The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-08
BAILEY AT HEAD
Kansas Bankers Honor the
AtchiSOn Man.
w. w. Bowman of Topeka Re-
Elected Secretary.
TALKED SOIL AND CROPS
Stranger Might Have Thought
He Was i'm Farmers Meeting.
Charlie Harger's Speech on
Public Sentiment.

Hutchinson, Kan, May S.-Willis ].
Bailey. of Atchison. was elected as
president of the Kansas Bankers asso-
citation at the conclusion of their two
days convention in Hutchinson last
night and members of the executive
council of the association virtually de-
cided to take the 1914 convention to
Wichita. Topeka was not a candidate
for the convention. The towns only
recognition in the closing hours of the
convention was in the reelection OF
W. W. Bowman as secretary
To a stranger who walked into the
convention hall during the two days
session of the Kansas money lenders,
the meeting might easily have been
mistaken for the session of a farm
congress or a gathering of experts on
intensified agricultural pursuits. Farm
ing and development of the soil was the
one big feature discussed at the meet
ing.
The farm boosting started early in the
first day when Bank Commissioner
Charles NJ Sawyer declared for the
conversion of the county poor farms
into county experiment and demonstra-
ton stations for the uplift of the agr1-
cultural interests of the state. Presi-
dent Waters of the State Agricultural
college added to the farm fever when
he boosted the Kansas farm as the
states greatest bank. Former Cover
j. y
a few chips to the game when he de
cIared that the failure of the farmer
meant the failure of the Kansas banker
and merchant. Governor Hodges urged
a call for men to till the Kansas SOIL
and add to the millions of dollars an
nuaI output from the farms OF the
state.
For two days the discussion con-
tfnued. The bankers thanked a merci-
full providence for the state wide rain,
for the prospects which pointed to the
greatest wheat crop in the history of
the state and in the next breath prayed
that added blessings might be heaped
upon the heads of the men who are re-
sponsible for the raising of Kansas
wheat, corn, beef steers and hogs.
A Banks Training School.
Added to the fact that Kansas
bankers need the farmers just as
mucn as the farmers need the bankers.
Byron w. Moser of st. Louis pointed
to the fact that Kansas needs train
ing school for experienced bankers. In
discussing 1.-The Coming Generation OF
Bankers" the St. Louis man declared
that the next generation would see
behind the bank counters men who
had been carefully trained in the mat
ter of finance, securities and up to GATE
business. He declared that the day
has passed when she man who runs
corner grocery or has succeeded on
half section of fertile soil can step into
the banking business and succeed.
The bankers, more thaE any other
business men, Moser declared, must
meet and compete with the most
shrewd and carefully trained men in
the business world Bankers must
know values of securities-mercanti
stocks bonds, livestock. real estate,
grains and every commodity which
represents or pretends TO represent
cash value. He must be able to dis
criminate between good securities and
bad ones. And to do it. requires care
full training. That training, Moser de-
clared. will be required of the credit
men, the cashiers and bank officials
who succeed in the future. To meet
man urged a training school for bank
ers which would give them the train
ing which will be needed in the bank
ing business of the future
The Sentiment Trust.
Charles NJ. Harger of Abilene told
the bankers of the Sentiment Trust.
He declared that public sentiment was
the worlds most powerful force. And
in this sentiment trust, Harger said,
the banker is a big stockholder. As
a result the banker with an ingrowing
crouch would bear watching and was
never a really valuable man for a
community. In part. Harger said:
Sentiment is the worlds most pow
erful force. 1t dethrones kings. es-
tablishes empires. creates republics; it
darlxens the sky of civilization with the
clouds of revolution; il ightens the
armament with the fires of reformation.
1t brings panics. it returns to a blight
ed nation the fruitage of good times.
You and ! acknowledge its power when