Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

were dividing up public lands In New
York state as late as 1869, and Cornell
University got the oVerplus.
Cookery has just returned from two
weeks trip to practically all the estap-
lished hospital truck farms in France.
The quartermaster farms, from front
to sea, would require further time 10
visit, hut the same conclusions Apply.
1--WE find that the American truck
farmer, after he has talked IItio
with French truckers and mas the ny ths
of the land, turns out better than the
Frenchman, by up-to-date methods,
says the Washington state expert.
side by side, the American truck
farms in France are superior 10 tnoae
under French gardeners. 1 spent wv
hours, the other day, holding sorl u
consultation court on the spot anu
cross-examining the parties, and then
went and examined the soil. inc
conditions were identical, the pefsohneI
equal-and we had them beat 10 ~;
clear to the naked eye. Also, we nnu
that American boys work PETER u"oei
American truck experts"
Cookery, in home life. is an active
practicing lawyer, but he has cleared
with his own hands small truck
farm of twenty-five acres near tne
city of Spokane and knows what ne
Is talking about.
see grand picture. and the boys
have old Virgil whipsawed, going and
coming.
see the boys advancing eastward.
covering those blackened areas or
the retreating Hun with fair green
carpets We Am nMn ,no nave he eten q
to grow vegetables in ground black
ened by fire." says Thomas Corkery.
but these black areas are diher-
ent-so different"
Ax
see the boys returning west
ward-still with a truck farm lad.
They go back home to take up their
lives again, full of grave experience
strong. men and thoughtful. I have
heard them talk nobly. How much
of these ideas are mine, how much
from the forceful Cookery. how much
picked up from young Aeneas WIN
return ticket, makes little differ.
ence-they are ideas IN the ar OF
Europe, among our soldiers.
After one has seen the sudden ruins
of this war, the desolations of great
European cities and the purposed
wasting of vast centers OF supply,
one gets a great respect for farms.
1t is no sentimental back-to-the-
1t is based on something bigger.
At home the boys may not be bears
for poetry but over here they quote
Goldsmith's Deserted Village" AS
they view blackened ruins. work OF
kings and lords and see vast farm
regions depopulated and devastated
the grandeur of the prod"cer is borne
in on them, and vision of more
subtle dangers against which they
would guard our own dear land.
Ill fares the land to Fastening ills prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
princes and lords may flourish and may fade;
A breath can mar them, rs breath has made.
hut hold farming push, their country's pride.
When once destroyed, can never Ike supplied!
A poet, now and then, gets hold of
n great economic truth. says Cookery.
The boys feel that there is some
thing indeed big here. finer than the
epilogue of Wells war in the Air."
with the dwindled population of Lon
don hunting a stray hen in the ruins
of Bun Hill. English allotments.
American truck farms in Europe and
Uncle Sans government farms for
returning soldiers. The boys don't
try to untangle it in words. but they
know that they are going to help
save the world.
1t Is big thing-to grow out of
crave for onions.
1t is a big thing-that wounded
heroes hope to eat green corn at
Christmas. STERLING HEILIG.