Show 1 AXI XI EIGHT HOURS Th TI e e Massachusetts Agricultural I c 1 J- lege ege one of or the best Institutions of or orthe the he kind In the country says ys th the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Tribune is in a n quandary this year ear The Massachusetts ras t legislature e ehas has ms passed a law limiting II 10 io eiith hours the work worl of or all of the tIme state The agricultural college 1 finds f It t necessary to employ a number of eC helpers in the stables and on th the tho land lane attached to the tho school and under tho tha law aw none of these helpers must mist w vuk more moro than eight hours The Time authorities authorities ties of or the college e have ha not y yet yat t hi hit upon a program which permits permit al all farm labor to be bo done within th ihs hour limit without causing an not lot contemplated In the last annual appropriation ap ap- and In an any case there is isa isa isa a waste of or time which Is not relished by tho men any more mom than It Is 1 s by hy tin managers For example It Is twelve hours hOur's he- he tween one milking of or a cow and the next milking If the same game mall man maim has ha been sot to work to milk the cow both times the law has been violated uness unless un un- less ess hO has been in a state of oC enforced d dl l idleness during luring four or five hours o othe of t the intervening Inter time Conte Contemplate the tho feelings of oC the he farm dent lent when a summer thunderstorm Is muttering in the distance a ar at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and time the ha hia must be left exposed to the rain because because be be- cause the med inert have havo already worked eight hours Fines and are tho the reward of or tho the man who trie ne to save ave the states state's property under such conditions It has needed only this re revelation ll of or the actual workings of or the eight tt hour law on the farm furm to set the 1 Messa 1 farmer Carmer to thinking In th the thc last analysis it Is the thu farmer who pay the taxes The farmer fanner works all aU da himself and anel when he Is driving aon along the road n and lI sees the farm laborer who whose e wages wage he pays swinging In a hammock reading novels or playing golf for tor exercise while tho time sun sumi is IJ high In fn the heavens he ma may well begin be gin to wonder wh why his In lii the legislature Is so much mor mort sparing of or the tIme paid e of oC th thc state than of th the tho hard working tax payer Ho ma may even question whether rJ ii farm Cann can bo be considered considered a n. model fo to his son sons to study SUly where th tho tha law com com els th the hiring hiring- of tf t Ice as n m many men I is us the HIP farmer hit hito pJ olf could afford I to o use UNC for or the s same r work ork First t lessons leMons In should not lot be substituted cd for instruction In scientific |