Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-29
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Tonight.
DAYLIGHT PLAN Is OFFICIAL
Railroads VIII Set Time Ahead One
Hour at 2 O'clock Tomorrow
Morning.

The official change of time sched-
uled is 2 a. m. tomorrow. If you
make the change correctly, you will
go to bed tonight, set the alarm
clock for 2 a. m, get up when it
awakes you, set all the clocks and
watches in the house ahead one
hour. and go back to bed with the
alarm clock registering five min
utes after three.
If you don't follow the above
program, don't forget to set the
clock ahead tonight, or you'll be
just an hour late for church.
Church services Sunday will be
! held under the new time.
Even six months training last
summer failed to make cows be-
1ieve that the clock had been set
ahead, and they came to the barn,
to be MIXED, every morning and
evening, an hour late, according to
formers
Milk trains, however, were oper-
ated under the daylight saving
schedule, one hour earlier than
usual With the cows, timing their
time to be MIXED by the sun. and
the milk trains running on the day
light saving schedule, the poor
dairy farmer spent six months
without being able to adjust his
difficulties last summer
Railroads Prepared.
Train schedules will be affected
only for several hours. Trains on
the road will not be interfered with
Sunday morning until they reach
a terminal, or a division point, from
which point they will be operated
one hour late.
Trains leaving a terminal or di-
vision poiut after a. m. Sunday
will be operated under the new
schedule, so that before the day is
through, all thains, it is expected,
will be running under the time pro-
\Sided in the daylight saving law.
Hhe director general of railroads
mas issued a circular, instructing
all railroad men to make the
change
Anyone who would seriously sug-
gest doing away with daylight saw
ing in Europe would be treated
much the same as the man who
would try to start another war, is
the view of p. S. Ridsdale, secre-
tary of the national war garden
commission of Washington, just re-
turned from Europe.
Il am astounded," said Mr. Rids-
dale, who has just made a three
months study of the home food
production plans of the continent,
ito find there were plans afoot to
take away the extra hour of day
light from the millions of workers.
Repeal of this law would be a
backward piece of legislation. Any
man who would seriously try to
take away daylight saving in Eu-
rope would be treated much the
same as the man who tried to start
another war. They look on extra
daylight as a great reconstruction
asset
"a gigantic food rationing system
is being put under way on the con-
tinent Authorities agree that many
millions are approaching acute des-
Fdtution and we here in America
MUST do everything possible to in
Tease the production of food close
20 the point of consumption in or
der to release for the worlds des-
utute food which can be shipped
long distances.
Means Millions.
Extra daylight means millions
of dollars to the victory gardeners
to say nothing of the health and
recreational advantages for the
bench, shop, desk and counter
workers of the country"
All the leading countries of Eu-
rope have daylight saving. The
United States was the last great
country to adopt the plan.