Sharp diary 1918 page 21. Friday 18 January 1918 - Chicago
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Friday 18th of January 1918
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A quiet uneventful day. I harmonized at the Two Sisters all the morning. Ventured out for 5 minutes before lunch by way of constitutional but was nearly frost bitten so came back in a hurry getting no further than the lake. The weather is colder than ever though there is happily little or no wind. In the afternoon Maud went down town to the library and to buy a small folding electric lamp. Tolman called in the afternoon for a chat and asked me to dine with him tomorrow which I promised to do. This mornings paper startled us by publishing the edict from Washington shutting down all factories — which sundry exceptions — all over the country and closing all shops etc for 10 Mondays beginning on the 21st! This seems to me a very clumsy device — ostensibly to save coal and avert an impending fuel famine. I fancy that some busybody has got hold of a job which is rather too big for him, has got panicky and run amok! Anyway it is very disturbing if America is to be made to suffer in this drastic way in return for the very small contributions she has yet made. The more I see of this country and its childish ways the less do I believe in it and the less hopeful am I that America’s contribution to the war will be of value.Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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