Evening star., 1934-09-23

The next important exception to the
general averages deals with the occu-
patton described in the study as read
ing. The student who leads all others
is the unemployed man, who reads
away 1913 minutes Of his time. The
unemployed woman spares only 43
minutes from her visiting for reading.
The white collar man reads for 81 min
utes, and the white collar woman &3
minutes. The man who stands second
in the reading list-second to the un-
employed man-is the laborer. who
puts in 95 minutes. The laboring
woman reads only 80 minutes and lays
down her book.
Male high school students and male
college students break precisely even,
each reading A minutes. The coinci-
dence invites to the thought that this
might be required reading and, there
fore, ought not to be included as
leisure time activity. The high-School
girl reads only 40 minutes and, for
some reason not explained in the re-
port, no figure is given for college
girls. Indeed, no figure for any activ-
ity is assigned to co-eds, but only to
college men. The big idea, the one
that sticks, Is that most American
reading is done by unemployed men
and men of the laboring classes. Even
professional men and executives read
only IA minutes.
Clubs, Radio and Motoring.
The American housewife spends
more time in clubs than any other
classified creature. She puts in 81
minutes a day. The white-collar man
is at his club only 8 minutes, the
white collar woman but 8. The big
executive and professional man puts
in 10 minutes a day at his clubs. The
real clubmen are the high school and
college lads, the former giving 8 min
utes and the latter Is minutes day.
The unemployed man with time on
his hands puts in only 5 minutes a
day at clubs; the unemployed woman,
minutes. Men and women of the
laboring group spend no time in clubs
whatever.
There Is an interesting line for
sponsors on how much these different
people listen to the radio. The un-
employed man leads with 81 minutes.
High school boys and woman laborers
match for second place at As minutes.
College men come next with 81 min
utes, then high school girls, 35 min
utes; white collar men, "a minutes:
male laborers, 80; women unemployed,
81, and housewives, 29 minutes.
Motoring consumes less time than
one would imagine. White collar
women lead with Is minutes q day
and white-collar men come second
with 20 minutes, although unemployed
women are right behind them with 19
minutes day SO spent. The unem-
ployed man rides for Is minutes a
day, which recalls the reports about
the jobless driving from breadline to
breadline. Executives and profess
sional men drive just as much as the
unemployed men-l5 minutes. Wom-
en- Of the laboring class drive 13 min
utes and laboring men drive IL min
utes.
There really should be subconn-
mittee Of planners to get more de-
tails on the far-flung realm of mis-
cellaneous. In that field the high
school girl spends more time than
any one else-65 minutes. The COL
lege youth comes next with 81 min
utes, and then the housewife with So
High school boys spend So minutes
miscellaneously, next comes the un-
employed woman with ~ minutes so
spent then the unemployed man with
81. next the white-collar man, IS,
then the White-collar woman, 80 min
utes. The laboring class woman has
8 minutes to devote to miscellaneous
tasks and the laboring man but 5.
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