The Washington times., 1917-04-21
BOY SCOUTS START
THEIR GARDEN WORK
Five Hundred Youngsters Pa
rade, lnaugurating AII-Sum-
mer Campaign.
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the largest Individual garden-some-
thing more than three acres. Every
boy In the troop has q garden Of
some sort
Ready BY 10 O'Clock.
By 10 o'clock the scout detachments
were lined up and ready to start
under the leadership of ]! Woodbridge
Patton, deputy scout commissioner,
and Scoutmaster Ralph H. Campbell
Many of the young farmers in khaki
wore red and blue placards in their
hats urging enlistment Such appeals
were shown as:
"Your country needs you"
Enlist in the marines"
What are you doing?"
The smallest marcher in the parade
was Richard Brown, of Troop 40.
Richard is nine years old and weighs
his troop number-forty-nine pounds.
He was given a rake that overtopped
his small head by several feet
Flags In Abundance.
Flags were in abundance every
where. Troop SO, in addition to car
rying the regular scout flag, had an
nexed q small American flag which
young Arthur Schoenthal waved
proudly at the business end of q rake.
At q few minutes after 10 o'clock
=. W. Bolgiano appeared on the scene
70 offer formally the garden seed
with which the scouts were to begin
work. This seed is valued at 800. In
presenting the seed to Scoutmaster
Campbell on behalf of the Boy Scouts,
Mr. BolRfano said:
by autumn this seed may have
been harvested into food for Amerf-
can soldiers in the trenches Of
Europe"
The seed having been distributed,
the band struck up Onward, Chris
tian Soldiers" and the procession
started west up Pennsylvania avenue.
Reaching the White House the scouts
halted while the scoutmaster hurried
to the Executive Offices to learn that
the President was playing golf, and
a sudden case of illness in Secretary
Tumulty's office had made it impos-
sible for the latter to appear.
Scouts Cheer President.
After giving three, cheers for the
President the scouts continued on
their way west. Then 1t was that
advance agents reached Secretary OF
War Baker.
At the Department of Agriculture |
the boys were grouped about the |
steps OF the main building, where As
sistant Secretary Vrooman addressed |
them as fellow Americans" and told |
them they were fighting, the part OF |
the war that would be most expected |
of this country-the feeding OF our
allies.
Food Greatest Need.
THE greatest need of this country
today is for food" he said. "For at
least several months we will be un-
able to supply enough soldiers to go
to the front You boys present an in
teresting and significant spectacle,
for you have Joined the great army
that Is to perform Americas task In
this war. We have two parts to play
IN this war-hrst we must feed and
second we must finance the armies of
our allies who are fighting the bloody
battles.
There should be one company Of
workers in the field for every company
Of soldiers at the front You have
Joined that great army to make this
oountry's full weight felt in the world
NdT- We 6T0 uBnI1IB IOT q NlClOTy OF
democracy against despotism. and you
boys will Tight with bread bullets. I
would not be surprised IL the boys in
the burrows win this cause before the
American soldiers have fired a shot"
At tine Department or Agriculture
each Boy Scout was given a copy of
the food garden primer being distrib-
uted throughout the country by the
National Emergency Food Garden Com
mission to teach them how to plant and
cultivate their vegetables. The work
cial Agent H NJ Connolly Of the De-
viii be done under the direction of Spe-
partment Of Agriculture
Mounted scouts In Parade.
In addition to the hundreds Of
marchers, mounted scouts were in
the parade. These boys had slung
acros stheir shoulders
each containing anywhere from tan
20 twenty luncheons-an Indication
that the youngsters intended to stay
all day.
The procession passed the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing, down un-
der the railroad bridge and along the
dirt road that leads TO their 800 acres.
the Government had pIowed
lbs acres for them, and they began !
to work the soil for the
seed planting.
The lads were divided into two
groups; the toilers with pick, az, hoe
and rake and the erectors of the
camp which will remain on this site .
all summer. The latter were in !
trusted with the work of putting up ;
the tents, seeing to the camp drain ,
Age, and things like that
Corn, peas, beans, and cabbaEes I
are among the crops which the Boy I
Scouts hope to harvest this summer ,
and fal. Those back OF the enter
prise are Floyd Z. Davis, George \
Melvin c. Hazen, Charles 70. n
5slliher, W. P. Richards, Thomas q
Bones, John o. Gheen, and John l.