Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1914 — The Red Guide. [ARTICLE]

The Red Guide.

The National Rating League, which has so thoroughly completed its ratings in Lake, Porter, Pulaski and surrounding counties, is now compiling its book known as the “Red Guide” on Rensselaer and Jasper county. The Red Guide contains the names of all the no-pay or slow-pay debtors of each town and community, showing how many people owe merchants, doctors or publishers, and total amount of all their indebtedness. However, no name is placed in the guide until each debtor has been given a hearing in his own behalf, in which he is asked to pay or at least make satisfactory arrangements with his creditors. His own action in this determines his rating and not upon his inability to pay. The guide is then placed in the hands of the merchants, doctors and publishers of the town, county and state, so by it the merchant is protected against the poor-pay debtor, as they move from store to store or town to town, in just the same way that Bradstreet or Dunn protects the wholesale house againstthe poor-pay merchant or doctor. In other words, by your fruits ye shall be known. If not honest and sincere about your obligations, then you are not deserving of them. Think it over.

An elegant line of carriages and buggies at Hamilton & Kellner's.