Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1918 — Checks Little Used in France. [ARTICLE]

Checks Little Used in France.

Checks are not much used and are seldom accepted in France. There is but little attempt to identify the payer of a check and anyone who either makes out or accepts an order to pay does so at his peril.. The public tax collector will have none of them, and the taxpayer has to stand in line with his bank bills in the back yard or in the garret of the precepteur, or else he must go to jail for nonpayment. He cannot send a check. There is no clearing house in Paris. Banks settle their accounts with one another by sending uniformed messengers, who carry cash through the streets and who stand in line before the cashiers’ windows waiting to get their exact change.— John N. Anderson in Century Magazine.