Show THE BANK SITUATION it if seems quite evident that it if there is 13 to be very much e sm BIH put into efforts to reopen re ye open the local bank there must be a change lii iii the present committee setup to begin with the committee id ton toil unwieldy to unction function properly Elgh eighteen teen men most ot of them busy with their own private affairs tire are too many to get together often and too many to set around a table and function properly prop propel eily ly and harmoniously 6 it if they could be got goc together added to that handicap is an ap apparent lack of enthus enthusiasm tani on the part of board members and a woeful lack of 0 leadership some soine one to say come on lets go one wonders sometimes if the board knows that the task is a hopeless one but feels that the people would be more reconciled to it by finding it out oui tor for themselves it that is their position the wisdom 0 of it might be questioned better tell us and get the thing behind us rather than wasting time it if it why the delay surely the t he bank saving anything or making any friends by what is going boing on under the present arrange arient nor is the problem of 0 reopen re rc open kopea ing becoming easier as time goes on only three men members ibers of the board were present at the last meeting pull pud they radiated about as much enthusiasm I 1 thusia sm as a lite life on the vay ay to sing sing there was no explanation of 0 the absence of two others members of the citizens coin committee amt appointed to to work with the bank banc officials feel that they haven t been talen taken into the confidence of the latter group and that their services other than as canvassers bien been b ien whether there is ju justitz stirl tation tor for that feeling we have no ay of knowing but it exists nevertheless th eless and conducive to pro g greas crebs at any rate the citizens committee knows little more about the situation than when it was appointed and aside from the canvassing which at the end of three weeks IR ii still incomplete little rii more ore has been accomplished by the group of eighteen than could have been done ly by a couple of stenographers in a days time with our limited knowledge of u the situation we are not satisfied that the task of re opening is a hopeless one it if it is tackled with the proper spirit at any rate liquidation so appealing as to war our giving up without a consistent effort and the first essential to such an effort Is a small committee of men who have time and the inclination to direct the activities and who can work harmoniously together PT local bank officials be blamed for what is being done in the banks now in the way ot of offsetting accounts paying some peoples notes with other peoples ac counts etc those are merely details in the process of liquidation under the state banking depart rients r policy and local bank officials have absolutely nothing to say about it where you lose it there you tind find it would be a good motto tor for bank stockholders to adopt in connection with we file efforts to re oien the bank here A substantial amount of the monty which cedar people are raising 0 o reopen re open their bank Is coming from loans on life insurance policies A neat sum can be raised by parowan carowan people from the same source it if wo we have the same spirit as our neigh lorns letting john do it wont open the bank br cause chances are jolin john is in the same fix as you |