Show WORLD V RESPONSIBILITIES By H. H J. J HAAS President o. WE WE are In a n changing world with VT many new v financial problems for which we have havo no precedents and many old problems which have so 10 4 changed as no to tobe tobe toi i be able American t bankers have been called Into In to W world 0 rid affairs at af fairs to blaze new trails of ot unknown unknownS S finance W We e emay emay may c expect x p e c t H. H J. J HAAS these calls calla t to tobe tobe be more numerous nu In the future than they have In tho the past Wo We are tho worlds world's financial loader leader and we must accept the responsibility which goes with it Let us look to the future with con Every Everyone one has experienced a groat sorrow some time perhaps so great we felt we could never overcome overcome over come It but time is the great healer and eventually we have come out of ot it As it is with Individuals so 80 It Is with nations Our nation has had much sorrow in the years of lt its existence In that time we have passed through the major depressions depressions depres of 1873 1837 to 1879 1884 1893 1921 and the pres present nt I venture to state that in each of ot these periods there were those who had doubts of the future Just as we have them today but what happened after atter each depression Our country recovered to be better and stronger L man LunD ever its HS people were introduced intro intro- introduced to modes of living they never dreamed of ot until toda today notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding our depression we live on the highest plane of an any nation in the world Should w we nol no I judge the future by past experIence experience exper- exper ence once Sun Surely ly our people are better bettor pra pr pared financially and Intellectually to cope with even greater problems greater problems problem than they have been ir Ii- the past so 10 why not look to the future confident that fundamental social and economic eco ceo problems will be adjusted Confidence is not established by ny my ny one thing but by tin an ac acc accumulation mula- mula tion of ot things If It we can get confidence con con- started on its way gathering a little here and there it will accelerate aced erate crate its speed as It goes Along This Is not the work of any anyone one man manto manto manto to perform but is the cumulative ef eta ef- ef fort of ot each and every everyone one of ot us WI What we wo are in the future is not the result of what we have done on any one ono day but the result of all that we have done for all time The American Bankers Association 1 Is endeavoring to do Its part Individually Individually Indi Indi- our efforts may not count for much but they are part of ot the whole plan and taken In th the aggregate Aggregate aggregate gate they amount to the sum total of ot all our efforts |