Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-08
MEN AND
BUSINESS
By RICHARD SPILLANE

Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger. a
On the Road, Sept. 8
+ ANYTHING, the tip evil is wofse in
the Middle West than the East II
you are not alert the taxi driver will
overcharge you and then expect you to
tip him. The waiter. of course, you must
tip, no matter whether he serves you Ill
or well. The chambermaid neSlects Won
In the matter of towels If you do pJt fee
her And woe to you if you do not
cross the palm Of the bell boy who takes
your bags to your room. But, Of all the
graft, that Of the hat check, perhaps. is
the most irritating. If you eat thrice a
day in hotel it means thirty cents per
diem, or more in a month than the cost
OF the hat. And if you neglect the girl
once either by chance OF design she acts
as If she considered you a cheat
Does the hotel man tip the shoe sales
man who serves him when he buys
shoes? He doesn't. The hotel mans
wife or daughter would complain to the
proprietor Of a department store OF
speciality shop whose employees had their
itchy palms out all the while for tips,
yet hotel attaches act as If It were their
right and privilege to exact toll
In common honesty and decency. hotel
men should run their businesses az other
merchants do theirs. The tip evil is a
disgrace No reasonable person objects
to rewarding a servant for special or
good service, but does object to being
viewed as a bird to be pIucked because
he must, perforce, patronize hotel
And he doesn't object to not getting even
a thank you when he does tip and tips
well at that.
1t is idle for hotel men to say they
cannot abate the evil. They grant special
rights to taxi companies and receive &
considerable sum annually from the taxi
people. II they do not run the hat
check rooms themselves they sell the
/ concessions" to hat pirates Many
hotel employees look more to their tips
than their wages, and with-reason.
The whole thing Is wrong. II is foul
growth. 1t doesn't 8t in a democracy.
A worker should receive honest and fun
wages. He or she shouldn't have to de-
pend on graft It's un-American in ss-
sence and in fact.
y SOME cities Chambers of Com
meree are conducted on queer lines:
visitor inquired in a certain city
for the secretary.
NE is on his vacation" was the reply.
May l see his assistant" was the
next question.
HE is out at lunch" the caller was in
formed
The stranger looked at the cl1ek 1t
was II IS a. m
What time will he return?' was the
next query.
II don't know" was the response
/ He'll be busy this afternoon. Won't
you call tomorrow -
I No said the caller.
And be didn't
- COMPARATIVELY few negroes are
seen in Middle West cities. In the
war period there was a great in
fux Of colored men and women from
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama. Georgia.
Tennessee and Kentucky to the munition
plants and industrial ests adjustments OF
the North. Apparently they didn't make
good or, at least, didn't win favor Ire
/ bulk of them have gone back OF gone
elsewhere. Employers say they were
loud, unruly, offensive and arrogant, ap-
parently swelling up with Importance
owing to the large wages they received.
They were among the first to be let go,
when the depression started Now there
is a distinct dIsinclination to employ
negro workers This is an added handt-
cap to the earnest, painstaking negro,
who is about as conscientious and de-
pendsble a worker as can be found---
Copyrigt 1927, by Public Ledger COM
pany.