ed that a free theater ticket or dinner
could create such a sense of obligation that his buyers would not be
able to exercise the freedom of choice that was necessary. The New York
salesmen offered the tickets and dinners in the form of gracious
hospitality, but knew all the while that their real intent was to bind
the buyers to them through a sense of obligation without regard to the
merits of the goods.

Thus the spirit of "honest graft" is spreading out in America. It grows
with what it feeds upon. It is a moral miasma, the fumes of which are
permeating all strata of society.

THE BIBLE AGAINST TIPS

Following are only a few of the many citations in the Bible against
tipping, gifts, gratuities, greed and like practices and impulses:

Exodus 23:8. And thou shalt take no gift; for the gift blindeth
the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 7:7. Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a
gift destroyeth the heart.

Proverbs 15:27. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own
house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

I Samuel 12:3. Behold here I am: witness against me before the
Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose
ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I
oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind
mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Isaiah 33:14-15. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire?... He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly ...
that shaketh his hands from holding bribes.... He shall dwell on
high....

Job 15:34. For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

Luke 12:15. And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of
covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance
of the things which he possesseth.

VII

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIPPING

Why the custom of tipping should be followed so generally when it is
palpably a bad economic practice and ethically indefensible is a
psychological study with the same aspects that the slavery issue
presented before the Civil War.

The Puritan conscience allowed that institution to grow to formidable
proportions before arousing itself decisively, and it has allowed this
equally undemocratic custom to attain national ramifications.

CASTE AND CLASS

In its broadest statement, the p