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by the clock, and go to bed by the clock, so that 

 during the time this law has been in operation a vast 

 majority of the people of this country have been awake 

 one hour more of daylight and asleep one hour more of 

 dark than they were formerly. This additional hour of 

 daylight has been most helpful to the men, women, and 

 children of the nation who have taken advantage of it 

 to plant war gardens, thereby not only relieving the 

 strain upon the farm but to a very considerable degree 

 tending toward economy in family expenditures. It 

 has also saved in gas and electric bills not less than ten 

 per cent, of the money formerly spent for this purpose. 

 In addition, it has saved during its seven months of 

 operation this year at least one million tons of coal. 

 It has afforded in the construction of cantonments for 

 our army, in the manufacture of munitions and war 

 supplies of every character, and in the buildmg of ships 

 one hour more of daylight for the men engaged in these 

 industries. 



It is a universal practice for working men and women 

 to begin their day's labor at eight o'clock and in some 

 industries at seven o'clock in the morning. They can- 

 not be induced to work before seven o'clock, but, with 

 the long evening produced by this law, those who labor 

 have been induced to work additional hours at night 

 where the exigencies of the occasion demanded it. With- 

 out question this bill has been most helpful in the great 

 war work in which this nation was engaged. 



The Daylight Saving Law will be in effect again in 

 1919 and each succeeding year unless it is revoked by 

 further legislation, for the bill as passed provided that 

 "at two o'clock antemeridian of the last Sunday in 

 March of each year the standard time of each zone 



