Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-09
III INE BLUFF
 ROGRESS
 ROsPERITY
A BANK RUN.


 sins in which people can indulge be- cause it inflicts sufferinee without benefit, does harm without good. Idle gossip was responsible for a small-sized run on the Bank of Pine Biuf yesterday We say idle gossip because had any one taken the trou- bic to ascertain the facts he would have found that the institution is safe and sound, as was proved when the Pine Bluff Clearing House as- sociation met, scanned the securities of the Bank of Pine Bluff and promptly loaned that institution $lOO.OOO.
 The biggest and strongest banks in the world do not carry in it's vaults cash sufficient to pay off all deposit tore at once. because the success of bank depends upon keeping it's funds we'll invested.
 That's why one bank must borrow from another occasionally whel un- usual demands are made upon it. That an institution can take it's securities and go to the clearing house or to another bank and secure funds is the best evidence that the borrowing bank is entirely solvent and that it's funds have been we'll in vested.
 Many banks, like individuals, have been damaged by idle gossip; by some ones "they say" Many a wom- an has gone through life under a cloud because of some sinners Il hear" Of all despicable things that of spreading harmful gossip is the worst.
 The Philadelphia Forward, an inter r-denominational Sunday school journal. discussed this sin recently in a most able and impressive way, under the heading, "A Bank Run, saying.
 Last winter, very sound and we'll managed bank in New York City wal suddenly besieged by depositors seek ing to withdraw their money. It wa: a bank that did large business among East Side immigrants. Man! depositGrs in the line that formed outside the bank could not speal English. They stood in the rain, hag gard and excited, fearing the loss O everything they had in the world Women with little children in theil arms. exposed to the inclemency O. the weather, wept over their tighly clutched bank books. It was scene of panic and disorder for nearly week from the day that the run be gaa. and the police had to be on hat all the while.
 In vain the officers of the bank eX plained to the depositors that ther' was no danger of their money bein, lost, as the bank was Tn first-ratt financial condition. In vain thu other New York bankers came for ward. offering to help the institution to any extent if ready money should be needed. assuring the public tha the affairs of the bank were 1T splendid condition. In vain the police warned those yho were drawing Ou their money in a lump that thieves were lowering about to rob them. N one would listen. The run went or relentlessly.
 On the second day. two elder,, women were among those who stood in line for hours. Each had saving of about thousand dollars, tne - suit of years of thrift. and each dres out the whole amount. As thes. women went to their homes, t<.t were atacked by theives, knocked down or struck so as to daze them and their money was stolen. Th' savings that would have been the sta. of their age were lost in moment How many others were robbed il their homes, or swindled out of theil money by the greedy spectators wh. immediately followed them up,. ant beguiled them to invest ia somethin. "safer than the bank" will of cours' never be known. But the whole oc 4