Conditions Bad in the North, Says E.L. Shuford, Dec. 20, 1920

Mr. E.L. Shuford, who has just returned from a business trip to New York and Philadelphia, reports that business conditions in the north are dull but that indications point to a gradual picking up of business after the first of the year. He says the crime wave that is sweeping over New York is serious. Bold robberies are committed in broad daylight on the streets and in the hotels and that it is a common thing for jewelry and even earrings to be snatched from persons passing along the streets. A number of these crimes are attributed to the fact that thousands of persons were thrown out of work when manufacturing plants and other industries closed down for a period. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Dec. 20, 1920)