MOMENTOUS

Another momentous period of the year has come to a close. Outside of the Institution of marriage, the machinery of the organized Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened by the destiny of the Universe.