Imperial Valley press., 1917-03-17
SCHOOL GARDENING.


SCHOOL GARDENING.
\ The school garden movement was not promoted s.
much for what few potatoes and beans the youngste
could raise their little plots 1t to tram tn
children in industrious habits and to interest them IL
processes of nature But vegetables regarded witt
wholesome respect now. The National Educational Asso
citation plans push school gardens harder this summer
as resource in food production.
Teachers to secure permission to use vacant lot
and back yards If the schools everywhere would pro
mote this movement increase could be made II tbs
food supply Spectators who contlvng to beat the
last dollar out of the poor man. would reflect on all hes6
little stocks stored away in million cellars.
The school gardens will be planted with bolsterouS
enthusiasm 1t always gives youngser thrill to dc
something like his father He will feel like grow man
while he is digging his furroWs and dropping IN his seed
There will day when the weeds have grown very
tall The teacher is rllscang at rural retreats boys
will the winds WILL and vacation days are full OF press
ing engagements The swimming hole has to be visited
several times day. and there are no end OF BIRDS nests
to be inspected and back yard ball games to be played
Then there is the inappropriate fact that the garden was
not laid out in the shade If this vital consideration had
not been overlooked it would have been much more prac-
tical for Tommy to weed his plot.
Still the children's gardens have really raised sub
stantal amount of produce Children happier they
have some regular tasks. But their gardens will amount
to great deal more if some competent person is given
the job of regularly supervising them. Father can well
afford to pay something for real vegetables.
CONGRESS- by adourning without doing anything, has
again vindcated it's title of being the leading debating
society of the world.
There is no lack of overt acts on the part Of the food
spectators.
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rate information about it's military is to ask
the foreign spies.
It is surprising how enthusiastic the audience be-
comes about the stars acting when she displays the latest
Paris Clothes
The back yard gardeners have secured complete
stocks of all fertilizers except elbow grease
In these days of plots the statue of Liberty Enlight
enng the World should carry dark lantern instead Of
torch.
From the rate at which her merchant marine is be-
ing destroyed it looks if England would be thoroughly
starved out and very hungry about the year 1856
1t is quite possible that Uncle Sam is not so verdant
and unsophsticated youth as he looks in some foreign
capitals.
Formerly the business man worried at night for fear
he wasn't making money Now he worries for fear he
didn't lock the woodshed door, where the potatoes are
kept
A lunacy commission is to decide on Harry IhaWs
case and while it is about it. it might take up the sanity
of the people who wanted to let him out
The elaborate display Of the inauguration exercises
will be severely condemned by those who went to Wash
lngton and didn't get an office.
The gloom that prevails in college at the lack OF
battery talent is not at all relieved by any scholastic tr
umphs that may have been achieved during the winter
The new dollar bills being worked off as fly