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Show Is Your Account Appreciated or Tolerated? I She Was Indignant It Was Evident She Thought the Credit Man Didn't Know Who She Was, But I He Did. 1 happens frequently; the names ami dntec nnd places vary, hut the situ-ation situ-ation is usually identical. The foUowing incident took plae )usl. the other day: A certain prominent woman walked into the credit department of a local I store. She was Indignant Someone in that ercdit department had dunned 1 her for an overdue bill. True, ihe hill was four monthx past due, bul she I I was .Mrs So-and-so of 1he secially prominent So-and-So's She wag being dunned by n mere credit man. Now- the iedil man was much impressed. He was of the old school hnt he had also taken ihe post-trraduute course He was fair and impaiiiej the s t r i t arbiter ol his firm's credit aevornmodatious. What he told the Lady made her more indignant at first Hut she finally I taw the light and paid the bill. ' " fl in these times credit men in Oirden. t .-presenting more than three hundred hun-dred and fifty leading firms and professional men. look on nil euatomeri 1 with the same eye. Mrs. So-and-so must pay her bills on schednle time or j be told in so many words that she must. I-m her permit n to drag for 1 (UOnths and her credit will eea.se as quickly as the credit of any other offender. of-fender. ! 'A Prominence in social or political circles does not make one's credit one 1 aim better 6r worse thou thai Of another customer who may uot desire to I be or happen to be "prominent $ None need think that his business is so valuable to the three hundred 1 'A and fifty members of this association that they will be glad to carry them in- i ft definitely. Slow pay is not good business; none of onr members want such f business and none will have it. i These are plain words. Possibly we are putting the proposition too ! j bluntly, but the fact remains that 'Slow Pay" will find his credit rather lira- itedj unless he begins now to pay promptly nnd in fulL I Ogden I I Chamber of Commerce Rating Department 350 Leading Local Firms and re8 |