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Brick Masons of A
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A. and T. College, Greensboro. J
skilled workers for the national defe
a chimney, fireplace and brick man
dents of a brick masonry class. Th(
ardsnn, senior brickmason, from Apt
C.; and William Lee, Spring field, fl
IMTSAYS"
longer work day
MIGHT BE COSTLY
LN PRODUCTIVITY
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
When 1 was a kid 10 hours was
labor's standard working day. It had
been 12 but two hours had been
lopped off In practically all sorts or
mechanical plant*. Employerdoin
didn't like to grant the reduction
at the time It was coerced Into doing
so, but soon afterward it Iwgan recognizing
that it was. a good thing,
from the bosses' own standpoint, because
it had Increased their hire
lings' productivity per man more
tlmn enough to offset the shrinkage
in the day's length.
The next reduction, down to eight
hour^, was effected within my personal
recollection.
I heard the ensuing talk myself.
Just us on the preceding occasion,
employers hud acquiesced Ih the sec-1
mid cut very reluctantly, but It'
wasn't long before they began admitting
that they'd downright profited
by It, their tollers worked so much
more energetically.
The generally accepted explanation
was that a man on a 00 to 72hour
weekly schedule was everlastingly
all fagged out. beyond the
physical capacity to put much pep
into his Job, but he could stand 48
hours pretty .well.
If It hud been the hired men ulone
who told this story. I might have discounted
It to a certain extent, hut to
listen to It from high-up industrialists
and miscellaneous economists was
middling convincing. The theory of
the thine w?? n1?u?lh1o t?v?
There's a Limit
There was more whittling luter,
down to 40 weekly hours.
No duuht It's m process that can he
overdone. A chop down to one dally
hour surely wouldn't InereMe prisluction.
No matter how hard nnd fnst
m Jnbnrer scrabbled on u six-hour
weekly basis, he scarcely could outproduce
one working 40, 4S or even
7ii hours In the same period.
The fact remains that cx|ierts concur
in voting for around a maximum
of eight dully hours, six times
weekly, ns a hlg output's lies! friend
Now. In the Interests of huge wm
production, the ugltntlnn's general
except possibly on the workers* purl
for Insisting the hourly limit allium
indefinitely.
It's also for the abolition of over
time, and double time pay for holl
days, and for abolition of the closet
shop likewise, for the abolition o
everything suspected of Interference
with our war effort.
Now, there Isn't enough dissent ti
w?d a shotgun from the proposltlm
that that effort shouldn't be Intel
with by anything under tb
sun. ' jj' _ P \ ' '
Yet these questions arise:
THE 1
L and T. College
V. C., is doing her share In preparing
nse program. A herringbone panel and
tel are being completed by these stu;y
are, from left to right: Alus Rlch;x,
N. C.; Kdgar Murphy, Hinston, N.
I. All three are honor students.
If n reasonable reduction In our
daily working hours previously inn-eased
production, why wouldn't ain
Increase In their number to their former
less productive figure, result in
a productive decrease this time? If it
would. It's a move in exactly the direction
that we don't want to take.
And overtime and holiday double
time?
Hoth were adopted with a view to
preventing emnlovers from over
Stretching the working day, to labor's
financial advantage. It's true, but involving
an occasional excess of worktog
time to the point of frazzling It
out pust the point of 100 per cent efficiency.
And the closed snap?
Unionization may have beeu abused
in spots, but. In the main, it has '
l?een a productive factor. It's played
its Important part in making our industries
what they are?and want 'em
to be still more, of, in the present
emergency. Will Jerking the closed
shop out from under 'em be Ix-neflclal
in the long run?
Popular Opinion.
The popular argument Is that it's 1
perfectly outrageous for civilian In- 1
tK>r to Insist on limitation of Its '
hours, or overtime, with our selectees 1
devoting their whole lives, and maybe '
sacrificing 'em, at the rale of $21 to 1
$30 -monthly.
Far be it from me to underestlItriHte
a selectee's sacrifices, but he's 1
I in a somewhat different classification
than an industrial workingman. 1
I The latter has-normal expenses to 4
meet out of his pay check. The se- 1
leclee, uulesm his draft board makes 1
IInsufficient allowances for his civilian
necessities. Is provided for] And one
of 'em is that his workingman father's
family's wartime expenses are
adequately taken care of at home. 1
and that pa isn't no over-tolled that
his industrial efficiency deteriorates.
We mustn't let our arsenals run
short, due to 'pinching production
workers too hard, In pay or hours or
some such thing.
It isn't unpatriotic, even from a
military standpoint, to argue labor's
cause.
Today's Horoscope.
Mixed Influences prevail during the I
coming year for the persons who have
hirthdayR today. Change*, beneficial
1 ami otherwise, are portended. They
should guard all documents well and
deal tactfully with eldera, despite
pniviirntlon. If they heed these warn
ings piln will result. They are clever
I rind resourceful folk, very Imaginative,
hut they very often accomplish
much less than they plan. They
" should he popular with friends. Many
J obstacles will have to be overcome
f by the child who is born on this
p date. Relatives will prove trying and
retard his or her progress, but perII
severance and courage will insure
n eventual success.
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FATHER, TOO
CAN SPOIL
HIS CHILD
GARRY CLEVELAND MYKKS. Phil
The luitiuti over, father Is usuall;
inure exacting ami severe with th
child than the mother. As a rule. 1
is the mother who Is the more rend;
to accept the no-spanking doctrine, o
to leave hard discipline problems t
the father, or to interfere when *h
supposes the father Is too strict am
severe.
Now and then, however. 1 hen
about a father who lets his child d
as he pleases, who won't dlsciplin
hiiu, and will interfere with th
mother when she does. The follow
ing letter from a mother of a ln>y a
12 and u girl 0, descrlltea this typ
father.
"My husband is a fine man, a
excellent husband and In many rt
spects a' grand father, but he jus
can't seem to he able to realize thn
chlldreu must be trained. He wll
give the children anything in th
world tliey ask for and many time
inconveniences Imth himself and in
to give them some little pleasure
But he will not co-operate In dis
Mpllning them. When I tease hln
nlmut u I ways giving the children firs
children to have In life the thinpi
tlint I missed.'
Interferes with Discipline.
"He not only spoils the childrei
himself but he interferes with my dis
elpllnlnp und Intercedes for the chll
dreu.
"Now, perhaps. I hud better tel
you a little about his home life be
fore he was inurrled. He was tb<
oldest In a family of three boys, anc
no girls. His mother and father wen
a devoted couple and the lioys wor
shipped their mother hut what sin
said went. Father was Just a flguri
head.
"The children coine to me wort
quickly with their little worries am'
problems than they do to their futhei
and I feel very incompetent to ban
lie the problems of an adolescent
boy. TK> you have a list of pamphlefi
and books on tills subject whirl
would be of special help to a mother'
A self-addressed. envelope and ?
three-cent stamps are enclosed."
I sent her a selected list of hooki
n nfucts of life and sex educntior
at home; also n list of books to par
ents on puidlnp the child. Incdldln;
some for parents of teenage children
It is manifest that this fatherIs
like "his father and expects hh
wife to ussume pareutal respon.stbll
Itlea relative to those his mother as
sunied. I doubt whether his wife wll
change him much unless she can worl
on him through a friend of his ii
whom he would have great confl
dence. I can't understand why an;
intelligent parent will disagree will
the other parents before the chlh
about his up-bringing.
New Type Holdout
Wants Less Dough
Then there's'the rftory alxiut th
baseball player who held out becnui
he wunted leas money.
Wayne Osbourne, who won 12 an
lost the name Inst season for Holl;
wood In the Pacific Coast league, e:
plained to the cluh'a startled busing
manager that he refused to algn
contract calling for the same mow
he received In '41. "I didn't live i
to expectation." the hespectnch
hurler said, 'and I think I was ove
paid."
When the Stars' huslncss managi
recovered from the shock, he e
plained that he thought . Osbouri
was worth the salary and finally dl
stiaded the pitcher from holding o<
for a cut.
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knowledge of figures.
ADD AND SUBTRACT
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y 718 minus 911 mdd 209 plus 706
p minus 141 plus 550 minus 900.
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