The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-09
Advance Guard for Big Conven-
ton Arrives.
First Session Representative
Hall Thursday A. nj.
HODGES and COFRAN TO talk
Governor and Mayor Both on
the Program.
Mrs. Macferran Will Entertain
Bankers Wives.

The advance guard of Kansas State
Bankers association members has ar
rived in Topeka to attend the fourth
annual convention of the organiza-
ton which will convene in Represen-
tative hall at 10 O'Clock Thursday
morning and continue until Friday
evening.
Among the first of the men of mon
ey to reach the city were E. S. Cheno-
weth of McCracken. president of the
association, and John E. Wagner of
Larned, the second vice president.
Weather conditions will probably
have good deal to do with the at
tendance at the meeting. There Is a
membership of five hundred in the
organization. The wives of a large
number of the bankers are expected
to accompany their husbands to To-
peka. Ample entertainment has been
arranged for them by the wives OF the
local bankers. They will be taken on
an auto ride at o'clock Thursday
afternoon. The cavalcade of machines
will start out from the state house
grounds Friday at 1 o'clock Mrs.
VIM. Macferran, assisted by the wives
of the officers and ex-officers of the
association, will entertain the visiting
ladies at her home, 412 Greenwood
avenue in Potwin. The affair will be
in the nature of a luncheon-musicale
bers and their ladies will be entertain
ed at the Grand Opera house by Don
aid Brian and his company in THE
Siren"
MacFerran Tells the Object.
In speaking of the object of the
Kansas State Bankers association
William Macferran, the first vice pres
ident said today:
THE purpose of the association is
to see that the state bankers get
square deal in all banking legislation.
A general association cannot do this.
For several years there has been
talk of currency reform and until the
state banks woke up not bill in con-
gress for reform of this nature inciud
ed any state banks or trust companies.
This shows that the state bankers
over the country have been asleep.
"State banks belong to bankers as
sociations which are dominated by ma
tional banks; consequently not much
attention is given to seeing that the
benefit of the legislation is extended
to the state banks. There has been
great awakening. All bank reform
bills include state banks and trust
attention is given to see that the
terms are not impossible very little
good will come to them.
MANY of the states now have sep
arate state banking organizations and
this movement is spreading. 1t means
that in the end. in my opinion, all
banks will be on the same basis and
there will be a square deal for every
bank.
There are three state banks to every
national bank and the deposits are
equal to those of the national banks.
The associations are not antagonistic
to each other, and a much better
feeling exists than was at first the
case
Address of Welcome by Mayor Cofran
DIR. S. S. Estey will pronounce the
invocation at the meeting Thursday
morning. The address of welcome
will be given by R. L. Cofran, mayor
of Topeka. J. B. Adams of Eldorado
will make the response. Next in order
will be the address by the president,
E. S. Chenoweth, of McCracken. w.
E. Wilson of Washington, the secre-
tary, will then make his report. The
report of the treasurer, F. G. Bergen
Of Summerfield will be next in order.
William Macferran will report for the
legislative committee.
Thursday afternoon George H.
Hodges, governor of Kansas, will
speak. H. ]. Waters, president of the
Kansas State Agricultural college will
deliver an address on Forty Minutes
of Intensified Farming" c. NJ. Saw
yer, bank commissioner of Kansas is
on the program. George w. Hanna
of Clay Center, will speak on "Suc-
cessful Savings Departments in Com
mercial Banks John E. Wagner of
Larned will talk on 1.-The Necessity of
a Strong State Bankers
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