Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-03
DELAWARE BANKERS
BLAZING NEW TRAIL
IN STATE BUSINESS
Significance of the Group Meet :
ings One of Which is to be Held
in Smyrna Thursday.
CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM
HAS BEEN ARR ANGED

The SMYRNA bankers arc making great
preparation for the meeting OF the Com
mittecs on State Finances and Federal
Reserve system, representing the stare
Bankers Association, which will be held
IN the Twentieth Century Club rocms IN
hat town on Thursday Following Is a
list of the members of these committees
COMMITTEE on FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
New Castle county-Otho Nowland,
president Equitable Trust Co; John
Richardson, Jr., president National BANK
II Delaware: William q. Taylor, vice
president Delaware Trust CO.. Ezekiel
cooper. cashier Farmers Bank; Warren
A. Singles, treasurer Newark Trust and
safe Deposit Co
Kent countv-Henry Ridgely. presi-
dent Farmers Bank, Dover: +. {. Dely,
vice-president West Dover Trust 70,
IIsrtly; John Heyd vicc-presldent felton
Rank: DIR. W. 7. Hoey, viCe-president
First National Bank. Frcderica; II. =.
Graham cashier Clayton Bank.
Sussex county--Govcrnor John u.
Townsend. Jr, president Baltimore Trust
Co. Selbyville Dr, Row land q Payntcr,
president Farmers Bank. Georgetown:
George II Hall. president Milford Trust
Co: II. W Baker, vice-president First
National Bank. Seaford: Charles II
Maull, director Sussex Trust Co, Lewcs.
COMMITTEE on STATE FINANCES.
New Castle county Charles r. Miller,
president Farmers Bank; John III. Dandy,
president Union National Bank; Charles
u. Evans. president Newark Trust and
safe Deposit Co. Newark: John T.. Tay-
or. president New Castle Trust Co. New
Castlc. William du Pont, president Della
ware Trust Go.
Kent county Former Governor John
HUM, president First National Bank.
Dover; 7. L. Hardesty, president FELTON,
Bank: Ora G.. Sapp, president People s
Rank. Harrington; Henry Williams,
president West Dover Trust Co, Hartlyi
T.. Marriott Fowler cas- hier Fruit Growers
National Bank. SMYRNA.
Sussex county-Philip l.. Cannon. .presi-
dent First National Bank. Seaford; Henry
A. Houston. president Millsboro Trust
and Safe Deposit Co; J. W. Todd. presl-
lent Greenwood Trust Co; q. +. Lacey,
PRESIDENT Sussex Trust Co, Milton; DIR.
Hiram r.. Burton. vice-president Fidelity
Trust and Savings Bank Lewes
The bankers Of Smyrna have invited the
members of the committees TO be their
quests At luncheon at the Colonial Inn.
Ev-Congressman Walter Q. Hoffecker,
Who has charge of the local arrangements,
and his associate bankers are looking for
rard to the occasion as one of the events
II SMYRNA Indications are that there
will be a representative attendance OF
bankers from different sections Of the
State
Addresses will be delivered by former
Governor Charles r. Miller, William p
White. chairman State Survey Commits
sion, and r. NJ. Miller, Jr., assistant
cashier of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia. There will be a general dis
cussion of subjects of interest to the
bankers, in which members of the com
mit,Aes and others will take part.
The group committee meetings that the
Delaware Bankers Association have been
holding throughout the State, during this
wear have received the warmest cCm-
mendation Of bankers elsewhere interested
in association work In a letter to Presi-
dent John S. Resell, man prominent IN
financial circles in New York, recently ex-
pressed his appreciation OF Delawares S
good example as follows: You are GER
tainly blazing a new trail in connection
with the group committee meetings. The
trouble with most of the State organiza-
tions of bankers is that they deal in too
much of what we might call the high
brow" stuff. and do not ccmc sufficiently
TO earth in developing their possibilities
for coordinate work You are developing
the Delaware movement along the most
practical and successful way that ! have
vet encountered In any State