Show No S t. t S Right Time y f O Cl the tho O observatory cl professor Mol told me mc something or of the triumphs ol 01 of man JUan over ovo time tino for JUan nian has begun t 1 to master the clock and my astronomer S S dropped his a after ti lunch hutch whon he conCe confessed ed the tlC deception lou i that thal Greenwich has hag Imposed 5 on tl th the world There arc ure two fundamental lines that encircle tho w at one lie tho equator J to which Is due tue respect What hut hat should S bo be the tire other Th Tim meridians of or JeruS Jeru Jeru- salem alem an and of or Rome Home c S and of oC the Great Pyramid were suggested a as ns the thc cross line Hue that should H start It the time of cia day duy But BUl the hie he supremacy s of oC Great Ll Britain on the tho seas cas the necessity of accurate measuring mea mea- suring of oC hours hour and minutes brought the tho centre of oC the world to Greenwich und and Greenwich sot to work to tell the tho P time thee an and nowadays when Greenwich S. S says as a's It Is Js noon it Is noon nuon It Is 18 usually i a compromise The line might ha c have ha been drawn dran over O any other point of or the worlds world's ot surface But Bul Greenwich I has It IL and sots Sets th the mean time And p when It Its s Is loda today In Greenwich It Is I r thu this Is evening e In other places and yester day or 01 tomorrow In others POI For 1 when railways came caine and swift steamships and und men nen ran to und fro u Greenwich spread Its compromise tie the St St. world worl went on spinning as usual but men spun shun faster The rhe coach passengers passenger watch In London would take talio hh hlin r o out t disaster to Edinburgh while the voyager vonger to America hart had hall probably bl forgotten forgotten for tOl gotten all n about out limo in the wonders I of space ll Gut But when men melt began an to travel swiftly auth far Cal It was necessary I IlO to lO come como to 1 some agreement about time I I since ince It would never nc do O to fiddle addle with Ute the or reset the clock at over every between here and anti II Tl r was necessary to compromise anti and compromise corn com promise a always ays Implies a a certain 5 amount it nf f deceit I F. F S Therefore Greenwich made nut Its t lino which is never nc the right rig time limp and S the tho world mapped lt Itself out into four four- i S i twenty and t chunks I If Ir you go gi round at L IOU yuu lose n n it day or gain it Il It acc ac- ac t r c cOIlIn to your your lu e And Ilius you yuu I t I v il 11 i C lUH i Our lI I In as its ij I Untied time to tl human lees devices Then Then- 11 many rn-ni- Important places in the WUI wo lii hI I S I at me IlIc b by Greenwich to get ui s' s i half an all hour earlier than they suspect l ir r to lie abed 1 Isif an all later titan than they thu cy hoped For example lb the e man limn at i P Pei v.-hii v. wants to get up UI at al s L o'clock Js ls turned out of bed hed twenty twenty- I Ui e i ec C minutes titan than th the thur man than In i London lie lii Ien ne er notices 1 tie the din 1111 lf cr- r Hut But tl the gnu gaa at al P.-I P. I noticed it for 01 la Is on the or of j I inid time nod and the i go to hued bod before ole they have consumed sufficient gas g-as it h to satisfy dividends IhlI Tb Ihl ht con coni be begged eel that should be I hoisted Into tIle the n nox see sec le less 3 daylight and use lI more gaj ga I There Is no sued such thing a as lime thc the I right Um time anil If Lucre were It would depend upon 1111 which we C are ure suit suit- sup I hosed od to be annihilating lU when We wo oya voyage e across tin the Atlantic tilt tho captain tampers with th the clock In the thc III night ht robs rohs us its of lislE half an all hours hour I sleep on otto one wa way f eJ ery night and auth glIt gh gl gives e It back on llio tIit return Journey and n none in on one notices the tr fraud uJ Thero ale uie place on fin tile the ocean wh where re a ship shut s 8 captain captain- Inspired by hy the fraudulent transactions transaction of oC Greenwich wJ h a whole da day fron Crom toni his passengers or condemns them to an extra cIa day of or this transitory life lICe So Soone No Noone o one grumbles s. s for Cot no IW one 1110 suffers incon Incon- A And nd 1 I think that on the thie thew w whole I should welcome Mr Ir project of I luring mv mi from my bed bell am and giving me Inc light of a u. whole da day U In summer and pe permitting me tile to po pay back the debt h by 13 Installments in lied bed in HI the winter vinter I l pointed out the situation li limy to my IU astronomer friend and asked him bin whether as he lie sits HM as obviously quite un unscrupulous tin tin- scrupulous In the matter of or time us as he lie was putting an admittedly adulterated article on It the tiui- market he could coul not go o oa 51 a L p IlE fa 1 I I 4 I II I i R II I I I 1 I I Ii i Photo of R It P head bent of I I Hit Hit- Mali Steamship line in Sun San Francisco ho c was Indicted fo fo rait- rait Hv li w i |