THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 107 
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 building 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 
