The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-11-06
BANKERS URGED TO
COOPERATE WITH
FARMERS
SOUL MATERIAL HAS ENTERED
THE BANK VAULTS OF
THE NATION.
The Bank Financial Power House
to the Community.
BY Peter Radford.

One OF the greatest opportunities n
the business life of the nation lies
In practical cooperation of the coun-
try banks with the farmer in building
agriculture and the adventure is laden
with greater possibilities than any
forward movement now before the
American public.
A few bankers have loaned money
10 farmers at low rate of interest.
and Outlines without compensation, to
buy blooded livestock, build silos.
fertilize the land. secure better seed,
mold their products for a better mar.
het price, etc. The banker in con-
trputing toward improving the grade
OF livestock; the quality of the seed
and the fertility of the soil, plants in
the agricultural life of the community
fountain OF profit, that, like Tenny-
sons brook. runs on and on forever.
Community Progress a Bank Asset.
The time was when money loaned
on such basis would severely test
the sanity of the banker; such trans
actions would pain the directors like
blow In the face. A cashier who
would dare to cast bread upon waters
mat did not return buttered side up
In time for annual dividends would |
nave to give way to a more capable ]
man. This does not necessarily mean |
that the bankers are getting any better
or that the milk of human Kindness is
oeng imbibed more freely by our finan-
ciers. 1t indicates that the bankers are
getting wiser. becoming more able fin
anciers and the banking industry more
competent. The vision of the builder is
crowding out the spirit of the pawn
broker A light has been turned on
new world of investment and no
usurer ever received as large returns
On the investment as these progress
I'VE bankers, who made loans to |
ipuft industry. The bankers have
liways been liberal city builders. but
ney are now building agriculture.
A Dollar With a Soul.
1t is refreshing in this strenuous
commercial life to find SO many dol
ars with souls. When a dollar is ap-
reached to perform task that does
ot directly yield the highest rate of
interest, we usually hear the rustic
I the eagles wings as it scars up- ,
ard; when dollar is requested to !;
etnrn at the option of the borrower, :
usually appeals to the Goddess of .
liberty for its contractural rights; !,
men dollar Is asked to expand In .
plume to suit the requirements of 4
dustry, 1t usually talks solemnly of :
redeemer, but soul material has n
itered into the vaults of our banks ,
"a rate, time and volume have a
w basis OF reckoning in so far as
e ability of some Of the bankers OF
rmit them to cooperate in promot- in
the business of farming. n,
God AImishty's NobIemen. al
These bankers are God Almighty's eli
biemen. Heaven lent earth the tn
lrit OF these men and the angels on
Y help them roll In place the Of
rnerstones of empires. They are on
philanthropists; they are wise pc
ahers. The spirit of the builder ms
given them new vision. and di.
'dom has visited upon them bust lea
IS foresight. pu
The cackle of the hen, the low to
kline and the rustic of growing so
ps echo in every bank vault in the ne,
Ion and the shrewd banker knows sol
he can more effectively increase pul
deposits by putting blue blood in emf
veins OF livestock; quality in str
yield of the soil and value into der
icultural' products, than by bust ire
handshakes. overdrafts and he
dy calendars. ma,
aking the community into part nov
ship with the bank, opening I'D a Y
'er account with progress, making red
It and enterprise stockholders and amt
prosperity Of the country an riur
= to the bank, put behind il cal
iiity far more desirable than a dru,
'rhead bearing the names of all sad,
distinguished citizens of the com sho,
lily. The bank is the financial lea,
er house of the community and II
sed Is the locality that has an mon
'-date banker. toll
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