Show OUR LOCAL BANK the semipublic semi public charade of 0 banking and its historic vu vulnerability merab to popular sentiment and political attack makes it that understanding of and attention to public attitudes and react nn play a larger part in bank management in the future than they thel have in the past rays mys the annc ichii ew bankers association few borrowers ever like tle nian man or the institution that lends ends them money in addition a sort of git grim in i legend has grown up about bankers ankers i and banking picturing the farmei as a rapacious crew of financial pirates and the latter as an ice colu cola institution which controls the nations purse strings tr ings As a re alt it has always been easy for the unscrupulous politician in need of a vote getting issue to make political out of the exaggerated and fallacious I 1 attacks on our financial structure the tact fact that banking has awakened to this and Ls is taking steps to inform the public as to the fundamentals of its business busine s marks a move in the right direction direct lon it will in the long run serve to improve rankings ban kings kinas service to the people it will clear away that exists in millions of minds banking lies at the heart of our economic system and its it tinie time we learned a great deal more about it than we have in the th past |