Aviators and Bankers introduction

Aviator

Our speaker today watched aviation grow from infancy. Less than sixty summers ago our multi-billion dollar air transport business began when two bicycle mechanics built a flimsy contraption of wire, sticks and cloth. Instead of breaking their necks on the dunes of Kitty Hawk, Wilbur and Orville Wright broke the spell that bound men to the ground. They established the law of aero-dynamics and altered the ways of the world.

Air travel has collapsed time to the point where you can now breakfast in New York and reach Los Angeles only to find that nobody’s up. Since distance has been dissolved, more passengers are flying to and from the States than are carried by steamships, and domestic air traffic greatly exceeds railroad travel.

Going by air has become so safe that insurance companies are “automatically” willing to bet twenty-five thousand to one that you’ll arrive ship shape. Twelve million quarters poured into self-service slot machines means that underwriters annually stake some $75,000,000 on the safety of air travel.
And for a final word, if air travel wasn’t safe, would air lines be promoting a “fly now, pay later” plan? Our speaker wants to tell us more about that convenient way to get around.

Bankers

The average banker has lost much of the loftiness his kind adopted in yesteryears-maybe because bankers were the first to go on the dole during the depression. The Scrooges gave way to more friendly fellows who are now men as human as the butcher, the bakers, and the makers of legal light. Depositors in today’s busy banks, with their drive-in windows and air-conditioned comfort, enjoy the friendly attitude of the bank’s personnel toward the man in the street.

Yet the banker remains a realist because it’s hard to be funny about money. It’s mostly your money he deals with, and it’s his responsibility to lend it wisely. Naturally bankers don’t appeal to the poverty stricken because promoting thrift among the poor is like advising a starving man to eat less. They look instead toward the fellow who works so hard at making money that he dumps the hardships of hanging on to it, on the Savings Banks.

The U.S. does the biggest volume of banking in the world; in fact, the Government itself constantly breaks into commercial banking. Yet it has only one Vice President in contrast to the many which my own bank employs. Their job is to discourage you from seeing the president. Also my bank has a portrait of its president with his hand in his own pocket: I’m told that he’s heart and soul a banker. He won’t lend a cent unless you can prove that you don’t really need it!

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