Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1918 — THINGS WE’D LIKE TO KNOW [ARTICLE]

THINGS WE’D LIKE TO KNOW

How bank presidents learn to sign their names so Illegibly. Why a man always feels like a criminal when he draws money out of a savings bank. Why somebody doesn’t Invent a floor for banks that won’t have an evil smell, when being washed. How anybody is going to know which is a bank’s favorite vice president, when it has six or eight of them. Why a check has to be Indorsed on the back, when it could be done so much more easily if there were a space provided for that on the front. Whether the eighth vice president ever gets despondent over the possibilities of outliving the other seven and getting a regular job. Why a cashier will spend days tracing a one-cent shortage when be could make the books come out all right by giving the bank a cent out of his own pocket. Why the new style banks, whose ceilings are from 30 to 100 feet above tlTfe floor level, don’t utilize the wasted space by hanging a big bird cage from the roof and putting the president in ft during the dull hours. —Life.