Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1918 — TURN BACK AN HOUR ON OCT. 27 [ARTICLE]

TURN BACK AN HOUR ON OCT. 27

NO EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO CONTINUE DAYLIGHT SAV- , ING LAW. Washington, Oct. 17.—N0 further effort will be made by congress to continue the existing daylight saving law and the hands of the clocks will •be turned back an hour on October 27, as originally planned. This decision was reached today at a conference between congressional leaders and Chairman Baruch, of the war industries board, who had recommended that the law remain in force for the period of the war The senate recently passed a bill to continue the law in effect indefinitely and it now is pending in the house. Senator Calder, of New York, author of the original daylight bill, said after the conference today that difficulties of the railroad administration and other government agencies in arranging schedules and anticipated difficulties in getting final action on the bill by the house contributed to the decision. The war industries board urged continuation of the law particularly because of its value in the saving of fuel.