Evening star., 1922-05-16
DAYLIGHT SAVING.
FAR FROM. SUCCESS.
None Go to Bed Earlier and
Inevitable Hardness In
-. - crease Results.

Daylight saving, Washington style"
II far from an unqualified success. To-
day It entered the second twenty-four.
hour phase. The hands Of the clock
have not been set ahead sixty. minutes.
OF course, the chief government, depart
ments. and the majority Of the stores.
are starting work an hour ahead Of time
to secure q corresponding period for
recreation In the afternoon.
Considerable confusion has resulted.
Theaters-in fact, every vehicle OF
night Incorporates on the usuai
hours: No one ts retiring any earlier;
The inevitable result is q decided
increase in the number OF persons
late for work or school.
Servant PrOblem Arises.
But It Is the housewives Of Washing
ton who suffer the most. Because OF
the housing situation the majority Of
servants here sleep away from their
places Of employment When people
went to work at o'clock this worked
to get to their places of employment In
time to prepare and serve breakfast 20
that those Of the household who had to
could get to work at o'clock.
This IL not the case today. Many Of
the help cannot get to work an hour
They point out that meals are not
served any earlier in the afternoon and
that all the benefit they receive Is an
additional hour Of work.
Women show Opposition.
The same condition holds good with
woman heads Of households who have
no assistance. They must get up an
hour earlier to prepare breakfast for
husbands, father or children, and 1t
is almost impossible to advance the
evening meal. The inevitable result
IL that the women generally are lined
up in opposition to the experiment
which is the plan of President Hard
Ing. who is opposed to setting the
clock ahead an hour in the ordinary
"daylight-savings plan"
Getting the children OF to school
an hour earlier is proving a difficult
problem In a great many households.
0ne prominent business man was
seen leaving his two children at
school at o'clock this morning.
Tiae Wasted in Stores.
'Now I'm going home to get my
hour" he said to a friend, II found
yesterday there was no use opening
my ONCE an hour earlier in the morn;
ing. for I\had no customers and just
had to wait around for tho mail"
The department stores for the most
part dES OpcutuB III HOuE caTilcT. out
their managers very frankly say that
it is a wasted sixty minutes; 1t does
not attract any early customers. while
closing. as they do. at s to $50, they
lose the late afternoon trade, which
they say has been extremely worth
while.
Tho plan will. however. be given
complete opportunity to demonstrate
its worth. President Harding made
this very plain to a delegation of
bankers who called upon him 10 urge
that the clocks be set ahead an hour.
He refused to make such recon-
mendation to Congress, which alone
has the power to order it done in the
District, and told the bankers that
there would be no change in the
earlier hours until time enough had
elapsed to afford opportunity to
properly Judge whether it was a good
or a bad plan.
The District Commissioners were
told by their legal advisers they did
not have, power to order the clocks
set ahead. The proposal has been
made that they. Invite" the District
to take such action. But If they do
30 they have no power to compel
those who refuse to take such action.
Copyright. 1927