Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — EARLY TO BED; EARLY TO RISE [ARTICLE]

EARLY TO BED; EARLY TO RISE

WILL BE THE SLOGAN STARTING EASTER SUNDAY, ; MARCH 31. Beginning with Easter Sunday, which is but six days away, the entire United States will begin its work one hour earlier, than at the present time, although the clocks and watches of the country will show the same hour, the time pieces simply being forward one hour. Daylight will be saved and even. Old Sol will be brought into the conservation movement and his superior quality of light, that now partially goes to. waste, will be utilized. The congress of the United States has passed the daylight saving bill by a vote of 250 to 40, and the president has signed the bill and at 2:00 o’clock Easter morning, which is -March 31, the cloeks of the nation will be set forward one hour so the man who gets up at six o’clock in the morning will be hustling around at 5, but he will now know it for every clock and watch that has been properly reformed and reconstructed will show the same hour at six.

By Monday morning the country will have adjusted itself to the new order and be reaping the benefits of an extra' hour of sunlgiht in the after part of the day when their settled task is”done and they may work in their war garden or do the thousand commendable things that will come with the longer period between the close of the hours of regular toil and the setting of the son behind the western horizon. It is a commendable move in every particular and for a year, or more has been in operation in England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal, and this year Ireland and Australia have joined the daylight savers. The plan of the United States is that the clocks will be set back an hour on the last Sunday in October to be placed where they are now, as-. ter having taken advantage of the early coming 'of daylight in the spring and summer and autumn days of the year. »