Volume 2 - ElectricCanadian.com

266 HISTORY OF THE BANKGetting clear of dirtiness, getting done with mess,Getting shut of doing things rather more or less ;Quite a youth of promise nearly earns his pay,When orders come to send him west there'sanother on the way !In such an institution as The Canadian Bank ofCommerce, there is always "another on the way." Somethingis nearly always happening to keep the current in motion anew mineral discovery, the quick development of a new agriculturalarea, not to mention world-wide catastrophes like theGreat War. The manager's wife has woes of her own, whichMr. Whitehouse voices in his ditty, "We're on the Move OnceMore" from which the following lines are quoted:My friends I leave behind me, and some are wellworth while,Though I've known them but a year or so at best.I am off to face the music with the bland and childlikesmileOf which a banker's wife must be possessed.* * * *I have done it now so often I know what it will cost,By the time our home is furnished roof to floor,Not to mention casual damage, and the treasuresleftbehind.Holy Moses ! We are on the move once more !Though the ordinary routine of banking has its humdrumaspects, there has been plenty of adventure in the lives ofmany members of the bank's staff. Some of the most strikingpioneering experiences of the officers of The Canadian Bankof Commerce have occurred within the present century inprairie towns of Saskatchewan and Alberta that now possesssolid business blocks, well paved streets and most of the otherbut which were absent fromattributes of urban civilization,the map twenty years ago. The rush of settlers from the