Show SHUN BAD CHECKS too many business firms in their eagerness to make sales take unreasonable chances on oil checks was the statement made recently by governor george H dem when lie he held up requisition i i i for extradition papers for a man that issued more than worth of no good checks on a spanish fork utah bank and then went to california there is a mighty sound reprimand in the governors statement that every business man should heed beed the caution is especially timely in this period of depression s when merchants are so anxious annious not to miss a single opportunity to sell goods these bum check artists are fully aware of this his condition and they are certainly cashing in on their opportunity the writer of this editorial has been in dozens of richfield stores where the proprietors have an accumulation of worthless checks that would choke an ox A merchant is very wise to refuse a check from any person he be does not know personally or who is unable to furnish just as satisfactory is i identification as a bank requires especial care should be taken in accepting supposed payroll checks for a small purchase of merchandise and giving the customer a considerable sum of cash in change A man dressed as a laborer recently passed at least three such checks on merchants here in richfield the checks being printed forms of a ous transfer company in price ile he carried out the fraud very cleverly buying loc childrens stockings and other such articles as one would expect a workingman to purchase he got away with quite a sum of money A certain local woman attempted e d to cash her personal check at a store here last week but was refused the courtesy because her husbands checks had proved worthless several times she became quite indignant and stated that this was her own personal check and that she had the money in the bank to cover it the cautious clerk excused himself a moment called the bank even though it was after hours and fortunately found the cashier still there he investigated her account and reported back that she have one fourth of the amount of the check that is only one of hundreds of such cases that have come up the past few months if more of the merchants would be stricter about these things it would have a tendency to curb such nefarious practices on the part of scheming shysters shy who would rather swindle the hard working merchants than to eara earn an honest living by their own efforts |