Show I SALL NATIONAL BANKS Figures that ba have ve Been mule public at Washington recently seem to prove Kove conclusively the success of the law Jaw permitting the of r national Mob banks with small amaH capital The law Jaw 1 been in operation ye years ears and dur durIn In that time 1 ii 3 banks have been or organized or organized while has been Add Added added ed to the stock stock of the national banks or of the country countr D DepoSitS posits have In by more than Much of this Increase is undoubtedly due to Ue t of the srn u bank b small communities that had been to get along without banking facilities have availed them themselves themselves selves of the law to establish SlUSh banks A a re result much mosey that otherwise would have continued to lie M idle in the hands of individuals has found fOUM Its way to the banks and is In general circulation The west has participated largely In Inthe Inthe the change brought about by the es est establishment t of the small bAnks In Inthe Inthe the region especially numbers of small banks have been es 85 established I in the lesser communities I which have profited greatly by the in increase increase crease In money thus made available The government s show ow that in inthe Ute the western states indIvidual deJ deposits have haft increased more than per cent sin e the law Jaw operative It cannot be doubted that but for the small banks Danks In the isolated ties no such showing would D be and the condition has not failed to have an imp important and beneficial effect Ott on the general eral |