Denver labor bulletin., 1918-03-30
DON'T APRIL FOOL YOURSELF

next Monday morning by remaining
in bed until the sun reaches the usual
focus on your window sill. If you
do you are likely to get called down
at the shop or miss an important busi-
ness engagement. Because Sunday at
midnight clocks and watches will be
pushed up one hour, while sun dials
and other nature forms of marking
time remain the same. This is done
by act of Congress, signed, sealed and
delivered by the President of the
United States, and is known as the
Daylight Saving" law. A more
"Beating Time" The man who now
leaves home at o'clock in the morn
ing will still leave at by the clock,
but at by sun time. But when the
man goes home at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon by the clock he will be 60
ing home at o'clock sun time. Nat
urally, some will ask why folks
shouldn't call it going to work an
hour earlier instead of indulging in
the fiction of moving the hands of the
clock an hour forward. The answer
to this is more convincing, perhaps,
than superficial consideration might
lead one to expect. To begin with,
half past nine, or any other set hour
of the day, is nothing but a fiction.
There is no such thing in reality. 1t
is just an artificial division of time
agreed upon. But an untold number
of human activities are based upon
these established hours. Breakfast,
dinner and lunch, time tables, work
ing schedules, punching the shop
clock, registering a days work-a
whole host of the set habits of life.
all circle round the long established
fiction of SO :30," "high noon," or some
other set hour. What one really does
under daylight saving legislation is to
go to work an hour earlier. If wise,
you will go to bed an hour earlier.
DENVER PEOPLE STILL HOLD
to the dream of sometime owning and
operating their own waterworks sys-
tenn. Armour C. Anderson, the last
and sole member of the city utilities
commission which ages ago started
out to perform this municipal func-
ton, has come to life. This week he
conferred with the Water Consumers
League, another legend of the time
when people thought this happy event
was about to be consummated, and the
question of calling a special election
at an early date, when the qualified
voters of Denver may pass upon the
issuing of bonds for the purchase of
the water company's plant, was dis
cussed. In fact, it has been discussed
by others. Once upon time the city
voted SS,000,000 in bonds for this pur-
pose, but the bonds were never sold.
Now the upset price fixed by the
water company and in measure ap-
proved by the United States supreme
courts recent opinion, is around $14,-
100000. At any rate, no further time
should be lost in acquiring the water
plant, because delay means additional
expenditure in the end. In this one
particular Denver lags behind other
progressive municipalities in the
United States.
MISS MARGARET SON
daughter of the President, made big
hit during her visit to Denver week
ago. She sang before paid audience
of $1,000 Friday night at one of the
dedicatory concerts of the new munich
pal organ. Sunday afternoon she
generously volunteered to sing at a
free concert in the Auditorium. The
immense building was packed with a
crowd estimated at over $4,000, while
several thousand others stood in the
adjacent streets unable to gain ad-
mission. She responded to encore
after encore, until so fatigued she
could sing no more. She sang those
old familiar songs so dear to the
hearts of the common people, Dixie
Garry Me Back to Ole Virginia." 90
My Laddie," "William Tell" "My OLD
Kentucky Home" the sextette from
Lucia" and several others. The great
organ, under the magnetic touch OF
Clarence Reynolds, performed in q
masterful manner. AT $50 O'Clock
Sunday evening Miss Wilson sang fol-