The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-31
DAYLIGHT SAVING
To co IN EFFECT
SUNDAY, APRIL 4
Bennington Will Follow New
York State Schedule
NEARLY ALL APPROVE ACT
Double Standard Made Odd Situation
for Electric Road and North
Bennington Factories

lidVIHnt saving IN t3enhlH8tOn is
to go into effect next Sunday morn
ing at 2 o'clock. At special meet
ing Of The village trustees last night
-ha following resolution was unani.
mously adopted:
Voted, That pu suant to the vote
cast at the annual meeting Of this
village, the board OF trustees do here
by recommend and commend to all
the corporate inhabitants of the viz
ilage of Bennington that at O'Clock
a. M, on Sunday, April 4, next, the
standard time now COVE ming all the
I business, industrial and social rela-
tions OF said inhabitants shall be
4 advanced one hour, and at o'clock
a. m, of the last Sunday in October
next, the same, shall, by the .etarding
of one hour, be returned to the form
er standard time for this section"
! Previous to the meeting members
/ of the board had conferred with en-
/ ployers and employees in this village
and North Bennington and found an
almost unanimous desire to follow
| the the daylight saving plan. now in
effect in the state of New York and
| TO go into effect in Massachusetts,
/ later.
Action was hurried up little to
accommodate the plants and en-
ployes at North Bennington and also
the men employed on the electric
road. The factories at North Ben
nington have employees coming in
from both directions and it was not
convenient two standards in effect at
the same time.
The electric road was even worse
off. Cars leaving Hoosick Falls got
to North Bennington before they
started according to the clock and
double standard would have the
men beginning work an hour earlier
than before at one end of the line
and finishing an hour later at the
the other The electric road will now
proceed under the New York sche-
dulc.
The board of trustees also spent
some time last night considering the
road problem. The regular meeting
of the board will take place next
Tuesday evening
Boston, March 30.-Nothing short
of veto by Gov Coolidge will keep
Massachusetts from going into the
daylight saving game, 1t was made
evident by the unexpected zeal with
which the Senate rallied to the bill
this afternoon. Twenty-eight Sena-
tors were counted for it and but eight
against it, on rising vote. The
measure was ordered to a third read
ing at the end of a three hour de-
bate. Pleas to spare the farmers fell
on deaf ears. Their opposition was
overcome by the tremendous drive of
industrial interests.
With an amendment to provide
that it shall take effect the last Sun
day in April, the bill is now pending
in the Senate on the question of en-
grossment ano her debatable stage
that may not be reached before
Thursday If today's sweep is main
IA ned there will be better than two
thirds majority necessary to attain
the emergency preamble TO make the
act effective at once.
Belief still is general that Gov
Coolidge will refuse 10 approve the
proposi ion, because he is known to
be unfavorahle toward it. Influences
in the manufactur 'ng and commercial
fields arc concentrating on the Gov
ernor to bring him into line for the
movement They descended on him
today in the shape of committee
representing large company of bus
mess men called together in Boston
from all parts of the State to boom
the bill
Previously having gone through
the House by an overwhelming ma
jority, the daylight measure, if 1t
held its ground in each branch. might
be passed over a veto by the Gov
ernor. /.
Albany, March 3o.-By a vote of
rs to 64-one less than the constitu-
tional majority-the Fowler bill,
which was designed to repeal the
daylight saving law, failed of
passage in the assembly late today
The bill provided for local option
by municipalities. 1t was the Sec |
ond time within a week that meas
ure providing for the repeal of the
present law was lost in the lower
house.
Assemblyman Charles H. Belts, s
Republican, of Wayne, who fathered ]
the Fowler bill, senate measure !
which passed the upper house last
night by bare majority, would not
say after today's vote was an S
nounced whether he would make an
other effort to put through either
his bill or the Fowler measure. He