New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
Public Protests Pour in on
CongresstoSdueDaylighHa
Association Take Up Fight to Prevent lnvalida.
ton of Present "Sunli ght Statute

WASHINGTON March business
to-day upon the Chamber of Commerce
Of the United States to help in the
fight to save the daylight saving law
for the millions Of workers of the coun-
try. Coupled with these there was re
ceived Geographic protest from John
Wanamaker Of Phiadlphs, which FOL
peal the daylight saving law believing
We protest against movement Is ,e-
peal The daylight saving law believing
II hslpfu HI health and eeenemN "a
millions Or workers"
benbsFdmRt VI Senators hy hHsinass
concerns started when II was discovered
q rider had been slipped ia an apnra.
r'A'lnn Pill ia repeal the law. The
Association at Commerce of Chicago at
ei'ee started things hummlng by wiring
lls Illinois senators and all the
,hamhers Of Commerce in Illinois, Iowa.
Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The
Iirst to respond We're Miss Florencs
Ming, OF the Womens Association of
commerce, and Don f. Mowry. secre-
tary of the Madison (Wis.) Chamber of
Ohio Sends Protests
The Dayton (Ohio) organization
wired the national organization and
senator Pomerene as follows:
Large majority Dayton manufact-
urcrs and business men strongly OBJ
posed to repeal of daylight saving law
ana ask you to exert all possible means
10 10 de1eat rider aiming at repeal of
All the leading countries Of Furone
have daylight saving. and tho T IlnioaS
States is the last great country 10
adopt the plan. The law goes into ef.
1ect again in Italy TO- day and in Great
Britain on March 80.
employers of labor everywhere arc
oombardlng Senators. Senator Calder.
or New York, has announced he viii
nght the rider to the finish, and he is
neing backed up by such concerns as
the American Cast Iron Pumn Com
PPany Of Birmingham, Ala; the Rumsev
lump Company of Seneca Falls. N. Y:
.ne Jessop Steel Company of Wash.
lhgtoh' Penn; the Chamber of Com
merce of boston; the Chamber of Com
merge or Philadelphia, and the Boursc
of philadelphia.
Carl Bonwart, of the Vacant Lot As
sociation of Newark, wired the N pt [o
al War Garden Commission that Nou,-
ark had $4,000 gardens this wear where
,hey mad none in 1916, and that the
gardens not only raised vegetables. but
.hflft, which is just as important al
thls time: Richardson Webster, regis
ter OF Kings County (Brooklyn). adj
Vlsed the commission that he has al
iotted 1000 vacant pieces of property
ior gardens this year and that Brook.
ivn IS unit for retaining the law.
Washington Against RepeaI
The department stores ara ,,,;.
mere Tor the measure. and Lester Lans~
purgh mas denounced the attempt to
return to the old system. Washinpton
mas never seen such a concerted effort
70 retain law. as it seems it is one
OF OF the good things the people want
"ashngton hears lots of knocks. but
now 1t Is getting the happy messages
IN the shape of demands that the ex-
ira hours of daylightobe saved far ths
workers of the country.
Kansas Adds 10 Protest
What worker in Kansas thinks of
Gay llght saving is expressed in. the
Following letter. one of h,,ndred, he
ing received by the National War Chr
den Commission
Charles tathrop Pack,
'Fresideht OF the Nationsl War
Garden Comm lsen
nope your association h workine
against the repeal of the dayliub, sap'
ing Jaw aud that you can prevent the
repeal OF tins law, which ii Of so much