PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE BANK MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE, by G. W. Woodworth, editor. Edwards Brothers, Inc., Ann Arbor,Mich., 1942, 76 pp., $1.00.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Third New Hampshire Bank Management Conference are devoted to (1) bank management problems during wartime and (2) to related and important problems which war is generating.

Interesting papers specifically devoted to problems of bank management are: Special Wartime Banking Legislation and Regulation by D. J. Needham, General Counsel, American Bankers Association; The War Experience of English Banks by R. M. Binney of the First National Bank of Boston; Valuation and Selection of Mortgages during Wartime by Irwin Bussing of the Savings Bank Trust Company of New York City; and Evaluation of Bank Credit Lines Under War Conditions by Carlos E. Allen Jr., Vice President of the National City Bank of New York.

Less specialized, though no less valuable and interesting, are the papers contributed by a group of government experts. In this group we find: The Role of Price Control in Our Fight Against Inflation by George R. Taylor, Regional Price Executive, OPA, Boston: Postwar Planning by Victor Cutter of the National Resources Planning Board; Long Range Financial Planning for Cities by William S. Parker, consultant, National Resources Planning Board; Business Problems and Prospects in the Post-war Period by Arthur P. Upgren of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C.; Conversion of Small Industry to War Production by D. C. Buell of the Contract Distribution Branch of WPB in Boston; and War and Post-war Government Financing by Ralph E. Flanders of the Jones and Lamson Machine Company of Springfield, Vermont.

The papers of Messrs. Cutter, Parker, Upgren, and Flanders are especially recommended to lay readers who are presently concerned with the problems of the post-war period.

Despite the war, the Proceedings of the Third Conference are fully up to the high standards of previous years. The New Hampshire Bankers Association and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, joint sponsors of the annual conference, are to be congratulated again for a fine program the records of which are preserved in lithoprint.