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that tired feeling. 



INDUSTRIAL fatigue in factory workers has been 

 investigated very thoroughly in the last few years 

 and the results should be of the greatest value to man- 

 ufacturers. Leading investigators have been Professor 

 A. F. Stanley Kent, M. A., D. Sc, of the University of 

 Bristol, England ; Professor Ernest G. Martin, Leland 

 Stanford University ; Professor Lombard, University 

 of Michigan, together with French and Italian scien- 

 tists. The tests prove, briefly, that overtime reduces 

 production, that eight hours' labor produces more than 

 twelve hours, and that Sunday work cuts down produc- 

 tion. It is only fair to state that most of the great 

 American factories are operated on eight-hour shifts, 

 and that there is no Sunday work. There are still some 

 factories that believe in long hours and bet on over- 

 time, but they are growing beautifully less as time goes 

 on, not from philanthropic but from business reasons. 



profiteering must cease. 



THE indications that certain .American producers will, 

 apparently, fight the plans of tlie War Industries 

 Board to have them sell war supplies to the allied govern- 

 ments at the same prices charged the United States set 

 one to wondering what sort of American citizens such 

 men can be — not patriots surely. America entered the 

 war with noble purpose and in the spirit of an humani- 

 tarian duty to perform ; every good citizen shared that 

 opinion. The whole people is tired -erf -price extortion at 

 home, and now that the Allied cause is ours also the 

 feeling of the majority regarding profiteering on war 

 supplies going overseas has undergone a distinct change. 

 President Wilson voiced popular sentiment in a recent 

 address when he said: "Patriotism leaves profits out of 

 the question. In these days of our supreme trial, when 

 we are sending hundreds of thousands of our young men 

 across the seas to serve a great cause, no true man who 

 stays behind to work for them and sustain them by his 

 labor will ask himself what he is personally going to 

 make out of that labor." 



No argument should be necessary on the principle that 

 as there is now a common purpose among the nations 

 fighting for world democracy, and since the Allies are 

 buying their supplies with American money, justice re- 

 quires that costs be equaHzed. Rea.sonable profits suf- 

 ficient to sustain American industry must be assured, but 

 exorbitant profits all out of proportion to the cost of pro- 

 duction cannot longer be tolerated. 



Evidence accumulates to indicate that the war is quite 

 as likely to be brought to a close by the economic col- 

 lapse of Germany as by an Allied victory on the battle- 

 field. America is already heavily financing the Allied 

 nations, and in conserving their economic strength she 

 conserves her own and hastens the coming of peace. Fair 

 prices must obtain even though government price regula- 

 tion and further legislation have to be resorted to in order 

 to accomplish the desired end. Happily no act of the 

 rubber industry has given cause to believe such extreme 

 measures will become necessary. May other lines of 

 manufacture emulate its unselfish example. 



CORD TIRES UNDER FIRE. 



IT has been demonstrated that pneumatic tires are not 

 likely to be punctured by flying bullets, and that their 

 use is practical for officers' and other light military cars 

 when under fire. Cord tires running at the rate of ten 

 miles an hour were subjected to rifle fire at 50 yards. 

 Eleven shots struck, but either failed to enter the tires, 

 followed the fabric to the rim and there emerged, or 

 remained between rubber and fabric or between rim and 

 inner tube. In no instance was the tube punctured, al- 

 though a twelfth shot, fired squarely into the tread with 

 the wheel standing still perforated casing, inner tube, 

 rim, three-eighths-inch iron felly and shattered itself on 

 the iron protecting plate of the wheel. 



