The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-14

stands the heaviest expense for the
junketing of employees the total being
six million dollars each year, accord
ing to the figures of an official in
the Treasury department. Uncle Sam
employees are by custom entitled to
thirty days vacation during the year
and an extra thirty days sick leave.
receiving full pay for the sixty days
of idleness. Fully seventy-five per
cent of the number contrive to get
their full time. on sick leave" No
government employe was ever known
to suffer from overwork, and II is
questionable IL they need vacations
for recuperative purposes. Other In
vestigations that have recently been
made indicate that there are many
superfluous persons in the employ of
the government about three men be-
ing paid to do the work that could
be haudled by two with ease, so that
IL true economy were practiced In all
government departments that deficit
in the Treasury that is so much talked
of would soon be eliminated. The
piece hands who take vacations lose
the wages they might have earned
during that time while salaried men
in many cases receive full pay dur
ing their idleness. Savings and sur
plusses are hit harder by the summer
outing than any other item 1t being
now-a- days a conspicuous factor in
the spending of the $1,455.019,473
which industries of the United states
annually disburse. The average Nat
ional daily wage Is s1.32, and aver
age daily salary is $500. There Is
distributed among 519,751 salaried
persons and among 5,470,321 wage
earners a total of $3,1S6,3 ,301,763.
Enforced race suicide among the
married employees of the Chicago
Traction Companies and marriage
economically forbiddes to the bache-
lors because of increased cost of liv-
ing and stationary wage scale was
one protest raised during the hours
of impending street car strike of the
$500 employees. The grievance thus
received reinforcement from the
wives. mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts who claim that when overtime
work has brought mans monthly
income up to SIS or $50 II is still
impossible to support more than
family of two on 81 cents an hour
for a ten hour day in Chicago with
rents, fuel, food and clothing at a
40 per cent increase over that of for
mer years and the purchasing power
of mans wages 9-10 per cent less
than they used to be. Bring more
money home on pay day" is the part
ing injunction with the farewell kiss
in the street car mans home. With
the steady rise of provisions. wives
and mothers point out the difficulty
of managing households on present
incomes. Mrs. William Taber, wife
of the financial secretary and business
agent of Division No. 241 of the
Chicago Railways and Consolidated
Union asked: "Do you sup
pose I have been able to save any
thing with wages as they now are and
the cost of living as II has been?
Well hardly. l would like to see the
wife of any street car man who has
managed to put anything by, and
street car men that aren't married
are in on great haste to take on
the burden of supporting two under
the DTeSeHL SCdle VI WdbtS. lnoot
that are married surely have a task.
When butter is 33 cents a pound
and potatoes are 35 cents peck
II takes more than an hours hard
work for our husbands to get even
so much as n pound of butter.
Mrs. William Fleming. mother of a
union official added: "See here" r.
paid 33 cents for that pound of but
ter, 35 cents for that sirloin steak.
1t Is the same way with everything.
coal and rent. Why 1t Is
no living at ALL" Mrs. w. w. Hylton.
whose husband is president of a un-
lon says: "Wives declare a man can
not have a family, He is lucky II he
Is able to support a wife. Lots of
the men don't get married simply
because they could live only in mis-
cry.
Too much marriage instead of too
little has been charact' Cistized as
Chicago's summer danger" by Judge
Albert C. Barnes in direct contrast
with that laid at the door of New
York. Wives of Gotham who annu-
ally sojourn at seashore or mountains
for several months leaving their hus-
bands to deserted homes. restaurant
meals, and with additional grindt
many domesteic tragedies result 1T
Is the unmarried. those who tread
on the brink of the matrimonial
chasm who are threatened by Chi
lagos summer danger" declares
Judge Barnes In a moment of indig-
nation, "single persons who go on
short vacations or excursions to-
sether. There follows the inn-con-
'idered summer marriage rushed into |
At the end of lake excursion or a
suburban street car ride" This has
been the tenor of warnings uttered
by the Woman's World Committee
IN Legislation against the white |
'lave traffic which fiourishes on the
BOAT excursions and the hasty mar
'iages, and now from the bench |
comes this confirmative description OF |
'ases that are so frequent. Here's |
he history of a typical pair A
'oung fellow and girl are ac-
'uainted. Perhaps they are en-
'loyed In the same building. They |
orange to take a trip on the lake |
m Sunday. When they have been |
gliding over the waves for awhile Il |
seem to them that they |
re affinities. They think of nothing |
nd are all wrapped up In one great
idea. AS soon as the boat |
ouches land they leap OFF hand in
land, first license, the work of