The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12

prevail being shown in many letters re-
ceived by Mrs. Brown not published:
Your efforts and others associated
with you in the direction of early clos
ing of business houses on Saturdays,
during the summer months, have my
hearty approval. The corporation of
Castle & Cooke, Limited has closed
business after l o'clock on Saturdays
for. a number of years past
u. B. ATHERTON."
Il heartily approve of the closing of
stores on Saturday afternoons. l look
at the matter fren the standpoint of
both employe and employer. and /
tiongly hope that this movement will
be a success in Honolulu
'B. F. DILLINGHAM;"
THE proposition for making a half
holiday of Saturday is one which meets
my hearty approval, provided il. can be
done by united action on the part OF
all. To be. a success ii must mean the
stoppage of loading and unloading YES
sells, particularly those engaged in the
Inter-Island trade. 1t is a question
which involves interests other than
those which might appear to a casual
observer. and rules which might apply
10 one line of business be wholly map
plicabIe, to another. / should like to
see the plan carried out.
IF. J. LOWREY."
1--WE owe to all men kindness. civility
and Difference to their feelings and
rights and it is the right of a wage
Garner that such treatment and SYM
patny be extended to him by his en-
ployer.
'The practice of clerks working on
Sunday is unfortunate. unnatural and
can only result in more or less injury:
it has been proved by long and careful
tests made in the United States and
in Europe that men worked right along
for consecutive&number of weeks, be-
ing paid extra wages for Sunday. can
not do as much as those who work for
six days only, and rest on the seventh.
THE human machine gets tired and
stays tired unless the regular interval
of rest comes. and the fund of energy
being wasted, less work is done simply
because the man cannot do it; he may
work as we'll as he can, but his energy,
and therefore his work, is below par.
An employer. then, for his own good
as we'll as for the good of his clerk
ought to see to 1t that the latter should
have at least one full day in every
seven for rest, never working on Sun
day excepting in cases of emergency.
LAS to the closing of business on Sat
urday afternoon, l can say that having
been clerk myself l can testify to the
feeling of anticipation of freedom from
the monotony of day after day doing
the same kind of work, and an oppor
tunity of getting out from under
store roof to a roof of sky or to the
shade of trees.
TT is not Incidence in workingman
that makes him want a Saturday aft
ernoon for a breathing spell, but 1t is
a case Of nature quietly speaking for
the betterment of body and mind.
''I believe in the Saturday afternoon
not for the summer months only put
for the whole year, and hope that EN-
ployers will interest themselves ins this
matter for the good of their assistants.
employers remember that assistants
are mentally and perhaps quietly sizing
you UP, and if you are eXactlng ana
selfish they Will not put you down for
a gentleman even if you pass for one
in circles where you are less known.
GEORGE P. CASTLE.
Il can not too strongly voice my APP
prevail in this matter In climate
such as ours we should have as much
rest and recreation as possible, and TO
employer and employe alike the sat
urday afternoon closing plan ought TO
be most welcome one. general move
ment would prevent loss by the clos
ing, and the public would soon accom-
modate itself to the change; the larger
portion of the people, l am sure, would
be willing to be denied the convenience
of open shops for the afternoon, IN
view of the benefits to employees during
the warm months. I sincerely hope that
your efforts will be rewarded with the
prompt and universal consent of the
city's merchants to this reasonable and
most commendable arrangement.
"HENRY WATERHOUSF"