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"GO-GETTERS" GIVEN WARNING Commerce Club Secretaries Told to Watch for Promoters. (By the Associated Press.) Little Falls, Minn., June 21.—Preservation of industries already established in preference to experimenting with "something new and untried," was recommended as "a safe and sane policy," by R. E. Seaton, secretary-manager, Winona association of commerce, in an address here before the Minnesota Association of Commercial Secretaries. "It seems to me," said Mr. Seaton, "that every live, wide awake, growing town should be on the lookout for something new, but many times we overlook what we have already at hand. In other words, we are cultivating too often a flower of unknown origin from a distant land instead of carefully cultivating the flowers in our own yard." Mr. Seaton warned the secretaries against "becoming desperate in attempting to make a record for your town and overlooking some of the fundamental safeguards that should be placed around the community" before inviting an outside concern to locate, lest some of the "very high grade, well trained, fake stock promoters at present working all over the United States" make use of the enthusiasm thus engendered to "reap great financial gains without any effort on their part." The speaker recommended a state chamber of commerce as a protection against "the fake promoter or the impractical promoter." This would be "one of the most valuable things that Minnesota could have, he said, since "stock selling schemes of all kinds continually take from every community thousands of dollars a year." RECEIVER SUES DIRECTORS. Worthington National Bank Officers Face Charges. Worthington, Minn., June 21.—Special: Alleging malfeasance and negligence on the part of J. A. Albinson, T. A. Fallgatter, J. S. Tolverson, A. B. Williams and John E. Godfrey, as di-