Show more daylight plan Is s not popular 1 1 1 ri TON 1111 8 8 1 r 4 F 5 S ASHINGTON washington business washington W men do not want to save daylight the proposition to have the h ds of the clock in the summer time indicate that it is nine when in reality it is only eight does not meet with favor in their eyes the national capital has been struggling along under tinder standard sun time in the summer time for a good many years in the opinion of its conservative business leaders they have decided that the city can continue to do the same in the future members of the two trade bodies the board of trade and the chamber of commerce have decided that they can save trouble by not saving daylight by tooling fooling with the hands of the cites clocks may 1 and october 1 they have so notified commissioner macfarland when the president of the board of district commissioners received a suggestion from the national daylight association of cincinnati that the hands of the clock in washington be turned forward an hour may 1 and turned back achour an hour october 1 as will be done in cincinnati next summer lie he referred the question to the tw two coin commercial organizations for expression of opinion as to whether a municipal regulation along that line should be adopted for the district of colum columbia a since the boom first landed in the national capital through the aid of the cincinnati organization it has been a continuous candidate for a home for the friendless it has discovered that so far as it is concerned the business men of washington are frigid and distant not a letter not even a postal card has been written to district officials in its behalf commissioner macfarland has determined to reply to the nat national ional daylight association of cincinnati that he does not consider it advisable to sug gest as the association desired the adoption of a law here similar to the cincinnati ordinance for more daylight he will state that the expression of public opinion made in response to his request is not favorable to such action |