The Ogden standard. [volume], October 26, 1918, LAST EDITION - 3:30 P.M., Image 11

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I rsaPffRA DELIGHT-
i said Chiries Lathrim Pari, M Ipfpfe xErz? AYWZ
president of the National War r2 tfeurf ?s?Jr2 sfjr
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"Figuring 26 working days 5cfzv? ste?s&2s 2&rf7$jf?
in each of the seven months," &s2&$2' - purer &ir-smirze?j2
continues Mi. Pack, "vou have
r 182 extra hours in which to work. Our nation-wide survey
shows there were 5,285,000 home food producing plots. If
only one gardener worked this extra hour in each plot it means
961,870,000 hours of extra time. Since there are 8,760 hours in
i a year we find credited to food production work the stagger
ing total of 109,803 years of 24-hour days.
"However there are eight hours in a working day and to
get the real figures we multiply by three and find 329,409
working or eight - hour - day years available. Importance of
this cannot be overestimated. The war gardener who produces
I close to the kitchen door does a great work."
m AVE YOU compared your gas
bills lately? Have you taken
M In a look at the electric light re-,
H minder that you get each
, month? Tho extra hour of daylight
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you have had this summer disappears
October 27 at 2 A. M. You do not sec
it go but go 11, does just tho same. It
will return just as mysteriously on the
last Sunday In March of 1919, with the
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simple operation of adjusting the
hands of iho old dream disturber by
the side of your bed.
Now do not make any mistake
about Its going for here Is the law on
the order of its going:
"That nt 2 o'clock antc-mcrldlnn of
(lie last Sunday In March of each year
(lie standard time of oach one shall
bo advanced one hour, and at 2 o'clock
niite-incrldinn or the last Sunday in
October In each year the standard
time of each zone shall, by the re
larding of one hour, he returned to
(he mean astronomical time of the
degree or longitude governing each
zone, respectively."
All of which means. In good old
United Slates, that you move the clock
hands back on the last Sunday In Oc
tober arid up again next March. Some
people pooh poohed the idea of moving
the hands of the clock when the cam
paign was llrst started. The best an
swer to pooh poohs, of course, Is the
figures. The great American people
like to be shown. Soriator William
M. Calder, of New York, makes the
statement that tho Washington Gas
Light Company reports to him that
the people of the District of Columbia
saved not less than sixty thousand
dollars on their gas bills. Senator
Calder figures this indicates a saving
of two million dollars to the entire
country. Here is what the Now York
Senator thinks of the value of the Day
light Savings Law:
"The Daylight Savings Law has
more than fulfilled tho prophecies of
Its advocates. It has really turned
one hour of night into day. People
live by t custom. They rise in the
morning by the clock; they eat their
meals by. tho clock, and go to bed by
the clock, so that during the time this
law has been in operation a vast ma
jority of the pe6plo "of this country
have been awake one hour moro of
daylight and asleep one more hour of
dark than they wcro formerly.
"This additional hour of daylight
has been most helpful to the men,
women and children of tho nation who
havo taken advantage of it to plant
war wardens, thereby not only reliev
ing the strain upon Ihe farm, but to
a very considerable degree tending to
ward economy in family expenditure.
It has saved in gas and electric bills
not less than ten per cent, of the
money formerly spent for this purpose,
In addition, it will during tho seven
months of operation this year, savo at
least one million tons of coal. It has
afforded in Ilia construction of canton
ments for our Army, in the manufac
turc of munttioris and war supplies ol
every character and in the building ol
ships one more hour of daylight foi
the men ongaged in those industries.
"It is almost a universal practic(
for working men and women to begir
their clay's labor at eight o'clock anc
In some Industries at seven o'clock Ir
the morning. They cannot bo lnducec
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I Ml of Our Soldiers Want Books Technical, Historical ',
French and Fiction Are In Great Demand Hospitals
and Prison Camps Also Call for Reading Matter
Copyright, 101S. Tlio International Syndicate.
mK S1"1 tho Commission on
I Training Camp Activities
mjl started its work to supply tho
V normalities of life to nearly
one million and a half men In our
! . training camps, it docldod to adopt tho
I Policy of employing the machinery of
organlKatlons and agencies interested
along various lines and It naturally
turned to the American Library Asso
ciation for an adequate supply of
books and for reading facilities. As
a result over a million nnd a half
dollars' was raised by the Association
and the aim is that library buildings
and library service shall bo available
for soldiers and sailors wherever they
ire assembled. Efforts aro mndo that
these libraries shall bo maintained in
such a way that the men shall bo en
couraged to read as well as bo able
to secure all the books that they de
lro. Before the War Service of tho
American Library Association began
Its work tho Younng Men's Christian
Association mado an effort to supply a
few books. But tho need of 'uioro
k
books was evident when a big, strap
ping artillery man pounced on one
book and holding It aloft cried "For
Heaven's sake, don't let any one have
this book. I havo been trylug to get
It for weeks."
Reading For Kecrcatlon
It Is apparent that our now National
Army Is athirst for Improvement, Lib
raries have a definite relation to mili
tary efficiency, for while khaki clad
men como from all walks of life for
the most part they arc glad to turn
from military routine to Intellectual
rofreshment. There' aTo college men,
lawyers, accountants, stenographers,
who desire to continue reading along
tho lines of their previous training
nnd thero arc hundreds of ofTlcers and
onllstcd men, frequenters of libraries
at home, who arc eager to remain
well equipped mentally. Dr. Hcrber'
Putnam, Librarian of Congress, who is
In control of library war service work
says that It is not unusual for boys at
Camp Mcado' to call for technical
books and exhaustive studies on vari
ous topics which cost as much as five
and six dollars apiece.
Work has gono on steadily ever
since the Library War Service was
organized. Today there aro library
buildings started or finished In thirty
two National Army . and National
Training Camps, nt Fort Oglethorpe,
Georgia, and at the Naval Training
Station at Great Lakes, 111. Tho Car
negie Corporation mado a grant of ten
thousand dollars for each of tho thirty-two
proposed camp libraries and a
similar sum was secured from an,
anonymous source for a library build
ing at Great Lakes.
War Books Populnr
Libraries, books and magazines have
been Identified with our camps ever
since September, 1917, when in addi
tion to tho raising of tho library fund,
a campaign, for books was started
that resulted In the receipt of come
two hundred thousand volumes for
Immediate service. This campaign for
books will in all probability last as
long as the war continues.
For the most part tho men aro of
the educated type and demand good
reading. This is ovldenced by tho
books Issued In one day at Camp
Mcado, near Baltimore. Those most
in demand dealt with French history,
mechanics, topography, strategy, self
propelled vehicles, bridges, chomlstry,
physics, astronomy, geology, hydraul
ics, electricity, medieval history, cal
culus, civil engineering, geography,
American history, surveying, materials
of construction, general history, mas
onry and concrete. One librarian
writes, "We are having repeated calls
for technical handbooks and text
books. "We want all kinds of engi
neering handbooks, mechanics' hand-
books, books on sanitary engineering,
and books on all branches of tho serv
ice. You will be Interested to know
how quickly tho nowly purchased
books are snapped up. Of the six
copies of Thompson's Electricity, four
arc now out and were out within a
week after they wero ready."
"Wnnt To Lcnrn French
Often lTorarians . who have just
started their work are surprised to
learn what books arc in demand. One
prlvato asked for Shakcspearo's "Per
icles," -while another casually re
marked as a book was handed him,
"Oh, I did the drawing for that book
I want something bettor than that!"
Porhaps tho library as much as any
feature of camp life shows tho differ
ence In the tastes of the various men,
but one thing the men all agreo on
and that Is thoy desire to learn somo
French If only a few phrases, and '
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to work before seven o'clock, but with
the long evening, producod by this
law, those 'who labor havo been in
duced to work additional hours at
night, whore tlio exigencies of the oc
i casion demanded it. Without ques
tion this bill has been moro helpful in
the great war work In which this na
tion Is engaged than any other one
thing."
Senator Calder, who Introduced the
daylight resolution in the' Senate and
worked hard for Its passage, is noi
alone In realizing what tho law has
done for the country, which by the
i way, Is the last great nation In the
world to adopt tho system. Charies
. Lathrop Pack, President of the Nd-
tlonal War Garden Commission places
i a great deal of credit for tho great
, war garden record of 191S to the Day
l light Savings Law. The Commission's
: survey shows that 5.2S6.000 home food
; producing plots were planted and the
importance of this extra hour cannot
- be estimated in the opinion of Mr,
f Pack. Thoro is to be an army of five
r million mon and as it costs forty cents
a day to feed a soldier it will mean
that food valued at two million dol-
; lars must be found forithe army EV
l ERY DAY. Food and more food "F.
1 O." B! Tho Kitchen Door" must bo
l planted.
1 The estimated value of tho garden
crop is placed at $525,000,000. Thls" j
Is an .Increase of fifty-one per cent:; m
over the crop value of 1917. Therefore. j 111
It Is easily seen that the Daylight Sav.Jj 'Br ,
ings Law enabled tho war gardener to-j; j U
greatly add to his stock. To go fur- '
thcr than the gardens, however, th(t; 'MR h
National War Garden Commission estl-; ( H
mates that 1.4&0, 000. 000 jars of canned i 'flf
vegetables and fruit have been placed llfil
on the pantry shelves.
A great effect of daylight Savings tM
was scon fn big business concerns ' l,M i
Everywhere reports havo como to thc; ijinf'
National War Garden Commission; jlRV
showing Increased production has rej jNP
suited and tho worker has moro "pep",-. ; inm
for tho next day's tasks as a result o fjf
getting out from work Into daylight,; fljf'
Getting close to the land and bclng m1
outt In the fresh air producing food-,
for themselves has, In thousands of IB
eases, made a dlffcront set of work-- ' M
ers. To uso tho expression of C. Y. tfffl
Cowglll of tho Mutual Interest Depart... ,
ment of the American Rolling Mllr ! ig
Company, at Middletown, Ohio, "thgj" jjRp
war garden Is a great stabilizer." ThQ;- ll
best plant In tho war garden Is con-;;-
tcntment. It does not need water, bujjj: r MM
grows Just 'the same. In hundreds of' J
concerns throughout tho country a.,' W
regular "county fair" followed the war.,: bl
garden season, and thero tho workers. fe
cnterod into friendly competition and- I'ffffi
recounted their experiences when theyj I'jffi
worked In that extra hour of daylight
Jo outdo bench mates In growing. 'Jw
things. hfftt
Marcus M. Marks, president of thqr, llltf!
Natjonal Daylight Savlne Associations WL
Is-enthusiastic over tho way the pub-.' W
lie has received the movement andl. Win
the way in which it has co-operatedf H'yJ
Some conservative persons feared.' JiffJ;
train schedules would be upset and lfOt
busln ess disrupted, rtlghb thoro camo I Willi
tho funny part. Nobody noticed any:': , nWi
difference. The person who was in, ' Uwn
the habit of getting up at seven o'clockr.
got up at seven o'clock Just as always frj
and that's all thero was to it. So rc- .
member that's all thero is to lho. S
change back. Just turn tho clocljr: Jfil '
i back when you go to bed on the night- Jh j
of October 27 and then forget nlf If u ,j
about it. HI !j
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for this reason books and mngazlnes
in and on that language are In great
demand. Subscriptions havo been
placed for tho Courier des Etats Unis
to be sent to all camp libraries.
Baedekers aro extremely popular
when their Teuton origin can be over
looked and any gifts of this book" are
warmly welcomed. The demand for
these and other books on France and
Europe havo depleted tho market. Ev
ery camp librarian reports that ho has
calls .for war atlases and maps arc
stalled until they fall apart.
Undertakers' Review Not "Wanted
Tho librarians aro always glad to
receive gifts of books and magazines,
but It is desired that they shall be
readable, interesting and in good con
dition. The Undertaker's Review,
which came in one day hardly filled
the demand for cheerful reading, and
the Elsie books woro not exactly cal
culated to appeal to a red-blooded sol
dier. A partial list of books which
havo been sont in by misguided per
sons who evidently think tho soldier
will read anything Is amusing. Sun
day School books of fifty years ago.
tho annual reports of tho Bureau of
Ethnology, reports of tho Episcopal
Eye and Ear Hospital, Palcy's "Moral
Philosophy," and copies of Neodlc
work these aro samples of some of
tho books sent as gifts.
Ill Prison Camps "
There aro letters without number
from men who are fighting showing
how much they appreclato reading
matter. Somo read by candle light in
the trenches and many men. afilrm
that tho mental relaxation saves thtm
from utterly giving out Books must
also be supplied for prisoners of war
for the English report that reading
and efforts to Improve (thcmselvcs
have pulled many men through the
almlcssncss of prison life. Books In
military hospitals aro another neces
sity. The librarians havo carried
books to baso hospitals and thore is a I 1
stampedo from tho men who arc able S
to walk a little to got the books. .1
If tho American peoplo knew In de- ; J
tall all our libraries aro doing they M
would look over their book shelve- m
and send tho best books thoy have to Mj
their nearest libraries with tho request !
that they be forwarded to our soldiers jl
and sailors. Nor would they stop then ,' l
but everytime a good book came into." I
(heir hands they would pass It on for: M
the benefit of the' camp libraries.'; IWt .
There aro millions of unused books In IK :
American homes which could be sent" W 1
to the soldiers to fill the unemployed Jf i
More Books Needed j ll j
As (he army increases moro books jl j
are constantly needed and, books on." mh
tho war will grow moro and more ll j
In popularity. "I'll bo hanged if this HI j
Isn't civilization." cried a veteran sor- MM j
gcant of tho regular army as ho. j
walked through tho library at Camp ,
Funston and saw the rows and rows
of books and tho comfortable chairs H
with tholr occupants absorbed in read- H
Ing. His amazement knew no bounds H
and librarians In tho camp can toll M
stories of this kind without number. Ml
At tho Dispatch Ofilco of tho American B
Library Association in Now York sail- SI
ors como to get books and as they jl
stand in file thoy declare they would H
come any distance to get as many BE1
books as thoy can carry. They are mm
delighted with tho libraries that aro
placed on naval vessels for tho benefit U
of sailors, soldiers and marines. II
The camp libraries send out a mes- Hfl
sago to tho American people. It is HII
this: "Look over your books and see
if thero aro somo with good red
blood In them that you can spare.
Write your name and a message If
you desire on tho fly-leaves, it will MM
make tho bond seem closer, and send
tho books to tho nearest public lib
rary. They will Interest, Instruct or
amuse somo soldier or sailor." H