The Bismarck Tribune

Daylight Saving
Occupies Attention
Of French People

Paris, March 28.—Town and country are waging a battle in France to determine whether daylight-saving time shall be used here next summer.

Summer time has proved so popular to the townsmen that the decision of the members of the Senate to suppress it has raised a storm of protest and every effort is being made to bring pressure to bear on the Chamber of Deputies to revise the decision of the Upper House.

Leading newspapers are taking part in the campaign for summer time. They contend that the great interest taken in athletic sports of all kinds during the last three years is due almost entirely to this measure, which enables the worker in the office or the factory to get exercise in the open after his day's labor.

L'Auto, a daily newspaper devoted to athletics, is calling upon its readers to flood their representatives in parliament with petitions for the maintenance of summer time.

In the country, however, summer time seems to have proved distasteful and the farmers and land laborers are just as obstinate in their determination to suppress it. Representing a large part of the electorate, they also bring pressure to bear on their members of parliament. Each day argument grows hotter and hotter. Versailles Treaty, Washington, Genoa, reparations, are often secondary to the great controversy, summer time or no summer time.