Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-28

SkOWhegan, speaker at Maine develop
ment Meeting and Member of Executive
Committee.
ern agriculture in farm values, in
agricultural finance, who may be EN-
ployed by the banks, or by the State,
whose judgment can be relied upon to
fix definite values on farm property,
on which 1t would be safe to loan
money We need these or other
trained experts. who will have the
confidence of the financial institutions,
who can go into community and ad-
wise with the men who will listen to
them, as to the best crops to grow,
trees to plant and stock to buy, and
be so connected that they can COM
mand the financial backing to supply
the needs they advise. -
These solutions are ideals and can
only be brought about when the people
of the communities have justified
themselves for this confidence by
showing the necessary integrity and
industry and by meeting their prom
ises to pay when due.
Now to come down to my real ex-
cuse for being here, it is to read you
a new creed The creed of the agri-
cultural commissioner, q branch of the
finest organization of bankers in the
world-the American Bankers AS
sociation. The association whose
members handle and guard the wealth
of this nation. Their message to you
today is that they are with you and
their creed is as follows:
believe no man can be good
banker who is not first good citizen
i'm all the term implies.
believe good citizenship rests on
ability and willingness to pull ones
own weight-with capacity not only
for sturdy self help but also due re-
gard for the rights of others.
believe that the more points at
which we touch human nature and
human interests-the more alive we
become and the longer we stay so.
believe we cannot prosper by ap-
plying yesterdays methods to today
that each man is in some measure
master of his community's destiny
that good government is a matter of
business-not politics that to assist in
all material, moral and spiritual up
lifting is the fundamental of en-
lightened selfishness.
believe We need more men of every
class who will appreciate this-who
will stand for something beside them
selves.
/ believe in efficiency, service and
fraternity, in a close-knit community
of interests and hopes. in sane.
broad-visioned stand that shall make
for the banker. farmer and everybody.
Rev. Mr.. Lawrence,
30 70 -
Heald, that there are men in this
State who take an active interest in
the church and who also recognize it's
economic relationship to the States
welfare Then he introduced the
Rev. Mr.. Lawrence from South Ber-
wick,
Mr.. Lawrence had grist of humor-
Gus stories about Maine people. One
of man who was found with a basket
OF eggs and a trowel wondering
whether to plant the hen product In
rows OF hills to raise the best egg
plants" was typical.
But 1t did not take Mr.. Lawrence
long to get at the meat of his discus
sion. He pointed the place of the
church-the center of the social life Of
every town--and outlined its duties in
common progress. Mr.. Lawrence was
vigorous in his expression Of some
what liberal views and was frequently
interrupted by applause.
He felt that the church hasn't the
money to do the things that 1t should
like directing the young generation
in right upbringing, but showed many
Of the things the church can do. even
with it's limited finances.