The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-25
BUSINESS Is LAZY
Bankers Say 1t Has Spring
Fever Each Year.
FIOurishing Reports From All
Over SunfIOwer State.
INTEREST IN CROPS.
Bankers Do Not Worry Over
Standard Oil Case.
A1drich Plan Commended In
LukeWarm Manner.

Kansas City, May 25.-"How are
crops down your way? Deposits Keep
ing up good?"
These were the greetings between the
arrivals at the Grund hotel in Kansas
City, Kan, headquarters for the TWEEN
ty-fourtil annual session OF the ha -LIoo.o
Bankers association. And these were
the greetings when the two-hunoredtn
delegate registered with W. w. Bow
man, the secretary.
Seven hundred bankers, with their
wives, are here. Crops are GOOD IN
spots, according to the visiting imam
Gers who make it a part or their Dusl-
ness to look after crop conditions. w:
H. Burks of Wellington, president OF
the association, says crops are on Ine
bum down his way, but bankers from
other parts of the state have more
cheerful stories.
I'VE won't have any wheat at all IN
Sumner county," President Burks said,
land you know Sumner county In years
past has been the banner wheat
county.
Last year our farmers didn't raise
enough wheat to pay for the SEED: Our
oats are not going to make q good crop
efthe, but we'll have just a fair crop
of corn. But, understand me, I'm com
ing out all right, and were going 10
make things CO."
What do you think about the recent
oil decision?" he was asked.
Were more interested in the corn
crop. Anyway, Kansas isn't SO muen
affected by Wall street. Every Kansas
farmer has a sort of Wall street of his
own.
1.-THE Aldrich monetary plan? Why,
we bankers pride ourselves on being
students of financial matters, and We
have great consideration for the ideas
worked out by such financiers as Mr..
Aldrich. His plan is good, I believe,
but really, a city banker can tell more
about that"
While President Burks was talking.
w. w. Bowman of Topeka, secretary of
the association, and the good natured
Sunny Jim" among the Kansas bank
ers, arrived at the hotel.
why, hello, Bowman, how are you
Any bugs in the wheat out your way?''
the president asked.
| Crops are the best" the secretary
replied. Everything is on the boom
All kinds of crops-corn, wheat, oats
| divorce, finacial-every kind
| What do I think about the recent
| oil decision?" Mr.. Bowman queried
"As financial men we bankers read
| with interest every line in the papers
| which deal with finance in any way.
but really I don't believe 1t will affect
us much. We are in Kansas, you know.
and pretty far west. 1t takes a long
time for those things to be felt out
here.
Most of US are highly interested in
the Aldrch monetary plan, however. A
large percentage Of our Kansas bankers
are enthusiastic about it. We are
thinkers, but we don't swallow every
thing whole, but 1 for one, look with
favor on a plan which as great a
financier as Mr.. Aldrich would devise. -
Bankers from along the Central
Branch in northeastern Kansas report
crops booming. In fact, flourishing re-
ports were heard from every section of
the state, with bad reports only in
spots. Deposits have fallen off some
| what, but this is the time of the year
when they always go down, according
to a prominent banker. Speculation in
cattle causes men to draw money from
the banks ana then the bankers suffer
from sort of Spring fever in bust
| ness at this time of year.