The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-31
Clocks Turned Back
Sunday Morning

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Clocks generally throughout the
country were turhed back one hour
Sunday moi ming and are again upon
the old sun-time basis after a seven
months daylight saving experiment,
nd are now marking the passing hours
the same schedule as they we're be
fore March 81. The change was Off
cazlly made al 2 ocock Sunday morn
ing, but ii is safe to say that most
Canon City people either anticipated
II and moved the hands of their clocks
and watches back one hour before 60
sRg to bed Saturday night. or made
the change after getting up the next
morning. In a few households the
matter may have been entirely forgot
-ten until today Such delinquents. II
there are any, can now rectify their
timepieces by placing them in con-
, formity with the hour announced by
the whistle at the plant of the Arkan
sas Valley Railway. Light and Power
Company, or the Round Crest Com
pany. To most people the change
sneant nothing more than an extra
hour of sleep Sunday morning and a
belated return of the time they lost
last March when the clock hands were
jumped forward 60 minutes by act OF
Congress.
In many instances people stopped
their clocks Saturday night and start
ed them again Sunday morning in or
der 10 make the change. In others
the simpler method was adopted of
turning them back one hour and al
lowing the INTO run on the new ar
rangement The telegraph clocks, of
which the Western Union compan.
have $4,000 in ope-a alton in the United
States, which are electrically wound
and set, had to be specially adjusted
whe-e their users were awake at 2
o'clock Sunday morning. and had been
given s&ecial keys to do the setting.
The desitate master clocks which cor
rect the 10000 timepieces. of tne com
rany every hour. were all changed at
the same time, as was a'so the gov
efnments radio and wire signalling
arrangement. which is the scientific
basis of our time system.
TIE adjusting of. railroad train
movements TO meet the altered condi-
tions lesuiting from the changing OF
the time presented considerable diff
Guilty. To meet the situation Direc-
tor General McAdoo of the national
transportation service, authorized an
order by which trains continued thei:
progress Saturday night until reach
ing a station where they were heln
one hour for the purpose of getting
their running schedule in harmony
with the new arrangement. The com
plicated system of train orders and
train schedules is such that the trans
Portation administration gave the To-
sal and division arrangements author
ny to use their own discretion and
judgment to protect trains by other
methods if found necessary. In spite
OF the problem to be worked out al
daylight Sunday morning railroads in
all OF the five time belts of the country
were moving trains on the new sched-
-1le and in exact accordance with the
change OF time.
Senator Calder. who fathered the
law in Congress. has declared that the
extra daylight saved 100000 in gas
bills for the American people last sum-
mer. The national fuel administra.
1ion estimates that on the seven
months basis 1.1255.0 600 tons of coal
were saved to help meet a possible
winter shortage Definite reports
from st. Louis say the consumption
OF coal there dropped IFS tons per
thousand OF the population because OF
the daylight saving during the sum
mer months. a 81.
These estimates were wo-ked out oy
comparing the coal consumption of
central stations with previous years,
TO determine how much less; electrical
energy and gas for,lighting had been
utilized.
These were the 7demonstrahle fea-
lures, and enthusiasts for the daylight
saving plan placed TO limit on the ex-
ira health and enjoyment of life Sc
cured by the masses of people who
found therise, yes free to use the out
doors under the sun for an extra hour
after concluding work. Chasles