The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1918, Page 6

SATURDAY, AUG. 3, 1918. . 5 , ie ath the banks islation,: the | banks ain| tying before the law went into ef-|be the strongest influence in the state | tinct. service. In that case through thelr attlcude toward this aw, fect" toward the observance -by all your| would have a clear yeaa eee dahteg as helping to carry out, Jaws about This association has further oppor-| members of standard banking rules the law, in the way which you were in doubt. You have} tunity for service, in connection with | and practice. You are in the ‘best po- posits. had, somewhat regularly, a good deal| this law! The fear that many of you! sition to formulate the kind of re- Iv of misgiving about the effects of state|have is that, with deposits guaran-| ports, requirements and ingpection to: e, Got my guarantee. In spite of that, 700 ot | teed by law Wild-catting will -be en-| keep the practice of all your vanks Thvilt: Se. ‘) your number were reported as quali-| Couraged, This association ought to] up to standard, That would be a dis- ainp BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE | MUST MAKE GOOD | ~ TOGET: BIG 0B Enroll as Red Cross Nurses for War Service jo MCA Workers Given Severe , Test Before Getting Im- \ portant Work. NOT) WHAT THEY EXPECT Have Visions of Performing Herolc Services and Then Find That War Is Not All Romance and Vislons, By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER. Paris—On the way across the ocean the good-looking girl in the natty, new uniform sat in a steamer chair, her eyes hazy while she dreamed a dream of what her work in France was to be. One had a hint of what that vision was, for now and then, her voice low with suppressed emotion, she would j talk a bit about it. In her mind’s eye she saw herself somewhere out by No Man’s Land, crouching beside a wound- ; ed boy in khaki whose last words she was taking down while she ministered to his last, parting wants, It was a Gne, heroic dream, that dream of hers. In a nearby chair sat another war worker, this one a man. He :oo had a dream, and the dream was ¢ ‘en more heroic than the gi Out in the front- line trenches he saw himself standing by with the boys in khaki, the air over- head “filled with the putts of ‘deadly bursting sharpnel while he too, hero- lcally brave, ministered to the wants of his charges. _, Altogether Different. The writer has just returned from a trip among a line of camps. There was a Red Triangle hut near the en- | trance of one camp. One side of the hut was flanked by a steaming mes? kitchen; across a rutted road, a chan: nel of tratlic filled with men, mules, | home and came to America to become} to China to establish a nurses’ train- motors and trueks, was a stockade | trained nurses. ing school in Pekin to encourage young f filled with German prisoners of war. “Every one, the British as well. as| Chinese girls to take up nursing, A Y. M. C.'A. secretary met the} the Am doctors and merchants| They are the daughters ef a prosper- + writer at the door. The secretary | and business men of all countries,”| ous proprietor of a cocoa estate in the looked tired, fagged, worn aut. In “rancis, “told: me that} West Indies who came there as a hoy ee spite of that, however, his air, was | TRAINED IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS Chinese! women of means who came all the way from Trinidad to study nurs- ing in an American training school, have offered ,their services to the American Red Cross to nurse Ameri- cans In’ France. Anxious to do their best for the allied cause, these young women overcame the traditional Chi- nese opposition to women leaving trained nurse was the the Amer! Dorothy and Maude Francis, young! o_O OO —O SS THECS CHINESE NURSES WOULD ENROLL WITH THE RED CROSS TO NURSE AMERICANS IN FRANCE, school for nurses in Brooklyn, When | told that she was apt to be refused ad- mittance to the port she had set about | establishing her right to enter, and | her perseverance resulted Jn her being about the work and the opportunity for “doing one’s best for humanity” that she wrote for her er, At the end of the war the two | and was adopted by an English family, admitted. She became so enthusiastic | ers intend going | cheerful, brisk, cordial. most efficient of her profession; that|'The father was married to a girl of | Inside all was spick and span. There | the hospitals, the training schools, the| his own race and settled down in ‘Trine was a scattering handful of boys in opportunities for experience for tra' idad, where four daughters were born khaki, the majority coloreg soldiers, who belonged about the place, At the hut's other end was # counter and be- hind the counter were two familia faces. One was the girl who'd sat in the stenmer Chair, her eyes hazy ‘as she'd dreamed her dream. The other was the man who'd come across with her the fellow who'd seen himself framed heroically amidst the bursting shrap- nel. * A trio of soldiers was draped about the girl's counter. The three, it hap- pened, were whites. About the other counter were four other soldiers, and all the four were black, The man, a damp, muggy towel in his ‘hand, was mopping off the counter. The Took on his face was the same look one beheld on the face of the girl. It was a look of bored, excruciating wenriness, “What'll you have, eggs?” he was murmuring to a big Galveston roust- about. The girl, her voice even more list- less, was saying: “Cigarettes are 75 centiines the pack. No, there is no chewing tobacco today.” " "Their Bubble Pricked. As. they saw the writer it would be difficult to describe the look that spread upon their faces, The girl was the firs@to regain her poise, “[m very well, thank you. The work? Oh, yes. It’s not exactly what I thought it would be, but then, C’est la guerte.” It took a struggle, though, for her to say it. Chewing tobkacce, chocolate and cigarettes—that instead of glory. The man was more brief. “The war—what do I think of it? It’s eggs, mostly—fried eggs.” Their bubble had been pricked. They were seeing the ‘war, a large part of it anyway, face to face with its realities. Outside, the hut secretary with a grin stopped to bid the writer good-by. “That’s the way with a lot of them from over home,” he remarked. “They come over here, thinking they’re go- ing right up to the front where they can-have a hand in the big show. But they’re all right. That girl’s got the right stuff In her, and after she’s been tried out here a while she'll have a chante at bigger things. The man, too, ts coming on. He’s had a jolt just as all of us get it over here, but when he gets the romance all wiped out of him he'll be a mighty valuable person for our sort of work. No, there's mighty little: romance in this man’s scrap, You can’t do much joy riding just pow in France.” SOLDIER WEIGHS 283 POUNDS Heavyweight Comes From lowa With {. Chum, Who Weighs but 132 Pounds. ‘ © Waterloo, Ia.—Black Eawk county has probably furnished the largest sol- dier in Iowa, ff not in the United eae Dallas Strum, who was called by the local board and sent to Ames for ‘special training, weighs 283 poupds. He lacked one inch of being six feet. Strum despaired entering the army, as he gained 20 pounds since bad examined last January. 4th Strum went Verne Clark, who ed nurses as found in Ame! equaled in no other country. Miss Francis las just completed the three years’ course in nurses’ training at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and after a trip to Trinidad to visit her mother will enroll with the Red Cross Nursing service, Her younger ‘sister has two years of training still ahead of her, but says if the war lasts that long she, too, will enter upou ‘Red Cross work, |, ‘Miss Francis sailed for New York three years ago without knowing any one—only the address of a training BANKING AS A SERVICE (Continued From Page Four tence in the history of their. bank is- sued by the National Bank of Com- merce of Néw York, a‘year ago, as follows: “A bank must always be closely linked with development of the community in which it does busi- ness. It is inconceivable that the right sort of bank should be prosper- ous, when the community which it serves is unprosperous.” This state- ment of principle they follow with the claim: “The whole history of the development of the Bank of Commerce of New York is a remarkable illus- tration of this principle. The growth of this city and of the nation has helped the bank, but the bank. has been able to do its part in increasing the prosperity not only of the city and state, but also, in many notable in- stances, of the nation itself.” I accept as sound, likewise, another statement of principles in the same booklet, as follows: “Banks deal in credit. Credit is based on confidence. Confidence is based on an intimate knowledge of men and their affairs. Consequently, the fundamental of successful banking is personal service and intimate mutual contact: between the bank and its customers.” | I do not know the practice of the National Bank of Commerce, but I accept their preachment, first, that the right sort of bank would be pros- perous only through helping to make the community prosperous, and ‘sec- ond, that the way to such service is through “intimate mutual contact be- tween the bank and its customers.” May it not, then, well be the creed of the North Dakota Bankers’ associ- atidn, that the prosperity of the re- spective communities, and that unto this end of common prosperity “inti- mate mutual contact between the bank and its customers” will be sought and maintained? Mutual Understanding and Confidence The first thing is mutual acquaint- ance, understanding and_ confidence. Let us underscore mutual. The late J. Pierpont Morgan, commonly regard- ed our greatest banker, answered be- fore a government commission that credit is based on character. Charac- ter can be interpreted only by “an intimate knowledge of men and their affairs.” To this end I would suggest the added advantage and profit that would come from this meeting ‘in having here as invited guests representatives of the various lines of business that you bankers serve—the merchant, the manufacturer, the farmer. The principle of mutual acquaint- ance and understanding is basic in all business. ’ For example, the foreign trade o fAmerica -has been handicap- ped because our merchants did not know as well as foreign merchants the people of the countries with whom ca, were to them, all of whom speak English fluently. ‘The coming enrollment of these two Chinese nurses is one of the direct ef- fects of the nation wide campaign the American Red Cross is conducting to enroll every graduate nurse either for assignment to the Army and, Navy Nurse Corps or for duty io public health nursing and as home defense nurses, The Army and the Navy have called for enough additional nursees to bring their Nurse Corps up to ap- proximately 25,000 by the first of the year, their customs in regard,to terms of purehase and credits. Bankers and the Farmers, If I needed anything to convince me of the practical’ wisdom of ac- quaintance between the banker and his customers, Jroot was furnished me by: attendance. two years ago at the great banker-farmer conference in Chicago, where questions of mutual interest were discussed by farmers, agricultural experts, stockmen and and bankers of Chicago and New York. You as bankers should aim to make it clear, through “intimate mutual contact,” that you as bankers are not only’ inerested personally in the peo- ple of the community, but tha your business interests are vitally linked up with the business interests of the community. The real banker is a bus- iness partner of the people whom he serves. Confidence an Essential In Banking. I might add here that confidence is more. essential to banking than to al- most any other line of business. We may lack confidence in the prospect of rain for our crops, but the confidence or lack’ of confidence does not affect the rains coming in any degree what- soever. We lack confidence in the methods of a bank, we stop doing business with it, when we can. We lack confidence in the soundness of a bank, and fear that it will go to the wall; spread that fear among the de- positors and the bank is’ likely 0 go to the wall. Confidence is a thing banks must have, to do business, with any suc- cess and satisfaction. Confidence in the. safety of the banks was put be- yond. question, in this state, his ‘monh, by a law which was planned, doubt- less for the benefit of the depositor. This will illustrate that What actually benefits the customer, benefits the bank... The confidence of the degos- itors, in turn, will increase the bank’s deposits, and thus benefit the bank. Guaranteeling of Deposits. This law guaranteeing deposits gives our banks an opportunity to gain, confidence in another direction. It I was: correct ‘in my, finding that the banker is looked on with some suspicion with reference to banking TODAY'S HORTEST TORY -¢- edge of ‘manufacturing “and Jabor‘conditicns all over thé country. Employers are asked to use this service when they ‘need’ men, and workers are ] save (T‘HE Government is asking the help of Thus workers are assured of being: sent employers and workmen .to.do.away._to the right jobs at the right time. “Em- with the unnecessary “‘turn-over” of labor ployers get help in hireing men as they’ in essential ivar industries. done it will add 15% to the productiveness of industry. |) H The U.S. Employment Service has been organ- ized as a part of the Department of Labor to help employers’ find the right men, apd to help men find the right jobs in ‘all’ war work. This Service has 500 branch offices covering the United States, and 20,000 U. S. Public Reserve: Enrollment Agents, It has: defihite know!- asked to consult it when ployment, or if they feel a change in employment is necessary. This’space contributed to If this can be need them. PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT “Industry plays as essential and hon- orable a role in this great struggle as do our military armaments. We all recognize the truth of this, but we must also see its necessary implications—namely, that indus- try, doing a vital task for the nation, must receive the support and assistance of the nation.” see “Therefore, I solemnly urge all employers engaged in war work to refrain after August Ist, 1918, from recruit- ing unskilled labor in any manner except through this central agency. [U. S. ‘Em- ployment Service.) I'urge labor to’ respond .as loyally as heretofore to any calls issued by this agency for voluntary enlistment in essential industry. And. I ask them both alike to rémember that’ no’ sacrifice ‘will have been in vain, if we are able to prove beyond all question thatthe highest and best form of efficiency.is the spontaneous co-operation of a free people.”” WOODROW. WILSON. employer. they need em- An iilustration of the benefit of. this service, typical of ‘hundreds, ployer, having a’ gov- ernment contract, requested that 400 men be furnished immedi- ately. ' Upon investi- gation it was found that not only were housing facilities lack- ing, but the employer would not need the men for several weeks. ment handled the job the men were sent at the right time, housing facilities. were. provided, and there was no loss of time or monéy to workers or The use of the U. S. Employment Service by both employers:and workers is a patri- otic servicé and duty to the government. the winning of the war by hs. SSS lacked one inch of being five feet and| they were endeavoring to establish SS ee weighed 182 pounds. trade. We have frequently not known RS i 5 i aby.w.s intimately the customs and conditions , ‘THE B 4 : pa of these people, and our merchants, j a ie Left It to Her. not knowing the language as the for- ‘ t ““Bo you break these sets?” asked the shopper in the chinaware depart- ment. “No. I'm sorry to say we don’t, madam,” replied_the polite salesman, “but if you keep a servant girl she will * probably do it for you,"—Town Top- é eign merchants did; have often tried to work through :interpreters. On that account we have lost out fre- quently on minor details, such as packing and Shipping, no meeting the convenience of the customers, .and through the failure to understand ee may be cited. An em- Because the ‘govern: