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1African missionaries may propagate the Faith today with very little fear of animals or natives. Tropical disease is now less to be feared than overwork and climate. Average length of service: 15 to 20 years. But Missionary Giffen and his wife recall that seven years was the average in their time. And that was a generous estimate; Mrs. Giffen could think of many men who had been unable to endure -Dr. Scott, Dr. Tidrick. "But it isn't quite fair to count Dr. Tidrick," said Missionary Giffen. "Dr. Tidrick was killed by a lion...
Explaining the reasons which prompted the change, the letter reads in part, "Our present Economic Service is dependent upon membership fees and other subscriptions to its publications, and has never had an income large enough to insure the best results. Inadequate salaries to the senior members of our staff, overwork at certain periods in every year, and excessive strain which under the conditions proved unavoidable, have seriously hampered our work at all times. To these difficulties is now added another, namely, reduced revenues which make it necessary to institute radical changes in our plans. These changes we make with regret...
Those interested will meet Nelson and Wallen, on all week-days except Saturdays. The exercises will consist of "calisthenic drill and general all-around 'workout', packed into 45 minutes, and designed to alleviate any depression resulting from overwork...
...SHOW: CIVILIZATION- George A. Dorsey-Harper ($5). Less than two hours after receiving the final revision of the MS of this book Author George Amos Dorsey died (TIME, April 6). Publisher Harper says Dorsey had been working intensively on Man's Own Show for four years, implies that overwork hastened his end. If Scientist Dorsey's excitement over Why We Behave Like Human Beings excited you, you will probably want to read his hard-wrought magnum opus. Says Dorsey: "I have attempted to . . . discuss human beings and civilization as objectively as though I were neither human nor civilized...
...note: "Cremate my body and scatter the ashes to the four winds of heaven. Everything is gone. I have 15? left." ¶Robert Spencer, able portraitist, 1928 judge of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, blew out his brains last week at New Hope, Pa., crazed by overwork and worry...