Show r r-A r 8 Because It reduced the number of industrial accidents In factories 3 and on the way home from work All these advantages and many j j more declares Mr Marks have have i been secured by the operation of this this' very simple plan i i When we turn to the evidence that I I labor Jabor is against daylight daUght saving we we find but little among the replies to our queries From the headquarters of the International Brotherhood of Foundry Employees comes the assertion assertion assertion asser asser- tion that the heads of the union donot do not nol think the workingmen of this country are In favor of the daylight daylight- I saving Having proposition and the I tentative of the Bakers' Bakers Union dis- dis dismisses j dis-j i mIsses the subject with the brief brie f j I jr r statement that workers dont don't lose or gain anything by It so the benefit hereof does not Dot concern the workers work work- ers It seems to the Washington correspondent correspondent corres corres- correspondent of the New York World that the controversy over daylight saving has boiled boned down to a n contest between between between be be- tween rural and city workers Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman King put it ft somewhat differently differently dif dit- before the House committee on un interstate and Foreign Commerce saying in part port The fight Jias simmered down dawn to toa a struggle between the common common peon peo- peo n u. u and nd r representatives of the large financial Int interests rests It is the forerunner forerun forerun- ner of a series of readjustment struggles struggles struggles in which the common people are clashing with capital The charge that light electric-light companies arc are back of the movement movement movement move move- ment f for repeal repeal Uie-repeal h repe 1 of at the law Is ample a ample mple plain unvarnished falsehood The demand for the repeal is universaL sal Hundreds o of th thousands of of foodstuffs are lost on the farm because of the necessity of working in wet fields The chairman of the House Honse agricultural agricultural agri agri- agricultural cultural committee is quoted as as assertIng asserting asserting as- as that ninety-nine ninety per cent of the lie farmers favor Caval the abolition of daylight saving Some of the farmers farmers' farmers farmers' farm farm- ers ers' objections to daylight saving have already been presented In ou our in a n poll pall of the farm press Senator Arthur Capper whose papers have bave led in the fight against daylight saving has received petitions from tram scores of thousands of farmers praying praying praying pray pray- ing for a repeal of the Daylight sav ing lag law Jaw He is convinced he says say s Q u a statement in the New York Com Coin lal In that that that- L demand mand for repeal is based base d reasons Waste amo amoun un f tn n t fix aggregate to a billj billion bill ion i ion r a ails from the th e the Uie Ji h Saving law it ha has been beenes es 0 arms In t mines in innumerous packing t 1 meats ments 1 In Innumerous n numerous large fr Indus d s a c the la law w operates to curtail rather rather than in In- In crease crease production without a corresponding corres corres- benefit to the worker The Junior Senator from tram Kansas Kansa s toes goes on all to classify from the thou thou- thour thousands r sands of letters he has received recel th the theten e ten chief objections abjections to the tho law which may imay be considered the farmers' farmers reply reel y to Mr fir Marks Mark's eight points 1 Daylight saving adds t one on e hour of or darkness instead of daylight t to the farmers' farmers day I 2 Farmers shipping milk or ather other other oth oth- er perishable supplies food must meet trains an hour F earlier than before April 1 3 Farm children frequently go long distances to school and mother must get them ready by lamp light 4 During haying and harvest it takes four tour hours for tor the dew to evaporate evaporate evaporate orate so hay or grain can be baled or stacked or binder operated 5 The hottest part of the day Is from Cram 12 to 1 o'clock old time Under Under Un- Un der del new time a farmer must se send d his hands and his horses to the field during the most mast Intense heat 6 Extra labor hired during harvet harvet har- har vet haying and threshing is usually from the towns and used to working working work work- ing according to the clock Such hands insist jon Jill J quitting at 6 o'clock new time or 5 6 o'clock old time when the sun is still three thre hours high 7 Farmers attending g prayer- prayer meetings neighborhood and community community nit gatherings and entertainments must quit an hour earlier than they would under old time and thus lose an hour of work time 8 To get into the stores or banks i in n tons which operate operate under new time the farmer must start an hour I earlier than he is accustomed to start 9 There are constant friction and loss lass of time while exchanging work with neighbors a custom that is necessary necessary necessary essary during haying harvest and threshing hands Farm-hands refuse to work by new time one day and by old time the next 10 Threshing is interfered with when part of a crew crow works according to new time and part according to old The repeal rider to the Agricultural al Appropriation bill which aroused so much urban Ire Is j Justified by tho the National Grange headquarters as due to to the necessity for getting the law repealed before harvest time Cappers Capper's Cappers Capper's Cappers Capper's Cap Cap- pers per's Weekly Topeka which has devoted columns to to protest against daylight saving quotes a Pennsylvania ia housewife to show shaw what women think of it For the life of me I can not see soe where the daylight saving comes In n when a woman must get up In the tho middle of the night to get her husband husband husband hus hus- band off afT to work on a morning train and sand to get the children to school before before be- be I fore fore fare daylight The working people are are all against It But newspaper friends friends of of daylight saving like the tho New York Times The World Newark News and Boston Christian Science Monitor are Inclined in inclined In- In dined to to think that much of the farmer propaganda against daylight saving is s really being backed by the lighting interests whose profits are affected by the diminished use of at artificial ar ar- light duo to daylight saving Some Same urban editors scoff at the farmers farmers' farmers farmers' farm farm- ers ers' grievances but the New York Evening Post is convinced that they are arc real reat Y Yet t it ft says a larger part parte of them may be Ua o removed by com comparatively para para- lively simple adjustments which I should be ba hurried The Evening Post Past queries Can not the Railway administration tion and the iho Labor department respectively respectively respectively re re- do something to bring the hours of trains milk-trains and of at farm labor nearer the farmers' farmers demands It If we can make the saving daylight-saving system work more easily in rural distracts districts districts dis dis- tracts the tho clamor for repeal will die aw away y I |