- Transcription
A. M. SCALES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
GREENSBORO, N.C.
January 7, 1918.
Governor T. W. Bickett,
Raleigh, N.C.
My dear Governor:-
I have your favor of the 5th inst. enclosing copy of your letter to Mr. Gibson. Of course, I have never said a word about being Chairman, as in the first place I did not desire it, and I knew Mr. Gibson was chairman. He evidently got his idea about this from Mr. Bost’s correspondence in which it was said that I had been selected as Chairman. I enclose you herewith copy of the letter I wrote Mr. Gibson upon being notified of my appointment as a member of the board.
I wrote you a few days ago in regard to getting him to call a meeting and I suppose you had not gotten my letter when yours was written. He has announced that he will not call the meeting until the 15th, although we have been trying to get him to call it tomorrow.
You will recall that in presenting the matter to me you stated that the headquarters would be moved to Greensboro and that I accepted it on that condition. You thought Mr. Finch and Dr. Beall would be in favor of moving and that we would have to do the actual moving, but you stated that you wanted me to say that you desired the headquarters moved. I don’t know how the papers got it that the headquarters would be moved. They did not get it from me but I think, also, they got it from Mr. Bost’s correspondence in which it was stated that the headquarters would probably be moved. I am still willing to carry out my agreement with you and do all the work that I may be called upon to do as a member of the board and will not, of course, charge a cent for it, but you can readily see that I could not go to Statesville to do this. My employment with my companies here would absolutely forbid my being away so much, especially during the months of January and February as they are our busiest months, January being the time that we hold all of our annual meetings. I judge from your letter that Mr. Finch will not be in favor of moving.
In addition to the above, I fear that I could be of little service towards straightening out the matters by running up to Statesville. I imagine to do the best work on this a man would have to be on the ground practically all of the time.
Awaiting your wishes in the matter and with kindest regards, I am,
Yours cordially,
AMS-SG.
Enclosure: 1917, Dec. 29. Scales to Gibson.
