The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06
BANKERS OPEN
 48TH MEET IN
 NEW YORK CITY
BY MAX KASE, International News Service Staff COrrcSnOnlert.

New York, Oct. 6-The feminine touch which has succeeded in making it's influence felt in politics and in business, in sports and in science, has made it's greatest conquest-it has succeeded in forcing the feminine charms upon a bankers convention which heretofore has been impervious to wOmen's guile.
 At the forty-eighth annual conven- ton of the American Bankers Asso- cIatlon, which got under way at the Hotel Commodore yesterday and which will continue in session until October 6, 134 attractive, demure young misses are doing their bit to invest the aloof, formal atmosphere of a bankers barley with the warmth and cOziness of a neighbOrs' gather ing AS the official announcement of the assocSltion explains it:
 6nJl in the Women.
 '"The cOEamitte of one hundred, be- ing merely men, decided that to in vest this convention with the quality of human get-togeth herness that this world so needs, the women must be called in.''
 And so the ladies were summoned. For the most part they are secretaries to bank officials in this city. For weeks they have been coached and trained and instructed into the art of playing the perfect hostess, until today, stationed in their booths at the various hotels in which the delegates and their families are registered they
 
 of friendliness and welcome to the women folks that heretofore has been lacking.
 The duties of the girls will be null tifold. They will supply all inforna- tion on a wide range of subjects to their guests.
 Many Attending.
 As to the convention itself, it is one of the most successful in the history of the association. More than 5000 representatives of the 22,000 member banks throughout the coun- try are in attendance. The members throughout the world
 1.-TWO outstanding problems perpleX us-industrial controversy and unrest at home and international financial difficulties abroad d'-declared Thomas B. McAdams, president of the associa- tion "To these problems the con- vention will address itself with un- mistakable vigOr."
 Prominent financiers and statesmen will address the bankers. This after noon Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing tion will deliver an address on ''Fi- nancial Agriculture.' Others who will speak are the Right Honorable Reginald McKenna, formerly Chan cel1or of the British EXchequer, on ! Preparations and 1nternat!onal Debts;" Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Co.,, on world finance from an American standpoint; Henry J.
  ] sponsibility of the government for industrial justice and the relations of the Federal reserve system to Amer ican business;; L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, on Labor Unions"
 Talk Banking Problems
 Banking problems will be fully dis cussed A debate on the topic Shall National Banks Be Prevented from Establishing Branches Within Their Home Cities Where This Privilege Is Exercised by State Banks?" will be argued before the general convention on Wednesday, the fourth. Andrew J. Frame, president of the Waukesha National Bank, Waukecha, Wiscon- sin, will speak on the affirmative side of the question and will be opposed by Waldo Newcomer, president of the National Exchange Bank of Baltimore.
 Several entertainment features have been arranged, among them a fashion show, a boat trip to West Point, Where review will be made of the cadets, and golf tournaments.