People Who Give Bad Checks Should Be Marked, Says Paul Leonard, Sept. 21, 1925

Would Mark Those Who Give Bad Checks. . . Secretary Leonard Also Would Punish Merchants Who Accept Them—Thinks Law All Right

Statesville, Sept. 20—"There should be some way of marking men and women who give worthless checks, and then the merchant or other business man who accepts checks from those wo are marked should be punished with them,” declared J. Paul Leonard, executive secretary of the North Carolina Merchants association and editor of the Carolina Retailer, in an editorial appearing in the September number of the Retailer in which he discusses the constitutionality of the new bad check law, to be decided by the Supreme Court.

Mr. Leonard says that the check law is effective and has greatly reduced the merchants’ losses in bad checks in those cities and communities where there is sufficient public sentiment against the giving of worthless checks, and where merchants have the nerve to bring indictment, and officers and courts have the nerve to enforce the law.

“If bankers and court officials continue to express publicly their opinion that the law is unconstitutional, it is natural for the scamps who give worthless checks to feel they have a free hand. All these seem to forget that the old check law has never been repealed, and that the new law is still in force until it is declared unconstitutional or repealed,” remarked Mr. Leonard Last night.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 21, 1925

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