Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1941 — Page 6

OPINION DIVIDED

ON CREDIT BAN

Survey Shows One Person

In Three Buying on Installment Plan. By GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N.

the ¥ederal shortly issue the first

installment plan. The immediate objective 1s to curb purchases | of such goods as | autos, refrigera- | tors. washing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc., thus releas- | ing metals for} defense. The| long - range ob-| jective 1s tocurb| infiation. 1t is too early] vet to tell what] the American! Pr Gallup public's ultimate | reaction will be to the program. But | some light is shed on the countrys attitude by a public opinion study} just completed by the Institute. | This survey dealt with the ques-| tion of a complete prohibition! against future installment pur-| chases, which was one of the Sug-| gestions made when discussion | started in Washington | The plan finally adopted is much | more moderate in scope, and would | almost certainly meet with more | public approv al than the drastic step of a complete curb on install-| ment buying. Sentiment Divided i Yet it is interesting to note that] even on a complete curb, public sentiment 1s fairly closely divi ided, | as the following survey shows: { “As one way to help defense pro- |

J., Aug. 22.—As| a step toward controlling inflation, | Reserve Board will] of a set of] regulations to control buying on Be

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is over. Do you approve or disap- | AR prove of this suggestion?” i 3 Pp Approve ....cciceiiinies B% | 3 S BH Disapprove . citescees 18 | SN / R Ra Ss *

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Reserve plan, ac-| information. | contemplates an Increase In downpayments and a reduction of the “stretch-out” period heretofore ai-! lowed for ing payments but not a blanket prohibition against | a fut ure installment purchase { ite study indicates that Th ov er on 1e-third of the AmeriSe adult population is now paying! for something on the installment!

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Third Favor Ban This 1s evidenced In a second question in the survey, which asked: | “Are you now paving for anyine on the installment plan?”

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An earlier poll, taken some years 2go, indicates that about 70 per cent have at one time or another bought on the installment plan But many who are buying on the nstaliment plan are apparently far! Foe happy about it. Today's survey found that approximately onethird of them would approve action | to stop the purchase of anything | more on the installment basis

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