The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-01-14
Bank Directors and Stock
holders Annual Meeting
Affair. and Gratifying Help
Meet Situation Able and Encouraging Address
hrib Which The Speaker Took
Of Fatherhood of of
Hasten Better Business Condit


streets and upon the railroads ant
almost everywhere about tight money
He said that the public was payinf
the toll for its excesscs of the few
years past. Money had almost rur
riot, he said, and thousands had beer
out chasing the butterfly Of quicl
riches. 1t had been no trouble, the
speaker said, to get money for al
most any scheme if it had a few
men regarded as good behind it, but
the speaker said in this mad career
the people had forgotten the funda-
mentals of religion, they had lost
faith in each other and had grown to
putting their faith in money. He in
sisted that faith was on e
of the things wanting and that the
sooner people got back to where they
saw the needs of their fellows and
recognized that God regarded every
body the same whether they lived in
a mansion or in howell that the
sooner business would get back to
normal.
DR.. Fineschrieber reminded his hear
ers that the man who burned the can
die at both ends, the man who vast
ed his energies in rioticus living in
his early years, never failed to pay
the penalty in later years. He might
be hale and hearty up to 40 or As
years of age, but later the collector
would begin to demand toll for the
days or years wherein he had forgot
ten his duty to his parents, himself,
and his God; this, the speaker, stat
ed, was much the attitude of the
country, yea, the world today. Yet
he insisted that while this state of
affairs was part OF the inevitable,
it was not SO bad as people imagined.
That the halt in the worlds wild ca
reer of money making had caused
long faces and grouches, and thus it |
was that he insisted that much of |
the depression financially was psy-
Geological, result of thinking finan. |
cial hobgoblins.
DR.. Fineschreiber paid tribute to |
the foresight and wise direction of |
the Federal Reserve Banks but stat
ed that he thought the national ad-
had made an error in
dlssolving or discontinuing when it
did those agencies created to tide
over the after-war-period. The ac-
ton of the administration in that re-
gard, in his Judgment, he said, had
brought about congestion in ship
ments of our products and outputs
to Europe
There is a congestion, he said.
Children were starving IN Europe
while we had plenty in this country,
but just could not get it across the
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IN dire need. DR.. Fineschreiber's
hearers went away realizing the
force of all he said. 1t is largely a
depression he repeated
md that if every man would do his
iuty and regard his neiGhbor as his
friend the Creator would help to set !.
'ur financial houses in order in a
'ery little while, he said. 1t was a
,reat address.
The speech was a happy blending of
eEgion and business, and can but
lave a most salutary effect on all
vho had the good fortune to hear it. | ,
Mr.. j. T. Thomas, the President,
GEMS to have done another one of ,
he many thousands things to his ]
redit in connection with the bank {
t the opportune moment. He met i
he opportunity. t
The spirit that seemed to flow,
trough the meeting and the lessons I
ut of it call to mind the following q
rom the voices of those who in the c
ears ago, when men had time for 9
erious thought and for meditation n
nd who were wise enough to look s
l then upon this day and generation. i
''To cure our immoderate love of s
ain, we should seriously consider i
ow many goods there are money y
ill not purchase, and these the best c
nd how many ills there are that b
loney will not remedy, and these C
lie worst" and, n
Money and time are the heaviest il
urdens of life, and the unhappiest d
E all mortals are those who have !,
ore of either than they KNOW ii
QW to use." and, T
money is good servant, but %
angerous master" O