Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-25 | Page 20 | Ogden Department

cN hI h S OGDEN D DEPARTMENT EP A R I. I I I S Twenty fifth Street Phone phon all co complaints complaint plaIn to m. m I NAME SALT LAKE lAKER HEAD EAD OF OF UTAH 1 I BANKERS t I So 1 S Special to TIe Telegram OGDEN June 24 The The most ost successful suc s I and interesting three days session session ses ses- sion of the Utah Bankers Bankers' association The closing was concluded yesterday chapter l apter of the occasion was in a dance I at the hall ball on fourth Twenty street this afternoon in which most I ot or the tho delegates and their wives and invited guests participated At the conclusion of the session this afternoon afternoon after after- noon automobiles were furnished and the visitors were taken on a trip through the manufacturing and residential residential residential resi resi- portions of the city I Officers elected for the ensuing year were tere Elias A. A Smith of Salt Lake president J. J O. O M. M Barnes Kaysville first vice vico president J. J B IL It Murdock Heber second vice president and J. J E. E Shepard of Logan secretary and treasure treas ure I The executive committee elected to serve two years Is W. W H. H Provo C. C H. H Barton Ogden and N. N S. S S. Nielson Mount Pleasant The Tiie program of th the day was carried out put as follows I Addresses Taxation Addresses Taxation by Harden I IB B Bennion The Sugar Industry by bT Fred G G Taylor Guesses of Truth by H. H R. R Irvine Jr Preparedness James A. A DeVine The Mexican Situation by Hon Mon A. A W. W Ivins and a general talk of federal bank tank res reserves by John U. U C Calkins lkins acting cUng deputy governor f federal fed deral d- d eral crai bank reserves San Francisco I The addresses were of much interest alid were well received by the delegates delegates delegates dele dele- gates especial emphasis being given by the speakers to banking and allied interests It was shown th that t the bankers should be united with all the better commercial interests of the state tate and lend encouragement to the farmer famer the stock grower and all other 1 Jines ines of enterprise that make for a gr greater ater commonwealth Mr 11 Ivins spoke interestingly of the prospective Mexican wart war stating that in his his Judgment the United States should immediately take possession n of f the northern Mexican Mexicali states tate blo blockade kade the tha Mexican ports and then hold th the key to the situation until the Mexicans should come to terms torms It was his opinion that under such circum circum- I I stan stances es the Mexicans wo would ld soon sue for peace The policy of the federal reserve bank system was approved and the question of commercial preparedness emphasized Secretary Fred G. G Taylor of the Amalgamated Sugar company stated that the Democratic administration had placed sugar manufacturing on on a sound and safe basis thus e encouragIng encouraging Ing the further development of the industry and nd the building of more factories factories fac fac- tories to handle the constantly increasing increasing increasing ing supply of beets M. M S. S Browning ot of Ogden was Vas elected elected elect elect- ed vice president for Utah of the American Bankers' Bankers association to succeed succeed suc sue Rodney T. T Badger of Salt Lake W w. WS S. S of Salt Lake was selected as a member of the nominating ing lug committee and H. H E. E Thatcher of Log Logan n as alternate