Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-20 | Page 4 | Bankers and Ethics

BANKERS AND ETHICS JAMES M. M COUZENS of Mich- Mich p iJ igan made a remark during Detroit's bank investigation which h deserves consideration A h lot of things happened in national banks banks' for which no criminal prosecution can be brought he said But if civilization is to exist and rely only ony on criminal law and not on morals and ethics we might as well give up The ethi ethics s of banks here and outside could not be prosecuted but some of the acts were as and as shameful as could be Isn't it possible that one of the big things wrong ong with us in the past post decade decode was that we got to relying relying relying-in in all walks of life and not just in the banking field too field too much on crim crim- law and n nit t enough on ethics ethics'