Arizona republican., 1918-03-29
CLOCKS T0 MOVE !. AHEAD EARLY LIN SUNDAY MORNING

With scarcely ripple in the usual business and social activity. PhoenlA will adapt itself to the daylight saving law when it becomes effective through out the United States dc o'clock on Sunday morning, March S1.
 At that hour all the timepieces in the country will be advanced one hour. When the people wake up on Sunday morning they will find themselves with one more extra hour of daylight, and the thing is done.
 The bill, which was introduced in the United States senate last summer py United States Senator William NJ. Cal der of New York, has passed both houses, has been signed by President Wilson and is now law of the land.
 The bill provides that at o'clock ill the morning on the last Sunday Tn March each year the clock shall be advanced one hour that is, the hands of the clock will be turned to o'clock and on the last Sunday in October of each year. at o'clock in the morning, the hands of the clock will be turned back one hour.
 As for Phoenix, the change from the
  be done so easily and quietly and with so little disturbance that the peoDe will wonder how they happened to dread it so and to think dire things about it. The old clock face will look just the same. there will be just as many hours of sleep as before and there will be just as much time for work and play as before.
 By making the change on a Sunday it is believed that the transformation will cause the least possible confusion in business.
 Set w. U. Clocks Saturday
 Local Western Union officials have received notice that a man will be in Phoenix on Saturday, instead of Sun day. to put all the Western Union clocks one hour ahead. This will be done late Saturday night, and when morning comes, the one hundred oI more clocks of that company on duty in Phoenix will be ticking on the new time. All trains in and out of Phoenix will run on the new daylight time" begin ming on Sunday morning, railroad of ficials say. There will be no confusion whatever and the travelling public will not be inconvenienced any.
 If you miss your Sunday sermon nex' Sunday morning and arrive at the church just as the congregation is leaving, blame only yourself, for the churches will run on the new" time with the clock turned one hour ahead The managers of the theaters ant moving picture houses are ready fol the change and have made prepara tions to start on the aylight plan on next Sunday.
 Managers of the department store! in Phoenix have given orders to theil employees to report for duty according to the new time, and that closing tim' will come one hour earlier than before although according to the face of th' clock, it will be at the usual hour. New Hour for High School 1 The Phoenix public schools hay, made preparations for the change ant will start school on next Monda. morning at g o'clock, new" time, ac cording to school officials.
 Banking hours will be changed t. accommodate the new daylight law Officials of Phoenix banks state tha they are ready for the change on neX Monday morning. Their entire da will be pushed forward one hour.
 Postoffice hours will be according t the new law, their clocks being set on hour earlier beginning on Sunda morning. Postmaster Nicholson an nounces. Hotels also are ready for tn change, they state.
 There is nothing intricate about tn change in time that is to take place Railroads will move on the sam schedule at the same clock time; en agreements will be kept without an confusion whatsoever, and no one wi be inconvenienced at all.
 Change Conforms to Sun
 Perhaps % per cent of the adul population of this country, during tn summer months, rise in daylight an retire in darkness. With this measur in effect, there will be just one hou more daylight while we are awak, and one less of darkness
 As to whether a person is going b the new time or not" there will be n question about it. The government not going to send inspectors about th country looking into peoples watche and arresting those whose timepiece do not show the advanced hour. Moth ing like that But with the railroad postoffice, banks. schools, churclle business houses, theaters. courts, tele graph and telephone offices running 0 the daylight plan, everyone will | carried with them and running the daily lives accordingly