Evening star., 1922-05-29
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DAYLIGHT SAVING
Pleas Made In Behalf Of Chill.
dren for Return to Normal
4. Schedule.

Protests against dayiisht-saving con-
tinue to come to The Star, In let
ters from residents. Of the city and
those who live outside the boundaries
but who work here. The general tone
IL that the present system. makes
every one tired, because they cannot
accustom themselves to going to bed
an hour earlier to make up for the
early rising. Many Of them make .
special plea for the return to the nor
NAL time schedules in the interest Of
school children.
II can't see where there 10 any
few S~'pI pleasure ssses sesisrs.. % wrote Mrs. H:
r.. Dodge. But the poor little school
children have to suffer from 1T
mean to say the kindergarten ana
first grade children. 1t Is not 80 bao
II the child lives near the school. but
or SO the child has to get up at 9
O'Clock. I-can't see why they wanted
to change the school hours."
Il am mother and have to have
my first breakfast at $3.50 o'cock. as
one Of my sons works In southeast
o'clock" wrote A. q. Belt. IF the
clocks are changed my husband Will
have to leave earlier, then we will
have to let our garden go, for he
will not get home any earlier. and
then we have no rest on Sunday. Be-
sides, the .fiu' followed daylight saw
]. T. Mayhem wrote as follows: II
think that law that causes any
group Of citizens to suffer .unneces-
sarily to afford q few business mon
and single people an opportunity for
wrong. The daylight saving u
hardship to all people who are com
PEELED to arise at 4, s or o'clock the
year around, and to parents OF small
children, AZ they are compelled to
lose an hours sleep in the morning
retire At an early hour at night ow-
ing to the fact that 1t is too hot to
go to bed. 1t Is the people who have
the hard work to do that suffer from
any kind Of daylight saving"
objection to the present plan on the
by M. c. Gunther, who says: Il like
the daylight-saving immensely when
the clocks are put back and one can
tell what to expect At the ordinary
hours. As 1t IL. do not like II. for
It works eonfHsion and hardship: a, a;
understand. am teacher. which
as you, know. is q profession with
much nerve strain, as the initiative
and control Of many minds depends
directly ON the teacher. To get the
best results ones nervous condition
must be at its best. This requires
plenty Of sleep. As amusements and
many other gatherings have mot
changed their hours 30 as to permit
all to get there. 1t results In adding
an hour to the day and cutting down
sleep"
J. q. Troth says that there is no
system to tho present plan, neither
Is there any daylight-saving in 1t. AZ
It's name would indicate. The only
true daylight-saving Is brought about
by advancing the clocks one hour.
BY doing 30 everybody receives the
benefit Of the system. BY the day
lisht-saving we would be sticking
more nearly to the time Of nature
which awakens when the sun rises
and retires with its setting"
Harry F. Campbell says he IL con-
WINGED shat tho present plan of day
llight-saving In operation in tho Dis
trict Of Columbia 10 impractical be-
cause of the entire lack OF Standard
zation.' Though turning the clock
ahead an hour is merely camoufiase,
1t at least makes for q uniform
schedule, and in addition to the ex-
ira hour Of daylight 1t will allow the
majority of. the workers to do their
work in the cooler hours Of the mora
Ing"