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Show 8MEBS WILL MEET IN AL COUNCIL Business Men Also Invited to Present Their Views on Services of Banks to tb Public WASHINGTON, D. C Robert V. Fleming, President American Bankers Bank-ers Association, has announced that the organization's annual convention will be held at San Francisco, September Sep-tember 21-24, and its program will call in not only bankers but speaker! from various lines of business to present pre-sent their viewpoints and advice. The plans for the convention discussions dis-cussions take into consideration the fact, he said, that one of the major problems of banking today is to develop de-velop Its operations along lines that will create greater public understanding understand-ing of its methods and services. "It is my earnest conviction that such public understanding of banking is not only an essential defense against attacks from whatever source, but is also requisite to re-establishing it upon a firm and satisfactory basis of profitable operations." Mr. Fleming said. General Improvement Cited "The improvement in general conditions con-ditions . which is now taking place should be of material aid to bankers in carrying forward a constructive program for increasingly useful relationships re-lationships between banking and business, as well as one of more helpful help-ful personal business services to all our people. Sound banking conducted conduct-ed In ways the public need and understand un-derstand must be the aim of successful success-ful bank management. "How can the banker make his operations op-erations and policies more understandable under-standable to the people of his community? com-munity? How can better and broader financial services be soundly provided? pro-vided? How can banking improve Its operating methods and Income? These and many similar questions demand the earnest attention of all bankers. They call for a fresh counselling together to-gether and a new interchange of experience ex-perience and advice among the members mem-bers of our profession. "With these thoughts in mind, we have built the convention program with the view of also calling Into our councils speakers from various lines of business to give us their viewpoints view-points and advice. I can say without reservation that this Is to my mind one of the most crucial years in the evolution of American banking and that we are passing through a period demanding, as never before, cooperation coopera-tion and mutual exchange of viewpoint view-point among our members and others." |