The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-26
STOP YOUR
CLOCK ON
SUNDAY MORNING
After That the Country Will
Be Back on a Sun-Time
Basis
DAYLIGHT SAVING A
GREAT SUCCESS
All Railroad Trains Will
Wait an Hour at
Station

Washington, 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 pro-
cession of the hours.
The country will then be back up
on a sun-time basis, and finished
with its first seven months of day
light saving experiment. Some minor
difficulty in transportation and in
dustry will be involved in this return
the change will mean nothing more
than an extra hour of sleep. on Sun
day morning, belated return of the
hour they lost in March when the
clock hands were jumped forward so
minutes by act of congress.
Practically, clock hands are set
forward with less trouble than they
are set back, due to the mechanical
arrangement of the interiors. The
average householder does not need to
be warned but it may be we'll to un-
derstand that the best plan will be to
stop the clock Saturday night, and
start it right again Sunday morning.
The telegraph clocks-of which there
are $4,000 now in operation by the
Western 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
on 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-signaling
arrangement which is the scientific
basis of the time system.
Adjusting railroad train move
ments proceeding over the time
changing period will present the
most difficulty. Director General
McAdoo has authorized a general or
der on the subject, by which trains
on the road will continue their pro-
gress until reaching station, and
same time, the complicated system of
train orders and train schedules is
such that the railroad administration
general order specifically puts it up
to local arrangements to use their
own discretion and to protect train
movements by other methods, if they
find it necessary. At any rate, Sun
day 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 a
distinct success, for Chairman Baruch
of the War Industries Board asked
Congress to extend the hour-ahead
system through the coming winter.
The senate unanimously passed bill
! 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 $2,000,000 in gas bills for the
people. The Food Administration es-
timated that on the seven-month ba-
sis 1,125,000 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 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 light
ing had been utilized.
These were the demonstrable fea.
lures, and enthusiasts for the day
light saving plan placed no limit or
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 ar
extra hour after concluding work
Charles Lathrop Pack, head of the
national war garden commission, as
serts that the crop from the home
plots this year is worth $525 ,00O, 900
an increase of 81 per cent over the
! 1917 results, and gives much credit te
the evening daylight hour for the re,
suit.