Evening star., 1922-05-16
PRESIDENT FAV0RS
D. c. DAYLIGHT PLAN
Would Approve Congress Ac-
ton Moving Hands For
ward, However.

President Harding would give his
approval to congressional action
changing the hands of the clock to
save daylight for the District, it was
announced today at the White House.
At the same time, the chief execu-
tive was represented as being un-
willing to request or initiate in any
way such legislation. holding it to
be unnecessary and giving at the
same time his belief that Congress
would take no such action.
The President was said to be favor
ably impressed with the scheme now
in effect in Washington and was rep
resented as believing that changing
the hands of the clock was not nec-
essary to insure proper daylight saw
ing. He was satisfied. 1t was stated,
that the present plan would prove
enective and satisfactory.
Informal daylight saving for the
District. launched yesterday, began
to encounter snags today in the form
itself bucking an increasing tide of
public opposition.
Against Present Plan.
In the first place, the District Con-
gress of Mothers and Teacher
Associations adopted a resolution
strongly urging the abolition of the
new plan on the ground of it's being
a hardship to the mothers who have
to get up early to send the children
Off to school.
At the same time the Washington
Railway and Electric Company an
nounced q return to its former reg
result of general inability to handle
the returning theater ana circus
crowds last night which visited
places not operating under the day.
light saving. The Capital Traction
Company withheld action on the
as working a hardship on the car
lines, which must work under the
new plan in the morning and the
old plan at night. necessitating addi-
tional crews or overtime.
Abandoned at Occoquan.
Occoquan. the District worknouse.
tried out the scheme yesterday and
abandoned it today as impracticable.
The prisoners found themselves getting
I'D at 6 O'Clock instead Of z, but the en-
ployes Of the workhouse. who come
from the surrounding country, had to
arise at the break of dawn in order to
reach their posts.
A complaint from committee OF
bankers, which called at the White
House yesterday afternoon to request
chanring the clock, drew from the chief
executive a statement that the present
plan should be given q fair trial before
any change was made. The committee
was headed by Charles c. Glover, chair
man Of the board OF directors OF the
Riggs National Bank.
The President himself, acting on the
new plan, convened the cabinet meet
ing an hour earlier today. It was held
at 10 o'clock instead OF at IL, chahge
which viii continue in effect while the
present system hoids.
TODAY was heard the criticism that
the plan will not be satisfactory be-
canse DAYLIGHT saving does not hold
for-nipht as well as day. Going to
work an hour earlier isn't so bad,
some of them pointed out, but when
recreation or amusement Is sought
at night loss of sleep results.
Declared Hardship.
"A
plan. which was described as a hard
ship ON, mothers who are forced to
arise at daylight to prepare their
children for school. was demanded by
the District Congress Of Mothers and
parent-Teacher Associations in
resolution adopted at its regular
monthly meeting today, in the New.
Ebbftt Hotel. The resolution. which
condemns the plan in the strongest
terms, conceivable" was adopted by a
vote OF IL to ..-1It was presented by
Mrs. g. W. Byler.
Considerable discussion of the
merits and disadvantages Of the day
.Iirht-saying scheme preceded the
aSontion 81 the resolution. Hard
ahina imposed on mothers by the
Man were cited as one of. the princi-
nal affections to 1t.
.srhese people who want to play.
tennis in the afternoon should ad-z
vance their own clocks an hour" de-
ciared Mrs. John Brown Of the Brad
1ev Parent Teacher Association. my
chi1dren now have their breakfast at
80 hoiIr and my husband at another.