Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-12
TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR
CLOCKS MEET FAVOR
President GUIDE of Chamber Of Com
merce Sees Advantages
in Plan.

| If the International Chambers of Com
| merce. now meeting in Paris. agree to
reorganize clocks so they will have TWEEN
| ty-four hours instead of twelve, they will
have hearty support in Washington.
| President William F. GUIDE of the Cham
Der of Commerce here Is In favor Of the
twenty-four-hour clock. He agrees with
the scientific theory that a man will go
to bed at a quarter past 10. when he
would roar hoarsely II asked to retire at
fifteen minutes after I. Then the man
| Will get up earlier in the morning, and
the unhealthy night-life will be ended and
the millennium will have come.
Of course. there are other ways of get
ting up early. There is the alarm clock.
which is set for Gas. and misses its guess
by three hours and has every one bound
ing out OF bed in the dead of night and
specializing whether burglar or the day
Of Judgment has arrived. Then there is
the eight-day clock. so named because it
takes eight days to run the week out. 1t
sneaks in a day on you.
Why Two TwelvesP
But all Of these" said Mr.. GUIDE. are
artificialities. They are based on the
same Idea that two twelves are better
than twenty-four. Why should there be
a II am. and IL pm. when everybody
knows that the day begins and ends at
midnight
STILL said the interviewer, the thing
has a horrible sound. Think of telling a
friend you got home the night before at
twenty-seven minutes after %
President GUIDE declined to follow this
line of thought.
Young peODle" he said '.sho,,Id oct IN
bed early. If a twenty-four- hour clock
will help them. then they should have
it," and he added:
IF everybody saw the sun come up in
the morning. this world would be bet
ter place"
But some of them do" suggested the
interviewer. Il know a club member who
always waits up for the sun. and some
times he sees two or three Of them com
That is not what / mean" said Mr..
GUIDE. severely.
With DR.. Alfred Georg Of Switzerland
and William Wiliitt of London. President
GUIDE wants to walk forth into the garden
Maud as the little birds twitter and the
musical crash of the milkman's can
sounds afar in the fresh, sweet air. No
member Of the Chamber of Commerce
will fight the reform. either. unless he
wants people to ask him where he puts
In his evenings.
When these clocks get to working
right it is easy to realize what a marvel
Gus place this city will be. Why, the
noon editions of certain newspaper will
be selling on the streets the night be-
fore. Lots of befuddled individuals will
be keeping appointments on the exact
hour, but two or three days behind.
Problem for Union Men.
The union man who insists upon his
eight-hour day will be through by noon.
He will start to work at am, and he
will certainly have a grand time trying
to kill the rest of the day.
The only bad feature Is that they will
move up the base ball game SO it will
interfere with lunch. But then q person
who gets up at o'clock am doesn't
deserve lunch.
There will be little trouble with the
clocks. Mr.. GUIDE believes. Some of
grow tedious when they begin to har-
monize on "a o'clock. 1t will sound too
much like a musical act in vaudeville.
But disconnected guests can remember
that at "a o'clock they will have done
most of their sleeping
What about these Chamber OF Com
merce dinners" Mr.. GUIDE was asked.
I'VE might change them into break
fasts," he suggested.
You favor the twenty-four-hour day.?
This question had been asked before, but
any right-minded interviewer always
asks the same question six times before
he goes away. >,
thing that will make people get up early
and go to bed early