The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-23
FALL IN LINE.
Get to Work in the Great Producing
Army on the Land.

hiihy oh thS
The United States school garden arm,
is beginning to mobilize,
The whole plan has been CAREFUL,
worked out and so far there hasn't beel
a single hitch in the program.
The secretary of the interior through
the bureau of education is calling upol
state and county superintendent o
schools and also upon the governors o
the different states, the mayors OF tn,
different cities, and school superintend
ents in cities, towns, villages and suburb
an committees, and asking everyone Of
these people to fall in line and get to
work in the greatest practical volunteer
campaign that has been started since the
war began
The Germans have organized their gar
den army years ago and just because
they did do that very thing they have
been able to laugh at the rest of the
world for so long.
For back of every bullet and behind
every shell and under and over every
cloud of poisonous gas and running every
submarine and directing every aeroplane
is man who must keep up his energies
with food.
We might as well send our men to the
trenches to face eanhons and airships
and poison gas and explosives dressed in
suit of paiamas with nothing but their
bare hands for weapons, as to send our
army overseas without enough provi-
sions to keep them not only alive but in'
fighting trim when they get there.
Where are we going to get the food to
send them?
We have Just one storehouse from
which to draw. and that storehouse is in
the fertile fields and the rich haryests Of
our own country.
Our troops abroad need -four and sugar
and coffee and tea and corn and meat
we must send them these things or be
ready to bow our heads under the Ger
man heel.
There is no use blinking the fact a
minute longer; tie whole thing comes
right down to the question of bread and
meat and enough of it.
If we send all that We raise abroad
what shall we do here at home?
This is the time to begin to consider
these things We have been blind and
dull of wit, and deaf and Indifferent long
enough.
From one end of this country to the
other the people are beginning TO realize
what this question of food means. No
that the United States school
garden army idea has taken such splen |
did hold, not only in the imagination but |
of the stern, practical faculties of this |
whole country.
Five million school children modified |
into an army with officers and privates |
and sergeants-with drill and hard work |
and great rewards and splendid service.
What child is there on the face of the
globe who would not be proud and eager
10 be one of such an armyy
Have the schools in your district begun
10 organize!
Have Won secured vacant land in your
,itv to use for the gardeng
Who is going to be captain OF the first
egiment in your town.
You don't know. Why not?
Aren't YOU interestedr
You will be Interested some day when
hat boy of yours comes home with a
'hevron on his sleeve or your girl is
made first sergeant and wears a badge
fhich tells the world that she is ready
q do her bit for her country and her
ountry's flag.
WHY not interest yourself personally
4 this matter to-day
WHY not make this a part of your
uty to Uncle Samg