Show HARD HARY TIMES RENEW BANKERS OPTIMISM former bankers chief finds much in past year to inspire confidence in financial reliability C stephenson retiring Rp ROME president resident ot of the american bank era association declared in an address on the expiration ot of his term of office that in fit travelling tra velling about among the banks from one end ot of the country to the other during the past year he bad had come out of it with a renewed faith in the strength ot of our banking ture and our hanking banking situation and a renewed faith particularly la in the spirit and courage of the men in the banks that have enabled then them to rise ancon over difficulties such as men never had to face before or to accept with fortitude misfortunes that were beyond human power to prevent when he reflected he said that the entire human economic structure has been brought to the verge of ruin un der the difficulties that have swept over not only the nation but the entire world and that the results of events of thia this kind react with particular dl di nesa ness upon the stability of our banks and yet how few have sue combed we may well renew our conti dence in the banks of america when we think also of how many of our bankers have stood up under the stress and storms of these times and how relatively few of them have been proved wanting in the series of crises that have assailed them we may well feel a sincere pride in our fellow bank era he added so I 1 com come out of this year of som sont ber experiences not as a pessimist but as an optimist as one with a renewed faith and confidence in the spirit of hie fellow men under overwhelming difficulties and particularly do I 1 come out of this year as a banker who is proud of his fellow follow bankers for the un daunted way in which they have met their part of the great test through which the times have put the nation I 1 believe that this year has brought new honor to our banking traditions and our banking profession and has won tor for the banker new title to the faith and trust of all classes of his fellow follow citizens |