Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — SORT OF MAKE-BELIEVE LAW [ARTICLE]

SORT OF MAKE-BELIEVE LAW

‘‘Daylight Saving” Measure Is Largely Imaginative in Effect. Another freak piece of legislation, in our humble opinion, is the so-called “daylight saving law,” which goes into effect at midnight, tonight and will continue in force until the last Sunday in October. This law requires the turning ahead of clocks one hour, and the theory is that people will get up in the morning at the hour indicated by the clock, rather than the actual time, arid that they will start to their work one hour earlier than usual and quit one hour earlier under the delusion that they are saving a whole lot of time and that the hour “saved” in the afternoon will give them that much more time —especially the workers in the cities, towns, etc., —to hoe in the garden. Of course, many real garden workers say that the best time to work in the garden is in the morning; that weeds hoed down then have the entire day’s sun rays to put them out of business, and that one who doesn’t work his garden in the morning seldom does so in the evening.

And likewise, we’ve all heard the old adage about “the lazy man works the best when the sun is in the west,” and perhaps the author of this law has this fellow in mind, is one of this class or else he is a Christian scientist and thinks its all in the imagination or belief. However, the real, red-blooded, worth-while citizen, who goes to bed at a reasonable hour and gets up with the larks in the morning, will have more garden truck and “mazuma” to show for his labor next fall than he who' joy rides from quitting time until the wee sma’ hours of the morning and then has to tumble out of bed an hour earlier than usual in order to get to his work or place of business because of this freak legislation.