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Show CARRIED "HONESTY" TOO FAR Trusted Clerk Rather Overdid It, Lost the Confidence of Hit Employer. Cash registers became an Institution as a means of compelling honestj among employees handling djouj There was a time when their Install tlon was taken as an affront by everj clerk concerned, but a new generation has accepted them as a mutter ot course. . That they still have their use In the original sense, however, wu demonstrated recently by one employer a grocer who was telling his story over the counter the other evening u a belated customer. "Last summer," the grocer said, "mj family was living down at the bpnoh and I used to leave early In order to get down there for a late dinner. had a clerk that I trusted to lock op and put the money in the safe. Nam. rally the cash register would show in the morning what he had run-up. "For a few days I thought It w,i working fine. He was a good clerk and I thought he was honest. Then when 1 got to thinking about It I decided de-cided he was too honest. For ten days that register and the cash agreed to a penny. Now that's bet(er than I could make it do myself. It ain't natural. nat-ural. "Then 1 decided to try a little scheme. Just before I left I rang op $2.75 on the register and put notliinf In the till. Next morning the cash and the register agreed as usual. That was enough for me. Any man who ii so honest he will make up mistakes out of his pocket must have plentj of money to do It with. "No. he Isn't working for me now." New Jork Evening Sun. |