SHOVE THE CLOCK BACK

Once more the long arm of Mars has reached to Massachusetts, and again the great mass of the people of the Bay State have felt his pinch. The immediate cause this time is the recent order of Mr. Storrow, which decrees that after next Monday all activities of the Commonwealth shall cease daily at 10 P. M., and that in all other ways possible, coal and energy created by coal be economized.

Every class in the community will be affected by this drastic measure. Not even the Back Bay bud will escape the pinch, for one clause reads that all dances, public and private, shall stop at 10 o'clock. Gone also will be the midnight oil consumption of the mid-year period; even the movie palaces will have to leave the hero hanging over a canyon edge on a thin rope, if he is so inconsiderate as to be in that position, at the tenth stroke of the clock.

But has Mr. Storrow adopted the best means of treating the troublesome question? It has been apparent for several weeks that drastic measures were necessary; nevertheless, would it not be possible to remedy the difficulty not by cutting down on the waste of artificial light, but rather by curtailing the waste of the free and abundant sunlight? In the warring nations of Europe the Clock has been turned back for so long that it may never return to its former habits. The experiment was tried by a large percentage of the University in the R. O. T. C. last summer, and its advantages were obvious to the greatest bed-lovers in the Regiment. Even if for national reasons the authorities of the state do not see fit to make such a system universal, it would be altogether possible to introduce it in the University. The plan is worthy of serious consideration by the powers of U5.