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Vice President Charles Cason of the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan was University of Virginia's businessman speaker last week. He waited for the restless students to quiet down, then said: "The real responsible leaders in Wall Street today are big men- men of brains, men of vision, men of honor. There are scrubs, too, to be sure, for they break into every place. They create much of the public misunderstanding and criticism of Wall Street. But the scrubs do not run Wall Street any more than they dominate this beautiful university of culture...
Next day those freshmen who learned at their preparatory schools to keep aware of current news, read in news journals of explicit confirmation to Banker Cason's statements. It was Hayden, Stone & Co.'s offer to pay all losses of people who invested, upon investment bankers' advice, in the Shipman Coal...
...feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white man is the Negro's best friend, even though there have been occasional misunderstandings...