The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-23
MORAN PUSHES
MEET PLANS
BIZ RICHARn HATT0N

completing plans for their partici.
patton in the savings bank con-
ference Of the Eastern division.
American Bankers Association, to
be held at the Willard Hotel April
and 8. according to Howard
Moran, chairman of the general
convention committee.
A meeting of the program COM
mittee has been called for Thurs
day. There will also be a confer.
: ence of the chairmen of all Of the
subcommittee on that day.
The second letter announcing the
program arranged for the confer
ence is being mailed out this week.
The tentative program as COM
pleted at present is comprehensive
in scope and includes a number of
men of prominence who win speak
upon subjects Of great practical
value and present interest. w.
Espey Albig, deputy manager of
the American Bankers Association,
will address the convention on
Lights and Shadows in Savings"
The subject Of Investment Of
Savings Deposits" win be covered
by Harry p. Clifford, president of
the National Association of Mutual
Savings Banks, and Samuel II.
Beach, president of tho Home Saw.
ings Bank, Rome, N. Y, will speak
on "Money-The Keeping of Its
Standard Purchasing Power, Par.
ticularly Essential to Savings De-
positors.''
''The Better Business Bureau in
It's Relation to Savings will be
discussed by Edward L. Greene,
managing director of the National
Better Business Bureau, and Orrin
e. Lester. assistant vice president
of the Bowery Savings Bank. win
talk on Income Management
A subject of particular interest to
American bankers will be that to
be discussed by DR.. Heinz e. Leu.
dicke, secretary of the Savings
Banks Association Of Germany. He
win address the conference on "The
Difference Between the Functioning
Of the Mutual Savings Banks in the
United States and the Municipal
Savings Banks in Germany"
Uniform Method of Calculating
Interest" will be covered by Gaillard
Oliver, OF New York, and "Observa-
tons on Financial Advertising" will
be discussed by ]. A. Price, publicity
manager of the Bank of Pittsburgh.
A subject which is the cause OF
considerable thought upon the part
Of bankers today, Stimulation Of
Inactive and the Correction Of IN
profitable Accounts will be the
phase of banking taken by VIII
liam II. Ritter, assistant treasurer
of the Central Trust and Savings
Company, of Philadelphia, and Dan.
lei s. Sylvester, executive manager
of the Savings Bank Association Of
Massachusetts,. will expound the
Savings Bank Idea"
Local bankers, as well as the many
delegates who will represent out-of-
town institutions, are looing for
ward with keen anticipation to the
address to be delivered by Merle
!. Thorpe, editor Of Nations Business
who has taken for his subject
Prospect of Continued Commercial
and Industrial Prosperity and It's
Effect Upon Savings -
Another subject Of particular
Thickness is that of ''The Desirable
ity or Undesirability of Mortgage
Bonds as Investments for Savings, .
which will be handled by the Hon.
Keyes Winter, assistant attorney
general of New York State.
Vice President Jesse F. Wood. of
the State Planters Bank and Trust
Company. Of Richmond. Va, will
discuss the subject. rs the Thrift
Idea to Become Obsolete Because
of Installment Buying"
Gurden Edwards, publicity direc.
tor. A. B. A.. win speak on "Pub-
Lefty and the Misfit Customer
Problem"
Recognized as one Of the keenest
experts in the country on the Nc
Fadden bill and its effect upon our
banking system. President Henry I'll.
Mckee. of the National Capitol
Bank. Of this city one of the besL.
known savings bank officials in
Washington, will hold the attention
OF the conference when he speaks
upon the subject. Savings Depos-
Its and Real Estate Loans of
National Banks Authorized by the
McFadden Bill" This is expected
to be one of the high lights Of the
conference.
Another subject of increasing
Importance is that to be dealt with
by Vice President H. Brook Her.
ring, of the Baltimore Trust Com.
pany, Getting Your Moneys Worth
From Savings Advertising.
On the whole the program as ten.
tatively arranged promises to be one
of the most constructive ever car
ried through at a regional confer
ence and will be prolific Of. not
only concentrated thought upon
important problems facing savings
hanks, but of action that may,
eventually, have q far-reaching
effect upon our savings bank sys-
tenn.
The large number of delegates
who win be present because the
conference Is being held in the Ma
tional Capital and the unqualified
success of such gatherings as the
meeting here and the coming con-
vention of the District of Columbia
Bankers Association at Hot Springs
are factors of Importance in clarity.
ing the financial situation as 1t is
effected by banks and bank officials,
and in bringing concerted action for
the Improvement of banking prac-
tice throughout the country.
Every possible effort is being
made by General Chairman Moran
and the other local bankers con.
nected with the committees in
charge OF arrangements here to
make the stay Of the visiting bank
ers pleasant from social as well
az from a professional angle for 1t
Ii realized that the meeting in this
city of the Eastern Regional Con-
ference is an event of primary i'm
portance.