Show HOW THE G AP WAS BRIDGED Q 1 by ay J H president flent of the Arne american rican canker bankers association sometimes hear bear bookless hop boo elee eless am bess expressed over the me pros prospect pacts of solving the problem of the rola raja eions between employer and employee la n at I 1 J least one great business tho the way has been I 1 found a u n d the arne same principle can bo be applied 10 lo solving it tor for othra oth ra twenty aye J H cher y years ears ago bank clerks were not elevated to ofil clil positions a success fill ful man in ami domst line at 0 endeavor who had accumulated suM cleat purchased that little closing 11 clory glory a bank presidency t to wind up hie his career the bank clerk had bad to start as Im emenger with a very salary and waa was usually employed lat tv telo elve or fifteen years of 0 age lie ile learned something about the working ot at the bank but vm 1 little about re theory them the president knew something labout about the theory tit ot business but eighty little about banking con can banks did not arrive at the degree ot of efficiency they have obtained in the lost jut few rears through meeting the greater requirement requirements quire qui rement ments of the nations cammer 4 ci lit 1 there came a time when a few 1 wen men hop hoped d to bridge the ap fram a clerkship to po vo etalon they first organized dab clubs to eludy study in their own bank banks the theory and trac grac tice of banking then those who bad a larger vision began to invin clerks from rom other bank to sit in the study clubs soon the study club became a community club twenty one years ago three hundred bundred ot at those these raen men met in cleveland at that time there were just three chairs of commerce e and banking la in the universities ot of the united fe tates these men did not ehnow where to turn for or instructors dank bank officers volunteered to felp them those throe hundred have grown into a study club of 4 men aud and women today it is t now called the american institute of banking the institute Is corn com plied of the officers of banks and the clerks of banks the line of at demarcation has vanished they are professional associates what hax hits been accomplished in banking this linking together of the interest interests of at all those who are retting getting their livelihood from the same bi business will some dayi dayl solve the problem lern between capital and labor that Is the only way we can hope to do it people de 1 riving their income from one bu bal 41 cess ress must hare have a common purpose not an purpose ai an they come to be professional brethren in the business their trouble troubles will be solved |