Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
7 IRISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin
Should owners Of clocks prominent
" displayed outside their business

Should owners Of clocks prominent
ly displayed outside their business
premises be penaliZed II the clocks
do not record the right time? This
question is raised by the extraordinary
variations in the time recorded by the
numerous public clocks in Dublin, much
to the inconvenience Of citizens and visi-
tors to the capital.
The conflict between the publicly dis
played clocks of the city also, on a
number of occasions, has been the occa-
sion Of much more serious conflict OF
opinion between employer and employe,
as we'll as responsible for many travel
ers missing their trains.
Within a space of 20 yards, in parts
of the city, one can see at least some six
or eight clocks, no two of which show
the same time. They vary in most cases
from three to ten minutes, and some
times much more. AS 'listeners-in" can
now get the correct Greenwich time
three time day, there should not be
such a general divergence of times re-
corded by the different clocks Of the
city.
Present conditions relative to the city's
chronometry are not only annoying.
They are sometimes very absurd and
disconcerting. A gentleman with a
commercial establishment near the CEN
ter of the city informed us the other
day that he left home at $50, passed
the Dublin post office at 8:15 and ar
rived at his Office at O'Clock sharp.
This well illustrates the anomalies into
which our irreconcilable clocks have
gotten US.
Silence Is Eloquent
When Drawn Into Argument.
T1F ~ l.
powerful argument, when sinister infiu-
ences would draw us into controversies,
than 1.-The eloquence of silence" He who
debates his position in any matter,
whether 1t be political, religious or
philosophical, only furnishes further
ammunition to the opposition, for it is
not in the nature of man to yield his
point, no matter how untenable 1t may
appear to neutral minds.
To assume stand and to maintain it
with dignity and without vociferation is
the opportunity to win far more converts
to ones views than could ever be &C
quired through ridicule and calumny of
ones opponents, and their opinions.
Actions have ever expressed them
selves more forcibly than utterances, and
the best Endorsement any man can have
OF the rectitude of his convictions Is the
favorable impression created by his Wis
ible personality Too many who would
win us to their way of thinking publish
ideals in their utterances and omissions
in their lives.
Low Salaries
OF Teachers Lamented.
Impartial, Montevideo.-It Is q most
unfortunate circumstance that the SAL
aries paid SO many teachers, both in
public and private schools, are not suffi-
cient for them to lay aside competence
for their declining years. Indeed, their
remuneration is scarcely SUFFICIENT for
their needs in the years they are em-
ployed inasmu a as their positions make
so many demands on them for clothes,
books and the expenses OF living in an
atmosphere of culture and refinement.
Our readers are familiar with the
plight OF La Sonora Erlinda de Fernan-
DEE, for nearly 80 years a teacher in the
schools of MOntevideo. When age ter
minated her labors in behalf of the COM
ing generations, she had been able to
save from her long years of work barely
enough to sustain herself few months
We are glad to say that the subscrip-
ton we have sponsored in her behalf is
being literally responded to by many
who feel they owe their success to her
wise precepts and instruction. The sum
SO far collected is So pesos (about
$53.5O).
One British Newspaper
Equivalent to Six in Germany.
Morning Post. London. Statistics
have an evil way of being as much mis-
leading as they are representative Of
facts. Lord Burnham's figures of the
numbers Of newspapers in the different
countries which he quoted at the Euro
pean Newspaper Conference at Geneva
are a case In point There are 400