17-Hour Day

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocates a six-hour day and a 30-hour week for others but not for her hard-working self. Her morning-to-midnight hours last week cost her the services of her official chauffeur. When Louis St. George, young and happily married, told her he was quitting. Madam Secretary Perkins asked: "What's the matter? Are you in poor health?'' "No indeed," replied Chauffeur St. George, "but I soon will be if I keep working 17 hours a day." His employer's failure to practice what she preached, he added, was disrupting his home life. On his first free night before looking for another job. Chauffeur St. George went to a wrestling match with onetime Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak whom he had driven for three years. Said he: "There's one swell guy! He never had anybody work 17 hours a day for him!"

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