The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-10-11
When You. Get Tired.
From New Orleans Daily States.)

(tr0m New orleans Dally StateS.)
For some years past certain scientists
! have been trying to find out what hap
pens when you get tired" 1t seems
a simple question, but has been found
both complicated and important. The
results of the investigation have been
compiled by a woman from many lands
and languages. This assembled work
of hundreds of patient observers in all
parts of the world has already been ef-
fective to change the law of three
American states in regard to the num-
Der of hours women shall work, and
will probably revolutionize the industri-
al world before another generation.
Miss Josephine Goldmark is the wo-
man whose five years of work on this
matter of Fatigue and Efficiency" as
her book, recently issued, is signifi-
cantly called, is causing a revolution in
the worlds ideas about work, the re-
suits of which can scarcely yet be fore
seen. 1t was she who prepared for
Louis D. Brandels the scientific and
statistical basis for his briefs before
the supreme courts of the United
States, of Illinois and of Ohio, which
won the decisions to shorten the hours
of labor for
The facts indicated are these: A
poison is generated in the body by men,
tai and physical work. The healthy
body has machinery for burning up that
poison or carrying it out through the
kidneys, lungs and skin. 1t takes a
certain amount of REST to allow this
machinery to do its work thoroughly.
Therefore, when we work too long, or
work when We are tired" we are al
lowing our bodies to become FILLED
up with this poison, which is something
like allowing them to fill with the
poison of diptheria or lockjaw.
Though not so swiftly fatal as some
other poisons, the toxin of fatigue has
been found, by the researches OF psy-
biologists and sociologists, to be more
dangerous in some respects. 1t affects
the v system and the mind, and
it affects the generations yet unborn.
Those who work on their nerves" are
just as sure to break down eventually
if they keep it up as water is to run
down hill. The women who are over
worked are unable to bring into the
world strong, vigorous children.
Most telling of all, however, is the
fact that shorter hours have been found
to pay the employer better than the
old dangerous long hours. This was
exactly the opposite of what everybody,
including the students of economy and
sociology, had heretofore taken for
granted. Seventy years ago, the men
who were authorities on these ques-
tons said that to shorten the hours of
labor to ten a day would ruin capital;
manufacturing enterprises would be I'M
able to make any profit, and that really
the men ought to work thirteen hours a
day if the manufacturer was to make
the proper profit.
Actual experience, however, has
shown that the reverse of this is true;
that the labor done in ten hours is so
much more efficient than the labor done
in eleven, twelve or thirteen, that the
manufacturer who runs on the ten-hour
schedule really makes bigger profits
than he did on the longer hour system.
Careful analyses of the profits and los
SEES of various kinds of business, all
over the world, show that when facto-
| ries run at night as well as by day they
lose money; that they lose money when
they shorten or eliminate the noon
hour; that they lose money when they
do not furnish proper ventilation and
sanitation. Railroad and other acct.
dents were found to increase with
frightful rapidity when men were
worked Overtime"