The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-25
The Tima Question Again.

! The Time Question Again
/ IN another column this morning appears
| statements from two gentlemen who are
! connected with one of the railways leading
I ont of tuis city, and who are believed by
/ some to favor standard time for the city
because the railroads favor it, 1t appears
! that the railroads have never approached
them with regard to the matter, and that
they favor standard time not because they
/ prefer that time to suu time, but because
they favor hayi & only one kind of time.
Ii it were possible to make sun time the
! only time used within the limits of the city
/ they would favor that in preference 70
standard time, but as that is not possible,
they are quite confident that the city viii
be benefited by retaining standard time.
! OF course it is not possible to get at a fair
expression of public opinion with regard to
STANDARD time bu. it is quite safe TO say
| that all would rather have one kind Of time
| than two kinds, provided the difficulties in
the way of the adoption of one kind we're
such rs to be easily overcome and quickly
! forgotten. 1t is doubtful if any one viii
deny that great many annoyance attend
the existence Of two kinds of time at once,
and they are annoyauces that can never be
overcome. They are always present, and
will continue TO be as long as there are two
kinds. These annoyances were just AS
great few weeks ago, before standard
time was adopted by the city as they were
when the two kinds of time first began to
bother the people.
The adoption Of standard time has been
| followed by some difficulties, but all Of
| them can be overcome in little while, and
| will be if there is determination to do so.
| Business, social and domestic affairs will
| gradually adjust themselves to the changed
| time, and within a few months the time
issue will be dead one, and people will
look back TO it with feeling of surprise
that they ever permitted themselve, to be
| worried by 1T.
The question which presents itself then is
| this: Shall we continue standard time with
the certainty that we shall shortly adjust
| ourselves to it so completely that we shall
experience nd trouble from it whatever, or
| shall we 20 back to sun time, thus having
| two kinds Of time. with annoyances that
cannot he got rid of and which will be just
| as agravating ten or twenty years hence as
they are to-day2 There ought to be no diff
ficulty in settling this question. 1t is bet
ter certainly to endure an unsatisfactory
condition of affairs for few months than
for "A long period of years.
The resolution changing from sun to
standard time was offered and adopted not
in the interest OF the railroads, as has been
charged, but in the interest Of the city.
| The Council undoubtedly bslieved that the
| pubic good required the adoption of the
| resolution, and there has not been any salts
factory reason presented yet why it should
think il was mistaken. The petition tor
return TO sun time, which has been pre-
sented to it, represents only a small portion
Of the city, and it is probable that some of
its signers are not particularly anxious for
a return to the troubles which are insepara-
| BILE from two kinds Of time.
A few men can create good deal of talk
with regard to almost any subject, and the
| gentlemen who are managing the agitation
| for return to sun time have not been idle
| The Council cannot afford to make the mis-
take, however, of resembling its action be-
cause OF the agitation which these gentle
| men have started They we're entirely in
| different to the proposition to adopt stand
ard time when it was pending and only
became active and aggressive after it was
adopted. Under the circumstances the
Council would appear asifi did not know its
own mind, if it should go back to sun TIM
without giving standard time a fair trial.
| The two kinds of time were tried for four
or five years without lesSening the dissatis-
faction with them. Let standard time be
| tried for year at least, and if at the end
of that time there is general dissatisfaction
with it, the Council can then consider the
ACCESSIBILITY Of returning to sun time.