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Show ALL A MATTER OF HABIT The matter of shopping is a matter of habit largely. All the trading of any day could just as v 1 11 be attended to before six o'clock as not. If a store remained open until midnight, there would always al-ways be some late comer who would want a pound of soap. If all the stores adopted a strict six-o'clock or een a 6:30 closing hour, then shut up the stores at that hour, the trading public would soon adapt itself to the change and not be inconvenienced in .'" But all the stores should close, otherwise injustice in-justice is done to those who try to afford their employees em-ployees more hours which they may call their own. It is almost a safe bet that the proceeds of the trade hours after six or seven o'clock do little more than pay expenses, and at the same time, the employees and proprietors of stores remaining open until late, lose hours of rest and recreation which is rightfully rightful-ly theirs. The public can solve the problem by arranging ar-ranging to do all its trading prior to six or seven o'clock and do no trading after those hours. It is no idle fancy of the News that unless a. uniformly uni-formly early closing hour is adopted and adhered to by all merchants, there will be a return to the old late-closing regime, which means that business men and employees will be unable to have any leisure for recreation or self -improvement. What does the public say? |