Don't forget to "Spring Forward" 

Set clock's ahead 1 Hour tonite


News from 1919:

Washington. Aug. 20.— Congress today succeeded in overriding President Wilson's veto of the bill repealing the daylight saving law. 

The daylight savings plan, which was adopted soon after the country entered the war. will go out of existence the last Sunday in October as a result of Congressional action, and clocks will be turned back to Standard time. The House took the same action yesterday by a vote of 223 to 101. Although this is the first measure on which the Republican Congress has overridden the President, it is not considered a party defeat, since the daylight savings plan had been vigorously opposed by rural Congressmen in both the Democratic and Re-publican parties. 

The success of the farming. forces came after they had once lost their fight to make the repeal bill a rider to the agricultural bill. The President also vetoed this, and city Congressmen mustered sufficient strength to sustain this veto. 

The daylight saving law was passed as part of the war-time food production campaign. It was argued that under it war gardeners would have an hour more of daylight to raise food. 

Farmers declared that it interfered with their work.

THE COLUMBIA REPUBLICAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919


and  from 1922

HARDING DISLIKES DAYLIGHT SAVING 

* Washington, June 6 - President Harding and the members of the Cabinet are literally losing sleep over the day-light savings problem in the Capitol. They don't like the new hours, and a return to the old time-keeping system may be ordered shortly. This affects Washington only. It is known to be the President's view that it is impossible for himself and the department heads to adjust their part in the night life of the capitol, what with dinners, receptions and evening conferences, so that they can get to bed an hour earlier, and daylight saving makes them go to work an hour earlier, robbing them of that much sleep. Washington now has what is derisively known at the capital as rag-time. The clocks have not been moved forward; government employees go to work an hour earlier and quit at 3:30, just in time to go to the ball game. So that the President and his chiefs are forced out of bed before their accustomed rising hour, in order that their clerks may see Walter Johnson speed them over.

THE EVENING GAZETTE,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7. 1922