ANTI-GIFT LEAGUE IN FRANCE
_* PARIS, Feb. 18. An anti-gift league has come into being in France. The league has no dues and no formality of members. To belong, a prospective leaguer need only swear off gift-giving and write his intentions on cards which he mails, instead of presents, on birthdays, anniversaries and at Christmas, to his friends. M. Etiemie Martinan, a high official in one of the French administrations, is father of the League and its first president. Ho was inspired by refusal of merchants to cut prices in accordance with the index of living costs on the pretence that prices must stay up during holiday busir.ess rushes. The 22,000 sworn members of his league now plan, to abolish tips by the same system. Instead of tipping hotel waitresses and bellboys, concierges and taxicab drivers, members will hand them cards upon which are printed their ! names as members of i)m Anti-Gift and ' Tip League,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16623, 16 April 1928, Page 2
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