The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-16
City Preparing To Meet Day.
light Saving Plan.
"White Way Moths" Must Hike
Home at 1O:45 Then.
SHOPS, OFFICES CLOSE EARLIER
More Time for Gardens, Golf,
Baseball and Sports.
Cool Sleeping Porch Hours Will
Be Sadly Missed.

Topekans already are arranging
their plans to meet the rmore-of-
daylight plan which undoubtedly will
go into effect on the last Sunday of
this month. The passage of the bill
in congress came rather suddenly and
for the next two weeks, stores, banks,
railways, and institutions of all kinds
employing labor will formulate their
hours of opening and closing.
1t is agreed that the plan will be
| accepted periodically and with hearty
approval in Kansas. Altho the aver
age farmer works from daylight I'M
! til dawn, anyway, he will find CO.
| operation in the city among the gar
| den lovers who will have more time
| to spend with the rake and the hoe.
| There is little chance that the hours
of opening and closing will be changed
in the city. Probably rules will be
adopted controlling this feature of the
| law that merchants and employers
may not extend their hours to accom-
modate the shopper who dislikes early
rising.
Street Car Traffic.
Street car traffic in Topeka now
starts at o'clock in the morning.
| Under the rev law, if all employers
| kept the usual hours, the cars would
start at 8 O'Clock (time now), and
| the owls would collect at 10:45 p
m. at Eighth and Kansas avenue in
|
With the entire city getting up
carrier in the morning and. of course,
-oing to bed earlier at night, traffic
/ must be maintained to take care of
the patronage.
Boon to Golf Enthusiasts.
The daylight savings plan will be a
great impetus to sports of all kinds.
Golf enthusiasts who considered
| themselves fortunate to get away
from the office at o'clock and play
two hours, may then leave the Of
flee one hour earlier and have an
extra hour for another nine holes on
the links before the SIN sets over the
| river.
Baseball will be patronized more
literally on account of earlier office
closing and tennis, outdoor volley ball,
amateur baseball and sports of all
| kinds will be benefited.
Officials of the Santa Fee railway in
Topeka today made no predictions as
to what efforts would be made to ac-
quaint the public with the change.
The fact that the law will be effective
all over the nation will not confuse
travellers in trains or in time. With all
clocks turned forward, with business
and traffic beginning earlier, there is
little chance of disorder
The general offices of the road in
Topeka will be closed at 4 o'clock,
present time. instead of 5 O'Clock. thus
giving the many hundred employees
more time with their families and to
their pleasures.
The daylight saving plan will mean
much to gardens and yard improve
ments over the city. No man will
have the excuse that he has no time
to spend with the radishes and lettuce.
He will have time, too, to work I'D a
rich appetite for the evening meal.
The city's garden campaign should be
. greatly encouraged with the addition
al sunlight hours.
For the Women Shoppers.
The women shoppers of the city
ternoon shopping following by the
, look of scorn that greets the hard
working laboring man who fails to
, give up his seat in the street car, now
will have to put the baby to sleep ear
!, lier in the afternoon-earlier as far
as the sun is concerned.
The average summer day, that is
the daylight day, begins at 4:3O O'Clock
= in the morning and lasts until about
o'clock in the evening. This means
that more work will be done in the
e cooler part of the day. 1t will be g
. blow, however, to the sleeping porch
: fans who always relate the joys Of
f covers and blankets at a. m. 1t will
e be getting-up time then. In Other
| words in midsummer, during the sui
!, try nights, the coolest sleeping portion
q | of the day must be devoted to work
4 After all, it will not be long until n,
o one notices the difference. Will
. clocks and watches ticking away il
4 unison and with Big Ben getting il
: his usual dastardly work, people sool
will forget that they are living by Law
y they will live again by light.