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Show COUNTRY IN A PROSPEROUS STATE Chicago Sept. 1 - Bankers attending attend-ing the annual convention of the Illinois Illi-nois Bankers association here today asserted thai the tuition was in a "most prosperous condition," as a result re-sult of the enormous crop ields and renewed industrial activity, Coun-trv Coun-trv banks have not been and will not be affected by the European war they said. Twelve hundred members of the as SOClaUpn are attending the sessions Cnlted States Senator Robert L Owen, chairman of the senate banking and currency committee, was ached uled to address the convention this afternoon. "Tho war has demonstrated the ab solute need of the federal reserve and banking act." Senator Owen said, "now that it is possible to create cur- j rency out of solid commercial paper,. I making a panic in the United States impossible " |