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Miuuxujuu-uj. j. KJJggssggmgSgs THE SOCIAL MESS AT THE SOUTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB There's a lot of gossip going on in Chicago club circles over the suspen sion of a member of the South Shore -Country Club By-that swell organiza tion, and it all grows out of the prac tice of some of the' Chicago clubs of blackballing Jews for membership, no matter how high their standing in the community. , W. K. Cochrane, head of the W. K. Cochrane Advertising Agency, and a director of the Chicago Athletic Ass'n, is. the member who was sus- pended for three months by the di rectors of the South Shore Country Club at a stormy meeting of the board of directors Tuesday night of last week. Mr. Cochrane writes for the Cherry Circle, the monthly publication of the Chicago Athletic Ass'n. Several weeks ago there appeared in the Cherry Circle, under Cochrane's sig nature, a story headed "The Cow ard's Weapon" in which "a certain club" was criticized for blackballing for membership a prominent Jewish manufacturer of high standing in Chicago business circles. It was the blackball that was denounced as "the coward's weapon," used in some clubs to prevent men from becoming members because of their race and religion. No club was "mentioned in the story, but some directors of the South Shore Country Club thought the shoe fit them and proceeded to put it on. Cochrane was cited to appear" be fore the board of directors Tuesday night of last week. He told them the story was general, that no particular club was mentioned and that he did not recognize the right of the club to call him to account for anything he wrote in the Cherry Circle. He re fused to apologize to the South Shore directors for the story, and the direct ors proceeded to suspend him for a period of three months. - The directors of the South Shore Country Club are as JfoUo.ws.: Presi dent, Everett C. Brown, live stock commission; vice psesident, George P. Getz, Consumers Co.; secretary, Martin Foss, lawyer; treasurer, Robt Upham, banker; Henry Paulman, Pierce Auto Co.; Wm. Carey, lumber; Leroy Woodland, commission; W. H. Powell, contractor; Chas. Smalley, lumber, W. J.Carney, Carney Coal Co.; Bion J. Arnold, traction engineer; W. l H. Lydon, Great Lakes Dredging Co.; Ernest Health, Heath & Milli gan; Lawrence Heyworth, capitalist; E. W. Sims, former U. S. district at torney; John G. Campbell, lawyer; Chas. Fox. Marshall & Fox, archi tects; Fred'k Burro ws, Libby, McNeil & Libby; Francis Fowler, stock yards; Frank Wetmore, banker; W. W. Harliss, insurance, and J. Clarke Dean, broker. The article in the Cherry Circle com plained of called attention to the fact that the blackball is not used at elec tions in the Chicago Athletic Ass'n, but that when a director there is op posed to a man for membership he talks right out in the meeting and gives his reasons. When the article appeared no club wes mentioned and very few club men knew what club was guilty. By taking the matter up and suspending Cochrane the South Shore Club iden tified itself, and now the curious ones are trying to find out who the prom inent business mas' was who was blackballed, and whether any busi ness man was blackballed because he happened to be a Jew. Cochrane returned to town today from a week's hunting trip. He re fused to be interviewed. o o 1 London. Cargo of wheat, shipped to Rotterdam by Muir & Co., New York, before war and later seized by British steamer, ordered restored to consignees by British admiralty prize court. New York. Mrs. Anna Callaway, 50, dead, result o.f hearing death cries of men who perished in tenement fire Sunday, according to doctors.