Show I PUT THE CLOCK C L 0 C K BACK B A C K KI Here flere Is a Practical Method Metod of lengthening Our Ou Days i I I Answers r Fantastic though It may sound it is la possible that before long an act of ot par i lament may be passed pase giving the pub lie lic Ic an extra hours o of daylight every year To do this It i Is not necessary to meddle with wih the working of ot the uni universe universe universe verse though one might think so at att first t t The originator of the wonderful scheme Is Mr William the te well weI known builder and the is la theory thery so s simple that there seems no reason reson why It should not be brought Into operation He first dropped his hla proposal like a bombshell at a meeting of learned learne men In London Every one scoffed but since then most of them tem have grown grOn quite quie enthusiastic tc about it i The sun shines shine for a long time every morning mornin In summer before most people get up and It I is pointed out that this is all waste daylight da The rhe average mor mortal morI tal tat stays in bed until about 8 because everybody everybody else does The only way to remedy the matter mater is to take time by the forelock as It I has never been handled before and turn It round bodily to fit ft the seasons If I the new regime begins the stand standard standard ard and of time nn will wi n be advanced about abut an nn wi n abut hour and a half in April Apri and it will wl be put back in September when the sun sunrises sunrises sunrises rises later There is to be no sudden jerking of the time machine everything every thin wilt will wl be gradual and as every everyone one will wl do the same no one will wi notice the change changeAt At 2 on each ech of the four Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day mornings in iii April Apri the clock cok is to tobe tobe tobe be put on twenty minutes the reverse operation being made equally grad gradually gradually In the autumn Surely no one ever eyer dreamed dreame of taking such such liberties with wih an ancient institution institution tion ton There is something almost lu ludicrous ludicrous ludicrous about the Idea It I Is only when one ono realizes the tho wonderful effect It would have that the sound strund common commonsense commonsense sense behind the proposition becomes apparent Instead of ot taking our recreation In Inthe inthe Inthe the dark as we do now we shall have havethe havethe havethe the greater part of the afternoon to amuse ourselves In The man who un under den der del the present system leaves his work at 5 p m will wi go off of when the light Is la lathe the same as It Is now at because he started work at a m instead of Instead of rubbing his eyes and be beginning beginning beginning ginning to dress at 8 a I m he wilt will wl do doit doit doit it at 60 because the altered altere clock told him It I was time to go to bed at nf or 11 nn Of course cours though it was only in inI I reality realty the clock cock would point to 11 1 and andi i the man who had always gone to bed b when the clock told him It I was 11 1 would continue to do so because he would be b just as tired tred as he always had been before at that stage stae of the light The only necessity for altering alering the timepieces at all al and deceiving our ourselves ourselves ourselves selves in this thi seemingly childish way wayla Is la to make everybody do the same Uni Un Universal Ur versal agreement is necessary before the thing would work at all al and with the object of securing this the Inventor of the scheme has explained how It I Is Isto Isto isto to be done in a pamphlet which has been sent to all the members of ot both tooth houses of parliament parlament and the heads of most of ot the great industrial concerns The consequences have been amazing amazIng amazIng ing Bankers steel makers bishops bishop and schoolmasters in every quarter have offered to do all In their power to put the clock cock ight according to the sea seasons s seasons sons Great Grel men whom no one on would call cal cranks crank express their high approval of the proposal and a powerful com corn committee Is to be formed at an early date to put the movement on a proper foot footIng footing Ing lag Naturally the Innovation has Its Is crit critics crItics ics lea but it Is a curious that most of them change their views when they have thought the matter mater over properly No fatal flaw faw has bias yet been discovered In the program Some ingenious person pern said sid it I would entirely disorganize railway traffic but butas buta butas as a a matter mater of ot fact the trains would run precisely as they tey do now by the clock The Tho only difference would be that all al the trains that were actually running at the moment the change was made would arrive twenty minutes late Moreover there are very cry few trains running at 2 a m on Sundays The saving to the whole country In Inthe Inthe inthe the cost of artificial light promises to tobe tobe tobe be enormous The public spend about a tenth of ot a penny per head per hour on light There are nearly people In the British Isles and If they have hours of extra etra daylight during the year the saving works out to about pounds sterling a year yer The scheme grows more fascinating the longer one thinks about it it There may be a a new era er in athletics and a proportionate gain in the physique of the population Many pee peo people pe pie hesitate to play cricket tennis or golf now after their work because the light does not last long enough but when people are at liberty to begin a cricket match when the sun tells them li it Is only 4 in the afternoon all al outdoor games will become sos hundred hundrEd times more popular and the a health of the race will wi be a sad blow to t doctors doctor dotor V Instead of ot playing matches mathe on Sat Saturdays St saturdays only cricket clubs will wi be ablo abl to arrange matches as often oten as they thEY like while Saturdays will wi be more like lk w wa a days holiday than half a day Those whose now starts at IX I 1 1 or 2 wilt will have as much da dalight day daylight light at their disposal as though it began at 1040 1140 or 1240 That will wl leave leve every everyone one time Jo to o spend practically prat cally cal a day in the country before dark If I the public takes take to the suggestion In that It a kindly spirit It I is probable will wl be tried trie for six months monts and as nearly every ever one who has studied the subject agrees that its IB benefits would be incalculable there tere Is IB every oct likelihood likelihood hood of the clock being put back hack before long The enthusiastic leaders lEders of ot the tho new arrangement who include the the keenest thinkers thinker and business men of or teh ten day are quite quie agreed that if i the Idea I ea is once carried carre out as an experiment it will wU Inevitably result reul In Its it becoming a permanent institution not Jt only In Inthis Inthis Inthis world this country 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