The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
BANKERS TO HEAR
 PROMINENT MEN AT CHICAGO MEET
Meredith, Morrow And Pepper Bring Messages
 To National Body

CHICAGO, Sept. Notwithstanding spokesmen for all sides of America's business problems will be heard by the nations bankers at the coming annual convention of the American Bankers association at Chicago, it is disclosed in the program of the general sessions made public today. The meeting will be the fiftieth annual convention of the association and will be held September % to October 2. Divisional and com mittee meetings vii be called the open ing day, Monday, September %. and the first general session will be held the morning of Tuesday, September 30.
 Walter w. Head, president of the association. will open the general ses- sion with an address on the part of the banker in the nations business. An other speaker will be B. T. Meredith, head of the Meredith farm publications of Des Moines, Iowa, and former Sec retary of Agriculture, on the Relation of Agriculture to Otther Business" He will be followed by Dwight w. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & O., New York, in- ternational banker of worldwide rec ognition. Especial interest attaches to what Mir. Morrow may have to say in view of his recent discussion of the way international loans are handled, re- futing popular notions that their sue cess depended upon the dictation of few huge international banking houses and showing that they required the confidence of a vast number of small investors.
 Reynolds On Second Day
 On the second day the first speaker ho IT, thur Reynolds, president o fthe Con- tinental and Commercial National bank of Chicago, on the subject, Tuning in With Events" He will be followed by c. H. Markham of Chicago, president of the Illinois Central railroad, who will sneak on ''The Railroads as Fac tors in Business The third speaker will be John E. Edgerton of Lebanon, Teenn.. president of the National As sociation of Manufacturers, on Making Securities Secure"
 Still other major phases of current problems will be taken up at the third general session. James c. Cropsey of Brooklyn. N. Y., justice of the supreme court of New York, will speak on "The Responsibilities of Citizenship" The first speaker will be Senator George Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia on Banks and the Government"
 Advance registrations at the Chicago convention hotels show that this years meeting will be one of the largest in the history of the organization. The de- tailed program of the three general ses- sions is as follows:
 Tuesday, September 30, 9: 80 a. m. Concert, orchestra; vocal solo, Miss Az nes Neudorff: call to order, President Walter W. Head; invocation; address of the president; report, official acts and proceedings of the executive coun- cil; address, Relation of Agriculture to Other Business" F. T. Meredith, Meredith publications ;; address, Dwight W. Morrow, J. P. Morgan & Co.,; ap- pointment of resolutions committee; communications and announcements.
 Wednesday, October 1, 9:30 n. m.: Concert, orchestra; vocal solo, Miss Ggnes Neudorff; invocation; address, Tuning in With Events" Arthur Key holds, president Continental and Com mercial National bank; address, The Railroads as Factors in Business" c.. H. Markham, president Illinois Central railroad report of nominating commit tee and election of officers; address, Making Securities Secure" John E. Edgerton, president National Associa- tion of Manufacturers; report of reso- lutions committee; communications and announcements.
 Thursday, October 2, 9:30 a. m.; Concert, orchestra vocal solo, Miss Agnes NeudOrff; invocation; address, 'The Responsibilities of Citizenship, Justice James c. Cropsey. New York supreme court. Second district; address. Banks and the Government" Senator George Wharton Pepper; unfinished business; new business; installation of officers; announcements; adjournment.