DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 2, 10 September 1927, Page 2

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —In reading the remarks of a local farmer on this topic, publishd ■in your last issue, I recollect the the intense opposition of the English farming community when the measure was inaugurated at Home, and their subsequent approval, if silence he a criterion, when the Bill was placed permanently on the Statute Book after a satisfactory trial. The majority of the objections offered are conclusions which do not materialise in actual practice. For instance, if one of your farmer readers was possesescl of only one timepiece, an alarm clock, and for some mysterious reason the hands gained an hour ihile he slept, he would rise at its bidding in the morning, and continue his day in complete ignorance of the change. Now take it that all, other clocks had been altered, and that the neighbours of our farmer (whom for the moment we shall keep uninformed of the variation) were all at the factory an hour .sooner, and the train time-table and hours of business were likewise altered, how would our friend ever become aware of the change, winch is now regarded with such hostility? I contend, Sir, that therein lies the success of the Bill, viz., the universal ignorance of any alteration unless the extra hour of daylight reminds u s of the blessings derived. Admitted that if the farmer now works from dawn till dark he will not appreciate the extra hour in the evening so much as a person in other occupation, hut nothing in the Bill aims to retard the speed of the isiin’s travel, so the farmer’s hours of toil cannot increase. If businesses close an hour sooner, then by unconsciously rising an hour earlier, the farmer arrives in tow r n with virtually the same tjme to spare, and as much work accomplished, as- formerly. Then he has an extra hour of daylight in which to milk when he returns to the farm. If the children are leaving for school an hour earlier, than they are, or ought to be going to bed in advance of the original time, and enjoying more daylight after school. The wife of the farmer will suffer no hardship, a$ she, with the rest of the country, will be retiring and rising at her usual time by the Post Office clock, and the fact that it has been altered will bo forgotten after the first day.—l am, etc., “MAUD AYLITE.”