Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-11

ing worthy of every confidence. More. over, state and federal laws are con
 stantly at work affording all further
 protection for the peoples money
 that can possibly be needed. So do ! not be afraid of the bank. It is the place for your money, and the only safe place that can be found for cash There are silly tales and perni- cious tales, manufactured by these same bunko steerers that tend to discourage depositing cash in banks. No one with good common sense gives these tales the least belief, because people with knowledge are well aware that they are the invention of swindlers who harbor designs against all cash that $ in sight. The gold brick seller and the swindler can do no business unless he can get his nimble fingers on the cash. If the cash is in the pocket of the victim. they can conjure it out with one slick tale or another. If it is in the bank, it takes more than spacious false hood to bring 1t within the reach of the thieving hands.
 With your cash safe in the bank there ,s still one other precaution that all men would do we'll to heed. Cash is not to be hoarded as miser hoards his gold. The wise man will. from time to time, invest his cash to, bring in other money. But, remem. Der, that the bunco steerer is look ing out for these investments. It is upon this quality in man, that of in vesting money to bring in other mon cy, that he builds his highest hopes. He has. perhaps. brought to your at tention the very investment that you contemplate. It is perhaps one of his glittering and thieving schemes to separate you from your money.
 But your cash is in the bank. You must draw 1t first.
 Then, why not, before you draw it. acquaint your banker with your pur. pose. Tell him of the investment you intend to make. It is none of his business, of course, but he. who every day is called on to lend money out or invest the money intrusted tc him, is trained in investments to {, degree that causes him to know in 8 second far more about such matters than the ordinary man could know if he thought about it a week.
 The banker, too, is willing and ready to help and assist, .hii deposit ors, not so much to give advice in any business sense, but, always to protect the innocent against the wiles and machinations of the swindler and the scoundrel. Therefore, when call. ed on to draw any considerable sum from your bank, tell your banker what you intend to do with it and seek his help and his advice.
 This article is not written for bus mess men, nor yet for the large ma jority of our readers who, SO far as they are concerned, would regard it 1t as superfluous, as they are and have been for years practicing the precepts here set forth. But these last few words are for this class. Namely, spread the doctrine to others. Tell those who labor for you in the humble capacities to put their money in the bank. The Graphic reaches many. It goes far, but there are thousands working on the plant ations. thousands laboring in the low CT walks of life, who will never read The Graphic nor any other periodical of it's class; yet all these men have empowers who occasionally come in contact with them.
 These employers can and should make it their business to advise as to the disposition of money. This is particularly pertinent just now, for this year in this section unusually large sums have found their way into unaccustOmed hands. The swindler knows this and is fattening on it. It lbehooves the man of affairs, Jthe planter and the manufacturer and the merchant to become equally act i've in putting spike in the swim dler's operation. This can be done by giving advice about the preservation of money to those who are not ac- customed to handling it, and the best advice is to generate and establish the most consumate confidence in the banks among those who. in the past, have not known the need of banks. for it is of this class that the swind-