The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-31
SCHOOL ARMY
SHOULD NAME
WAR GARDENS
Choose Sammee as GOM1tlIef
Of Your Patch Of Groulld
Dedicated to Fight Against
Kaiser Wilhelm.

There is new idea in the u 3.
school garden army. It's this:
What are you going TO name your ~
tic plot Of ground, little sister. r y0u
are lucky enough TO have one Of yOof
own In your own back yard? -
What IRE you going to call your ~.
tato patch, brother. you with the bri(At
| eyes that weren't so bright tho day ye0
went down to the station 70 sec ~
brother Off with his regiment
Oh. yes, you fell IN behind the -
dicrs and kept fine step to the i4t1c
Of the band and held VI your head -
felt big enough and strong enoten ~
march Thousand miles and take 4 ~.
lion German prisoncrs--but Whsn =
had gone and you wsnt horne en
mother put her arms around you e44
laid her head on your shoulder. 49,
asked you TO help her 70 pc nrAyes7
something queer happened e yo1f
heart and you have never felt quite -
same since, have You?
Working for Uncle Sam.
And now they are beginning 10 ~
YOU In school about Russia and WAIT
a rich country II liz and how much ~
viii mean IN food II the 0erisaa6 f61 Y
ret possession Of it--and ~ heDe
sometimes your grown folks look pfSsSy
serious and you wonder II Il could -
possible--no, 1t isn't, and yUM ere -.
ing to help make II imp0ssthls. Tea
and those strong little brown hAnes
OF yours. &C. !.
You and your brave heart ma ygpr
loyal soul. Your md your waT aaS1en
that you arc cultiv&ting for unctN \.
Your have good luck with your ~.
den or good success with II. There 49,
much luck In the garden business.s "
oil Just SINNERS down to hard work
and the right kind OF care. and q =
going to be hard work. too.
Not an Easy dob q Al.
. Nothing easy about ii: not 4 thing.
yon wouldn't want TO be doing soeae-
thing easy. would you, with blg bfosllcs
n the trenches and unclo sam Canine
you to help? 49, -
There will be hot days when y0es
1back aches and you want to 70 eWtD !.
ming, and cool days when your knees
ache and YOU want To curl up IN the lo3S
Of the barn and read. aid 80 out IN ~
In and play baseball, especially y yoo
ar. d catcher and have d pcrfsctly goo1
cntchers glove; and you will hsv0 Y
stick to the garden and do your Won
, for Uncle Sam.
.. Name Your Garden for soldier.
/ What are youn going To name tnA
little garden Of yours M
| 4 al UninK. n
: mime mine--rnine liz going TO DO cauei
Sam Brown--hecanse sam bIoMn IN
1 boy who never had chance In his ~
nj tho war broke out, and then b
saw h,s chance and took II, and No
0 over there In France today fighting 20
0 You and for me and for Tnclc oau
and , am going to name my little seS
den after him. Ia III. -
& warden? Who Is the soldier you Know
who In the ono you think OF when ~
: hear them singing over Ihc'c
| "'rhe Long, Long Trail!
Ii It's n long, long trail he's foiloWi4l
brave boy. Il long, long, trail anu
- ,way from home and those who ~
lbim-msy he follow 1t tn It turns -
brings him home again. Home 10 i0s
and shelter and friendship Rome
the old fireplace and the old books ~
,he old songs at evening, ana the iSs
brother who has been so fnithtnA
his memory ever since he's been, goa
And In the meantime let's name 9
little garden in our own BACK yaro =
him. so that If there Is county 2
and some of our garden truck goes Z
exhibition the name OF our pArtfcuN
soldier boy will be there nj the 900
for every one to see-and remempees
Your Own Particular Soldier. :
Come, little sister. you are doil
YOUR part, too, and doing II faithtnl
whether you are tired or not: whetn
you wish you could go down town a
have an ice cream soda and forget IN
there was such IA thing as q rake
hoe In the world. You are the comic
Of your lonely fathers heart nowaoAs
Where's that picture Of the uoy
uniform? Your own particular suldto
You wouldn't take anything IN
world for it. would your How han
some he is, and how brave. II max
your eyes fill with tears OF PRIDE ev
to think of his name--call your lit
garden after him and write to him on
there in the trenches and tell n
about It. and Just wait till you get oa
his letter in reply.
sam Brown" that Is going to be
name of my garden.
What is going to be the AnyaO