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Show 48 HOURS A WEEK i LABOR LIMIT IN URUGUAY i the I'mted Htlrs in altruistic law j i making. I j Kor instance. n man is permitted to i labor more than f-Ttj-eiRht hours a j week in I'rugtiay. nnd must keep the ; frrty-elsht hours of labor iihm six ! j cU He may work as mjny hours in 1 1 one day sa he will, ho long as he keeps J the week's total within forty-e.ght and! observes a day of rest. I In Its educational system, too, I'rw- J gusy hAS taken some advanced steps Krom kindergarten llnouKh all the grudea and technical s hrvol or unl- j versiiy. not A text hook need he bought j I for a student, not a cent of tuition' J paM. The state provi(i-s all. i Schools for adults aere founded In' 1 lt7 and thei-e schools, achmda for 'r backward children, school for training j working girls, instruction in trades and i -arts and even in public apeak I ng and lyceum work, all are free. ' Cattle and sheep furnish the chief! Industry of the country, which Is larking lark-ing In timber and mineral wealth. The most unfortunate condition In ! the country ie the fact that lees than' fr0 men. own nearly ! per crnt of th land, and a hundred" control four-fifihs four-fifihs of the. capital of the count r'. Moreover, foreigners own 40 p-rent of -the wealth and the result Is that too much of the annual earnings Is sent outside tha country. j Overwork Ought to Be Rare in Ideal Republic in South. . . i ay M.wapapr Ent.rpnaa Aaaclatl.n. HO.VTEVllito, Uruauay. Ore. 13. t'rucuay. with It. million and a half Inhabitant... flrat of tha fcoutb. AraeH-can AraeH-can countries with wlch the new oom-merclai oom-merclai treatlca of the l'iiltr-1 estate, baa be. a completed, haa patterned It. aovamju.nt conaoiouaty after tha fnlted ntatea. Mora aa than other South American vounriiea. j la soma point. It haa (on. ahead of |