The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-05
CALCULATING WORLD
TIME BY OCALA CLOCKS


Often in the past few days, peo-
pie have called the Star down for
printing in its dispatches that such
and such an event happened Ito
night" when the paper came out in
the afternoon.
However, if the same people will
only stop to figure that the daylight
ever rushes westward at the rate of
thousand miles an hour, they will
easily understand that it is night in
Europe while it is early afternoon in
Florida.
The following table will be a
handy thing to cut out and keep, as
it will enable everybody to estimate
the difference in time between OcaIa |
and many other places in the world
that are on the same longitude as
the points named. In making the
calculation, there must be estimat-
ed not only the difference in longi- |
tude, but the half an hour differ
ence between sun and railroad time.
When lit is noon in Ocala it is in
Paris, $50 p. m.
London, 5:21 p. m.
st. Petersburg, 1924 p. m.
Vienna, 6:29 p. M.
Belgrade, $50 p. IN.
Toxic, midnight.
| Hongkong, 1887 a. m.
| Rome, 6:14 p, m.
| Berlin, 6:12 ID. m.
Athens, 6:5S p. m.
| San Francisco, 1929 a. m.
When OcaIa people are going to
bed, the Cossacks and the Uhlans on
| the Russo-German lines in Poland
have already begun shipping each
other. When Ocalans are turning
over for their second nap, the bugles
are waking the kaiser's soldiers
from Basic to Luxembourg, and half
a million Frenchmen are peering
eastward for any German airships
that may come between them and
the sunrise. When Ocala is eating
an early breakfast, the peasant wo-
men left to till the fields in Russia
are eating their frugal dinners,
while their moujik husbands, broth
ers and sons have made half days
march toward the Germans who are
goose-stepping to meet them. When
Ocala stops for dinner, the sun will
be casting its long shadows on the
, blue Alsatian mountains, and likely
/ thousands of unburied dead. And
: when Ocala people stop work in the
: late afternoon, and go to the square
to have a pleasant meeting with
their friends, thinking little how
good it is for them to dwell in peace
under the mighty wings of the Ann
erican eagle, night and death to-
gether will have descended on the
5 continent of Europe, the peaceful
glitter of the streets in the cities on
: the frontier Will have given place to
: the feverish CLEAN of watchmen' s
i lights and the Pickering lanterns OF
burying parties; the lightning fash
e of cannon will stab the darkness and
: the glare of burning homes paint
= Ddl6lUI 1JICIuISS Ou IIlS Shy dDON Z
! the land, while at sea the special
r fingers of the searchlights will grope
# over the waters for steel cliff sides
e of .battleships above and the muir
n derous ripple of torpedoes below. In
e the family lighted tents men viii
d pore over maps and plan how tt
y murder more men on the morrow
lie in the factories the night shifts viii
r toll without pay to make engines o
~ destruction to slay other men; il
cabinet halls, still other men viii
cs study the ways and means to keel
ir up the slaughter all viii
rs cover in dread of the bomb that al
G. enemy's airship may at any secon'
IL send thru the roof.
er So if you observe your memoran
Id dunn and figure a little, you can tel
e, at any time about what hour an
,ir minute it is in that part of tn