To*the Editor of the "Norra-Cutwa Dany NEWS"
Sm—I am just another of the many small fry who are trying to make dom heard in the argument for mer hours. After reading the ters of the other small fry care-illy. it dawned on me that they did jot bring out the facts clearly as to by we should change to summer urs from 8 am.—1 p.m. The facts ds I See them are many and varied. but principally these stand out. If the summer working hours were adopted the Companies © concerned would save on power and electricity in the following ways: the fans. electric lights, lifts and the many other electrical appliances would be working only half as much. and if that is not conserving power and electricity then I don't know what is.
Another" main factor is the time when the employees go home for lunch at 12 and return at 2; this is a time when the sun overhead is strongest and presents a danger to the human being. To prove the above case, take a look at Saturday's edition of this paper and you will that an Englishman died from heat-stroke. Anyone of you small fry may be the next, so wake up and voice your opinion.
Here is one more reason, the S.M.C. and F.M.C. adopted Daylight Savin but the people work on winter hours. Now it is very light at 630 am. why don't the companies take advantage of this and start work earlier when the sun is not half as strong, and then work could be finished earlier and the afternoon could be utilized for resting instead of sweltering in the heat.
Could not the municipalities take a hand in the above plan so that the plight of the small fry could be eased considerably? Last, but not least, the small fry will be making two, bus journeys instead of the usual four, thereby spending half as much money on fares which could go to something else that's lacking.
Orso, Shanghai, July 8.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.