The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-25
PAY.UP WEEK TO Be
OBSERVED NEXT WEEK


The merchants and citizens of Tu-
cumcari will be asked to observe the
National pay-up week beginning next
Monday. Sec'y Beebe. of the Tucum-
carl Business Mems Association, has
been busy the past month doing every
thing possible to make this event real
success.
This campaign is the fourth in the
series of National Pay-Up Weeks and
they have demonstrated the success OF
the idea. The first campaign was con
Quoted February II to 26, 1916, and
was followed October 2 to z of the
same year by the second campaign.
During the week of February 10 to "a.
1917, the third campaign was conduct
ed. Each of these has been under the
instructions and auspices of the Mer-
chants Trade journal. The plans
which have made these previous Pay
Up Weeks successful are the plans
used in this fourth campaign.
Every business man feels the con-
stant pressure Of the credit business.
Credit, which is the great necessary
convenience of all business, becomes
particularly abused in the retail field.
The retailer cannot be as sure about
those to whom he extends credit privi-
leges as can the wholesaler. He makes
few bad guesses. War prices have
made the credit business look shakey.
Many merchants have had to close the
stores and go into other business in
order to make living for their fam
lilies. Manipulators in the large cities
have horded millions of pounds of
staple articles in order to become rich
at the ultimate expense OF their fell
low countrymen. Only few days ago
while a sugar famine was raging in
Chicago, New York and other eastern
cities, federal agents were working
on a proposition to locate the cause of
the famine. One store or warehouse
in Buffalo, N. Y, was found to con-
tain millions of pounds of sugar, la
beled as flour. The owners of these
goods will pay for their scheming.
| There is not merchant in Tucum-
carl that il becoming rich and few of
them are making as much money as
they are given credit by the public
They're carrying many customers and
if they could collect what was due them
they would be enabled to buy from
the wholesalers in larger quantities
thus cutting down the cost Of goods
and merchandise. II you owe the mer-
chant now is the time to pay him as
much as you possibly can, so he in
turn can pay that which he owes. 1t
is estimated that few thousand dol
lars passed around from one to an
other will pay millions of Indebtedness.
Once Jesse James, the noted Mis-
souri, bandit. called at the home Of n
widow. She was crying and he asked
her what the matter was. She told
him she owed n mortgage on her home
and had been given until that night to
pay same or she would be put out. He
loaned her the money. She paid the
mortgage. While the man was return
ing home Jesse James met him not
far from the widows and tnok the
money away from him. This money
had paid the debt and Jesse had il
back again.
Paying the merchant is different.
but if you will pay him he can pay
what he owes. This money will ther
make the circuit and you will receive
your part in due time. It's not right
to send away for goods and pay cash
when you owe your home merchant.
He is "A friend in time of need You
treat him right and you will never be
too poor to obtain the necessities of
life.
Help the merchants make next week
the best ever witnessed in Tucumcari.
Pay all you can and you will feel that
you have done your duty to those who
have had confidence enough in you to
allow you credit.