The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-07
KANSAS BANKERS.
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greatest benefits of the law are be-
coming apparent to the public. There
is no pressing need for further rail
road enactInents or public service cor
porations acts at this time The utili-
ties commission have unlimited author
ity and should use their power, not to
hamper but to aid all public utilities
What Kansas really needs. though.
is men and women and children; said
the governor For 20 minutes the state
executive dwelt on the necessity of soil
development. He pointed to the fact
that with one million seven hundred
thousand inhabitants, that Kansas has
80 acres of land for every man, woman
and child within her borders
I'VE want more agriculture in KAN
sas that every foot of soil may be
farned and farmed scientifically; that
each acre of pasture may become the
home of a COW or steer or hog, that
every inch of our soil may produce
more wealth and with that added
wealth we may build more and better
schools, bigger churches and become
the active civic center of prosperity and
intelligence"
The meeting of the bankers will close
tonight. At the afternoon session to-
day. one of the principal speeches will
be by Byron w. Moser. of St. Louis.
who will discuss 1.-THE Coming Genera
ton of Bankers" Charles NJ. Harger,
of Abilene, will discuss THE Sentiment
Trust F. L. Nicolet, of Kansas City
will tell of Changing Ideas About Cur
rency.' w. c. Brown, president OF the
New York Central lines and one of the
principal speakers at the meeting this
year. was unable to come to Kansas
He was to have told the Kansas bank
ers of THE Railways and the Banks as
Public Servants X. II. FaXon VII,
speak this evening on Advertising and
Developing Kansas F. p. Hettinger,
Hutchinson lawyer, will tell the bank
ers of Legal Problems in Banking
The attendance at the Hutchinson
meeting is not as large as the crowd
which came to Topeka for the 1912
meeting. About 500 bankers are regis
tered. Many of them brought their
wives. A special meeting was held this
afternoon by the ladies.
Notes of the Convention.
Former Governor Willis J. Bailey of
Atchison is doped for the presidency
of the Kansas Bankers association for
next year. His election will probably
come late this afternoon Bailey made
a great speech before the convention
Tuesday afternoon when he discussed
Manufactured Unrest, and hayed
the policies which stirred the people
into squeezing their money and refus-
ing to invest in going enterprises un-
der circumstances unwarranted by ex-
listing conditions. With Bailey for
the presidency 1t Is pTODdDIe that 6o-
ward Mullaney of Hill City will be
named as vice president and w. W.
Bowman of Topeka will be elected for
another term as secretary of the as
ISOLATION. Fred Shiras of Ottawa will
probably be the choice of the conven-
ton for treasurer.
Topeka may withdraw from the
race for the 1914 convention and
yield to Wichita. There are really only
two towns in Kansas which can handle
the big convention-Topeka and
Wichita. Last year Topeka enter
tanned the bankers and the tendency
among members of the Topeka dele
CATION indicated last night that they
would yield to Wichita for 1914 and
ask for the convention the following
year. Every hotel in Hutchinson was
crowded to capacity to handle the con-
vention and many of the bankers were
compelled to choose between a room
in a private house or sleeping in the
street. They accepted the private
houses and made the most OF the sit
uation.
While Hutchinson is yet too small
town to tackle the job of entertain