Evening star., 1935-04-28
Daylight Time Begun
Clocks Shift for Saving From New
York to New Zealand.

"HE man who said time and tide
wait for no man" revolved in
his grave at 2 o'clock this
L morning.
From New York to New Zea-
land the squawk of clocks being ad-
vanced an hour in accordance with
man-made law were the signal for
the 1885 entrance of daylight saving
time.
Astronomers, farmers and sailors
will again object at such human in
reference with the movements Of
the sun, but golf-playing bankers,
park-going lovers and sun baskers in
general will shout with glee.
Daylight saving is only battle cry
in Washington, where the Junior
Board of Trade and Elder Lghtfoot
Michaux have sought its introduction.
The clocks in the District are fol-
lowing the sun as they always have
except in the Summers Of 1918 and
1919, when Congress first passed
daylight-saving act and then repealed
it over President Wilson's veto.
Daylight saving is much more popu-
lar in Europe than in the United
States. Here Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island have State laws establishing
the day for setting clocks forward an
hour in the Spring and setting them
back an hour in the Fall.
Adopted in Cities.
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
and a few other cities have adopted
the system through city ordinance.
Banks in Seattle operate under it and
a few factories put it in force.
England was the pioneer, where
Summer time" as it is known in
Britain, was created by the House of
Commons in 1916. Almost at once
Germany, Italy and France followed
suit asA wartime moves to save on
much needed light and fuel.
Before many years the idea had
land. Portugal, Holland, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Australia
and New Zealand. Mexico has it IL
months in the year.
The natural confusion attending
daylight saving runs riot in Portland,
Me-, and New Haven, Conn. Both
these States have laws expressly for
bidding this affront to the sun; no.
where in those Commonwealths can
a public clock show daylight saving
time.
Nevertheless. New Haven and Port
land operate by D. S. T. When you
stand on the New Haven green and
see the hands of the church tower
clock pointing at 8 o'clock in accord
ance with State law. you know that
the clock ir the ministers home shows
o'clock in accordance with the city
ordinance.
Canada tried this sun-saving sys-
tenn for a while, but repealed the
| lament, however, which refuses to
bring daylight saving back, in the
Summer arranges its hour of meet
ing by the artificial time, required by
ruling of the City Council of Ottawa,
Canadian capital.
Promoter Rich Britain.
Original promoter of daylight saw
ing was rich William Willet, builder,
of Chelsea, England, although Benja-
min Franklin in 1850 made loud OBJ
lection to mans waste of sunlight
hours by sleeping.
In 1906 Willet wrote book, Waste
of Daylight" He opened campaign
for a law advancing the clock 80
minutes in the Spring. He loudly
proclaimed that civilization spent too
much time in bed in the Summer and
was allowed too short an evening for
recreation.
The House of Commons repulseS
his theory in 1908 and 1909, but in
1916 an hour advance was made COM
pulsory throughout Great Britain.
In 1925 the law became permanent.
The leisure advocates and the