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FORTY TI l!RD YEAR.—NO. 39.
HEART OF Diy<E~1fe?
WEEKLY
.EDITION
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER I. 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
German P eace 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
SINGS POPULAR SONG AS
HE STANDS ON GALLOWS
- > Cook county jail soon after 7 o’clock
Carl Wanderer, Triple Murderer, • this morning.
Goes To Death With Firm
Step
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Singing
popular song, Carl Wanderer, con
victi il of the murder of his wife am
her unborn baby, and a “ragged
stranger,” wi.yin he hired to stage
a fake hold-up, was hanged at the
YOU AND i
Wanderer walked to the gallows
with a firm step and as he took his
place repeated a short prayer after
the atti-uding minister.
When asked if he had anything to
^ say »s the shroud was adjusted on
of his wife and his Wanderer started the song,
and a “ragged; 1**1* Why Don’t You Answer
Me?”
KANSAS MINER
CHIEFS START
TERMS IN JAIL
Best World Series Sizeup
In The Times-Recorder
ARE NOT IN DANGER OF
DISEASE, IF WE GUARD
GENERAL HEALTH; OUR
DEFENSE AGAINST GERMS
’pUnKUCULOSIS death rate h,!
high. HuL you wonder why it!
doesn’t swiftly exterminate its hu-j
mans, when you learn that nearly
every one at some time or other be-
conics infected with the tuberculosis!
germ. That information comes from I
the medinel research organization off
the Knights of Columbus.
The reason most oftus shake off
the tuberculosis germ is because the
average body normally has the powei
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
WASHINGTON. Sent. 30.—Con-
gross and the. Federal courts can
break up the Ku Klux Klan, num
bering, it i B said, 700,000 members
ihiS'is the conviction of government
olficials, following newspaper expo
surcs of the Ku Klux Klan and pre
liminary investigations by the De
partment of Justice and the Postof-
tice Department.
Federal action against the King-'.!
of the Ku Klux Klan probably will
be based on tljc.se specific charge?
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 ami the personal
rights as guaranteed by the Con
stitution of the United States.
Of 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
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 ns 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 hecause of
their racial origin or religious belief
is a violation of Articles I, XIII and
XV of the constitution.
frmre, Fed cm! nuthorfU*** my they program,
can take legal action against the Ku Rathenau, German business giant
Klux Man and its officers and mem-j wants to avert the crash by stopping
TWO NEGROES DIE
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR.
! RICHMOND. Va., Sept. 30—Two
| negroes, Raleigh Hawkins and Judge
I Griffith, paid the death penalty in
I the electric chair the state peni-
I tentiary here today for the murder
j of Stephen G. White, merchant and
j postmaster at Harper’s Home, Din-
I widdie county, on July 14.
JAPAN ASSURED
U.S. SEEKS NOT
TO RULE PARLEY
To Be Conference By Common
Consent 0( Free Nations, Says
Ncv/ Ambassador ’
food ?
germs,
TOKIO, Sepl. 30 (IJy Associated
Press).—The coming Washington
% conference on disarmament, said
Are you keeping your body healthy | American Ambassador Charles War-
y rcsli air, exercise and proper rcn , speaking at a dinner in his hon
IT so, dont worry about or by thc American-Japan .Society
If not, select your doctor. last night, would be a conference by
f’HAPI IN common consent among sovereign
tm a LUAt LIN • states—a conference upon which the
Tim, most foolish occupation m UnHcd stat cs is not socking to im-
the world is writing letters to celeb- | . )OSC j ts w jjj
ritios. An absolute waste of time, it: '.‘p^iHont Harding rather is seek-
ing a frank discussion,” ho said,
‘with the view of bringing about as
a concrete result a declaration of
principles by thc nations participate
does, however, give laughs to movie
stars, ball players, pugilists and scan
dal figures.
Occasionally one of these letters is
a gem.
An English lad lost his hat
mob that stormed Charlie Chaplin
when he arrived in. London. His
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 $1,000 for medical attend
ance.”
INDEMNITY
France fears that Germany may
have a financial crash next spring, i
That would wreck the indemnity!
. I ing which in theiiv practical appliea-
• •f f' ,,n prevent a class of conflicting
interests and remove thc causes for
armament.” — - •
POPULAR PASTOR
FOUND, SUICIDE
Howntt and Dorphy, Union Pres
ident an Vice President, Be
gin Jail Sentences
COAL MINEsTIDLE ALL
OVER KANSAS DISTRICT
Leaders Paying Penalty for
Calling Strike Last
February
PITTSBURG, Kans., Sept. 30.—I
All the coal mines of the Kansas dis
trict were idle today, coincident with!
the appearance at Columbus of Alex-j
ander Ho wait uiul 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 Jo reports to headquarters
of the operators’ association here.
SCARBOROUGH PROPERTY
| BRINGS $513 AT SALE
The property of the laic W. II.
Scarborough, consisting of al» the
! contents of his store at the top of
Muckulec Hill, wncre ho was found
mysteriously murdered a few months
ago, and which jva.s sold at adminis
tratrix’s sale this week, brought $513.
Most of ii was bought in by Morgan
Stevens and his son, husband and son
of the administratrix. Thc property
consisted of a wide variety of„ mate
rials, articles and goods. Only thc
perishables on hand at the time of
the death of Scarborough had been
disposed of previously.
gILLY EVANS will write it.
For 16 years Evans has
bbeen an American League
umpire. He knows all thc ins
and outs of baseball.
Evans will give Times-Re
corder 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
world scries himself. You*!!
get the "inside" of thc big fray
in his stories.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 20 cunts.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 30.—Market
opened steady, 9-10 down. Quotations
fullys 15.22. Sales 10,000 bales. Re
ceipts 1,340 bales, of which 1,230
are American.
Futures: Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb.
Prev. Close 14.41 14.24 14.01 13.70
_ , # # « ... . , Open 14.22 14.04 13.00
Body of Oxford, TV C., Minister Close 14.20 14.00 13.88 13.C7
Discovered Wilh Pistol
at Side NEW YORK FUTURES
Hilly Evans, umpire ami sport writer, and world’s greatest baseball
authority.
* > * £ JB
Wntch for thc first one in the Timcs-Recordcr Saturday. Octo-
her I. —- . . *
NO PAY BENEFITS IF
RAILWAY MEN STRIKE
At Least, That It Likelihood,
Based On Warning Printed
On Ballot
if charges that have been made j payment of reparations in gold and
“delivering, instead actual goods.
Germany cannot manufacture gold
but she can manufacture enough
machinery and goods to meet her
payments. Rut such a flood of com
modities would hurt manufacturing
in Allied countries. A war is a loss
no matter who wins.
are confirmed by investigation
The K. K. K. has four degrees of
membership, initiation fee being $10
a degree. About 700,000 are believed
to have joined the Klan since its re
organization, October 26, 1915
Initiation fees are estimated all
tlie way from seven to thirty million
dollars.
The K. K. K. also makes a profit
on the uniforms and regalia which it
sells to members.
Klan’* History.
William Joseph Simmons, of At
Ir.nta, Go., is the present head of the
Klan. His title is “Imperial Wiz
ard,” and ho operates from the “Im
perial Palace of the Invisible Em
pire,” Atlanta.
Simmons and 33 nthprs resurrect-
«*.| the K. K. K. in 1915 and incor
porated il under tho laws of Georgia.
Klan officials disclaim most of the
i barges made against them. They
claim that their real purpose is “pure
Americanism” and that they reallj
seek enforcement of existing laws.
The organization has gotten so big
that it is pnssing beyond control «»f
its heads, it is claimed.
The Klan has a woman’s auxiliary.
The original Kn Klux Klan is be
lieved to have started in Pulaski,
Tcnn., in' 1865. Its early activities
vere 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 bv
CongrcFs, popularly'known as tlu* Ku
Klux Klan Act or Force Bill. This
r ,c\ gave the Federal courts jursidic-
tjon over nil K. K. K. cases. It em-
pt wei«*d the President to employ the
military fotoes and to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus during K. K
K. disorder*. It also barred from the
fliries, in Ku Klux cases, all klar.i-
t/ion. This act speedily checked .he
growth of Klan and gradually caused
it to flic out.
DISCOVERY
A New Orleans professor an
nounces that be has discovered bow
to make camphor out of turpentine,
(Continued on Page Three)
GIRLS BOOSTING
MEMORIAL FUND
Groups Selling Tickets to Theater ;
Next Week—To Share In
Receipts Every Day
Accepting an offer by Manager j
Emory Aylander to r.onatc a liberal j
portion of the gross receipts from j
tickets : old outside of the box office j
ic picture shows at thc Rylander ]
OXFORD. N. C., Sept. 30.—The
body of the Rev. R. C. Craven, pas
tor of the First'Methodist church of
thi* city and one of the most promi
nent Methodist ministers in thc
state, was found by a searching par
ty early today about a mile from
Oxford, with a bullet through tis
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
land women rf -their weekly pay in
I betting on races, resulted in the nr-
j rest of Bert Gailen, a mechanic
| Books taken at the police raid show
' Gailen had taken in $1500 in six
i wcekt.
CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—If thc pres
ent railway controversy should lead
strike, the railway employees of
the country would probably not be
paid any strike benefits out of their
Jan. Mch. May.I union treasuries.
Prev. Close 20.87 20.56 20.22 10.001 This is forecast by a paragraph in
Open 20.90 20.63 20.93 19.60] tht printed document, with strike
10:15 am . 20.70 20.43 20.05 10.531 referendum ballot attached, which
10:30 am . 20.70 20.41 20.08 19.45. was sent out August 20, 1921, to rail-
10:45 am . 20.69 20.45 20.07 19.42 road union members.
11:00 am . 20.72 20.48 20.08 19.481 This document was issued jointly
11:15 am .20.80 20.57 20.12 19.50] by thc Brotherhood of Locomotive
11:30 am 20.80 20.55 20.13 19.55 ? Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomo-
20.84 20.58 20.18 19.56 tivo Firemen and Enginemen, Order
12:00 am
12:15 |im
12:50 ..... 20.83*20.58 20.21 19.64 America.
12:45 20 92 20.69 20.30 19.701 The paragraph reads: “If as re
1:00 20.92 30.69 20.30 19.68 suit of the votes of our members,
1:15 20.88 20.63 20.26 19.66'and later failure to effect settlement
1:30 .A... 20.83 20:61 20.22 19.65 1 it should be necessary to authorize
1:45 20.94 20.69 20.35 19.73 la strike, the attention of our mem
2:0(1 .... 20.93 20.69 20 34 19.78 hers is called to thc fact that under
2:15 20.83 20.58 20.25 19.65 the rntent of the laws of theFo
2:30 pm 20.73 20.53 20.15 19.6(1 ganizations strike benefits are
2:45 pm 20.75 20.51 20.16 19.60 j paid in connection with a general
Close .... .20.88 20.64 20.30 19.75 J wage movement.”
Ii fcb
r the erection of a Sumter
soldier memorial, several
ef Americas girls began a
ticket-selling campaign today under,
the direction of Mrs. Lawson Simple
ton, who has been active in the mon
ument campaign.
They will sell tickets today, Satur
day and Monday, and each day n**xt
week one group will be at the lobby
of the theater to sell tickets. This
week they are canvassing the resi
dence section of the city, the various
schools and other place*. Mrs. Fred
B. Arthur is acting ns treasurer, all
reports of ticket sales being made
to her.
Following is the list of t !
lad'es giving their services i
ns ngmed:
Dorothy Cargill. Vera He
elyn Bell.
Alice McNeill, Marguerite
Maude Sherlock, Chamber
Railroad union leaders. wWle de
clining to be quoted, are understood
t> be opposed t. a ra>lr*.4d strike,
Eut railroad ''wployiji have \cted
for u strike by thy four brother
hoods, it appears, ns their UI loti: are
counted in Chicago.
The Rniiroau Lab.r Board, in a
04T»T»n bonded rfow; Line ?, 122!.
artV»lz*;d an average ci‘ of about
1” pH cent in railroad wages.
“‘hr. board, in its dechrijn, pointed
out that, during government control,
the wages of railroad workers rose
from an average of $78 a month to
an average of $141 a month when
thc wage increase of July, 1920,
went into effect.
- ----- - . The 12 per cent, according to the
20.82 20.60 20.20 19.58 j of Railway Conductors, and the i hoard, meant “an average monthly
20.58/20.85 20 58 20.18 j Switchmen’s Union of North salary of about $125 for all cm r
ployes, but such an uverage 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 the railroads.”
Those who have kept close tab
believe that the railway employes
might Im willing to take the wage
reduction if it were not for other
things involved—especially matter*
relating to working conditions and
tie fear that further wage cuts im
pend in the minds of rail toad execu
tive?, of the country.
separate issue, but one about
which railroad strife way soon re
volve, is the Pennsylvania raijroad’s
COME BACK, CHARLEY WE NEED CHEERING UP!
i»f Co
SINN FEIN REPLY TO
GO FORWARD TONIGHT
DUBLIN, Sept. 30 (By Associated! K
Press).--Sinn Fein Ireland’s reply to!
the British government's invitation
to a conference in London, October
11. was expected to be ready for thej
Dai I Eireann cabinet when it assem
bled here today. The meeting was
set for 3 o'clock this afternoon, hut
it was not expected the reply wculd! Anne Ellis, Eugene Parker,
be dispatched until C o’clock tonight.j Mary Glover, Mrs. Henry Lump-
Ruth Council. Mary Sheffield.
Mary Littlejohn, Lavcrne Thomas.
Lois McMath, Agnes Gatewood.
Gertrude Davenport. Mabel Ellis,
STRANGE EGGS FOUND.
LONDON. Sept. 30.—The Oxford
university scientific expedition to
Snitzbergen, has brought back eggs
of the famous barnacle goose, never
hefrre peen here. The barnacle goose
was originally believed to have hatch- appears in an advertisement on page
cd from barnacles. i 5 in this edition.
kin. Mary Parker.
Emma Love Fisher.
Catherine Broadfield, Orlean Ans-
ley. Mary Walker.
,Mari« Frances Lane, Marie Per
kin*. Mary Merritt.
The picture program for the week
TREATY WITH I
U S. RATIFIED
BY REICHSTAG
Only Communists Vote Again,! ,'
Peace Pact in German
Congrcs
REPUBLICAN SENATORS
WITH ACTION OF BERLIN
Watson Rails Against Pact, W B,n
ing Of Drift Toward
League
BFUI.IN, Sept. HO (By Associate
Tress).—The Rcichfitag today passer
the hill ratifying the peace treat)
wilh the United States.
Only Communists voted againsi
the measure.
SENATE LEADERS
GRATIFIED AT NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ,’!0—Repub-1
lican leaders of thc Senate expressed I
grnl ification today at the prompt I
ratification by the Gorman Reichstag I
of the peace treaty with Germany, y I
“I am glad the German govern- R
ment has acted so promptly,” smuL
Senator Lodge, the Republican flooi H
leader.
The only addresa’ in the Senate on
thc treaties yesterday was by Sona'
tor Watson, Democrat, -Georgia, wh|
opposed ratification because, bo said
he believed they would drug the
United States into the league of na-
tiond and European entnnglcmcnta
Ever since President Harding’s inau.
miration, Senator Watson declared^
the nation has been "drifting irre
sistibly" into thc longue.
He also contended that the treat
ics failed to provide for release o
American, citizens who had violatoi
the espionage laws. Referring, ap
parently, to Eugene V. Debs, he said
a man was serving a ten-year sen
tenco in tho Atlanta penitentiary foi
repeating liix (Watson’s) words.
"Because he repeated a part of
speech I made,” said Senator Wat.
son, “that conscription was lincon-
stitutional, shouldn’t ho he in the
Senate, and I in the penitentiary? He
did not say a thing more than 1 hav
raid here in the-Senate, nnd I thlj
I’m in better company than ho.
That is my opinion.” V
Ratification of tha treaty by”
Reichstag now puts thc closing of
pact up to the United .Slates Sonatl
DRYS BLOCK PLANS
iFOR TREATY VOTE.
WASHINGTON. Bept. 30.—f’lmm-r
pions of the anti-hecr bill today]
threw an unexpected obstacle Jtithil
the patch of tho senate Icndcrs’^nc-W
gotiations for a vote on tho pcaceS
treaties on October 14 when th*|
"dry" insisted that provision for voh|
ing on their measure also he mode. '/
recent defiance or the Rail Labor|!
Board. ■
Tho Pennsylvania has put into’W-l
feet a system of dealing with Ri«
employees through representatives]
elected by tho employees. Such rcn<8
.rsentatives, however, have to ho "ad^jj
tual employees'* of the company, !;.
The Rail Labor Board July 26
X!I2I, ordered the Pennsylvania rail
road to confer with officers of th'
“"ions, and bring about a new ole.
tion of representativea of .
employees.
This the railroad-has refused to-
In defying tho Rail Labor BoaM
claims that OB per cent of its «
ployces “have by vote or othcrw
as a result of said conferences,
pressed *a desire to negotiate ri
and working conditions through
ployee re|Troscntativcs. * * • M
of 8sid employee representatives
union men, and in tho enso of sovt.
crafts the entire delegation of elr<
cd representatives consists of 1
mon.” .
The railroad then goes on to
the right of the Rail Labor Board
“to invade the domain of manage
ment and to aaaert jurisdiction oven
jrrievanecs oft whatsoever kind
character in connection with the.
(Continued on Page Two.)
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be limited to twenty words, snd should he as much shorter as possible.-:
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