Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-21

facturers and the school board in a two hour discussion of the subject Thursday afternoon at the Wauregan house where | a gathering of 35 representative citizens met at invitation of the chamber of com merce to attempt to arrive at some defi- ] nite conclusion on the subject.
 What would be done seemed to hang upon whether the school board would agree to change the time for opening school if the manufacturers would agree to put their industries on daylight saving time. Many merchants and storekeepers expressed their individual preference for daylight saving and said they believed their clerks wanted it. One strong pro- test against the whole thing was express- <ed by Frank E. Peckham, representing the Norwich Market Growers Association. Clergymen present at the meeting eX- pressed themselves in favor of daylight savng
 Once motion by John M. Lee to have a special town meeting on the subject was not put to the meeting for want of a second At another time motion by l Mayor H. M. Lerou to indefinitely post pone was voted down. and the meeting | came to a conclusion with a vote, on mo tion of Adelard Morin, to have Secretary John J. O'Rourke of the Chamber of-Gom- | merca secure the signature of the man. ufacturers to an agreement to go on day 1 light saving time on the last Sunday in | this month
 It was the intention that this signed. agreement should be presented to the | school board to demonstrate to them that they would be justified in changing the
 time for the opening hour of the schools
 So that meal times would not be disrupt
 ed in homes where there were school chil- dren whose hours would not coincide with the rest of the household if the stores and industries went on daylight savng time. while the school house were
 not changed to correspond
 Representatives of the Falls Co.,, She tucket Co.,, American Woolen Go. mills at
 Yantic and Thamesville, United Metal Mfg. Co.,, the Hall woolen mills and the Chelsea File Works, who were present at
 the meeting, indicated their willingness
 to agree to daylight saving hours but
 when Secretary O'Rourke learned after
 the meeting that officials of the United
 States Finishing Co. and the Ponemah Co. would not agree to daylight saving time, he declared that nothing further , would be done in the matter unless there } was a greater and more pronounced de-
 mand from the mill employees and the people generally for daylight saving. , President Wells Invites Opinions. Dinner. with overs laid for 35, was
 served at 1915, grace being said by Rev
 David A. Pitt, DID,. at invitation iron
 President Charles F. Wells. who presided
 at the business session. President Well!
 invited expressions of Opinion of the sub
 ject and Secretary ORour5e stated wha
 had been learned of the attitude here \ Out of 86 merchants, 76 were in favor, Il 3 opposed, and out of 40 manufacturers 2 I were in favor, opposed. A referendum n oba pf Ia, . shown 23O in favor, 42 opposed. Nor
 wich was one of the few industrial citie y of the state that stayed on standard tim last year and practically all the indus 5 trial citie swiIl be on daylight savin a time this year. The manufacturers seer 1 to favor daylight saving provided tn !, schools churches, trolleys, and theater s Il will be on daylight saving time. Tn opinion seems to prevail that the actio
 of the school board last year caused tn
 collapse of the plan then. The city gov e ernment now is not to take any actio I. but Meriden, NorwaIk and Hartfor $ have passed resolutions for official day <. light saving time.
 l, If anything can be done, said Mr O 5. Rourke, it must be by general conser V and that should be by a large majority 'f Reads Editorial.
 Secretary O'Rouiae commended to tn attention of his hearers the .followin r editorial, under the title of Plain Com l mon Sense,' from a. Hartford paper: H. As the seasonNfor daylight saving ar n breaches it is in order to expect tn -s usual passionate protests about sacri1 o gious interference with the clocks, dis s tortion of Gods time, the absurdity ( 't "fooling" ourselves, etc. As a form 1l innoculation against the effects of sue 1~st oCfc ic T. before this city 8 few words of plai le common sense which were printed t, another community touching upon u LII same subject
 The community is Bridgeport whel SS the Telegram alluded to the fact tn; - there still are few people who wri oC letters to the paper asking 'fWhy is re necessary to change the clock?" Ar 'e' The Telegram gives answer that it is m sT necessary" but simply more col 2 venient and then it adds:
 H. Why is it necessary to have clocl Ill at all? Human beings, like birds, wi
 naturally get up when it Is light al ae go to bed when it is dark; also the
 will eat when they are hungry, al a they do not need, clocks to remind the SD of these functions. But it has bet IT. found very essential for systems Du society when people work together ne common problems, to have a, standa- CT of reference so that meetings may ne arranged and definite objects unde n. taken at precise moments of time. Al eI that is why We have clocks.
 lo Similarly with daylight saving. Hal lS has established a connection betwe hF certain clock hours and certain fun re tions. It is the habit of every indu ss trial establishment to open at sev p- o'clock It is the habit of employ
 to report for duty at that hour, al
 all other time-habits in the course S. the day are regulated on the saT a scale.
 When it is desired to move the who of scale forward, and thus to begin t V day an hour sooner, the easiest w as is to change the clock. It is f 26 simpler and far more effective than
 change a whole scale of habits, and na whole system of common thinl1in n- People continue to associate the sar rv clock time with the same function
 Getting up time, working time, eau f. time, and bedtime remain the san 1is It is not necessary ito educate s. memory to associate new hours wi
 these common habits. Changing |
 clock is thus the preferred syste
 especially as 1t produces concerted 2 ,. tion, while other methods are not
 = successful.
 of People who think that there is an b thing sacred about clctks, that tn ~, cannot be changed need education