The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1918, Page 16

i : 5 = ao... aa. 2 i % [ee ee 8 SR ARO Sa OOK ww hy _ «*THURSDAY, mm; 89,721,800,000 War Cost Day {Three Times Total Expense ret Reatdar SR nS e ~~ Meta teil _ Gives You an Extra Hour Of All Past Century's Wars What Setting the Clock Ahead Will Mean to You — | e : To Enjoy the Sunshine LESS DAYLIGHT HOUR WASTED IN THE MORNING-—-ONE MORE HOUR OF SUNLIGHT) : ae e 1F ADDED TO YOUR RECREATION WHEN YOUR DAY’S WORK IS DONE. When You Set Your Clock Ahead an Hour on April 1 Your | Work Hours Will Remain the Same but Your OLD TIM Play Hours Will Increase and the Day | ee oe | | 1 2 3 MARCH 21, 1918 Daylig 12,067 ,278,679, Our First Year's Share, Nearly Four Times 0 Cost of Civil War, and Almost Half as Much as Wars of Whole World Cost in One Hundred and Twenty Years, By Albert Payson Terhune ight, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). | | Will Mean More to You. By James C. Young Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, NCLE SAM will push his official clock forward by sixty minutes U on April 1. Thereafter it is going to be unpatriotic for anybody to lie abed in the morning and mutter things about the alarm clock, This daylight saving plan has a good deal more behind it than appears jat first glance. Of course we all know about the millions of hours that are to be conserved and made useful by such a little action as moving the clock ahead. But perhaps very few of us have any idea of what may be accomplished in these added hours. It is as though we had found the philosopher's stone and learned a method to lengthen our span of life. As long ago as 1908 a daylight saving bill was introduced in the House of Commons. Immediately the scheme met derision,'and numerous scientists were among those who called it an idle fad. Other gentlemen jof equal weight stoutly defended the plan. Various nations took heed, and in the course of time began to experiment with their clocks. At this | present time most of the countries in Western Europe, and England as | well, are running their affairs with the clock just an hour fast. } The system appears to work best during the sumer months. So we | May expect to get a larger measure sine | of tennis this year and to spend more HOUR OF DAY 1 2 3 4 12 zZ 8 (The New York Evening World). AR was never on the Free List. But it has steadily grown more and more expensive, until its increase of price has made the Cost of Living seem stationary. Pacifists and Conscientious lectors and similar pests may take comfort to their gentle souls in the! Nedge that at the present rate war will soon cost so much that no tion can afford to wage it. Either there must be perpetual peace, or} one must find a way to fight Hooveristically and chop down the ning weight of overhead charge. For instance: During the 120 years before the present world war there were dozens big conflicts here and in Europe—the Napoleonic Wars and our own War among them. And their total estimated cost in dollars and) during those 120 years was only $26,123,546,240, Split this period two, and you will find that more than 8-13 of the twenty-six billions | spent during the second period. The cost of war, you see, was) WASTED DAYLIGHT zr ily booming. WASTED DAYLIGHT| $ Yes, twenty-six billions and some few odd millions is a tidy sum.| subscription list to a German picnic, compared) ith the cost of the war we are in now, faittee has ostimated that our coun- in “8 bill for our own first year war is going to total up to $12,- it looks like the Irish The Public Information Com-| | included the thousands who died in himself half so much as he would hospital, in a day when hospitals jot our time fishing, golfing or just have done in times past. That sim- |at the front were little better than jwalking around in the big outdoors ple fact of getting up an hour earlier 007,278,679. (This does not include) plague spots. | HERE ARE THE TWENTY FOUR HOURS GRAPHICALLY. ILLUSTRATED \than ever before every day is going to put more vim ‘the money we have lent to the Al-| In the Civil War, when armaments - ounTeay Pervian science menrasy | In the United Kingdom during |in all of us, It will mean a refresh Mies.) In other words, the United! Were @ little loss old fashioned but |four and a half months of 1916 no {ng walk in the morning air for @ e ve, e oh A REFRESHING WALK 8 } 260.06 . vere d ¢ orkers. * States alone has spent nearly half as| ®t!!! more or less primitive, the total oe A less than 260,000 tons of coal were myriad of worker | And iffstead of ‘ fas al) | 1eaths for the four years were map TO WORK IN THE conserved through the reduced use of going home with the shades of eve- meee On one year of wer “"| 944, so far as Governmental esti- "@)° EARLY MORNING jgas, according to Popular Science |ning beginning to fall, it now will the world put togethér spent on it) mates could determine. Of theso| Sater AIR, |Monthly. ‘That meant just $: 000 |be possible to get home in daylight Detween 1793 and 1913. casualties 199,720 were from illness| er = ado | added to the pocketbooks of con- and seek whatever relaxation pleases At that, we are still in the small| lone; not from wounds, but from t ooo - |sumers. The consumption of electric ‘ y ae no - e1 z 6 oy change clavs by comparison with Hu-|!!Iness. With such splendid medical 0 - jourre nt for lighting purposes was 20) Over in England they have found is : i ¢ this| 24 Aureicnl skil\as is in use at tho| ¥ a per cent. in the same period. Use of |that the earlier rising and eariler eee Grevicree seers | front to-day that gruesome hospital |\iiuminating otis fell off by two and. ymecoming has Interested many war have cost the Allies and the) jist would have dwindled almost to a quarter per cent : persons in gardens who never would Germans together $89,721,800,000- | nothing, for the diseases which were For May and June, 1916, the Mu-|) 446 taken up such a thing um more than three times as much as all| then considered hopeless are now nicipal gas works of Berlin reported |iogg they had found more lelsure the previous ‘wars of the entire world | °@#!ly and quickly cured. So are the j& decreased output of 508,500 cublc|time, go it is hoped that we also wounds that used to be deemed in- If you don't like to hurt your brain by thinking in such |metres, operating under the daylight |saving plan. This reduction was ac- Jcomplished in spite of 18,000 addi- for 120 years, |will have an awakened interest in the subject, and indirectly curable. | increase The total loss of life in the Span- lafge figures, the daily cost of the Mormer wars was as economical as is) teh “War was about 20,000. Here | tlonal gas meters installed in the our food supply a This daylight saving plan seems to _war to Allies and Germans is about! again dllness and incomplete hospital THE clock WILL Foot you inst Apa | Ithe tare ofan tncreaned gos conan, |have no end of ene‘. 1 sends $116,700,000. conditions caused by far the largest [SAS FRAG, OF AB ANSERSARG A CORNUIDS ro wack | pacman GORnaTe tern t to this, the price of our| Portion of the deaths, | jtton between January and April, |, ; ; In contrast to this, p |" During the 190 yeare before. 1916 Ne [amounting to no less than 2,400,000 ape sooner, gives them a chance to the spending of a week end with your husband's parents. Our war of 1812, by way of example, lasted the best part of three years. When the bill came in Uncle Sam had to pay only a mere trifle—about $119,624,000. For three years Just a fraction more than Europe now spends in a day! War making in that period was such a heap pastime that one marvels why {it was not known as the Miser's De- light. But rates were slimbing even ther | the deaths all over the world during military service were 5,498,097. Ac- cording to a statement publicly made in the Reichstag last October, the Germans admit that their own losses for the first three years of this war include 1,500,000 dead and from 3, 000,000 to 4,000,000 wounded, Of these Wounded 2,500,000 are either crippled for life or permanently invalided Thus.dp three short years one coun try alone has lost more than a thir As many men killed as did the whok milltary world for the preceding 120 \cubic metres. This {dea of moving the clock ahead was computed to have saved 10 per cent. of the coal used in France last year to generate lighting power, Approaching nearer home, we find that the ctiy of Cleveland reduced its fuel bills by $200,000 in the first six months after switching from Central to Eastern time, which is an hour faster. Following a care- ful investigation, figures were pre- sented to the Rhode Island Commit- tee on Public Safety, indicating that work a bit more if they wish, or to play a great deal more in any case, Certainly an additional hour of day. light Js worth two of darkness to the person who must labor for a living— as almost all of us do, to have been a happy conception that is to the burden of mankind and make things better all around. Kevery one is acquainted with the fafhillar adage about the early bird and the well known worm, It has served as an admonition for many, many years, and gains new It would seem force years. an annual saving would be effected in {Tom the present tendency to get all And when our Mexiean War came|" pat vonviba tee list kt o Providence amounting to $60,000, and |0Ut Of the day that we possibly may. afong in 1845 its course (Of two] coi ae any other SAAR Bar that in the country at large the total Benjamin Franklin, that gental and ow y 8 * \ sur) MORE TIME FOR eg observa e1 4 years and a*few months) cost Us} 9 WORKING IN THE TIR would reach $40,000,000, It is esti- ,Cbservant philosopher, was a believer e peration, And in the case 4 ED BUSINESS MAN about $173,298,000. They could runl ine’ arioy it in ab necessary In Ee YOuR WAR - GARDEN bg oay-s Me AE Sree CAN GET AWAY EARLIER TOHIS GOLF'| | mated by the Boston Chamber of /!n the wholesome doctrine of early ‘thé present war for nearly two days der to eatablish a perfect and par hee. a: -- Commerce that the United States to bed and early to rise. He left bee Lon that budget ani By the time fhe Civil War dawned the art of warfare was quite out of the reach of the poor. It cost a snug fortune for a nation to sit in at such @*game. There have been several careful estimates made of the cash manent cure from the cancer known as German militarism —— American Muskrats Doing Their Bit | Spring Joys and Southern Breezes | Listen to the Sneezes! This Is Going to Be a Nasal Spring! But a Bagful of | will save not less than $100,000,000 annually on artificlal light under the plan “ These figures are all more jor less official, and apply to city or State governments for the most part. The hind a rather famous eséay, taking to task the people of Paris for lying between the sheets overloag, perhaps allowing opportunity to knock at their door and go unheeded. Nis fellow countrymen are now about : . a 3, ’ oT. saving to individuals 1s past com- to try the great expert: it of speed- est of the Civil War to Uncle SMALL but patriotic | Southern Breezes Is Worth More Thana Binful of Coal Only Trouble the pulling) An lnduatrieue eisct ae ing up fae aay 4 ore i ‘e i mck siannavadion 16 1h ¥ A mammal ta doing the Cent Breeze Loses Its Southern Accent by the Time It bimps Into New York—— now work an hour later every day if same time, that they may enjoy lite 000 for the four-year struggle. Wel creature iy none other then the Same Day Last Year, Fair and Democratic. he feels so disposed without taxing 'more. had broken into the billion class at} icra Ane . eis i a “ grt: = last. And our four years of national! vay herauce it me antean eee BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. warfare had cost us almost a third we could say if we had to wait for the janitors to aend it up, rope. lusively to America. However, the Coprrlaht, 1918, Uy the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) | A bagful of southern zephyrs is worth more than a binful of coal, as much as has our first year in to-| matte is easily plained, A IGURING on the sneezes which are becoming tangled up with We have managed to craw! through the winter without yelping wolf, day's war. Ithy Bohemian nobleman, visit the acoustics, we are going to have a very nasal spring this | which is a tougher job than walking through Hester Street without “ The Spanish War was a mere by-] ing Canada about a dozen years ago year, Spring has uly parked her bunions in New York and buying anything, Although our soutbern breezes arrive slightly shop struggle whose actua! fighting lasted) becan terested in muskrate and un plasters a way patriotically from lumbago-spangled | worn, anybody who ain't glad to see and smell ‘em has still got to take | NEWARK - res only a very few months, followed by| 4 mind that it would be shoulder Dlades, All the orchestra seats in City Hall Park are cl 1 | out his first citizenship papers in the Joy League NEWARK MAN so nice about getting the $85 from guerilla squabbles in the Philippines. |" a to Introduce so Tivvabit with oxemptgitizens and exempter aliens grabbing up their ure of Same day last yar, fair and Democratic sate for two hold-up men they neglected to search him, Yet one of the lightest of the several} ng or on into his owr the sunshine and other spring plunder before there in a war tax slapped as and he saved his wallet and $3,500, country. So he took four pairs home BR @Stimates of its cost to us is $1,901,- on it, After being folded up like an accordeon all winter, thegdiokies like ney Hf win ti it, J ‘ all | TO PSCAPE TEACHI ERMAN, New Jerse: 926,000 a - Shay wera lihercicd’|) Pe aBWIBd da t when the mercury climbs up to the mezzanine POOR RICHARD JR. i siructor bas quit job and taken ancther peice eevee $ Wurope's last really big war, befe und their progeny, finding fow nat floor of the thermor It looks as if old Gus Winter has been de- | EDO, | year less, — ® 29914, was between France and ve how environ-| feted and the warm breeges ure flapping in from the south, ‘The only The fool delieveth all he sees. { Fs ah many in 1870 and 1871 It cost Ger men uitiply at a tab. | trouble with a sowthern breeze is that loses its southern accent by the r ‘ rat Gaan hate TIPS for checking hats and coats tn hotels and res« many 4,400,000, and France's bill) u ntry the female | time it finally limps into New York ie a | taurants barred under bill introduced in Massachusetts Was $1,500,000,000 Jin » Hitter @ A sopthern breeze may flutter out of the tropics with the best TA MIASwArctealiawa chin ia Gaccanan BUN TGRIIREi ch ese ne Hoan House. The true cost of a war is not to be) Year, but in rings three} jntentions in the world, But after it blows over Palm® Beach and that he sces it ne - measured by dollars, but by human ar litte world an-| ningles with @ moving pictuve mob filming the eleventh episode of | * CROPS are to be electrified in England this semmeg fives. And in this the price has con- |" the atisarinn Ge Minn te alinhtly aopworn, By tho time shat it Vea, bo as #h experiment in speeding up production, tinued to rise with grim persistency " We from Flori tots th WHRAhIN GOR (EACAA Bigs —. ; 5 escapes fro 1 wheels into Washington it is an easy prey a ; Cala Pace : which is natural, since the chief item | mis “read Phey| tos the ‘redet . f that burg, Flappering over Wiimington, ‘ e sie he ee he iway, 80 how should shé of increased expense is in the pro- |) ee Ri | Baltimore and Chest southern breeze loses its youthful patriotism Thee saith i nathan $75 fine 6? asked girl autoist just before ducing of increasedly murderous en Speco pay pa vi erty §ying the proftitcers. & ng into Philadelphia it g nnoculated - | ee : ser eeaes! ines of warfare. These take their) suppiy) and r damage. | up with ileal ¢ ttish and waffles, peppedp ) Vereins rhe alugeard getteth not ca nds from working, nor PICTURES on the wall twenty-fi # 4 lamag ' | se A thinking five years have toll, When men could buy a sword || short, (hey new plagué. | By the time it z ver Trenton it has flat arehes of the ambition : - | caused the arrest of a Brooklyn cafe owner, tfoy $2 and an outfit of bow and ar-| They are begit overrun Mo-| and. is. slightly 1 with linoleum, leather tanneries, factories, | eregeeeennas row for the same price, the cost of|ravia and Saxony, and the expecta-| —gwamps, ehees 1 nd pinochle tournaments, Goopering through Did Better Himself | {CITY HEARSB at Bellevue has been used to carry War upkeep was small, And so wore) tion is that before very long all Gor- | Newark and Jors the former southern breeze soaks up some | esa coal, butter, preserve Jars and rugs to Bayside home of | the casualties. The more up to date) MHny Will be afl aby their depre-| yyonoken water-front | Austrian thumb prints and blows into Man | fOUNNY who has seen eight n excuse from . Ning former morgue official, he admitted at inquiry dating swarm ; 3 why vou Ww the equipment the higher the death htly assisted by a loelon ce WN, 0, summers go by, not ve rar a | re. es | vaNian alls au f y an exp n of Y vT, a‘ deve f idness for playin | don't want NAMING THE CHERRY. OLDEST GUIDE Book. } . CHINA MAKES OWN STAMPS. ae eagle SERRE RR W: VOLE SOLIS a loaded to the | vooky from s A flax cwa‘or th ny father HE cherry get name from B earliest « of } In our Mexican War f¢ nee Hark Te Row manute hg itaj MmuUazle with odors fromthe Jersey shore which have escaped detotion [hey t Psi riag va Ringe W t Mameast a ana ae | HE oar * guide book printed tab a war of black powder and of short ( own yostage st Before| by the censor pore ay a pla : lac tan eens Oe feabruatlane for Fors ranks . rari : : ask by bh n't any ® avell,” pu renee ae } “ee mune ry tales the war Europ intr Still, it's bree n the south and it's here, w more than John she said next time Ca H first garden cherries known to Eu published émaags gions of life was a bare 14000. This | printed China's stamp ° you Whe absent I want you to briag ual, by James Howell, a famous trayelles a fa ray of that day, *