The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-27
BANKERS Urged TO
COOPERATE WITH
FARMERS
SOUL MATERIAL HAS ENTERED
THE BANK VAULTS OF
THE NATION.
The Bank Financial Power House
TO the Community.
5y Peter Radford.

One of the greatest opportunities Il
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 lader
with greater possibilities than any
forward movement now before the
American public.
A few bankers have loaned money
| to farmers at low rate Of Interest
and ofttimes without compensation, to
ssbuasc blooded livestock build silos,
fertilize the land, secure better seed
hold their products for a better mar.
ket price. etc. The banker In con-
tributing 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 forevef.
Community Progress 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
a blow in the face. A cashier who
would dare to cast bread upon waters
that 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
being 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
a new world of investment and no
usurer ever received as large returns
on the investment as these progress
sive bankers, who made loans to
uplift industry. The bankers have
always been liberal city builders, but
they are now building agriculture.
A Dollar With a Soul.
1t is refreshing in this strenueszs
commercial life to find so many 81
lars with souls. When a dollar is ap
preached to perform a task that does
not directly yield the highest rate of
interest, we usually hear the rustic
of the eagles wings as it scars up
ward; when dollar is requested to
return at the option of the borrower,
It usually appeals to the Goddess of
Liberty for its contractural rights:
when a dollar is asked to expand in
Voiume to suit the requirements of
industry, 1t usually talks solemnly of
is redeemer, but soul material has
entered into the vaults of our banks
md rate, time and volume have a
lew basis of reckoning in so far as
he ability Of some of the bankers
PERMIT them to cooperate in promot-
ng the business of farming.
God Alnighty's Noblemen.
These bankers are God Almighty 81
loblemen. Heaven lent earth
pirit of these men and the ang ?
I'LL help them roll in place the
ornerstones of empires. They are
OF philanthropists; they are wise
ankers. The spirit of the builder
as given them a new vision, and .
'isdom has visited upon them bust 7
ess foresight. .
The cackle OF the hen, the low >
kline and the rustic of growing S
rops echo in every bank vault in the o
alton and the shreWd banker knows e
lat he can more effectively increase o
Is deposits by putting blue blood in a
le veins of livestock; quality in q
le yield of the soil and value into .
sriculturale products, than by bust :,
sss handshakes, oyerdrafts and . .
audy calendars. r
Taking the community into part b
srship with the bank, opening up il
dyer account with progress, making R
rift and enterprise stockholders and
Q prosperity of the country an y
set to the bank, put behind it
ability far more desirable than q
5terhead bearing the names of all
9 distinguished citizens of the com :
unity The bank is the financial o.
Wer house of the community and III
sssed is the locality that has an
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