The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-08-19
BANKERS LEAGUE MEETS
Holds One-Day Session and Adlourns to
Take Excursion Up to Chewawa
River Sunday Morning

met IN the rooms OF the NonlIneICld
Club last Saturday morning, and was
pronounced decided success by those
taking part in the deliberations.
A number of interesting addresses
were made. w. B. Vincent, cashier
of the Old National bank of Spokane,
spoke on Bankers as Conservators Of
Wealth"
]. w. Brewster, cashier of the Citi-
zens State bank of Wilson Creek, gave
an interesting talk on the Little Coun-
try Banker"
Geo. P. Wiley, of the Waterville
Savings bank, told about the State
Bankers convention held month ago
at Aberdeen.
J. w. Maxwell, vice president OF the
Seattle National bank and president of
the Seattle Commercial club, delivered
the leading address Of the convention,
his subject being, Making Experience
Profitable" He said in part:
'The startling swiftness of the move
ment of large part Of the country's S
population towards the city has been a
subject of serious concern to economic
writer's and thinkers for years. With
the greatly improved facilities for COM
munication in the country districts, the
telephone, rural free delivery, the auto
and better roads, life in the country
has many desirable features. But the
movement back to the farm needs
something to give it greater accelera-
ton.
THE undesirable classes are not
wanted. But there are thousands OF
honest, hard working men, thrifty by
nature but OF small means, so ham
pered by circumstances that they see
no probability Of having more than a
meal ticket for themselves and their
families. They can make little or no
provision for the future. Many such
men feel themselves capable of better
things if they could only get in touch
with opportunities. The opportunities
exist in abundance, particularly in this
section Of the country.
mo person is more interested in the
development Of country than the
banker. No part of this great North
west offers more opportunities for the
hard-working man in development work
than this immediate section. Rapid as
your progress has been, the surface
only has been scratched. Your mil
lions in virgin resources will be multi
piled many times before another half
century. Am I not right in saying
that you need men Of brawn1 Is not
this true conservation of human ener-
gy2
1T should be the aim OF the man
who is called upon for advice by young
men, to encourage them to move to
the country, or to smaller cities and
towns, unless the circumstances pecu-
liar to the particular case dictates 9TH
erwise. The man with city training
who adapts himself to the life OF a
smaller community, entering into it
with his whole heart, is of great benefit
TO himself and to that community
The following resolution was passed
after much discussion:
Resolved, That the practice of al
lowing overdrafts is detrimental to both
the bank and the customer, and that it
is the sense of this meeting that the
practice be eliminated in the interest
of sound banking"
The league went on record fayorlng
an increased appropriation by the leg
islature for the State Bankers associa-
ton office, in order that two examina-
tions year may be given to each bank
in the state, instead Of one, as at pres
ent.
Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock, the
league was given banquet by the
Leavenworth Commercial club. The
only address was by ]. ]. Browne, on
the subject of Conservation"
On Sunday the bankers were enter
tanned by the Lamb-Davis company on
an excursion over the Wenatchee Val
ley & Northern railway to the Chewawa
divide.