The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-20
New Idea for Boys and Girls of
the United States School
Garden Army.
Who is SOLDIER YOU KNOW?
Name the Little Plot for the One You
Think of When You Hear Them
Singing "The Long, Long
Trail"
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

| From the Department of the Interior)
! There is a new idea in the United
| States school garden army. It's this
What are you going to name your
own little plot of ground, little sister,
If you are lucky enough to have one
of your own in your back yard?
What are you going to call your po-
tato patch, brother, you with the
bright eyes that weren't SO bright the
day you went down to the station to
see big brother off with his regiment?
Oh, yes, you fell in behind the SOL
diers and kept fine step to the music
of the band and held up your head and
felt big enough and strong enough to
march a thousand miles and take
million German prisoners-but when
he had gone and you went home and
mother put her arms around you and
laid her head on your shoulder and
asked you to help her to be brave
something queer happened to your
heart and you have never felt quite
the same since, have you?
And now they are beginning to tell
you in school about Russia and what
rich country 1t is and how much it
will mean in food If the Germans real
ly get possession of it-and at home
sometimes your grown folks look pretty
serious and you wonder if it could be
possible-no, 1t isn't, and you are go
ing to help make it impossible. You
and those strong little brown hands OF
yours. You and your brave heart and
loyal soul. You and your war garden
that you are cultivating for Uncle Sam.
What Will You Name Your Garden7
You'll have good luck with your gar
den or good success with 1t. There |
sn't much luck in the garden business.
It all just SINNERS down to hard work
and the right kind of care, and it is
going to be hard work, too.
There will be hot days when your
Jack aches and you want to 60 swim
ming; and cool days when your knees
lche and you want to curl up in the
oft of the barn and read or go out
n the lot and play baseball, and you
will have to stick to the garden and do
our work for Uncle Sam.
What are you going to name that
title garden Of yours?
/ will tell you what I am going to
anne mine-mine is going to be called /
am Brown-because Sam Brown is a
oy who never had a chance in life
II the war broke out, and then he
aw his chance and took it, and he Is
YER there in France today fighting for
nd l am going to name my little gar
en- after him.
What are you going to name your
arden? Who is the soldier you know?
Tho is the one you think of when you
ear them singing "Over There" and
The Long, Long Trail?" Lets name
e little garden in our own back yard +
r him.
And You, Little Sister.
Come, little sister, you are doing
'ur part, too, and doing it faithfully
neither you are tired or not or whether
u wish you could go down town and b
We an ice cream soda and forget that
ere was such a thing as rake or I
e in the world. You are the COM
rt of your lonely fathers heart now
avs. Where's that picture of the :
v in uniform? Your own particu +
soldier?
You wouldn't take anything in the
rid for it, would you? How hand
ne he is, and how brave. 1t makes
ur eyes fill with tears Of pride even
think of his name-call your little
rden after him and write to him
or there in the trenches and tell him
put it, and just wait till you get o.
tx his letter in reply.
Sam Brown" that Is going to be
name of my garden.
What is going to be the name Of
lrs?