The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-17

To the Vice-President and %Stockhold-
ers of the One-Cent Savings Bank,
Gentlemen and Ladies':
l come before you this evening with
a mixed or threefold anxiety. First
I. congratulate myself because of the
confidence your Board Of Directors
has seen fit to unanimously impose
in me over my protest for nine con-
secutive years. l have insisted that
these great honors-and l consider
them honors-should be passed around
among our brother directors. / feel
that some one of our younger men
ought to share these honors, if they
are honors; if a burden, and my
friends, it is a burden, then someone
ought to help bear the burden. But
the honors are such that my sense OF
p gratitude, both to the Directors and
Stockholders, is so penetrating that
| forget the burden, the labors, and
the responsibilities. l am so over
whelmed with joy that my associates
should so confide in me as to force me
to walk In the lead in the RESPONSE
bilities of this great institution that
my burden is light and my yoke is
easy" and the memories Of the /
years of labor are "reminiscences OF
sweet dreams of the past. There
fore, l congratulate myself that am
permitted to give an account of an
other years stewardship. l further
congratulate and thank you for sur
rounding me with a board of direc-
tors such as the gentlemen you
elected one year ago and placed in
charge of your institution. These
men of integrity, ability and states
menship are inanciers, advisors and
deep thinkers, whose reputation in
this community stands out boldly and
is synonymous with honesty, lnteg-
rity. truth and stability. Surrounded
bv such gentlemen as these | could
not have erred if l had tried. l fur
Their congratulate myself and thank
the Board of Directors for associatine
me with such honorable, energetic
keen-sighted, untiring officers as the
two Vlce-Presidents, the Cash
Ter and Assistant Cashier, the
Chairman of the Executive Committee
and his four associates each Of whom
has been first loyal and cooperative
honest and aggressive, diligent anC
accurate in all of their proceedings
to such an extent that my work ha:
been pleasant and a labor of love
O. -azo-A Lorv1 hoon n u ofIrrn1Ind
ings and so accurate have been on
books, dealings and transactions, 81
deep and careful has been the lega
advisor that 1t has been with assur
ance l have been able to say at thu
close of each days labor: Il know
our institution is safe" I have fel
ready every morning when the door
we're thrown open and the vaults IN
locked to say with assurance to ever,
depositor and to every stakeholder
your accounts are correct, you
money is safe and your interests hav
and will be thoroughly guarded"
Next | congratulate the stockholt
ers of the One-Cent Savings Ban
for the nine years steady, rapid pros
ress your institution has made. 70
will remember, gentlemen, and lac
les. that it was on the morning of tn
18th of January, 1904, at half-past
o'clock, that the doors Of the On'
Cent Savings Bank were thrown ope
inviting the Negro population Of Nit
die Tennessee in general and the M
gro citizens of Nashville in particula
to bring hither their h~ard-earned an
scanty savings and entrust them t
the care and keeping of this instit1
ton. 1t was on that morning thu
the Directors and Stockholders a.
sembled in this bank building an
after imploring the divine guidant
of the Advise Supreme Deity
guide our feeble financial bark owe
the turbulent seas of sharp America
financial competition, counted our Ii
tie paidup capital stock, amountin
in round numbers to $1,000, an
threw open our books under the nan
of One-Cent Savings Bank. W
meant by this name to say that the
was no deposit too small, no persc
too humble, no walk of life would s
unnoticed, for the officials OF this
stitution to pay special heed to- Fac
of the official servants mac
ND his mind to be polite, affable ar
accommodative to every conner r
CARELESS to his or her station, positlc
or walk in life. The child with h
dimes and nickles, the common
borer with his quarters and dollar
and the commercial man with h
hundreds and thousands should q
receive the same attention. o.
Motto was: First come, fir
served" We held ourselves out
q bureau of financial informatio
Ask us what you please and you shf
receive an answer. Inexperienc'
as we were many times we had
give a very wise answer; we dor
know" For this was the wise
and most truthful answer we cou
give. For. indeed, if all we did n
know had been written in n DO,
it would have made a great encycl
media; but if what We did know nj
been written a visiting card wou
have been sufficient space on wnl'
to form the composition.
Well, we are here tonight TO- &C
graduate each other and to talk