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73!53h Txjihmtttfammn J8 THE SHORTER THE WORKING DAY THE GREATER THE LABOR Washington, Oct. 18. The Fed eral Bureau of Labor Statistics cpmes out with what amounts to a flat state ment that the shorter the working day the greater is the output of the laborer. In its booklet just issued on the 10 hour day for women and young per son's in industry, the bureau shows that while wages have advanced and hours have decreased, such advance and decrease have taken place in the period when "American industrial ac tivity has increased to the greatest extent." Further, the report states: "It is now a well-known fact that the adoption of a 9-hour day has not affected the amount or value of the output even in the case of establish ments where machinery is predomi nately used." The Bureau thus confirms the eco nomic law which has always been maintained by the labor unions "that limitation of hours of labor increases instead of decreases the productivity of labor." It is shown, for instance, that in Norway, a 53-hour week in the state workshops results in ap proximately the same total output as was formerly obtained in the 60-hour week. This is, of course, due to the fact that the workers are capable of a more intensive application to labor for a short period than for a, longer period. The exhaustion of the work er by long hours of labor unfits him for the next day's work. A longer rest and recreation period between work times, however, enables him to recu perate and remain always at his best. o o FATE UNKIND TO FATEST MAN Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 18, Impover ished because his increasing fat pre vented him from attending to busi ness is the Hapless plight of Patrick Ryan, at one time a prosperous res taurateur. His 370 pounds have made him physically helpless. He has been admitted to an institution. He got fatter despite every effort to reduce. POETRY TELLS TRAGIC STORY OF DEATH OF THREE ' Boston, Mass., Oct. 18. On the top floor of a tenement, in a room where the odor of gas still hung heavy though the last of a quarter's worth had escaped from the jet, police found the bodies of Mrs. F. J. Johnson and her two small children. The woman was so thin that she seemed a shadow-woman. Her cheeks were hollow and the skin drawn tight across the bones; her eyes were sunken in the socketsj She was suffering from tuberculosis. On a pine table was a piece of poetry, much thumbed and tear stained. It read: "By wreck and explosion and fire, By swindling and thievery and traps We are robbed that a stock may go higher; We die lest the dividend lapse. And the State drops a tear and a flower; God willed it; why? Who was to blame?" A month ago Mrs. Johnson's hus band went to Maine to fight the same disease from which she suffered and she has been trying to support her children and herself. Yesterday she placed the last quar ter she possessed in the gas meter and then waited death for herself and her babies. The instinct of life was strong to the last, for she tried to crawl to the window and lay dead within a few inches of it. BURGLAR LAUGHS AT MODESTY San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 18. Modesty prevented A. L. Herron from chasing the thief of his trousers through the streets in his pajamas. Herron saw a burglar leap through the window with his, Herron's, nether garments, snatched from a chair be side the bed. The burglar refused a polite invitation to come back. Loss $38, beside the pants. ?Wlfcaft?nmdfeaM.w4!ft3