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LEFT DAY LILY 283 DEACON peal it, particularly among people liv- ing in the country and engaged in farm- ing occupations. As a result an act for the repeal of the Daylight Saving Law was passed by both the House of Repre- sentatives and the Senate, but was vetoed by the President. The bill was passed, however, in both Houses over the Presi- dent's veto. In New York City the Board of Aldermen unanimously passed an ordinance providing for the local use of the daylight saving scheme, which was put into effect during the summer of 1920. It thus came about that the people in the city of New York regulated their hours according to local time, while the clocks at the great railroad termini stood at an hour behind that of the other clocks in the city. DAY LILY, the popular name for a genus of lilies (Hemerocallis), a native of temperate Asia and eastern Europe, two species of which (H. flava and H. fulva) are grown in gardens. They have long radical leaves, and a branched few-flow- ered scape, with large, handsome blos- soms, the segments of which are united into a tube. DAYTON, a city of Kentucky, in Campbell co. It is on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and on the Ohio river. There are manufactures of watch cases and pianos. The city contains the Speers Memorial Hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 6,979; (1920) 7,646. DAYTON, a city and county-seat of Montgomery co., 0.; on the Great Miami river at the mouth of the Mad river; the Miami canal, and the Erie, the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati and St. Louis, the Chicago and St. Louis, and other rail- roads; 60 miles N. E. of Cincinnati.^ Business Interests. — The Miami river furnishes abundant water power for the various important manufacturing estab- lishments. The water is carried to the factories by means of canals. Dayton is one of the most important manufacturing cities in the country. The principal ar- ticles manufactured are foundry and machine shop products, paper, glucose, bicycles, farming implements, cotton and woolen goods, engines, cash registers, automobiles, sewing machines, railway cars, and other machinery. There are numerous marble and limestone quar- ries in the vicinity. In 1919 there were 7 National banks and many private bank- ing houses. Public Interests. — The city is well laid out, and is noted for its costly public buildings, the most notable of which are the old and new county court houses, con- nected by corridors, the former of marble, and the latter of limestone. The princi- pal charitable institutions include the County Orphan Asylum, the Widows' Home, the Southern Lunatic Asylum of Ohio, and the Central National Soldiers' Home. Other public institutions are St. Elizabeth's Hospital and the Court House. There are over 50 churches in the city. The public school system is of a high order. For secondary and higher instruction there are the Academy of Notre Dame, the English and Clas- sical Training School, and St. Mary's Institute. History. — Dayton was settled in 1796; incorporated in 1805 ; and chartered as a city in 1841. Pop. (1900) 85,333; (1910) 116,577; (1920) 152,559. DAYTONA, a city of Florida, in Volusia CO. It is on the Atlantic Ocean, the Halifax river, the Jacksonville-Mi- ami canal, and the Florida East Coast railroad. It is also on the line of the Florida Coastal Island Navigation Com- pany. In recent years it has become a popular summer and winter resort. It has excellent hotels, a library, and an Elks' Home. The principal industries are the growing of oranges and straw- berries, and fishing. Pop. (1910) 3,082; (1920) 5,445. D'AZEGLIO, See Azeglio. DEACON [Lat. diacomis, all from Gr. diakonos— (as subst.) (1) a servant, a waiting man; (2) a minister of the Church, especially a deacon, a deacon- ess; (as adj.) serving, serviceable; prob- ably from aioko — to cause to run, to pursue.] In Scripture. — Omitting the passages in which diakonos has a general mean- ing, three portions of the New Testa- ment refer to the ecclesiastical officers so denominated. In Phil, i : 1, they are mentioned in conjunction with the "bish- ops," and were evidently of inferior authority to them, for they are men- tioned last. In I Tim. iii: 6-13, the proper qualifications requisite for their office, as well as the character which their wives should possess, are pointed out, but no mention is made of the pre- cise duties which they had to discharge. In Rom. xvi: 1, Phebe is described as a servant or deaconess of the Church at Cenchrea, and in commendation of her it is stated that she had been a succorer of many, the Apostle Paul himself being among the number. There is a very general opinion that the first institution of the order of deacons is narrated in Acts vi. If the officers whose election is described in Acts vi. were deacons, then the special duty of that order of men was the distribution of the Church alms to the poor. A "daily ministration" took place in the early apostolic times to