The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1922-01-13
GRENADA BANK OFFICIARY
HOLD ANNUAL CONCLAVE
Stockholders and Others Gather From the Different
Localities Interested President Thomas Makes Optimistic
Report. Fine Address Delivered by Mr. Ralph Parlette
Chicago, in Which Fine Business Doctrine is Enunciated

/ the lesson of inter-dependence anon,
the people. He said that the publ
must have the banks and likewise tn
banks must have the public. Tha
it was not the business of the one t,
exploit the other in any sense; indee,
he said that it was suicidal in eithe
not to properly consider the other
He discussed the unrest and distrus
in the business world today, all O.
which he said grew out of the sam,
spirit that Adam and Eve showed il
the centuries ago when they heark
ened unto the voice of the serpent
The serpent whispered "selfishness'
to the first man and woman and the,
tried it out, and he said that thu
same serpent was still working upor
humanity.
He used Aesop's fable about the
quarrel between the different mem
bers of the human body to illustrate
the discord between the differen,
classes of business and working mer
today. In that fable, he recalled
that the hands and the feet and the
head said that they were tired OF
working and planning while the sto-
mach got all they did and did not
work, so the head, the hands and the
feet decided to "strike" so as to
make the stomach work. It is need
less to relate the result of that strike.
AS with these foolish members of the
human body, Mr.. Parlette said, so
with different classes of business to-
day. There was too much of envy
and jealousy and failure to recognize
that each was but wheel or cog in
the machinery of the great whole. He
cited the builders strike which has
been agitating Chicago. The situa-
tion became so acute that finally both
sides agreed that Judge Lands of the
federal court should arbitrate, and
while Judge Lands stated that he
found more of the really huran
spirit in the mechanics and the build
ers, yet the very things their unions"
were standing for was hurting them
and their families and the general
public which Mr.. Parlette termed the
third party. He stated that :.mong
nancy other things, Judge Landis
fouad that panes of glass, for in
stance, which went into the windows
of The houses being erected, under
tts orders of the builders union, had
to =. rut in at the hrildines. thing
which could have been done at the
factor ar a great deal less cost but
when the builders attention was call
ed to it, they answered that if that
were done, it would take just one
tenth of the men and a great many
would be without employment. Furth-
he said, that they had an
agreemen' which forbade their riding
in car or in an automobile to their
work, lest they would get there too
early. they said thev must walk on
their employers time. The contrac-
tors, when demonstrated with about
high prices of buildings, said that
the cost of labor was twenty per cent,
but Judge Lands found that labor
only made little over 6 per cent Of
the cost. Judge Lands ironed out
many of these differences. But the
point Mr.. Parlette- was seeking to
emphasize was that all ;ilis was folly,
and that every business and calling,
when it did not show due regard for
each others rights, was inf1icting
great injury on the third party which
far the biggest group. He
;aid that the trouble cited in Chicago
grew out of ignorance and a failure
% recognize what each owed the big
hird party. He paid fne tribute TO
he socalled tight wads," class, he
'aid, that oftentimes pulled these
yery critics out of whole. He dis
.ussed thrift" and said it did not
mean just saving or laying by money,
,ut had broader meaning than that.
lie said that the man who spent all
le made was not safe leader and
hat many disappointments and the
dissolution of sacred bonds frequent
Y came of not living within ones in
ome,. 1t was fine address. 1t was
splendid appeal for sympathetic |
manhood, and for the conduct of all |
usiness on lines that sacrifices self |
shness to a recognition of the prin-
iples set forth by the founders of |
his government when they wrote into
he basic law, "to promote happiness
nd domestic tranquility.
Mr.. Parlette stated nothing in his
ddress about his early hardships but
lother died when he was quite
mall boy and that later he was ap-
renticed out during which time his
mes were not always in very pleas
MT places. He and President Hard
lg ran a newspaper together in the
avs gone by and he stated that he
'orked in Mr.. Harding's print shop
hen his ready print came C. o. D.
Mr.. Parlette is intenself human
Il DELIGHTFULLY."- rompanionab e. The
ritter especially enjoyed few hours
his company.