The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-03-31
CHANGE OF Time SAVED
HUGE AMOUNT OF Goa
Estimated to Have Saved Over
Million Tons, And to Have Pr,
duced Large Quantity of Food.

duced Large Quantity of Food.
There are many persons who thin
that Congress should have repeale'
the daylight Saving Law" at tn
session which recently ended, an
thereby put an end to the setting o
the clocks up. A bill to this effeG
was introduced by the Republican
filibuster at the end of the session, ii
which Senator France, of this State
took such an inglorious part and re
flected so much discredit upon thu
State, prevented the consideration d
the measure.
While the law may work, ane
probably did work, some irconvent
ence to many persons, it was the ex.
perience of the leading authorities
Of the country, especially that of the
leaders of labor that the amount OF
gain derived from it more than Off
set these minor Inconvenience. For
instance, the Federal Fuel Admins
TRAITOR estimates that there was a
saving in fuel CT One Million, Two
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Tons
of coal. The Food Administrator es-
Inmates that there were nearly Five
Hundred Thousand additional tons
of food raised as the result of the
extra hour after work was done.
Of course, these were and are Mi
MOI. consideration sto many persons,
but it is not wise nor patriotic to
jump in and heedlessly condemn a
thing SIMPLY because it happens to be
announcement, for if that rule were
followed, there would be found few
persons who would care to send their
sons to battle fot world liberty, there
would be few persons who would
care about paying taxes, no one
would want to pay increased prices;
in fact, we should hav ca govern
ment that would be worse than the
Bolshevism of Prussia, government
of clashing individual opinions.
While it is known fact that
there are men who make such asses
of themselves as to justly merit ridi-
cule and censure, United States Sen
ator France, of this State, having on
ly recently made such a spectacle of
himself as to make Maryland
laughing stock among the States of
the Union, still it is not well to
judge the laws OF a country by the
standard of an individual who hap
pens to be an unimportant part OF
the law-making machinery; it is not
well to discredit all legislation be-
cause some members of a legislative
body happen to be insists: IT is not
we'll to assume that there is no good
in anything that comes out of a law
making assemblage because some
parts of the machinery ar chad. The
Daylight Saving Law may be bit
inconvenient, but abroad, where it
was first tried, and in this country,
it has worked so we'll that 1t is
doubtful whether public sentiment
at this time would have assented to
its repeal.
Anyway, the law is into effect and
all the railroads, all the steamboats,,
all the mail schedules, all public bust
ness, all factories, mills, churches,
schools, etc., in fact, everything IN
connection with both public and
=pffvats Ire Is going 70 be run Oh
the advanced time, and the work
men are going home and work their
gardens and grow portion of their
food supply, the large coal using in
dustries, especially those furnishing
electric lights, are going to use less
coal. children and grown folks are
going to bed an hour earlier, and
get up an hour earlier, so why be
hundred? Why kick against some
different? Why be the one in the
thing that is, and will be, until the
supreme law-making body of the
land stops it?