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Show r Short Line Clerks : Have Daily Recess For Exercises Taking many of them back to their schoothood days when physical phy-sical culture held the boards for a ! specified period each day, between forty and fifty office employes of the Oregon Short L,lne railroad 1 have enthusiastically taken up the custom of daily callisthenics being ' advocated by the company. At a. designated time each morning and afternoon all routine work la stopped, a ten -mi note recess in declared, de-clared, the windows are raised to their full height and the clerks follow fol-low the chief clerk or department head through a program of deep breathing, finger, arm and other body movements. About thirty employes, most of whom are girls and women, of the car record department in the Mc-Cornick Mc-Cornick building, have taken up the new custom, which Is declared by department heads to create efficiency effi-ciency and promote health among the workers. Departments In the peseret News building, some of them larger than the above and some smaller, are taking up the callisthenics. cal-listhenics. The idea was conceived at a recent re-cent meeting of traffic officials of the I'nion Pacific system held at the Hotel ltah when N. I. Rallan-tine Rallan-tine of Omaha, superintendent of transportation, sugueg ted 1 hat a few of the exercises be carried out by the officials. Mr. Hallantine then proceeded to demonstrate the exercises which he said were leing used by the clerks In many of the main offices at Omaha and was followed through the demons tra-tions tra-tions by about 150 officials who were present. j I |