The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-17
DAYLIGHT SAVING
maybe STARTEDBY
COUNTY OFFICIALS
| Supervisors Likely To Be Asked
ToFTake Initiative and Turn
Clocks Ahead An Hour
ISLAND CONDITIONS ARE
ADAPTED TO PROPOSAL
II Municipality Makes Beginning
Territorial Government Would
Probably Follow

The movement to set the clock ahead
and save daylight is rapidly gaining
ground In Honolulu ms wartime mons
pre, and according to statements that
were made yesterday the board of su.
perVisors will probably be asked to
take the initiative by advancing the
clock an hour in all municipal depart.
Z ments
The subject : as been under disens.
sion for some time by the chamber of
commerce., which referred Il TO com.
mittee. The committee is expected TO
make its report shortly, and Il is au.
thoritatively stated that the report will
be strongly in favor of the daylight.
saving scheme b.
Works Wen Where Tried t,s
In many parts of the country the
plan of setting the clock ahead an hour
has been adopted, and without excep.
ton those communities that have
adopted il are enthusiastic over the
change and declare that under no cir.
cumstances would they think of going
back TO the old system.
Hawaii is especially well adapted TO
the, notwithstanding plan, say those who
are advocating II, and especially is that
so at this time Of the year, when day,
light comes 70 early. N
Very material saving, which would
60 toward aiding the nation in its fight
with Germany, would be made by set.
ting the clock ahead an hour. For in
stance, thc. items Of expense for gas
and electricity would be reduced, for.
Of course. il people We're TO get up and
60 to work an hour earlier than they do
now, which would still be within day.
light hours, they would quit work and
90 to. bed eorrespondingly earlier. t-,
More Time For Gardening ~
In Honolulu are hundreds of little
war emergency gardens, the great ma
jority Of which are being planted and
titled by the householders themselves
and not by Oriental yard boys. If the
householders get through their regular
work in the city an hour earlier than
they now do, they would get home that
much earlier and have an extra hour
Of daylight'-in which to phil weeds
plant seeds and do the thousand and
one other little things that now they
hardly find time enough to do, z, b
The daylight saving scheme was at
first taken as a joke, not only in Ho-
nolulu but in many other parts of the
country. But gradually the wisdom of
IL has made itself apparent and it has
gained rapidly in favor. .,# +, p.
The adoption of the system by the
municipal government would be of in.
ealculable benefit to the city employees
particularly the road laborers aud
others who earn their poi and fish by
the sweat of their brows, Such, at
least, is the earnest contention of those
who are advocating that the clocks of
the city be set ahead mn hour.
Plantations Set Own Time ,I..
One objection that has been raised to
the plan is that ii would not work on
the plantations, where the men go to
work Mt four O'Clock in the morning
The proposed scheme would send them
to work at the unearthly hour of three
say those who think the plan not feast.
BILE. .H..@.. ~. 49,, a. ~.
But it should be remembered that
the plantations even now set their own
time and that their clocks do not cor.
respond in time to those of the city.
So the proposed change would not in
any way affect them. while it would
benefit the city jewellers. {" & ...
The idea, il must be admitted, seems
little strange at first blush, but the
more closely il is examined, the more
feasible does ii appear. 5.a
II the municipal government adopts
the daylight saving plan. the territor!
ial government would undoubtedly fol
low suit. as, of necessity, would all
the business establishments. "s