| Show merchants Mercha tits and AM bad speaks for itself if you were a merchant and a stranger should luy tt pair of three t dollar do I 1 lar choc rila in it payment u chieck of a well welli known firm for would you without indu inquiry alry or identification given him the shoes and catl cal this was actually done by a main street firm which later inter learned that payment upped stepped st onit ait itt the bank recently a boy taking hiis hda pirl girl for a ride induced her to write rn in the name of a prominent man cofone of one of our southern cities cashed checheck the check at a du drug store bought a few articles and then with the girl ald to Calif Califor orrid nill the druggist might have called by U telephone fl ephone the man whose name was as foisted foi god hut but did not ton sider A nebraska ka 1 pull ihirg company sent out some checks recently printed avith the names of ficai j ous oua banky banks payo it was s simply imply to show the quality of their woric A daring thief took one into a store endorsed indorsed indor sed this a palpably PalPal pal pally lv of paper and the cleil received ved it in payment lien t of goody goods saturday afternoon when bans banks and factories sue e clo closed aed payroll check asare sare frequently cashed at 0 stores and particular station Stati it happens alint sometimes these are stolen st ler arm business houses they are even perforated with and have fairly good fr forgeries geries of the names of tile the business bu Finess executive when presented present by a smooth stranger they are harato hard to turn down because they seem see in to le he geu the extent exten t of 0 f t he evil ev i I 1 of fraudulent checks ts shown by I 1 lie facts that one of our most careful business houses reports chrt fihs ihs t it IT su thins a loss of 1500 a year be sides sides an additional loss ington ing ahn checks checka that are finally fiti maie good besides the stolen m monay n py should he be considered the list of inmate the laate young men and older ones isicar aerated because use of bad paper has been an eary way to commit crime butel Bi winess ness houses should observe the simple of knowing that thai the person who presents the cheek check is the one who actually endorses indorses indor ses it and that thatis it represents actual money io in the bank legally drawn moreover thoe who offer payment in checks should realize that it is their obligation to establish l identity who grow impatient rm patient they the y are recognized or their cred credit it ia i f n not ot known are not playing a fairl fair part in the business busine ss gamp I 1 the evil has i been encouraged I 1 through merchants its depending up on the police decarl rr ant rit to aid them in I 1 recovering their money I 1 threatened with arreba people frequently make good the amount or induce their f etien mends ds to save trouble the can properly object to bein bei n g used as a kind of collection agency in these mat matters lers merchants should serce their as well ai business responsibility bitty in accepting worthless and s ou exercise in intelligent tell agent caution when sp to the value of the cl alf rr ck k or the identity of the on presenting pres inting it I 1 Dri serel cosof of si |
