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Show CONSTRUCTIVE BANKING PROg BANKING PROGRAM Bankers these days are racki their brains how to improve the service ser-vice their institutions are rendering Ihe community. There is no line of business or community service that is so highly high-ly organized to help the public today as banking. Bankers are studying how to reach lout the helping hand to legitimate enterprises and efforts at community 'building. While there is strife between capital cap-ital and labor, largely fomented by labor agitators, there can be no free 'movement of capital into industrial development. But there is a constructive con-structive line bankers are taking thought upon and that is the encouragement encour-agement of capital going into the housing situation. During the war period all building build-ing not absolutely necessary was dis icouraged and there is today a shortage short-age of at least a million homes in our country. This meansj that a thousand million dollars must go Into In-to new houses or an average of sixty six-ty million dollars in each state and banks must furnish the capital going go-ing into new houses or an average of sixty million dollars in each state and banks must furnish the capital. There are plenty of building lots plenty of material in -'the lumber states of the west, and there is going go-ing to be plenty of labor this coming winter unemployed. What better line can banks take up than helping clients with capital or credit, to Influence plan and erect handlings that (are needed by the score in every community. |