Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-12-21
XMAS SEASON IN
 GOTHAM7OWN Stock Exchange Houses Share Their Profits With
 Their Employes
POVERTY vs WEALTH
The Spngs Will Play Hosts On Christmas Day To Lonesome
 Persons.

New York, Dec. 20.-New Workers just at this time of the year may be divided into two classes-those who are blessing Christmas and those who are cursiag the traditional date of the Messiah's birth.
 In the first class come the poor who profit by charity the employees whose bosses or fellow employees are liberal with Christmas donations and the children of almost every fire side. IA the latter class are those whom foolish custom forces to give up a mo .1th's savings in graft of the Christmas variety-the employees who must make present to their employer, the employee who must "cough up for employees of lesser grade, and the tens of thousands of persons :ust making. living accord ing to their standards, who must ap- pease the washerwoman, the hall boy the elevator boy, the janitor, and a host of other expectant ones.
 I will leave aside the discussion of those painful family situations where relatives "generously" lavish gifts on poorer relatives who then most painfully feel the ignomity of their poverty unless they are pos sessed of unusual fortitude and good sense.
 The Stock Exchange Houses have the peculiar custom of giving such enormous Christmas presents to their employees that the concerns be- come to certain extent mutual en- terprises. They share some of their profits with those who have helped to make them.
 For instance the Central Trust Company always gives president James N. Wallace 100 per cent of his salary, or $50OOO, while many other firms make presents of fifty per cent of the annual salary of each employe. J. Pierpoint Morgan & Company has been among the most liberal in this way.
 This yIa1 has been so astound- inly poor in the financial district that the Christmas presents will drop almost to the vanishing point commission houses are hardest hit of all. Everywhere in the financial district, however, the depression will be felt.
 Some of the telephone boys on the floor of the Stock Exchange have been literally remembered in sea- sons past, especially those who can hand certain orders to their favor jet brokers on occasion. A couple of $1OO bills was no unusual present for such one as this. One boy (whose age was in the thirties) was once suspected of running a racing stable and living in country home. He had lots of big stock orders to parcel out. This year even he will probably be remembered in cigars
 The telepone girl and the steno- grapher, too, will regain her good complexion earlier in the spring she will not have such a mountain of fiv(s pound boxes of candy as usual.
 am sc heartily with the spue movement with all my soul, that can scarcely speak of it without leaping oa the table and delivering an oration.
 For poor girls earning five to ter dollars week the spectre of Christ mas gifts has been most forebeding
 The wealthy society women who have set out to discourage useless giving deserve the greatest credit. only hope that Spug movement he. comes a religion.
 The Spugs will play the host or Christmas Day to lonesome persons,
 There will be dancing by 800 camp fire girls iM costume, music by a band and a mammoth Christmas tree, lad en with candy and other good things for the children. Each Sp2g. o whom there are now 14,000 enl>,lled will be privileged to invite friend
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