The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22

If John pays Albert and Albert pays
Bill and Bill pays John, all debts are
paid. John has his money back again,
everybody feels better and each one
has more confidence in his neighbor;
thus does National Pay Up Week,
which is being observed all over the
United States during this week in
spire the individual to pay his neighbor
and be paid his bills in return.
AS in the days of old, our mayor has
issued his proclamation to the people
to "pay up" and be paid and thus
Pay Up Week is destined to do good
to all people in general.
The clothing man owes his butcher,
the butcher owes his tailor, the tailor
owes his grocer, and so on until you
can almost trace an endless chain
around the city among the merchants
and is finally sifted around until the
contractor owes the workman and then
it starts all over again. But if the
public will only enter into the spirit
of National Pay Up Week as it has
been observed in other cities in past
years, it will be astonishing what won
ders will be worked and what
scource of satisfaction can be derived
out of an idea that was worked out
several years ago by a struggling
druggist who faced sheriff sale if he
did not pay up some of his debts and
collect some of his accounts
The druggist, so the story runs, was,
to use the vernacular, cup against it
and his grocer was about to refuse
him further credit. The grocer was
in turn indebted to the dry goods man
for material furnished his household
for several years back and was being
urged to pay something on account in
order that the dry goods merchant
| could pay doctor bill incurred bv the
| illness of his wife twelve months back.
Now it appears that this doctor had
been using the medicines from the
old druggists store and charging
the same until he could collect some
of his accounts.
One night it occurred to the old fell
low to make personal canvas and pre-
vail upon his towns people to each pay
the other his Indebtedness and see how
it would work out. Imagine his sur
prise when, upon his suggestion, each
made an effort to oay up and be
through with debt and everyone con-
cerned not only found himself clear of
| 1oh+ 1,,A 4Lo4
had been instrumental in bringing to
| light lot of money which had been
laid away for the proverbial "rainy
day. and would probably have laid
there for years to come had the pos
SCISSOR not been inspired to bring out
his hoard to meet some of his
obligations and thus his debtor could
| pay him also.
National Pay Up Week is annually
becoming more and more inspiring
event and this year promises to climax
all previous years in settling more ac-
counts which have been marked
chad" by the merchant, than any
previous effort in this direction.
Of course, the Kenosha Retailers
| Association is behind the movement.
| For it is, and always has been. behind
anything that is for the betterment
Of Kenosha and its people and for this
reason the general public should enter
! into the Pay Up Week with a free
good will and give the butcher, the
baker. the candle stick maker and
everybody else who is depending on
you to do your part, chance TO be
able to meet their own obligations be-
fore the end of this week.
There is nothing compulsory about
this "Pay Up Week thing. It is
merely suggestion that you do your
share in order that others can do
theirs and when any movement con-
forms to such standard as to bring
| it to the notice of the people by a
proclamation from the mayor of our
city, it is almost certainty that it
viii receive due consideration from the
| public and that the week following
Pay Up Week viii find many people
coming down the street with their
head M and feeling like they haven t
felt for many months, because they
know that they did their best and by
so doing wiped out a lot of useless
debts and enabled their neighbor
to do likewise.
1 The Retailers Association has snent