The Sauk Centre herald., 1919-05-29
WILL REPEAL DAY.
Light Saving Law
FARMERS OF THE NATION ARE
PRESSING FIGHT TO KILL
MEASURE.
HOUSE Committee FAVORS
TILLERS OF SOIL CLAIM THE
NEW TIME DISTURBANCES
WROKING SCHEDULE.

w aSu1uS LOu, A1dy Ao' IlSSS eiio
,eople who enjoy an extra hour of
tunlight at the end of every day dur
ng the summer months make them
selves heard in the national capital
within the next few days Congress
in all probability will repeal the day
light saving laW.
The other side in this fight has won
the ear of congress. The house COM
mittee on agriculture today reported
the agricultural appropriation bill
containing a rider repeating the re-
vised law. Consideration of the bill
will be started in the house tomor-
row. There is very indication that
body will pass the bill as reported.
A similar rider was tackled to this
bill by the senate committee at the
end of last session. 1t failed of pass
age at that time only because Of the
filibuster in the closing days. The
senate committee is expected to re
port the rider again.
So if the garden and recreation
hour is to be retained for the re-
mainder of hte summer the
people back home must make
themselves felt in the senate. 1t ap-
pears to be too late to do anything
on the house side.
AS agreed on by the house commit
tee, daylight saving will be killed the
second Sunday following the enact
ment of the law.
Farmers of the country began a
campaign against the daylight SAVING
last winter. They had victory In their
grasp when Senators Sherman, La
Toilette and France threw monkey
wrench into the machinery with their
flibuster.
Scarcely had the Sixty-Flfth Con-
press expired when propaganda
campaign was launched. In every
community, it appears, the farmers
circulated petitions demanding the re-
neal of daylight saving law. Judg-
ing from the length of the petitions
which have reached Washington a
great majority of the farmers IN the
country have asked for the repeal.
The farmers don't like the new time
because they say it disarranges their
whole working schedule. The farmer
has adjusted himself to nature. he
had found the right hours under the
old time. When the time was chang
ed proponents of the law said II
would be a simple matter for him to
make the switch too. He says the dew
interferes in the morning; that . p
M the farmers quitting time, comes
in the middle of the afternoon, thus
losing the cool hour of the late att
ernoon as the hired help INSISTS on
keeping city hours, and offers num-
ber of other objections.
Feeling on this subject is very DIT,
ter in many districts. Some communl'
ties ignore the new time. The coun'
trv towns, it is said, like the dayhgh'
saving, but the farmer customers
have opposed it so strenuously tha'
thew now are asking for the repeal.
The demands on congress from the
agricultural districts have been sc
persistent that it was only natufa
for the agricultural committee te
yield.
Representatives from industrla
sections of the country will fight the
-repeal. Their constituents, apparent
lv have been so busy taking adVant
age of the extra hour of daylgh
that they didn't know a fight was on
Once the time change wah made TO-
this season it was presumed no ct
fort would be made to repeal the Law
before next March. 1t was no
thought here that sentiment in tn
country was such as to demand al
immediate repeal.
President Wilson was an exponen
of daylight saving and might veto it
repeal by congress. On the othe
hand, he usually has his ear as clos
to the ground as does congress t
hear what the farmer is saying. US
ually his response also is as ready
But those who favor daylight savln
will make fight.