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Show Banks Are In the fl Best of Condition j Banks of the United States are doing do-ing a bettor business now than at any (time In the po-m.. according to treasury j reports received Trom Washington by Warren L. Wattle, president of tho Utah National Bank of Ogden. Three charts in the report compare 1 1 he report showing the results j achieved during the past five years, (from Januarj 1, 1914, to July 1, 1919. I The first chart shows that the resources re-sources of the national banks in th I United States have had a greater I growth during the pasi five years than 'in the forty years immediately prior to ihe war. j The second chart demonstrates that in the matter of immunity from fail-.ure, fail-.ure, the record for tho past 22 Off ' months, since January, 1916, has been thirty times or 3000 per cent, better than the record for the forty year per- '.'(J j. f tod rrior to 1911; and that, for the i.i calendar year there has been no fail jure of any national bank in the entiro ! J country, involving depositors. The third report shows the annual net earnings of the national banks (increased more during the five-year .period than during the entire preceding I forty-year period. Jit |