The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-11
Frederick Haskin's Letter.
THE BANKING PUBLICATIONS

present; water power in Calitornh
metal mining in Utah. the anaaesi
situation In japan, the status I ia |
Oregon lumber industry. Hawafin|
sugar and the farming situation n
Idaho. This issue contains Z =
simile reproduction Of . man n
North America published in is1
California il shown as an isl,a1
and Alaska does not appear Il a
At the time Of original puhlicatin |
its publishers Aescribed the mas !, |
new and most accurate"
bulletin frequently publishes u
curiosities Of special interest," N
the Pacific coast.
One Of the liveliest and no
readable of the bank bulletin
from q human interest point d
view, is that published monthly i,
the Northwestern National Bank d
Minneapolis. 1t is smaller in si,.
than either of those named abo,s
but always brims over with inte,.
est. not only to bankers and bui-
ness men but to everyone Who u
interested in the way human beinns
live. While 1t contains serious dit
cussions of business and flnaacii|
conditions it does not exclude al
occasional story about bank rok.
berries, nor does it scorn anecdotes
Always these are connected smootA.
ly with the point Of the main d.
cussiOn.
The Guaranty Survey is another
monthly published by the Guarauy
Trust company of New York; Con.
merce Monthly is quite a pretss.
tious publication issued by the NJ.
tional Bank Of Commerce in New
York. Both of these are invariably
serious in tone and prepared ii 1
style unlikely to captivate the a.
ual reader.
The Girard letter, published n
the Girard National Bank Of Phih-
delphia is a small pamphlet but H.
variably attractive. 1t contain
stories of business which vie In IL
terest with the best published q
the commercial magazines.
Each of the Federal Reserve
Banks publishes a monthly bulletin.
reporting in careful detail the con-
dition Of business, industry. 'trads
and finance in its district. Thsx
are rather heavy publications, hii
; . published by the Federal ResefW
Bank of Cleveland probably being
the only one which occasionall
prints matter of general interest
Editors Are Unknown.
These bank publications an
| anonymous. The articles are nd
signed and usually no editMt
name is given. The men who maks
them get no glory out of thsil
| work excepting within their on,
, organizations, but the public gu
the benefit of their best efforts.
The list could b continued a
! most Unfortunately. sThere are hun
t.dreds of such publications, most O
them monthlies, but a few semi
| monthlies. Many of them are mere
ly small two or -four page pamph
lets of purely local interest.
The purpose of the banks L
spending the large sums Of meme!
which these issues cost is to keel
/ their customers and depOsitors &C
curately informed on business con-
| ditions. A bank will be prosper
! Gus if its customers are prosperous
Bank officials realize the value d
education, especially current edu
!, cation, which means reliable anl
prompt Information about import
ant occurrences in the economi
life of the country. The bushes
man who does not understand vhi
relation the German PREPARATIONS 0
the neareastern situation bears
his pocketbook can find out ,
reading such publications as thos
mentioned above. He will kno'
what effects various kinds OF legi!
lation are having on the count
and what production and prices al
in number of fields. The ball
consider that they spend the
money wisely when they educa
the business people with whom ths
deal and therefore they spare
. expense in issuing periodicals
genuine merit.