Evening star., 1918-04-03

local truck farmers being required TO
cultivate reduced acreages on account
Of scarcity Of labor and the fact that
there will be 100000 more people in
Washington to be fed this summer.
Summary of the work to date was
presented at a garden mass meeting
In the Public Library last night. II. NJ.
Conolly of the Department of Agricul-
ture, who has been assigned to the
war garden committee of the District
Council of Defense, submitted the re-
port showing that. with anything like
a good season. production of food in
Washington's gardens. back yards and
vacant lots this summer will far ex-
ceed last years showing.
IS Acres Await Growers.
Mr.. conolly announced that eighty
five acres of reclaimed land along the
Anacostia flats are ready for assign
ment as garden plots.
Government clerks and workers who
compose the largest unit Of food con-
sumers In the District were appealed to
to get busy at once in the gardens
movement and help produce the food
they expect to eat. Every government
clerk who has had any experience with
plowing Is urged as a patriotic duty
to send his name to the headquarters
of the gardens committee, room 61S
Union Trust building, telephone Main
$780, He will be asked to devote two
or three days of his vacation time. IL
necessary. in operating plow over
him to and which. but for the utiliza-
tion of his services, might not be cul-
tivated because of the difficulty OF OBJ
tanning labor. The committee will
If washington's army of government
clerks will furnish the volunteers to
operate the equipment. the capitafs
food problem this summer will be
solved, it is believed.
Enthusiasm at Meeting.
More than a hundred men and women
attended the meeting, which was pre-
sided over by Edward F. Colladay.
chairman of the committee. and the en-
thusiasm manifested indicated that
Washingtonians are taking the food
problem seriously. The seriousness OF
the situation was emphasized by all
the speakers, who were Commissioner
Brownlow, Dr. Bradford Knapp of the
Department of Agriculture; Clarence
r. Wilson. food administrator of the
District; Representative Philip Camp
who is directing the Woman's Land
Army movement in the District: AL
bert Douglas of the Capital Garden
Club. Mr.. Conolly and Chairman Col
laday.
Commissioner Brownlow told of the
Importance attached to the garden
movement by the board of Commits
sioners. and Mr.. Wilson discussed the
pointed out that the more food is pro-
duced in the District the less will the
demand upon the nations supply house
and the more cars will be liberated to
take part in the vital work of assem-
bling war supplies for shipment to
France. He urged householders who
put In gardens to do their own work.
thus lesseuing the demand for labor of
this sort in order that it may be avail
able to truckers, and also dwelt on the
Importance Of the conserving of all
fopd produced through canning and
preserving methods.
Good News Of Kansas Wheat.
Representative; Campbell said that the
wheat crop in Kansas is 100 per cent
this year and that Kansas mills will
be turning out new -four by July 10
He confessed to being gardener him
SELF ana to having Just plowed the
garden at his country home In Virginia
He gave some practical advice about
weeds and warned those that under
take gardening that 1t will mean work
to the end of the summer IL results
worth while are to be derived.
Mrs. Ransome told of the plans being
made to organize units Of District
women for farm work and Mr.. Douglas
told OF the work of the Capital Garden
Club and how 1t is cooperating with
the government committee of the
Council of Defense.
Chairman Colladay warned that next
year will be the critical food year of
the war. He said that he hoped the
gardening activities this season would
lay in the basis for the production OF
three times as much food in Washing
ton next year.
Mr.. Conolly announced that the fol-
lowing community garden clubs have
been organised:
Garden Clubs Organized.
Anacostia Garden Club. George A.
southeast; Birney School Community
Garden Club, Miss E. " Smith (secre-
tary). Birney School. 542 Nichols ave-
nue. southeast; Brookland Garden Club.
street northeast; Conduit Road Garden
Club. Miss Cora Van SAINT (secretary),
4e16 Conduit road northwest; Columbia
Heights Garden Club. J. Clinton Hiatt
(president). 1928 Harvard street north
west; Congress Heights Garden Club.
p. B. Magruder (secretary). Congress
Heights; Cleveland Park Garden Club,
3. B. Carrier, 1910 Ross place north
west; lexington Garden Club: Midcity
aos dcH SA0o, n. d. DIISCOit tpFtS1ucHlp, ,,
1919 NJ street northwest; Northeast
Suburban Club, H. D. Woodson (secre-
tary). supervising architects. Treasury
Department; Miner Normal Community
Garden Club. Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham
Georgia avenue and Euclid street;
Petworth Garden Club, ]. I. Carr (pres-
ident), 1925 Grant circle northwest;
Piney Branch Park Garden Club, John
W. Keener [chairman), 1914 Emerson
street northwest; Potomac Garden Club.
Mrs. Aldridge tpresident), Faifbrother
School. 10th and q streets northwest:
Roseda1e Garden Club. Miss H. E.
Hampstead (secretary), Noel House.
18th and Kraemer streets northeast; /;
Rapdle Highland Garden Club, John
Holm (secretary). $500 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast; Reno Community
Garden Club; Sixteenth Street Heights
Garden Club. G. NJ. Bonnette (presi-
dent), 1912 Dogwood street northwest;
Takoma Park Garden Club, W. T. Sim
mons fpresident). 27 Maple street Ia
koma Park. D. c.; Wilson Normal Com
munity Garden Club, Mrs. L. F. Kebler
tsecretary). Wilson Normal School,
11th and Harvard streets northwest;
woodbridge Garden Club, Morris E. Sa-
bin (secretary), 800 24th street noPth-
east; West End Garden Club. r. Francis
Sutor tchafrman), TIC 2lst street north
west. and Mount Pleasant Garden Club,
Mr. Quigley (secretary).
Noted Pythian Dies in Ohio.
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