OUR PUBLIC FORUM
IV. F. A. Vanderlip
On The Business of Banking
The farmers of this nation to come Into their own
must ettidy bnslness. We must, as a class, understand
the fundamental principles that underlie every Industry,
Its functions to society and its relation to agriculture, for
there can be no intelligent co-operation without under
standing. Mr. F. A. Vanderlip, president of the National
City Bank of New York, when asked, "What is a bank?"
said In part:
"The first and most familiar function of a bank is
that of gathering up the Idle money of a community,
small sums and large, and thus forming a pool or reser
voir upon which resKnsible persona may draw as they
lave temporary use for money. It Is evident that this makes large sums In the
aggregate available for the employment of labor and the development of the
community. Hut much more Is accomplished than the ush of the money
actually deposited In the banks, for by the use of drafts, checks 'nd bank
notes the efficiency of money Is multiplied several times over. A very large
business, for example one of the great beef packers, may use very little
actual money; on one side of Its bank account will be entered the checks
and drafts it Is dally receiving from everywhere In payment for meats,
while on the other side will be entered the checks it draws In payment for
cattle, etc-, Its only use of money being for small payments, to labor and
otherwise.
If there were but one bank in a community and everybody paid all
bills by drawing checks on thnt bank, and everyone receiving a check imme
diately deposited It In the bank, the amount of money In the bank evidently
would not change at all and the entire business of fhe community woutd be
settled on the books of the bank. And the situation Is but slightly changed
when there are several Tanks, for they dally exchange among themselves all
the checks they receive on each other, which practically offset themselves,
although the small balances are paid In cash. This Is called 'clearing' and
In every large city there Is a 'Clearing House' where representatives of the
banks meet daily to settle their accounts with each other
A bank Is constantly receiving from Its customers, particularly those that
are shipping products to other localities, drafts and checks drawn on banks
In other cities, which It usually sends for deposit to a few correspondent
banks In the central cities with which It maintains permanent accounts. In
this way these scattered credits are consolidated and the bank draws upon
those accounts In supplying customers with the means of making payments
away from home. As each local community sells and buys about the same
amount abroad In the course of a year, these payments largely offset each
other. It Is evident that tho banks are very Intimately related to the trade
and Industry of a country. The bunker is a dealer In credit much more than
a dealer In money, and of course his own credit must be above question. Me
exchanges his credit for the credits acquired by the customers, and lends
credit for their accommodation, but he must conduct the business with such
Judgment that he can always meet his own obligations with cash on demand.
This la the essential thing about bank credit, that It shall always be the
ame as cash."
IDLFNESS.
Idlrnen it a constant tin and U
knr i rlutv. Idleness is the devil's
j- , ,
home lor temptation and unproht- I
able, detracted musing. Kicliard
Baxter.
Tsoth Put to Many Umi.
Ali KskltutM iirtVH aood teeth, bat
they nre subjm till t never imibs be
in iimh1 for pinchers, vices ami fluting
miH hlnes. The ieili are employed In
drnnlmt tt. utiijlnj: knots, holding
the ni'uthple e of n drill, shaping boot
oh- :uid strvtHiliiR and tanning skins
When they la--ouie uneven from hard
uxiiv'e they are leveled off with a 01
r whetstone.
!Mnklti-lt tiikes n long time to avi
HijytliiiiL' through IteMihrmigh'a skull.
i1N'nnt If: I'hyle I ghouh? say It does.
Tlmt him n will te ileiiil and hurled be
fore lie ever finds out he Is sick.
YohiuMom n TflHifTHin.
A Big Difference.
"I notice a great change In your little
boy."
"Aetohowr
"He used to dawdle and lag when
you sent him In the morning to the
tore. Now he's off like the wind."
'He's a boy scout now. with a men
magfi to Huiu-in-the-FHce. the grocer."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Herald want ads bring results. Tr
them. Phone 340.
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V ,AMit la' .GVV: Mil
Is
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A
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By MOSS.
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