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Show Return to 'Winter' Time Engulfs Hour Tomorrow Morning WIIEX you turn out the light and kiss yourself goodnight tonight, unless you stay up until 3:30 o'clock tomorrow morn i ng, meditating on how you are going go-ing to gain the sixty minutes that congress con-gress has ordained shall be taken away from you by switching the hour of daylight day-light from the end of the day to the beginning, you had best turn the clock back one hour, or the alarm will rob you of that period of Sunday morning sleep to which you will be entitled. Father time is an Indian giver. He gave every man, woman and child in the United States an hour extra a day since last March, b X. tomorrow morning, even before you are awake, the old man with the scythe will take away that sixty minutes. min-utes. When J. Cecil Alter, the local weather man, takes his half-past three observation tomorrow morning, he will set his clock back to half past two. But no one will be the wiser, except if his Sunday morning rising hour be 9 o'clock, he will awake with the full glare of the sun in his bed chamber. Since the last Sunday In March the United States has been keeping its engagements en-gagements on "summer time,' legally recognized. Tomorrow it will return to "winter time," the return having been authorized by act of congress, specifying the date for returning to normal regular j astronomical time. While it took twenty-four hours for the Western Union clock man to set the circuit clocks ahead one hour last March, : to switch back it will only be a matter of wiping out an hour by canceling each minute between 11 o'clock and midnight, or between midnight and 1 a. m., it doesn't matter which, of the date the change is to be made. It will be going back an hour, but it will'inean an hour's more daylight, just the same. |