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Show BANK CLERKS TO MEET INRICff MGNB With the selection of Richmond, Va., as tho meeting place for 1913 and the election A offlcors for the ensuing ensu-ing year, the convention of the American Am-erican Institute of Banking came to an end in Salt Lake c6terday. Louisville, Lou-isville, Ky.. pnt up a strong fight for tho next convention. Richmond securing secur-ing It only after a hard contest Scranton, Pa., also was In the race. Little contest centered about the election of the new president, Byron W Moser being chosen by a big majority. ma-jority. The officers elected were as follows: Byron W. Moser, SL Louis, Mo., president Harvey B. Harne3, Washington, D. C, vico president. Harry S. Smale, Chicago, secretary. Irwin L. Bourgeois. New Orleans, treasurer. Robert H. Bean. Boston. .Mrs. T. R. Durham, Chattanooga, and Q. B Kel-ley. Kel-ley. Salt Lake City, were elected for the executive council. Two brilliant addresses, one by Dr David Starr Jordan, president of Le-land Le-land Stanford unhcrslty, on 'The Banker and International Peace, or the Uselessnebs of War," and tho other by Judge William II King of Salt Lake on "The Control of Industrial Indus-trial Combinations,1' were features of the seaslon. Judge King declared that the people themselves are largely to blame for combinations In restraint of trade, In that they do not demand emphatically enough for the regulation ot the trusts. |