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Show Canada, and the association there will help them materially. A report was read showing nearly all the Jobbers and manufacturers of Salt Lak?, Ogden and Provo are affiliated af-filiated with the local branch. The reports re-ports showed a substantial Increase In membership over the preceding month. The Union Pacific Portland Cement company and Cragen Pros., both of Ogden, were admitted to membership yesterday. UTAH CREDIT MEN SUGGEST CHANGES Claim Retailer Should Pay Interest After Time Allowed for Payments Pay-ments Expires. More strict adherence to tbe terms stated on Invoices, the demanding of interest after tho expiration of the time allowed for payment and the refusal re-fusal of the regular discounts- when the rotaller neglects to pay up during tho alloted period were three subjects that received the attention of the members of the tUah Association of Credit Men at their regular monthly meeting at the Commercial club, Salt Lake. Tho committee appointed several weeks ago to look into these matters submitted its report, and an unanimous unani-mous vote was recorded for its adop-. adop-. tion. Heretofore, nccordlng to the Jobbers the retailers of the Intermountaln region re-gion have been decidedly negligent in settling their accounts. They have paid little attention to term3 submitted submit-ted and approved at buying time and have been used to taking tho discount dis-count allowed for Immediate payment after they have let their accounts run past the time limit. The Jobbers have been letting them "get away" with this, but from now on they will tighten tight-en up. The jobbers maintain that they have to conform to the terms of the eastern east-ern wholesale houses and that they cannot afford to be carrying the accounts ac-counts of their customers". They suggest sug-gest that ir the retailers are pinched for ready cash they should let their banker have the account. If they do not do this, a nominal interest "will be charged them. As a tribute to the success of the Credit Men's association In this country, coun-try, a letter was read from a Canadian city statin?; that a like organization ie being formed to cover the entire ! English domain. The central office will be in Winnipeg. It will be conducted con-ducted after the style of the American Ameri-can institution. This new niov is accorded the hearty sanction of Americans, as many of thelarge houses bae branches In i |