Arizona republican., 1919-10-27
H. LAUDER TELLS WHY HE $ KNOWN
 AS THR|F TY MAN
And After Reading His Story One Must Admit It's Too Bad More Hu- mans Haven't The Trait

'hdracter. Like all Scotchmen, Lau- Ter is thrifty, although for many years he has been making a salary of at least s5.000 a week This Scotch hriftiness has even been declared to approach stinginess.
 Lauder denies that he is stingy: he admits he is thrifty; and once con- sented 10 explain his idea of the diff Terence between the two and to tell why he does not throw his money about carelessly. Here is what he once said Co a Chicago Herald man:
 Maybe it's just: maybe it's all the result of press agents overzeal; maybe it's SO true that it would out However. if I'm not famous as the "stingiest man on earth I'm surely the most famous of the stingy men.
 Stories. true and fanciful. have cir cumnavigated the sphere ahead of me reclting in extravagant phrases my unextravagant ways. You'll say that where there's SO much smoke there must be at least a wee bit of fire. And, if youll gather round me you'll find it and I'll warm you with it. { It Is true, and l don't think I will find him who will say me nay; that l am bit careful about the expenditure of the moneys which kind public and an indulgent fate have sent my way. To begin with. thriftiness is a Scotch trait. and I come as honestly by mine us ! do by my liking for golf But they say that l am even closer than most of the Scots who have it bred in them through centuries of mining po- tatoes out of rocky soil, wrestling a living from reluctant fields of stony Darrenness and paying taxes far in ex- eess of the scriptural tithe.
 Since I have become more or less noted and notorious as conserver of my own funds. have. necessarily. dis cussed this attribute with indelicate or polite persons who have mentioned it 10 me. To do this inteligently l have sounded my own views on the natter and their sources.
 find that am more than ordinar- fly economical. I find that I could spend great deal more money if I were inclined to. But I cannot find why I should. l cannot find where am denying myself any of the com forts Of life: the luxuries I never had much desire for
 The incidents which have been most generally cited as proving my stingi- ness have had to do mostly with my failure to tip servants lavishly, my disinclination to purchase liquor for heterogeneous and transitory colec- lions of actors at prominent bars, my plain and modest attire and my jimmy pipe
 H has always been my desire to pay those about me for their services But ! have never been able to see why a waiter, who is or should be paid by the owner Of the restaurant, should have from me 10 or more per cent of fl.l.s [ e. I I lust because certain reckless youths have set a precedent that the waiter should have it. It being on my part neither an impulse or charity nor pay ment for what I deem extraordinary service. why then, should I throw a handful of change to the waiter? Be- cause, if l don't. the man across the table or at the next table will say | am "cheap' or stingy If I give to tho waiter then I will not be doing it be- cause I think he has earned it. or be- cause I feel moved by spirit of char fly to give from plenty to one needy but because another. a stranger. d man to whom I owe nothing and whose personal opinion in no way binds me, probably thinks I ought to- and inferentially spends my money before I do
 IT, 10 gratify fear of this outsiders bad opinion of my generosity. I dc give the waiter what neither think he rarned nor feel he should have. I dc 4t because I am a coward who does what he doesn't want to or need to in fear Of the unfavorable verdict of a judge who is appointed without my ronsent. whose judgment means noth- ing in my life. and whose verdict. ever v it did affect me I regard as badly rounded
 In this case giving the tip is no only extravaganza. but cowardice.
 Now take my clothes have al ,ovefcoat that has withstood for m, many chill blast. It isn't as new al once 1t was. The nap is a ! it rubbed But it Is clean. it hangs together per tectly it keeps the warmth in and tn roid out. Now. why should I discar, this tried and loyal winter servant Because if don't Tom, Dick and Vic tor win say 10 Lizzie. Minnie an, pansy that Harry Lauder is a cheaI skate who hasn't any pride in hi clothes
 An overcoat was made essentially t keep one warm. Mine keeps me tha way, and dry. None that l could sub stltute for 1t would cover me or tn HuiVbNt iHpft lupIOuEUlN. IT CndnS it. then, l do it for you, not for me fhlnk your idea is wrong. I think garment should be worn as long as hangs together decently and keeps ou The wind. l disagree with your i'm piled idea about it. yet should chang it against my wish and judgement fo fear that you. without questioning m intention. will stamp me as a tightwaC If [ do l am a craven coward, surren dering without shot being fired.
 If I enter a taproom for a nightca and you and all y 'lr cronies are ther | must ask you each to drink at m expense or fear to leave there in tn prospect of burning ears. If I met yo in clothing store l wouldn't buy yo 3 suit of clothes; if l met you in dru store I wouldn't buy you an ounce earbolic acid just because I'm buyin myself nickel's worth of ipecac
 But in barroom it's different. ell [ don't see why. If l did I'd abide the difference. But l don't. There fore l must choke my own opinio adopt yours and endow upon the fost, child a money settlement or stand fol ever in your eyes a miser and violat, of the amenities of gentlemen. I act on such premises would stamp IT in my own opinion as buying for fe nickels the good opinion of others vii whom l haven't the courage to open disagree, though in secret I nurse g unexpressed theory that l haven waived. I'm lying to you if do it, I cheating myself of my own honest COT elusions' honest actions if do it, ar all this brings about the result tn you don't necessarily say I'm jol good fellow or in other ways repay n for this yellow act of poltroon dissiml lation, but I escape your saying I