Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-06-01
From The Magazine Press.
Excerpts OF Opinion from the Leading Writers of Today
Rev. John A. Peake.

Inc CuIieul LiteIdTy DlSeSt con-
tains an article on Relief for Eng
fish Shop Clerks 1t says: The cry
on behalf of overworked shop-assist-
ants, has long been ringing in the
ears of English lawmakers, has at
last had it's effect. The British Par
liment has passed a Shops Act which
greatly ameliorates the lot of the
shopmen and women of the country,
and it's provisions are outlined in the
press. Their labors are to be light
ened by easier hours, and half-holi-
days and time for meals, rest, and
recreation are better provided. For
DEGREES that: "On at least one week
day in each week a shop assistant
shall not be employed about the bus.
mess Of a shop after half-past one
o'clock in the afternoon. Proper in
tervals for meals are thus prescribed
mo person is to be employed for more
than six consecutive hours without
an interval of at least twenty min
utes.
Where the hours of work include
the hours of from 11.30 a. m. to 2.30
p. m. an interval of not less than
as minutes be allowed for dinner,
and where the meal is taken away
from the shop, a full hour to be al
lowed.
Where the hours of work include
from 4 p. m. to 7 p. M, not less
than half an hour be allowed for tea.
I'm houses of r~efreshment there
need be no dinner interval between
l1.30 a. m. and 2.30 p. M, if the as
sistant is allowed the same interval
to end not earlier than 100 or to
begin not later than 2.30.
Licensed houses, ~refreshment houses
newspaper, tobacco and motor requis-
lite shops, and shops for the sale of
%perishable food and articles are ex-
empted from the weekly half holiday.
THAT no person under eighteen shall
be employed in or about a shop for
a longer period than "a hours dnclud-
ing Meals) in any week. This ap-
plies to wholesale shops and ware
houses, but not to domestic work.
Where there are female shop-assis-
tants, seats are provided-not less
than one seat for every three assist
ants In each room.
The weekly half-holiday is safe
guarded by a clause which enacts that
all members of the sh%opkeepers fam
lily employed as assistants must also
have the half holiday. The local
authorities are empowered to fix the
hours on several days of the week at
which all shops or shops of specified
class are to be served for serving GUS
but the hours fixed must not
be earlier than Z p. m. The authori-
ty is to be satisfied that at least
t%wo-thirds of the shopkeepers affect
ed approve of the order.
Governor West and The Convicts-
The Oregon Penitentiary used to
be considered a veritable house of hor-|
rors. Convicts were flogged to death
driven mad by torture, drowned by
Too liberal application of water cure,
crippled with beatings with clubs
and blinded by vitriol. 1t was to es-
cape tortures of this kind that Har-
ry Tracey, the desperate, made his
olood-red dash for liberty through
states a few years ago. So
Verne Hardin Porter tells us in Col
weekly. To quote Mr.. Parker:
Governor Oswald West. who has
the facts of the recent yes
of prison administration, is
he U'Ren of the honor system. He
'irst broke into political conferences
rs State Railroad Commissioner.
With sledge-hammer and note book
lie tramped all over Oregon's Har-
imam roads, testing ties. When the
wanted some one to run
or Governor they cast about for a
nan who had done something and
'ound available timber in West.
And, in spite of his frankly protested
aith In human nature and an uncom-
ortable strong sense Of right and
they put ~him-cowboy hat,
oft shirt, sledge and note book and
III upon the stump against the anti
primary machine and won. The gov
was a butcher boy twenty years
r so ago, then he became a sheep
Ierder on the Oregon ranges, and
ater a %prospector in the Klondike.
Out of these experiences he has e.
olved a fine faith In. the common
{
After six months of the honor sys-
I'm a man on the streets asked him {
he still retained that faith. 1t was {
t a street meeting at Portland.
on a soap-box, Governor |
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