Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1921, Page 18

of the ‘We serve—never dictate—and deliver promptly, as agreed. Engraving Better Class Yor Eveats in Tow or Country $2.99 Dresses, Coats and Suits at $2.99 The Small Store With the Big Values 812 H St. N.W. Why Does Every One Talk About Phillips? This is the Reason Worth Up to $10.00 Sweaters, $1.95 Worth Up to $7.50 Trimmed Hats, 99¢ UPPLIES | SCARFS, WAISTS,SSASHES AND MILLINERY I ] THE LARGEST VALUE-GIVING STORE IN WASHINGTON $1.95 Skirts, 99c; Worth up to $5.00 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921 TOM BRAHANY BARES GOSSIP - ABOUT WASHINGTON BANKERS Speech at “Family Dinner” Filled With Personalities and Chat Never A Before Made Public. ! Thomas W. Brahany, who was grad- uated from an executive position in the White House to the profession of broker, gave his impressions of the banking profession in & speech de- livered at the “family dinner" of the clation at its recent convention al White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Serv ing these impressions up. with fre- | auent applications to personalities in | Washington banking circles, in the phraseology of Mr. Dooley, Mr. Bra- | hany said: 1 see be the repoort in th' evenin' paper that Colonel Bob Harper's ancient an’' hon'rable troupe iv per- formin' bankers are h¢ldin’ their an- nual feast iv wisdom dn' flow iy soul at th' White Sulphur Springs, Mr. McKenna. = “I'll bet they'll make th” welcome ring, as Char-ly Light says. I'd like t' be there. I wud so. I'd get thim in their playful mood, kind iv off their guard, so t speak, an’ I'd borrow a million of two."” Once Banker, Always Bank “Ye'd do no such thing,” said Mr. Dooley. - “No matter how far a banker may be .off his beat, he's niver off his guard. Onct a banker always a banker, as Bert Gatley says. Bank- ers are born, not made. Whin 1 was a boy In school there was a_curly- haired lad be th' name iv Doyle— Stuttering Doyle we called him—who had a weak chist. He was th’ poor- est writer an’ th' best figurer in th’ class. His little body wasn't strong enough f'r him t' ingage in any iv th' out-dure spo-orts, but befure th’ ind iv th' Spring term he'd cornered all iv th' shinneys, marbles, futballs, baseballs, bats, masks an’ gloves in th' school an' was gettin' tin percint iv th’ gross profits iv all th' atha- litic games. When we were learnin’ our prayers Doyle was learnin' th' interest tables. I well remember his lispin’ remark that subtraction an’ division had no place in a book con- tainin’ th' inli'tened truths iv addi- tion an’ multiplication. Doyle was a born banker. “Money is diff'rent fr'm any other kind lv commodity. Call it anything ve want—th’ me-jum iv exchange, $29.50. $20.50 Was Selling for $47.00 Only forty cleaners at this price—all absolute- ly new and fully guaranteed. 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A more gin'rus crowd I niver saw in all me life. Ed Graham give away ilectric bulbs, Joe Berberich button hooks, Peter Nee castor irons. Roy Mark blotters, and so on. each wan t' his own trade an' all advertisin’ his own business be a free offerin’ iv his wares. I had t' hire a dray t' bring home ‘me i But did any- wan iver see a banker givin' away silver dollars, or copper pennies? Th' divil a bit iv it. Everywan thought it was flne t' get th' chewing gum an’ toothpaste an’ balloons. but iv a banker tried t' advertise his busi- ness be a gift iv his principal article iv trade he'd be set down as an omadhon, an’ th' same min who were o lavish with th' products iv their own stores wud sind in a hurry-up call for th' black wagon at Saint Elizabeth's an’ testify on their oath befure Judge Siddons that he wasn't { fit £r " be trusted in business. That's | why 1 say bankin’' is diffrint fr'm ! any other kind iv business. } " *“Did ye iver study the physiognomy liv a banker? Th' chin iv a prize- fighter, ears that can hear ve-er heart beat, laughin’ eyes that look through ye like an X-ray,an a mouth moulded so delicate that ony words iv two letters come out iv it aisly. Whin a_banker says Yis the strain on his throat is so great that he has t go t Dr. Richardson f'r a co-orse treatmint, but No comes tricklin’ fr'm his lips as aisy as wood alcohol gurglin frm a bottle iv bootleg licker. ‘Nothin’ s more interestin’ as a study in Physiology, as Floyd Cissel says. than a trip U a bank t' make ye'er first loan. It's not like makin® a touch in th' street. Whin ye way- lay a frien’ at th’ corner, slidin’ up t' him sociable like, t' ask th' loan iv sivinty-five tints or a dollar. he meets ye with a smile an’ tells ye how glad he'd be t' accommodate ye iv_he hadn’t given his last quarter £ th’ good woman that mornin’ t' buy a package lv cigaretts. They're all smokin’ nowdays, he says, be way iv turnin’ th’ conversation. T don't know what_th’ world's comin® to. It bates all. Ye know he’s lyin. but ve don't blame him. Ye expected it an' Wud do th’ same thing ye'ersilf even iv ye'er nockets were lined with th’ coln iv th' realm. Bankers in Special Class. diffsrent whin ye go t' a Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity District of Columbia Bankers' Asso-; . banker. He can't enter th' plea_iv | being jist out 1v th' Nithy stuft, T'm | sorry, but I I'ft it home on th' pianna, i don't'go in his case. Ye know he has {1t :an' he knows ye know_it, Jist as {ye know that Clarence Dodge ha | real estate, or Oscur Evans lighti | Axtures, or Herb Shannon houses. an' 8o ye ‘must approach him fr'm diff'rnt angle cntirely. Th’ most im- portant thing Is a good front. A | feelin’ iv weakness in th' stummick dooms ye ' failure fr'm th’ start. So | first ye have ye'er shoes shined an’ ! ye'er nails manicured. That's what's j called playin’ both inds f'r th’ middle. { How are yé Ezra, slappin’ him on th’ | shoulder, is ye'er greetin’ t' the man iv monev. Try wan v these dollar stogies. T got thim' th' las’ time 1 was in Cuby. A fine place an’ a fine vaca tion. but whin ye'er doin’ well in business ye'er intitied t' a vaca- tion. Maybe I'll retire fr good n'xt! year. ‘There's no sinse in wur-rkin' all ye'er life. T've wur'rkd hard f'r it an' I mane ¢ injoy it. Tn this way ye establish th' fact that ye'er out to’ borrow an' not t' deposit. Fr'm now on watch him closely. but say nothin’. First he'll | close the dure an' lock it. That's a | good sign. He's not goin' t' lick ye or give ye a piece iv his mind. All he wants Is ' make sure ye don't get away. F'r a while hell look up at th' ceilin’. Thin hell shake his he an’ begin: I don't know what th country's comin’ to. We're In a spasm iv extravagance. Iverybody is spind in' too much. We're livin' too fa The war made everything high a Fll"ll‘g? as it may seem money was {h 18w’ thing ¢ go up, In Texas an’ ey're gettin' as hi twinty percint, © ehvas Handicaps in the Capital. “Now in Washington we're at a great disadvantage. We've no fac- tories an’ little farmin’. It's a shame we don’t get th' tax money like they 30 in other placen. AN 1v ‘oue cus tomers are complainin’. Times is awful hard. We've broken G'neral Grant's record f'r beseigin’ Richmond, an’ all we get is promises, an' hard luck stories, an' they hope 't 1 better soon. AR’ now I see th' ra | roads arein"bad” shape agin. T’ lady bugs have a-tin up th' marsh- mallow crop in Kansas. That Ball act is a_holy-terror. I don't know a | They're like the right an' left power | |amount ye want, th' intery Iv he's a good man an’ shifty on hls‘ feet he'll counter be askin’ Iv ye wint to John Joy Edson's sivinty- |l fifth anniversary dinner. Now e g can't tell him ye didn't go because ye can't get over th' habit of atin’| ye'r dinner whin th' whistle sounds at ‘noon, an' 80 ye go back three|m pints. Don't let that discourage ye. Here [ 1s yer chance t* mix It up be tellin’ | him that onct ye wure run over be| Peter Drury's Pierce Arrow, an’ that | ye'er sister-in-law rode in a rubber- |l neck wagon whin th' guide pinted out Jawn B, Larner's house on nine- |l teenth street. 1v that doesn't make | gy an impression, bring yve'er fist down on th’ table an’ tell him that ye have known George Walson since he was | in Kindergartin. Unless he cames [ back and shoots it into ve that ye haven't mentioned Morris Rosenbers, |l Harry Haines or Vic Devber, ye have | him “bogey. In_bankin' Janguage that's the same thing as a Knockoul. I 'don't know whether Harry Haines M or Howard Moran counts th' most. iv. thrumps. Both are strong cards gy with th’ bankers. Social Position Fixed. a “Having thus established ve'er so- clal position i ankin' circle: th' written examination begin ye th' collat'rul with ye? s Plutocrat. Take a flash v It, ye say. | openin’ ye'er grip an’ throwin' oni th' table an armful iv beautiful green | @ an' blue certificates, showin’ ye'er vast_holdin's iv oil wells, apple an’ | B peach orchards an’ gold an’ silver Mines, at home an' abroad. Al nat- i ural resources, ye say. pinting to th'| g gilt imblems v th’ printer's art, He waves thim aside disdainfully al errinly picks fr'm their midst th erty bonds Y whin John Poole an' Corcoran Thom _were financin’ th' war. Fairly good, but hardly worth par, he says. | “Now comes th' final (ist. v ye can |g produce the signators iv not less! than five mor more than tin min! owin' occupied an unincumbered real | estate within a block iv th' White . gg House an worth twinty-two times th’ w comes | to a close. Ye put up cash for th'| revnoo stamp an’ befure ye'r out iv th’ dure th' interest is off t a runnin’ | v it's as hard as that, I'm glad that I'm so poor 1 don’t have to bor mone; aLi need all iv the talki get. Some day I expect t' be a United Etates sinator. All iv th' bankers I know are regular fellows with a heart their breast and good cheer in} an’ iv there's a good time e Sulphur Springs they'll find it. s know nothin’ A1l about bankin’. That's why 1 cussed it. Tis th’ fashion nowadays U talk long an’ loud an’ often {bout ti' things we least understan’. Luk at Admiral Sims. O’y three min in th’ world know what Relativity means, an’ yet me friend Frank Hogan is goin' to discuss it at th’ Bankers convenshun what we'rn: comin’ to at all, at all. oyes says that we won'l ote until 1928, or maybe Harry Wardman has stopped n' apartments an' gone to urope. an’ to top it all there's news fr'm Kentucky that B'n Johnson is comin’' back t' Congress. It's terri- ble. I've niver known conditions as bad sinse Bryan ran the first time. “Well sir, be this time. ye' to tell him that ye d ' borrow. but t' give him th' name iv a_man in Baltimore, who has good stuft cheap, delivered t' ye'er dure, full quarts. revnue stamps affixed.| uestions asked. After a few s in silence an’ another shake Iv | head th' banker resumes: Iv| zourse. ate or tin percint is not high. | all things considered. an’ I wouldn't | want_any iv me old customers that | I've had to turn down to know but on’ th' other hand it's up to th' banks to keep th’ wheels iv com- merce runnin’, as Ernist Herrell says, besides ow here’s where th' melancholy soliloquy inds an’ th' meetin' iv th' minds, as Julius Peyser says, begins. Ye'er man says quick like: Do ye know Charlie Bell? Well if ve don’t it's all up with ye. Ye lose two pints. But ye come right back at him with an upper cut. 1 don't know Charlle Bell, but I've played Kelly pool with Josh Evans an' T've been t' B. F. 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