Evening star., 1926-05-10

DAYLIGHT saving with or without
sanction Of law continues to spread.
Powerful opposition from the rural
population holds the movement IN
check over a great part OF the coun-
try. but the people of many cities and
towns are managing this year TO nave
their extra hour of evening daylight
in defiance of State legislative bans.
"Over a greater part Of the coun-
trv than ever before the clocks are
advanced" says the Pittsburgh Sun.
mo finer testimonial could be paid TO
the popularity and manifest advan-
tages of the modern Summertime
standard than this growing indorse-
ment bv the people. The equivalent
of nearly 90 eight-hour playdays OF
sunshine will be enjoyed by cltlzens
of Pittsburgh this Summer, 154 hours
for open-air enjoyment and recrea'
ton, that otherwise would nave peeli
spent in mill or office"
Regret that California does not
have the advantages enjoyed by some
other States is expressed by the san
Rernardino Sun, which remarks that
the Pacific Coast State, with it's Won
der climate and its countless places
of charm, continues to delay the open
ing Of the working day until the sun
Is high in the heavens. When a ma
Iority Of the States have adopted
daylight saving, or provided local op-
tion on the subject" continues the
Sun. "it is entirely reasonable to sup
nose that Congress would end the
confusion in time by adopting law
making the change universal ana
compulsory"
The Omaha World-Herald, however,
thinks that "the natural period for
saving daylight is in the Winter.
when there is little enough Of 1t, and
every minute saved is a minute earn
ed" and, voicing the belief OF large
section Of the public, the World
Herald continues: Let those VINO
will. have their daylight saving. so
far as we can see, the world is none
the worse nor the better Tor II. AS
for us farmers, the old Rhode Island
Red rooster beats the best alarm CLOCK
any day in the year"
In spite of the inconvenience OF
having the public clocks and private
timepieces at variance, most OF Con-
necticut is operating under the day
light-saving plan. AS the New Lon
don Day describes it: New London
goes on daylight saving. The change
Is bv common consent, more than by
anv other rule, for under legislative
enactment of the State of Connecticut
a public clock may not be set ahead"
Commenting on this State law, the
Bridgeport Post jokingly remarks,
There is a State law in Connecticut
which forbids the public display or
any clocks which carry other than
Eastern standard time, so we must
be careful not to put our house
clocks where the neighbors may see
them"
People in Maine are under sim
liar handicap. according to the Port
land Evening Express, which says:
Portland and most of the larger
places of western Maine are back
on daylight-saving time. Perhaps
we should revise that statement and
make it read people of Portland.
for, as a municipality, officially
speaking, we are running on stand
ard time just as the recent leg1sla- =
ture decreed that we must. The
folks of Portland and nearby places
are saving for themselves this extra
hour of daylight by mutual agree
ment. The agreement plan is an eX-
pertinent, and may or may not work
out as hoped. 1t has been tried in
some places without official sanction
and failed. In others it has sue
ceeded. People in Maine disagree
about dayligha saving, but every one