Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-19
SETTING THE CLOCK UP.

SETTING THE CLOCK UP.
Within less than two weeks the
Daylight Saving Bill, which pro-
vides for the advancing one hour of
all time pieces in the country will
take effect Standard time in other
words. is 20 be set forward one hour
during the summer months. This
means a saving of about $50 hours
more OF daylight than you would have
had under the old timetable That
is, there will be a gain Of almost eight
days OF daylight calculating twenty
four hours to day. This change
will begin March 81 and end the last
Sunday OF October when the clock
will be set back.
At first this idea will no doubt be
under estimated and that very little
Will be accomplished by putting the
time ahead, but it has the sanction of
both the Food and Fuel Administra
ton. which should be sufficient 10
warrant a fair trial of it, at least
While the proposition may not
prove TO be very much in time saving,
it is intended for a good purpose and
HUDNlQ nave lHt support VI every one,
THE U-BOATS ARE GOING.
More submarines were destroyed
during December. the latest month
for which statistics are available. than
the Germans were able to build dur
ing that month.
That's good news. It's particularly
good news, when it is remembered
that Uncle Sam has not gone fairly in
to the fight True, his fleet of de-
stroyers has been on the job from
the earliest days of our participation
in the conflict. But there are not
many of them; they are pitifully few,
compared TO the task that cOnfronts
them. But they have done good work
and accounted for their fair share
of the enemy monsters, and will CON
tinue TO do so.
But wait till the hundreds of sub
marine chasers now building in Amer
lean factories and shipyards get into
action. Then therell be real trouble
for the submarines, and a correspond
ing access of gloom in Berlin. The
U-boats will either hug the bottom of
the deep, cling to their mornings at
home. or invite destruction every time
they stick their periscopes above the
surface.
Along about that time, too, the great
fleet of merchant vessels in course of
construction will get into the game,
carrying men and supplies to France,
and the first stage of the final phase
of the contest will open.
Soon thereafter there will be no
Germans hosts i'm Belgium and Elan
ders. and the Kaiser will be begging
for terms.
The end may be affair off; but what
the outcome will be, no man can
doubt: no man. not even the Kaiser
himself. now doubts what it will be.
The increase in the personnel of
the navy will add about $50 lieuten-
ant commanders to the officers re-
quired The bill recommends the ere
alton of the rank of major general in
the Marine Corps. and the appoint
ment of three temporary brigadier
generals. twelve temporary colonies,
and twelve temporary lieutenant
colonies.
The good St Patrick's had to
stand for lots of verse that's punk,
and story after story of drab prose
that's naught but junk. The butt he's
been of phony yarns and fairy tales
galore. anent the Punishment of
snakes from Erin's shamrock shore.
The Irish laugh at all of this. enjoy
the legend quaint. and this tradition
fanciful about their glorious saint,
they take as kindly raillery. for back
OF it they see, n patron for whose vir-
tues they can well say, GLORY be-
Emittsburg Chronicle.
NEWSPAPERS WITH ODD TITLES.
Every man to his hobby. Not far
from here there is man whose chief
JOY is in a collection of newspaper
titles. He has made a speciality of
Nt4EtlAS AuSSA meanings anu NAAS as
sortment is oddly interesting.
OF course. there are plenty of
"Couriers. Journals" and "Heralds' |
scattered over the country, and there |
are Headlight" Bees" Flash |
lights" Eagles" owls" Mirrors" |
and "News-Letters, but when it
comes to "Derricks," "Meddlers."
Telescopes" Flags" and Sun
beams" the class is more limited. In
Hot Springs there is published The |
Arkansas Thomas Cat" and other
titles just as unusual are The |
Sledge Hammer" The Irrepressible."
The Silent Worker" and Call"
Sea captains are reporting that the |
Gulf stream is exhibiting one of its
remarkable phenomena. Every few
years the people are told that this
mid-ocean current has grown warm
err or colder. whittier or of a deeper
blue. and speculation Immediately gets
to work in an effort 10 account for
the change and prophets begin TO fore
tell the terrible consequences of the