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Show Wests Return From Trip East to Bankers' Meeting Mr. and Mrs. Junius A. West returned re-turned home on the evening- of September 25 after a nine-day trip to the eastern seaboard. The purpose pur-pose of the trip was attendance at the convention of the American Bankers Association. The meetings of the association, of which Mr. West is a vice president, were held at Atlantic City, Sept. 22 thru 25. The round trip was made by air. According to Mr. West the theme of the convention centered around the current economic trend toward creeping inflation and its impact upon the future wellbeing of the people of the United States. "One of the encouraging things about inflation in-flation as such," said Mr. West, "is that people on all levels of our society recognize its dangers and are sincerely concerned about doing do-ing something to halt it." Alsj stressed at the four-day conclave was the necessity for all citizens to take an active interest in government on the local, state and national level. Since hig-h taxation tax-ation and lavish governmental expenditures ex-penditures are a contributing cause of inflation, the ordinary wage-earner should be alert to waste and the unnecessary spending spend-ing of tax money. Attention was called to the fact that politicians can give in grants to the states, only a part of the money they have previously taken away from them in high taxation. Government handouts are never free; but expensive in the long run. Speakers at the convention lauded laud-ed the current efforts of the national na-tional administration to control spending bath on the public and private level "The stabilization of the dollar is the hope of most clear thinking Americans at the present time," Mr. West concluded. Prior to the convention the Wests visited points of interest in New York City and Philadelphia. |
