The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-28
EASTERN TIME TO
Be BIG ISSUE
IN SPRING
More Daylight Club Carries on Wig
orous Campaign and Has Pledged
% Aldermen To Resubmit Mat
ter at City Election.
Means Better Health and Smaller
Light Bills" Says DR.. Geo. L.
Renaud, Father Of Movement.

George A. owen, John c.
Lodge, Charles Burton. James
Vernon, Alois A. Deimel, Maurice
]. Heating, David Rosenthal,
John T. Thompson. George 5.
Field, John Grindley, John Harp
fer, Martin J. Ostrowsk. Joseph
l.. Theisen, r. M. Watson, Louis
Brozo, Charles e. McCarty, A. j.
Walsh, Frank j. Mason, George
II. Ellis, John c. Garvey, Herman
Schultz, Edwin Keusch and VIM.
F. Zoeller.
These % members OF next year
council, according to DR.. George L.
Renaud. president and founder OF the
More-Daylight club, are willing 10
submit to the voters OF Detroit, in
the spring elections, the question OF
adopting Eastern Standard time IN
place of that now in vogue. Central
Standard, which Is one hour slower
than Eastern There are SO mem
bers In the council, and DR.. Renaud
feels certain that more OF the alder
men will be added to the foregoing
list before the time for the submis-
sion of the question comes around
Thus far he has not heard directly
from the others, but he says he has
good reason to believe that the coun'
Gil will be almost unanimous on the
subject when the time arrives for
action.
THE More-Daylight club Is becom'
ing more powerful every day" said
DR.. Remand enthusiastically in his Of
flee. Friday afternoon. to The Times
hap feel
that we shall soon have Eastern
Standard time. We shall be able to
vote on the question next April, If
the council allows 1t to be submitted,
and there Is every indication that II
will We have been carrying on a
system of education since the Ques-
ton was last submitted and the peo-
pie are now fully aware OF the ad-
vantages of Eastern Standard time.
They know that 1t Is going to give
them more daylight for their work
and add more time to their sleeping
hours.
we should have Eastern Standard
time for many reasons. In the first
place. il makes for better health for
the people. simply because 1t will
give them more time to work by day
light. II will be less severe on the
eyes than Central Standard time, az
much more artificial light Is required
in working on the latter time. School
children will benefit largely by the
use of the Eastern time, for the rea-
son that they will then not have TO
go to school until 8 o'clock in the
morning, whereas they now have to
start at eight, thus robbing them of a
lot OF good, healthful sleep, which
they certainly require In their grow.
ing days. Manufacturers Will also
make big gains with Eastern time
because their light bills will decrease
with the change In time. AS a mat
ter OF fact. there is so much benefit
to be derived from the adoption of
Eastern Standard time that one won
ders how anyone familiar with the
situation can hesitate for a minute
to support the agitation for a change,
Even Chicago, much farther away
from the Eastern time belt than De
troit, is talking of adopting the
Eastern system. In fact, one Chicago
paper has suggested that Eastern
time might be used with success and
advantage clear through to the
coast.
Il feel sure, anyway, that Eastern
time will win at the polls in Detroit
Ii has never received fair chance
with the electors. When the question
was last voted on, a few years ago
the three times, Central, Eastern and
sun, We're before the electors for 4
choice. Few knew anything about
Eastern. and the supporters of Cen
trail had more power than those fav.
oring sun, with the result that Cen
trial won out. Now, however, nearly
every workingman and woman knows
the advantages of Eastern time, and
am confident there will be a big
majority recorded for Eastern time
when the question comes up for set
| Element in the spring"
The More-Daylight club, which
now has a membership of more thar
| 10000, points out. among other
things, in the literature 1t Is send
ing out, the following:
Everyone appreciates the long
light evenings of midsummer;
everyone regrets their shrinkage
as autumn approaches, and near
| ly everyone has given utterance
to a regret that the clear bright
light of early morning, during
spring and summer months, is
so seldom seen or used. Never
| theless, during nine or ten
months OF the year. the sun
shines upon the city, for from