Smyrna times., 1926-11-24
DELAWARE BANKERS MOVEMENT
WOULD AID STATE FARMERS
MTETING is PRESIDED OVER BY
EDWARD G. WALLS OF SMYRNA
Plans Looking to Aid of Agricultural
Industry Are Discussed at Recent
Meeting Held IN Dover

The first meeting of the newly ap-
Committee of the Delaware Bankers
Association, appointed by the presi-
dent, Thomas R. Ingram, of Lewes,
was held in the Supreme Court Room
at the State House in Dover, recently,
20 adopt a program of the proposed
activity of the committee for the year
The committee met at the call of the
chairman, Edward G. Walls, of Smyr-
ma National Bank. The other mem
bers of the committee are Governor
Robert P. Robinson, Central Nation
al Bank, Wilmington; Daniel w. Cor
bit, New Castle County National
Bank, Odessa; Warren A. Shingles,
Newark Trust and Safe Deposit Co.,
of Newark; Jesse L. Shepperd, Della
ware Trust Company, Middletown;
George F. Herring Sr, FELTON, Bank;
w. D. Denney, Farmers Bank, Dover;
John W. Herring, First National
Bank, Milford; S. L. Sapp, Peoples
Bank, Harrington; Oliver A. Newton,
Baltimore Trust Company, Bridge
vile; Phillip L. Cannon, First Nation
al Bank, Seaford; E. V. Baker, Selby-
vile Bank, and DR.. Hiram R. Burton,
Delaware Trust Company, Lewes.
| E. V. Baker was made secretary of
the committee. President Thomas R.
Ingram addressed the Committee urg-
ing that it function as the most inn
portant committee of the State Bank
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that the large portion of our State is
| devoted to the basic and fundamental
business of farming. He urged that
whatever the committee did undertake
would be we'll done.
"A. D. Cobb, of the Extension De
partment of the University of Della
ware, gave an interesting talk on the
project work of the Boys and Girls
clubs and the part taken by the Del
aware Bankers to foster that work.
The views of practically all mem
bers of the Committee present We're
given and out of the whole it will be
the policy of Chairman Walls to cen
tralize on about two phases of pro-
motion work marketing and increas-
ed production, using the Key Banker
System involving individual connec-
tion of the banks in the local COM
| munities with one or more local pro-
jects to demonstrate to the particular
section what improvements can be
made by the newer and improved
methods of farming the particular
crop used as the basis of the project
Former Governor Denney urged
that the committee encourage and
foster the movement looking to q
systematic marketing of products
having in mind bumper crop years
when valuable crops if marketed a!
and when used instead of being dump
ed into the hands of spectators who
are keen enough themselves to unloac
as and when the markets would best
absorb. Mr.. Denney realized the vast
ness of the general program of mar.
keting but insisted that a great steI
could be made if the section known a,
the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula would for
mulate some plan that would more ol
less control the sales and marketing
of the produce of that particular sec
tion.
Chairman Walls intends to appoint
Key Bankers in each county who vii
visit the various bank boards and dis
cuss with them the particular phase
of Agriculture which they might b.
able to better in their particular dis
trict and the Committee bids fair t.
accomplish some real constructive
work this year.