The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17

there would be plenty of policemen
on hand, announced in big type that
plenty Of good seats were still on
sale at his own office, and warned
the public that any person attempt
ing to present counterfeit tickets
would be held hy the authorities for
investigation.
And then there was the case OF
the bank president For months
men in and about the large finan-
Cial Ccnters, investors and cNccu-
tives in all lines Of business, have
been disturbed by the poison gas Of
rumor.
Whispering wise ones on the
streets and in the offices, all with
various narrowing details, have
been describing how certain big
trust companies were going to fall.
Now ono would be mentioned, and
now another, but one seemed to be
singled out for most Of those at
tacks. with circumstantial evi-
dcncc. with figures written on the
back Of envelopes. and with much
uarneetnCsS the rumOr- mongcrs told
their story. The banks and trust
,ompanics under attack ignored the
question until Charles II. Sabin,
president of the Guaranty trust
company, made personal state
meut to chcckmate the anonymous
rumor-mungers who had been Whis-
pcrinp that he was going to resign
! because he had put his company IN
to n financial hole, In an interview
| with the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can ne said to the financial editor
/ Of that paper, Samuel IL. Barker.
"As a direct statement from me
| in reply to all such talk and reports,
/ YOU can say that | have neither re-
. signed nor been asked TO resign IN"
/ presidency Of the Guaranty liu7t
company; that, on the contrary tn'
/ directors have expressed thelr conf
| dcnC6 I'm me, ana that ! h'tIt Nv
/ thought other than to continue a5
president. I had intended to leave
/ July for a trip 20 Europe, but, IN
| stead. | shall remain right mere nn-
. ~ everything gcts stralChtoncd out.
.sNIy New england birth ana
/ bringing UP did not give me iuil-
IAN thrift, but II put one thins very
| doop into me. that was faith, II y
/ there today as strong as ever. u II
true that chcrc have been losses IN
/ Cured on the huge business tn''
company has done, but thcir amount
bas bccn cxaggorntcd hugely, ana
,bcro ia absolutely nothing in our
/ sItrotiou TO give concern or - war
amt ,he stories tina, have been
aslnat probably circulated for utter.
lar purposes. The Guaranty TrnSS'
! comuany will go on, notwlths'ahd,
ing and the time will come Wht,in,
some who point at II ana laugh VIII
do so another way
Thus a prizc-figh promoter hhu
n hank president an the same "eth
mot rumors which were circulaIinE
I about thom and the things III ""'''
they were Interested. ,. L..
~ your company or Industry l.
surforlnr from reports founded on
Il unfortunate happonLn0- or mere nlA.
,,rious rumors, Is II wise 20 meet
,hr,, Indirectly or u como rlght our
,Gl what the rumors are ana hl'
/ uor, not v1pcn tho eyes This qu'S
,ion has been solved in many ditt'r'
ont ways and circumstances nave
vhoia lot to do with H.
whoIc Industry Threatened
you will remember that some
rosItby pcople I'm Detroit died from
eating olives. and the newspaper
Widely horaldcd the fact, In one ol
two other citioa people were ppls,
crod Here WAS a tcrrihio sltuh,l"r
for tho olive people and their indus
,r,, were hit what looked Ike a stag
r,~in, blow Tho first thing ma
mo California Olive Growers ass"'
citation did was to appropriate StOu'
OGo 10 investigate the causes or THESE
deaths and find a way Oh prevent