ntion of Useless Giving, said (as District Attorney
then):

"It is a brave thing, a womanly thing and a courageous thing for
you to band together to combat an evil. And I hope you will
stand pat. We are all growing to tolerate a kind of petty
grafting that is not right, that is un-American. I object to
having a man take my hat and hang it up for me and then accept
a coin. I am strong and big enough to hang up my own hat. And I
also prefer to carry my own bag to having a boy half my size
carry a bag that is half his size and be paid with a coin. If he
honestly earns the money he should have it as an earning, not as
a gratuity. It is this giving of gratuities that is unlike us,
it is a custom copied from a foreign country where conditions
are different from ours."

Where one person has the courage to speak out against this deep-rooted
social convention, unnumbered thousands feel dumbly the same opposition
to it. Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedian, a citizen of a monarchy, on
one of his tours in America, was reported by the newspapers as being
disgusted with the development of so aristocratic a custom as tipping in
America, the cradle of democracy. The press will yield many such
evidences of condemnation for the practice in high places. They are
cited to prove that opposition to tipping is not a mere distaste among
persons of limited means who cannot afford to tip generously.

The cost of following the custom is an important item; but those who
consider it morally wrong gladly would pay any increase in charges that
might follow the abolition of the custom. If the Pullman company should
agree to abolish tipping if each patron would pay a quarter more for his
berth it would be a long step in advance--though the custom should be
abolished without additional charges to the public.

HUSH MONEY

The United States went through a period of muck-raking against graft
among politicians and big business men. It was found that the idea of
"honest graft" was shockingly prevalent. The especially odious
manifestations were dealt with, but the little springs and rivulets that
combine to make the main stream were allowed to trickle along, unite,
and become a torrent! Tipping is the training school of graft.

Will a messenger boy who thinks that the public owes him gratuities
develop into a man with sound morals? Will the bell-boy who works for
tips grow up to be a policeman who accepts