The Connecticut labor news., 1924-11-22
CYCLE OF "UPS AND DOWNS"
 MARK LIFE OF FPOORLYPAID WORKER, U.S. STUDY SHOWS

line and directed especial attention to the fact that "every laborer who has as many as three children must pass through time, probably lasting for about 10 years, when he will be in a state of primary poverty"
 Describes Changes In Workers
 Income
 The York laborer's economic "ups and downs" as described by Rown- tree, follows:
 During early childhood, unless his father is skilled worker, he prob ably will be in poverty; this will last until he, or some of his brothers and sisters, begin to earn money and thus augment their fathers wages suffi- ciently to raise the family above the poverty line. Then follows the period during which he Is earning money and living under his parents roof for some portion of this period he will be earning more money than IS required for lodging, food, and clothes. This IS his chance to save money. If he has saved enough to pay for furnish ing cottage, this period of compar- ative prosperity may continue after marriage until he has two or three children, when poverty will again overtake him. This period of poverty will last perhaps for 10 years, i. e., until the first child is IA years old and begins to earn wages; but if there are more than three children 1t may last longer While the children are earn ing, and before they leave home to marry, the man enjoys another period of prosperity possibly, however, only to sink back again into poverty when his children are married and left him, and he himself is too old to work, for his income has never permitted his saving enough for him and his wife to live upon for more than a very short time"
 Income Variation Affects We'll Being
 In analyzing the study made in South Carolina, Edgar Sydenstricker and Milford I. King, statisticians, and Dorothy Wiehl, junior statistician, of the United States Public Health Service, say:
 There can be no question of the truth of the general principle in Rowntree's observation, even/ among families we'll above the line of actual deprivation at all times. For aside from any special causes of financial stress in family life, such as unem- p1oyment, sickness and death, varia- tions in the burden upon income in the ordinary family are inevitable and are we'll known In families whose income Is very close to the margin of bare subsistehce this variation can not but have some effect upon their we'll being"
 Graphic illustrations published with the health services report indicate that the economic life cycles of South Carolina mill workers are similar to those of York 1aborers, except that in South Carolina there is lower eco- homie level for children and higher level for persons of late middle age. Economic Pressure Shown to Fluctuate
 In closing their analysis of the re- port the health service writers say that the study indicates that at cer-, tain periods in the lives of wage earning population the pressure of economei conditions is measurably greater than at other periods.
 Labor men, who have studied the report, which was recently issued, point out that the investigation of the Public Health Service was made among a population of poorly paid, morgan ized workers and that quite different conclusions would undoubtedly be de rived from an investigation of the economic status of well-paid union workers.