THE SALVATION ARMY

As refreshing as the Wednesday noon singing at the Colonial Club, as cheering as one of Judge's Younger Generation Notes, is the Christian Science Monitor's report of what the American workman, cum laude 1928, does with the extra minutes that have been lopped off the time he devotes to his daily bread, by such soulful manufacturers as Mr. Ford. The Saturday half-holidays, the five-day week, the six-hour day, all have their ever-increasing following, and it sad time it would be for the world if those hours of freedom from toil were spent in dissipation or even innocent idleness.

The solution completely negatives the last presumption. From the evidence in the hands of the Monitor, it is shown that University Extension work has increased in all its dimensions of late, until this octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows politely to Brain, overalls give way to gown, the proletariat educates itself, and the Monitor is happy. All's right with the world while the great god Statistics holds sway, and the Janus of these days smiles with equal radiance in both directions.