New Britain herald., 1925-04-25


 selves precisely one hour lato. Tht other half. proudly mindful of the charge 10 daylight saving time,s twill vaingloriously set their watches and clocks back an hour and, tomorrow morning arrive at church two hours late. Roth halves win be recon. pensed by arriving too late for. th" collection.
 Train schedules will be changed new times tables being already printed to show travellers when the trains will not eeavc. We nQtice severalStrains have been set back ten to fifteen minutes; this is evidently an effort of the road to make theory match practice.
 Working men will have an extra hour to sally forth into the great open spaces, but their joy will be offset by the sadness which tho added sixty minutes of daylight will bring to the frequenters of front porches and park benches.
 The annual scrap between tho city and country will begin, with the metropolis slurrlng about "hicks'' and country gentlemen standing fast on thefact that dew knows nothing of daylight saving time.
 The high school baseball team will no longer be able to stall in order to have darkness end games with them ahead.
 The whole country will test the "early to bed, early to rise" pro verb. But tonight, of course, one must expected to lose that hour of sleep when midnight flashed into one o'clock. ..t}
 At least. one can always be satis- fled that he is finishing a job an hour earlier than he would under the old schedule.
 But there comes the question of whether daylight saving time Is earlier or later than standard. You get up an hour earlier, but the clock says 1t is an hour later. so take your choice.
 The mix-up being so bad now, w." ~rush to make & suggestion. Insteai of setting clocks one hour ahead, why not, in these days of night liff, turn them back about five hoHrs? This would enable the sheiks land flappers to spend hours Of dark ness at dance and return at dawn which, occurring at 12 o'clock would still give them time to hay" plenty of sleep before going to work in the morning.
 Due to the Red revolution in Bu, garia, King Boris is prisoner in his palace. No doubt the homesick ex- Kaiser would give bootlegger's < salary and a CIV thousand iron crosses for the same privilege.
 On reading of the removal of . piece of steel from mans foot, where 1t had been for .52 years, we were glad that the steel was in good condition.
 The Krupp works have turned from the manufacture of guns to the making of false teeth. This is claim cd as an effort to promote peace, but we see in it diabolical attempt to put war back on its primitive basis
 These speakers who tell us the | younger generation is going to the dogs must be certain of their. state meni; they had it drilled into thcm ' when they were young.
 Says the pessimistic Maple HiI horticulturist, Now it is spring when the flowers don't come out Oh well, every silver lining has q dark cloud"
 Bristol mothers have standardized graduation dresses to make fo, equality among schoolschildren and prevent envy and hard feelings. Tt obtain complete democracy the fathers will now seek the elimination of high marks.
 The Civic Safety league is going ,t show Broken Laws" here. Why no , put on Flaming Youth" and b' , done with it? The only difference il , that Flaming Youth" is a lot bette , and less hypocritiCal.
 The Putnam Phalanx is grieve' to think that Lexington did not pro E vide accomm odations and meals fo f it. But the Puts got of easy. Lool what Lexington did to the British. Now that Gloria Swanson is mar } ried for the nth time, we hope tha l she will take a few lessons iron 3 Coolidge's shoemaker and stick t' !. her last. But is he her last?