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THE MIRROR watch of yours. vice. All work guaranteed. THE WATCHES OF TODAY Think of all the little wheels and bearing and pinions in that Think how delicately these are adjusted and how nicely they run when everything is all right. But let a speck of dust get in among those wheels, or some oil clog them, and there's bound to be trouble. We want to prevent those things happening to YOUR watch. Our repair department is ready to give you its very best ser PEQUEGNAT'S Established 1885. D. C. WILCOX Ladies' Silk Vests Per pair Bobettes and Silk Bloomers Ladies' and Children's Chawoisette Gloves, Make Your Selection From the Newest of the New While everything in our store is new this does not mean that they are expensive. Just a few of our many specials for Saturday Pure Silk and Wool Hose, all the newest shades, SO WEE on orcs cance auc ee Ue eaeds a> :...$1.00 to $2.00 75c each and up aes (oosog PE AEE $1.00 to $2.75 See our New Handbags, priced from Wilcox New Store 18 WELLINGTON STREET eR 1 SP AS TY OAST for sure with an Electric Toaster. Styles ranging from $2.50 to $13.50 HOP Tel.1278 SPECIALS FOR THE WEEK-END Ladies' Sterling Silver Costume Rings..:...2c.<:... 95¢ BeautifulGifts in Silverware at Exceptional Values Bread Trays Silver Vases 23 piece China Sets Expert Watch Repairing at Lowest Prices. FOX'S 141% Downie St. Out of the high rent oistrict H' DRO ERS ervice is supreme Read The Mirror Ads. The five-day week is just around the corner, and it does not take a very powerful telescope to give us a glimpse of the five-hour day. When Henry Ford announced the five-hour day week he was not a prophet--he was simply sufficiently keen-vision- ed to recognize what had - already come to pass. Mass_ production, elimination of waste and especially the fullest use of machines and machine-like tasks characterize his organization, and they have combin- ed to give us an illustration of what may be accomplished in all lines of production. Machines are not only turning out countless numbers of pins, -- bolts, fabrics and shoes; they are not only grinding out profits for employers and wages for employes, but just as surely they are producing leisure for every one. It is as though each person, compared with those living a century ago, had twenty or thirty servants working for him, weaving eloth for his garments, canning fruits for his table, transporting him from place to place, and doing a thousand tasks that his grandfather had to do for himself. With all these servants leisure is inevitable. During the last fifty years the week's werk has' been shortened from seventy-two hours to forty, and the next fifty years may see it cut down to twenty. Old. customs die slowly. Not until 1923 did the steel workers shift from a seventy- two to a forty-eight-hour week, and the mid-continental oil workers did not obtain this freedom until 1925. In both cases twenty-four hours were suddenly dropped from a week's toil and only forty-eight were required in the new week. This made the eight-hour day practically unanimous. A half day's work on Saturday has been common for years, and now even that is disap- pearing. 'Every new machine _ introduced today that increases production may cause temporary unemployment, but eventually it will multiply the prof- its of the employer, increase the wages of the worker, shorten the hours of labor, and cheapen the price to consumers, of whom is one --it is the goose that lasy the gold- en egg. It is no@® only responsible for high wages, but has given to every one leisure beyond the fond- est dreams of our grandparents. Every rhange brings its prob- lems, writes Geor. B. Cutten, Presi- dent of Colgate University in New York Times. We all know that blessings sometimes come in dis- guise, but it is also true that calam- ities may be camouflaged. The age- long hope of the race has been con- tinuous and uulimited freedom from labor, and our idea] of Heaven has beer a place or state of everlasting rest. Now, however, since we have leisure in abundance, what shall we do with it? Is it to be a blessing or a curse? It is pregnant with possibilities for both. There is, probably. no more serious problem facing us today, and upon our an- swer depends the fate of our civili- zation. The first reaction to increased leisure is usually an increase in play or entertainment of some kind. When arguments are presented to secure shorter hours for workers, most prominent among them are the desirability of securing time for cul- ture; if, however, culture becomes a product of leisure it is always a de- THE FIVE-DAY WEEK IS DRAWING NEARER layed one. When the steel workers and the oil workers had their hours of work reduced by one-third, the libraries, art galleries and night schools did not become at once crowded to suffocation; but prob- ably the movies, poolrooms, and amusement parks were. A _ similar reaction would undoubtedly occur in any class of people. In the United States, where lei- sure is now more abundant than in any uation that exists, amusements of various kinds are most prevalent. Business interests: have not been slow to recognize the demand and cater to it. More money is_ spent in this country fol commercialized amusement than for anything else except food, and more invested in this enterprise than in anything except land. It seems, at times, as though we had become amusement mad. We have more than 20,000,000 daily admissions to the moving-pic- ture exhibitions, and more 'than 100,000,00 admissions to _ sporting events yearly. Three million. dol- ars is spent in admissions to see a prizefight, and far more than that in traveling and hotel expenses in connection with it. Probably the 80,000 people who witness a_ Yale- Harvard football game pay in ad- missions and expenses more. than $1,000,000, and the great Yale Bowl cand barely accommodate one-fifth of those who desire to see this con- test. The gate receipts of a world's baseball series are more than $1, 000,000, $30,000,000 is spent annually on admissions to circuses, and prob- ably more than $100,000,000 is paid every year to jazz orchestras. The space given to sporting events in daily newspapers shows the demands of the public for this form of amuse- ment. Our great national game, base- ball, is following along the line of college footballi--more and more we are Showing our interest in it, not by playing but by watching con- tests. Playing games py proxy is becoming more popular, and has in it the seeds of degeneration... On the other hand, there are 3,000,000 golfers in this country, and_ fac- tories that formerly manufactured baseball goods are now manufactur- ing golf clubs. Half a million boys are caddying on golf links; twenty years ego boys of similar age were playing baseball on vacant lots. Golf links ara, becoming more num- erous and vacant lots are disappear- ing. There are worse uses for our lei- sure than play, but too much play tends to weakness. Passive amuse- ment, moreover, such as watching others pay or being entertained in other ways, even if the amusement is not morally objectionable, tends to soften te fiber and to weaken the moral structure. The race came to its present lofty position through struggle and strife, and it is not likely that it can maintain its posi- tion by any program of passivity and inactivity. Leisure has increased to such an extent that we must think of some- thing besides amusement with which to occupy it. There are some in- dividuals and some groups in every community to whom this matter of leisure is never a problem. By training and planning, the _ spare hours are cared for in a way that is profitable to them individually, (Continued on page 5) MIRROR * -FHE ee "THE FIVE-DAY WEEK (Continued from page 4) while at the same time a_ relief from business or professional toil. But there individuals and groups are not numerous; to most persons leisure is a problem, and to the country as a whole it is a menace. The various fads--those which spring up suddenly, capture the at: tention of the people, become the topic of conservation and the chief occupation of the masses for a sea- son, and suddenly decline and are forgotten--show the necessity of some more lasting program and a more purposeful scheme for the oc- cupation of the spare hours of the general public. One has only to mention turkey trotting, mah jong, and cross-word puzzles to call to mind a much longer list of harm- less, insane, and valueless modes of wasting time, which like Jonah's gourd have sorung up in the night and faded befvre the rising sun, It is not what these things were in themselves, but more especially what they indicate, which is im- portant. They were sewed upon by people who had excess time at their disposal, were not vicious, and were looking for some innocent way to spend it. Most of these had neither the ability nor the initiative to work at their own nrograms, and waited for some one else to suggest means to occupy their leisure. The suggestion was not a program but a temporary expedient which from its very nature must be ephemeral. While the method of spending spare time will be more or less an individual one, there can undoubt- edly be a general program that will cover all individual wants, desires and peculiarities and by which we ean all work. It must be the result of united effort and occupy the Seri- ous attention of our most intelligent people, for in it would be wrapped up the answer to the question of whether or not this civilization tarot nm | shall endure. Civilizations, the rel- ics of which we are now exhuming, owe their doom partly to the im- proper use of leisure. The breaking Jown of the moral fiber of any people always has the unwise use of eisure as a powerful cause. Leisure has crert upon us_ so sradually and become so widely dis- tributed that few people have rec- en'zed it as a probiem. 'vould consider the problem a press- ng one. However, the time un- loubtedly has comme when active steps taust bet taken if the situa- tion is to be kept in hand. This can be accomplished only by a recogni- tion of the danger and a nation-wide (Continued Next Week) J. H. MOORE TALLIES for your BRIDGE PARTY SCORE PADS PENCILS A nice assortment of gifts for bridge prizes, reasonably priced. 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