Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-17
HARDING IS CHEERFUL
OVER BUSINESS FUTURE
President Has Thoroughly
Confident View of Coming
Prosperity, He Declares.
cnIssINcEp URGES EDUCATION
Comptroller Says Public Should
Learn More of Co-Opcrntion He
tween the Government nnti AEcn-
Giles OF Organized Finance.
Try United Naws.l

NEW YORK, June lS,--fTestdcr y [
Harding has a cheerful and thor
ouShly confident view" OF the busr-
ness future.
He scnt this message 10 bankers
gathered At the one hundred and
tenth anniversary dinner OF tho Ma
tional City Bank here Friday nignt:
There are multiplying and graft
Tying evidences that we are enter
ing upon a new era in our own COM
mercial a'iairS." said the President.
and 49, our relations with The res,
OF the world. in which very proper
rewards will come to those who NAV.
thus devoted themselves to the ma
tional interest.
reports Arc Cheerful.
"All the Testimonials which come
TO me regarding the business si.,,a-
ton and outlook. Justify a cheerful
and thoroughly confident view OF the
things Immediately before us"
The President said he had no dou VI
Comptroller OF tho Currency Girls
singer who spoke AT the dinner.
would make fitting Acknowledged
mcnt OF tho century and more OF fine
cooperation between the bank and
the national government.
THE National City Bank and its
affiliated interests have been potent
factors in efforts for extension OF
American financial and commercial
influence throughout the world" said
the President.
Need Moro Educntiou.
Crissinger, after feiici'a,ing the
ha n ~ s.1f
with the government. expressed IN"
wish tina, there might be program
OF education through which the "yco-
pie could learn more Of these CO.
operations between government and
IN" agencies uf organized finance"
The public. Crissiuser said. did
not want 20 be unjust. nor had the
business community the design Of
Imposing the yoke OF servi,ude" ON
the people.
"lut IN both camps are some mon"
he said. at times attaining promi-
hence, whose influence is not calcu-
lated TO promote the best relations
and understanding"
The comptroller went on 10 saw
that banks have been universally
democratized In recent times"
lie predicted business on a vastly
larger scale than in pre-war DAYS.
concentration or nnnks necessary.
powerful concentrations of bank
ing interests were absolutely u,c,s
Sary To cope with the unprecedented
strains OF the war and tn. subse
Cuent period" CrissinErr said ain
ths times ahead OF Us, when the
'ntrrpris" and confidence of :; 70,
haHilita,cd world shall swing us once
NOR" INT" the full current of prn.
"ucinS and merchandising activltic.
even the most sanguin. and far
seeing among us viii be amazed IN
note how Garrantuan Will be the
new scale ~ things
"rh" seal" OF pre-war affairs Will
seem I.iliputian by comparison.
and IL is well for us 10 Keen CLEAR.
Is ~ mind that this new err IS ro,
i"r ahead OF us The signs Of the
times all point upward"
Predicts Prosperity.
'riSsmGor added thar the next
rt'a' problem OF the business world
VIII lac t" insure control for Il ma
cE'n" p.ung.ne ahead at its ruN
power. He predicted AN era az UNI
irec'dent"d prosperity and resultant
happiness ana good cheer"
We viii be glad then" he con
tnucd, that the cxigcncies Of the
war period have equipped us with
banking facilities adequate TO the