New Britain herald., 1923-06-04
UNITED TIME" ACTION.

AHE AANs shhAtHFH sAsNff hffH
 papers Of the state to disregard indi
 vldual prsjudiees and opinions ana
 try 10 do something 10 do away wi'h
 ''time" confusion resulting from tho
 conflict Of action Of the general as'
 semhly in favor of standard time, and
 the people who favor daylight savine
 time, Forget criminations and rceri-
 nation. and consider what is best for
 the people as whole. The Herald
 is in position to do this without
 criticism as it approves thoroughly Of
 getting in that extra hour Of day.
 light and. at this stage Of the inno-
 vation. 1t approved of advancing the
 clocks as a reminder to forgetful hu-
 man beings.
 But we cannot advance publicly
 displayed clocks IL is so ordered.
 If we keep our private clocks on day
 light saving time and then see a
 clock in some store we will have to guess whether that clock is a pub
 licly displayed clock" and, as such. running on standard time, or whether 1t is considered a private clock and. as such, running on daylight saving time. There would be confusion continually It could not be escaped. We could not be sure, looking at some clock not our own and which was not labelled Standard Time" or Daylight Saving Time" what time 1t was within an hour. And labelling alr clocks would involve an expense to owners. Moreover, labelling them Daylight Saving Time" would imply that the owners of such clocks ex- pected the public, those not familiar with the habit of the owner of the clock, to look at it, and the court might hold, merely because of such labelling. that it was a "publcly dis played clock"
 There is but one way to avoid con- fusion. and that way is to have all clocks run on standard time, whether technically publicly displayed" or not Then those who approve taking advantage of the extra hour of sum- light could advance their working hours as most of us are doing now, and the result would be the same. i nr L,o$ extra hour.
 This suggestion is made despite the | fact that this is just what standard | timers want. They want standard | time and they hope that if all clocks | are run on standard time people will go to bed and get up at the custom ary standard time hour But 1t would be small indeed for daylight savers to stick to their immaterial point about the clock merely because they refused to be forced into doing what the standard timers want. The day light savers will save that daylight, or, rather, will use it, even though they have to set their clocks as the standard timers want. The big way to look at the matter is to attempt to make life as easy as possible for want to go to work when the light allows them to--for the workers in life. Such people are too broad minded to be driven from their pur- pose by those who believe they have q right to tell a person what he shall do with his own clock.
 The Herald said long ago that the time would come when we need not | bother with changing clocks. At q T certain day in the year the working : schedule of men and women might ! be advanced by common consent. That time has been forced upon us [ by legislation which has no justihca- s tion in law or in reason. It has been s forced upon us too soon for major ? ity of the people. But since 1t has | been so forced upon us let us make " the best of it. s For these reasons The Herald sug- II gests that the newspapers of the state r join in announcing the wisdom of e changing all clocks back to standard f' time and at the same time emphasiz- !" ng. if they can do so conscientiously, e that localities favoring VI daylight saving continue to use the d 'xtra hour of daylight by inspiring tr public announcement by stores and places of private business that they will open an hour earlier-at the anne hour, in other words they are pl low opening even though the clocks at how the time to be an hour later ia By this means men would work and of Hay in harmony with nature. The til nly change that would come would ell e in the artificial time-piece. the re lock Ia
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