Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-08
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GET BANK
Congressman Is Doing All in His
Power to Aid AtIanta's
Reserve Campaign.

A letter from Congressman Thorn
as w. Hardwick. a telegram from the
Lagrange banks, and the formal
communication OF the Griffin and
Spalding County Board of Trade all
tended Thursday morning to cheer
the members of the Atlanta region
al bank committee, hard at work to
line up the various cities of the State
to support Atlanta In the contest for
, the big prize.
1t was perfectly evident that ali
Georgia was enlisting in the fight,
| realizing that the only hope of bring
| ing the great bank to the State lay in
gaining for Atlanta the recognition
| due this city in deserving to be
I named the head of one of the cur
| rency districts.
Atlanta must win or Georgia loses
out" was the idea.
LAGRANGE Pulling Hard.
The telegram from LAGRANGE as
sured the Atlanta committee that the
, banks of that city were pulling as a
| unit for Atlanta as a regional bank
fng point.
Following is. the letter from Con-
gresham Hardwick;
I beg to acknowledge the re-
Celpt of the letter of the Sd inst
in behalf of your committee of
the Chamber of Commerce and
the Clearing House Association
of your city in reference to the
location of one of the regional
banks in Atlanta, Ga. | am heart
lily in favor of the selection of
Atlanta as headquarters for one
of the regional banks, and al
ready have done everything in
my power to urge that view upon
the officials who will determine
the question Your committee
may count on my active assist
aIce in the future in any and
every effort to accomplish that
much to- be- desired result
The resolution adopted by the Grit
fin and Spalding County Board of
Trade declared that "the CONNER
cial and agricultural importance OF
the Southeast is sufficiently great to
warrant It's designation as a reserve
district, and that the city of Atlanta
is the metropolis Of the Southeast
which has operated consistently in
every movement for the general de-
velopment of the South, and has be-
come the great financial center OF
this district 1t was signed by J. w.
Gresham. president C. A. Jones, ].
p. Persons, w. B. Register, A. F. Pat
terson and r. o. Crouch.
State Association to Meet.
The fine start already realized to-
ward offering solid front to the
it here will be augmented by the
meeting of the National Currency
Association of Georgia, called by its
president Robert j. Lowry, in At
lanta at II O'Clock next Monday morn
ing in the rooms Of the Chamber Of
Commerce.
There are twenty-six national banks
in this association, but all of the ma
tional banks in Georgia--115 in all
will be invited to send delegates, and
all banks with the requisite twenty
per cent surplus fund will be invited
to join the Association.
At this meeting officers will be
elected for the coming ye; = but that
is merely Incidental.
The big business" OF the meeting
will be to urge the location of one
of the regional banks in Atlanta, and
to consider other features of the new
currency bill and the amendments
thereto which are pending.
In the meantime, the Atlanta re-
gional bank committee will continue
Its work among tn cities OF the State
soliciting their support in the matter
of getting one of the big banks for
Atlanta.
~ am confident that when the ma
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