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Show ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' ; ' Cash Forgotten By Shoppers Waits Owners Scarce as Money Is, Patrons Often Leave Change -Come and ret It!" This is the cry of clerks In department de-partment stores in Salt Lake City to women shoppers they specifically mention women shoppers because they are the greatest offenders who forget to wait for their change after they make purchases. It's hard to believe In them times of upset economic conditions, condi-tions, coupled with a "European war, that people will deliberately leave "cold cash" change that rightfully belongs to them. But, on the other hand, it isn't hard to believe if you know the reasons. Here they are: Mothers who set out on a shopping shop-ping tour and they are mostly mothers who forget how much they gave the clerk seem to be preoccupied and their attention distracted because little Johnny or Mary is running all over the store, or tugging at their skirts if they can reach them. Eager to get outside, they hurriedly hur-riedly pick up their parcel and pull the children out on Salt Lake's wide streets and give a sigh of relief. After awhile "mom" assumes another worry. She begins to wonder how much she gave the store clerk. She finally reaches home, makes a careful check and discovers she presented the clerk with a crisp 10 bill instead ' of a one. More worry. She makes a bee-line bee-line to the business institution, to find out that the clerk expected ex-pected her all the time. She had "mom's" money set aside and hands it over with big smile. "It's the women every time . . . well, almost every time . . . who forget their change," said pretty Carol C Jensen of 1503 Harvard J avenue, a clerk, who knows from experience. "Men come In to make a purchase pur-chase and they know just what they want to pay for a pair of women's stockings," she revealed. re-vealed. "They invariably have the right amount. If they don't, they know how much they have coming back. "It didn't used to be that way," asserted Miss Jensen. "I think the change has been brought about because It's harder to make a dollar and more difficult to stretch it very far after you get It" - V s . - J sgr-1 -4 . if ta - i LINE FORMS AT RIGHT, LADIES! ONLY ONE TO EACH Carol C. Jensen shows a raal bargain abandoned easb money |