San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13
Today

a.
A Hours Work, Too
Much.
Task for the Clergy.
Old Maid and Bach
elors.
By Arthur Brisbane
=Copyright. 1926 by Star Co
~ B. SHAW says the ideal, state
will allow four hours for
work, four for dressing, eat
ing. drinking, bathing, eight for sleep
and eight for leisure. Machines will
make it possible to do the worlds
work in four-bour day.
MEN lived before they had any
AVA machinery, and worked not
more than twelve or fifteen hours.
With machines that do the work of a
thousand men, the necessary days
labor can be cut to two hours, or
one hour, whenever that is desirable,
il able men will cease struggling for
what they don't need.
IT is not idleness, or Tleisure," how
= ever that men crave. They want
work that they like, freedom of
choice, and variety in their work.
If Ford can work out his plan for
farmers crops raised and harvested
in half the year, and work totally
different from farm work in winter,
he will provide something better
than a six or four hour day.
MEN want to work. They crave
AVA effort-see them walk all day,
to shoot a rabbit, or knock a little
white ball along the grass.
But they want to work in their
way, not as the slaves Of other men.
with hours and tasks forced upon
them. They, as a mass, are not fit
for anything better yet. When they
are fit, and learn to think, they will
get something better.
NNE reverend gentleman sees ruin
~ and decay facing the nation, for
slack of religion" Part Of the fault,
perhaps, is with the clergy. They
ask often why churches are not
crowded. Crowds 90 where interest
leads them.
WHAT about race-track gambling,
w legalized prize fighting, sus-
pending the laws against assault and
battery, and establishing centers for
disseminating vice, and the worst
social diseases.
Do you recall any effective battle
BY clergy, as a class, against those
features of our christian civiliza-
ton?s
NHICAGO is about to make prize
~ fighting legal, annulling its law
protecting decency, for the sake of
gate receipts. Chicago ''hopes to
stage the Wills-Dempsey fight" and
enjoy the sight of a white man, with
an artificial nose knocked about by
negro with a natural nose.
If Henry Ward Beecher were
alive, and in Chicago, that would not
happen without a preliminary fight,
on the side of the law.
The clergy might suspend quarrels
among themselves, concerning theo-
logical questions about which they
cannot possibly prove anything, and
make their influence felt in matters
affecting the youth Of today, and the
coming generation.
I ADY AsTOR says "old maids ex-
IL pand, old bachelors contract"
most accurate observation. Un-
married women become more benevo-
lent, as time passes, old bachelors
more selfish.
Old maids are the salt Of the
earth, the Joy Of young children, the
admiration Of the philosophical mind.
But they are unwise and should
marry, while still young enough to
have children. Marry any man,
healthy, intelligent and kind.
NR. ARNOLD LORAND, in his
- book life Shortening Habits
and Rejuyenation," warns women
against spinsterhood, its harmful eff
fects on the ductless glands, and
otherwise.
The worst of it is that old maids
possessing self control, high charac-
ter and proper scorn of mems imper-
fections, have deprived the human
race of children that might have
pushed the world 1000 centuries
ahead.
RIJBBER BROKERS