The Washington herald., 1922-06-12
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10 tne EDITOR, Inc washington Herald:
The letter In The Herald of June
I under the caption. Early to
Work." wherein the writer calls
all those who oppose the daylight
saving plan farce nuts" plus. con-
tains little or nothing to commend
1t to the reader and contains less
II possible, to refute.
Nuts" is a very appropriate term
for that type of persons who think
as those with whom they hand
shake think. They make no prog
ress because they can see only the
past. the old-time prosperity and
normalcy." Whatever OF mind
might be detected in them is fixed
forever solid ivory" Their
thinking-is that the worlds
mildewed with age.
Normally? Why. our cannibalis-
tic and buccaneering ancestors
raised the same howl when their
victims objected to being served up
as a roast or to being robbed. Our
pious progenitors urged that every
thing would go smash up IL the
people did not return to normalcy.
that is. unless they continued TO
submit uncomplainingly to being
eaten.
And daylight saving is a Joke. a
stupid joke. What has been gained
to compensate for what has been
taken away? Listen to the wisdom
Of your sapient correspondent: Gel
you. all Of you who work Qet the
rest make merry to bed by IL
o'clock Splendid. only wisdom
can think thoughts like that. why
this antique type of mind would tell
us when to sleep and when to
awake. Does your corresponds Mt
not yet understand that the houses
which most working people are
compelled to stay in were not built
for human comfort but for the pur-
pose Of extorting as much rent
money as possible from the victim :?
The sleeping rooms OF these houses
are almost unapproachable on hot
summer nights until after IL
o'clock. And everyone knows that
one hours sound. refreshing sleep
in the morning is worth hours OF
restless, fatiguing sleep in a hot.
ill-ventilated room. This stealing
of one morning hour. which should.
and under a sane system would be-
long to the man and woman who
work. is in itself enough to con-
denim this lovely daylight saving
plan. Anything that puts business
above the physical and mental well
fare of human beings is wrong. Do
those who propose this wonderful
thing go to bed at IL o'clock and
get up one hour earlier? Not on
your lifei Then why should those
who toll?
The street cars, stores. theaters.
etc. have not changed time. The
congestion Of traffic during the
early hours is as bad as during the
war. And the theaters and dances?
Working people must not go to
these. And to school in the even
ings' Get an education? These are
foolish things. There are no the
aters for you. no dancing. no even
ing schools-nothing but just work
and be tha nkful. Be in bed by IL
o'clock and keep away from the
aters and dances and schools; then
Uncle Sam will rejoice and you will
nut" Yes, verify, there are nuts
abroad.
This modern farce called daylight
saving loses practically all for the
one who works and gains little. II
anything. for the one who doesn't.
Return to normalcy'. is a bril-
| liant idea and its lustre, like some
lustrous things right now, will be
more appreciated the further we get
away from It. Return to nor
malcy" is the old cry "for the flesh
pots of Egypt. for the old, hard.
unthinkable conditions under which
millions Of workers toiled for
miserable pittance. for the pre-war
hand-to-mouth blessedness.
q IJERJER