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G. SHULL, our new bank commissioner, though but C. recently inducted into office, shows a remarkable grip on the state bank situation. Every move he makes tends to raise the standard, increase the efficiency and cut down the overhead. Such a policy properly carried out will succeed in any business. Competent liquidators are being placed in charge of failed banks and paid a salary commensurate with the size of the bank in no case to exceed $4,000. As often as possible the same liquidating agent is being asked to liquidate two or three banks on the same salary and at the same time. Mr. Shull was appointed Bank Commissioner October 17, and since that time has paid through liquidating agents thirty dividends, ranging from 5 to 60 per cent. The most notable being the Guaranty State Bank at Madill, Okla., which failed on October 14, 1927, netting the depositors up to and including December 6, a dividend of 60 per cent of the total deposit. Mr. Shull is sanguine that the bank will pay a hundred per cent within a short time. The depositors in a failed bank will welcome the ruling that a dividend is to be paid them as soon and as often as 5 per cent of the deposits have accumulated. Mr. Shull has also adopted the policy of removing the liquidating agent, cutting off further expense and moving the records of the bank under process of liquidation to the banking department for completion as soon as the assets furnish an income closely related to the expense of getting it, especially where the further liquidation is held up by the court proceedings such as surety company injunctions seeking to make the government a preferred creditor in case of Indian money deposit. J. McGRAW, President, Exchange National Bank, J. Tulsa, and Walter Ferguson, recently elected Vice President of the same institution, proved they had another accomplishment besides bagging customers for the Exchange Bank. They succeeded in bagging their limit of quail the first day they were out. They appear to be experts at both, though claim to be somewhat handicapped in the field. as there is no statutory limit to the number of customers they are permitted to bag. They formed the nucleus of a rather distinguished hunting party, Others present were Ray Long, editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine: 1. G. Alexander, of Chicago, partner of Vice President Dawes: Rex Beach, and Irvin Cobb, famed writers: Roy W. Howard. publisher of Scripps-Howard newspapers: "Deak" Parker, Cleveland. editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, and John J. Hardin, an Oklahoma City realtor. OHN FIELDS, the fellow Oklahoma loaned to Kansas to help run the Federal Land Bank at Wichita, has had another feather thrust in his cap. W. 1. Drummond, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Farm Congress, announces the election and acceptance of Mr. Fields as President of the congress to succeed W. J. James, of St. Louis, deceased. On "bein" elected" John's gettin' to be a knockout. Of course, he got nosed out in the race for Governor of Oklahoma, but he is the first republican that has even been able to blow his breath on the cheek of the leading democratic candidate as he crossed the wire.