| Show r- r 1 GODS AND D WILSONS t j jIn In his argument In Congress for forthe foe the repeal of the Saving Daylight Law Representative King of Illinois presented a pathetic picture of struggling farmers forced to keep keet two clocks going one for Gods God's time and one for Wilsons However It may be bo with the Congressman who whose whore e Ignorance may have have been wholly y I rhetorical we are quite sure that th I average a agriculturist In In- Intile tile the west knows V that time as a matter of hour hour and minutes is purely an Invention of If man subject to his regulations s and adjusting Itself admirably to his habits Labis It has to do with the rising of the sun aun and tiro o going down there thero- I 1 of only onty as the ways of nature happen to coincide with h the dl distinctly nr artificial arti artificial arti- arti l- l scheme of of chronology CY Da saving DaYlIght is a plan not at all revolutionary for measuring out a little HUla differently by the tho clock according ac according ac- ac cording to differences in S seasons the proportion of actual sunlight It calls calla s for no change In personal habits or community customs Under Under Under Un Un- der its operation no Industrial ays tern tem need change its methods or time Four o'clock still is 4 o'clock and 9 o'clock is 9 L Be he lie farmer bookkeeper or railway railway rail rall- way war president a man whose habit itis ItIs it itIs Is to go to bed at such an hour and to work work work-at at such another can do these things as well wen under the daylight dalIght saving order as under the old plan All An he lie has to do is to think nothing about the matter If the first day of setting the clock ahead jolts him th the second will not It would be e rather a pity if it the millions of or reasonable folk who have one joyous American summer of long sunlit evenings were forced to todo todo todo do without another by the stubbornness stubborn stubborn- ness of a few thousands to whom a suggestion of change is always a burden Now New New York World World t 2 |
