Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-27
FACTS AND COMMENT

9 The scheme to set the clocks of the
 country an hour ahead during the summer honths has more in it than .just the saving of fuel, great as that will undoubtedly be. It will give the
 entire population an extra hour of sunlight, wherewith will come the ir- resistable temptation to spend the time in healthful labor or recreation in the ope nairs Few people outside the tropics, where midday laboris i'm possible, realize the worth of the early morning hours, and merely because at
 tention has not been called to the matter, the modern world has con
 unued. to waste Gods gift of morn ing light in closely -shuttered sleeping rooms and pay high for artificial illu-S imitation at the wrong end of the day. AS now arranged by Act of congress, the time of the entire country is. to be advanced one hour at two o'clock in
 the morning of the last Sunday in March of each year. Doubtless most. of us will set our timepieces ahead on retiring next Saturda day night, and pos-. sibly a few of us will even plan Nto
 turn in an hour earlier than usual
 but that is all the inconvenience we shall feel. Easter morning and each
 
 the clock reaches the usual hour and shall go about our business as we al- ways have done; but when the days work is over, there will be remaining for us a whole extra hour of sunlight that we have never had before. The school children will have this hour for life and growth in the sunshine and
 their elders, after confinement. at desk Or bench for the early part of the day, will yet have enough daylight remain l ing for the healthful work of garden ing or for pure recreation. As the days would naturally shorten along in July, the new time plan will apparent ly postpone sunset for an hour, and as the fall comes on many offices and l factories will be able to complete the | workday by sunlight. Then as Octo- 1 Der draws to a close and the. after. moons shorten SC that the workday
 must inevitably be finished by artifii- cial light, the time will be set back an hour. Thus we shall find our l selves on our old winter schedule with 1 the sun rising between 6:30 and FOO. i The Act of congress provides that
 the time changes be made each year the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October, and in default of l further action by congress the country I VIII StdIIQs IO Ifl0l Il6W dl- rangement indefinitely Some strong
 minded people argue against changing l the clocks, insisting that we are but 1 deceiving our foolish selves into think | ing we are rising an hour earlier. Such | people fail, to recognize the fact that | the opening hours for banks, business schools and churches are very definit- | ely fixed in the minds of millions. To l change the clock is a matter of a moment, to change the habits of 9 nation would be a stupendous task 1 Added to that, the enormous number l Of printed time schedules that would have to be replaced is an item of cost that may well be avoided, Twelve
 nations are already committed to the
 scheme and are enthusiastic over its
 results.
 Caillaux's political career had beer
 so open to suspicion that he was al-
 ready convicted in the minds of many people, once his name was linked witt
 ''Boloism" and German intrigue ir
 general Things had been going wei l for the allies in the spring of 1917 The enemy had retreated from Bapa-
 ume and Peronne thus surrenderins | 1860 square milts of French soil -tht lpro- German czar had been deposed 1T 1 Russia and, greatest of all, America I i1a I Ina nly 0f fba Ty,as