Show WAR TIME AND TIMELY TOPICS As we read or hear comments concerning war time and how it affects people we wonder more and more why it was put into practice and who it benefits surely not those who must now get up long before daylight because their work and habits of living cannot be changed T surely not those who must work on night shifts for they must make use oi of artificial light anyway and surely not the many homemakers and especially mothers whose children have formed habits of waking at an early hour and who never want to go to bed while it is still daylight commenting on some of these phases the idaho statesman concludes with the following paragraph which dehope we hope may ge into the hands of the promoters of the plan at washington they do wonder wonderful hil thin things in washington do them every day but bus they have not yet extended expended their authority with any success over natures regulation of daylight and darkness the sun will arrive at its own leisure and disappear on the same basis and all this will not be as important as what is is actually done in the day toward beating the foe if fooling with the time will generate federate Fen erate some better progress it will be well worth while another timely editorial edi toral in the daily sentinel of grand junction contains some interesting information about the early Chal deans persians and egyptians who spent many hours trying to understand time but who were dependent entirely on sunlight for their labors the editorial is a summary of the opinion of miss maud bennet director of the world famous planetarium in chicago other excerpts which make sense follow daylight is from sunrise to sunset change the hands of your watch however much you please most of the clock tampering is being dene by people who dont understand the real nied meaning ning of time time is marked by the spinning of the earth and all our devices attempt to keep track of this changing changizi the hands ol of a clock change time nor does it add it A single hour oi of daylight to our lives in the old days before life became so complicated we set out at sunrise and promised to meet our friends when a tree or cliff bet a shadow in a certain direction we returned home at sunset and the days work or amusement was accomplished shed today things are not so simple we follow with some interesting information from a midwest mid west friend clifford naden of atwood kansas concerning the sudden death of hundreds of birds which fell exhausted to the ground on the morning of rebr february uary 13 mr naden writes vr ites thousands of snowbirds snow birds and sparrows were in in some way driven out from before the storm between midnight and early morning and became exhausted it is generally supposed they came into this section where a fine frosty like condition was settling down attracted by the lights in a section of the town is literally thousands of the birds dropped to the the ground struggled a little and then died like flies all over the town and in adjoining places for a hundred miles or so reports came in of dead birds all the way from goodland to oberlin nothing like this freak condition has ever happened before they arrived about daylight and people going to work noticed them falling around to it is thought that the atmospheric conditions filled with fine frost got into their nostrils and smothered them A few were gathered up and sent to laboratories for examination mr naden who is a student of astrology and numerology for the past 20 years or more is another friend from whom we often receive very interesting comments on planetary aspects in regard to the above and because of other adverse aspects in evidence from the on for several days he also wrote about this time there are exceedingly heavy planetary aspects forming we are moving into a vertex condition of the earths position which will cause suicidal tendencies everywhere men who sit in high places will be likely to hold things back from the people for fear of what wha t 1 I 1 may follow many will virtually hide bide in the clefts of rocks and mountains as outlined in the ath seal interpretation of RP revelation I 1 the stars are telling us things if we will but translate them correctly but most people do not wish to know or study those thin thins things I 1 s which hold the keys to knowledge we also received a very complete analysis of the approaching I 1 pro aching eclipse of march 16 from which we may offer I 1 paragraphs P inan in another othOr issue astrologers have been watching 1 t this his planetary aspect which is rather significant arid and I 1 will no doubt prove disastrous in some ways and directions |