The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-10-20
WHAT CONSTITUTES
A Sound, Safe, Strong Savings Bank;

LIST. The principles governing It's man
agement should all conform to the prin'
ciples governing the management OF sue
eessiul banks.
2nd. The directors must direct.
Bird. They must have sufficient peeu'
MARY interest in the institution to prompt
them to be careful and painstaking in the
examination of every loan offered.
4th. They must not be Indifferent,
inert or slothful. A good banker has said
that che would not give a picayune Tor
bank treasurer who did not take his
bank to bed with him." In short, not
only the treasurer but every one IN any
way connected with the conduct OF the
bank must be tireless and sleepless when
ever its interests are in jeopardy.
9th. The managers of the Bank must
not be spectators. Many a fairly good
man with purposes pure and honest has
been tempted to take a flyer in the
stock market and when he is "pinched,
TO use Wall Street slang-in other words
when the market goes wrong and he is
called upon to make good his margins
he steals the money from his bank. He
does not call it Stealing; he simply
borrows it and is going TO pay 1t back
tomorrow; but quite often tomorrow
never comes and the bank official is dis
graced and the bank ruined.
The careful man who thinks of making
a deposit naturally asks "Are there any
banks which size up to the model above
outlined?" We reply Certainly; the
great majority of Vermont banks do
The Hyde Park Savings Bank fills the bill
in every one of the above particulars.
The person who contemplates placing
his or her hardearned savings in the bank
should adopt this motto: The safest
bank is none too safe and the best bank
is none too good for me-"
Acting upon this motto the first inquiry
is "IIow careful, how painstaking, how
conservative in making its investments
and loans has been the bank where con;
template placing my funds?" For this is
the highest possible test to which bank
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Measured by this standard, the Hyde
Park Savings Bank stands at the head
and can truthfully say, what few banks
twenty-five years old anywhere can say,
namely, that during its entire existence
it has never lost dollar by poor note.
Results are what tell the story. "A
pound of fact is worth a ton of theory"
The best evidence that bank will pur-
sue the safest possible course in banking
is the fact that it has done it.
That the depositing public have come
to have practically unlimited faith in the
safety of the Hyde Park Savings Bank is
shown by the fact that for the past four years
the deposits have averaged to exceed the
Withdrawals by more than 5000 for every
business day. Its deposits exceeded its
Withdrawals last month by $34,954.5I.
1t pays A per cent and compounds the
interest semi-annually, pays all the taxes,
and, best of all, it earnestly courts care
full examination of its assets and business
management by every repositories, by
everybody interested to personally know
the bottom facts.
Deposits made by mail are shown to be
perfectly safe by the fact that in its en-
tire existence not a single dollar has ever
been lost in transmission to this bank
through the mails. The proper way Is
to send by Registered Letter, Postal
Money Order, Express Money Order or
by Check. Receipt vii be returned the
day following its arrival at Bank.-News
and Citizen.