Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-09
.HAROW|CK IN
LINEUP FOR
ATTAIN
Congressman Is Doing All in His
Power to Aid This City'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
It 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
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-
ceipt 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
ance In the future In any and
every effort to accomplish that
much-to- be desired result.
| The resolution adopted by the Crit
| fin and Spalding County Board of
| Trade declared that the CONNER
| cial and agricultural importance of
the Southeast is sufficiently great to
district, and that the city of Atlanta
! Is the metropolis of the Southea st
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, J
P. Persons. w. B. Royster. A. P. Pat
| terson and r. o. Crouch.
State Association to Meet.
The fine start already realized to-
ward offering a solid front to the
| national reserve committee on it's Wis
| 1t 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 Il o'clock next Monday morn
ing in the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce
There are twentysiX 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
it's work among tn cities of the State.
soliciting their support in the matter
| OF getting one Of the big banks for
| Atlanta.
81 am confident that when the ma
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