Show Y EARLY CLOSING Tho rho Saturday ear early earls y closing move movement movement movement ment which has recently been boon in aU In Ogden ts Is becoming gen general general eral coal throughout the country countr The largo larso as well as tho the small stores In cities of any size are adopting tho the early sarly Saturday closing rule role and put putting puttIng ting it Into fate immediate effect The he latest city olty to adopt tho the move movement wont ment is IB St Paul Minn The Tho follow followIng I Ing communication from the t Exam Examiner In liner iner correspondent In that city Is self soU explanatory CJ Following the precedent established established during the last Christmas holi boll holidays holidays days daysi when nil all St at Paul department stores closed on Christmas eve tho the heads of ot all nIl the leading establish establishments menu ments In the city have agreed to a short working day rule which will ap apply a aly apply ply ly during the tho warm summer months end and will reduce the tho hours of labor of their behind the counters The now new rules go Into effect at once and ond clip cUp a n substantial margin from the tho weeks working hours haulS Instead of oC adopting a uniform agreement the tho department stores have hare agreed to short summer Bummer hours and left the application of the rule role to the tho various houses A number Dumber have announced announcer that they will close at a each afternoon of the week giving their clerks early earI clos closing closing ing inS and an nn opportunity to get got out to tho the lakes for a cool evening Other Mores will hold to tho the regular hours bours during the week hut but have announced that they th 7 will close for Saturday af at afternoons afternoons tet giving their clerks a n Satur Saturday day which with Sunday permits a thorough rest before the beginning r of the new week The con concessions concessIons cessions In time amount to about tie the same samo In both cases and the rules have been boon made after considering the desires of the tho as 15 to the tho dis distribution dIstributIon of at the rest time which has been bOOD taken token from r m their thelt hours of o la labor 1 bor bar t Loading department store storo man managers managers agers state that the action la is Deed based Deedon on business arguments and that th t In n ni i addition to recognizing tho need of at atthe Y the tho clerks for rest and recreation anon during the tho heat hent of at the summer the tho managers believe the effect of the rule will be to secure better beUer more TM prompt and efficient service during J the shorter working hours The Tho now Dew rule role Is a 3 further out o outgrowth t growth of the tho Rest for clerks move movement mont ment mon t In St at Paul which was cham championed Atoned by Father J J Lawlor who L has since been created a bishop vu |