Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16

wide aw k Q.
and is wide awake when he ought
TO be sleeping. :.
Anybody who has had TO switch
around like that knows that DOC
tor Kleitman has said a mouthful.
Switch from days to nights
less frequently, he says. Keep
one shift for several months and
get used TO IL.
Speaking as one who has ex-
perienced some of this swing
shift work on newspapers, I'm
for saying that Doctor kleitman
knows what he's talking about.
Incidentally. though. how many
night workers have run into the
same thing that bothers me p?
After working nights for several
years, get into the slovenly
habit OF sleeping longer than ]
need to.
If you don't have to get to work
until. say. 4 or 6 p. m, it's aw-
fully easy to sleep 10 or L hours
instead OF eight. And then most
OF your spare time is wasted, with
nothing to show for ii.
It's always easier to get used
20 a night shift than it is to go
i'm the other direction and start
getting up at 7 o'clock in the
morning. after you've been used
to sleeping until noon or later.
Another proposal which ne
makes is:
'Broa ca sting companies
might he induced to make tran
scriptions Of their popular eve
ming hour programs for re-
broadcasting In the afternoon
and late night hours. and movies
could be extended either way
few hours"
This would be for the benefit oi
workers who have to be in the
factories in the evening hours.
Doctor Kleitman might he In
terested TO know that nj least
one Detroit radio station is
working In that direction, and
some others may be.
In Detroit at least one big fac
tory is changing shifts every quar-
ter hour between IL p. m. and
2:30 a. m. So on the early morn
ing broadcasts the station repeats
its newscasts at more frequent
intervals so that men going 10
work or just getting through
work can find out what's happened
in the war in the last few hours.
The newscasts are short. It's
the managers idea that working
Mt night breeds a tenseness In
men. So he tries 10 keep the
news brief and 20 the point.
Mostly music and sports Is his
formula, although he may try
out o continued mystery story,
q male cousin 20 the afternoon
soap operas.
As to recording the best early
evening shows, he hasn't begun il
yet. but Is seriously considering
that move. Public reaction will
have a LOT TO do with it.
The Saturday Evening Post
has just come out with an arti-
Gle on the same general sub
Jet. Night workers, I under
stand, are inclined TO drink
more coffee than day workers,
and to smoke more cigarets.
Sometimes they have trouble
getting their stomachs used to
new schedules, and have TO call
on doctors To help them get
their digestions functioning on
an upside-down eating plan.
Doctors in Detroit plants tal
the big companies have their owl
medical experts. and the bigges
have nerve and mental special
ists) seem TO be of the impression
that Detroit'S workers aren't hav
ing much trouble with nigh
shifts.
Possibly this is because VIC hav,
large percentage Of worker
who already are used to thes
shifts.
However. they are going 10 d.
some investigating along this line
I'm informed. And. by the way
you can expect 10 see more maga
zine articles on the subject befor
long.
Finally. Doctor KleItman sug-
gests revision of the pattern Of
shifts. From noon to 3 p. m,
from 8 10 4 a. m, and from 4
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