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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, HAY 4, 1002.
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COOPERATIVE HOMEBUILDING
Contention of tbe Vebruka But League
of BnildiDg-Loan AaiooiaUoaa,
PROBLEM OF MUTUAL SAVINGS BANKS
restores of the Proposed Innovation.
la State Bank Other Important
Sebjecta Areata to
Flnlah.
Tbe eleventh annual convention of the
Nebraska State League of Local Loan and
Building Associations, which met In South
Omaha last week, wss a notable gathering
of representative men actively engaged In
promoting thrift and home ownership
through the medium of co-operative effort.
The associations of fourteen cities and
towns had delegates present. The State
Banking board was represented by L. V.
Haskell and tbe banking Interest by Hon.
P. L. Hall, former secretary of the State
Banking board. The program embraced a
variety of papers covering the leading fea
tures of association work, and the discus
sions they called forth were spirited, In
structive and entertaining.
In bis opening address President Bentley
called attention to the difference between
tbe building and loan association and all
other credit agencies. Us distinctive fea
ture being the fact tbat It Is an Interme
diary credit agency, owned and controlled
by those who use It and who are served by
It. "It collects small savings," be said,
"and masses them so that they become an
economic force. It distributes Its loans so
as to make the ownership of a home pos
sible to the Industrious and economical
wage earner. But It does more than tbla.
It exerts a powerful, educative influence
on Its members. It teaches sobriety, self
denial, economy and self-reliance."
Valne of tb Work.
Although a banker and closely confined to
Ms business Mr. Bentley has devoted much
of his spare time to tbe upbuilding of co
operative associations, not only la his home
city, but throughout the state. His ap
preciation of their value and his pride In
their success are founded on the conviction
tbat building and loan assoclationa are
among the most effective agencies of self
help now In operation. "Recognizing their
great utility," he said, "we see the neces
sity for removing every obstacle and of
smoothing out every Irregularity, and for
endeavoring to 1J"t our methods so as to
render not merely substantial Justice, but,
If possible, to do equal and exact Justice.
We believe our object to be a noble one.
Whoever removes an obstacle from the path
of tbe building and loan association helps
to advance a great civilizing and humanis
ing instrumentality, and we may count our
selves fortunate In having the opportunity
to come together with this end In view.
We cannot help feeling that, scattered
throughout the state, serving associations
that are not members of the league, are
many men whose bright minds and active
energies ought to be devoted, for a short
time at least, In each year, to helping their
comrades In tbe building association field
to a better understanding of their work, to
greater efficiency In It and to greater en
tbualasm for it. These men ought to be
with us, and I ask every member of this
convention to do his part In persuading
them to Join our ranks. The past year has
been crowned with success In many ways
and the future Is bright before us. Let us
all look forward to the coming year with
the determination to make our associations
stronger and better and more useful than
ever before, and also with the determina
tion to secure, If possible, the co-operation
of every association In tha state In tbe
good that this league baa undertaken.".
Hatnal lavlncs Basks.
Foremost among the subjects considered
was tbe question, "What should be the atti
tude of building association men toward
the proposed law for tbe establishment of
mutual or trust savings banks In this
stater During the last legislature a bill
for an act authorising the establishment of
mutual savings banks was Introduced and
seriously considered and was with difficulty
defeated. Building association people op
posed tbe measure, believing that it was
an unwarranted Invasion of their special
province, and many disinterested persons
urged Its defeat on the ground tbat Its
provisions .were Ill-digested and dangerous
to the welfare of existing Institutions. This
experience lent special Interest to the paper
of Hon. P. L. Hall of Lincoln, former sec
retary of the State Banking board, now an
officer of a national bank. Dr. Hall Is an
ardent believer In and supporter of build
ing and loan associations, but does not be
lieve tbey fulfill all necessities and re
quirements of the public la tha whole Held
of small aavlnga. Hs bas heretofore advo
cated broadening their usefulness by tbe
addition of savings bank features, urging
that It could be dons "without Impairing
their stability or rendering them less abls
to stand the crucial test of hard times, de
preciation of values and financial unrest."
"The disastrous record of savings banks
with fixed capital In thta state," said Dr.
Hall, "places them beyond tbe pale of con
sideration by those who know their weak
ness. No one conversant with the btstory
of savings banks la Nebrssks, operated with
fixed capital, can do aught but oondemn
them. In order to be perpetuated tbey must
be allied with eome stronger Institution
able to take care of tbera when they totter
and would fall. This Is true because of the
fatally defective law under which they
operate, which requires them la the mala
to lnveet only In long-time securities and
to pay practically oa demand."
Sharlaa; Proflta and Losses.
The clsss of savings banks needed to
meet existing conditions was, In Dr. Hall's
opinion, tboss baaed oa the principle of co
operation and mutuality, "wherein the de
positor Is mutually and equitably interested
to the extent of his depoelt and tha time It
Is left la the bank; where no Interest Is
paid, but where each depositor shares In
the profits la accordance with tbe time and
amount of bis deposit, and where the right
of withdrawal Is restrictsd In much tbe
same manner as now provided by butldlug
and loan associations. An institution eon
structed upon such a plan. In competent
hands, will meet all requirements under or
dinary conditions and bid defiance to finan
cial gloom and panic."
Dr. Hall reiterated his conviction ex
. pressed la his report to the State Banking
board two years ago, that with this sa Tings
baak feature aa an adjunct to building and
loan associations the latter would become
the most powerful financial Institutions In
ths west. If this cannot be done, mutual
aavlnga banks should be provided for Inde
pendently. There Is a field for them and a
demand for them, and a law authorising
their establishment should be enacted. He
declared such Institutions more desirable
than postal savings banks, because the lat
ter "increases the tendency already too
prevalent toward government paternalism."
Mutual savings banks would utilise home
capita at horn Postal savings banks
would take away the accumulations of the
people and Impoverish the commualty te
that extent
Ie It reaalalot
Dr. Hall's paper provoked aa animated
dlacusstoa and Inquisition. Delegates
seemed reluctant U consider the proposi
tion a feasible one and plied its chief e4 va
cate with qusaUoaa, which served to bring
1at perplexing feature of tha prohleacu It
was pointed out that mutual savings banks
ss proposed would necessarily usurp the
functions of building snd loan associsttons
and of ssvlngs barks with fixed capital.
The Utter Institutions, controlled by more
experienced men, could at once avail them
selves of the mutual system, while mana
gers of building and loan associations, at
least a majority of tbem, would hare to
acquire experience. In Ohio, building and
loan assoclstlons have savings bank attach
ments, la which depositors are given a fixed
rate of Intereet, generally lower than the
profits of the associations, the difference
accruing to tbe shareholders of the build
ing and loan associations. Tbe associations
are therefore responsible for the deposits
In the savings banks, and aay losses In
curred must be borne by the shareholders of
the main concern. The vital point brought
out was whether shareholders and deposit
ors should be on an equality as to profits
and responsibility. President Bentley
wsrned the delegates to consider the ad
vantages and dlssdvantages of the pro
posed departure. He cited the Beckwlth
association, one of the oldest and strongest
In England, In which seven-eighths of the
assets were deposits In the savings bank
department and one-eighth by sharehold
ers. The latter derive profit from the for
mer. If tbe association should become em
barrassed tbe depositors would bsve a prior
lien, and would easily wipe out the princi
pal and profits of the minority. At his sug
gestion the question was referred to a com
mittee for consideration and report at tha
next annual meeting.
Home Co-operative Companies.
Home co-operative companies coming
from Missouri Into Nebraska received con
siderable attention. A letter from Hon. E.
Royse, secretary of the State Banking
board, urged tbe league to continue in the
good work of prosecuting and exposing
this and other forms of fraud and misrep
resentation, promising the active co-operation
of the State Banking board. "A cer
tain class of parasites of tbe social body,"
he said, "are busy using the associations
you represent as models from which to con
struct Institutions permeated with fraud
and misrepresentations, galvanized avlth
glittering promisee impossible of fulfill
ment, and presented to a credulous public
as the acme of home building and home
purchasing wisdom. Tbe promoters go
forth proclaiming a mission of philan
thropy, a generosity of motive, presenting
a plausible and catrby plan of operation,
and with such unction and zeal that you
seem a back number in this splendid civil
ization. Such suggestive titles as 'Home
Co-operative Companies,' 'Home Savings
Associations,' 'Home Building Associations,'
appeal to these prouiolers and suit their
purposes and fancies. Tbey are of all
grades, from a national building and loan
association to a diamond scheme. The In
genuity with which they fool the public and
the alacrity with which tbe public falls
over Itself to be fooled, excites admiration.
When left alone tbe promoters of these
fraudulent concerns convince us tbat Bar
num knew what he was talking about when
he said, 'The public like to be humbugged.' "
Mr. Royse awarded to Kansas City the
doubtful honor of having fashioned the most
artistic model of brazen fraud. "It Is to
bs regretted," he said, "that building and
loan associations have to contend with such
Institutions and are compelled In a measure
to bear the odium of their pretended simi
larity of purpose, for It la only too true
that this odium does In a measure attach
to legitimate building and loan associations.
The department with which I have the
honor to be connected la dotng everything
In Its power to not only keep these frauds
out of the state, but to suppress such as
spring up within the state."
Facta Based on Flararea.
These so-called "home oompanles" were
discussed with much statistical detail In a
paper by T. J. Fltsmorrls of this city. He
asserted the scheme embodied In the con
tracts of the companies waa Impossible of
fulfillment because It sought to make all
members borrowers of a fund contributed
In Installments by the members. Tbe re
sult Is that 93 out of every 100 members
must wait from five to seventy years for
the maturity of their contracts. Computa
tions made by expert accountants in Omaha
and Kansas City showed tbat only 22 out of
,000 contracts could be matured In the
first twenty months and only 71 out of 1,000
In five years, so that at no time could more
than 7.1 per cent of the total number of
contracts In fores be matured within five
years. On a fiat membership of 6,000, all
starting together and remaining to tbe fin
ish, 109 contracts would be matured In the
first period of twenty months, 355 In five
years, 2,105 In twenty years, 4.645 In forty
years, and the last one of tbe 5,000 would, If
be lived, get his home paid tor in seventy
six years and eight months. Regarding tbe
pretended cheapness of the scheme as a
loaning agency, Mr. Fltzmorrls showed
tbat thi proflta of the promoters the first
year would be 32 per cent of tbe receipts,
at tbe end of five years 25 per cent, and at
the end of 20 years 17 per cent of all the
money handled.
' Land Traaefera.
The question of cheapening and simplify
ing the present system of real estate trans
fers Is one of deep concern to building as
sociation men. Mr. O. M. Nattinger of
this city read a paper giving the history
of the Torrens system and the progress it
la making In various states and his views
In favor of this or similar method were
warmly endorsed by the convention. With
the methods now In vogue the transfer of
property or the filing of a mortgage In
volves considerable time and expense.
There are fees for abstractors of title and
lawyers must get 35 or $10 for examining
the papers of the abstractor. These two
items tske from $25 to $75 and then the
owner has no assurance that the title is
perfect The next abstractor and the next
lawyer may find defects and the expense is
plied up again. In Douglas county the
system Is becoming more complex and cum
bersome and books of record, now 300 in
number, are Increasing the difficulties and
piling up the cost. Although the commis
sion sppolnted to consider the subject pre
sented a divided report, tbe convention de
clared that the Torrens system, adjusted
to meet Nebraska needs, would be "a re
form of Incalculable value to the people of
the state."
C. W. Brlnlnger of Grand Island discussed
advertising with keen appreciation of the
value of printers' Ink.
Howard Kennedy, Jr., of Omaha presented
statistics on the cost of term life Insurance
policler as additional collateral for building
association loans. Security of this char
acter is required by eastern associations,
but it has not yet been put in operation In
Nebraska.
A series of resolutions wsre adopted
thanking the State Banking board for
its "seal In fostering and safeguard
ing mutual associations." congratulating
Attorney General Prout for instituting
Judicial, proceedings to annul the corporate
powers of horn co-operative companies aad
promising "our physical, mental and ma
terial support In prosecuting the fight to a
successful finish," and one in favor of the
Torrens system of land transfer.
The old officers of the league were re
elected. C. r. Bentley of Grand Island.
T. J. Fltsmorrls and O. M. Nattlngsr of
Omaha were chosen delegatea to the July
convention of the United 8tates league and
Wahoo was selected as the meeting place
la 190$.
The at earner Deuterhland haa two screws,
and when It loot lie rudder mllee from
land sl-sagged Its way Into sort by uauia
Ute screws alternately '
OUR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT
Most Democratic Chief Executive Sinoe the
Dayi of Jefferson.
VIEWS OF A CRITICAL INTERVIEWER
Mr. Roosevelt's Idea of What It la to
Be Really Denaoeratle The Street
aoas Life In tha White
House.
"Mr. Roosevelt Is by all odds the moot
democratic president we have had since
the dsys of Jefferson."
These words were spoken to me In Wash
ington the other day, wrHes George Cory
Eggleston in the New York Herald, by a
gentlewoman who has lived long, traveled
much and observed closely, and who, by
reason of her high social position, has bad
entree of tbe White House for thirty years
or more.
I quoted the utterance to Mr. Roosevelt
soon afterward, when I had the pleasure of
passing an hour or two with him in the
private, residential part of the exeoutlve
mansion. His answer was quick, aa his
answers are apt to be when anything In
terests him.
"I am democratic," he said, with empha
sis on the verb, "If the word democratic
Is used in Its legitimate sense. But I have
no patience with that vulgarly ostenta
tious avoidance of ostentation which some
times calls Itself 'democratic' I have no
sympathy with tbe thought tbat In order to
be democratic one must put aside respect
for tbe gentle decencies of life and make
a boor or a clown of himself. I believe
thoroughly in the simplicities and hon
esties of life and in the fellowship of all
honest and sincere men. But It doesn't
appeal to me when a man refuses to wear
the customary garb of gentlemen lest aris
tocratic pretension be attributed to him."
"You do not think, then," I Interjected,
"that one need go tn a public dinner with
out cuffs In order to demonstrate his
democracy T"
The president laughed, and. his laugh was
sufficient answer to my question. But
presently be added:
White Hoase No Second Rate Palace.
"It Is my endeavor to make of the White
House during my term not a second rate
palace, like that of some Insignificant
prince, but the home of a self-respecting
American citizen who has been called upon
for a time to serve his countrymen In ex
ecutive office. There, seems to me to be a
world of difference between democracy and
demagogy. The one Is based npon an hon
est and sincere respect for one's fellow
men, the other involves the sacrifice of
self-respect In an appeal to vulgarity and
prejudice."
As Mr. Roosevelt earnestly said this I
could not avoid recalling that passage In
the novel called "Democracy," In which
It Is recorded that a certain senator of
the cufflces sort gravely doubted the pru
dence of taking a dally bath lest the practice
be regarded by bis constituents as "savor
ing of aristocracy."
The keynote of Mr. Roosevelt's conduct
while occupying his exalted station is pre
cisely this: He is first of all a gentle
man, with all a gentleman's self-respect
He Is 'secondly an American clttsen, so
strongly Imbued with a sense of tbe diguity
of American citizenship that he makes his
respectful bow to It whenever be meets It
He Is thirdly the chosen representative of
75,000,000 people, selected from their num
ber and by their willing suffrages to oc
cupy the highest office within their gift.
He maintains all of the dignity that bis
high office demands of blm. He has all
tbe winning and easy courtesy for those
who approach him tbat any gentleman
shows to the stranger within his . gates.
And with due respect to thess Imperative
obligations be bas all that any American
citizen can have of frank and generous
recognition of other clttzenshtp than his
own.
Washington Sans as Oyster Bay.
Wben be comes out of his sanctum, aa I
saw him do a little while ago, to greet the
miscellaneous throng of persons who dally
call, with no purpose but tbe Idle one of
shaking hands, he does so precisely as he
might enter his drawing room at Oyster
Bay to converse with assembled guests.
There Is no formality or air of state In
his demeanor, but their Is equally nothing
of assumed familiarity. He does not sit
or stand, as former presidents have done,
to have bis guests "presented." He sim
ply moves about among them as one does
In a parlor, greeting each pleasantly, say
ing whatsver there Is to be said of friendli
ness or courtesy, and, If one previously
known to him happens to be In tbe assem
blage, grasping his hand with special cor
diality .and making pleasant reference to
some previous occasion of meeting.
In brief. President Roosevelt receives his
morning callers In tbe White House pre
cisely as plain Mr. Theodore Roosevelt bas
always received his callers In his own
home. And he sends them all away at last
happy and with the feeling that there bas
been nothing of arrogance in his reception
of them and 'equally nothing of condescen
sion. This robustly healthy American citi
zen who Is our chief executive haa no sym
pathy with the Insolence either of arro
gance or of condescension.
It has been my good fortune to know Mr.
Roosevelt as an acquaintance for many
years. When I first knew him he waa plain
Mr. Roossevelt, not long out of college, en
gaged In literary work as a vocation and
In a strenuous far Western life aa an avo
cation. Later I had frequent occasion to
talk with him wben he was a police com
missioner, earnestly bent upon purging tho
force be was set to govern of its corrup
tions and of Its lassitude In enforcing tbe
law. Still later I conversed with him when,
aa governor, he had that moat difficult of
all problematical bodies, a New York legis
lature, "on bis hands." In the presidency
he is no whit other than he was In private
life or In smaller official places. Ia all cir
cumstances he Is an earnest, honest, open
eyed and resolute man, intent upon doing
the duty that lies before him to the utmost
of his power.
tressesi Every Moment.
That resolute purpose, aa I understand
the man, ia what he had In his heart and
mind when he coined his splendid phrase.
"The strenuous life." He Is strenuous In
every act and word and purpose. He la
strenuous with all bis soul In his determi
nation to do at hie best the thing that Ilea
before him to do, whether It be to subdue
a broncho, to run down a grizzly bear, to
push his way up San Juan hill or, In higher
etatlon, to make the moat and beat of hie
executive authority in behalf of tha nation
and people he represents. In other words,
Tbsodors Roosevelt Is aa Ideal type of
American manhood and citizenship In their
highest development.
Robust vigor is aa marked a character
istic of bis mind and character as It Is of
bis physiqus. He hatea a lie as he hates
cowardice. Perhaps he views the two
things as identical, and they are ao.
He preserves his youthful enthusiasm In
a remarkable degree. Hla sympathy with
boys In their manly aspirations la Intense.
There waa a glisten as of tears In his eyes
when I told him tbe other evenlag that a
stalwart boy bad recently said to me:
"Anyhow, Mr. Roosevelt always stands
for as boys when we want to do things."
I hsd seen htm receive a boy a few days
before. Tha boy, a fine Ud with a head
that meatU something, had coma with his
father to be "presented." The father was
received cordially. The boy was almost
embraced.
The president took blm by the shoulders
In caressing fsshlon and talked with him
as any good-natured senior In a school
might do with a new scholsr who pleased
his fancy. The boy had looked abashed
and terrified before bis presentation. When
R was over he seemed to me to be tbe hap
piest boy in the world with the exception
perbspa of Mr. Roosevelt
Knows No Fatlaoe.
Tbe president seems really tireless. In the
literal sense of that word. My personal
visit was made on the evening of tbe day
on which he returned from hit comet-like
trip to the Carolines. He had got back to
Washington In the morning, after five days
of soul-wearying travel, still more weary
ing speechmaklng and function-holding,
and the ceaseless strain of social snd
every other sort of exciting experience.
Almost any other man would have gone to
bed and put business aside for one day at
the least Mr. Roossvelt hsd gone to his
desk,' Instead, to clear off tbe work accu
mulation of nearly a week. He had then
held an Important cabinet meeting, re
ceived many official and other callers who
had vexing business matters to discuss.
made several appointments to office and
attended to a multitude of other trying
affairs. Yet wben I desired to withdraw
on tbe ground that he must be well-nigh
exhausted, he cheerily answered:
"Oh, no, I'm not at all tired. In fact, I
never feel much of weariness. Light a
cigar. I want to talk wHh you about a
historical point which you criticised soma
years ago In one of my books."
Fortunately, I was sitting at the time in
a well-armed, easy chair, utnerwise l
think I might have fallen. Think of this
busy man, ceaseless engaged with strenu
ous public affairs, still remembering that
poor little criticism of mine years after It
was wrlttea! The criticism concerned a
minute detail of very small consequence
in any case, yet so earnest and sincere Is
this man and so "strenuous" In all that he
does that he remembered tbe point perfectly
and mentioned It now only because he was
Interested to explain to me how be bad
been led Into tbe Insignificant little error.
It seemed to me that in this Incident more
than one admirable quality of tbe presi
dent's mind and character were revealed
in a very enlightening way.
Coaatry GaJns Lettera Lose.
Mention of this Incident Is a reminder
that Mr. Roosevelt Is the only man of let
ters who has been president since Madison
went out of office, in 1817. Even Madison
la hardly to be reckoned a man of letters In
the accepted sense of the term. His writ
ings were of political polemics, pure and
simple, and therefore, notwithstanding
their grace and force, they are scarcely
to be accounted as literature In the proper
sense of the term. Mr. Roosevelt, on the
contrary, tuts written scarcely at all upon
political things, while his purely literary
and his topical works rank among the
most important of those that have appeared
In print In this generation. Only the ex
cellence of bis public service could recon
cile us to the loss of so gifted an author
to authorship, and perhaps we have not
lost him after all. Who knows? He is
still less than 44 years of age. If he Is
elected to a second term In 1904 he will
be a man very little beyond 60 wben he
shall finally leave publlo life, and a man
so robust as he is In mind and body, a man
so strenuous in all his Intellectual activi
ties, should be at bis very best tor literary
work at tbat age. He will be equipped, too.
as no writer In our country bas ever been,
with an abounding knowledge of affairs and
conditions, with a varied and ripe experi
ence and with an unusually broadened, hu
man sympathy. If bis superb health holds
out to the end of bis public life, there Is
every reason to expect that the succeed
ing years will give us literary and his
torical work at hia hands sven better and
mora important thaa any tbat has gone be
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