Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-18
RANGE IS CHOSEN EHA|RMAN OF SOUTH ARKANSAS BANKERS
Sthstein, w. A. Hicks, Little
 1 Rock; Dr. Knapp are 1 Speakers
LEGATIONS TO THE COMMUNITY DISCUSSED
hb; Tells of Bankers Duty in the Present Times-Dinner and Entertainment End Meet ing Here

Hnbert B. Strange, cashier of tho
 tensz Bank, was named chairman
 group Mo- z, Arkansas Bankers
 sociation by the nominating com
 tee which reported to the group
 st before adjournment yesterday
 ternoon, and the report of the
 minating committee, which named
 M. Keller, of Wilmot, vice chair.
 hn. and N. B. Baird of Dewitt, sec
 tary and treasurer, was accepted
 his action came at the end of q
 hgthy session featured by interest
 speeches and talks.
 That the unrest and instability of
 world today is due to the lack
 social conscience, and that
 mixers and members of the banking
 aternity can do more than any oth-
 one class of men to he1p in the
 bltivation of social conscience
 this country, was the statement of
 abbi L. J. Rothstein, who was the
 rst speaker on the program at the
 fternoon session.
 Dr. Rothstein's address was direct
 d toward the bankers function m
 he economy of life, and was a brief
 esearch into the moral obligation of
 he bankers toward community and
 ational life. The more practical
 ide of the bankers obligation in his
 ommunity was the theme of an ad-,
 ress by Dr. Bradford Knapp, dean
 md director of the college of agri- uture at the University of Arkan- hs. A direct application of the mor-
 obligation of the bankers was pre- ented by Prof. Ramsey a member Of he state illiteracy commission, and
 As G. Thompson of Hot Springs, nur Drker for the organization, who
 Aef talks, gave some data on the he illiterarcy of the state Of Arkan- las, and stated some of the plans for tamping it out.
 Just what the obligation of the banker to his employees and to his tepositors was a theme brought be- fore the meeting by W. A. Hicks, Rlce president and cashier of the ApEisan Bank of Commerce and
 lt company of Little Rock. An yN'y different phase of banking Fss presented in talk by R. w. Et- Fer of the Merchants and Planters Bank of Pine Bluff, who made a more pr less technical analysis of the manner Of securing new business by banks.
 ROthstein's Address.
 In his address, Dr. Rothstein made an anolgy between the human body and community, drawing a parallel between the physical body of man. and the material life of ? community.
 There cannot be healty mind without a healthy body" he said, and 1t is equally true that there ,annot be a healthy community mind healthy body. The banks ire the body of the community; and banking is essential and indespensa- 'le to economic life" He then enumerated the functions of t he banker as follows; to be a financial ather confessor to his constitutients; Q provides the sinuews of enter 'rlse; to symbolize thrift: to lubri- 'ate the machinery of life by faith; ma to help educate men to the req lzatlon of social conscience. "The I world war was brought on," he said, oy the lack of social conscience me nation failed to appreciate the act that it was not an atom set part from the world. but was al lhk Tn the chain of civilization. The oai strike which threatened the in- ustflal life of the country last win. er' and endangered the actual life T hundreds of thousands. was 'rought on because of the lack of 9 l oclai conscience. he stated. The coal h.ners ha were willing that hundreds of nhousands of people suffer, and that ne n Mheels of industry stop in order " \, sratliy their own selfish desires. ms principle is equally true, he 'a.ed, Tn the case of the American ;;eslon' which is demanding a giean- |. sum of money in order to satisfy nelr own desires, when the erant- 1 ng or this demand will work an aqltional {. hardship on the country v aatge, and put further off. the [ ossioiilty of normal situation.
 n. War on Illiteracy.
 I,oi Ramsey, speaking after pr i .ofnsteln. told the assemblage of ankers ,;lrs that there were 142.o0o l',erates in the state nf Arkansas. nu mat 1t was the ambition of the ' of which he was a mem CT to plot out illiteracy in Arkan- as inCee years. He stated there r1 e in operation, 43 schools ,"r n" men and women punils, with ,a'hers drawing no paw. He stated ,e commission needed additional .has' and asked the bankers to : as liberal as possible in their do- a.,ons Isn to this cause. Mrs. Thomnson w sn,ke along the lines of Prof. s sHscussing the practical obf)ta- fg v1 the banker to the community I pr Bradford Knapp divided his , ,ene into two parts. taking first ,,. ' analysls e of vital problems affect. aa r iarmers as we'll as business men au bankers, and second. the rela- ons o1 the banker and the farmer regard to credit. Dr. Knann said at ,at modern farming is a business ,a ,a', many farmers fail becanse "a ao not pay attention to ' 'r, aetalls of the business If ,s;ng 'ng One feature of tho of farming. ha s+otaa .me m e of m markets, 1t is vital prob 7" oi the business men and the " |>--~>>~-r- >>~-r-->@,
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