The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-22
THE EST is NONE o GOOD THE
STRONGEST NONE o STRONG"
Quality of the Banks Assets


The duty of every Savings Bank is:
FIRST, to maintain its assets always at the very
top in point of quality.
SECOND, to keep its assets always where thew
can respond, without i moments delay, to every call
of every %depositor whenever he wants his money.
THIRD, to keep its assets always where they can
promptly respond to every legitimate need of the Dor
rowing public.
The proper function of a Savings Bank is to stand
between those who have money to lend and those who
need to borrow, and that bank does not properly func-
ton which does not keep its assets where they are i'm
medlately available to answer every caI-within its
proper held for loaning-which the public requires for
its legitimate lines of business.
But it is equally true that a Bank does not prop
erIy function which does not furnish the public with
an absolutely safe place of deposit for all who have
idle money.
Both, of these requirements the Lamoille County
Savings Bank and Trust Company supplies, indeed,
as the following facts show, it stands foremost and
Preemlnent IN its preparedness for any and every
financial emergency.
1t is a fact everywhere recognized that in times
OF financial panic United States Bonds are the one
sheet anchor upon which the public depends. and 10
which it goes for financial strength and support.
In the history OF Banks, United States Bonds
have never failed to bring the cash, and other things
beng equal, it follows logically that that Bank is
ccntaSe OF It's assets in L. S. Bonds.
There is no getting away from this fact. No one
can truthtuliy gainsay this statement. 1t is abso-
lutely unanswerable
Now, what are the facts as they relate to the
Hyde Park Bank. Here are the figures taken from
the Vermont Bank Commissioners latest report.
There are SO Savings Banks in Vermont, of
which, with a single exception, not one CARRIES
As LARGE A PROPORTION OF ITS DE-
POSTS IN U. S. BONDS AS THE HYDE PARK
BANK. Let us emphasize this fact by adding that
the aggregate Of United States Bonds held by 10 of
the So Vermont Savings Banks do not equal the hold
1ngs of the Single Hyde Park Bank.
1t is our purpose in a subsequent article to again
refer to "earmarks Of superior strength and safety in
a Savings Bank"
Meanwhile we invite the most careful c~onsidera-
ton OF the deposting public to the superlatively
strong position of the Hyde Park Institution.
Finally, if the reader does not deem it good policy
to place all his eggs in one basket, but rather con-
cludes 1t to be the wiser and better way to divide his
savings among the different Vermont Banks. we are
sure he will deposit a part of those savings in the old
Hyde Park standby,
We cordially invite a share of your deposits and
suggest that no deposit is SO small as not to be appre-
ciated. We would be most happy if we had at least
a small deposit from every Vermont family. What
finer thing can you do than to start a small account
with the Hyde Park Bank by making "a Christmas
or New Years present Of $1.oo, $1,000 or a larger
sum Let the deposit be in the name of yourself or
better still perhaps in the name of your son or daugh-
ter, wife or husband, and commence the New Year bv
becoming a banker.
Banking by mail is now regarded as absolutely
Send your deposits by check, postal or express
money order or by registered letter. In more than
th1rty-one years of business not a dollar so sent TO the
Hyde Park Bank was ever lost to a depositor.
For any information or suggestions, address
Tho amoiIIo rnuniv Cou;rcc Doll