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Show hold the palm open for gratuities. There will always be customers ready to put out the extra money, the R. R. president said. - I don't know about y0 v. body in Washington is n-ing n-ing me when he piays Sent" with my tax money. 6 RAILWAY OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON TIPPING CUSTOM The Pere Marquette Railway has announced that tipping has been banned on its dining cars and that the management has arranged ar-ranged to compensate waiters for any financial loss. Pres. R. J. Bowman says that this "tryanny of custom is already too deep-rooted" and expressed the hope that the experiment of his company will "lead to a trend that will result in much larger relief re-lief for the harassed traveler. The abolition of tipping is, no doubt, a desirable goal and the railroad management is to be congratulated con-gratulated on its willingness to provide compensation for waiters to protect them from any loss due to the abolition of the custom. Nevertheless, we are inclined to believe that many of the travelers may continue to tip surreptitiously, surreptitious-ly, in order to secure, or because they -think they will secure an advantage ad-vantage over the other passengers. In certain of the service trades, the custom of tipping has become almost a paiit of the price with the result that a non-tipping, customer gets poor service and a compliment compli-ment of dirty looks. This is an undesirable un-desirable condition but we are inclined in-clined to believe that it will continue con-tinue as long as those engaged in performing service for the public |