Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-06-25
BANKERS URGED TO
COOPERATE WITH
FARMERS
SOUL MATERIAL HAS ENTERED
TIE BANK VAULTS OF
THE NATION.
The Bank a Financial Power House
to the Community.
BY Peter Radford.


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
to farmers at low rate of interest,
and ofttimes without compensation, to
buy blooded, livestock, build silOs,
fertillze the land, secure better seed
hold their products for better mar
aet price, etc. The banker in con-
tributing toward improving the grade
Of livestock; the quality of the seed
lnG the fertility of the soil, plants in
the agricultural life of the community
1 fountain of profit, that, like Tenny-
sons brook, runs on and on forever.
Community Progress a Bank Asset.
The time was when money loaned
IN such a basis would severely test
he 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
nan. This does not necessarily mean
| hat the bankers are getting any better
IT that the milk of human Kindness is
| being imbibed more freely by our tinan-
| ,iers. 1t indicates that the bankers are
;etting wiser, becoming more able fin
.rciers and the banking industry more
Competent. The vision of the builder is
| :rowding out the spirit of the pawn
broker. A light has been turned on
new world of investment and no
Isurer ever received as large returns
| N the investment as these progress
| i've bankers, who made loans to
diff industry. The bankers have
lways been liberal city builders, but
hey are now building agriculture.
A Dollar With Soul.
1t is refreshing in this strenuous
commercial life to find so many dol,
ars with souls When dollar is ap-
| preached to perform a task that does
lot directly yield the highest rate OF
interest, we usually hear the rustic
f the eagles wings as it scars up
ward; when a dollar is requested to
eturn at the option of the borrower,
usually appeals to the Goddess OF
liberty for it's contractural rights;
Ehen a dollar is asked to expand in
Il 10 emit he
industry, it usually talks solemnly OF
is redeemer, but soul material has
entered into the vaults of our banks
and rate, time and volume have a
new basis of reckoning in so far as
the ability of some of the bankers
permit them to cooperate in prOmot'
ing the business of farming.
God AImighty's NobIemen.
These bankers are God Almighty's
noblemen. Heaven lent earth the
spirit of these men and the angels
will help them roll in place the
cornerstones of empires. They are
not philanthropists; they are wise
bankers. The spirit of the builder
has given them new vision, and
wisdom has visited upon them bust
ness foresight.
The cackle of the hen, the low
of kline and the rustic of growing
crops echo in every bank vault in the
nation and the shrewd banker knows
that he can more effectively increase
his deposits by putting blue blood in
the veins of livestock; quality in
the yield of the soil and value into
agricultural products, than by bust
ness handshakes, overdrafts ant
gaudy calendars.
Taking the community into part
nership with the bank, opening up 6
ledger account with progress, making
thrift and enterprise stockholders ant
the prosperity of the country al
asset to the bank, put behind il
stability far more desirable than &
letterhead bearing the names Of al
the distinguished citizens of the com
munity. The bank is the financia
power house of the community anC
blessed is the locality that has al
up-to-date banker.