Evening star., 1923-09-29
RETURN ONMONDAY
TO STANDARD TIME
Stock, Bond and All Other
Markets End Period of
Daylight Saving.
BY j. C. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. September 29.-Busi-
ness and industry throughout the
United States will be less affected
Monday by the return to standard
time in various communities than at
any similar period since daylight
saving was introduced. In general
the country communities will rejoice,
while the city dwellers will view
g, the change with regret. The prin-
cipal activities to be affected Will pc
the moving picture theaters' the
banks and the stock. bond and COM
modify markets
Above the mourning cry or the
golfer. deprived of his extra hour on
the links, will arise the joyous shout
of the movie theater manager who
opposed the daylight saving plan as
vigorously as the farmers:
raPed PoT in eTfsfy tsc attepnoon aqnG OF we lose
hour of business" said one Chicago
theater owner today. '1n districts
where children form the bulk of the
audience the loss is greater tnan
that"
More Trading Expected.
Many people in the south and west.
where standard time has been OBJ
served. will feel that the change IN tne
east will remove source OF rrltatioiu' \
and probably materially increase the
trading in stocks, cotton, gram ana
towns in those sections telegraph op-
orators normally do not go to work
until 5 am. and close their oHlceS from
II to l pm. AS the stock ana com
conform to the daylight saving hours
of New York this fact, taken IN con-
junction with the difference In Tune IN
The west, has deprived traders of early
or getting quotations. With the change
grain and financial markets will return
to normal hours. This will affect, for
example, markets in st. Louis, New
Orleans, Kansas City, Cleve!ano anu
Chicago. although in the first three
dayught-saving time was not geheraiiy
used.
New Time Tables Out.
In some cities, like Rochester and
PHILADELPHIA banks and brokerage
firms were the only houses to observe
daylight saving. although in Clevelano
the banks remained on standard time
Railroads operating suburban ira ms
in and out of centers like New YORK
Chicago. Boston and Philedelphia
have issued revised time tables TOT
expect no difficulty In effectins the
change. Through trains which were
maintained on standard time will not
be affected in any way.
I'VE will put suburban trains back
on standard schedule just as easily
as we pvt them on daylight-saving g
schedule last May" said an official or
the Chicago and Northwestern rail-,
road. Not a minute will be iost ana
mighty few passengers viii even miss
employees in the stations Will be re-
Ueyed of a terrific amount of ex-
planning"
Means Little I'm Steel Centers.
In the steel centers where daylight
saving has been in operation the
change to three eight-hour shirts ana
the abolition of the twelve-hour day
has relieved the time schedule of any
special significance. The day ana
night operation of factories and
plants in other industrials under the
spur of increased production has nad
a similar effect. -
The change in Detroit and other
Michigan manufacturing centers Will
make little difference because most OF
them run on daylight Saving time the
year round. During the summer months
Detroit time is an hour slower tran
New York, but in the October to May
period it is the same as New York in
spite of the difference of longitude.
Detroit Has own Method.
Detroit adopted daylight saving be-
fore the war. when representatives of
the larger industries got together and
arranged working hours SO that no two
large plants in the same locality begln
or cease work at the same hour. On
the west side of that town, for example,
some plants open at Z and others at
fifteen minute intervals until 8, with a
corresponding difference in closing
This has prevented overcrowding OF
street cars and congestion Of streets.
With some plants like the Ford facto-
ries working three eight-hour shifts.
there Is an almost continuous process
sion of men going to work and COM
ing OFF
It was found that by using daylight
saving continuously every workman in
the course of a year got an equal amount
of daylight recreation whether he
worked on an early or late shift. This
was not true under standard time.
p. More Buying Predicted.
Merchants expressed the belief to-
day that business would pick up with
the change, as many of their Gus
toners from the country resented the
hour lost when they came to the city
to shop.
The sale Of sporting goods, especial
ly golf equipment, is expected to fall
off somewhat, especially in the Bos-
Son section. The effect on electric
light and gas consumption will be
moderate. Only a slight increase over
the advance due to the shortening of
the autumn days is expected.