY
A New Orleans professor an- I
nounces that he has discovered how !
to make camphor out of turpentine, |
which “would free us of Japanese]
camphor from Formosa.”
This is an important discovery. It
has been “made” at least 20 times |
in as many years.
What becomes of all the wonders !
that are never heard of after the i
first announcement?
PRINCE
M. Songkla graduates from liar-1
vard and starts for home, Siam, j
where he is crown prince. That gets I
10 lines in a Boston newspaper and I
isn’t important enough to be put on
the wires.
But it will be important news one
of these days when the king of Siam ;
dies and the crown prince takes the :
throne with his head full of Ameri- :
can ideas which will transform Siam. |
We talk about our foreign trade, i
but overlook the greatest export—
American thought, principally demo
cratic ideas. Declaration of Inde
pendence was the death warrant for
kingism, though it has taken a long
time to serve the warrant in many
countries.
SHORTAGE
You never miss the waler till the
well runs dry. Forests will not be
appreciated until their destruction
brings us a lumber famine. Our oil
supply, gradually giving out, will not
be valued at its real worth until wc
have to import our gasoline.
In England, gasoline has to be im
ported and costs f>o cents a gallon.
Just a matter of arithmetic until we
pay the same.
Absence of natural resources in
a country makes strange conditions
England has 125-bicycles to tOD au
toes. In America a bicycle is- almost
a curiosity. • Conserve natural - re
sources.
’ -RAISINS
Sad news for cellar- eheniists. Rais
in crop is very.short. Imports cannot
do much to relieve the thirsty, for
America grows 60 per cent of the
world’s raisins. ,
You may hear about the short crop
when you ask,the price of raisins' a
few months hence,. High prices
would do more to curtail the making
of homemiatie alcohol than armies of
prohibition agehts. Bad news is
i always '.good pews—to same one«
THE TIMES RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART Qr plXiE~{)j#j
1 Cook county jail soon after 7 o’clock
I this morning.
| Wanderer walked to the gallows
with a firm step and as he took his
! place repeated a short prayer after
i the attending minister.
Wiien asked if he had anything to
i say as the shroud was adjusted on
) his head. Wanderer started the song.
/“Oh. Pal, Why Don’t You Answer
J Me?”
TWO NEGROES DIE
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR.
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 30.—Two
negroes, Raleigh Hawkins and Judge
Griffith, paid the death penalty in
i the electric chair >•. the state peni
) tentiary here today for the murder
iof Stephen G. White, merchant and
postmaster at Harper’s Home, Din
)| widdie ccunty, on July 14.
I JAPAN ASSURED ‘
U. S. SEEKS NOT
TO RULE PARLEY
To Be Conference By Common Con
sent Os Free Nation*, Says
Nem Ambassador
: I
TOKIO,. Sept. 30 (By Associated
} Press)., —The coming Washington
’ j conference on disarmament, said
[American Ambassador Charles War
; ; ren, speaking at a dinner in hit hdn
[or by the American-Japan Society
! last night, would be a conference by
[ common consent among sovereign
i states —a conference upon which the
‘ United States is not seeking to im
-1 I pose its will.
“President Harding rather is seek
' ing a frank discussion,” he said,
j “with the view of bringing about as
ba concrete result a declaration of
j principles by the nations participat
’ ; ing which in their practical applica
-1 tion will prevent a class of conflicting
J interests and remove the causes for
■ armament.”
) POPULAR PASTOR
FOUND, SUICIDE
I _
Body ofc Oxford, N. C., Minister
Discovered With Pistol
at Side
' j •
OXFORD, N. C., Sept. 30.—The
| body of the Rev, R. C. Craven, pas-
I Lor of the First Methodist c'htirch of
[! this city and one of the most proini
! nent Methodist ministers in the
! state, was found by a searching par
ty early today about a mile from
Oxford, with a bullet through his
temple and a pistol lying at his side
The authorities believe he commit-
I ted suicide.
GETS WORKERS’ PAY.
ROCHDALE, Eng., Sept. 3.0.
Losses by numerous working men
i and women of their weekly pay in
| betting on race;., resulted in the ar
■ rest of Bert Gailen, a mechanic
' Books taken at the police raid show
J Gailen Tilad takdn in SISOO in six
' i weeks.
COME BACK, CHARLEY WE NEED CHEERING UP!
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEBMER 30, 1921
KANSAS MINER
CHIEFS START
TERMS IN JAIL
Howatt and Dorchy, Union Pres
ident an Vice President, Be
gin Jail Sentences
COAL MINESHDLE ALL
OVER KANSAS DISTRICT
Leaders Paying Penalty for
Calling Strike Last
February
PITTSBURG, Kans., Sept. 30—
All the coalmines of the Kansas dis
trict were idle today, coincident with
■the appearance at Columbus of Alex
ander Howatt and August Dorchy,
president and vice president of the
Kansas union miners, to begin serv
ing their Sentences of six months in
jail for calling a strike last February,
according to reports to headquarters,
of the operators’ association here.
SCARBOROUGH PROPERTY
BRINGS $513 AT SALE
The properly of the late W. H.
Scarborough,: consisting of all the
contents of his store at the top of
Mumalce Hill, where he was found
mysteriously murdered a few months)
ago, and which was sold at adminis-|
tratrix’s sale this week, brought $513.'
Most of ii. was bought in by Morgan'
Stevens ami his son, husband and son
of the administratrix. The property)
consisted of a wide variety of mate
rials, articles land goods. Only the
perishables ori hand at the time of
the death of Scarborough had been
disposed of pecviously.
MODELS QUEEN’S HAND
PARIS, Sept. 30—A gold model of
her hand, <sncircled by a bracelet of
diamonds; has been presented t<i
Queen Marie of Rumania, by her Pa
risian admirers.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middi ng, 20 ,nts.
LIVERPOO LCOTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 30.—Market
opened steady, 9-16 down. Quotations
fully 15.22. Sales 16,000 bales. Re
ceipts 1,340 bales, of which 1,239
are American.
* Futures: Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb.
Prev. Close 14.41 14.24 14.01 13.79
Open 14.22 14.04 13.60
Close 14.29 14.09 13.88 13.67
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Dee. Jan. Meh. May. I
Prev. Close 20.87‘20.56 20.22 19.60
Open 10.90 20.63 20.25 19.60
10:15 am 20.79 20.43 20.05 19.53
10:30 am ,20.70 20.41 20.08 19.45
10:45 am .20.69 20.45 20.07 19.42
11:00 am . 20.72 20.48 20.08 19.48
11:15 am 20.80 20.57 20.12 19.50
11:30 am 20.80 20.55 20.13 19.55
11:45 am, . 20.84 20.58 20.18 19.56
12:00 am 20.82 20.60 20.20 19.58
12:15 pm ... 20.58 20.85 20 58 20.18
12:30 .20.83 20.58 20.21 19.64
12:45 20)92 20.69 20.30 19.70
1:00 20.92 30.69 20.30 19.68
1 :15 7.20.88 20.63 20.26 19.66
1 :30 .20.83 20.61 20.22 19.65
1:45 . 20.94 20.69 20.35 19.73
2:00 . 20.93 20.69 20.34 19.78
2:15 20.83 20.58 20.25 19.65
.. HEART OF DIXiE
Bestj World* Series* Sizeup
jin The Times-Recorder
DII.LY EVANS will write it.
For 16 years Evans has
bbecn an American League \
umpire. lie knows all the ins
and outs of baseball. ' .
Evans will give 1 imes Re- '.'Wl
cordcr readers an expert size-
up of the Giants and of the
Yankees (or Indians), will tell •
who will win and why, and will
wire an analytical story of each
game from the press box. >
Evans has umpired five 7
world series himself. You II * y
get the "inside" of the big fray .<
in his stories.
■
XL* -
Billy Evans, umpire and sport writer, and world’s greatest baseball
authority.
Watch for the first one in the Times-Recorder Saturday, Octo
ber I.
NO PAY BENEFITS IF
, RAILWAY MEN STRIKE
At Least, That Is Likelihood,
Based On aWrning Printed
On Ballot
CHICAGO, Sept. 30—If the pres
ent railway controversy should lead
tj a strike, the railway employees of
the country would probably not be
paid any strike benefits out of their
union treasuries.
This is forecast by a paragraph in
tht printed document, with strike
referendum ballot attached, which
was sent out August 29, 1921, to rail
road union members.
This document was issued johitly
by the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen, Order
of Railway Conductors, and the
Switchmen’s Union of North
America.
The paragraph reads: “If as re
sult of the votes of our members,
and later failure to effect settlement,
it should be necessary to authorize
a strike, the attention of our mem
bers is called to the fact that under
the intent of the Jaws of these or
ganizations strike benefits are not
paid in connection with a general
wage movement."
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Railroad union leaders, while de
clining to be quoted, are understood
t> be opposed t. a rails.-ad strike.
But railroad ■•mptoyes have veted
for a, strike by the four brother
hoods, it appears, as their ballots are
counted in Chicago.
The Railroad Lab ,r Board, in a
(iccision handed dowq line 1, 1921,
avt'u rized an a <>rage cu' of about
1 “ pci cent in railroad wages.
'tin board, in its decision, pointed
out that, during government cpntrol,
the wages of railroad workers rose
from an average of S7B a month to
an average of sl4l a month when
the wage increase of July, 1920,
went into effect.
The 12 per cent, according to the
board, meant “an average monthly
salary of about $125 for all em
ployes, but such an average means,
of course, that while some workers
would earn a sum considerably in
excess of this, many thousands of
workers would fall short of that
figure/’
Other questions then arose. The
railroad brotherhoods, after a can
vass of railroad executives, reported:
“Operating officers of railroads in
the east, west, southeast and south
west appear to have declined to
agree that the wage reductions shall
be withdrawn; that the abrogation
of time and one-half for overtime
will not be pressed; that further re
ductions will not be requested; and,
that radical schedule revision will
not be requested by therailroads.”
Those who have kept close - tab
believe that the railway employes
might be willing to take the wage
reduction if it were not for other
things involved—especially matters
relating to working conditions and
the fear that further wage cuts im
pend in the minds of railroad execu
tives o fthe country.
A separate issue, but one about
which railroad strife way soon re
volve, is the Pennsylvania railroad’s
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1 fill in the following blank and bring or send it to the Times-Recorde
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be limited to twenty words, and should be as much shorter as possible
< They may be quotations or original.
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Ratifies
TREATY WITH
U .S. RATIFIED
BY REICHSTAG
Only Communists Vote Against
Peace Pact in German
Congress
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
WITH ACTION OF BERLIN
Watson Rail* Against Pact, aWrn- J
ing Os Drift Toward
League -
BERLIN, Sept. 30 (By Associated
Press).—The Reichstag today passed
the bill ratifying tine peace treaty
with the United States.
Only Communists voted against
the measure.
SENATE LEADERS
GRATIFIED AT NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—Repub
lican leaders of the Senate expressed
gratification today at the prompt
ratification by the German Reichstag
of the treaty with Germany.
“I am glad the German govern
ment has acted, so promptly,” said
Senator Lodge, the Republican floor
leader.
The only address in the Senate on
the treaties yesterday was by Sena
tor Watson, Democrat, Georgia, who
opposed ratification because, he sad,
ho believed they would drag the
United States inlo the league of na
tions ami European entanglements.
Ever since President Harding’s inau
guration, Senator Watson declared,
the nation has been “drifting irre
sistibly” into the league.
lie also contended that the treat
j ies failed to provide for release of
) American citizens who had violated
the espionage laws. Referring, ap
parently, to Eugene V.’Debs, he said
a man was serving a ten-year sen
tence in the Atlanta penitentiary for
repeating, lys J W4t.suwojds. .7.
"Because he repeated a part of a
speech I made,” said Senator Wat
son, “that conscription was uncon
stitutional, shouldn’t he be in the
Senate, ami I in the penitentiary? He
did not say a thing more than I have
said here in the Senate, and I think
Pm in better company than he is.
That is my opinion. ’4
Ratification of the treaty by the
Reichstag now puts the closing of the
pact up to the United States Senate.
recent defiance of the Rail Labor
Board.
The Pennsylvania has put into ef
fect a system of dealing with its
employees through representatives
elected by the employees. Such rep
rsentatives, however, have to be “ac
tual employees” cf ttu>. company.
The Rail Labor Board July 26,
1921,' ordered the Pennsylvania rail
road to ccgifer with officers of the
unions, and bring about a new elec
tion of representatives of the
employees.
This the railroad has refused to do.
In defying the Rail Labor Board, it
claims that 66 per cent of its em
ployees “have by vote or otherwise,
as a result of said conferences, ex
pressed a desire to negotiate rules
and working conditions through em
ployee representatives. ** * Many
of said employee representatives ara
union men, and in the ease of several
crafts the entire delegation of elect
ed representatives consists of union
men.”
The railroad then goes on to deny
the right of the Rail Labor Board
"to invade the domain of manage
ment and tq assert jurisdiction over
grievances of whatsoever kind and.
character in connection with the em
ployment, the discipline and the dis
charge of its employees.
“The carrier also asserts and will
exercise its right to deal with its
own employees Without the interven
tion of individuals or organizations
whose manifest object is the denial
of the fundamental right of em
ployer and employees to deal in the
first instance directly with each other
respecting wages and working c<yi-»
ditions in which they alose are di
rectly interested.”