The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-04
PAY ROLLS MET,
CITY GOES ON
SPENDING SPREE
Whole Town Jumps OFF
Credit Standard and
Pays Cold Cash.
BY ARCH STEINEL

BY ARCH SIEINEJ
indianapolis bought what it could
pay for. what it needed, and an
extra package or pound Of those
needs. today as more than 100000
in pay rolls were released to en-
ployes Of firms
Weekend grocery purchases were
boosted to weekly purchases.
Cash and money orders dominated
trade in downtown stores, although
a few stores accepted checks on
condition that collection be made.
Windows at the postal savings
division Of the postohice showed in
creased lines, and every effort was
being made to take care Of new de-
posters.
The philosophy Of the street was
summed up by one woman in an
argument with her husband over
new bedroom suite.
No Barter Theater Rates
Honey" She said, we need 1t,
don't We?' Well, then we'll be just
as well off with it, if not more so,
than We would be without it. And
you know doggone well that the
rheumatism in your back isn't going
to stand that old mattress much
longer. Let's go down to another
store and look at their suites.
The husband went.
Dspite barter rates at theaters in
some cities Of the nation, the show
places Of indianapolis continued to
charge regulation admission prices
DIR. Ernest ~ Evans, executive
secretary of the Indianapolis Fed
Grafton of Churches, said city par
iShes would continue to pass the col
lection plate Sunday.
And wen take checks and 90 on
just as we have been doing" DR..
Evans said.
Dull Day at City Market
Department stores sent all per-
sons with pay roll checks to the
bank upon which the check was
drawn to be cashed
We're cashing no checks from
out of town" store officials said.
PrOprietOrs Of stands at the city
market compared tOdays business
to a poor Tuesday or Thursday"
No stands were busy and only a
few customers wandered about in
the building. Lists were consulted
carefully before food was bought
The speakeasy and Imdercover
operators of gaming were using cash
and postal money orders.
Times haven't been so good any
way and the little business we've
had can be financed in cash" one
man said.
Plenty of Small Change
Street car conductors were not
shying away from 81 bills as they
were in Chicago where 5O-cent
pieces were the highest bits of
change accepted.
IF the conductor has the change, !
he'll make it, regardless of the size
of the bill an Official of the Indi- |
annapolis Street Railway Company,
said
The pay roll spending spree of
the city extended to drug sales and
other necessities.
Utility companies had window
lines of consumers who were caught
by the per cent withdrawal order
and were using the Saturdays pay
in lieu of paper for due bills.
AIimony Payments Puzzle
Sales concentrating the inaug-
uration of President Roosevelt in
stores drew quotas of busy shoppers
who had obtained cash on pay roll
checks from banks.
AT the juvenile support division
of the courthouse Win
dow, it is known to hangers-on-
queries were made by husbands
paying divorced wives as to whether
checks or cash would be most ac-
ceptable.
They were told that cash payment
would insure the wife's receiving the
ailmony settlement.
One disgruntled hubby in the
lobby had smile on his face-the
first in several years of payments
he said-for he said:
jig Saw Business Gains
I'm sending her checks on my
banking account Let her do a little
collecting for chance. I've been
collecting cancelled checks long
enough
One theater reported that hold
orders on an advance ticket sale
were being abrogated and that buy
ers were saying:
Sorry, but I think I'll stay home
next week and work on my new
jig-saw puzzle"
While at the iig-saw puzzle count
ers in stores men and women
floCked and wisecracked
"Itll all work out Just like the
puzzles