The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-12

than he would have without it. 1t
will give him a chance to cut the
high cost of living.
LAURENCE FLEISCH-I am not
in favor of the plan.
j. A. CRAIG+If you want to change
the time, set it back an hour to help
the farmer. ~
c. DENNIS-The farmer can not do
as the city people do, in regard to
the daylight saving plan.
E. LUMPKIN-The daylight saving
plan does not fit in with a farmers
work, and it would be announcement
to the farmer for the city to use such
time.
FRED L. BEESON-We farmers
would lose some valuable time in work
season getting to the cities before
closing time.
J. C. HARNELL-I am in favor of
the daylight saving plan, but think it
should be applied to city and country
alike.
c. w. FRANKLIN-It is a great dis
advantage to us to have the time set
one hour ahead of itself. as when we
have hired hands they want to quit
work early in the day and lose the
best part of the day for working in
the harvest fields. Also if the city
has the fast time when we would go
to the city the stores would be
closed.
S. HELMS--I am not in favor of
the daylight savings plan. The plan
works against the farmer in several
ways. First. in harvest time, when
hay or wheat cannot be cut until the
dew is off the ground. which puts the
farmer an hour behind. Again the ex-
ira hour would cause hired hands
that work by the hour want to quit
while considerable sunlight is left, but
farmers must make hay while the
sun Shines If the farmer were to
work but eight hours a day, food
would be prohibitive in price.
. WILLIAM A. HARRIS-My reasons
for being against the daylight saving
plan are that farm work cannot be
started until or 9 a. m. Therefore
we must work late in the evening
in order to harvest the crops while
in the proper condition.
K. D. COFIELD-I am not in favor
of the daylight saving plan because
the closing of banks, stores. etc,
would cause the rural residents con-
siderable inconvenience.
JOHN C. COOK can see nothing
gained by changing the time. If fac
tory hands wish to start to work an
hour earlier, let them do so; but why
change the time? 1t is a great incon-
yenience for the farmer
D. w. FOSTER am not in favor
of the daylight saving plan. The city
dads" have no legal right to pass the
daylight saving ordinance. If passed.
it would have considerable effect on
trade in Richmond. Why not leave
the time as it is?
WALTER HARRIS-I am not in ia
vor of the daylight saving plan. as 1t
is no benefit to the farmer. When
you change the time, we have no
time.
M. EVERETT HUNT am not in
favor of the daylight saving plan. 1t
would be a serious inconvenience.
Farmers endured the plan as war
measure, but now is the time to cut
that out. We are handicapped for la
Dor without cutting the afternoon
short! Farmers need help or the H.
c. L. will mount Still higher. Let us
have helpers and not SO many con-
sumers.
]. w. ENSBERGER-Farm as
rule, use all the daylight there is, any
way, and any plan to save daylight
only defeats it's own aim. Farm Ia
Dor wants to work by city time and
quit when clock, not the sun, says
six o'clock, losing the farmers at least
an hour a day.
J.H. FRAZER-I feel that the day
light saving plan for the past two
seasons has lost the farmers many
dollars and has made loss OF produc-
ton instead of gain. If l under
stand the plan was put into effect to
allow the labor men of the cities to
get off early to tend their gardens.
believe this plan was not carried out
to any extent. Furthermore if the city
laborer is dissatisfied with the time
he has now to tend his garden, let
him come to the country. Most form
ers allow time to tend garden with
full pay.
DAVID HOOVER - The farmers
work in summer, especially in the
harvest, in in the afternoon. We would
oppose such a plan for the cities as it
would cause confusion as to time eV-
erywhere.
p. F.. HANSON-I am in favor OF
one time for city, county, railroad,
factory and farm. Not less than 10
hours for a days work. Also for the
prices of labor to be put more on
an equality.
WALTER CLAPKER 1t doesn't
make any difference to me, as put in
all daylight hours and some besides.
But it does seem to me that the sun
standard is good enough.
JAMES FOULk-In haying time it
would get our hands out before the
hay is ready and have them quit dur
ing the best part of the day. Yes,
two kinds of time is nuisance and
an aggravation.