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Show oo i OGDEN IS SELECTED AS MEETING PUCE OF UTAH BANKERS SALT LAKE. June 12 Adopting a resolution declaring lor "full und complete com-plete liberty" for both employer and employe and requesting the officers of the organization to "endeavor lu bring about a hotter understanding between be-tween employers md employes" in the state, the eleventh annual convention of the Utah Sinker' association was brought to a close yesterday afternoon The resolution followed the election and Installation of officers and the recommendation to the executive committer com-mitter that the invitation extended by the Ogden clearing house and the Weber We-ber club of Ogdeu, that the 19u session ses-sion be held in tnat eity, be accepted, The following officers, who were the selections of the nominating com-r mittee, were unanimously elected to serve for the ensuing year: President E. O. Howard, vice president presi-dent o Walker Brother Bankers, Salt Lake. First vice president, C harles H. Barton, Bar-ton, cashier of Ogdon State bank. Second vice president, George W. Whitmorc, cashier of First National bank of Nephi. Secretary, J. E. Shepnrd. cashier of I Cache Valley Banking company, Logan. Lo-gan. Executive committee (two-year term), James F. Burtcn, cashier of First National banic of Ogden, J. William Wil-liam Knight, director, Knight Savings & Investment company, Brovo; Frank l'nree cashier ol National City bank, Suit Lake. Both morning and afternoon sessions ses-sions were extremely busy ones, the delegates desiring ;o crowd the work with all due speed in order that they might take advantage of the trip to Saltalr provided by ihe entertainment committee, and a majority of those who were present, accompanied by numbers of their families, took the 4:30 train for the resort, leaving immediately im-mediately after the adjburnmenti During the- morning session the convention con-vention listened to an excellent paper on "The Banking Industry and Allied Interests." prepared by James A. Anderson, An-derson, president of the Morgan Canning Can-ning company, nnd read by II B, Fry of Ogden. Russell Lowry. vice president pres-ident of the American bank of San Francisco, read an illuminating and comprehensive address on "Widening the Horizon," and John M Hayes, secretary-treasurer of the Utah Copper I company, discussed In a broad way the significance and importance of the mining industry speaking spceitically of what had been and what should be accomplished with 'he development of Utah's unlimited resources. N. T. Porter, state bank commissioner, commis-sioner, talked at some length on some of the practices that bankers should avoid in order to succeed, warning especially es-pecially against excess loans, loans to directors and loans to corporate and community interests, without proper precaution. Nephi L. Morris also spoke brlpfly on the influence of homobuildlng in making lor permanent prosperity. At the afternoon session, after Charles R. Mabey bad made an eloquent elo-quent address on how best to solve the problem of the world unrest, reaching the conclusion that to keep everybody busy was the real solution, there was considerable free discussion of the advantages ad-vantages or disadvantages of the federal fed-eral farm loan System. The sentiment senti-ment was overwhelmingly in favor of the view that the work along these lines has proved of Immi QSC ln-ncfil to the farmers of cHe nation. Then there was an extended discussion discus-sion on the question of adoptlnR a esolutlon submitted by the Utah As- sociated Industries, which sought to place the Utah Bankers' association on record as indorsing in full the pol-ie pol-ie of the Utah Associated Industries. This resolution contained a clause voicing "unalterable opposition to boycotts, boy-cotts, blacklists and other illegal acts ol Interference with the personal liberty lib-erty of employer and employe." |