The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-13
Against Chipping" System
Concerted Attack Upon It
By Commercial Travellers
League

NOlllIllSlCldi lIdSSlClS iHuiNiouoiiy
and through their Associations. pur-
pose to continue the fight against tip
ping until the system is broken up,
even if it requires years to accom-
pliSh. They rightly gauge the depth
of public sentiment against gratui-
ties for service, in the system of ell
forced premiums upon contract rates
Or commodity price agreements.
Tipping is regarded as both moral
and economic issue, and the American
public has won always where a NOR
al question was involved, for in every
clash between selfish interests and
public rights the spirit of American
ism has ultimately prevailed.
The Commercial Travellers National
League, the fighting organization for
travelling men, is composed of offic-
ers Of their various Associations
throughout the United States and
two hundred domestic Chambers of
Commerce, Manufacturers Clubs and
other commercial bodies and nearly
one hundred foreign Commercial as
sociations.
At a recent meeting of the officers
of this organization, Mr.. w. E.
Adams. of Philadelphia, Pa. it's Vice
while the travelling men of the Uni
ted States are striving to act upon the
suggestion of their organizat ton Of
ficers, to discontinue tip giving, they
report that the walters, pOrters, bell
boys and pullman porters, with the
consent and encOura cement of those
who placed them in "a position to work
the public, still persist in the Vari-
Gus methods and devices to squeeze
from patrons, ten to twenty-five per
cent premiums upon fixed charges.
It is evident that the righteousness
of the proprietors of hotels and res
taurants, with their remarkable lack
of appreciation of the depth of the
general sentiment against tipping, In
. duces them to ignore the demand for
it's abatement consequently the is
sue is squarely up to the proprietors.
The cure of the tipping evil at hos
tells is within the possibilities of trav-
cling men if preference is given by
them to such public houses as agree
to eliminate tipping. They can all
push for these hotels and against
others, and it will bring bankruptcy
to many that persist in operating un-
der the obnoxious tipping system. The
Commercial Travellers League could
issue a list Of hotels agreeing to run
upon the tipless plan, and every COM
mercial traveller would be an active
agent for these hostelries and their
success thereby assured.
IL cdCIl TRAVELLING uIdH WOulO 1IFCSt
$40 and every house employing COM
mercial travellers $1O0, it would pro-
vide a capital stock Of $40 1000, 900,
which would be sufficient to control
and operate more than one hundred
hotels in leading cities. For new
buildings and their furnishings bonds
could be issued if necessary, but with
would erect hotel buildings at a guar
anteed rental based upon percen-
tage Of building cost. Commercial
men. are obliged to do things for
their houses; doing things is en-
tirely in their line, SO why not OPP
crate for their own profit and con-
venience a chain of tipless hotels
Each subscriber to the capital stock
to be entitled to discount from reg
ular rates, which would mean a saw
ing annually of several times the ORR
ginal investment.
Before issuing a list of rooming
houses, time should be given to per-
NIT the hotel proprietors to think
over these Observation-Disclosures publish
a list of rooming houses for tran.
sients in connection with the names
and locations of the tipless hotels,
emitting the rooming houses in cit
les and towns where there are tipless
hotels
Iowa statutes contain law against
tipping, Mississippi has just passed
an ''atni-tipping'' law and other
States will pass similar laws. A Chi
cago Judge has recently decided that
tipping is unAmerican and illegal.
Public sentiment is crystalizing
against tipping and sooner or later it
will compel it's abandonment.
Several tipless barber shops recent
ly established are coming money, in
dicative of the unpopularity Of the
tipping system. The enforced Gus.
tom of tips by BARRIERS has Indirectly
influenced the sale of millions of RAJ
Zors to objecting victims.
For really tipless commercial hotels
a great possibility for success is evil
dent, if the proprietors have the bus
mess sense to get in line in time.
COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS Ma
TIONAI I.EAGIIE