The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
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the services of an army of repair men.
With the shortage of labor, such a call
on the man-power, of the nation
would be enough to halt the tide of
victory in Europe by the return of
force sufficient to correct the damage.
The time service department Of the
Western Union suggests that the
hands be turned around eleven hours
on the clocks. It is all right to stop
the clocks. butt there would be diff
Guilty in starting them again properly.
especially now that Central serves
no more as a kind of municipal time
piece.
The clockmakers say: "Just as
surely as Lots wife became a pillar of
salt when she turned back to- gaze
upon Sodom. Father Time will be
turns back to bemoan the fact that he
must step saving to help win the war;"
Adjust the Clocks.
The telegraph clocks, of which there
are $4,000 now in operation by the
Western Union company. will have to
be properly adjusted by the conpany'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 cor
rect the $4,000 every hours will be
changed at the same time as will be
the governments radio and wire sigA
mailing arrangement which is the
scientific basis of the time system
Adjusting railroad train movements
proceeding over the time changing pc
riod will present the most difficulty
Director General McAdoo has author
lied a general order on the subject
by which trains on the road will con-
ttnue their progress until reaching a
station and there be held one hour.
At the same time the complicated sys-
tenn of train orders and train sched-
ules is such that the railroad admins
tration general order specifically puts
it up. to local arrangements to use
their own discretion and to protect
train movements by other methods if
they find it necessary. At any rate.
Sunday morning must find the rail-
roads thru the first time belts in the
United States. moving trains on the
regular schedule and in the new time,
so far as possible.
Evidently daylight saving was ads
tinct success. for Chairman Baruch of
the war industries board asked con-
gress to extend the hour-ahead sys-
tenn thru the winter. The senate
passed such a bill, but 1t died in the
house.
Saved Much.
senator Calder, who fathered the
law has declared that daylight saved
100000 in gas bills for the people.
The fuel administration estimated that
on the seven-month basis 1,125,00o
tons OF coal had been saved to relieve
possible winter shortage. Definite re-
ports from st. Louis said that con-
sumption OF coal had dropped IT'S
tons per thousand population.
These were the demonstrate fea-
lures and enthusiasts for the DAYLIGHT
saving plan placed no limit on the ex-
ira health and enjoyment of life Sc
cured by the masses of people who
found Themselves free to be out of
doors under the sun for an hour after
concluding their days work. Charles
bathrop Pack, head of the national
war garden commission, asserts that
the crop for the home plots this year
is worth 1925, 100000. an Increase of
81 per cent over the 1917 results. and
gives much credit for the result to the
evening daylight hour.