The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-26
U. s. WILL GET
BACK ITS LOST
HOUR TOMORROW
Clocks Go Back an Hour at 2
a. m. Sunday Morning
Time Saving Profitable.
tBy Associated P.ess)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-All clocks
in the United States should stop for
one hour at 2 a. m. Sunday morning,
Oct. 27, and then again take up the
procession of the hours.
The country will then be back ~
a sun-time basis, and finished with its
first seven months Of daylight saving
experiment. Some minor difficulty
in transportation and industry will be
involved in this return to normal
time, but for most people, the change
will mean nothing more than an ex-
ira 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.
Practically, clock hands are set for
ward with less trouble than they are
set back, due to the mechanical ar
of their interiors. The
average householder does not need to
be warned but 1t may be well to un-
derstand that the plan will be to stop
the clock Saturday night, and start 1t
right again Sunday morning. The
telegraph clocks-of which there are
$4,000 now In operation by the West
ern Union company, electrically
wound and set-will have to be prop
erly adjusted by the company's force,
which is now planning to do the work
OH Sunday, except in locations where
the users are awake at night them
selves, and can be given special keys
with which to do the setting. The
delicate master clocks which correct
the $4,000 every hour will be changed
at the same time, as will be the gov
ernment's radio and wire-signalling ar
rangement which is the scientific
basis of the time system.
Adjusting railroad train movements
proceeding over the time-changing
period will present the most difficulty.
Director General McAdoo has author
ICED a general order on the subject.
by which trains on the road will con-
tinue 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 ad-
ministration general order specifical-
1y puts 1t up to local managements to
use their own discretion and to pro-
tect train movements by other meth
DDS, 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.
Was Distinct Success.
Evidently daylight saving was a
distinct success, for Chairman Baruch
of the war Industries board asked con-
ho,rr-ohood
tenn through the coming winter. The
senate unanimously passed a Dill TO
enact his recommendation into law
but the bill died in the house.
Senator Calder, who fathered the
law has declared that extra daylight
saved $2,OOO,0O in gas bills for the
people The fuel administration esti-
mated that on the seven-month basis
LIPS, 900 tons Of coal had been saved,
to relieve possible winter shortage.
Definite reports from st. Louis said
consumption of coal had dropped lib
tons per thousand population.
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 we're the demonstrable fea-
lures, and enthusiasts for the daylight
saving plan placed no limit on the ex-
ira health and enjoyment OF life Sc
cured by the masses OF people VINO
found themselves free to use the out
doors under the sun for an extra hour
after concluding work. Charles Lath-
rop Pack, head of the national war
garden commission, asserts that the
crop from the home plots this year IS
worth $525, 100000, an increase OF 81
percent over the 1917 results. and
gives much credit to the evening day
light hour for the result.
Little Affect Here.
Richmond will be little affected by
the change in time Owing to the in
fuenza ban there will be no church
services or other public gatherings to-
morrow, and the only persons who VIII
be affected by the added hour. will be
those who have been mourning that
lost hour of sleep since last March
when the clocks were turned back.
Trains will be running an hour lat
er according to the present time, and
will be held up at stations where they
happen to be at o'clock Sunday
morning. Train No. 236 from Chicago
and train No 237 from Cincinnati on
the Pennsylvania that are due to
arrive here in the early morning. will
arrive an hour late, according to the
present schedule Train 237 will be
held up at Cincinnati, its terminal,
arriving here at 12:40 o'clock Train
236 will arrive in Richmond at 4:4O
o'clock, summer time. and will leave
at 4:25 o'clock by the winter time
schedule.