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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 Ratifies
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
gress 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‘r<s
of the Ku Klux Klan probably will
be based on these specific charges
made by the Klan’s opponents: :
That the “Invisible 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,” the 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
’Y| allegiance to the United States gov
jfc eminent.
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.
Hence, Federal authorities say they
can take legal action against the Ku
Klux Klan and its officers and mem
bers, if charges that have been made
are confirmed by investigations.
The K. K. K. has four degrees of
membership, initiation fee being $lO
a degree. About 700,000 are believed
to have joined the Klan since its re
organization, October 26, 1915.
Initiation fees are estimated all
the way from seven to thirty million
(Jollars.
The K. K. K. also makes a profit
on the uniforms and regalia 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
charges made against them. They
claim that their real purpose is “pure
Americanism” and that they really
seek enforcement of existing laws.
The organization h'as 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” from the North who flooded
the South 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 ti e
writ of habeas corpus during K. K
K. disorders. It also barred from the
juries, in Ku Klux cases, all klans-
A 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 Fein Ireland’s reply to
the British government’s invitation
Io a conference in London, October
11, was expected to be ready for the
Dail Erreann 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 Rexall Pharmacy.)
■1 pm 88 4 am 76
6 pm ..84 6 am -76
8 pm 80 8 am 79
10 pm 79 10 am -85
Midnight .... 76 Noon -84
2 am ~..76 2 pm 83
SINGS POPULAR SONG AS
HE STANDS ON GALLOWS
Carl Wanderer, Triple Murderer,
Goes To Death With Firm
Step
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Singing a
popular song, Carl Wanderer, con
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
> ARE NOT IN DANGER OF
j DISEASE, IF WE GUARD
J GENERAL HEALTH. OUR
j DEFENSE AGAINST GERMS
yUBERCULOSIS death rate is I
high. But you wonder why it
doesn’t swiftly’ exterminate its hu
mans, when you learn that nearly
every one at some time or other be
comes infected with the tuberculosis
germ. That information comes from
the mediaci research organization of
the Knights of Columbus.
The reason most o’s us shake off
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 1
Are you keeping your body healthy |
by fresh air, exercise and proper
food? Isl so, don’t worry about
germs. If not, select your doctor.
CHAPLIN
The, most foolish occupation in
the world is writing letters to celeb
rities. An absolute waste of time, it
does, however, give laughs to movie
stars, ball players, pugilists and scan
dal figures.
Occasionally one of these letters is
a gem.
An English 1 d lost his hat in the
mob that ste ned Charlie Chaplin
when he a* .ved in London. His
mother w, ie Chaplin: “I enclose
the bill *. the new hat.”
Chap . i wrote back: “As result of j
the demonstration, 1 am suffering
from nervous collapse. 1 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
program.
Rathenau, German business giant,
wants to avert the crash by stopping
payment of reparations in gold and
delivering, instead actual goods.
Germany cannot manufacture gold
but she can manufacture enough
machinery hnd goods to meet her
payments. But such a flood of com
modities would hurt manufacturing
in Allied countries. A war is a loss
no matter who wins.
DISCOVERY.
A New Orleans professor an
nounces that he has discovered how
to make camphor out of turpentine,
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GIRIS BOOSTING
MEMORIAL FUND
Groups Selling Tickets to Theater
Next Week—To Share In
Receipts Every Day
Accepting an offer by Manager
Emory Aylander to donate a libera)
portion of the gross receipts from
tickets sold outside'of the box office
to the picture shows at the Rylander
theater all next week to swell the
fund for the erection of a Sumter
county soldier memorial, several
groups of Americus girls began a
ticket-selling campaign today under
the direction of Mrs. Lawson Staple
ton, who has been active in the mon
ument campaign.
They will sell tickets today, Satur
day and Monday, and each «by next
week one group will be at the Jobby
of the theater to sell tickets. This
week they are canvassing the resi
dence section of the city, the various
schools and other places. Mrs. Fred
B. Arthur is acting as treasurer, all
reports of ticket sales being made
to her.
Following is the list of thle young
ladies giving their services in groups
as named:
Dorothy Cargill, Vera Henry and
Evelyn Bell.
Alice McNeill, Marguerite Everett.
Maude Sherlock, Chamber of Com
merce.
Ruth Council, Mary Sheffield.
Mary Littlejohn, Laverne Thomas.
Lois McMath, Agnes Gatewood.
Gertrude Davenport, Mabel Ellis,
Anne Ellis. Eugene Parker.
Mary Glover, Mrs. Henry Lump
kin. Mary Parker.
Emma Love Fishieb.
Catherine Broadfield, Orlean Ans
ley, Mary Walker.
Marie Frances Lane, Marie Per
kins. Mary Merritt.
The picture program for the week
appears in an advertisement on page
i 5 in this edition.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
IN THE HEART Qr~DTx' l '
Cook county jail soon after 7 o’clock
this morning.
Wanderer walked to the gallows
with a firm step and as he took his
place repeated a short prayer after
the attending minister.
Whlen gsked if he had anything to
say as the shroud was adjusted on
his head, Wanderer started the song.
“Gh, Pal, Why Don’t You Answer
Me?”
TWO NEGROES DIE
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR.
RICHMOND, Va„ Sept. 30.—Two
negroes, Raleigh Hawkins and Judge
Griffith, paid the death penalty in
the electric chair >■. the state peni
tentiary here today for the murder
of Stephen G. White, merchant and
postmaster at Harper’s Home, Din
widdie county, on July I|.
JAPAN ASSURED
U. S. SEEKS NOT
TO RULE PARLEY
To Be Conference By Common
Consent Os Free Nations, Says
New Ambassador
TOKIO, Sept. 30 (By Associated
Press). —The coming Washington
conference on disarmament, said!
American Ambassador Charles War
ren, speaking at a dinner in his hon
or by the American-Japan Society
last night, would be a conference by
common consent among sovereign
states —a conference upon which the
United States is not seeking to im
pose its will.
“President Harding rather is seek
ing a frank discussion,” he said,
•“with the view of bringing about as
a concrete result a declaration of
principles by the nations participat
ing which in their practical applica
tion will prevent a class of conflicting
interests and remove the causes lor
armament.”
POPULARPASTOR
FOUND, SUICIDE
Body of Oxford, N. C., Minister
Discovered With Pistol
at Side
OXFORD, N. C., Sept. 30.—The
body of the Rev. R. C. Craven, pas
tor of the First Methodist church of
this city and one of the most promi
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
ted suicide.
GETS WORKERS’ PAY.
ROCHDALE, Eng., Sept. 30.
Losses by numerous working men
and women of their weekly pay in
betting on races, resulted in the ar
rest of Bert Gailen, a mechanic
Books taken at the police raid show
Gailen Titad taken in SISOO in six
weeks.
COMEBACK, CHARLEYWE NEED CHEERING UP!
AV'"
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEBMER 30, 1921
KANSAS MINER
CHIEFS START
TERMS IN JAIL
How*att and Dorchy, Union Pres
ident an Vice President, Be
gin Jail Sentences
COAL MINEsTdLE ALL
OVER KANSAS DISTRICT
Leaders Paying Penalty for
Calling Strike l*ast
February
PITTSBURfJ, Sept. 30.—■
All the coal iiyies of the Kansas dis
trict were idlJßoday, coincident with
the appearance at Columbus of Alex
ander Howatt and August Dorc’h'y,
president and vice president of tU?
Kansas union miners, to begin sei* !
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 property of the late W. H. I
Scarborough, consisting of all the
contents of his store at the top of!
Muckalee Hill, wnere he was found 1
mysteriously murdered a few months
ago, and which was sold at adminis
tratrix’s sale this week, brought $513.
Most of it was bought in by Morgan
Stevens and his son, husband and son
of the administratrix. The property
consisted of a wide variety of mate
rials, articles and goods. Only the
perishables on hand at the time of
the death of Scarborough had been
disposed of previously.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middl’ng, 20 <_• nts.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 30.—Market
opened steady, 9-16 down. Quotations
fullys 15.22. Sales 16,000 bales. Re
ceipts 1,340 bales, of which 1,239
are American.
Futures: Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb.
I’rev. 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.
Dec. Jan. Meh. May.
Prev. Close 20.87 20.56 20.22 19.60
Open .. ... 20.90 20.63 20.25 19.60
10:15 am ..20.79 20.43 20.05 19.53 j
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 19.501
11:30 am , 20.80 20.55 20.13 19.551
11:45 am ,20.84 20.58 20.18 19.56
12:00 am . 20.82 20.60 20.20 19.581
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 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 1
2:30 pm 20.73 2'0.53 20.15 19.60!
2:45 pm ,20.75 20.51 20.16 19.60 1
Close 20.88 20.64 20.30 19.75
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NOPAY BENEFITS IF
RAILWAY MEN STRIKE
At Least, That Is Likelihood,
Based On Warning Printed
On Ballot
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—1 f the pres
ent railway controversy should lead
to 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 jointly
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,
if should be necessary to authorize
a strike, the attention of our mem
bers is called to the fact that under
the intent of the laws 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. u raihc.id strike.
But railroad employes 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
decision handed dow.. line 1, 1921,
avthrrized an average cu' of about
1“ per cent in railroad wages.
h.i board, in its decisian, pointed
out that, during government control,
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 Julys 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 whije 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 thn railroads.”
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 of the country.
A separate issue, but one about
which railroad strife way soon re
volve, is tht? Pennsylvania railroad’s
HELP WRITE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION. :
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IIZHAT shall be the inscription to be placed on the tablet for the Sumter ■
county Memorial to our soldiers in the great war? The monument ;
committee wants suggestions to select from. If you have a good one, 1
fill in the following blank and bring or send it to the Times-Recorder 1
tot later than Saturday night, as the committee will meet Monday
morning to pass on the matter and order the tablet. Inscriptions should
be limited to twenty words, and should be as much shorter as possible.
They may be quotations or original.
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I suggest the following inscription:
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TREATY WITH
U .S. RATIFIED
BY REICHSTAG
Only Communists Vote Against
Peace Pact in German
Congress
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
WITH ACTION OF BERLIN
Watson Rails Against Pact, Warn
ing Os Drift Toward
League
BERLIN, Sept. 30 (By Associated
Press). —The Reichstag today passed. J
the bill ratifying thte peace treaty -
with the United States. '•
Only Communists voted against
the measure. z ' ’
SENATE LEADERS
GRATIFIED AT NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—Repub
lican leaders of the Senate expressed
gratification today at the prompt
ratification by the German
of the peace treaty with Germmy.
“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 said,
he believed they would drag the
United States into the league of na
tiond and European entanglements.
Ever since President Harding’s inau
guration, Senator Watson declared,
the nation has been “drifting irre
sistibly” into the league.
He also contended that the treat
ies failed to provide for release of
American citizens wh'o 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 his (Watson’s) words.
“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, and I in the penitentiary? He
did not say a thing more-than I have
said here in the Senate, and I think
I’m in better company than he is.
That is my opiniop.”
Ratification of the treaty by the
Reichstag now puts the closing of the
pact up to the United States Senate.
DRYS BLOCK PLANS
FOR TREATY VOTE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Cham
pions of the anti-beer bill today
threw an unexpected obstacle into
the patch of the senate leaders’ ne»
gotiations for a vote on the peace
treaties on October 14 when the
“dry” insisted that provision for vot
ing on their measure also be made.
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” of the company.
The Rail Labor Board July 26,
1921, ordered the Pennsylvania rail
road to confer 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 are
union men, and in the case 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 to assert jurisdiction over
grievances of whatsoever kind and
character in connection with the em
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