Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1917 — WHY NOT HAVE A PAY-UP WEEK HERE? [ARTICLE]

WHY NOT HAVE A PAY-UP WEEK HERE?

! Merchants Would Be Greatly Pleased to Have a Pay-Up Week Set Aside Here in Rensselaer.' The practice of having a “pay-up week” each year has taken up well over the country, and has become a national habit to consider the importance, in a business sense, of a pay-up week. The idea is steadily gaining in favor throughmit the United States and many communities have already set aside an annual pay-up week. In practically every community every line of business has a large book account, the most of the accounts being of several months’ standing. Merchants don't mind extending credit and are glad to do so in many cases. Too many of us get into the habit of having things “charged.” It is so handy, so like getting things without pay- We are atH in-clined to feel that we are going to y have much more money some "tfther day than we find in our pockets today. The reason that pay-up week takes so well is that it has been found to be of inestimable value to the world of credit. One of the principal slogans used for the occasion has come to be: “I’ll pay my bills, so you can pay yours.” A moment’s reflection will show what a splendid thing this is. Think of how many times a single dollar ™py Enm »vpr in a single day, with a practice like this. Every thinking person realizes the part that credit plays in modern commercialism and the baneful result of unpaid bill 3. Credit has been so abominably abused that every business man and citizen feels the drag of the heavy credit loans he is forced to carry.