Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
EARLY SHOPPING
FOR CHRISTMAS.
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Campaign lnaugurated TO Make
Holiday Less Trying
For Clerks.
IS NATIONAL IN ITS SCOPE
Charity Associations Throughout
United States Take Up
The Slogan.
Local Merchants Interested in Urging
Purchasers to be More Thought
full of SFopgirls.
movement most commendable

movement most commcndable III
its nature and organized within tl'c
last few years only is sweeping ing
country in favor Of the shop early
Man for Christmas purchases move
ment which means much for the Wo-
men, girls and boys employed behind
the counters and upon delivery wagons
of large and small retail stores.
1t has been predicted the Christmas
shopping would not be 50 heavy last
wear. on account of the effects OF the
late financial strlngency touching the
pocketbooks of heads of families ana
working people in general. But to the
clerks who worked early and late try
Ing to please particular customers,
there was no perceptible falling off in
the purchases, and some Of the tired
clerks were kept on their feet ana
often with no supper, until o'clock in
the morning for the few evenings just
before Christmas.
What the present year Will bring
forth i'll the shopping line is hard to ac-
curately predict, but it is safe TO say.
that the customary volume of business
will not he decreased as far as the.
people who wait on the shoppers are.
able to tell The Christmas rush is
generally heavy The way out of the
rush. is to shop early, and this adj
vice Is good for every individual who
purchases holiday presents.
NATIONAL IN SCOPE.
The movement for shop early has
become national in its scope. The
CHARITIES Publication committee of
New York has taken up tho work ana
for the third successive year is making
an aggressive campaign In favor. or
early Christmas shopping as means
Of tightening the heavy burdens anu
long hours which the holiday season
brings TO ,Notneflsa and girls and boys ~
the retail trade.
Interested III the cause are such peo-3
5ple OF note as Jacob A. Itiis, MARKS
Twain. Richard Watson Glider. editor
The Century; Edward Box, editor The
Ladies' Home Journal: Leigh Reilly,
editor The Chicago Evening Post;
4Adolph Ochs, publisher The; New York
Times; Hart Lyman, editor The New
York Tribune; John Temple Graves,
editor the N. Y. Americana; Nathan
Straus, of r. II. Macy Co, New York;
Edward Irilcne Of VIM. Filene Sons CO.,
Boston; Florence Kelley of the Nation
al Consumers League, and Edward t.
Deyinc, editor Of Charities and the
Commons.
Merchants and manufacturers the
country over have responded to the
movement and ara cooperating for
Improvement in this respect. This year
John S. Huyler, has inaugurated an
advertising campaign asking Christ
mas purchasers to do your shopping
early in the season and early in the
day, thereby contributing TO the
Christmas Of the working girl ana All
+ who serve you.
A FEW RULES.
"From $3.50 to II in the morning arc
the best hours for shopping. The ser.
vice is quickest and orders can be
packed during the day, saving much
night work.
,,ro take home small packages means
shorter hours for the saleswomen, driV-
ers and delivery boys.
"Quicllest service is rendered by
making your purchases Mt the. store
nearest to point OF delivery"
MI. Huyler is one of the many hui
nlanc employers looking out for the
welfare OF his clerks ana the satisfac-
ton OF his customers. There are many
others who believe with one depart
Inent store manager who wrote tn
Charities PublicantiOn committee last
year that the hardships that are pub
licly5 believed to exist are very much
exaggerated Every species of ems
ployment has some drawbacks, but this
particular drawback occurs but once
year and generally has some special
compensation Herewith, so that the
store clerks are not unhappy about It
and the delivery men earn an extra
compensation. which Is very crafty
Ing to Them
DEPLoRABLE CONDITIONS.
Just before last Christmas a writer
In The Independent, who spent a Week
in the thick of the holiday rush said:
IT saw girls of II and is weeping with
pain and WEAKNESS at IL o'clock at
night as with shaking fingers they
made their counters attractive against
the next days brutal rush. saw one
Young girl drop in a dead faint after
selling dolls to a fond monther OF
children. | saw little boys ran asleep
In rubbish corners at the noon hour.
their untasted lunoheons in their tired
hands.
"That night when ] went to my sup
per-, / saw boy. small for his IL
years, sitting on a box before the en-
ployes' elevator for which we waited.
He looked up at me and with the Graz =
ing for sympathy innate in children.
he sighed softly: oh, my God, wish
L o'clock would come,
People We're buying groceries, vines.
f'annes, dress goods, TOYS. books, Jew
elry. hats, gloves, handkerchiefs, auF
te,nobiles-thinl of it at half past
eleven o'clock at night, December "a.
Is the world indeed heartess and in
human or is it only needless
FINDS FAVOR IN SALT LAKE.
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That the movement finds favor in
Salt Lake is evident by the = 9
expressions by prominent business
men.