Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-25
SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY.

The tultco states CCuOOl GdIueh
Army is beginning to mobilize.
The whole plan has been carefully
worked out and so far there hasn't
been n single hitch in the program.
The Secretary Of the Interior
through the Bureau Of Education is
calling upon State and County Super
inteudeuts Of Schools and also upon
the Governors Of the different States,
the mayors Of the different cities and
school superintendents in cities,
towns. villages and suburban commit
tees. 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
garden army years ago and just be
cause they did do that very thing
they have been able to laugh at the
rest of htc 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
aeroplauo Is a man who must keep
up his energies with food.
We might as well send our men to
the trenches TO face cannons and air
ships and poison gas and explosives
dressed i'm a suit of pajamas with
nothing lul their bare hands for
weapons as TO send our army over
seas without enough provisions to
keep them not only alive but in fight
ing 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 storehousc
is in the fertile fields and the rich
harvcsts of our own country.
Our troops abroad need -four and
sugar and coffee and tea and corn and
meat-wc must send them these
things or be ready to bow our heads
under the German heel.
There is no use blinking the fact a
minute longer; the 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 wonder that the United
States School Garden Army idea has
taken such a splendid hold, not only
in the imagination but of the stern,
practical faculties of this whole
country.
Five million school children mobi-
lized 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 ~ W tAN VI SUN III al NY
Have the schools in this district be-
gun 10 organize?
Have they secured vacant land in
the city to use for the garden?
Who is going to be captain of the
first regiment in Annapolis?
Nobody knows? Why not?
Aren't You interested?
You will be interested some day
when that hoy of yours comes home
with chevron on his sleeve or your
girl is made n first sergeant and
wears a badge which tells the world
that she is ready to do her bit for her
country and the country's flag.
Why not interest yourself person
ally in this matter today?
Why not make this a part of your
duty to Uncle sam?