The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-24


Goebel, president American Bankers as
sOciation.
Afternoon.
Address, What Are the Wild Waves
Address. "A Resume of Recent Ranking
Legislation" Senator Charles E Snyder;
LeavenwOrth, chairman committee on
banks and banking in the house
Address, 1.-THE Bankers Interest in the
Federal Land Bank System" Charles r.
Lobdell. member federal farm loan board,
Address, j. A s. Pollard, Fort Madison,
Entertainment Today.
Social headquarters. Elks' club.
Buffet luncheon, Elks' club, 80 to 8
Redpath, Bankers Special Entertain
ment.' at city auditorium from to 1880
Informal dance, Elks' club, IL to IL
o'clock.
BY o'clock this afternoon the reg
istration clerk at Memorial hall re-
ported that nearly l 900 delegates had
registered present at the thirtieth an
nual convention of the Kansas Bank
ers' association. L. H. Wulfekuhler,
president of the association, was sur
prised at the large registration, ex-
pecting the attendance to be light
this year, on account of the shortage
of help in many banks. the result of
young men either volunteering in the
regular army service or attending the
military training camp at Fort Riley.
The nations crisis, which, if carried
to a successful outcome, must be
bridged to a great extent by the bank
ers of America in making the liberty
loan a success and the desire of the
bankers to hear Secretary McAdoo
and other prominent speakers on the
subject of liberty loan is given as a
reason for the unexpected large num-
Der of delegates at the thirtieth an
nual convention.
Gocbel Tells of Conditions.
Kansas bankers must undergo the
acid test of patriotism between now
and June Is in floating successfully
the Kansas apportienment of the gov
ernment's liberty loan. That was the
keynote of a highly dramatic address
delivered today before delegates to the
! thirtieth annual convention of the
Kansas Bankers association by p. w.
| Goebel of Kansas City Kan. presi-
| dent of the American Bankers asso-
] citation.
| Goebel, a man of German extrac-
\ ton, who still speaks with a strong
German brogue. typified to the audi
ence the true patriot of the day, a
man who in upholding the nation of
his choice and pleading for the sue
cess of the financial end of the war,
but who couldn't help but feel heart
| pangS for friends and relatives in
Germany, who must suffer so terribly
as result of Americas endeavor to
separate them from the iron rule of
| a despot. That fact, in some manner.
seemed to pass thru the minds of the
/ hundreds of bankers as they listened
to the address of the Kansas man to-
! day and heard of his willingness to
/ sacrifice and invest in liberty loan
and do everything else in his power
/ to bring the war to a successful con-
| clusion. An ovation of fully five min
utes duration met Goebel as he was
! introduced by President Wulfekuhler
| and was silencod only when he raised
his hand. Time and again as he
/ pleaded for Kansas bankers to do
| their bit he was greeted with ap-
plause equally as heavy.
! The subject of GoebeTs address was
! Paramount Issues" 1t was not a
| prepared address. Those duties
| Goebel seemed to know by heart and
without repetition of a word or
syllable he poured into the ears of
Kansas bankers for an hour their
| duties not as bankers but as Ameri-
cans.
Every Mans Duty.
The paramount issue with every
man, woman and child in America to-
! day, is war" said Goebel. I'VE bank
ers should not look upon our duty as
/ bankers, first. but as Americans, first
| and bankers last. We must learn to
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