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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER a 2, 1922. American Bankers’ Association Convention, Largest Ever Held in This Country, Is On To-Day New York W¥i Welcome Every Banker Like a Mar- shal Foch—Entertainment to Be on an Unprecedented Lavish Scale. cam GOOD, IS VIEW OF VISITING BANKERS Declare Theer Is No Boom Appearing on the Hori- zon Just Now. Rr. HON. REGINALD MCKENNA . FoRMER } CHANCELLOR. oF BRITISH Exchedul — iN There will be close upon ten thou sand bankers and trust company , pe officials and members of thelr Vj REV IEW OF CONDITIONS |tamiues, from cities. and towns ; throughout the country, gathered in this city when the general session of tho forty-elghth annual con GEo. E. ious From Various VINCENT Financiers i Parts of the Nation Ex- [vention of the American Bankers’ FPRES. i Tres: ir Vi Ws, Association is called to order for the FOUND, } Pies % first day's business to-morrow ory morning in the ballroom of the Hotel Commodore. Nearly all the arrived here to-da of the twenty-four sections of the Association began in various meeting places in the city at 9.80 o'clock and it was necessary for several thousand members to present at these opening meetings. Hitherto, the record attendance at o convention of the Association wae 4,600, so the meeting, which has { preliminaries to-day, will be the greatest ever held, The entire ballroom Commodore was siven over to the bankers. Ono of the first things to greet them in the foyer of the ball- room, where fifty clerks were busy noting the registrations, was a great map of New York City, thirty feet long by ten feet wide, with the pic- tures of prominent buildings and Places of interest illustrated on it Bankers by the score hung about the map, studying it and deciding what they would see when the convention meetings did not claim them. Beside the map was a statement of legal taxicab rates in the city and instru tions as to the use of the telephone, More than 6,000 letters and nearly 2,000 newspapers addressed to the visiting bankers had been received and distributed alphabetically by 10 o'clock this morning. A daily newspaper, “The Conven- tion News,” illustrated with likenesses of well known figures in the banking world, made its appeurance at the Commodore to-day and will be pub- shed throughout the sessions. Members of the Association were ar- riving in the city all day long, coming from gveat distances, as from Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines and Cuba, and also from the financial centres of the . The outlook 1s for good business. put there is no boom apearing on the horizon as yet, according to the opinions of many of the bankers and .trust company officials now in the Sty to attend the forty-eighth an- Qual convention of the American Bankers’ Association at the Hotel @ommodore. This is, in brief, what gome of the visitors had to say THOMAS B. McADAMS, Vice- ident Merchants’ National Bank, ichmond, Va., and President of the > caepheaag Bankers’ Association.— indamentally, America is in a Sbund financial position and can Jook forward to increasing prosperity Provided carelessness and selfishness are not allowed to undermine the stability of our citizenship. J. A. HOUSE, President Guardian Savings and Trust Co. of Cleveland. Ohio, and President of the Trust Company Division of the Association -—With certain reservations, I feel ‘ouch assured as to busine: s prospects during the coming year. O»inions may very as to the merit or demerit of certain provisions of the settlement of the coal strike and the progress in settlement of the railroad strike, but the fact remains that there has been an adjustment. We have probably passed through our first flat spot in Dusiness following the war and will experience an active market at sub- stantially present prices for possibly two years. I have come to the con- clusion that the European problem is the world’s problem and the United States can no longer withhold its in- fluence without suffering more by its exclusion than by its participation. M. A. TRAYLOR, President First ‘Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, thousand had as the sessions divisions and ten ud. Hs PUELICHER Wd) ist vice PRes floor of the SEWARD | * 5" PROSSER’ CHR COMMITTEE y. 100 ~~! MRS Dwisr DoRRow. CHR, WOMEN'S RECEPTION COMM | Guy : EMERSON . 'Y, EXECUTIVE. MANAGER —— ooh und Chaitman, Economie Policy Com_JOld World, one of the foremost of F ~ig mission, American Bankers’ Associa-|the visitors trom Hurope being Sir] {-rHomagts MEADAMS HARVEY D GIBSON ficiency 1 aa ‘Hon.—It ts to be regretted that not|Réginald McKenna, formerly Chance!- Pres A.BA CHR HOTEL COMMITTEE Pr a ERESETMETCHR lor of the British Exchequer. He spent the week-end with Thomas W. ‘only do we show no desire to aid in ‘the restoration of Europe, but by means of such financial measure as|1@mont at the latter's country home| They are under the Committee of 100,] Clubs will be provided, and all th: | Louis bankers, which wili be awarded ‘the Fordney-McCumber tariff do our|!? Englewood, and was among the|representing New York bankers of} bankers will have to do will be tc|to the player turning in the best gross atmost to prevent Europe from work-|#rly arrivals at the Commodore to-}which Walter E. Frew js the head} play, A slip is given each visitoi |18-hole medal score on any of the ing out its difficulties by means of |%*Y- Seward Prosser is chairman, while] on arrival; on this he writes for each | four courses desisnated for play. Ad- its own efforts. It was generally expected by-thc|Guy Emerson is executive manager. |day the club which he wishes to visit, |ditional prizes will also be awarded, Harvey D. Gibson is head of the hotel visiting bankers that the the time when will off. F. 0. WATTS, hotels of and President First The President of the Association |s this city would be crowded during| committee. The committee takes care of tho ar-|‘rhomas B, McAdams, Vice-President ee Forse eke rane aces convention week, and one of the mem-| Here is a sample of the -veleome to} rangements. ; fof the Merchants Notional Bank, {a that we are disposed to over-en:- | Des from a western State, fearing ner OF = ; ae Special attention will also be given | Richmond, Va. Other officers are might not get a room at the last min- comes the 20th Century from|women guests, who will have special | joseph L. Puellcher, President Mar- Phasize our selt-suMciency, for, with] MIsNt not wat a room at the | Chicago, with crowds of delegates. shopping facilities provided by the] rail and Isley Bank, Miwaukee 41 ur increasing surplus of manufac-| Wit came bate wer nekonty|One of the greeters," wearing the|New York hankers ane oreaite Raliee, Gree aisane He is a man of seventy years and declared he was too old to engage in any scramble for accom- modations. ce-President; Walter dresident Omaha N Vice-President York, tive fured goods and capital, we can no Jonger hope to enjoy the full measure pf prosperity until European and ‘other nations with which we trade or W. Head, tional Bank, 2nd ..N. Shepherd, New Manager; Fred official badge, ty name’ “Glad to picks his man, mith,’’ he volunteers. you."* The first party of the week took place yesterday, when 400 early ar- rivals piled into big sightseeing buses N : x os ada “I'm Henry Brown from Denv d took an extensive trip through|,.! ee esis, . 3 jvant to trade have been restored to] ,,7he carly arrivals came in Satur- teays the other. Westchester County, with lunch at] isl: Nice President Hone! ormal industrial, political and social night and last nig! “Well, Mr. ¥-just want to 7 aster Bitar ank, Fargo, . > ss the flow increased und will continue] gay Vor ey Browne F Just want to} the Westehester Biltme peace. Ultimately we must, if Eu- liam itzwilson, New York, Secre- tell you t this town is yours. You pope is to recover economically and|throughout to-day, Special trains. !are Marshal Foch to us and if there|SOME OF THE REASONS WHY Jtary. Pestore the gold standard, expect to[SPecie! cars attached to the crack | is onything you want or don't want,| BANKERS! WON'T SLEEP MUGH | A partla! list of the members of the Jose a large part of our unduly large |tins of the country, a specially} wen) got it or stup It, Don't plan to] vo-day will be given up to meet- [executive coun all of whom are old supply and, Wkewise, ultimately [charted steambont and scores of au-lsleop much, for you're going to have linge “thera ane 2 ue tha eet a, either here will arrive to-day ithe postponed demand for capital |tomobiies, bearlug familiar and un-}the timo of your lite. What's the}, NEeciaileed “DIRRGN (OP Altai Oi shows the tremendous scope and im- rom abroad and from our own in- pea ies ase Plates, brought the] hotel? Here, I'll show you where the|ing schedule, At 9 o'clock” to portance of the, ociation, and of Its Bustrial corporations, will assert it- ]¢ro' ot ae vagy, | tAXE Is. ; night will come the general confer-j°omvention here: welf. Both these factors will in time| Te Detroit banking special, with} My. Brown's arrival is immedia hts HER RAIA: HRILGOBE oe KH E Melvin, President Selma Na tend to increase tne interest rate, 100 delegates and their guests, Waslreported to lieadquarters, where a Commoner ‘ : “| tional Bank, Selma, Ala.; R. N. Fred- OLIVER J. SANDS, President jone of the first to como into the| picked staf of fitty men are at tele-| Ty tne attcrnoon Henry Collin: | ‘Ticks. President Prescott State Bank, American National Bank, Richmond, |Gtand Central Statien. Then ther: | phones, No sooner has he reached | prown will talk on ‘New and o1| Prescott. Ariz.;, Chas. Mc@ain, iVa., Chairman Special Committee on | Were Specials from Kansas and Mis-[his yoom and unlocked his suites New York," which will be Mustrates | Vice-President Bankers Trust Co., iTaxation, A. B. A.—Improved de-|80Url, each with several hundred} than the telephone rin by lantar slides, The subscrigtioy [Little Hock, Agk.: W. D. ‘Longyes “mand for lumber and our other |®board, besides others from Chicago,| ‘Good evening, Mr. Brown," says] ay antern slides. | Bie subsetiption | Vice-president Security Trust & Sav 4 ed the Pacific Coast, and the South. TheJone of the fifty men, ‘We just]/@ipner of the Association of Reserve 10. nank, Los Angeles, Cul.; Chas sproducts will bring much needed ¢- lively Arkansas-Missour! contingent.) wanted to know if everything is all|citY Bankers will be held at the [/0#® Tint it Cues rn Cae to ® section that has suffered wich stopped to take a look at|right. Good. Now If there is any- | Soardwalk to-n Nts eral « ,|Livermore, Cal.; ¥. N. Briggs, Presi- ly from depression for the past (Niagra Falls, published a newspaper| thing we can do, call ww up right |,, To-morrow the general sessions of | Te Tt erstate: Trust ¢ »,, Denver, Fein Were it not for the heavy }on the train. They also received enlaway. We're glad to have you with | ‘he conventio seat atart, and Thomas |eoio,; R. LaMotte Russell, Presldont burdens, which destroy incen-|route a telegram from Mayor Hylan.|us in New York, and hope that you|W: Lamont, Presiden: of J. P. Mor. [Colo Ke LaNotte Russel, President (five, this section could jook forward assuring them that New York was|will enjoy the visit.’ es Cos Feprenectig: the hosts anaen Goan: Chace Ro Arion {te much new development in the im- theirs, from Riverdale to Coney Isl-| Mr. irown, possibly having heard |" the visitors. will address the as- |i eine Farmers Bank, Wilming mediate future, and, The Mayor, as well as other/that New York is indiferent to the |Mmblage. speaking | Respons.[ton, Del.; BE. C. Smith, Vice-Presi- FRED H. GOFF, President, Cleve-|jocal_ and national officials, sent u|strang changes his opinion 8 ASROFICRH: BARROS “Respone- 1 citin Banks Go., GHin, Ga bility To-Day."* The rest of the week will be giver jand Trust Company, Cleveland. it is a time of opportunity and a time formal message of good will to the bankers’ headquarters at the Com- abruptly The Ww. Skiles, 8. President Bank Co., Ashland, M1 of Rearick, Rearick steamer Calamares, whicl: for thrift, This’ is the time for busi-|modore, came into port from Texas, via Ha- | Over to Tegular business of the con- 1°) “G'roreman, President Fore. Bess men to put into action the good UNPARALLELED PLANS FOR EN-|vana, was speciilly charted by 65 | Venton. but that will not interfere} Ook." nanking Co, Chicago, Ill.: resolution they fade during the try- TERTAINMENT, ‘Texas bankers for the convention. | oinnwd. Tocmorrow. nfternoea gii| Robert A. Morris, Vice-President and ime, ObSa ot 1991. The glans which are being carried] |“ Prominent guest and speaker Is} iting the women's fashion show and} Cashier Fairmount State Bank, Fair &. F. SWINNEY, President, First National Bank, Kansas City, former President A. B. A.—We do not look for real prosperity in this district un- Reginald McKenna, former Chancel ler of the British Exchequer, EVERY HOTEL a PERSONAL ©, WL. MeNide National Bank, M. E. Tate, Cashi mount, Ind.; dent First City, Towa; out for the comfort and convenien: of the city’s guests are probably with- out parallel anywhere. Centralizec tea at the Waldorf, bus rides through downtown few York, and theatre parties In the evening. FINANCIAL NOTES. Stockholders of the Victor Talking Machine Company have been notified of @ special meeting to be held Octo- ber 28 for the purpose of voting on an increase in the capital stock frof $5,000,000 to $35,500,000. Of the in- crease $500,000 shall be preferred and $35,000,000 common, It is currently reported that following the authoriza- tion of the increase stockholders will be given a stock dividend of 600 per cent, FEDERAL OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF TAKING SEIZED LIQUOK (Continued from First Page.) GIVES UP PULPIT TO GO INTO AUTO SUPPLY BUSINESS Rev. Harry Knight Miller Makes Announcement to His Congregation. B. 1. Winchell, Remington Président of the Typewriter Company will sail on the Aquatania for London and Paris, He expects to be gone about five weeks. ; i ' Cigarette production in August, ac- cording to Internal Revenue returns was 6,374,896,095, compared with after it had been removed from places of storage, the Grand ade, port says: urther appears that el representatives of the Depai of Justice disposed of the lquor various ways, viz, by appropriatt it to thelr own use, by making to relatives, friends, physicians hospitals, and by destroying such it as appeared to be unfit gor sumption, but no testimony was to show that any of sald Nquor sold for a monetary or property ¢ sideration.”’ By evidence gathered in a long far reaching investigation, the informed the Court, it was estab that although the intoxicants to were “supposed to be forfell the United States,” this fort never had In fact been confirme gally, because the seizures wel followed up with the necessary steps by Department of Justio ficials. Because of this situation the held “the persons who seized liquor and parcels were tresp acting ‘‘at their individual ris! eee aut ce, MR. NEW YORKER IS MOVING HI RESIDENCE TO-D Congestion Worse T Usual Owing to It B Jewish Holiday. The rattle of the moving van ceded that of the milk cart morning, Long before the dun waiter awakened early risers as milkman sent up the quart, the hea tramp of husky moving men draget furniture across the floor overhe and tramping through the halls tenants in flat houses that {t was York's annual moving day. Oct. 1 falling on the Jewish Year, the congestion this year moving is reported particularly & “This condition exists every and ts going to continue,"’ said F. Morris, President of the Owners’ Association. “It must wi in a city of 6,000,000 all leases made to expire on Sept. 30. should expire Sept. 1, Oct. 1 and I, That would spread the over three months. Housing tions are improved, but there ts of doubling up. Families that can get into apartments because they not finished are retaining a the apartment they are in and newcomer is using the rest of {t, There is a dearth of apa: in Manhattan, but in other boro conditions have improved, althoy many houses that have been where apartments were to be to-day are not in a condition for @ cupancy. The Rev. Harry Knight Miller of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn has resigned his pastorate to go into business. He an- nounced his resignation to the con- gregation at the end of his sermon last night, was to become manager automobile = rim business. The Rey, Mr. Miller has been con- spicuous in his church for denounc- ing the tradition which excluded act- ors and professional dancers from church membership, but he said last night that his resignation had nothing to do with his feeling that the church was unjustly intolerant toward pro- fessional entertainers or amusements. At the end of his sermon the min- ister, whose congregation had had no intimation of his new plan of life, said: I have bring to y and that I 5,188,024,237 in August of last year Production of large clgars was 641, 6 164,181, last year. compared with 622,089,03 The American Sugar Refining Com- advanced the wholesale »rice of refined sugar fifteen points to 40 cents a pound. A similar advance wae ordered by the National Sugar Refining Corapany. saying he of an The United States Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company has advanced its pric in the South $3 a ton to $43, effective to-day. The American Railway Association reports that bituminous loadings last totalled 27,177 cars, an increase of 315 cars over ‘Thurs Anthracite loadinngs totalled 5,854 an announcement that I u with an aching heart, am not sure will be fully understood, for I am not sure that I understand it myself, For many years I have felt the urge to go into other fields. The urge fas become so com- manding that IT am forced to answer it My prayers will ever be with you and my heayt will surge with foy at all your successes and achlevements.”’ The Rev, Mr. Miller preached series of sermons last year on amuse- ments. In one of them he declared that the Methodist Church s not a long-faced denomination." He said he had danced himself and felt that he was not Inconsistent with his sect in doing so, because he regarded the church ban on frivolity applied only ‘to those things which are indecent." pees a als HANDCUFFED AND BOUND, FREES SELF IN RIVER September/sales of Sears Roebuck & Company decreased 2.87 per cent Decrease for the nine months to the end of September amounted to 4.78 per cent. Montgomery, Ward Company in the same month indreased 11.4 per cent. Nine month sales increased 11.68 per cent, sales Cluett, Peabody and Company and Subsidiaries in tho six months ended June $0 earned a net profit of $1,407. - 74 after charges and taxes and dr preciation. This was equal to $6.17 per share after deducting the hi year's preferred dividends. The,Standard Oi! Company of New Jersey has cut the price of gasoline two cents a gallon in North and South Carolina. According to the American Railway Association there were fewer freight cars in need of repairs on Sept. 16 than at the beginning of the shop- men’s strike or at the same time last year. —— INFANT KILLED, MOTHER IS HELD Carrie Schoudy, twenty-two, of No. 501 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, un- married, who the police declare con- fessed having thrown her newly born baby out of a third floor window of the Greene Avenue dwelling Sept 17, was held without ball on a charge of homicide to-day by Magistrate Dale for examination to-morrow. Charles Fenzel, twenty-three, son of Mrs. Charles Fenzel, who keeps the furnished rooming house where the choudy girl lives, also was held for examination to-morrow. The police allege he is the father of the child. ‘The infant's body was found in the rear of the house early to-day by Mrs. Frank Spangler, another tenant, in such position that the police were cer Marathon Winner Shows Prowess Not on His Programme, Gerald M. Fitzgibbons, Marathan the IristtAmerican Athletic gathered a crowd about him to- day (including motion picture camera men) and did a stunt that was some what outside of his previous programs Under the W we bridge over the Harlem Riv had his hands bound behind his back with two p: of handcuff feet chained and ag ted around body, ‘Then was tossed into the river In a few seconds he was up he chains, cuffs and ba “It pays to be athlete winner of Club, o a he free of "ne wald First Nati Joseph Wayne, National Bank, David Barry, nal Bank, Norman, Okla. Jr., President Girard Philadelphia, Pa. Cashier First National Bank, Johnstown, P H. J. Haas, Vice-President Mirst National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.; Henry L. Wilcox, Vice-President National Bank of Commerce, Providence, R, J.P. Matthews, President Na- NORWICH, Conn., Oct. 2,.—About 10 feet of the steel highway bridge tween Occum and Versailles, six from here, fell into the Quinebaug tional Bank, Columbia, 8. . P. | tain it must have been hurled from v4 1 . lat terd: under the weight Andrews, Vice-President First Na-|a window. ~The Schoudy girl told|!ate yesterday under the welght of tional Bank, Fort Worth, Tex.;| Magistrate Dale she was known as| pence” poner, The truck carving Ernest J. Pe President First Fond du Lac National Bank, Fond du Lac, Ww - Carrie Allen and that phe had met Fenzel last March when she took up her residence in his mother's house bridge by @ cable. The State Hi! Department ie putting up @ tem way for pedestrians. i Presi - Mason Se- The early settlers bar- tered beads and trinkets til our farmers are uble to buy more|at the Commodore Is a special tele- SERVICE" DEPARTMENT Wednesday will be Club Day for|curity State Bank, Keokuk, lowa; E rot the things they need with the pro-|Phone system. reaching every part of] tm each of the 108 New York hotels |the women. The Colony Club, Cog-|P- Mullaney, President Farmers & boy deeds of grain and cattle produced, or}the city, and large enough to care} which will house the visitors unti||mopolitan Club, Women's City Club, ferchants mast 1 cole am; C. vd] accustomed to getting along |for the needs of @ city of 20,000} priday there is a person or group]|Women's University ‘Club and Wo.|W: Carey, President First National ey th le people. There fs a post-office with | who is ready to give all kinds of in 8 National Republican Club wit!| Bank, Wichita, Kan.; Wm. B. Spiva f WHER See a ent, {the capacity of a town of 16,000, ani | ¢,,, arias ant al. ]open their doors to the visitors. ‘The |Cashier Bank of Sumerset, Princess J. W. HOOPES, Vice President, formation und assistance. The ba Q Md.; Frank W. Blair, Presi Central State Bank, Dallas.—This ter- |far better facilities room floor of the Commodore, how-|men will have more bus rides, the} Anne, ; sha Rha Seniesa) oe i Over 1,000 men and women tn the] oy is the real gathering place.|dinner of the Presidents and re. |dent Union ‘Trust Company, Detroit, Htory comprises a very large portion New York volun- Mich banking offices of teered to act as a reception commit- tee, They met each train, shook hands until they were ready to drop, and gave every sort of information. L, Hansen, President Pir: National Bank, Thief River Minn.; A. A. Bennett, President National Bank, Renville, Minn ward Buder, Vice-President anc Treasurer Mercantile Trust Co., St Louis, Mo. tarles of State Banke 3c. at the Commodore, smoker at the Astor from 9 until 1 Hostess Day, as planned by Mrs Dwight W. Morrow, wife of a Mor- gan partner and chairman of the Women's Reception Committee, 1s Thursday, when the women will t entertained at luncheon In private homes of the city, The subscription Association and an informal There many of the meetings will bx held. The foyer of the floor, its walls hung with decorations of every de- seription, and multi-colored busines: charts, Is a real ‘personal servic: department." There is the post-of- fice, with every facility, which ex- pects to handle 25,000 pieces of in- coming mail daily, a general infor- mation bureau, and the entertainment af the cotton-producing area of Tex as, and while he crops are in geners! spotted, the prevailing prices have teen ve:y satisfactory, enablir. the merchants and interior banks to liqui- date freely. ROBERT F. MADDOX, President, Atianta National Bank, Atlanta, Ga., former President, A. B. A.—While the inflation lesson months, are the outstanding of the past twenty and yet there are tendencies National Bank, Billings, Mont.; Coad, President Packers Nationa fotten crop is not much larger than | to increase prices alded by the latitude | Rooth, dinner of the alumni association of /Bank, Oma Nebr.; Elwood §. tust year, owing to the low cost of /offered by the tariff and the high cag} rhis comprises a theater ticket {the American Institute of Banking |Bartiett, Director Unlon Nationa poduction and. the increase in price, |of the main raw material—coal. There] oearing house, where the delegates|comes at night, and the grand ball,| Bank, Atlantic City, N. J.; Delmer ‘he South's paying and buying power|are always price fluctuations, but | may order their tickets for the period|the biggest event of the week, wili]Runkle, President Peoples Nationa sharp changes will defer ult! prosperity toward which we are head ed. The full measure and the dura- bility of prosperity depends on an in- ter-change of goods with Europe. America is not an tsolated unit, Maxt- mum production depends on outlet It is in @ favorable position as a cred- ftor nation, but unfavorable from the standpoint of jack of interest 1n Euro- pean recuperation, Further European decadence would be fateful the United States, »~ has been much improved, The ool! ‘weevil will not be regarded as a great menace in the future. It has been thoroughly demonstrated that by the “intelligent application of calcium ur- senate and the use of more fertilivor, “eotton; even under boll weevil condi- “tions, can be successfully and profit- ably grown, JOHN G. LONSDALE, President, Nationa! Bank of Commerce, St. Hovis and President National Bank Hoosick Fallr, N. ¥.; W. Assistant ice-Presiden’ ‘ational Bank, New Beissbarth, President Firs’ Bank, Brinsmade, N. Denver, President National Bank, Wilmington, N. Sams, President National Bank, Hillsbor Bank, Purdy, take place in the Commodore On Friday, a large contingent will take the day off and go up the river to West Point, where military ma- neuvers will be held for thoir delecta- tion. Incidentally, they will give thi Commandant a silver iP which will be o permanent trophy and will g¢ each year to the company excelling of their stay, and a golf departmeht big ballroom of th J. McMahon, Secretary of the golf committee, and executivo-secre- tary of the United States Golf As sociation, expects that 2,000 of the visitors will play their favorite game every afternoon, and he ts ready for them. Over 100 prominent country clubd within striking radius of New York have offered the hospitality of their buildings and courses to in intramural athletics visiting bankers. Each has promised ¢ Tho golfers will contend tn the at- to take care of from § to 200 daily. |ternoop for the trophy of the St Vice-Prosident Bay't National Bank, Burtletsville, Phil C, Kidd, Vice-Prssidep' taville Okla ; oh ~e inte a ats ap Falls, Roy J, Covert, President Merchants J. ¥F. for corn and Virginia tobacco, Noman can want for more than Virginia tobacco gives —a natural purity and sweetness of taste at once pleasing and different. For cigarettes Virginia tobacco is the best, A t York, it D: Clinton Mer- ert & Myers Topaccy Cu. t