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Show Should Every WEDNESDAY Be Made A HOLIDAY? Hf Y a ew months ago a movement was started H: I J to make every Wednesday a holiday. Not a Hj "" "day of rest," but a day of sport, and play, of Ht fun and frolic, a day away from the routine cares of Hl life; Sunday to be the day of actual quietness, rest and worship. This association has a very active secretary in M. E. Marsden-Dyson, of Glastonbury, Conn., who Is making overy effort to gate world-wide recognition of the plan. He has already communicated with President Taft and President-elect Wilson, who have promised to give the matter their attention. Employers and labor organizations, cabinet ministers In foreign coun-tries coun-tries and others have had the matter put before them and asked to work toward the adoption of the plan. It is the claim of this association that the 48-hours- 1 a-week law recently passed by Congress and enjoyed by Government and municipal employes and organized labor trades can be admirably divided to fit the . schedule as planned by those who are clamoring for a i HR mid-week holiday. Seven arguments are put forward in a letter from the secretary of tho association. He claims that a week of forty-eight working hours could be divided Into ten and a half hours of work on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs-' day and Friday and six hours on Saturday, giving the! Hj total of forty-eight hours and yet leaving all of Wednes-1 day for a holiday. Tho promoters of this associa-' tion are of the opinion that .people would rather work i these hours and have Wednesday off, than work eight hours a day every day. "A mid-week holiday,' according to these seven ar-ruments, ar-ruments, "would give the worker opportunity for i thought, study and recreation. As it la now the brain Is j too tired, after a full day's work to tackle thought, study or physical exercise. j "It. would tend to bring in a universal 48-hours-a- j week law, making things easier for all and finding a J little work for those who now have none. "It would give the people an opportunity to enjoy life, to get out into the country and admire nature, drink in the pure air, take In fresh scenes and thus stimulate new thought, Inventive power and renew the capacity of life's struggle. "It would tend to fill the ohurches by providing mother day for such sports aud recreations as now encroach upon tbe Sabbath. 1 HJ "It would be a big saving to merchants, manufac- j Hj turers and other employers by saving gas, power, light, 1 heat and wear and tear. "It would give husbands and fathers fath-ers a little more time in which to become acquainted with their families, fam-ilies, and help to train the youth of the country, the entire training having hav-ing fallen too long upon tbe women alone. "It would mean greater efficiency, greater power, better citizens, better health, better work, better Ideas, better bet-ter thought and bettoir men and women wo-men all a-jund." Printed matter regarding this as-assoclation as-assoclation Is now being prepared, nnd will soon be scattered broadcast throughout the country. It will also be printed in other languages and distributed in foreign lands. |