Show TELLING TIME BY THE STARS When you JOU set your watches and clocks by some reliable timepiece yuu Ou are arc in rc reality vetting netting them by bythe bytho the tars stars tars Time allover all over the country IS checked by br the radio ranio time i rent from the Naval observatory atory In ins s f Washington and the observatory tune m turn is b by star or Ide ide- ide ral i ral n time Three Thre-c mas master 1 clocks are arc kept in m an underground ault fault at the observatory They arc are under uniform e and air pr pressure and nobody ever dJs dins disturbs them except Cert for repairs repair's Th These clods clocks keep he 1 time which is 18 transmitted by electricity to the room from which the radio signals are sent lent Radio dashes go out on each second for five minutes at 2 5 53 a m 11 55 a a m and 9 55 pm p m Eastern standard time Most people think that the signals como come directly from the radio stations but the fact IS they emanate right from the observatory tory Ta and are transmitted to the stationS via telegraphy telegraph v Oo Observatory erv signals here ere first sent out for the com ant convenience e of naVIgators who used u oe cd them to check their chron ehron- chronometers chronometers before le leaving harbor Now the signals are heard by BByrd at Little Amen America neal the south uth Pole and aird by m in Alaska at the opposite end of the earth Most of the ilia clocks have hate seen long service long sei ice some of t them m dating back baek to the nineteenth century Tho The three most important master clocks w were re placed in tho the vaults in 1904 OffICIals Officials cals in m the Naval Observatory are mode modest appropriations to re- re rep replace re replace p place the obsolete tn types es of clocks wIth new ne models but Congress seems to find millions for defense but few cents for tor correct time |