conformity
thereto for the sake of peace and comfort.

8. The exploitation of the public is aided by the visualization
of the custom in moving pictures and on the stage where it is
treated humorously.

9. Employees defend tipping upon the ground that it compensates
them for extra services not covered in their wages. An
examination of individual instances shows this contention to be
false in a vast majority of the number examined.

10. Employers defend the custom on the ground that the public
insists upon giving gratuities and they must face competition
based upon that condition. But it is shown that employers openly
profit by the custom and secretly encourage it.

11. One metropolitan hotel has blazed the way to reform by
guaranteeing that its guests will not be annoyed or neglected if
tips are not given. This partial step toward the abolition of
the custom is possible everywhere if employers are sincere in
their profession of antipathy for the custom.

12. Our democratic government permits its officers and employees
to accept gratuities, thereby stultifying the spirit of the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

13. The conscience of the people as reflected in the laws
adopted or offered against tipping is sound and needs only to be
led to an adequate expression. There are abundant indications of
a widespread distaste for the custom but the sentiment is
unorganized and inarticulate.

14. The head of the labor movement in America declares that
tipping is undesirable as a system of compensation for employees
and destroys the self-respect of those who give or receive the
gratuities.

15. A national organization of those interested in this reform
should be brought into being with effective state auxiliaries.

BETTER ORGANIZATION NEEDED

The last proposition constitutes "the way out" of the present
undesirable situation. When it is remembered that the anti-tipping
propaganda heretofore has lacked organization and direction it is not
surprising that the laws adopted against the custom and the spasmodic
public irritation over it have fizzled out. With the same organization
behind this movement that has been given to the anti-saloon movement, or
the suffrage movement, tipping would be vanquished in an astonishingly
short time.

There is no doubt there is sufficient latent opp