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...Smalltown Bankers Sirs...
...amazement your paragraph in the June 5 issue, p. 13, in which the last lines read: "They saw their deposits which they had spent a life time to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster...
...review of the past four years however, will show a tremendous balance in favor of the small-town bankers. No smalltown banks have crashed with such reverberations, even in proportion to their size as we have seen go in the cities. For ten years the city banks have been drawing from the country banks by their advertising, their claims to being in close touch with affairs and their stock market facilities and their claims that size makes strength...
...smalltown bankers grinned and bore it without a whimper. Now that the shoe pinches it is the big bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...
Hans Pinneberg, 23, was a smalltown bookkeeper, a decent but rather timid sort. Cupid drove an arrow straight through Hans's heart when he and pretty young Bunny met on a temporarily deserted beach. Before they even knew each other's names they were married in every sense but the legal. Then a baby threatened, so they got married legally. Pinneberg lost his job, because his boss had wanted him for a son-in-law; there was nothing more for him in that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that...