The Washington herald., 1918-04-03
URGE
VAR GARDENS
FOR DISTRICT
Mass Meeting Enthusiastic.
ally Accepts Plan as
Practical War Measure.

Pillow deep while sluggards sleep.
and you shall have grain to sow and
keep" was the spirit that prevailed
at the mass meeting held in the lee
ture room Of the Public Library last
night under the auspices OF the gar
den committee Of the District Coun-
cif OF Defense.
More than 30 citizens of this city,
all equally interested in the war gar
den movement, were in attendance
and listened with close attention to
eTerything that was said. Applause
sreeted the speakers at frequent In
tervals, and the movement launched
last night is only the forerunner Of
intense future activities in connection
with the planting Of war gardens
throughout Washington and this vi
cinity.
E. F. Colladay, chairman Of the gar
den committee, presided. and intro
duced Commissioner Louis Brownlow,
who welcomed the movement on be-
hah Of the District authorities
He was followed by Clarence X.
Wilson, District Federal Food Ad-
nainistrator, who strongly urged the
citizens Of Washington to plant every
foot OF vacant ground at their COM
mand to war gardens as one Of the
most effective means OF helping win
the war.
Go and preach everywhere the doc
trine that Il is the duty OF everybody
70 save wheat flour even to the eX-
mt OF consuming bHt one-hak what
You are now in order to supply our
troops with fighting material and all
must make sacrifices and redouble
their efforts in this direction. and we
will win the war" he said.
DR.. Bradford Knapp, Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, sounded a note
OF warning by the declaration that
on account of the depleted condition
of the food supply among all the Eu-
ropean nations at war, as well as
IN China, India, portions OF South
America and elsewhere, the burden
Of supplying the world with enough
TO eat rests at the doors Of the United
States and Canada
After urging all to encourage the
war garden movement to the fullest
extent, DIR. Knapp continued:
They call them war gardens these
days Well, when we have peace /
hope they will continue to thrive and
be called peace gardens am one of
the originators Of the idea to have
these gardens, but the Department of
Agriculture is interested only to the
extent that the garden produced Dy a
family shall be consumed by the pro-
ducer and that there shall exist 10
necessity for hiring help to plant these
gardens.
Every man you hire in this way
dixertB so much help from the far
mers, hence it is your duty to do
the work yourself and cooperate
with your local garden clubs as
much as possible"
Representative Philip Campbell, of
Kansas. was introduced as a Middle
West expert on the subject of cereal
conditions in that region. He fore
csseed that the yield OF grain and
corn from the States of Kansas.
Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma would
run one hundred per cent,
and that flour from the present
crop would be ground in Kansas
mills before June 10 next. a predic-
tion that aroused considerable en-
thusiasm.
Representative Campbell said he
had pIowed his own garden at his
residence here Monday. and yester-
day seeded II to potatoes without
any outside help. and advised every
body to go and do likewise. and
explained the methods Of planting.
The meeting closed with some
well directed remarks by H. NJ.
Connolly, agricultural agent for the
District, who ranks as an expert
on matters affecting the issues in
volved.