DAYLIGHT SAVING

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 153, 26 December 1918, Page 6

DAYLIGHT SAVING

AMERICA'S FIRST SEASON

Jlow imaii Axcenos-'s fjrat b&S.ico oi dayligri savir?g is p&eut to close (said tie Now York Times in a ]<eceat ierae), sponsors of the idea, aw takiug etoa 1* of the resulic. Senator Calder, who backed thf» BiE i;i the Senate, makes the. statement tia'i/ toe, Washingtou G«» Ijight Company has given hum p. showing that daylight, saving saved tb« people of the dictriut a? Columbia £12,----000 it>. their gas huh, which the Senate! figures oat means a cvi. of B4fX),COO in the gas bilis oi: the"wsinl» couatry.

"The Daylight Savings l*w haa more than fulfilled the prophecies oi its at.-' vocates," &aya the Senator. "JbJ'azo really turned one hour of night iiiso d*v People hve by 'custom. They rise in tlie morning by the clock, they eattheii" meals by the clock, and go to bed by the clock, so that during the ■ ■Hmr. this law has been >n operation v v*st 'majority of the people of this cor'ufcy have been awa'^e one hctti' more oi day light and asleep one hour more oi <Jari: than they were formerly "This additional hoar of daylight lU<3 been most helpful t« the men, wonwr, and children of the nation who have taken advantage to plant w&j 1 gardeas, thereby not only relieving tbe strain upon the farm, ba'.". to a verjr considerable degree tending towards econoTcv >-i family expenditure. Ii has also saved, too, in' gas and electric bills" not-less than 10 per cent, o" tbe money formerlyspent for this purpose. In adciiio;v & will during the seven moafits of operation this ysar "cave s.t. iea."t oae million tons of coal. It has .-iKorded in the cor.rfi 1;:;;. lion of cantonments Io? our army, h\

tne manufacture ox Trhuu.tions.asaf■wa* supplies of every cha*-*£cie.r, and in^t'-i building oi ships, o.ts more hour of dsv?light for the loen engaged in those fc. dtistries. Without riuetition t'>\is bill hail been more helpful in the great wai* v/oK! in which thia nation is engaged than any other one thing.

"Ona and a-quErter miiiior.s of tor.s of coal saved by turning-, ihe cloci £ibe;,l an hour for se>?e;i zvonths "is iiita er.'.mate of the United Siates IToel A<im;nj istration of the economy effecter 1 "07 lessening the load or. 'righting plants through the daylight -saving scheK*. > ■X)eSnite reports from St. Louis show a saving of 17.5 tons 'or each tlicusanil of population dT. t-ae es7-si\ montfe' bar/is." The raving in France tor a three and a ha'f mor&x,' period v/as *50.000 tons, which would mah-s a saving of 12.5 tons foi- each tho'o'sar.d of population in <a seivsn months' ps-roe, o,occv&ing to the B'uel Administrator.*'

Oeraio** CaWer w noV alone in, realising what the )&v ha& dor.3 for ilie coi-s ■tr/, whien, by the way. :;* the is&t great nation .in iht T/orJd to aoopt thai system. Ohsries L&throp Pact, Vrei'(ient ot the Naiioral War Oara«n Ooai" caission^ gf:7es great credit for the wa^ garden" record of 1918 to ti>3 aay'ighfcsaving law. According to eGiknaies hy th* commission, ib« v/ar garde-. cro?.> this year is v/mih £-105.00e,000. This h an increase oi 51 pci 1 cen>.. "o «•••>« thai oi 1917. The oosmnisjibs.':; survey &otts tihai 5,285,000 lussa food-jTCoducttg- ploti were planted. With twsrifcy-si.l woAmg days in each of tea sevev. nor/ihs you have 182 e?*ra Hojiks of thse. If on!/ one garoeinaf worked this esfcra hour of time in each plo6 rfc wiil be seen that 961,870,000 houTs of extra time were' added to the country's wealth. Since there are 8760 hows in. a year, you find., the staggering total of 109,803 years of--24-hour days. ,

"In a working dayof eight bours the real advantags is. found by multiplying; 109,803 by: three,"'giving 323/409XworKir.f-f or eight eight-'iour yearo. Importance of tils «Etea time cannot be over-esti-mated in the opinion of Mr. Pack. There is to b-9 "an a-rmy of 5.000,0005 men, and aa it costs 40 cents a- day to feed a soJdier it -WISI Eieanv that food valued a«i 2,000,0(50 do!, must be found for the army every day. : "The good effect, of daylight saving: ■was Mt by business concent. Every where reports come to the Garden Commission showing increased production has resulted and the worker has more. ',j>ep' for the next day's tasks as a resttlt of getting out from Work into day light. Thousands went into their gar dens after work in the big plants, and thera produced food in the slots isiaried for them by the management;, vrho found a war gardener to be a very good worker." ' . . .