The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-30
OPPONENTS OF
Time change
Lead IN Vote
Ballot on Daylight Saving
is 6,338 Against and
6,224 For.
AVALANCHE AT FINISH
Council viii Give Decision
on Ordinance at Its
Meeting Tonight.

indianapolis citizens are almost
evenly divided for and against the
daylight saving ordinance, final re-
suits of the poll conducted by The
indianapolis Times last week,
tabulated at noon today, show.
Wheeras, the proponents of the
summer time schedule had led the
poll through last week. the check
of hundreds of ballots received this
morning showed that those against
daylight saving finally led by the
Slight margin Of ia out of 1852
votes.
The final result was $3.50 against
to 1924 for.
The poll was one of the most ex-
tenSive ever taken by a newspaper
upon a public question in Indian
apolis. 1t presents an unusually
accurate crosS-scetion of how the
citizens feel upon the subject, since
the ballots come from every section
and every walk Of life.
Ballots Given Council
The ballots. almost a mail sack
full, were taken to council this
afternoon, for consideration to-
night, when, in a special meeting,
the ordinance is to be voted upon
The welfare committee of coun-
Gil, headed by Councilman Earl Bu-
chanan, viii! hold a public hearing
on the ordinance in the council
chamber at 7, to decide what &C
ton the committee will recommend.
Council will meet following the
public hearing to act on the day
light saving ordinance introduced
by Councilman Robert E. Spring
steen and sponsored by the Gyro
Club.
Council Is known to be divided
and a spirited session is certain.
Councilman Herman P. Lieber and
John F. White are said to be OPP
posed to the measure. Others have
not expressed themselves.
The ordinance provides clocks be
turned up one hour on the second
Sunday in May and be turned back
the last Sunday in October.
The Associated Theaters of In
diana are to present petitions with
several thousand signatures against
the time change proposal.
A delegation of the Marion Coun-
ty Farm Bureau will submit resolu-
tions. adopted by the directors, Sat-
urday, condemning fast time"
Adoption Of the ordinance will
work great hardship on Marion
County farmers, requiring a change
Of time of deliveries Of milk and
produce, the resolution said.
"The farmer is required by the
nature Of his calling to work by the
sun rather than by tamperin., with
a clock mechanism" the resolution
also said.
Bankers Favor Change
The Marion County Bankers As
sociation will turn in petitions favor
ing the time change. A total of 873
signatures had been received at noon
from only eight of the forty-one
banks of the association, the COM
mittee in charge said.
One of the largest group of
votes in The Times poll total against
the last time" came from the
United Garment Workers of
America, Local No. 127. Mabel Lowe,
president of the organization, for
warded 673 mo- votes.
Ninety-three more mo" votes of
Eli Lilly Company employees were
received making the total vote from
that company 203 against and
thirty-eight for.
More favorable votes from Kingan
and Company employees boosted the
total from that company to $40 in
favor and sixty-four opposed.
Results of several other polls were
reported, but their totals we're not
included in The Times poll for fear
of duplication. All Indianapolis
postoffice employees, numbering 312,
were said to have voted against the
proposed time change.
Forty-three indianapolis Wire
Bound Box Company workers were
reported opposed and thirty in favor.
OF f1fty-f1ve City Hall employees
questioned, thirty-five were in favor,
eleven against and nine undecided.