The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-06-06
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our modern occupations. As an
instance, electrical appliances for
| ordinary purposes are made by all
| concerns for either 110 or 220 vol
| tage". Should some Independent COM
pany make machines for different
voltage it would be without patronage
| because there would be no place to
| install such machines.
Uniformity as to time is considered
essential in nearly all lines of busi-
| ness. Hence it has come to pass that
banks in our large cities all open at
| ten o'clock and close at three, regard
less of how keen competition may be.
The wholesale houses dealing in like
commodities find it to mutual interest
to open and close their places Of busi-
ness at the same hours. Railroads, no
matter how strong competition is In
normal times, even start their through
trains and arrive at the common des-
tinations at practically the same
hours. There is one notable exception
to this uniformity-that Of farm busi-
| ness. One farmer friend says that he
gets up at five o'clock every morning
in the year. Another says that when
he finds that it is necessary regularly
| to rise before six o'clock he will get
out of the business and go into some-
| thing else. Still another, in order to
have milking done twelve hours apart
start at three in the afternoon and
again at three in the morning. Every
!, farmer seems independent of all other
farmers as to time and yet, strange as
it may seem, these very ones who are
least concerned are the strongest op-
ponents to the daylight saving law"
The man who uses the trains but
two or three times during the season
objects to the hour earlier while the
man who is obliged to use the trains
| almost daily wishes for year around
service of an hour earlier.
Because he is SO Independent he
seems to think all are in the same
+! condition and wonders why the "city
fellers" do not change their clocks II
they want to and "leave us alone" He
should know that the very interde-
pendence of the city men make 1t pos
sible for one or few who care for
none but themselves, to block such q
the majority who wish for the change.
1t was therefore necessary to make q
law to cover this case. Why says he,
| "can not those who wish, turn their
clocks forward an hour?" He forgets
that he is in the minority and that he
! belongs to a class who may IL he
chooses set his clock any way he may
please. | know of at least one farmer
who left his clock at the old standard
| last summer.
There were those who objected to
| the zone system some years ago yet
| we hear no one complain and urge
| that we go back to actual sun time be-
cause the "hay is wet" when the clock
says it is time for it to be dry. From
the noise one might infer that hay
ing" is all there is doing on a farm
and the farmer is obliged to sit around
an hour every morning waiting for the
dew to dry off the hay.
Selfishness may have it's rightful
place in this world but to our way OF
thinking the man who says why
should l change my way of living so
that some rich city men may have an
extra hour to go joy riding" is the lin
it. In the first place what harm will 1t
do and in the second place where
there Is one man who can go Joy rid
ing there are hundreds who have no
machines to ride but who find the
extra hour most beneficial either for
relaxation or for profitable outdoor oc-
cupation that would be denied him
lotherwise.
In my bodyhood days I often won-
ldered why so many of the farmers
kept their clocks a half an hour or an
hour or an hour and half fast. Now
THAT it is made universal I wonder II
these same ones are the objectors.
lSome seem so unhappy IL they happen
to be in accord with the rest Of the
world.
When one goes estray the fact is
published loudly while the ninety and
nine who have kept in the path are not
mentioned so 1t may be that there are
few making much noise about the
daylight saving hour while the many
are just spending their hour enjoying
life. Let us hope that these many will
make themselves heard 50 that the
lawmakers, instead of doing away with
the daylight saving hour may make II
! the year around Then there will not
be the commotion Of changing clocks
twice a year. The present objectors
will soon become adjusted and will
| possibly use the hour to find other
things to talk about. OPTIMIST.