The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-24
TIME TURNS BACK.

FINE TURNS BACK.
| All clocks in the United States should stop fo1
one hour at a. m. Sunday morning, October ~
and then again take up the procession of the
| hours.
| The country will then be back upon a sun.
| time basis and finished with its first sever
months of daylight saving experiment Some
minor difficulty in transportation and industry
will be involved in this return to normal time
but for most people, the change will mean
nothing more than an extra hour of sleep on
Sunday morning, belated return of the hour
they lost in March when clock hands were jumped
! forward 60 minutes by act of congress.
| Practically clock hands are set forward with
less trouble than they are set back, due to the
mechanical arrangement of their interiors. The
average householder does not need to be warned
but it may be well to understand that the best
plan will be to stop the clock Saturday night and
start it right again Sunday morning The tee-
graph clocks-of which there are SO, 900 now in
| trically wound and set-wiH have to be properly
adjusted by the company's force which is now
planning to do the work on Sunday, except in
locations where the users are awake at night
themselves, and can be given special keys with
which to do the setting The delicate master
clocks which correct the $4,000 every hour will
be changed at the same time as will be the gov
ernment's radio and wire-signaling arrangement
which is the scientific basis of the time system.
Adjusting railroad train movements proceed
ing over the time-changing period will present
the most difficulty. Director General McAdoo has
authorized general order on the subject, bv
which trains on the road will continue their
progress until reaching a station, and there be
held one hour At the same time, the compli-
Gated system of train orders and train schedules
is such that the railroad administration general
order specifically puts it up to local managements
to use their own discretion and to protect train
movements by other methods, if they find it
At any rate, Sunday morning must
find the railroads through the five time belts in
the United States moving trains on the regular
schedule and in the new time, so far as it is
possible.
Evidently daylight saving was distinct sue
cess, for Chairman Baruch of the War Industries
Board asked Congress to extend the hour-ahead
system through the coming winter. The senate
passed bill to enact his recon-
mendation into law but the bill died in the house
Senator Calder, who fathered the law has
declared that extra daylight saved 100000 in
gas bills for the people. The Fuel Administers
ton estimated that on the seven-month basis
,125,000 tons of coal had been saved, to relieve
possible winter shortage. Definite reports from
st. Louis said consumption of coal had dropped
17.5 tons per thousand population.
These estimates were worked out by compar-
ing the coal consumption of central stations with
previous years, to determine how muah electri-
cal energy and gas for lighting had been utilized.
ENGLISH DEMOCRACY.
One result of the war has been to democra-
tie the British army, and it is regarded as prac-
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