The sun., 1918-03-31
ALL AMERICA
DROPS AN HOUR
IN WAR HASTE
Hands of ClOcksJump From
Two to Three O'Clock
in Morning.
TO KEEP Up WITH ALLIES
Daylight Saving Law Helps
Uncle Sam in Drive for
Victory.
TO KEEP Up WITH ALLIES

One hour dropped out Of to-day at 2
o'clock this morning. BY act Of Con-
gress every clock in the United States
with a cog Of patriotism left In its in
nards-which. doubtless also included
many aged timepieces made In Ger
many"-looked straight into the face Of
the moon in the small hours. and raising
It's minute hand solemnly toward the
heavens swore that It was 8 o clock when
the heavens said Il was 2.
Late, or early. advices by telephone
said that even in Philadelphia the clocks
VEN put forward an hour early to-day.
And II any one here or there or any
where didn't stay up until . A. M. to put
his clock forward. or forgot to make the
clock say midnight Just before climbing
into the feathers at II o'clock last night
that law breaking soul is going to spend
an Easter which promises to be anything
but happy.
II there are folks 40 lax among the
churchgoers they are going to arrive at
their pews to-day when the dominic is
5ust striking the "sixthly'' chapter OF his
discourse. instead of getting there be-
fore the Easter services had begun, as
undoubtedly they had planned to do
And heathenish folk who 20 far forget
themselves ~ to spend the day at the
,nov!es instead. erin church will iand-
suppose they Also forgot to push the
hands ahead an hour last ni9ht or early
this morning-that the last Of the GUS
.ard PIES in the big fee-chure hllum
have been smashed all over the screen
by Tire time they have found seats In the
movie temples Of art.
Old Ma Earth skids.
All the country took jump at 2 A NJ.
70 sharply and suddenly that old Ma
Earth Is said to nave skidded slightly.
And at that moment we jumped up side
by side with England and France-at
east in the matter of clock tme-many
rations Of the Old World having had
me daylight saving system In practice
mist.c souls who said they saw in the
Onward movement of our clocks a hope
'u omen that perhaps soon we shall
also speed up enough to drop into step
with England and France in another and
greater onward movement which just
now is occupying our allies abroad.
President Wilson. 1t was learned last
ilsht from Washington. had considered
i>suing proclamation to the public in
which ne had intended to call the ma
IONS attention officially to the impor-
'ance OF the daylight saving movement.
especially In war time. Then 1t was suE-
aested to tho President that the news
papers throughout the country would give
wide publicity to the changing Of time.
wHereui'ln the President decided that he
would leave the matter OF spreading the
:Iea to ths newspapers,
one didn't have to be a newspaper
reader 10 learn all about the big jump
that time took II one were a resident
Of the greater city.
All one had to do was to be a night
hawk For in Manhattan and Brooklyn
and In surrounding towns there were
outdoor ceremonies band music, choral
singing and a general official recogni-
ion Of the occasion. all OF which began
before midnight and ended promptly at
o'clock this morning with the formal
turning Of clock hands on the Metro.
politan tower. at the Borough Hall in
orowds cheering from far below the
Illuminated clock faces as the big hands
we're turned by one or another OF oul
local celebrities.
Seize Time BY Forelock.
Far away from Madison Square tn,
commuters of Orange, N j.. beat every
one else to II by advancing the hands O
tho clock on tho old First Church In th'
heart Of tho Granger business centr'
Yesterday afternoon. In Madison Square
President Marcus NJ. Marks OF the Ma
'onal Daylight Saving Association hat
the Job Of setting the city Alright b!
jumping the hands on the metropolitan
L!fe's tower clock ahead at the end o
an elaborate ceremony.
In Brooklyn United States Senate
William NJ. Calder double crossed tn
sun and moon by sending the hands o
'hc Borough Hall clock instantly from
. TO 8 o'clock. following much speecl
making and music. And far to th
southwest the great clocks beneath tn
road bronze shoes Of William Penn
atop the Philadelphia City Hail. wer'
moved so far ahead that Philadelphia
today Is almost on time
Every New York fireman woke up a
A. N. and took part in the clock ad
rancinE ceremony whether he wanted
10 or not. For at I 80 A. NJ. to-day
SIN time. the test signal. eleven bang
~ the gong. began to clang In all tn
fre houses with a din that shook opel
Il" eyes Of the slceplest firemen in tn
inks The test signal was the Fir
h"partnent's way of telling the fir
house lads to swing the hands around
Also a, tho same moment the Polio
r'"nar' rnrnt's station house telephones
~"ro ringing Gll over the greater city
"h!'o the voi"e with the snore AZ M
o'1"r erd Of +le line gave forth the ON
al message that ran: 1T Is now
"tloci-"
!, crahN~d desk lieutenant. rouse,
f'om his oreams. might truthfuliy hav
answered to Headquarters. "Oh, Is tina