Early Riser Has Champion From The Spokesman-Review,March 29, 1950

Tue., April 18, 2000

To the editor of The Spokesman-Review:

Hannah Hinsdale’s column in The Spokesman-Review describes early risers, those who crawl out of their beds at or before sunrise, as “victims of arrested mental development,” “poor unfortunates,” “slavish followers of nature” and “fiends in human form.”

Would Hannah retract if informed that at least one of Spokane County’s superior judges was “cursed in youth with the habit” and even at the present time, no doubt, hears the “unexpurgated rooster” crow in early morn while solving some legal problem with a clear brain, which results from a restful night’s sleep, while Hannah reaches out, grasps and smashes a six-bit alarm clock which arouses her from a daylight sleep.

One of the glories of existence is viewing the sun’s great orb rising above the eastern horizon, equaled only by the same transcendent orb disappearing below the western horizon.

Our creator designed the 24 hours to be divided eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation and eight hours for sleep and set the latter period for sleep.

Man has perverted that arrangement and - well, let’s see, the hairy bat, the fox, the coyote, the weasel and the burglar busy themselves during the night hours and seldom see the sunrise. But then who cares to be classed with those sorts? Eugene A. Hoge Post Falls

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