he way, there is a great going on here. The! Banking Corporation bringing an action against their compradore try and est Tish his responsibil his agreement, for a matter of $200,000 which seems to have, disappeared from the bank in September, 1922, T looked in for half an hour at the hearing of the case and had the extraordinary felicity. of hearing eminent counsel exaniining the young cashier of the bank who was in charge of the cash at the period of the vanishing act.
Eminent counsel was examining im on one of the bank's cash books and persisted in referring to the debit und credit side of the ook as "the lett hand page" and the right hand page," and being former employee of this bank myself {had the greatest sympathy for the somewhat—bewildered young man in his efforts to satisfy urnment counsel.
As the book was held upside down, which was the right and. which the eft became more debateable than ever, likewise the ""balance in"
0 T left them In my time we called them debits and credits, and balances were "brought forward" and "carried forward"—uit then we had not Vecome modernized, nor had we enjoyed course' of "business system" training by mail, "or had our earning capacity improved by Polmanism—but, yet, benighted as we were, no doubt, old fashioned slow going Englishmen as we must have been—yet, we seldom totted 1p the cash book and found a little matter of two hundred thousand dollars had vanished into space!
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