The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-26
STOP CLOCKS FOR' AN HOUR ON NEXT. SUNDAY MORNING.
Sun Time to Be Resumed by Law Beginning October
 27 at 2 A. M.
DON'T SET BACK
 TIMEPIECE HANDS
Daylight Saving Has Been An Entire Success During
 the Summer Time.

Washington, Oct 26.-Ar clocks in the United States should stop for one hour at 2. a. m. Sunday morning, Oc- tober 27 and then again take up the procession of the hours
 The country will then be back upon 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- tra hour of sleep on Sunday morning, a beiated 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 rangement Of their interiors. The average householder does not need to be warned but 1t may be well to un- derstand that the best plan will be to stop the clock Saturday night, and start 1t right again Sunday morning. he telegraph clocks-of which there are 5O,O00 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 50,000 every hour will be chang ed at the same time, as will be the governments radio and wire-signal- ing arrangement which is the scien- tific 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 order on the subject, by which trains on the road will continue their progress until reaching 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 order specifically puts it up to local man. agements to use their own discretion and to protect train movements by other methods, if they find 1t neces- sary. 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 fa1 as 1t is possible.
 Experiment Q Success. 1 Evidently daylight saving was 6 distinct success, for Chairman Ba. ruch of the War Industries Board asked Congress to extend the hour, ahead system through the coming winter. The senate unanimously passed a bill to enact his recommen- dation into law but the bill died 1T the house.
 Senator Calder, who fathered the law has declared that extra dayligh saved s2,OOO,OOO in gas bills for the people The Fuel Administration estimated that on the seven-montf basis 1,125,OOO tons of coal had beer saved, to relieve possible winter Louis said consumption of coal had 1 dropped l1.0 per llOuSduu pOpuld 1 ton.
 These estimates were worked ou by comparing the coal consumption of central stations with previou: years, to determine how much les: electrical energy and gas for lighting had been utilized.
 These were the demonstrable feat ures and enthusiasts for the day light saving plan place no limit on the extra health and enjoyment of life SC cured by the masses of people wht found themselves free to use the ou doors under the sun for an extrs hour after concluding work. Chas Lathrop Pack, head of the nationa war garden commission, asserts. tha the crop from the home plots this year is worth $525, 5,000,00O. an in crease of 51 per cent. over the 191i results, and gives much credit to thu evening daylight hour for the result