How Long to Read The Itching Palm

How Long Does it Take to Read The Itching Palm?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 5 minutes to read The Itching Palm by William Scott

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"A moral disease is devastating the land, according to William R. Scott, the author of a new book entitled 'The Itching Palm.' The disease is 'tipping' - the modern form of flunkyism - and it is sapping the vitality of our democracy.. If we love democracy, Mr. Scott says, we must destroy flunkyism; the two ideas cannot live together except in a false peace. The time is ripe, he urges, for a new crusade. What he wants to see is a national anti-tipping organization, with effective state auxiliaries. 'Tipping,' he tells us, 'would be vanquished in an astonishingly short time with the same organization behind this movement that has been given to the anti-saloon movement, or the suffrage movement.' "Mr. Scott's book is, so far as we know, the only one ever devoted entirely to the subject of tipping. It contains much that is amusing and much that is true. There are, it seems, in the United States along more than 5,000,000 persons who derive their income, in whole or in part, from tips….The practice of tipping is bad for the employee in that it makes him servile. It is equally bad for the employer in that it encourages him to pay inadequate wages. "Tipping, Mr. Scott continues, is inseparable from the grafting spirit. It fosters class distinction. It results in 'the loss of that fineness of self-respect without which men and women are only so much clay - worthless dregs in the crucible of democracy.'" -Current Opinion, Volume 62, 1917 "Considering the fact that 10 per cent of our industrial population are numbered among the 'flunkies,' the author makes a strong argument for the abolition of tipping, either by legislation or public opinion." -Fourth Estate, January 6, 1917 "William R. Scott, in his 1916 polemic 'The Itching Palm,' described the tip as the price that 'one American is willing to pay to induce another American to acknowledge inferiority.' The anti-tipping campaigns were so effective that six states actually banned the practice. The opponents of tipping got some important things right. They saw that tipping was an aberration in a freemarket economy, and that tips had a lot in common with gifts. The also understood that economics alone could not explain why customers were willing to tip." -The New Yorker, September 5, 2005

How long is The Itching Palm?

The Itching Palm by William Scott is 124 pages long, and a total of 31,496 words.

This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Itching Palm Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 52 minutes to read The Itching Palm aloud.

What Reading Level is The Itching Palm?

The Itching Palm is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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