The Holly chieftain., 1915-10-29
COMMUNITY SPIRIT
POSSIBLE AFTER
"PAY.UP week" is
|NAUGURATED
Holly Man Expatiates on Impor-
tance of Latest Business
Movement.


Movement.
Editor Holly Cheftan:
During business career of many
years, it always seemed that community
interest was pretty hard to arouse when
half of the community was in debt to the
other balf-each was suspicious OF the
other. This is why "Psy.Up Week"
came to life in the East some years ago.
What is this ideap It's very simple.
Every business man is agreed that credit
is greatly overdone, sometimes traeically
so. The farmer gets in debt to his mer.
chant, and the merchant gets in debt to
his jobber, the jobber gets in debt to his
manufacturer and the manufacturer Gets in
debt to his material man and-well it
doesn't take long for the chain of debt to
run clear back to Wall Street. Now it is
just possible that Wall Street isn't the
Alley of Osres that it's pretty generally
"cracked up to be-" Nevertheless, in
strolline down that narrow thoroushfare,
it's just as we'll to be little Ieary,
" cause Kuhn.Loeb II ketcha ef va don't
watch out" That's why Main street,
Chillicothe, is good deal safer.
The town Of Hume, Mo-, came so near
being in Kansas that the Missouri part of
its address has to be emphasized. 1t is
tucked away in the extreme southwest
corner of Bates county, and if old Mr..
Hume, or whoever it was who founded
the place, had driven his stake two or
three brief miles toward the setting sun,
he would have started Jayhawker in
stead OF a Show. Me and Pay.Up" town.
Hume has q population of $40 souls, &C.
cordina to the latest Dun book, and not
single soul Of them is more original than
the originator of "Pay.Up Week"
The idea has already received so much
attention that it bids to fair assume ma
tional importance. For several years
this Mr.. Moore has been studying com.
munity development. Hume has already
made SO much progress in this direction
that every property owner has been per-
suaded to paint his house white. This
makes the place very attractive, and
when the traveller comes in sight of all
these white. green suffered dwellings un.
der the green trees gives him the distinct
impression that he has at last reached the
mythical "Spotless Town"
The first "Pay.Up Week. ever con.
Quoted in this or any other country, as far
as can be ascertained, was held in Hume
during the business week OF June Is, 1915.
The idea met with so much reponse that
those back of it decided to make it per.
manent institution. Letters have come
to Editor Moore from many parts of the
country inquirine into the merits of the
"Pay-Up" propaganda.
Now, nobody expects that everybody
in q community is going to rush around
to the various merchants whom he owes
and fork over" the cash during the week
specified. Certainly we don't expect any
such thing. But it gets people to think.
ing along the "Pay.Up" lines. which, as
the average merchant knows, is a rather
healthy line of thought. Most of the
Hume business men are very much for
the movement. They have had expert
ence with it.
Said one to us along about June or 3:
at pays-this "Pay.Up" idea you have
been boosting. have had quite mum.
ber call and pay their accounts even this
early in the game. This is unusual. And
all were hapy and sweet after it was over
This is what one of the victims" of
the campaign had to say in its favor:
"After had called on the people owe,
made out list and added up my in.
debtedness. Then counted my cash and
went back and made payments on each
debt. This "Pay.Up" Fame has set me
to thinking. am going to make it "Pay-
Up day the first of every month until l
get square with everybody"
There are a great many things that
might be said in advocacy of the "Pay.
Up" idea, but let's let Mr.. Moore say
them:
"Willtul, premeditsted indebtedness il