Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-09-28
LOST HOUR RETURNS
TO US OCTOBER q
Hands Of All Clocks That Morn
ing Will Be Turned Back To
Mean Solar Time
CHANGE MADE IN MARCH

The daylight-saving scheme has but
month from today.
The man who has been longing for
the hour of sleep which he lost during
the night of March 81, when the day
light saving law went into effect, will
have TO wait for that pleasure until
October %. On that date the hands of
all the clocks in the country will be
turned to / o'clock at precisely two
hours after midnight And on Monday
morning the average American will
find. as he goes TO work, that he has
slept nine hours instead of the regu-
lation eight.
Marcus NJ Marks, formerly Borough
President of Manhattan. and at pres
ent the head of the National Daylight
Saving Association. explained today
that the law passed by Congress pro-
vided that the additional hour of day
light should last from March 81 TO Oc-
tober 81. He said that his first idea
had been to limit the duration to the
last Sunday in September.
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it was passed" said Mr.. Marks. We
didn't want TO risk the loss of the
measure, so we agreed to its passage
at once. Of course, during October
there really isn't very much gained, as
daylight will be lost in the morning.
But 1t will be saved at night
The sponsor of the daylight-saving
plan was enthusiastic concerning the
manner in which the actual operation
of the law has been received this sum-
mer.
"At first there were many conserva-
tive people who told us that the idea
could never be a success" he said.
Some people said that they would
not consent to having their clocks
turned ahead, but, of course, they had
to fall in line. We haven't definite
figures as yet of the saving in gas and
electricity brought about by the law,
there are a number of ways of esti-
mating the amount.
Just as a personal example: At
my camp in the Adriondacks this sum
mer we burned denatured alcohol for
lighting purposes as in the past
Usually we have had to burn about 40
gallons, but this year we needed but
13 The saving elsewhere must have
been fairly proportionate."
Daylight saving came last March
only after agitation by members of the
National Daylight Saving Association.
who enlisted the aid of the newspapers
for their campaign. Conservation peo-
pie feared the disruption of industry,
the missing of trains and steamships
and disturbances along various other
lines. But nothing out of the way hap
pened After the clocks had been set
ahead life went on as usual.
By this time most people have for
gotten that when they get up at z
o'clock it is really 6-that is, all except
the man who remembers that he lost
an hour of sleep on the night of March
81 last
When watches, clocks and all other
indicators of time, except the sun
dials, are turned back one hour next
month there will probably be cele-
hration similar to the one which mark
ed the change of time last March. The
National Daylight Saving Association
will have charge of the event again,
but Mr. Marks said today that definite
plans had not yet been made. Two
o'clock at night was chosen because
few trains are arriving or departing
at that hour and because there is less
industry or business in operation.
And it will be a night of unalloyed
bliss The hurried newspaper editor
will have an hour extra in which to
make his edition; the locomotive en-
gineer will be able to tarry along the
road for an hour if necessary. The
husbands of America will be able to
sit up with their sick friends for an
hour more on that night before they
have to make their way noiselessly
home, and the debutante at her first
ball will dance for so more minutes
into the night before the orchestra
sounds for the last number.