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fHE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 193C 4 T. S. WHAT WAS THAT ABfll FINISHING PASSAMAQl'ODDV? "SQUAWKS" The Enquirer NEW YORKER AT LARGE By Jack Stinnett. for stockholders frightens away new capital. Another reason for abolishing double liability Is the fact that it is being done away with by law of Congress for nationally chartered banks.

There is no reason for penalizing state banks through a law which im cal In Vienna, Paris and then came the London episode. It was in Switzerland that Miss Carlisle adopted the diminutive of her first mme by which she has become known. "The Alps seemed to be full of Katherlnes, Katrinas, Katies and Cathies, so I chose Kitty and It has been that ever since," she explains. It was there too, that Miss Carlisle turned her back on the butterfly society existence which her mother's fortune offered and decided on the staKe career. It's worth nothing In the record that there Is probably no harder working young lady on Broadway.

You can search the nitfht clubs for weeks without ever catching a glimpse of Kitty Carlisle, for when the other young thlng.i are out "being seen places," she's catching up on the rest that will take her through a round of singing, dancing, dramatic lessons and rehearsals or the show tomorrow. Perhaps that and what she cells the "Carlisle luck" account for the fact that despite her youth and less than four years on stage, screen and radio, she has more popular sours to her credit than many popular actresses introduce in a lifetime. In case you have forgotten, it New York Five years ago, an attractive, dark-eyed girl, a serious student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, sat In the London audience of a mamouth operetta. When It was half over, she turned to her mother, "The is nothing I can think of that would make me happier than to sing the prima donna role of this In New York. It is beautiful and It Is the sort of thing that might bring the operetta back into fnvor with American audiences." The girl was Kitty Carlisle and when the Center theater curtain runs up on the huge set of that same oppcretta, "White Horso Inn," Kitty Carlisle will be singing the prima donna role.

When she was eight years old, living In her native New Orleans, her father died. Her mother took young Katherlno to Europe, planning to stay a few weeks. They stayed 12 years. Miss Cui lisle started school In Switzerland and just a hop, skip and ski-Jump away In the Bavarian Alps was the original White Horse Inn. And it was one of her laler school-Rlrl thrills to meet a popular gentleman of the Berlin stage who was at that time playing the lead in the original production of "White Horse Inn." She followed with interest the successive productions of the musi TWENTY YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATI ON THE RECORD By DOROTHY THOMPSON JOHN R.

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"If we (ill, (hot failure thall not ori.se from a want of itrict adherence to principle or attention and fidelity to the trust we assume." THE KXQllKKR'S TLATFOKM FOR CINCINNATI Building of a system for sewage dlsposul and tixo of all means to purify thn Ohio, the Mliimls, mid I other streams In the Cincinnati area. Completion and I'tllluillon of Itupld Transit System. Colli Inucd Development of Park and lioulevurd I'lans. lessening of the Smoke Niilsanee. Advancement of Cincinnati's Prestige as a National Art Center.

F.xienxiiin of Boulevard Lighting l'lan. Thn Perpetuation of Good Gov rnmenL 1RIOAY September 18, 1936, daily rum CUT llcat not a furnace for uour foe so hot that it tlo sintjc tliyni.lt. ,11 ilhum Shakespeare. In The Trouble Zone, Kstablishment of a European quadron by the American navy Is not a new departure in our foreign policy, but the resumption of an old policy which had been in operation for more than a century. Only sines 1929 have we failed to maintain a small naval unit In European waters.

There is no need to feel that this will draw us into European entanglements. For it Is not a squadron of three or four naval vessels that will entangle us In a European quarrel. It is the vast fleet of merchimt vessels carrying goods to and from Kurope that might involve us. If we want to keep clear of the conflict browing in Kurope, we must be careful of our commercial policies, rather than our naval policy. The squadron in European waters Is merely a small unit for the protection of American nationals who happen to get caught on the wrong Bide of the water when trouble develops.

The provision of relief for such citizens Is a proper function of the American Government. Aid to stranded Americans should end, however, after a few weeks; that is, after they have hail ample time to wind up their affairs and leave the areas of danger. Many persons will recall the destruction of the Maine in Cuban waters, and the attack on the cruiser Quincy in Spanish waters a few weeks ago, and cite these precedents as showing the peril of maintaining a European squadron But the destruction of the Maine would not have led to war with Spain if America had not wanted war anyway. The important thing is that we should give reasonable protection to Americans abroad, without at any time using our naval forces to intervene in foreign disputes. If the services of our vessels in Europe are limited to the succor of American livesnot American property there need be no risk of entanglement.

ICnpyrlght, 1036, New York Tribune, Inc. spiritual traditions, continuity, culture, social forms, privacy, amenities, are all realities to them, perhaps the strongest realities. They hae, too, a sentiment for the soil. They have the feeling, which the upiooted and propertyless proletariat does not share, that they are heirs to a thousand years of history and culture. And suddenly these middle classes wake up to the choice of death by electrocution or death by hanging; to military dictatorship, or proletarian dictatorship.

In France it looks as though that awakening may have come too late. THIS middle group, everywhere the majority, is not the least competent class in the nation. On the contrary, it is by all odds the most numerous, the most productive, and the most stable group. There Is more good will In It than there is anywhere else. It furnishes the organizing brains, the stamina, and the intellectual leadership for all other classes.

But except in Sweden, In Holland, and to an extent In England, it has failed to come forward with an aggressive program. The aggressive programs are formulated by the right and the left. Both of them repeat over and over with finally an almoHt hypnotic influence, that one must choose. And confronted with this choice, the people of the center make the falsest kind of alliances, some of the worst offenders being the Intellectuals, and with them the youth of the so-called lntelligensia. For the very passivity of the middle classes offers to youth and intelli On Maine Translated As Painful To Democrats, In Kent's Editorial, Writer Says New Deal Spokesmen Work Overtime To Destroy Significance Of, Returns.

BY FRANK K. KENT. (Copyright, 1936, by Balttmora Sun) IT IS an old political axiom that "they don't holler unless they are hit." Sometimes politicians put it another way. They say "winners never squawk." On this theory the returns from the recent election in Maine and the recent primaries in Michigan certainly seem encouraging to the Republicans because the squawks have ill come from the other side. For example, take their reaction to the Maine results.

Ht.vr For three days now, New Deal have been explaining spokesmen the figures, pointing out that the election of the Republican Governor by a normal majority, the defeat of the popular Democratic senatorial candidate, Governor Brann, and the recapture by the Republicans of the solid congressional delegation, is not really significant, though the fact is had they elected their Senator or held even one of the two members of the House they had, the New Dealers would have been dancing in the streets. a The culmination of the three days of explanation came yesterday when, darkly hinting dreadful things nlmnl the du Ponts, Mr. Farley and Mr. Guffey tossed out the idea that a recount In the senatorial contest may be demanded and Senator White may find his seat contested next January. They offer no evidence of corruption, but piously speak of the influence of money on elections and shake their heads.

That is the squawk. That is a better reason than the figures for believing Maine was deeply disappointing to the New Deal management, and their confidence has been measurably diluted and their pain somewhat severe. Beyond that, Maine does not appear highly significant. It does not offer any real Indication of the result in the country. It is, of course, not true that "as Maine goes so goes the nation." The results in Maine, while encouraging to Republicans, offer no evidence of a Republican trend, no ground upon which to base a conviction of general Republican success in November.

However, they do appeal- firmly to establish several interesting and Important things. One Is that a landslide in cither direction is without foundation. If there were a landslido ahead it would have been reflected in the Maine election. Either the Republicans would have gotten biRer majorities all around or the New Dealers would have held the ground gained In 1934. The Maine figures, somewhat under normal for the Republicans but a great shrinkage in New Deal strength of two years aito, seem to mean, if they mean anything, that in the nation this la a fight and not a runaway.

A sec ond thing Maine appears to mean Is that Republicans, at least in New England, have again become Republicans, which would indicate that the usually heavy Republican states In this section can pretty well be counted in the Republican column. The third thing apparently established is that the pouring of Federal funds into a state for local projects and relief does not necessarily swing the state. Perhaps this is the most significant of all the lessons of the Maine result, because It la undoubtedly true that in the last two years the state has been drenched with Federal funds. The amount spent in Maine, and capitalized politically so far as they could be by the local New Deal politicians, runs more than $75,000,000. In addition, the full weight of the Federal Administation was thrown into the fight.

No stone was left unturned by General Farley and President Roosevelt, like Mr. Landon, went into the state on one of his well-timed and humorously termed "nonpolitical" trips, passed several days there, spoke to the people, exerted his charm. Under the circumstances It is easy to understand that the Republicans should rejoice that Maine "stood steady." The betting odds still favor the President; most political observers think ho is going to win; most of the polls show him with a majority, and he has many advantages. None the less, Maine docs seem to mean that there is no Roosevelt ride running comparable to 1932 or 1934. STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS.

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The overwhelming argument for this proposed amendment, however, is the simple fact that bank deposits in virtually all banks are now guaranteed by a government agency and In effect by the combined resources of the country's bunking Institutions, This being the case, the double liability of stockholders for their investments in bank capital is wholly unnecessary. Every voter should inform himself carefully of the issues Involved In this question. Once he understands just what is involved, he will undoubtedly agree that the amendment should be approved. Choosing A Typist, Although many of City Council are rather busy doing their bit for Landon, Roosevelt, and possibly I-omke, as well as lesser luminaries of the political cosmos, the fathers of the city still find leisure In which to carry on those little feuds so dear to the hearts of municipal statesmen. At the moment, Council is entangled in the earth-shaking issue of choosing a stenographer, formally described as "Senior Typists in the office of Clerk of Council." Concerning this vital question, on which the whole future of the community seems to hinge, Council is divided into four groups -not quite as many groups as individual Councilmen, let It be noted.

There are four Republicans, who do not subscribe to the merit principle but who do not like to see patronage applied if it is applied by the Democrats. There are also three Democrats who are likewise Charterilea, but whose Charterist principles sng trifle when there is a possibility of putting over a sound Democratic appointment. There Is also the Reverend Bigeh.w, alone as usual, who leans to the Republican faction In preference to supporting a Democratic nominee who docs not part his hnlr the right way i. follows the Harlow coiffure, rather than the Higclow-Coughlin-Lemke pompadour. The remaining "group" consists of Mayor Russell Wilson, the only Oharterlte who is not also a Democrat.

Mayor Wilson, in stalely solitude, defends the merit principle, and seeks to have the stenographer chosen by ilvil service examination. Such is the complex and rather humorous line-up. Obviously, Mayor Wilson has taken the only sound, consistent and practical position. Hut he Is one out of nine. Tt is worthy of note that the Council of a city famed for Us "nonpartisan government" can muster but one vole for the merit system.

It should be noted also, however, that the queslion is not vital, for the position in question is not included In the classified civil service. To fill It by patron age or by compromise is to set a tawdry but not a dangerous precedent. Neglecting Our Home Market. Peaches, pears, grapes, and ap pies from New York and Michigan; onions from Northern In diana; potatoes from Maine and Colorado; sweet potatoes from Virginia and Texas; peas and lettuce from California; cantaloupes from everywhere all are pouring into the Cincinnati market In carload lots and innumerable trucks. Butter and cheese come to us from Wisconsin, and eggs from the Ear West.

We produce all these things In the region round about Cincinnati and there Is a market for all our homegrown things. Rut we do not produce a twentieth of what we consume. In the matter of food we have become dependent on far-off places. This is due to wonders of transportation; also to a marketing system, which, in Texas, Colorado, and California has been put on a business basis that Is a triumph of management. It Is fortunate this year that we draw from so wide a field, for the drought In the Ohio Valley would have put us on short rations.

In this vicinity we have, of course, many market gardeners of enterprise and ability. They have equipped themselves with systems of Irrigation and are no longer dependent on the uncertainties of the rainfall. Yet thousands of acres of good ground this summer were burned up and made of no value because it was impossible to water them. Most of our farmers look with disdain on what they call truck farming, but that kind of farming can be as profitable here as in California. A good many of our farmers are following the old technic corn and wheat and pasture.

They have not taken advantage of the new and tremendous market here at our doors which Is mainly supplied by growers of produce from a thousand to three thousand miles away. It certainly looks as if the Ohio Valley had overlooked a bet. No question but we arc sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to far-off places, most of which we might keep at home. was Kitty Carlisle who first sang "Cocktails for Two," in "Murder at the Vanities;" "June In January" In Here Is My Heart;" "Love in Bloom," with Bing Crosby in "She ljoves Me Not;" and "Alone" In "A NlKhte at the Opera" with the Mad Marxes. home of Fred Demckcr, four miles past Coney Island.

Charles Ath-erton and A Morton were the guests of honor, niul received valuable presents. Dr. E. H. Thompson, who acted as guide on the oc casion, also presented Mr.

Ather-ton his gift, while Colonel A A. B. "Buz" Stephens was the speaker for Mr. Morton. Botween dinner courses speeches were made by a veritable galaxy of oratorical talent, such as Ed Steinborn.

Lew Heck, Dr. Glenn Adams, and "many others." After three vain attempts. Our Boys managed to defeat the Dodgers at Ebbetts Field. The Red victory came In the second hr.lf of a double-header. Their opponent in the box was Rube Marquatd, who forced the contest Into the tenth inning before giving up.

Brooklyn was In first place by an eyelash, and although it was a cold, raw day, Flathush turned out over B.OOO enthusiastic fans. Semper fi-dells, or what, have Weather clear. Temperature 62-46. known lad of 16 from Bellevue, Ky Frank Dresselhaus, who swam the distance In 10 "i minutes. H.

Johnson, a professional, was second and John Zettle was third. The Exposition Commissioners gave cash prizes and The Enquirer presented the winner with a handsome gold medal. If living Frank Dresselhaus Is now 66 years of age. The compiler of this column would be glad to hear from him or anyone who may know what was his subsequent career. The Cincinnati Reds nosed out the Athletics, 2 to 1, in a 12-in- ning game at Philadelphia.

These two teams were struggling for fifth place In the American Association pennant race. The Reds had won R7 and lost 65 while the Athletics had f4 victories to 62 defeats, which looks like an even break but which figured the Athletics a few points ahead. a A number of eminent attorneys of national reputation were gathering here to take part in the trial of a very celebrated case pending before United States Court Justices Jackson and Sage. It Involved Alexander Graham Bell's patent rights to appliances used by telephone companies throughout the country. Chief of Detectives Rlttweger resigned and the Police Commissioners approved Chief Deitch's appointment of Ralph Crawford to succeed him.

It was rumored that Rlttweger was slated to become Superintendent of Markets. Weather Clear. Temperature WEATHER FORECAST Washington, September 17 (AP) Ohio: Generally fair Friday; Sat- urday mostly cloudy and somewhat cooler. I Kentucky-Mostly cloudy Friday I and Saturday; probably showers Saturday In West; not much change i in temperature. Indiana Partly cloudy, rising temperature In central and northern parts Friday; Saturday unsettled, probably showers In the after- noon or night.

Slightly warmer in central and north parts. United States Department of Agriculture, Local Office of the Weather Bureau, Cincinnati, Ohit) I Record for September 17, 1936, end-; ing at 8 p. seventy-fifth meridian time, and a comparison with I the corresponding day of the last two years and normal: Ther.Hu. 8a. 62 73 N.E.-12 T.

Cloudy 70 54 T. Clear 8p.m... 64 56 0 Clear 1936.1935.1 934 N'l Highest temperature 70 91 72 76 Lowest temperature. 60 63 47 55 Average temperature 65 77 60 66 Precipitation T. 0 0 Sunrise 6.21a.m.

Sunset 6:44 p. m. nkI'TMWiikk jh, itun. A lecturo and demonstration on the building of camp fires was given before the Girl Scouts and Captains In rooms of the Woman's City Club. Mr.

Robert Marshall, Superintendent of Boy Scouts, gavo the talk and allowed how to build various kinds of camp fires. Besides the Girl Scouts, Vi Captains and 12 Lieutenants wore present, and Mrs. Albert Hofi'meister, Director. a Evening high schools In Cincinnati enrolled more than 2,700 pupils. The schools wore to remain In session 32 weeks.

Principal Albert Schwartz, Woodward HiKh School, importer! 1,770 tipils, moro than matriculated In the day school, and I'rinclpal Ben Slehl, Hughes School, approximately WiO pupils. Certainly a fine showing for both schools, The Milestone Birthday Club of the Cuvlcr Press Club enjoyed themselves at the fine old country 50 YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATI SK.I'TKMHEIl 1H, 18S8. Another sporting event sponsored by the Exposition Commissioners but doing the Exposition little good In the way of extra attendance was the swimming race on the Ohio River. The start' was made from a bargo anchored In midstream under the N. Bridge and the finish was the line of Race Street.

Judge Nicholas Longwnrth, father of the late Speaker of file House, was referee and the cannon on his steam launch CO fired the starting signal for the 22 contestants. Several noted swimmers took part but the winner was a hitherto un- Lessons I thought I could dance until one day I saw a row of poplars sway, Swinging their emerald draperies high In perfect patterns on the sky; Graceful, rhythmic, lithe and strong, A ballet timed to the south wind's song-Each leaf shaken with lyrical mirth, While I was a cold mere dust of the earth! Watching, I wondered how by chance I ever thought that I could dance. I thought I could sing until I heard The nocturne of the mockingbird, Like fairy music In the hills; Love-calls, limpid, delicate trills, A golden crescendo poured from Its throat Till the listening stars caught each true note, And the winds were hushed and the cool blue night Was a breathless expanse of sheer delight. And I said to my reverent heart: "Poor thing, How vain to have thought that you could sing." I had a secret treasure chest Of bright words hoarded In my breast. I found my way to a woodland stream To embroider my words in a colorful dream; I heard the brooklet's swift cascade Speak In syllables of jade, Topaz and emerald worlds it spoke On the jeweled flint where the waters broke, Whirling an irrldescent spray Of opals that sang in a shimmering way, I lifted the lid of my treasure chest, And my words were ashes In my breast I was humbled a poet who knew Words that were colorless and few! Agnes Cochran Braniblett In New York Sun.

MTS OF BYPLAY From The Provinces DURING THE CAMPAIGN gence little resonance for their ideas, their energy, and their continual restless searches. Both the young and the intellectuals are in levolt against complacency. They ore in revolt against outworn myths, cherished by the comfortable so long as they are comfortable. Youth and the Intellectual long to stir up the self-satisfied moloch. They look for alliances, and they find them in the militant proletariat, eager to welcome them.

If their dissatisfaction takes the form of disgust and cynicism, they may join the extreme right and try to furnish It with a philosophy. But one fine day the intellectuals find they have betrayed themselves, and worse than they have betrayed any other group. For under all the dictatorships, or proletarian, their citadel is the one which is first laid low. AND yet it Is to the Intellec-tuals, who spring predominantly from this great group of the center, that we ought to expect the new synthesis for which the whole world Is looking. It is they who ought to effect the fusion between change and tradition, the integration of liberty with authority.

It is they who ought to furnish the new principles by which valid standards of social behavior can be set. For it is only from them that we can expect a disinterested program based upon knowledge, that we can expect standards approaching universal validity. When will they stop ghosting their inferiors? When will they take responsibility for their own values (Copyright, 193S, New York Trlbunt, Inc.) We Don't Like To Do The Continental. Note to Europe: If Canada and United States should fortify their 3,000 mile border, they'd have "alarming incidents," too. Detroit Free Press.

In The Round. Government finances have reached a stage where as few as six ciphers make one suspect a typographical error. Buffalo Courier-Express. And Wash His Hands. After listening to a leading G.

O. P. spellbinder one night and to an eminent Democratic orator the next night, a contemporary American might well ask himself, with Pilate, what is truth? Boston Globe. Take Pot Luck. For a real thrill, think of the life of a Forest Ranger in California where 120,000 amateur hunter go out at the same time to shoot deer.

Louisville Courier-Journal. Accompaniment To The Slavonlo Dance. King Edward VIII. is a young man who believes in getting quick results, as anyone will note who reads the recipe for his Jugoslav cocktail. St.

Louis Post-Dispatch. Xamerad! What's become of the young moneyed chump who bawled "Hurray for Ethiopia!" from an Italian hotel window? He should be in Madrid crying "Viva la revolucion!" San Francisco Chronicle. Janus Speaks. The Roman press has been hinting that European diplomats are two-faced. hope not.

After looking at the photographs of some of them, we have a feeling that a double dose would he almost too much. -Boston THE Harvard tercentenary conference of intcrnationarscien-tisls and philosophers, which has been meeting in the 'ast several days, has laid down an Inspiring challenge to this country. In commenting on proposals that science and philosophy should definitely attempt to assume leadership In this chaotic world, Professor Gilson of the University of Paris said: "This conference Is a recognition of the fact that the future of western civilization rests upon what the United States will make it In the next hundred years." WHETHER we shall fulfill that mission depends upon whether we shall be able to arrest the forces which in many other countries have disrupted society and led to its reintegration under myths which are at direct variance with what the consensus of science and philosophy believes to be truth. THERE are many Indications that the process of disruption is under way. When the Repub lican candidate and his supporters speak of the menace of class division they merely record what is evident.

Unfortunately too many of them are prepared to assist the process from the extreme right. The process is not one which we need to speculate about. For nearly wo decades now we have been able to observe it in Europe, as in a laboratory. With practically no variation the process has been the same. The nation splits into two or more contending groups, whose divergencies eventually become Irreconcilable.

Then contest leads to social and economic disorder and even, possibly, to civil war. There is Spain. The disorder continues to the point where one group becomes overwhelmingly stronger than the other. That group then establishes order, on Its own premises, and maintains it by force. That is to say freedom, which has resulted In chaos, is supplanted by author ity, resting upon armed force.

For in the long run authority is summoned. It is summoned by a cry reaching to high heaven. a FOR us, at present, the case of France is the most illuminating. There, on the one side, Is the group which is symbolized by the so-called "two hundred families." It is the French Liberty League. On the other side Is the class-conscious, mihtantly organized proletariat and its allies.

And In between is the overwhelming majority of the French people. There are, at the outside limit, 60,000 families, whose whole philosophy is that government exists to further their Interests, and that those Interests and the welfare of the whole are Inseparable. At the other extreme, there are 4.000,000 organized workers, of whom at most 2.000,000 are really class-conscious and prepared for action. Between these two minorities are 37,000.01.0 Frenchmen. And at this moment this majority is being forced to take what for them is the devil's choice.

In proportion as this majority are sentient, they are mostly inncr-ly divided, each man in his own lioirt. To a great extent their interests coincide with those of the militant workers. They, too, want economic security, stability in employment, a living standard which their individual Incomes, apart from communal effort, are unable to give them. They also know that something is out of joint in an economic system which cannot be kept functioning and producing, that repeatedly and periodically stalls, and that, only accepts the necessary adjustments under threat of violence. But.

on the other hand, they revolt against the standards of the proletariat. The family. Spirited Rebel. Beauty I'll bet liquor always goes immediately to your head. Reveler Thash ri'.

thash ri'. Mv mouth's In my head, baby. Ameri can Legion councillor. Aw, Heck I "Attacks Sunnyside Suits," says a New York headline. But the story is about some mortgage cases, not about bathing beach styles.

Buffalo Courier-Express. For This He Crossed The Rubicon. Rangers tramped for four days through the wildf.rness of Mount Rubicon, California, searching for a reported "wild man" and finally got their man. He proved to bo a professor of the University of California who practiced nudism during his summer vacation. Indianapolis News.

Invitation To Murder. Mr. Noowedd Do you suppose it will spoil the cilrtains if I smoke? Mrs. Noowedd Why, you big thoughtful man. Of course it would.

Noowedd All right, then. You'd better start taking them down. Pathfinder. We Sensed It. The height of something or other is a dumb girl turning a deaf ear to a blind date.

American Legion Councillor. Ingenuity. "Mrs. Greene," said the bank cashier, "your account is overdrawn by $50." "My goodness!" said Mrs. Greene, "I'll give you a chock at once." Boston Transcript.

Qualified. Wilbur J. Perdue, Sheriff of Ray County, has a name that might in Itself describe the duties that are his as an officer Of the law. "Perdue," according to Webster, means, "doing duty as a soldier in an extremely dangerous position." lUchmond, Mo News. No Controversy.

Up to this point, no serious argument has been brought by any serious person against the repeal of the double liability of bank stockholders in Ohio. Nor is this surprising. There is today no good reason for maintaining this antiquated provision of law. And there are several reasons for abandoning it The electorate of Ohio should be unanimous in Nevember in approving the constitutional amendment which would abolish double liability. Originally, this provision was put into the constitution of the state with the idea of making bank deposits more secure.

It was Well intended, and perhaps was useful a generation or two ago. But today it serves the "very opposite purpose. It weakens the banks, when it has any effect at all. When a bank is weakened, for one reason or another, its greatest need is more capital, usually. requirement of double liability.