FATIGUE AND EFFICIENCY.
[To ran Emma OF TUB " gramma."' 8m,—Your article on the intensely interesting Report of the Committee on conserving the strength of munition workers contains the following words: "The question is how to determine that point [the one beyond which the human machine cannot work efficiently], and. . . it can only-be deter. mined in each particular case by experiment and scientific observation." True—if it had not been found some thousands of years ago to lie at the point of working for six days and resting for one. The soundness of that solution has been abuudantly proved by experience, apart from all other considerations. But of the way it appeals to men simply as men, may I quote the following instance? In 1890 it was proposed by the postal authorities in England that the Indian mails should be despatched from Bombay on Sundays, to meet the Australian mails at Aden on a day convenient to the Colonies. It was my privilege to organize a public meeting to protest against this arrangement. Each resolution at that meeting, crowded as it was to the very doors, was proposed by a leading man of one faith and seconded by a leading man of another ; Hindus; Mohammedans, Parsis, and Jews thus combining with absolute unanimity to protest against tampering with the weekly rest conferred on India by Christians. We heard no more about a Sunday mail. Will not Christians in this country believe that we shall better our prospects of winning this war by treating our munition workers as the Hebrews were taught to treat themselves and all who sojourned among them—with the result that after all these centuries of Sabbath-keeping the Jewish physique is the toughest in the world ?-
I am, Sir &c:," , L. G. Krum, formerly Bishop of Bombay. • Alsechuich; Birmingham.
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