Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury an hour late, while the prisoner and the witnesses were kept in agonized suspense, of New Haven trains stopping to alter their schedules at every siding, water-tank, and town boundary in the state of Connecticut, of Farmers' Associations threatening to retire from business if the Daylight Saving Ordinonce were adopted, and Chambers of Commerce vowing to disband if it were not. At present most of us are in the same state of mind as the old lady who declared not long ago that she "hoped that some day the clocks would tell time according to the will...
...this serves to drive into our minds the need for uniformity in clock-regulation, if in no other field of our activity. A large part of our people believe in Daylight Saving; the CRIMSON earnestly hopes that their wishes will be carried into effect. But if Daylight Saving is to be adopted at all, it should be by some method that will secure uniformity throughout larger areas than single city wards. We are so closely interdependent that any measure of local option is sure to cause great inconvenience to many. Daylight Saving is a matter for Congress alone; we hope...
...persuaded to cultivate war gardens. That was one means of adding a small margin to our food supply, to the end that a little more flour and meat could be spared to feed our friends across the ocean. Now that the war is over, the chief effect of daylight saving will be to enable town people to spend a little more time in self amusement...
Personally it would be very pleasant for me if I could have that added hour of daylight for golf or some other form of amusement. For the country as a whole I am convinced that it is undesirable. Our greatest industry is farming, and it is vastly our most important industry. Our farmers are the most important part of our population; and their interests should be considered ahead of all other special interests. In fact, our own interests depend more upon them than upon any other class or occupation. The farmers generally do not want daylight saving and for excellent...
...antagonistic to spiritism, he does not rail against mediums and spirit-rappings in genera. but clearly shows that as yet no sound proof of the existence of an after-life through spirits has been demonstrated. Every one of the physical phenomena of spiritism has been reproduced, naturally, in daylight, by magicians and sleight-of-hand artists...