Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-27
CLOCKS An HOUR
AHEAD On SATURDAY
Twentieth Century Wheeling
Hour win Be . o'cIoek
Sunday Morning
IS THE SpEEDIEsT HOUR

The twentieth century witching
hour II aet TOR next Sunday morning
at two o'clock Ii Is 10 & the speed
lest hour In the year. Tn the twinkling
Eof M eye the hands of the clocks the
country over viii jump ahead one
hour. To d. M. under the operation
az the daylight saving Law. Under this
law, In each year. the time shall / E
advanced one hour at a M, the last
Sunday III March, and shall remain
one hour ahead Of the old sun time
until the same hour the last Sunday la
October. when the clocks will all II
set back one hour.
The daylight saving law was put
through last year, while the war was
at It's height, as a conservation meas
ure It's advocates insisted that It
would result IN a great saving OF coal
and that It would enable the people to
get Ia work iii their gardens, after
leaving their offices and factories, and
thus Increase the food supply 80 urg-
entity needed to feed the allied nations,
as well AZ the pdople or this country
The United States followed the lead
#of the European nations in adopting
the daylight saving plan
The notwithstanding law, however,
while passed ander the whip and spur
of war necessity, does not die with the
end Of the war, like SO much other
war legislation til continues to oper-
ate each year until repealed. Al
though farmers Ia many parts OF the
country through their farmers orr
ganixations, have urged the repeal Of
this law on the ground that II was i'm
possible for them and their farm hands
to get To work an hour earlier, Lecause
the crops were vet with dew III the
early morning. the operation of the
law was considered great success
Throughout the cities of the country.
Tha workers. hailed with joy che op-
portunity ID leave their tasks ali hour
earlier 80 far as sunlight was con
cerned, even though they had 10 rise
earlier In order to begin work
An effort 10 repeal the daylight
saving law was made In the last con-
gress. The senate committee on agri-
culture added rider to the annual
AGRICULTURAL appropriation bill re-
pealins the law. but this Is one 81 the
six supply bills that failed of action.
iii the same light is resumed in the
next congress, as It probably will be-.
Senator Calder and others viii make
every effort III defeat the attempted re-
peal os the daylight -saving law
The changs Of time next Sunday
may 1 d easily effected, So far as In
diyiduaIs are concerned. BY merely set
ting watches and clocks ahead one
hour when bedtime comes, The next
morning when they awake the owners
or the clocks and watches will have
the correct time.
The government departments and
private business houses will all open
one hour earlier according to sun
time, bat at the same old hour accord
ing 70 The clocks
The sun rises at 8 :58 O'clock Sun
day morning, March 30, under the day
ligh t-saving law, as worked out BY the
coast and geodetic survey. and sets at
7.29 o'clock that evening. RI there.
had Ieen mo daylight esaying Law. the
hour OF sunrise would have been 5:58
o'clock Sunday morning. and the hour
BIZ sunset, s 20 o'clock.
Estimates made last October BY the
fuel administration placed the total
saving og coal during seven months or
the year ak 1850, 900 tons, Coal pro-
duction ia this country has been set at
i low SD. according TO the admins
tration, and there are fears Of b
severe shortage next winter. The.
gravity 81 shortage will depend on the
severity of the winter.
The plan has been id operation IN
Great Britain, France. Italy, Portugal,
Cermany. Austria, Holland, Denmark,
sweden. Norway, Australia and Ice
Land. me period VI the conservation
plan II shorter ii European countries
tlnan IL the United States. owing To the
TACT that Europe IS nearer the eaua-
TOR,