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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, EEFPNER, OREGON, THTBSD W, MAY 20, lDif). r.ov. 5. DATLiGHTLAW "BREAKING" THE LAW 1 L. MQNTERESTELL1 1 K'iint(ir ('iiMT Hum Hill Asking Om Kit"t t Set (locks Bak Thousands of Protests Show Hravy Ixkss to Farmers. By Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. Petitions signed by more than $35,000 persons have been receipt d by nie praying for a repeal of the so called Daylight Saving law by Con gress. The law may have served some useful purpose during the war, but the emergency occasioning its enactment has passed and it should now be repealed in response to the popular demand provoked by its manifest injustice, especially to the farming community. l,have a bill asking Congress to repeal this law at once. The demand for repeal is based on sound, economic reasons. Waste do hot poll Toother, AX liiwl WHY NOT MAKE rJj f W i&4 m OTHER HORSE ifr$$0k T.TKom - J amounting in the aggregate to a billion dollars a year results from ft Cheap Good Oil Is erTlian Parts Freedom from unnecessary repairs and longer life for your car results from correct lubrication' with Zcrolene. Scientifically refined from se lected California crude oil. Gives maximum lubrication with least carbon deposit. Oet a Correct Lubri cation Chart for your car. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) Geo. W. Milholland, Special Agent, Standard Oil Company Heppner, Oregon. r u y MEATS ana POULTRY1 AT THE HEPPNER MEAT MARKET H. C. ASHBAUGH, Proprietor. FRESH AND CURED MEATS, POULTRY AND LARD. FISH IN SEASON. Finest quality meats at the lowest possible price. Phone Main 203 the operation of the Daylight Saving time, or 5 o'clock "old" time, when law, it has been estimated. On the the sun is still three hours high, farms, in mines, in packing estab- (?) Farmers attending pra r lishments, in numerous large in- . dustries, the law operates to curtail meetings- neighborhood and com rather than increase production, mun'ty gatherings and entertain without a coresponding benefit to the merits, must quit an hour earlier than they would under old time, and thus lose an hour of work time. (8.) To get into the stores or worker. Virtually niM)ssihle To Ignore Day light law. Opposition to the law is so great in the rural districts that some localities declined to set their time pieces ahead this year and are operating under sun time, regardless of the law. This places .them at a banks in towns, which operate under new time the farmers must start an hour earlier than he is accustomed to start. (9.) There is constant friction and loss of time while exchanging great disadvantage in their dealings 1 work w,,h neighbors a custom that with townspeople, as they must get ! ,s ssa7 dur'n haV'n& harfvest to town before the morning trains !and thf '"g- ?rm hands refuse Ip.v. hv now tin, M with their!10 work bV new time one day and milk and other products and in the K'0."? i!me,the next afternoons before the banks' close (also, under new time). From the thousands of letters of protest received I have been able to classify the objections to the law thus: , RKASOXS . (1.) "Daylight saving adds Ine hour of darkness instead of daylight to the farmer's day. (2.) Farmers shipping milk of other perishable food supplies must meet trains an hour earlier than be fore April 1 . - (3.) Farm children frequency go( long distances to school, and mother :nust get them ready by lamplight (4.) During haying and harvest it takes four hours for ahe dew to evaporate so hay or grain can be oaled or stacked, or a binder operated. ' (5.) The hottest part of the day is from 12 to 1 o clock (old time.) Under "new" time a farmer must end his hands and his horses to the .leld during the most intense heat. (6.) Extra labor hired during har vest, haying and threshing is usually from the towns and used to working according to the clock. Such hands insist on quitting at 6 o'clock "new" BRIGGS AUTO WOOD-SAW Attachment On man cuts IS cords; 2 men, 35 cords. Goes Anywhere Any Auto. BRIGGS & BURPEE CO, Inc., Manufacturers 279 Hawthorne Ave., Portland. Sand for Infatuation and Illuitrated Circular KEEP YOUR CHICKENS FIT There is no money made in feed ing your chickens high priced grain without keeping their sys tems in perfect condition. IE GEORS Poultry Powder Will Do It We have the exclusive sale of these celebrated remedies. PHELPS GROCERY COMPANY (10.) Threshing is interfered with when part of a crew works accor ing to "new" time and part accord ing to "old." r-roiii Hiuuies to itimi Man, JLaw Is Client ar. The opposition to the law from the farmer's point of view is stated well in this letter from J. D. Nichols, a practical farmer, of David City, Neb. "I have a good many acres of al falfa and, as every farmer knows, you can't work in hay early in the morning, for the dew is too heavy. It is 10 o'clock "new" time before we can gtt into the field and then in the afternoon, when the hay is fine to work m, every hired man will throw down his pitchfork and quit at 6 o'clock, which is only 5 by rights And here is your wife getting supper for 18 or 20 harvest men in the heat of the day, sweltering over the hot stove, in order to let the hired man have his "afternoon" off, you might say. The small children going to school with two miles to walk must be dragged out of bed at the time when they most need their rest, startinc; off at 7 o'clock in the morning, which is really 6 o'clock, and return ing again at 3, in the heal of the day. with the sun bdiling down on their heads." The daylight saving law so-called is a detriment even to the hired man who gets his "afternoons off," as this farmer puts it, for with a long evening ahead of him. he hops in a buggy or a motor car, goes off to town to the pool hall or movie theater and "blows in" his wages as fast as he earns them. Artificial regulation of time has worked as disastrously in Canada as in the United States, but Canada remedied the defect this vear by repealing its law by a vote of 105 to 51, in its House of Commons. It is up to the United States Con gress to do the same and relieve in dustry of this unfair burden at the earliest possible moment. 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