Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-30
|PUSHCLOCKS
|UP ONE HOUR
TO Win WAR
Let Your Timepiece Lie
to You Seven Months
to Whip Kaiser.

washington. March 3O.-Turn the
I,.nds Of your clocks and watches
Ibrward one hour before retiring
night and add one hour Of day
sbt TO the nations effort to win
BE war.
) Evervbody's doing it and if you
YOU will be an hour late to
tnrrh tomorrow, an hour late to
\ -o-k Munday morning and just
ne hour behind everybody else
md everything for the next seven
nonths
The official time pieces such as
he clocks of the naval observatory
md other official agencies by
rhich time is fixed in this country
I'll not actually be advanced to
~ new clock time" until 2 o'clock
Dmorrow morning, but as the aver
,re man then will be losing a pre-
dous hour of sleep without know
ing il. the best and surest way IS
IN everyone to turn clocks and
vstches ahead one hour before re
firing tonight and proceed TO sleep
With the satisfying knowledge that
by an hours sacrifice millions of
hours of daylight have been addeo
70 the nation 5 resources for fight
ing Germany.
Precious Hour Added.
In munition plants, in the fac
tories. on the farms and on the bat
lefelds flor France and Great
Britain already have adopted the
SYSTEM one extra precious hour of
DAYLIGHT will have been made
available for supreme effort. Many
persons imagine they will be put
TO confusing inconvenience by the
change. Nothing could be further
from the truth. After setting the
tine pieces ahead one hour forget
il until next fall, when on GER
tain date everybody viii turn them
back again and regain the lost
hour.
No Change in Anything.
There will he absolutely no
change in working hours. railroad
train schedules or in anything else.
The clock is merely going 10 lie
10 everybody one hour, but every
body has agreed TO the deception,
and will forget that according to
The sun il really is one hour ear
lier than the clock says it is.
But. if you are a working man
don't attempt to use that as an ex-
ease to your employer; he prob
ably will dock" you an hours
pay. II you expect to take a train
don't fail to set your watch ahead
or you Will miss il All trains
which are caught between ter
ninals at o'clock tomorrow
morning when time officially is
hanged, merely will arrive one
hour late; when they start out
gain they Will he on the new time.
Can Fool Sun Dial.
There is one timepiece of such
haracter that it cannot permit it
elf to join in the national decep-
ion even to the extent of Lying"
ne minute. 1t is the artistiCally
eautiful but nevertheless primeval
IN dial. That will ever be true to
sun" time and nothing can change
be shadow which its finger casts
cross its face by the rays of the
ising sun. II is impossible to
hange it and for the next six
lonths all the sun dials in the
ountry will simply be "cOnscien-
Gus objectors" the new era Of
aylight saving.
Despite the fact that daylight
wing has been a topic of world dis
lssion for & long time there is
III the probability that some per-
ms will fail 10 comprehend it.
DO 1t, Then Forget It.
1t is too simple 10 go wrong
bout Simply turn the clocks and
atches ahead one hour before re-
ring tonight Then forget that
'u ever changed them and go
lout business as usual"