Evening star., 1922-05-21
Heard and Seen

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light saving
ployes already feel as If daylight saw
ing is open to suspicion, to say the
least, snd you cannot blame them.
The chief is quits q worksr-pridea
himself on getting there early and stay.
ing late
Everything went we'll Monday. when
| all got to the 0lflee many minutes ahead
| Of time In ord0 to be sure and be
| there when the clock struck eight.
Tuesday affairs settled down to normal.
everybody being on time, but not quite
SO much ahead Of time.
1t was shortly ebefore 8 30 O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon that the blow feai.
WELL" announced the cheerful boss.
lit 10 SO early that we might as well
| work overtime this afternoon"
! Who said c.g:it-hour day!
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1t was nice to watch the government
service adjust itself to the changed
| hour OF coming to work.
Tne nrst couple Of mornings every
person in the service seemed deter
mined to be there on time II 1t nsces-
STATED getting up at am.
Accordingly, the cars at o'clock and
shortly thereafter were crowded. People
| who had been getting to work at 3
o'clock for years found their seats sud
denly taken. o.
Where corners formerly held only q
few people at 7:15 o'clock, now they
held their scores, all waiting to take
the next car.
Wherefore. one had to stand up,
But by Wednesday. and especially
NJ .~p " aA Ad
Having timed the trip better. govern
ment workers found that there was no
necessity for stampeding the cars.
So they took 1t easy" with the re.
suit that they started later and still
got to work on time, leaving the cars
more or less free for those who think
the benefit Of a seat Ii worth getting
up a bit earlier for. s
Behold the lady going to work at
8 am.
1t Is one of the first open street cars
of the season. I'd
Everybody is breathing fresh air on
the long seats. Everybody happy.
Sneezes are Immediately blown away,
instead of spreading through the car.
q different thing from a sneeze spread
all over somebody else.
The lady loses her orange.
The golden sphere rolls gayly down
the car under the seats. "a
There goes part of my lunch"
Other passengers attempt to find 1t.
but the orange has disappeared.
We'll, I guess it is gone"
Then the orange comes rolling back.
"Ah, there it is"
/ A closed automobile was coming west
along New York avenue.
1t was the morning the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States began
it's tenth annual meeting at Convention
Hall.
Behind the automobile came a fire
truck, one of the vehicles which chill
dreH used 10 call q hook and ladder"
Its siren could have been heard easily
at eth street
But the man driving the closed au-
tomobiie didn't hear it.
AS he got to 5th street he started
to turn south. directly into the path
of the oncoming truck.
A man across the street let out a
yell.
The man driving the closed car saw
the light. if he didn't see the fire truck,
and Immediately turned into the curb.
AS he did SO. the truck roared BY
Thus passed, in an instant. what
might have been a terrible accident
l.. ~ r..-
Newspaper reporters don't often
dream, but when one has a nightmare,
1t is a good one.
This reporter had terrible night
mare.
He dreamed he was attending Q con-
vention.
The speaker started to crate at 10
pm. He spoke steadily until am.
Then the reporter had to go five miles
in three minutes. and listen to another
speaker, who spoke unfalterineiy until