BAD PAYERS.

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 15

BAD PAYERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Business is bad. shopkeepers are having a very difficult time, and in many eases are just hanging on in the hope of better times coming. One of their many problems is how to get the money in for the goods they have sold. There is excuse for many debtors today, but for others there is no excuse at all. The following, from the pen of the foremost business adviser of England, H. N. Casson, should cause many to think and act;—“There is something essentially mean in the habit of allowing creditors to send statement after statement, and letter after letter, beloro a cheque is sent in payment of the debt. The nonpayment of debts cannot be excused on the grounds of carelessness or temperament or a noncommercial habit of mind. There are some people high in artistic, musical, literary, and social circles who regard bills with a hostile indifference. They speak with contempt of the ‘ importunate tradesman.’ Some people are wholly unworthy of credit. Morally, they are below the level of the credit world. They should be made to pay cash until they are educated up to the point of paying their debts when due. Alornlly, some of them are very little above the level of shoplifters.”— 1 am, eto., . Spot Cash. April 14.