El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-12


Ysleta was arranged by Benigno Al
! derete, and the visitors We're shown the
| fertile fields Of tie lower valley be-
tween Ell Paso and Ysleta.
Wednesday evening the Country club
entertained the bankers with a dance
ct its clubhouse on the mesa. After
the dance the White Way Southern So
ciety held its annual banquet IN the
private dining room Of the zeiger.
Texas Bankers Honored.
During the noon hour adjournment,
the me:nber Of the American Bankers
association, who are here to attend the
state melting, met with Fred Farms
worth, general secretary of the asso-
citation, and selected o. z. Dunlap to
represent the state on the council of
the American association, S. e. Webb, of
San Angelo, as the vice president of the
association for Texas and H r. Ell
bridge. of Houston, as a member Of the
nominating committee to represent the
Texas bankers at the annual meeting OF
the American Bankers association to be
held in Los Angeles.
"Our Profession
Our Profession" was the subject of
an address by NJ. a. Taylor. president
of the First National bank OF Balm
ger, in the afternoon. He said:
Many of us. I am inclined to think,
are far more interested In ascertain
ing and providing for the desires and
whin1s Of our customers than we are in
establishing and maintaining higher and
better standards for our worthy call
ing. For this reason, not only do we
who profess TO be bankers suffer in the
estimation Of the critical public, but
the institution of banking itself is
brought under criticism and suspicion.
ssPIQaa nnSifiAn anX-irAnmont OnnSfi-
tute the Individual bankers field Of
opportunity for good or evil, while the
character Of the opportunity determines
his duty and responsibility. The posi-
ton of the banker in the social, finan-
cial and political world has not always
been what it is today. Time was when
the banker was regarded as a mere
trafficker in money, a shaver of notes
and a buyer and seller of exchange.
The scourge of the money changers
from the temple was the divine ind!ct-
mert of their kind, while the fearful
penalty of the pound of flesh was pre-
dicted for those who owed him aught.
He was feared by the weak, hated by
the strong, and distrusted by all. So
cially, he was the autOcrat, cold, cyni-
cal and austere. In the religious world
he was the opponent of the priesthood,
the prosecutor of the disciples, the hui
needle was impossible. Politically, ho
was a freebooter, the briber Of the tax
gatherer, the corruptor of the courts
of kings, and the despised enemy Of
society
The Evolution.
Happily, such is not the case today.
The evolution of the centuries has
brought the Independent banker to his
own, the free American banker to the
oh faTa ra6 nv M
country banker is the father-confessor
of the rich, the poor. the joyous, the
grieved, the high, the low. He Is the
first to hear the wall of whitening
drouths, Of stagnant business, dire dis
tresS and darkest future. He is called
upon daily to counsel with the rich,
to assist the poor, to rejoice with the
happy, and to sympathize With the
grieved. He is husband TO the widow.
father to the orphan, and guardian to
the minor. Into his keeping is trusted
the vast accumulation of the prosper
Gus and the mite of the less fortunate.
Friendship end Sentiment.
The first thing some of US were
told when ent .ring the bank as an en-
ploye was that there is no room in
banking for friendship or sentiment.
After a few years experience and some
observation I cannot bring myself 10
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friendship which is silent when it should
counsel, and which condones when It
should criticiSe IS unworthy the name of
friendship, 9nd is entitled to no consid-
Grafton in banking or elsewhere. The
maudlin sentiment which blubbers when
it should cuss and IS helpless when it
should fight never finds a home in
the breast Of a true man, and its pos
SCISSOR never occupies position of trust
or importance. But the friendship and
affections which grow out of years Of
intimate association and satisfactory