Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-31

ing the Office, instead OF three
I Of course, IL Is very unlikely that
! his mistake would not be brought
home 10 him all too soon He would
probably come down stairs 10 FOUNDER
among an array Of dustpans and
brooms. and, after q weary wait for
breakfast. would be greeted with
gibes by his family early rising be-
ing time-honored subject Tor ridicule
land ne. would shirk repeating the
I experiment
That's . pity. because, as you will
readily admit, an extra hour OF day.
light every day for FIVE months would
be worth having. Whether your hob
by is gardening or golf or tennis or
walking or cycling, another hour in
which TO practise il offers great pos
sibilities. Wherefore il Is seriously
suggested that we should take hand
In the game which haN been played
the world over for the last thirty or
forty years.
Shakespeare makes one Of his
characters say: Time shall be what
say it Isl and in Victoria {Austra-
Hal, Cape Colony, Central Europe,
and in France three years ago. and in
Portugal IN 1912. the time of day has
been made to suit the convenience Of
the people. Irrespective Of what Old
Sol has to say about it.
We know that in France, where al
iteration in standard time has taken
place, these alterations We're made
without any confusion. and this has
been the experience whenever such
an alteration has been made. We have
failed to learn that in any such case
there has been upheayal of business,
or rioting or other alarming incident.
It's too absurdly simple. All that
lis necessary is to put every clock and
watch In the kingdom forward one
hour at b. M, on the third Sunday
In April, and backward one hour on
the third Sunday in September We.
should AL get up an hour earlier as
matter of course, and should soon for
get that We were doing Ii: but the
very small effort involved would be
amply repaid by the undonbted gain
in health and weli-being.
Instead Of sitting in your chair and
feebly murmuring: Dear, dear, how
sad to see the evenings drawing in''--
q commonplace of which most of Us
at some time or another have been
guilty why not bestir yourself and
see that no more time is wasted in
saving that precious daily hourf A
national effort AN expression of the
national Willis, of course, needed
the vehiclesof its expression exists all
ready in the shape of DIR. William
Willett's Daylight Saving Bill In
teresk yonfsfriends in that BILL Write
to N. Ps's and noble Lords. and ask
them to see that Il is passed. Get
local councils, and boards, and socie-
ties in your own district to pass reso-i
lutions in its favor.
The objections to It are for the
most part trivial. and in no case insu-
perable Your 500 o'clock train to-
the city would continue to be an 500
o'clock train; continental train SER
vice only would need special time
tables. Less artificial light would be.
needed, and in consequence less coal
would be consumed and less smoke
would defile the air. In every twenty.
i've years more than one years con-
sumption Of fuel for these purposes
would be saved. and working so many
hours less by gas and. electric light
would tighten the strain on our eyes.
and appreciably benefit our sight.
When you come to think Of 1T, the.
only wonder is that this simple ma
gician's trick, to be accomplished BY
turning the hands of clock, has not
been put into practical execution
years ago.