Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18
Senator Hoke Smiths Address on
the New Currency Law and Its
Workings To Be One of Chief
Features Of Meet Here Monday.
Luncheon at Capital City Club,
Presided Over by Colonel Lowry,
viii Be the Principal Enter
tainment rendered the Visitors.

A. least 45O Georgia bankers-very
4,,e,y more-will gather in Atlanta
Monday morning as guests OF the Al
anita Clearing House Association 10
mt the final clincher on the fact that
Inc bankers of Georgia stand united
81, their support of Atlanta in Its
fght for a regional bank.
That sentiment already is well
i.rown Nearly 200 expressions from
Individual banks already have been
,ocefyed bv the joint committee from
tho chamber of Commerce and the
clearing House. But the assembly
Monday at luncheon at the Capital
IN, cub will crystalline that senti-
mcnt
ro,, one thing. Senator Hoke Smith
T.; IN sneak at the luncheon. His
theme is to be the new currency law
and what it means to the bankers
and to the country at large. Prob
9hI, no man in America is better
nualitied to speak on that topic just
ROW
OF course. Senator Smith is an ar
don't supporter of Atlantas claims for
regional bank. too. He has done
rreaT work in that direction. But
With the Georgia bankers already a
unft in support of Atlanta, Senator
Smiths address will be devoted main
~ 10 eXpoundng the new law and
It's workings.
Then the bankers will take adVan-
ragc of being in Atlanta to hold two
important meetings besides the re-
gional bank assembly.
Associations to Meet Also.
At 10 o'clock. at the Capital City
club. the executive committee of the
Georgia Bankers Association will hold
its annual meeting. And at IL o'clock.
in the rooms of the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce, the National Reserve
Association of Georgia. formed some
years ago, will meet. 1t is composed
of 26 banks. and the consideration of
applications from prospective mem
bers eager to get in under the terms
of the new currency law, will consu-
ute a large part of the business OF
he meeting.
At 1880 o'clock the big luncheon
viii begin at the Capital city Club,
All day Saturday acceptances pour
ed iu on the invitation committee
until il was assured that $50 bank
ors would be preseat. More were eN-
pcrted. In any event. it is certain
that the greatest and most impor-
'ant gathering OF bankers and finan-
ciers ever held in the State will sit
Gown at the hospitable board as
guests of the Clearing House Asso-
citation and listen to the address Of
Senator Smith.
The supreme importance of that ad-
dress has led the committee to re-
frain from providing other speakers.
Colonel Lowry to Preside.
There won't be a banker there who
would rather not devote his full time
TO listening to Hoke Smith and his
explanation " the currency measure,
said one member of the committee.
But there will be a few informal
'allls, for all that. and Colonel Robert
j. Lowry, president Of the Clearing
House Association will preside at the
luncheon.
Fifty cities, most of them In Geor-
lh1orsed the proposition to place d
regional bank in Atlanta.
\ very significant message was re-
"eived Saturday, when the Joint COM
mittee was informed that the Clear
ing House Of Brunswick had adopted
resolutions indorsing Atlanta's STAND.
200 Banks Assure Support.
That nearly made it unanimous
among the cities, while the individual
banks 10 the number of 200 had sent
10 their assurances of support in the
Dig contest to come.
But of course the crystallization OF
Ilat sentiment will be realized Mon
Gay. when the bankers of Georgia. as
Semoled in Atlanta, make their for
mai pledge to support this city fol
me regional bank and draft their for
MAJ and concerted resolution for the
oeneTit of the national reserve bank
organization committee, in order that
mat body may know the sentiment IN
Georgia when it visits Atlanta to open
me hearing on the regional bank sit
.ati.n