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Show TIPS AND WAGES Tho oxcuso for toleration of tho tipping system has commonly been that waiters, porters, and other servants ser-vants nro pnld such low wages that they must havo liberal tips in order to llvo. With this In view, many men nowadays In city restaurants hand out n half dollar tip. Tho travelling trav-elling salesman or Impecunious traveller trav-eller who can't play tho gnmo on this lovol Is subjected to many nnncy-ances. nnncy-ances. Pulmnn sleoplng cars porters testifying tes-tifying beforo tho Industrial Relations Rela-tions committee tho past week, reported re-ported very liberal wages ns tho ro-sult ro-sult of tho tipping system. Ono man said that his salary was $42 a month and his tips averaged $75. Othor cases woro similar. Tho averago man employed in Pullman Pull-man car portor work throughout tho country could not probably earn $117 a month In other employment. A frequent result is that by llattorlng and obsequiously waiting on wealthy 1 peoplo, whllo neglecting others, they win n wngo above tho avorago lovol. Thus thoy gain money at tho cost of a louB of Independence. If tho tipping systom woro held down to n reasonnblo lovol, It would not always increnso tho cost of travel. trav-el. If all tho customers of tho avorago av-orago hotel should at onco stop tipping tip-ping tho hotel managers would havo to lncreaso wagos. Probably then thoy would lncicaso prices. Hut tho tipping system annoys tho fooling that thoy nro victims of a public with growing slzo of tips, graft, yet bothered by tho fear of bolng unfair to work coplo. Tho man with tho threadbaro clothes Is slighted slight-ed and sneored at, whllo tho ono with tho costly tailored suit Is fawned upon. up-on. H la undemocratic and contrary to Amorlcan principles. Tho tipping systom thrusts on the travollor sorvlcos which ho would pro-for pro-for to porform for himself. If ho walks with n light grip a fow blocks to tho station, ho Is made to tool that ho Is a "tightwad" for not scattering his quarters. Hotel and restaurant keepers should bpo that tholr em- loyes aro paid enough 80 that their hungry urdor for coins is not too burdensome |