The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-08
HEART TO HEART.
Kansas Bankers Discuss Their
Private Affairs.
Tell Each Other How to Run
the Business.
MANY GOOD SPEECHES.
They Are All Listened to With
Interest.
Meetings to Close With a Big
Banquet.
MANY GOOD SPEECHES.

Questions of engrossing character to
the bankers of Kansas have been un-
der discussion at the morning session of
the convention at the Auditorium to-
day. 1t only required a visit to their
business session to learn what sordid
and mercenary lot bankers really
are One Of the principal topics under
consideration was how to make Gus
toners pay their notes When they fall
due, without ruffling their the custom
er's) finer sensibilities.
How to induce all the people in every
community to carry bank accounts y
was one of the momentous questions
before the body this morning. G. A
Bernard of Glasco. Kan. read a paper
discussing various methods of interest
ing people to start bank accounts, and
produced figures which proved that
banks which carried on a dignified
| persistent and judicious advertising
| campaign, We're the most successful in
every respect.
w. E. Scheppe of St. Louis made a
talk on Credit Indemnity and G. A.
Rogers of Abilene made an address on
'Loaning Money"
Sam Kimble, OF Manhattan, judge of
! the TWenty-frSt judicial district, spoke
Of The Confidential Relations Exist
! ing Between the Bank and Its Deposi-
/ tors
Edwin Tucker, president of the Bank
/ of Eureka. Kan, took up the discus
|. sion OF The Education OF Bank Gus
/ toners."
/ Bale Waggener was unable to be at
/ the convention on account OF sickness
and his paper, Shall Money and Evil
,dences OF Debt be Exempt from Taxa
tion?" was not given.
J. G. AIilliken, OF Mcpherson, is in
Boston and could not deliver his ad-
| dress on The Anatomy of the Negoti-
able Instrument Law This is a sub
! ject in which the bankers are deeply
| Mr.. MillflzRn to furnish a typewriter
| copy OF the address to be printed in the
report OF the convention, in order that
the memb bers of the association may
| have the advantage of a complete and
| thorough discussion of the purposes
| and uses of the law.
President Piass of Washburn col
lege was q the programme for an
address in regard to Natural Law in
the Financial World DR.. Plass was
lindisposed and announced that he had
asked Orville B. Towne, teacher OF
elocution- and dramatic expression, to
read his paper
A Bankers Wife.
Late yesterday afternoon Mrs. Grant
Hornaday gave her impressions of "A
Bankers Wife, Treasurer c. f. Hen
son made the Confessions of a Dele
gate" being a report af his trip to the
National Banking association.
Considerable time was devoted tc
the exhibit of a number of improved
electrical and other apparatus and ap-
pliances for the protection of bank
vaults from burglary.
John Q. Royce, state bank commits
sioner, opened his address on Watch
man, tell US of the night, what its
promises are" by taking rap at tbs
newspapers who criticized his appoint
ment as bank commissioner of Kan
sas
c. S. Jobes, president o4 the Amer
lean National bank of Kansas City
No, made a talk this afternoon or
Bank Examiner and Bank Examina-
tons"
Another interesting address thi
afternoon was made by Scott Hopkins
president of the First National banl
of Horton, on the subject of "Curren
Phases of the Trust Question"
The election occurs late this after
noon. G. L. BrOkaW, who has beel
vice president of the association, vii
be elected to the presidency, and it i
likely that w. W. Bowman and G. f
Henson will be reelected secretar!
and treasurer respectively
This Evenings Banquet.
The following is the programme a
. the banquet which will be served a
the Throop hotel this evening at 7:3l
o'clock:
Toastmaster. P. / Bonebrakt
Divine Blessing. REV. ]. NJ. Whitehead
! "Our Guests ....-...... Hon. A. A. Godart
''Valedictory' "A Has Been ,.-,;--;-;.
/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Hon. J. r. Adam:
S (Retiring president of Bankers associa
t tion.9
: .InauguraT'-'In the Saddle .........-;
..-.............-....--... l. BrokaV
President-eIect Bankers association)
Estate Banks ........-.. Hon: j. .. Royce
(State bank commissioned
Kansas .....-.........,JOseph G. Waters
Missouri Banks ......-....J. f. Downing
of Kansas City. Mo.
"The Ladies' ........-.........-.C. S. Glee6
Service" David Overmyer, Esq
-Tne Press .-----..-.--.-..---I. a NdCANSet
Talks by w. w. Bowman. secretary O
the association, and Hon. Ellis H. Rob
erts, treasurer of the United States, anC
Z others.
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