Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — TREATY DELAY IS CRITICISED [ARTICLE]

TREATY DELAY IS CRITICISED

Bankers Applaud Speaker Who Urges Ratification of Pact. New Orleans, La., Oct. 9. —Six hundred bankers attending the convention, here of the /American Institute of Banking frequently interrupted with applause today an address of J. Howard Ardrey, vicepresident of the National Bank of Commerce, New York, criticizing delay In ratification of the peace treaty. “The whole country,” Mr. Ardrey said, "is awaiting the ratification of the peace treaty with Germany and the league of nations covenant. I know you as bankers, feel tbs brunt of this delay and unrest, and I am sure you will agree that until peace is again restored to the world, technically as well as actually, the American banker must be uneasy.”