The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-05-27
BANKERS GROUP four
HAVE VERY BUSY SESSION
BUSINESS MEETINGS, SPEAKING
BY EMINENT MEN; BANQUET
AND DANCE COMPRISE DOINGS
OF HOPEFUL AND OPTIMISTIC
BODY. State Hi
SMILE AND KEEP STILL

(By c. B. Bull, President Group
Nv Montana Bankers AssOciation) -
The Bankers in general, the Bank II
ers who are here,
Have had one ell of a time dur
ing the past year:
Bills payable been growing with =
leaps and spurts,
Deposits have dropped and drop
ped til it hurts.
The biggest war in the World has *
been fought,
But we were victOriOus-fOrget y
the havoc that's wrought.
The cost must be paid; we must y
settle the bill;
We must work and work hard, and
smile and keep still.
It's test of courage, hard on the II
nerves;
It's test on the Banker, more q
than he deserves.
such pill,
But directions say, take it, so ~
smile and keep still.
Have faith in the future, forget f
ting the past,
There's a reward for the "sticker"
that'll last;
The man with a vision who has a r.
strong will,
Can fight and like it, can smile *
and keep still.
IL
Outstanding features of the meeting
of the Group Four of the Montana
Bankers Association, at Glasgow last
Friday, were the optimism manifest
ed by all, and the overflow of the
Montana Spirit" everywhere. There
was nothing noticed in any of the
speeches or acts of this very repre-
sentative body to indicate that any
thing was the matter with the state.
On the contrary all felt that better
times were almost here; that there was
no reason, from local crop failures, to
lose confidence in the future produc-
tion and prosperity of any Of our vast
resources and activities.
Morning Session.
The morning session was opened by
an invocation by Rev. Allen, after
which Mayor Otto M. Christinson well
coined the visitors to the city in neat
speech, which was responded to by
A. S. Newcomb, of the Mondak State
Bank The time of the meeting was
then taken until noon, in disposing of
routine business which included re-
ports from the counties of Phil
lips, Valley, Sheridan, Roosevelt, and
Daniels. All of these reports were
optimistic showing entire confidence
in the future, and reporting crop con-
ditions to be excellent in each of the
counties named.
The afternoon session was opened
by President Otto Ramsted, of Pop
lar, who introduced Dean Linfield of
the Bozeman State College, who was
the principal speaker of the day.
Hope of Valley Lands is Irrigation.
Speaking of the history of the de-
velOpment of Montana as an agricul-
tural state, Prof. Linfield reviewed
the quarter of a century he had been
in experimental and development
work, in a way that was instructive
to the banker from the standpoint of
an investor in farms and farm lands.
He made it very clear that the hope
of the valley land Of the state was in
irrigation, and that only the bench
lands could be depended upon to Sc
cure sufficient rainfall for dry farm
ing. He explained that the higher
the land was the more rainfall it re-
ceived. AS whole he did not recon-
mend dry land wheat farming, say
ing that the rainfall was not suffic-
iently certain to justify it; that it
was sufficient to produce corn, alfal-
ia and other forage for stock, and
that by rotation, or grain crop every
two years, dry farming, in connection
with stock raising, would be highly
profitable on most of the dryest bench
land areas. However he believed that
much land had been entered for farm
ing that should have been left for
range purposes. The limitations of
the climate were such that crops
could be produced only in ideal years,
and he was emphatic in the statement
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