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PUBLIC HOUSE

REFORM.

AN EXPERIMENT IN ZURICH.

£200,000-A-YEAR JOBS IN U.S.A.

A DISCUSSION ON MERIT.

Es any man worth a salary

There is probably

ayeart Editors and more $200,000 practical method of promoting business-leaders hold farth enter

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News from Valder, Alaska, of the entrance of Japanes fishing vessels. into the Bering Sea fishing waters | is disturbing to British Columbian "halibut fishing interests. This is the first time Japanese have entered Bering Sea crab and salmon waters and it is feared that they may come across and fish in deep-isa halibut areas which are closed to Canadian and American fishermen through the international halibut! treaty. This would constitute a

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PORTUGAISE habits of temperance and of fight tainingly on this question for the very serious blow to the industry,

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ing alcoholism than by the pro-benefit of the comfortable majority vision of a suitable alternative to of us to whom a million a year is the public-house. Temperance relike, a holiday excursion to the formers in the past, in their zeal

moon (says the New York Literary. for the removal of a great evil,

Diagest have sometimes seemed to those who do not realise its magnitude to be preaching a gospel of negation. We cannot hope to get rid of the public.

Why all the discussion? Does any an actually receive a salary so enormous? Yes, we are assured. And not only one, but perhaps a dozen of our business leaders. As for what stirred up all this talk.

"Charges by the Eaton minority faction in the Youngstown-Bethle- hem merger fight that several Bethlehem executives are receiving

house as we know it until we are prepared to replace it by something better; a vast number of the population need some place where they can mix on friendly terms with their fellow's and share their Leisure, and the public-house owes its strength to this need of human nature. Some attempts have been made to meet this need by provid-salaries of $1,000,000 a year or more ing an alternative to the public bring this question forcibly to house, but successful efforts are very public attention," writes John F. few and far between; such places Sinclair in the New York “World.” are desirable everywhere, and most

The protesting stockholders have. of all are they needed in the crowd-declared, that the salary of Eugene ed centres of population where G, Grace, thin, wiry president of many families live in one or two the Bethlehem Steel Company, who rooms.

treats golf sa a, scientific problem, A remarkable social experimentis in excess of a million a year. in this direction was launched Hence the discussion as to whether many years ago in the city of Zurich, and has been carried on worth that much money to any any individual can actually be with increasing success, planned, corporation, however gigantic directed, and managed entirely by There are probably a dozen men women. Zurich, with its 213,000 in-

in America in the million-dollar habitants, is the largest town in class-that is drawing a million or Switzerland; it is a centre of in-

more annually for ther executive dustry and commerce, and is rework in corporations," Mr. Sin-. nowned for

high schools clair tolla us "It has always been and university. The well-kept streets, the splendid public build a moot question as to just how much these men are worth. Some ings, the efficient public services, are paid a liberal salary with no and the absence of slums, favour bonus; others a fair salary and a ably impress the visitor.

fair bonus; and still others a small

ambstantial bonus salary and This last form seems to be at the either of the others. present time more popular than

its

In 1994 a small group of women, inspired and led by a remarkable woman — Frau. Professor Orelli, hon. director of medicine of Zurich University organised themselves as the Women's Society for Temper ance and Public Welfare. The aims of the society were:-

1. The reform of the public house industry by the establish- ment and development of non- alcohol restaurants, and by those methods to aid the fight against the evils" of alcoholism.

cases

business leader, in certain

Mr. Sinclair finds that some

favour the 81,000,000 salary, while others contend that до man is worth it. Says Ralph Gwynn, of the Penney-Gwynn Corporation

"The 81.000,000 salary—a hold- over from the days of individual promotion-seems to be out of date. 2 To develop & useful and "Officers of great aggregations satisfactory occupation" for wo-of capital in industry to-day are men, by the abolition of tips and trustees, rather. They are in the by fixed rates of pay for all its nature of public servants, for the employees.

public is interested vitally in big 3. Food and drink to be of irre-industry, both a investors and proachable, quality; to be sold as

patrona Hence, in my opinion, cheaply as possible, but a certain such a salary, in these days, under profit secured. All profits to be such a conception, is unthinkable. used for alteration and enlarge- ment of houses, for development of the idea, and for the welfare of the employees; no profit-shar ing by shareholders. Nobody to be obliged to order food or drink in the restaurants, any guest at liberty to stay, read papers, write, do needlework, etc, and the rooms in the houses to be freely open, as available, for use by clubs and societies.

Fifteen Restaurants.! Funds with which to commence work were obtained by organising a bazaar, which produced a profit of £680. The lease of a painter's studio in a busy street was secured, and there this committee of women opened their first coffee-room, call- ed" Marthahof." It was imme diately evident that the coffee-room met a need, a demand for light

No man in our institution gets one-four, or one-fifth, or even one. tenth as much."

But Edward A Filene, Boston financier, believe, that some Ameri can executives are really worth a $1,000,000 salary--

I would, for instance, pay Owen Young & million, and feel sure I would get more than a mil- lion profit as my share of his work, I would pay Heary Ford a million to run Ford Motors.

singers and movie stars, and the "When the salaries paid to great big fees drawn down by great law- yers and physician, are borne in mind," comments the Boston Post, the possibiliy of a million for a business genius does not seem so startling.

For most of us however, as the Cincinnati Enquirer points out, this matter of 4 million a year: "ie and will remain most emphatically an academic question.”

A Silent Campaign. The remarkable success which has attended this movement is shown by the cash receipts. When the first coffee-room was opened the sales averaged 20 francs per day; the annual report för 1998 shows sales of over 11,000 francs per day-about 12,000 gurats being served daily, spending an. average of eightpence per person.

meals was insistent, and within a few weeks the premises were extend ed and changed into a non-alcohol restaurant. The enterprise was so successful that it was soon decided to extend it, to other parts of the town, and although difficulty was experienced in finding suitable pre- mises, several small unsuccessful licensed restaurants were bought up and converted into non-alcohol restaurants and coffee-rooms, Four years later this women's society opened their first big enterprise, the restaurant "Charlemagne," a former Patrician house, where a complete steam-cooking plant was installed, accommodation provided. The work of the society is man for 250 persons, and rooms for Bo-aged entirely by women; they have cial gatherings and meetings. The accumulated experience as their en- society now carry on fifteen restaur- terprise has grown, and have de ants in Zurich, and five years ago veloped into expert accountants, they were asked to take over the

and managers. I have had the management of the refreshment opportunity of seeing over all the rooms in the university, the Federal restaurants, and on my unexpected Institute of Technology, and the visit I was impressed by the eff Institute of Chemistry. The town ciency in all departments; the bed- authorities are in full sympathy rooms on the top floors, where many with the movement, and in 1911 of the staff are housed, the rooms handed over to the society the for social gatherings, and the latest charge of the refreshment rooms in dish-washing machinery and food- the park.

storage arrangements in the kit chers and basements are convincing evidence of expert planning and management.

Continued success led to further development, and the society decid- ed to build a large non-alcohol hotel and restaurant on the edge of the celebrated woods on the Zurichberg, which is the principal resort for families and excursionista on Sun days and holidays. Bonds were issued, and satisfactorily subscribed, and the town authorities sold the society a piece of land in the best position on condition that the building erected was always for public use and never converted into private property. There the Kur- haus Zurichberg was opened, with sixty bedrooms and a large restaur ant and tea rooms.

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The influence of this work on the life of the people must be very marked; the housca are used by working men; clerks, teachers, and students, who unconsciously ac quire the habit of doing without alcohol. This committee of women do not themselves carry on direct total abstinencs propaganda-they, are wisely content to limit their own effort to providing the public with good non-alcohol refreshment rooms, believing that by this method they are in the most prac tical way cultivating the habit of abstinence.)

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