Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1914 — A Good Word for Bank Clerks. [ARTICLE]

A Good Word for Bank Clerks.

One of the new things proposed at the bankers’ meetings had apsMaSreference to bank clerks. The bank clerks in the country will be pleased to know that the new thing may go through before the time of the next convention. The new pian is to ad-“ mft the Banks Clerks’ Association as part of the Bankers’ Association and give all the tellers and clerks ,a chance to attend the conventions and have a voice In the business. "And why not?” said a cashier of a big New York Bank, while we sat with cashiers of other banks throughout the country. “The paying-teller is, in fact, almost as important a man in any bank as the cashier. He can break a bank quicker than any other one man on the premises. By dint of faultless memory he ‘bolds his cage.’ In the five hours of banking the paying-teller cashes perhaps thousands of checks. At a single glance he must know whether the signature on a check is genuine. The teller is also a careful student of the human face. If he does not know the faces of his customers as well as the faces of their clerks, he may some day cripple, if not break a bank. In the great banks in the large cities the paying-tellers sometimes have as much as five or six millions In their direct charge. That there> are wondrously few betrayals of trait speaks volumes for the high average of honesty among the hundred thousand or more bank clerks of the country.” _ , ——