LIGHT AND LIFE.

Shannon News, 17 August 1923, Page 3

LIGHT AND LIFE.

Doctors tell us to walk on the sun in side of the road. One famous Physician said the other day that do add 10 years to our REe, wnteis « Countess of Warwick m the 1 all Ma Gazette. It is part of the new vetoignition of what w r c owe to ught. Lighw snace cleanliness—these, in short, die the essentials for. a healthy existence, 'fake industry. The enormous increase n our capacity to produce is du , doubt, largely to the development ot machinery, but hardly less to the tact :hat in place of dark, dismal, ill-ven-tilated mills and workshops, we are gradually putting up buildings with 'argot - windows, giving more natural Dp-ill- Willi greater space, giving more mu! purer air; and with glazed wall spaces giving cleaner conditions. What we now have to do is to appl> this principle more widely and more thoroughly. Healthy workers are better off "than those who are repeatedly laid aside by illness; their spending power' is greater, and close and constant touch with their job makes for efficiency in output. So also does the brisk application to work shown by cheery soul engaged under conditions which give happiness and comfort. Provision for tlfe human needs of the worker pays, therefore, because it gives k suits which go far to assure Industrial prosperity. And it pays all the way round. In such prospei'jtj the employer, the worker, and the wider community alike all have thenshare. At present industry in general is neither healthy nor prosperous. Here is one way, at least, ready to hand, of making it so..