The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-12
The Farm and The Farmer
BY WILLIAM r. sANeoRN

C. A. BOSTICK.-f the city people
want fast time let them go to work
at o'clock. We have to meet an
early train about three times week,
SO We have to get up an hour earlier
II you fooled with the time.
G. w. HOLMES.-The plan is very
inconvenient to the farmer in many
ways. 1t cuts of an hour of the best
time we have to work. 1t is a bother
for the farmer in trading or doing
business with the city. Let the fac
tories start an hour earlier but do not
change the time
w. d. CLIFTON.-New time stif1ed
production by wet mornings and short
evenings. Hired help quit by it. Grip
ping seriously all farm work, especial
ly harvesting and threshing operations.
Stores close SO early that farmers are
compelled to do their trading through
other channels. If a farmer attends
an entertainment he must lose the
best hours of the day, or forego the
pleasure. In my opinion. therefore,
If the city folks want new time for
pleasure, they will naturally assist in
decreasing production and substan-
TALLY increase the high cost of living.
C. w. FAUCETT.-I am not in favor
~ oiS SioAA6C LII Lille, DIS Iuc >
work is from the time we get I'D un-
til we go to bed. What do these peo-
pie do from the middle of the after
noon until dark that want this change
OF time, I would like to know? I
think the producers put in enough
time. Let good enough alone for me
G. G. HALE.-Let's go by old time;
it's good enough.
G. A. HEISER.-If the factory work
ers in Richmond want it, let them go
to work at 6 in the morning instead
OF z. Then get off an hour earlier in
the evening.
A. B. HEIsER.-I am not in favor
Of the plan
c. z. HURST think the country
and city should have the same time,
whatever it is. I am not in favor of
the plan.
T. O.. HENLEY.-It is difficult to
care for harvesting the crops by the
daylight saving plan, as it causes loss
of time for working hours. 1t would
make a difference if men from the
cities went to work on the farm by
that time.
]. w. DARRAH.-It does not help
the farmer for he is working all the
time it is light. If the city has such
plan, then the farmer will have to
go by the same time.
j. A. EDWARDS.-I think the plan
has lost the farmers more than any
one thing for the same length of time
1t was in force. Why not, If the city
people want different hours begin on
the shifts at 6 instead of Z, and then
1t would not confuse or work any
hardship on either the city or the
country people.
H. d. DICKEY-I am in favor of it
because / can get to town earlier and
get home to work again
G. w. BARNARD-The Creator
made time when he built the universe
and am in favor of accepting the day
the way the sun measures 1t off to us.
IL is not in the power of man to i'm
prove on the plan.
H. M. GALBREATH-I have no use
Tor the plan. 1t is one of the worst
curses the farmer has to contend with.
Would serve them right if we raised
only what we consumed.
E. M. BOWERS-Forces US to do
chores too early in the morning. Don't
affect US if the cities have the daylight
plan.
s. M. DRAkE-It confuses things, as
many will not change their time. If
the city chaps want this plan let them
get up an hour earlier and go to work
r. r. BRINKLEY-It calls the
farmer boys from the farms and who
is going to feed ihem when they are
gone. We work from sun to sun and
when we go to work at 1 o'clock 1t is
right at noon in the heat of the day.
I am opposed to the plan.
LEM FOLAND-I am not in favor Of
the plan.
MILTON CAM oppose the plan.
In early part of season it causes one
to do feeding before day, then way off
before night in evening. Sun time Is
more convenient because the farmer
can get nearer all his days work done
in the daylight In harvest time, grain
is damp Of morning and can be
worked better of an evening. If city
adopted the plan and not the country,
then the stores would be closed too
early for the farmer to do evening
trading.
w. r. BURTRAM. Jr.-I am not in
favor of the plan because it is hard
to get labor at harvest time when 1t
is wet with dew in the morning, and
YOU can not work. and yet they want
to quit at five in the evening. re-
gardless of what they have done
Another thing is that the stores are
closed and the farmer cannot get to
town unless you quit in the middle
of the afternoon.
SANDERS FRENCH Farmers
would have to keep two kinds of time
or would be an hour late everytime
they went to town. Am not at all in
favor of it.
SYLVESTER BILLHEIMER-It is
an inconvenience to the farming com.
munities. Why not let the shops and
stores open an hour earlier and let
the clocks alone. 1t confuses every.
thing to have two kinds OF time.
BERT CARVER-One of the things
a farmer doesn't like is in having
hired men in harvest time of morn
ings when there is sometimes heavy
due and we are obliged to wait. Then
when night or o'clock comes they
want to quit. 1 think it is a losing
proposition for a farmer. AS to the
city, don't feel that we have any
thing to say. Leave that to the work