CUPID AND THE COW.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9799, 8 May 1924, Page 5

CUPID AND THE COW.

TWO OBJECTIONS TO DAYLIGHT

SAYING

COMMONS' COMICALITIES

LONDON, April 12

Cue-id and the cow as objectors to tlie pei manont imposition of summertime iii Great Britain figured in an amusing debate in the House of Commons, on a bill brought in by Sir H. Kingsley Wood (Cons.), to enforce the change each year for six months, as on the Continent.

Outside snow was falling, and one member coldly remarked: “We have come in a blizzard to fool with the sun.”

From this point members became frivolous. The mover of the second reading of the bill described himself as no Joshua, who wanted to make the sun stand still. But the note struck by Mr Arthur Henderson, junr. (bah.) made the greatest mirth of all.

“There will he other possible objectors as well as religious persons,” lie said. “There are, for instance, Cupid’s hapless victims, who always welcome the shades of night, believing that romance comes with sunset, and departs witli the dawn. The interests of burglars 1 also, are effected by this bill.

“I understand that one of tlie strongest objectors is the cow, but surely: she is open to moral suasion.”

“It must lie upon the conscience of the lion, member for Woolwich West (Sir H. Kingsley, Wood) to add to the burden placed upon the cows; they are already the victims of the foot and mouth* epidemic,” said Sir Courtnay Mansell (Lib-)-“The House of Commons cannot get a visitation of the frost and the time at which the cow wishes to rise in the morning to coincide with the railway guide,” said Mr Dickson, Labor member, for Lanarkshire. *

Mrs Phillipson, M.P., who was a well-known actress before her marriage said that the theatres would be emptied by t-lio hill. Theatrical, mining and farming interests opposed it. Mr R-. J. Davies, Under-Secretary for the Home Office, said that the Government was convinced that the preponderating opinion in the country, not. only favored summer-time, but desired it permanently. France, Belgium, the post office, the railways, the Air Ministry, and the Admiralty, had all appealed for it. .