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Show BANKS BEARING BIG BURDENS. In trying to meet the demands ot readjustment of industries to' the peace basis and to meet the enormous enor-mous slump in values, the bankers have had about the biggest load to carry of any business. The grain growers, the producers, the livestock men, have all had to be financed more or less individually, and in some states plans were worked work-ed out to market large crops by col- I loctive methods. On top . of this banks have carried car-ried a large share of the Liberty Loans and helped1 float local ' bond issues, build market roads and have been forced more or less into handling hand-ling investment securities for customers. cus-tomers. Hundreds of city and country banks are acting as agents or advisors advis-ors to customers who invest in bonds and good1 stocks, and the failure of a large, investment brokerage firm in Portland has emphasized this. |