Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-11
Barber Doctors" Might Refuse Tips.


M. II. Whitaker. Milwaukee,
member of the Wisconsin bar
bers' examining board, attended
meeting OF the BARRIERS union in
Chicago. at which the leading topics
OF discussion were the adjustment
OF the Tip" system and the reinstate-
ment of BARRIERS to their lost dignity
of doctors" If the plans of the
Chicago doctors materialize, the red,
white and blue banded pole will re-
sumo its place among the insignia
of medical science.
At the meeting Journeyman Barber
Eugene Betz asserted with a thump
on the table that mo man should be
considered finished barber unless
ne could pull teeth, set broken
bone and bandage a wound"
This was the regular work of the
BARRIERS of DID," said Betz. Men in
our profession were doctors in those
days and I'd like to see the return of
that day"
As preliminary to ushering in the
anti-tipping legislation and other mat
tiers will be discussed at the conven-
ton OF the International BARRIERS
union, to be held at Indianapolis.
Mr. Whitaker, who is secretary of
the Milwaukee BARRIERS union. and
c. c. Russell. a member of the Hi
nois BARRIERS examining board, will
participate in the deliberations of the
convention and will be Joined by
members of other state boards.
Weaknesses in the present laws re-
lating to BARRIERS will be pointed out
and recommendation will be made
to the various legislatures for uni
form laws. One of the recommends
lions will be that BARRIERS be given
the title of ID. t." which the bar
bers say stands for "tonsorial doc
tor"
viii the tonsorial doctors be any
more averse TO tips than the present
common or garden variety of bar
ber?"
Don't talk the tip question to
me-" said Pete" Holzer, secretary
of the union. "I'll tell you that no
barber wants tip-if he could avoid
taking it,"
AS doctors, we would much rather
have fee," said Betz. Fees are
more professional like. They con-
form to the dignity of the calling
It's the COMPOUNDED hotel barber
shops that compel BARRIERS to grasp
for tips. If they didn't get tips the
men couldn't make a living"
One of the demands of the conven-
ton will be that all boss BARRIERS give
the journeymen a guaranteed salary
and commission above stated
amount taken in each day This, the
officers of the union said, will do
away with the tipping evil"
Wisconsin Is Called Pilot.
Wisconsin was termed the pilot for
the nation and the compass for
other states by United States Senator
Robert M. La Toilette in his address
to the Republican state convention.
on" he said, mot for our state alone,
but for all the states of this country
of ours, and for our great country IT.
self
You have written into the plat
form of the Republican party of this
shall be of great value to the great
movement now sweeping over the
country to restore representative gov
erIment-not to destroy represent
alive government, but to make those
safeguards which shall insure to the
people true representative govern
ment
go, my friends, into the great
work that has been committed to
you. l cannot tell you how fortunate
think you are and as l regard my
self. being a part of this great move
ment that is to write into the pages
of history the most important chap
tiers written since the days of the
Civil war"
Features of the platform are
Condemnation of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff act.
Physical valuation of railroads and
more stringent regulation of them.
Second choice, primaries.
Initiative, referendum and recall
Anti-lobby law.
Graduated income tax.
Home rule in the liquor traffic.
National control of natural re-
sources.
AID valorem taxation of corpora
tons.
Condemnation of the "pernicious
activity in the recent primary cam
paign of the brewery corporations, in
surance agencies and the binding
Irvine trust"
Employers liability law.