The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-21
C0BURN ID BANKERS
KANSAS SECRETARY OF AGRIcuL- TURF TALKS TO STATE AsSo-
 CATION AT KANSAS CITY.
GIVES SOME FIGURES 10 REMEMBER
Bankers Adjourn State Meeting After Adopting Resolutions on Various Subjects and Eiecting New Officers for Ensuing Year-W. M. Peck, of Concordia, the New President.

Kansas City, Kan, May 16.-The bankers of Kansas-some 600 of them and the representatives of more than $200 ,000, GOO of the best assets on earth were about to close their Fist an nual convention in Kansas City, Kan, when Frederick D. Coburn, state secre- tary of agriculture, entered the Audi torium The bankers had become weary of tales of prosperity, of big bank deposits, of discussions of meth ods of curing financial ills arising back east" They were waiting to join their wives and daughters in the good time arranged for them by the Kansas City bankers, whose guests they were. But when MT. Coburn- "the man who knows arrived in his gray suit of clothes and his gray beard it was different
 T merely dropped in to say a few things to you" the secretary said, rais- ing thin white hand to quell the dis turbance the yelling bankers were making. Then he proceeded to say things. Among other things Mir. Go burn stated the following facts:
 T am persuaded that few of us, when we talk of our crops, as we do so much. have the proper grasp of their significance; not alone of future possibilities, but of their present mag nitude and value. and the striking contrasts they afford to those of other states. l suspect that many of the best informed are unaware that Kan sas raises 100 times more corn than California; nearly 30 times as much as North Dakota; three and one-half times as much as Pennsylvania, and 40 per cent more than Ohio. That one medium sized Kansas county in a single year grew more corn than Maine, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah Arizona, Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachu. setts combined is probably not com mon knowledge
 These were the officers of the Kan. sas Bankers association elected for the coming year
 w. M. Peck of Concordia, president; P. w. Goebel, of Kansas City, Kan. vice president w. w. Bowman, of Topeka, secretary; F. R. Moses, of Great Bend, treasurer; c. M. Sawyer of Norton, member of the executive committee of the American Bankers association.
 These are the vice presidents for the various groups: J. NJ Everts Baileyville; Frank Sponable, Gardner Thomas Bolus, lola; D. D. Brownell Belleville; J. P Russell, Penalosa Patrick O'Connell, Jetmore.
 The executive committee will select meeting place for next year.
 A resolution was adopted urging the establishment of United States sub treasury in Kansas City, Kan. The following were among the other reso lutions adopted:
 That we again urge the legislature of our state to carefully consider oui foreclosure and redemption law, be lieving the present law to be as ex pensiye to the borrower as it is unfair to the lender.
 That we express our most earnest appreciation of the cooperation and work of the comptroller of the cur rency, of our state bank commissioner of the press and of large part of oul professional and business population during the recent financial panic, with out which the situation would have been much more difficult, and that w' will ever gratefully remember thu splendid help given by each of these.