The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-04
State courts
TO DISREGARD
Time CHANGE:
Clerks Office to Operate on
Same Schedule Even
II Council Acts.
DAYLIGHT SAVING HIT
Postmaster Says He Will
Be Unable to Comply
With Ordinance.
DAYLIGHT SAVING HIT

The Office Of the clerk of State
Supreme and Appellate Courts will
continue to operate upon central
standard time if the Indianapolis
city council finally attempts to put
daylight saving time into effect,
Deputy Clerk John Kramer, in
charge in the absence of the clerk,
declared today.
The Office would be outside the
law and would cause serious legal
confusion If it did otherwise, Kra-
mer declared.
City council Monday night Is to
reconsider the daylight saving Or
dinance, passed last Monday night
Others to Ignore Change
The State officials declaration
followed the announcement of the
indianapolis school board and Post
master Robert H. Bryson that they
would ignore daylight saving.
If council adopts daylight saw
ing, the Western Union naval OBJ
servatory clocks will be set up one
hour throughout the city as soon
as possible after the ordinance goes
into effect Superintendent A. A.
Brown of the Indianapolis office an
nounced.
Both Western Union and Postal
Telegraph Companies anticipate
confusion, particularly between In
d1anapolis and other Indiana cities,
since messages out of Indianapolis
would be dated according to day.
light saving time.
Law Balks Move
The deputy supreme clerk said
that State law provides specifically
that the high courts shall be open
between g a. m. and p. m. for fill
ing of papers by attorneys and the
law presumed this to be central
standard time, daylight saving time
not having been invented at the
time the law was passed.
If the clerks Office should adopt
daylight saving time, lawyers from
outstate points, who usually wait
until the last day for filing papers,
might reach the office late in the
afternoon to find it closed. To avoid
such confusion, the Office will retain
central standard time.
Whether the rest of the State
house will comply is up to Governor
jackson. He was out of the city.
Postoffice Can't Comply
sYt would be a nhvsical in1pos-
sibility to operate the postoffice on
fast time," Postmaster Robert H.
Bryson said.
I'VE would be unable to comply
with the ordinance because Of our
train schedules.
eff daylight time were adopted
here and we complied, it would mean
that downtown carriers, who now
start on their routes at a. M,
would not get started until 9 a. M,
fast time, for they would have to
wait until their mail is sorted, after
the trains arrive.
"Thus Offices would have to wait
an hour longer to get their mail
TN addition, the last delivery, at
3:45 p. M, central time, would not
do them much good, as most offices
close now at 5 p. m. and would
close at p. m. actual time"
DR.. Leonidas F. Smith, 300 Cham
ber of Commerce Bldg, wrote
Mayor Slack a letter saying: "Why
lap night and day? Why not sleep
on the dark side Of the earth and
work and play on the light side?
1t is only sensible. Put Indianapo-
lis in the daylight column"
Mutual Insurance Companies
Union filed a protest against day
light saving with City Clerk Will
liam A. Boyce Jr. H. L. Nowlin,
secretary. signed the letter.