A Correction

IN an article on ‘Socialism and Human Achievement,’ in the January Atlantic, the author stated that in Washington ‘thousands of [government] employees go to work in the morning at nine or ten o’clock and go home at two or three in the afternoon.’ This statement is not in accord with the facts. In the clerical departments of the government service, a rigidly-enforced seven-hour day prevails, while in the government printing-office employees are required to work eight full hours. The Atlantic is glad to give space to this necessary correction. — THE EDITORS.