Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-03-19 | Page 17 | After 1920 U. S. Will be Only 559,118 Years behind in Work

AFTER 1 U. U S. S Will VILL BE ONLY I 1118 YEARS BEHIND IN WORK I NEW YORK March Marchi 10 By By United 1 Press There There are not enough figures ona on I a typewriter r to I indicate di ate what the United States pays for its annual array lof of holidays boll holi d days ys I In both money and time the high cost of loafing mounts in in a year year- to sums too great to conceive or to rows of ot figures too I long to read Statistics sharks however have managed managed managed man man- aged to gather data that may come within with with- I in a few million dollars of the correct mark and may not miss the total time lost by much more than a couple of centuries cen cen- tunes r I Here are some of the facts welt wen Informed Int in informed In- In t formed mathematicians point to as s preying provIng proving prey prey- ing their point that America would be richer by a fed trillion dollars if the public public pub pub- lic lie took fewer off oft days During 1920 the almanacs list just nine national holidays generally observed throughout every state and none ot or which falls faUs on a Saturday In Jn addition I there are half halt holidays observed on SatI Saturdays Saturdays Sat Sat- In most states enough they say I to amount to twenty-six twenty whole holidays In all then there are thirty five whole holidays ays on which office workers store clerks teachers and toilers in dozens o of II other Ines lines cease work Take Talt for example an office of or persons per per- sons Thirty-five Thirty holidays are granted I e each ch making in all days for forthe forthe forthe the office force not counting Sundays This sum amounts in a a. little more than eleven years therefore for each office of or persons Placing the average weekly salary of or orthe the at 30 simple arithmetic will show the loss to the one employer for tor the eleven years Is 1 To this sum must be added wages lost by union workers whose pay is reckoned on a time basis loss because of no production loss lossIn lossIn lossin In manufacturing plants where steam must be kept kent up and nd overhead o expenses go on regardless of oC the holiday and to railroads and transport transportation companies companies' whose lines are by freight and passengers the following day The money loss throughout the United States would be somewhere around 9 8 S- S counting only the items suggested suggested suggested sug sug- above e while the time loss In the whole country would be about TJ working da days s 's of working years vears If It the sharks are right and there has been no one to step forward to challenge challenge challenge chal chal- lenge their figures the total losses will probably nearly double the figures already presented because they declare no consideration con cone whatever has been given for forthe forthe forthe the thirty five holidays that are faithfully faithfully faith faith- fully observed in various states celebrating ing lag sectional religious or local historical incidents