The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
CHANGE nv TIME
EFFECTIVE OCT. 81
Beginning at A. M. Sunday Morning the
Hands Should Be Turned Back
One House to Sun-Time Basis.

Washington, d. CT, Oct. 26.--All clocks
in the United States should stop for
one hour at 2 a. m. Sunday morning,
Oct q, and then again take up the
procession of the hours.
The country will then be back upon a
sun time basis, and finished with it's
first seven months of daylight saving
experiment. Some minor difficulty in
transportation and industry viii be IN
volved in this return to normal time,
but for most people, the change will
mean nothing more than an extra hour
of sleep on Sunday morning, belated
return of the hour they lost in March
when clock hands were jumped forward
90 minutes by act of Congress.
Practically, clock hands are set for
ward with less trouble than they are
set back, due TO the mechanical arrange
ment of their interiors, The average
householder does not need TO be warned
| but it may be well to understand that
| the best plan will be to stop the clock
Saturday night, and start il right again
| Sunday morning. The telegraph clocks,
of which there are $4,000 now in oper-
alton by the Western Union company,
electrically wound and set, will have to
be properly 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
themselves, and can be given special keys
with which to do the setting. The deli
cate master clocks which correct the
$4,000 every hour win be changed at the
same time, as will be the governments
radio and wire signaling arrangement
which is the scientific basis OF the time
system.
Adjusting railroad train movements
proceeding over the time changing pc
riod viii present the most difficulty Di-
rector General McAdoo has authorized a
| general order on the subject, by which
| trains on the road viii continue their
| progress until reaching a station, and
there be held one hour. At the same
time, the complicated system of train
! orders and train schedules is such that
the railroad administration general or
der specifically puts it up to local man
agements to use their own discretion
and to protect train movements by 9TH
er methods, if they find it necessary.
At any rate, Sunday morning must find
the railroads throughout the five time
belts in the United States moving trains
| on the regular schedule and in the new
time, so far as it is possible
Evidently daylight saving was dis.
tinct success, for Chairman Baruch of
| the war industries board asked Congress
to extend the hour ahead system through
the coming winter The Senate unani-
mously passed bill to enact his recon-
mendation into law, but the bill died in
the House.
Senator Calder, who fathered the law,
has declared that extra daylight saved
| 81, 100000 in gas bills for the people. The
fuel administration estimated that on
the seyen-month basis | ,l25,000 tons Of
coal had been saved, to relieve possible
winter shortage. Definite reports from
st. Louis said consumption of coal had
dropped IT'S tons per thousand popula-
ton.
These estimates were worked out by
comparing the coal consumption of cen
trail stations with previous years, TO de-
termine how much less electrical energy
and gas for lighting had been utilized
These were the demonstrable features,
and enthusiasts for the daylight saving
plan placed no limit on the extra health
and enjoyment of life secured by the
masses of people who found themselves
free to use the out doors under the sun
for an extra hour after concluding work
Charles Lathrop Pack, head of the ma
tional war garden commission, asserts
that the crop from the home plots this
year is worth 1925 100000, an increase
of 81 per cent over the 1917 results
and gives much credit to the evening
daYlight hour for the result.