30 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 3

Before some of our readers see these words they will

have put back their clocks an hour. In spite of the pressure of news worth recording in this chronicle, we must seize the occasion to salute here the passing of the national blessing known as "summer time." It has not merely been a cause of much economy ; it has brought the delightful long summer evenings into the spring. The Act was only a temporary expedient. We desire to express now our agreement with the prevai'ing opinion that the Act should be made permanent. The Act, it is true, only does for us by a sort of official make-believe what we could have done for ourselves by reforming our habits. But man is a conservative and a hesitating animal. The Act has done what we should never have done for ourselves. Let us re-enact it.