Show BANKS BF BEARING aring BIG burdena BURDENS in trying to meet meat the demp demands lids of readjustment of industries to aba r peace basis and to m meet est the enormous slump in values the bankers have had about the biggest load to carry of any business the grain growers the fruit producers the live stock men have all hadbo had to be financed more or less individually arid and in some states plans were worked out to market large crops by collective methods on top of this banks have carried a large share of the liberty loans and helped float local bond issues build mar market ket roads and have been forced more inore or less into handling la in vestment securities for customers hundreds of city and country banks are acting as agents or adas ers io to customers who invest in iii bonds and good stocks and the failure of 0 a lar brokerage firm at Port portland lind has emphasized this thia I 1 |