The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-01
A Time OF RECKONING

TN THE BUSY march of life there
comes a time when the individual
- stoDs for determination; the
business man for an accounting; the
hard-wOrked teacher and diligent pu-
Pill for relaxation from the successive
weeks of arduous school work, the
toilsome laborer from both his physi-
cal and mental activities in his Surug-
giles to maintain his family, and there
fore in the general order of things a
pause or ii halt takes place as If to
offer a reminder that there must be
time of reckoning.
Our Banking Institutions.
Banking institutions request some of
their patrons to come in periodically
and get statements of their accounts;
others they call upon for the ADJUST
ment of interests on their deposits,
semi-annually or annually, and this in
many instances gives rise to the Sc
curing of good investments by those
who by thrift and an adherence to
strict economical purposes spend some
time in reckoning-the reasoning with
ones self and arriving at Il conclusion
from the argument. Keeping in this
order, a principle is formed which in
turn generates itself into a commun-
ity, and STOCK TAKING begins to De
engaged in by that class of business
men, who is ever ready to facilitate
the public by offering credit sales as
well as cash. Having been benefited
by the kindly action of these benerac-
tors, the public resolve to show their
appreciation by responding to the
notices sent them by the MER-
CHANTS OF OUR CITY, among whom
has sprung up friendly relationship
in the business world, and which re-
sponse in the majority satisfies the
heads of firms, that it is a pleasure
to deal with such members of the COM
munity.
These customers and patrons come
to the rescue of the large business as
they are quite aware of the great dam
ger that would follow if such an fnsti-
tuition should fail-prestige built up
and maintained for years being last
at the stroke of pen or by court
decision; tourist trade on which
fair share of the city's development
depends from the advertisement given
it by visitors, facing possible ruin,
such impressions may form the influ-
entlal agent that would rather tend to
the support than non-support of such
large institutions
But, asks one, what about the great
est of all institutions PRESS
AND THE NEWSPAPERMAN? Oh
what an admiration for the press
Everyone declares that a community
cannot exist successfully without the
influence of the press, which shapes
its very mind (as is generally eX-
pressed), and oh, the fatality that
would befall a nation were the press
to be suspended for a week or a
month! Yes, great institution-the
press-and in the best of words and
the highest sounding phrases we offer
our commendation, but the newspaper
man. His bills, his obligations must
be met and in many instances in ad-
vance. He is always on the go secur-
ing the news for all the people, seeing
that his paper is well ''made-up' so
as to be attractive to the advertiser
and the general public, giving healthy,
sound information and news that the
community can be pleased with, as 1t
tends to all round improvement. This
business man also pauses for a
RECKONING, but hardly any one
~stops to reason why, or stops to