Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
BANKSHELP FARMERS
Association Will Assist Those Who
Lost Through Storms
NEW SCHEMfS ARE PROPOSED

The last committee meeting before
the assembling of the Delaware Bank
ers' Association in annual session at
Rehoboth, next Thursday, was held
Monday morning in the offices of the
Security Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany, when the committee on agricul-
ture met and agreed upon its report
and recommendations to the association.
Daniel W. Corbit. President of the New
Castle County National Bank, Odessa,
and chairman of the committee, was
unavoidably absent. Howard M. Buck
son, manager of the Delaware Trust
Company, of Dover, presided.
In addressing the committee Presi-
dent John S. Rossell deplored the la
mentable effects on the farms of this
state from the recent devastating
storms, "but lamentable as it isl he
said, '.it serves the useful purpose of
arousng our sympathy and giving US a
closer and clearer view of the farmers
needs and of our duty to him as his fel-
ow-citizens and as representatives of
the bankers Of the state.
NEED SUBSTANTIAL ASSISTANCE
Sympathy is very good in itself, but
it is of little practical use unless sup
ported and vivitied by substantial as
slstance. This brings me to the thought
that our unfortunate farmers should be
helped out of their present difficulty by
their more prosperous friends and by
the bankers Of the state. l believe
that little reflection will convince
every right thinking man that this is Of
very high Importance to our entire
state
TIE unfortunate condition of many
farmeys in the state was given very
careful consideration and on motion Of
Horace l.. Dilworth, of New Castle
county. the following resolution of SYM
pathy and assurance of assistance was
unanimously adopted:
"Resolved, That this committee ex-
tends its heartiest sympathy to the
farmers of the state who have suffered
such serious Losses from the recent Sc
we're storms, and tenders them every
assistance in its power to obtain the re-
lief they so greatly need and to enable
them to restore their homes and lands
to the favorable conditions under which
they nave heretofore lived and carried
on their farming operations"
NEW SCHEMES PROPOSED
The good work accomplished by the
farm organizations throughout the
state and the various ways in which the
bankers and farmers could cooperate
for mutual benefit were discussed and
it was decided to submit to the associa-
ton number Of recommends tons en-
bodied in the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted on nc
ton of Watson K. Belts, Of Middle
town:
Resolved, That this committee SUBJ
nit the following recommendations to
the Delaware Bankers Association:
'O That the association encourage
the development in Delaware of boys
and girls agricultural clubs by advising
its member banks to loan money on in
terest bearing notes to reliable boys
and girls forming such clubs.
"(2) That the ASSOCIATION request
each member bank to contribute ten
dollars toward free scholarships in the
Club Week Course arranged for by
Delaware College. thus providing an
educational week under competent in
structors in the various farm and home
projects; it being understood that. in
cooperation with the Director of Ag-
ricultural Extension Of Delaware Col
lege, the United States Department of
Agriculture and the County Farm Bu-
reaus, the club department of the col
lege will certify to the Association a
list of club champions eligible, on the
basis of achievements, to receive such
scholarships. and that, in so far as prac-
ticable, the scholarship of each bank
will be awarded to b local cub cham
plon; and further. that the president Of
the association, or the chairman of the
committee on agriculture, shall award
these scholarships to the club cham.
pions during the Farmers Week al
Delaware College,"