The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-06-07
Friday, June 9TH, 1918
Nail Your COlOrs to Your Garden
Tools.

The ways in which the average
civilian can help win this war
are SO few that he should well
come the privilege of being able
to do any work that will entltle
him to chum with a soldier on
anything like terms of equality.
The openings for real day-after-
day service which the millions OF
non-combatants in this U. S. A.
can perform are few indeed.
When you contributors you
should-to the Red Cross, you
feel legitimately good all over.
But the act of signing up and
Smelling out takes but a moment
and after a while the feeling OF
satisfaction over duty we'll done
wears off and you wonder what
else there is to do.
When you buy bonds to fur
nish the sinews of war, you nat
urally swell up with patriotic
pride. But after the act of con-
tribution is past it is the Govern
ment, and not you, that does the
work. Your passive part is to
receive good interest on the
best security in the world.
Naturally, you want something
that you can keep on doing.
Why not raise vegetables, and
help ensure the Allies against
the sort of food shortage Ger
many is up against? If you can't
grapple with the foe in France,
get to grips with the Hun in
your own backyard. That is
what Herbert Hoover. urges you
to do. And all the time you are
welding the spade or the hoe
you know you are helping the
Sammies keep their rifles to their
shoulders. You will find your
whole being suffused with a
patriotic glow; while in the years
to come you will not be prey to
mean and vain regrets. And,
very incidentally, it will yield
rich returns to your pocketbook
and your personal well-being.
Maryland is the scene of the
biggest war-garden contest ever
staged on this continent There
are almost five hundred honor
ariums for the fellows who have
the war-winning spirit to get
busy on their backyard or farm
garden. The fellows may be
men, women, or children, for
the contest which the State Food
Administration and the Agricul-
tural College are conducting is
absolutely wide-open. A royal
welcome is extended to every
Marylander who is strong enough
to toddle. There is no conflict
with any other organization
whatsoever, for you are placed
under no obligations of any kind.
1t costs nothing to enter and the
amount lets you out if some
terrible calamity should compel
you to quit this voluntary job.
The object of the donor of this
splendid array of prizes is to
create a surplus of foodstuffs
next winter, so that nothing
shall then cause a shortage in
Maryland. What you eat dur
ing the summer naturally will
not be available later on, should
the trains get tied up or any,
thing of that sort. AS the pro-
verb says, You can't eat your
cake and have it. And, any,
how, the directors of the Contest
could discover no way in which
the judges could keep track of
the produce that goes straight
from the participated to the
kitchen. This Contest, mark
you, is for quantity rather than
quality. 1t is not a food show.
1t is the yield per square yard
that counts. So, in computing
that yield, there was nothing to
do but rule out that amount of
produce of which there was no
feasible way of keeping tab.
Everybody, however, will be
on the same footing. For no.
body will be able to resist the
temptation of eating a share OF
the lucious vegetables he raises.
1t isn't human nature. Don't
worry about that condition. Just
keep a record of what you sell
and be ready to show the judges
what you have dried, canned, or
stored when they come around.
The judging in each locality will
be conducted under the super
vision of the County Agricultural
Agent and the County Food Adj
ministration, so don't hold back
your entry for fear of some snag