Show TELLING TIME BY TH THE STARS Y if II T When you set your watches and clocks by some reliable timepiece you arc are in m reality rc setting netting them b by bythe bythe the stars Time all over o the country IS checked by t the c radio ramo time ii I irn ls sent from the Naval N observatory in 10 WashIngton and the observatory tune in turn is checked by stai or side ril ril nl time Three mast master r clocks are kept in m an underground vault at the tory observatory They arc are under uniform temp ratu C e I 1 tJ and air pressure and nob nobody dy ei a el ei dis disturbs disturbs them e for dyl l These docks clocks k keep p time ich IS I i transmItted by electricity the to t the room Irons from which the radio r SI signals nals are arc sent Radio dashes go o 0 opt fit t on each second for five minutes a f 2 55 a m 11 1155 55 a m nt and 9 55 5 p pm m Eastern standard time Most lost people eople think that the signals com come directlY from the radio stations hons bt b t the fact IS they ema tc right from om the and are trap to the statIons via ia 18 h liy Observatory Observatory si q signals Is Isele ele fist fust 1 sent out fog fo the ne nce of navigators who used th m t y chec check their chron chron- chronometers om e I waving leaving VIng harbor Now the signals re b by AdmIral rd BByrd at lItt Q a America near the South Pole I arid and a by surveyors in 10 Alaska at to opposite end of the earth arth V Most of the docks clods ha e S seen l Ion long service some sonic of them dating back t to the nineteenth c century the fhe three three most important master clocks were placed in m the vaul s n 11 1901 Off OtT OILdale clas dials in ire the the- oval val Observatory are modest appropriations to re- re replace replace re replace place the obsolete types of docks clocks n ith new net mod models ls but Congress se ae ms to find millions mIllion for or defense but few cents for correct time |