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Show FARMERS AND DAYLIGHT. "Agrarians-" in congress tried to laugh the "industrialists'' out of their determination to pass tho daylight saving sav-ing bill. One of the wits asked why the house did not pass a law fixing the freezing point at 45. degrees, so that the people would not feel cold, and ho remarked in a superior sort of a way that the fanners did not need tinkering tinker-ing with the clocks to help them to get up early. Perhaps the clock tinkering is a reflection re-flection upon the city folk, but we are not going to be laughed out of a good thing simply because the 'men and the women of the farms are in tho habit of rising almost as soon as the raven wings of night have vanished in the ether and of bathing in the pearly dewdrops that bid the sun "hail and farewell.'' Daylight saving is a golden saving, whether it be achieved by tinkering with the clock or setting a slow fire under' the couch of the sinful late sleepers, purely, the farmers will not object if the city folk are made as healthy find as happy as they are merely mere-ly by setting the clock ahead one hour, for we are assured by those who have studied the effects of daylight saving in Great Britain and France that, the health of the civilian populations has improved as the result of spending the daytime hours in the sunlight and not in ihe electric .light. By concluding -. .-. , t . ( Utieir labors one hwur earlier tho people ! j will be able to indulge mure in out- j i door sport. ait' to sleep when sleep is. I t-rcat Britain and I'raio-e have saved i millions of dollars by using lc-s fuel , f or lighting purposes, and they have j made money ly utilizing more of the jdavlight houis for work. : We are sure that the I'arineis soon jwi;l be glad that their brethren of jthe. city are using daylight as it ' should be used. They will find the city j 'folk happier, and. therefore, in a Ibetter humor when the farmer invades 'the city and levies tribute by means i i of hili prices for his products, audi jthe farmer will feel a trifle more contented con-tented when the man behind the counter coun-ter g$ even with him smilingly rather than scowlingly. I It is going to do u all good one way or another, .so much good, in fact. ' that wheu the slothful days of peace I return we will not go back to our ; vicious practice of burning the candle j at both ends. j |