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enactment of even such an inade

quate law..

And the union of restaurant keep

ers are at the present time fighting

Fo prevent the waitresses from ob

taining the same inadequate mini

mum wage.

If we were ever -blinded by the ar

guments the employers' union put

forth against this proposed $8 mini

mum, if we ever were foolish enough

to believe them when they stated that

the enactment of such a law would

hurt their business and was not nec

essary for the girls in their employ,

the very fact that the Massachusetts

Wage Board has agreed that a sum

much exceeding this is necessary to

permit a girl to live, without includ

ing one cent for medicine, dentistry

or expenses when she is idle, should

certainly make us realize now that

we were blinded and we were fool

ish, and we should renew our de

mands that these employers be forc

ed to pay a living wage.

And now is a splendid time to do

it when they are united in their effort

to defeat the waitreessses from ob

taining even the inadequate $8 mini

mum. o o

THE TIPPING EVIL

Editor Day Book: The tipping evil

as practiced in hotels and cafes is

one of the most pernicious and de

grading habits in this country. The

waiter not only pays the head-waiter,

but also the chef, pantryman, bus boy

and, in many instances, the bar

tender. In order to pay .all of these people

he must, in most instances, over

charge the patrons. And in this he is

protected by the head-waiter. In fact,

the head-waiter oftentimes so fixes

the patron's checkthat a goodly por

tion of the graft goes' into his own

pocket. The proprietor not only

knows that this system exists,' but

encourages it in every way.

The restaurant owner knows full

well that if the tipping and grafting

evil were abolished he would have to

pay a decent living wage to his em

ployes and that is something he is

not accustomed to.

And there is still another evil which

arises form the tipping habit and

that is this: We will say two patrons

come into a restaurant. They both

spend the same amount of money,

one tips, the other does not. The

one who tips gets the service and at

tention, and the one"who does not

tip is the one who suffers. He is kept

waiting, is treated with incivility, and

in many ways shown he is not a

welcome patron, and before he leaves

the restaurapt every employe in the

place knows he is a "cheap skate."

No self-respecting waiter likes to

receive or accept gratuities, but the

proprietor compels him to do so, be

cause of the paltry salary which he

pays him, which is rarely over $8 per

week. There are cafes in the loop

which pay no salary at all,, the wait

ers depending solely on their tips and

overcharging. What is the solution

of.the problem? A Waiter.

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JUDGE REFUSES TO ALLOW JAP

TO ADOPT AMERICAN BOY

Detroit, March 21. Because Judge

Hanley of the Probate Court refused

to allow Ito Kotsomura, a wealthy

Christianized Japanese, to legally

adopt an American child, influential

Japanese are preparing to direct the

attention of the Japanese ambassa

dor to his action.

The child in question is an orphan

boy now living with relatives who are

unable to support it.

"If you will permit me to adopt the

child I wjll send him to school and

college," Kotsomura told the court.

"I will see that he has every comfort.

I am a Christian and will see that the

child is brought up in the faith of its

country and my adopted faith.

But Judge Hanley refused.

"When the child grows up it will .

have to call you father," he said.

"Racial differences are too great to

ever permit harmony in a home com

posed of two such parts."