The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-29
When You Go to Bed Tonight
Just Add an Hour.
Then the Daylight Saving Plan
VIII Be Effective.
WESTERN UNIONS new STUNT
Nearly $50 Patrons i'm Topeka
Will Do Own Timing.
Electrical Devices Last Year
Were Not q Success.

Sunday morning you are going to
hit the deck" an hour early. No
kidding-not a chance, the daylight
saving law goes into effect Sunday
morning at 2 o'clock.
Saturday night when you go to bed
turn your clocks and watches up one
hour and Sunday morning they will
be on time with the new schedule that
goes into effect Sunday morning at .
o'clock.
This year the Western Union is 60
ing to use different system in chang
ing its clocks. The patrons of the
service will set their own clocks. They
will be moved up one hour. The min
ute hand will be moved once around
the dial and the deed is done. Keys
for doing this will be furnished to all
establishments where there is West
ern Union timepiece.
Since there have already been two
times when time schedules were
changed it is not believed that any
confusion will result on this occasion.
Last year it took eleven hours to
complete the refining of the Western
Union clocks, according to T. p. Hug
hart, chief electrician. The clocks
were disconnected with the master
clock and connected up with other in
struments that automatically moved
the minute hand back once each min
ute. The hand would move up one
minute and then fly back. This proc
ess necessitates quite bit OF electri-
cal work in getting the machinery in
proper order and was very unsatiSfac-
tory in its results. 1t was over three
weeks before Western Union clocks all
over their system were running par
with the new time schedule.
One Hundred Forty Clocks In City.
In Topeka a little better luck was
experienced. There are about lao of
the clocks in the city. Only al very
small number of them failed to re-
spond to the timing machine. In the
state Journal office out of three clocks
one failed to respond and it was sew
eral days before it could be put in
working order.
Rainy weather, says Hughart,
makes it impossible to get perfect in
sulation. Leaks result along the line
Clocks close to the central station get
a stronger electrical impetus than
others farther from the main station.
The hands of these clocks can be
turned forward easily enough but they
are so constructed that it is impos-
sible to turn the hands back past IL
o'clock at the top of the dial.
The method adopted this year neces-
states only putting a finger close to
the base of the minute hand when the
hand points to one minute of being on
the hour, then swing the minute hand
smoothly around the OldI 10
one minute of the hour. In an instant
the bell will ring and the hand will
move up to the proper correction and
land evenly over the hour mark. There
is no especial danger of damaging the
clock if any care at all is taken as the
hands move forward just as in any
other clock. Clocks and watches will
all be set by the same method.
Let Clocks Run Down.
jewelers. allow clocks to run down
over Sunday so that on Monday they
will have to tackle the job of resetting
all their instruments, but on the new
time, an hour earlier. AS no particu-
lar harm results in moving the hands
of timepieces forward and as 1t is
harmful to move them backward be-
sides taking much longer to get on the
| correct time, all clocks and watches
will simply be moved forward one
hour and they are even with the new
time schedule.
Not Much Discussion.
The plan does not raise much dis
cussion this year. 1t has It's advanta ges.
also it's disadvantages Daylight is a fine
thing. Every one likes sunshine-in
the right place. But it is just about
the time of the year for open season
| on front porches. Spring has come
| the call of the wild comes to young
! flames. And who can stir up any en-
thusiasm over cooling contest tuned
up to sunlight? 1t won't be dark
| until 10 O'Clock either. That's long
| time to wait.
The mad, Insane. raving golfists will