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Show ALL CLOCKS IN u, no stop Sunday Morning at 2 A. M. the Country Will Go Back to Sun-time Basis. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 All clpcks In the United States should stop for one hour at 2 a. m. Sunday morning, October 27, and then again take up the procession of the hours. The country will then be back upon a sun-time basis, and finished with its first soven months of daylight saving sav-ing experiment Some miner difficulty difficul-ty in transportation and industry will bo Involved In this return to normal time, but for most people, the change wlH mean nothing more than an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning, a belated return of the hour they lost in March when clock-hands were Jumped forward 60 minutes by act of congress. Western Union to Set Clocks Practically, clock hands are set forward for-ward with less trouble than they are set back, due to the mechanical arrangement ar-rangement of their interiors. The average av-erage householder does not need to be warned but it may be well to understand under-stand that the best plan -will be to stop the clock Sunday night, and start it right again Sunday morning. The telegraph clocks, of which there arc 50,000 now in operation by the Western Wes-tern Union company, electrically wound and set, will have to be properly prop-erly adjusted by the company's force, which is now planning to do the work on Sunday except in locations where the users are awake at night them- selves, and can be given special kaysj with which to do the sotting. The delicate master clocks which correct the 50,000 every hour will be changed at the same time, as will be the government's gov-ernment's radio and wire-signaling arrangement which is the scientific i basis of the time system. Adjusting railroad train movements proceeding over the time-changing period will present the most. difficulty. Director General McAdoo has authorized author-ized a general order on the. subject, by which trains on the road will continue con-tinue their progress until reaching ai station, and there be held cue hour. I At the same time, the complicated sys- j tern of train orders and train sche-, dules is such thaLlhe railroad admin- istration general order specifically) puts It up to local managements to i HBO Ihm'r nwn fl?r;rrpf ion .mil in nrn- lect train movemonts b; other-, methods. meth-ods. If they find it necessary. At any rate, Sunday morning must find the railroads throughout the five time I belts in the United Slates moving trains'on the regular schedule and in the new time, so far as It is possible. Daylight Saving A Success Evidently day-light saving was a distinct success, for Chairman Baruch of the War Industries Board asked Congress to extend the hour-ahead system through t.he coming . winter. The senate unanimously passed a bill to enact his recommendation into law but the bill flied in the house. Senator Calder, who fathered the law lias declared that extra daylight saved ?2,0tf0,000 '"in gas bills for tlie people. The Fuel Administration estimated es-timated -that oh the seven -months ba-j ba-j sis 1,125.000 tons of coal had been saved, to relieve possible wintor shortage. Definite reports from St. Louis said consumption of coal had dropped 17.5 tons per thousand population. pop-ulation. These estimates were worked out by comparing the coal consumption of central stations with previous years, to determine how much less electrical energy -and gas for lighting had been utilized. These wore the demonstrable features, fea-tures, and enthusiasts for the daylight saving plan placed no limit on the ex-' tra health and enjoyment of life sc-I sc-I cured by the masses of pople "who found themselves free to use the out doors under the sun for an extra hour after concluding work. Charles Lath-rop Lath-rop Pack, head of the national war garden commission, asserts that the crop from the home plot this year is worth $525,000,000, an increase of 51 per cent over the 1917 results, and gives much cre'dlt to the evening daylight day-light hour for. the result. |
