New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-27
WARNING! LOOK OUT
FOR APRIL FOOL!
NEW DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL
WILL CATCH YOU
e. ..NAPPING''
NEXT MONDAY MORNING, ALL
FOOLS DAY, MARKS
TIME CHANGE

Just about the time you rouse from
sweetest slumber, stretch. comfortably
and turn over in bed to glance at the
clock to see whether you have full
hour left yet for your Monday morning
snooze, the shrill whistles of the Eagle
Mill and the other town cryers will
rend the peace of the morning air and
you will realize that the night before
,, you turned your clock ahead an hour
and that you have one hour less to sleep
than you thot you had.
April FOOLS Day
All Of this will happen next Monday
morning, April 1. And a real April
First it will be, because out of the 1000
inhabitants OF New Ulm, just about
6999 of them will be fooled out of their
morning doze.
All this disturbance Of our quiet and
peace comes about because President
Wilson signed the Daylight Saving
bill which puts the clock forward an hour
ION March 81. This is done with the
idea of conservation, for war purposes
primarily, altho it is hard to see just.
what is going to be saved by the pro-
cess. secondarily, it is considered that
by starting people to work an hour
earlier and letting them quit an hour
earlier, the interests Of health will be
conserved.
- Tried Elsewhere
The plan of daylight saving as it
is called has been tried out in England
and other foreign countries and has
met with both approval and disapproval
The chief objection to it seems to be
that people are not inclined to go to bed
the hour earlier as they must necessarily
do, if they are to secure the same amount
of rest as under the old hours. In
midsummer it is still light at 9 o'clock,
and those who willingly go to bed at 10,
ordinarily, will find it difficult to persuade
themselves that it is time to retire
while the evening sky is still bright.
Another objection to it comes from the
sleepy heads who have for years gotten
up at the last moment possible in order
to keep their engagements to be at
work. These people will find it hard
to hurry themselves out of bed while
i the sun is still just barely showing
its shining face.
To Promote Recreation
The arguments in favor of the change
Of time are that those who have been in
the habit of working until six o'clock
will now be released an hour earlier,
altho the clock will still show six. This
hour of the afternoon, it is said, will be
generally occupied with recreation which
would not otherwise be enjoyed. It
remains to be seen whether this works
out in actual practice, but if the Day
Light Saving bill is to do the real good
that it should do, somebody should get
busy in every community and arrange
for Daylight Saving Recreation in
order to promote the use. of the hour
between S and 6 as a play time for the
people.
No doubt, this will be done in the larger
centers Of population where there are
recreation directors and if this is done,
the Daylight Saving bill will be Of
great value as at that time the people
may learn to relax and will be refreshed.
Error To Be Avoided
If, however, it simply means one hour
longer per day for work then it surely
will cause more loss in vitality Of the
people than can be compensated by any
other conservation. The working hours
in America are already too long and if
lit were not for the shrkers who leave
their portion Of the work to be done by
others, it would not be necessary to work
nearly such long hours to accomplish
the amount Of work required.
At any rate, it does not matter
. whether you like it or whether you don't
you are going to be daylight saver
or you are pretty likely to- lose your
I hot meals, i not your job.