The Washington times., 1914-06-15
Truths By Women Who
Vrou Increasing Efficiency
NIlOW ofthe Woman Worknr
Vacation Savings Committee

NS<i6 uiot biSiS hiuot- w W
operation between employer, EN-.
ploye, and the public, and that re.
Taxation is essential to continued
efficiency, the Woman's Depart.
ment Of the National Civic Fede.
ration formed the national vaca-
tions committee.
The value of its work and the
scope Of activity are related in the
following article by Mrs. Roger H.
Bacon, chairman Of the national
vacations committee.
Mrs. Bacon, assisted by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. F. T.
Dubois, Miss Maud Wemore, and
several other prominent women,
started branch society in Wash
ington last winter which hopes to
accomplish much good for the
women in industry in Washington.
By MRS. ROGER H. BACON.
The national vacation committee
of the woman's department of the
National Civic Federation. exists for
the furtherance and practical proof
of the fact that conservation of en-
ergy and recreation of vitality makes
for the personal efficiency of the
wage earning woman of this coun-
try, and is essential to her useful
ness as a worker and her value in
the industrial progress of the United
States.
There is no challenge today Of the
statement that the assets Of a nation
are its crops and population, OF We
might say a nations asset Is its
crops-vegetable, mineral, ANIMAL
We may deplete our forests. over
work our soil. waste our mines, but
We no longer do 1t with any assur-
ance of its being right or intelli-
gent. With the most important crop
humans, we are only just begin
ing to deal. Yet IL is on the type
of human crop produced, that all
other crops depend. Our geographical
size tended toward waste-use up
one acre and move on to the next
was the slogan 1T viii last as long
as I do" the Indifferent social at
titude, and our influx of immigrants
has made US careless and negligent
of human lie.
Health and Efficiency.
AS a nation we are beginning to
take stock. We realize that any
human being. by becoming one,
has job. Some easier than others;
Some more easily checked up than
others. but each and all better done
and more fully lived II the individ-
ual carries to 1t health and eff
cheney.
The National Vacation Committee
wants to help prove that without
altruism, the employer can and
must consider the working con-
ditions Of his employe, the output
of his plant bearing a direct re- i
lation to the fitness of those who
put out the work. A human auto
maton does not produce as much
as a human person. A new part may
be supplied to a man-made machine.
bat man, himself. cannot be re-
newed. IL wasted beyond the point
of physical reaction. Sometimes a
nickel In the hand seems to obscure
a dollar, even in the near future.
To ignore the fact, that a rested
and Interested employe is a better
asset than a tired, Indifferent one
is truly to be penny wise and pound
foolish.
The National Vacation Committee
has always aimed to extend Its
activities through the medium of
cooperation. to bring together the
employer and employe for their
mutual benefit. II recognizes three
elements - employer, employe, and
the public-and concerps itself
primarily with strengthening the
employe, the link between the pro-
ducer and the consumer.
Social and Economic.
The work touches two sides OF
the employees life; the social and
the economic. After careful inves-
tigation II has been found that
paid vacations are the exception
for the small wage ,arner. Many
women have vacations only at
their own expense, many have
none at all. Occasional relaxation
from any daily routine Is essential
to prevent the deadening of in
itiative and destruction of energy.
The National Vacation Commit
tee believes in vacations, be-
lieves in paid vacations, believes.
however, in doing its best with