Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 22 | Bankers Honor Western Man

i 1 ' lTJY T- BOWERMAN, recently ! ! XX elected general secretary of the I I American Bankers' association. i V . - - p t BANKERS Him Mil Idaho Finance Commis- sioner Elected Secretary by U. S. Association. The administration committed of the American, Bankers' association has honored hon-ored an intermountain man by electing Guy K. Bowerman, commissioner of finance for the state of Idaho, as general secretary. Information to that effect was contained in news dispatches, which added that Mr. Bowerman would assume his new duties January 1." Mr. Bowerman Bower-man succeeds Colonel Fred E. Farns-WOFth Farns-WOFth of Detroit, resigned, who nas been general secretary of the bankers' asso-j asso-j ciation since 1897. Colonel Farnsworth becomes president of the Bankers' Statistics Sta-tistics corporation. Mr. Bowerman is well kpwn in Salt Lake and Utah banking circles. He has been in the banking business in the intermountain in-termountain dist rlct for seventeen years and has organized some of the largest banking institutions in Idaho. He recently re-cently organized th First National hank at Ashton, Idaho. When Governor D. W. Davis of Idaho formed his advisory cabinet cabi-net this year Mr. liowerman was made commissioner of finance. The American Bankers' association has a membership of 20.000, which represents two-thirds of all the banks in the United States. As general secretary. Mr. Bowerman Bow-erman practically becomes general manager man-ager of the organization. His offices are located at ft Nassau street. New York. Mr. Bowerman is vice president and a director of the Columbia Trust company of Salt Lake. . Special to The Tribune. BOISE. Idaho. Nov. 24. Guy E. Bowerman, Bow-erman, state commissioner of finance, will shortly hand his resignation to Governor Gov-ernor Davis to become general secretary of the American Bankers' association, to which office he was elected Saturday, he officially announced today. Mr. Bowerman Bower-man expects to take up his new work about -January .1 and as soon as Governor Gov-ernor Davis returns from Idaho Falls, where he is attending a reclamation meeting. Mr. Bowerman will ask him to decide upon a successor. There Waa no indication about the state house today as to who Bowerman's successor will be. but state house attaches who have been cognizant for several days of Bowerman's Bow-erman's intention to leave the employ of the state expressed the belief that Governor Gov-ernor Davis already has in mind a successor. jfw TOs in j?our jttmb tgftttl tbet THE object of the Actors' National Memorial Day Ftflid is to do away with irregular and nnaatisfactory benefit performances, which result only in a temporary rehabilitation ol the fund. The date is December S. ' A matinee performs tn c on that day will be Riven in all the principal theaters 1 $ of the United State!;. From tho proceeds of this m.itinee. made up of advaiu-e subscription. KCiier.il coiitributlon and out ami out sent, sales. Mr. Daniel Frohman. presi- ! deSit of tho Actors- Fund, expects to he able to provide a workin;: capital which will take care of idek. destitute, distressed and Infirm actor folk for ! many years to come. The plan was suggested by a Boston business man. : durlni; tho rourso of a talk with Mr. Frolmiaii. who was a! the Hub planning ' a local benefit.. The whole campaign idea was elabot.ited on this basis: The actors helped put over the loan, Ited Cross ami other drives. They leapt up the morals of qur troops n bonis and abroad ti it not fair that we provide them with some soil of old a ,e and disability Insurance, which. Incidentally, will help keep up then morals during the years of their ! uMfulstaif Founded llnvly nr.hl years ago by doseph .leiiei-sou, Lester Wflllack - ! and olheis of that line old s, hool. the Actors' Fu-.d. ivnh Mr. Frohman as Its first sreietary, has kept on doing its quiet i.ood work from day to day. Unheralded, asking nothing in gifts from the ,.,.Mt.-, it , .uno io a period of : j crucial loss during tho war. Now we ate asUe.l to put ii permanently on a I i linn foundation. In Salt Lake a great combination show v. ill be Riven in the Salt Lake theater, lu which liendllnors from all the ttieateis will appear. Tickets will be on sale 111 the various t heaters Wodne ..; t