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Show WOMEN WORK LONGEST IIOl'R Asserting that American women work longer and harder than American men, Charlea W. Apple-ton, Apple-ton, vice president of the General Electric Company, appealed to those Home Service Conference to help raise the efficiency of home to thnt of factories and offices. He said that "the prosperity of business and Industry, no less than the welfare of the nation," depends on the home. "Think wha tthe home will be," he said, '"when it is o na par for comfort snd convenience with thee factories and storeB as they are today, and contemplate the effe-t on the life of the woman in the home with more time for thought, more to get acqualntel with and to enjoy her children'more to give vent to her natural creative, cultural cul-tural anjd artistic ' impulses, and some time for reflection and rest," Now, American housewives work more than 1.250,000,000 hours week more hours than men work in their employment MJ Apple-ton Apple-ton stated. Whnille mechanical and electrical devices have Improved greatly working conditions outside of homes, women doing housework, 'icontiue to work the same number of hours in about the same way as they did hundreds of years ago." He pointed out the economic importance im-portance of the home, saying that It "is a sort of rotary converter, receiving the products of the fact- ories made In the main by machinery machin-ery supervised by men, changing it to digestible and consumable form and then turning It back again thru men and children Into the economic and social streams in the form of calories and physical and spiritual contentment and serenity, to repeat re-peat the process." |