Hollinger Corp. pH8.5 Food Must Follow the Flag 1h. War Garden Guyed Uncle Sam came across with a grin, And he reckoned: "I'm proud of my kin; With the country all fat With fine gardens like that Your old Uncle is certain to win." 1918 THE NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. Copyright, 1918, by tlie National War Garden Commission VITAL VALUE OF THE WAR-GARD^I THIS publication treats of the lighter side of the war garden movement and the canning and drying campaign. Fortunately a national sense of humor makes it possible for the cartoonist and the hmnorist to weave their gentle laughter into the fabric of food emergency. That they have winged their shafts at the w^ar gardener and the home canner serves only to emphasize the vital value of these activities. The producing season of 1918 has seen tremendous growth in war garden- ing and home conservation. These activities were inaugurated on a na- tional scale in 1917. At that time they were regarded as emergency measures made necessary by America's entry into the world war as an active belhg- erent. With the prolongation of the conflict their value has been greatly increased. From a land of plenty the United States has become a land with a war-time food problem akin to that with which Europe has been face to face for four years. Each day of the war's continuance will render this problem more acute. The American war gar- den has already proved its worth in helping to solve this problem. As the war goes on this will increase. Among American war agencies the National War Garden Commission has occupied unique position. Estabhshed as a patriotic contribution on the part of a few public spirited men, the Commission has become a recognized institution. This recognition has been accorded by the United States Govern- ment through various departments and branches and by foreign nations. It has brought to the Conunission the co- operation of Federal, State, County, and City govermiients and of every type of local agency. One of the leading achievements of the Commission during 1918 has been to demonstrate the possibility of food production by the army at the camps and cantonments throughout America. The demonstration was made at Camp Dix, New Jersey. At the request of the War Department the Commission %<^ provided seed, farming equipment and fertilizers for planting a war garden of between three and four hundred acres at the camp. This garden has been worked by a regularly organized farm company of a strength of from 165 to 225 men. The results in simplifying the food problem of the Army are of such importance as to justify the belief that next year will see camp war gardening on a national scale. Another important phase of the work of the Commission has been coopera- tion with the United States Bureau of Education in stimulating war garden- ing among the nation's school children. Through international relationships, the Commission has done much to cement the friendship between America and other countries of the world. This is especially true of the Allied nations. In England, France, Bel- gium and other countries across the Atlantic, in Canada, in Australia and in Cuba and the Philippines, close affiliation has been welcomed by government authorities and by vari-. ous agencies concerned with the food question. One example of interna- tional cooperation is that conducted throughout Canada by the Canada Food Board in conjunction with this Commission. South America has also manifested deep interest. In the UniteU States the Com- mission's preliminary survey of war gardening in 1918 indicates an in- crease of more than 40 per cent over the number of gardens planted in 1917. The figures show approximately five million gardens with a probable value of half a billion dollars. For this achievement too much credit cannot be given to the periodical and newspaper press of America and other countries. The Commission is deeply sensible of the cordial and un- wavering help given by the newspapers and magazines. Without this help the work could not have been done. To the cartoonist, humorist and others whose material is herein re- produced, the Commission makes grateful acknowledgment. ©C1A528369 .iiiM o\ \^\^ friends of the family being pres- ent, in addition to about six million sparrows and aU the neigh- bors' chickens. A garden looks very prosperous in the catalogue. No sooner are the seeds firmly established in the turf than the sparrows start in to kidnap 'em. It isn't much of a riot. One spar- row can defeat its weight in seeds the best day you ever saw. And a good two-clawed chicken can Garden Wisdom RANDOM extracts from the writings of Arthur (Bugs) Baer, of the New York World: "All over our former RepubUcan States war gardens are being launched, with a patriotic waving of elbows and a star-spangled outburst of seeds. Launching a war garden is a very intricate matinee. When they launch a war vessel the skids are put under the vessel. But when they launch a war garden the skids are placed under the gardener. "A "^ar garden is a gob of land situated as close to the ground as possible. The idea is to barrage it with a flock of seed shrapnel which will eventually bloom and produce something besides blisters on the hands and pains in the suspenders from bending over. A seed is a young berry which is buried in the ground and patted in the face with a spade. The interment is private, only a few turn a war garden over on its shoulder blades with one claw tied behind its ears. "After a few skirmishes with the neighbors' chickens your gar- den wears a womed look hke a suburbanite who is always two jumps behind his train and one jump ahead of the rent. It is emptier than a cruller with the rim gone. It won't even support an echo. The nap is all worn off." tmmf :s. JACK THE GIANT KILLER Pl.\schke in Louisville Times. NEWS FROM THE FRONT The enemy charged in great force all along the East Cleveland and Lakewood sectors. They were repulsed with heavy losses. All is quiet along Euclid Avenue DoNAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. When the wife votes in favor of potatoes and the husband insists that onions are preferable, the little plot of ground at the back of the house verily becomes a war garden. There's a man up in Brooklyn, N. Y. Who thinks it his duty to try The home garden stunt In both backyard and front fSo his folks will have rhubarb for pi;; Said the grocnr to Mrs. McPliee: " Your dollars mean not lung to nie. You can't trade in my shop. Can your war garden crop And then you can feed yotu'self free. CAN ALL YOU CAN Hal Coffman in Dayton Journal. War iSrarden Sass 'I'^O-DA Y I ate some freedom peas, in my -I- war garden grown; I often gather greens like these, and boil them with a bone; and though the peas were small in size, in taste Uke castor oil, I viewed them Avith admiring eyes, the product of my toil. With pride the loyal voter eats his home-grown garden sass, his luscious Patrick Henry beets, and Sweet Boon spaiTow-grass ; his taters may be small as beads, his lettuce coarse and tough, but joy- ousljr he on them feeds and cannot get enough. I plant my beans of Bunker Hill and till them Avith my sword, and say, "I'll help can Kaiser Bill, the frugal way I board. I've ]>lowed up the begonia bed, the lily and the rose, and that I may be cheaplj' fed I plj^ my rakes and hoes." How good it makes a feUow feel, to do his Httle trick, when he's too old to take his steel and - carve a Teuton hick! He feels his jaded spirits rise, he knows he's safe and sane; he views his garden plot and cries, "I have not lived in vain!" There are so many ways to aid that no one need despond; the coin I've saved with hoe and spade will buy another bond. I help to balk the submarines, some Teuton scheme I smash, l^y raising Nation's Bidwarks beans and Eagle succotash. Rules for the Gardener IN tools for gardening, you require a wheel hoe Avith cultivator, rake, ploM% side hoe, seed dropper and all the ^Tinkles, about $14.35; miscellaneous hand hoes, rakes, cultivators, pushers, pullers, per- suaders and grabber, $27.56. Total, about FOLLOW THE PIED PIPER Join the United States School Garden Army. — Walt Mason. CLEVER POSTER USED BY THE UNITED STATES SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY A War-like Crop It was inevitable that Cartoonist Herri- man should initiate his favorite creations. Baron Bean and Grimes, into the mysteries of the war garden. Grimes is pictured as puzzled over, a strange series of popping sounds from the Baron's back yard. "T wonder what it is," he exclaims. "It's pop-corn, you skwint, if you want to know,'' replies tlie Baron. "Why don't you plant somelliing more peaceful?" asks Grimes. "This is a war garden, Ole Dear," is the Baron's retort, as he playfulh' hammers Grimes over the head with a rake. $41.91. These tools are not to use on your own garden, but to lend to your neighbors. You do your own work with tools borrowed from one neighbor Avhile another neighbor is xising the ones you bouglit. Garden tools ar(> like a circulat- ing library, only very few of the things come back. You must also have a large sui>ply of monkey wrenches, Stilson wrenches, hammers, saAvs, screw-drivers, etc., because the neiglibors who liorrow your garden tools will naturally- hesitate to ask you to come over and fix 'em when they get out of whack, but will be glad to boiTow the tools to fix 'em with. So you just gotta have plenty of implements and tools. Gathering the Crop ONE gardener quar- relled with his wife over the first fruit o^. the family garden. He claimed the growth was one of his succotash. She insisted it was one of her sweet pickles. While they quarrelled their charm- ing niece dug it up. • "Oh, dear," she com- plained. "Must I do it all? Why don't you get busy and take out a weed when you see it?" THE LURE Clubb in Rochester Herald. Worms Wm Win the War One industrious war gardener is pictured as working busily and reflecting on the virtue of raising his own food supply. "If everybody grew theii' own vege- tables and ate less meat," he soliloquized, "we'd put old Bill on the bum in a hurry. This is tough work but I'll stick to it if it MUs me. I'm with Hoover on this." At this point a fine assortment of earth Avorms was unearthed. The digger's re- flections immediately shifted to a shady stream and the final scene shows him happily fishing. "Oh, well," he reflects to soothe his con- science, "vegetables or fish; it's all the same to Mr. Hoover." Love's Labor Lost During his siimmer ex- cursion in war garden- ing, cartoonist C. A. Voight exploited Petey Dink as planning to plant succotash in a space which he had spad- ed at much expense of labor and physical fatigue. As he finished the spading his wife ap- peared on the scene. She was filled with dismay at what she found, dear, Avhat have you at him. "You've dug "Oh, Petey, done?" she flung up the plot where I had my beans planted." Poor Petey fainted. If New Yorkers are to cultivate 12,000 farm-gardens this summer, as Mr. Hoover asks, they will have to arrange a schedule by which their roof gardening won't inter- fere with their war-gardening. "%^ Copyright, Life Pub. Co Pup: I'll just examine boss planted yesterday, me so interested. these seeds the He'll be glad to see Courtesy of Life, The Days of Real Sport ""ITTAR gardening is ' ' just as good sport as golf or shooting," de- clares an enthusiast. U-m, well, it requires as much skill and persisten- cy to bag a patch of po- tatoes as to bag a dozen quail, and looking for the pepper plants in the weeds would be as good sport as looking for lost golf balls if caddies were employed to help. GET BUSY! By J. H. Cassel Watchful Waiting ' ' This war garden busi- ness is a frost," said the man in the street ear. ' ' I planted my garden two years ago and nothing came up but weeds. Last year I Avaited to see what would happen, but weeds were the only crop this time, too. I am going to wait just one more season, and then if the stuff don't come up I am going to dig up the whole thing." Cassel in San Francisco Bulletin. Preliminary Practice If you wish to do a little preparatory Red Cross work, whj^ not hold verj^ gently the blistered hand of yoiu* favorite war- gardener? A Popular Tale "What are you reading?" "A tale of bm^ed treasure." "Wasting your time on fiction?" "No. This is expert advice on how to plant potatoes." DAVLIOHT S/iVED - A GARDEN MADE Since Congress lengthened out the day, Let's start in right and stay right. It's jast tlie tiling for garden work — This extra liour of dayligtit. WATEK ^-OUR GARDEn CAREFULLY "Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden fare?" "It's growing well in tiiis dry spell; 1 wutt'r it with care." UNCLE BIFF SAYS Doc Tweezer an' Andy Jimpson got into a war garden fight. Doc said green peas would win the war, and Andy said 'twant' so; string beans would do it. DoNAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Gardener's Plaint By "Touchstone". I WANT to lie supine upon the grass With the blue vault of heaven arching over. To watch the fleecy cloudlets as they pass, To hear the murmurous bees among the clover. Such were, indeed, a fitting interlude 'Twixt the recurring frenzies of the poet. Alas ! if man to-day hath need of food He has to up and grow it. Therefore, behold me with my fork and hoe At work upon my small but neat allot- ment, Earthing the spud— :a task for which I know That I was most emphatically not meant. Alack! for those two ancestors of mine. The temptress Eve, the weak and greedy Adam Who needs must go and overstep the lino, Confound you, sir and madam! But that was in the very distant past, The active villain of the piece comes later, Fit for the part in which he has been east. Whose sins, I trow, are infinitely greater, Sin<'e he is obviouslv most to blame To concentrate on him were surely wiser. And while I toil I fervently exclaim, "Oh! you-know-what the Kaiser!" — From The London Daily Mail. Lasting Well "I am surprised to see you have such a quantity of preserves left over from last year." "Nobody could get the lids off," ex- plained the house-wdfe briefly. "The time has come," the ridsdale said, "To think of garden scenes. Of carrots, beets and artichokes, Of squash and lima beans ; Of why the canner's boihng hot And how to dry your greens." For the war gardeners the Government should provide the order of the blistered palm. G-arden hint: In time of war prepare foi' peace. ®L0 soother HUBBARD WJul HAVE A tSEW CUPBOARD \!s5iTH FOOD Piled up high on each shelf he'll hav/e allsheYlneed all. H£R household to feed §HELL CA(S it or DR.y IT HERSELF. ^rHATlOISAI. WAR GARDEN COMMISSIORn \A/ASM11SGT0M. O.C- One Result of the Heat THP] best way to bang the conservation Holstein in the optic is to unsheatli your elbows and pnblish a war garden, says J Arthnr (Bugs) Baei', the inimitable humor- ist of the New York World. And whilfi you are chaperoning the nimble onion, the durable hma bean and the joyful tomato, the wife should be chauffeuring a war pre- serving laboratory. Beat the raise in living by raising the beet. Preserve the Union hj preserving the onion. Raise corn in your garden and on the Kaiser's progress at the same time. Every corn you raise is another corn in the imperial boot. By adding the hma bean you can make the Kaiser the sucker in succotash. And don't return your elbows to their icabbard until the Junkers are in the junk. While the navy is canning the U-boats, you 3an the navj^ bean. The National War Garden Coramish in Washington will tell you all you want to k'now about war gardens, from soup to the lat check. They will send you a yard of iterature telhng you how to separate a ;/oung goulash seed from its mother with- out sending in a riot call. The War Gar- len Commish will wise you up just how jiTTLE S'ack Former will SIT IIS A CORNER ^ITH HEALS HI5 GOOD MOTHER HAS PLAtsrSED- •HELL FEED HER WHOLE BROOD WITH THE CHOICEST OF FOOD, /Which she »m her wiSDOr^ ^_^ HAS CANNED ^ Oh Mamma," cried Algernon Butt, Aren't yoaglad you're a newspaper cut' *^or if that squirrel knew That you never will do Any cannuig, he'd think you're a nut." to plant charlotte russe bulbs ring side up without the use of gyro.scopic stabilizers. By preserving fruit now you can pre- serve order in the future. Lowbridge the high cost of HWng by putting enough as- paragus up in camphor to last out ^ext winter. Carrots, beets, parsnips, cold slav.', double-barreled potatoes, rhubarb and Mexican jumping beans are the ammuni- tion to shoot into the boj's who are shoot- ing ammunition into the foe. It doesn't m.itter if the Mexican jumping beans'"have a slight limp. They are easier to catch that way. 'Eivevy home should have a garage full of 1918 model, underslung chassis, one- man top preserve-jars loaded to the ears with fruit shrapnel. The next treaty of peace will be signed with an ink made from cun-ant jelly, canned tomatoes and pre- served peaches. Paste that in your tin hat. Can any- thing and everything, from ruliber heels to toothpicks. Can, can, can and make the Kaiser dance the can-can. Can anything. Garlic, prunes, hay, or sawdust. There are calories in everything except a German peace. Unintentional Hooverite Wife (returned from overnight visit) — "Did you get yourself a good dmner last evening, dear?" Hub — "Yes, there was a bit of steak in the ice-l)ox and I cooked it with a few onions I found in the cellar." Wife— "Onions? Jack, you've eaten m\ bulbs." MOTHER MAKES HER FIRST APPEARANCE IN HER NEW OVERALLS DoNAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer CANNING TIME By a Soldier-Contributor to Trench and Camp. Said tlie wife of a canny young Scot: " Look at all of the canned goods I've got. With a bridge of such size For my liousehold supplies I'd as soon see cold weather as not." 10 THE WAR GARDEN dftMOUFLACjfc- V.W\n(r DOV^M ^ ftfXW^ACfB'. 1 OVE.R THE TOP. } Blacksmith's War-Garden The village blacksmith planted peas And carrots, too. 'Twas a small garden, if you please, He had in view. But neighbors let their poultry stray From divers pens. The blacksmith now puts in the day A-shooing hens. It should be borne in mind, too, that a real patriot will raise his chickens at home instead of in his neighbor's war garden. Cried Mrs. Jehosophat Strong: "Come Hos, this late rising is wrong; If you want to be fed, Get right out of that l)ed To tlie garden bed where you belong. VVCT0UY1 Brown in Chicago News. Not Canned A canner one morning, quite canny. Was heard to remark to his Granny: "A canner can can anything that he can, But a canner can't can a can can he? " ACANOMOUS. I never fried a purple squash. And hope I'll never fry one. But I«can tell you this, by gosh! I'd like to can or drj^ one. THE BEST USE OF IT! CHAMnKRi.AiN ill I'luladclphia Telegraph. 11 WHY IS IT YOUR NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN ALWAYS LOOKS BETTER THAN YOURS? Finch in Denver Post. Never String a Stringless Bean PETEY DINK was shoAving liis thrifty bean patch to his wife. " You'll have to get Konio pol(;s and run strings on them sathey'll have something to grow on," suggested ISIrs. Dink. "Not these beans," retorted the war gar- dener. "They're striuu- less beans." Perils of Gardening "Come out and help me," the war gardener called to his wife. "Oh, dear, I can't," was the reply. " Work- ing in the garden don't agree Avith me." "What's the matter? Does your back pain you again?" " No, but I got a freckle last week." Get out and poke The weeds that choke Your tender garden stnflf, Tliey're alien foes Tliat crowd your rows; You've gotta treat 'oni rougli. " MY BENNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN Satterpield in Muncie Press. Garden Economies -CARTOONIST Voight, -^ of the Evening Public cdgcr', made a war gar- Diicr of kis beloved laracter Peley. "This uot ouly lielps ut on the food prob- m, but Ave'll save Loney as Avell," refleet- i Petey, as he toiled ith his hoe, "and if I m only get the women iterested there'll be othing to it. We ought ) save at least a hun- rod dollars." At this point of his ^flections his charming iece appeared with rake I hand to join in the ork. "Oh, Uncle Petey," le exclaimed, "how do ou like my new garden 3stume? It cost only lie hundred dollars com- lete." Uncle Petej^'s reply 'as represented by a ingle star of extra size. Most .•'" WAR GARDENS Satterfield in Lowell Sun. OLD Bang Food in his merriest mood Sat a-watching his garden plot. He counted his Beets and he reckoned his Beans, And he said: "Will we starve? We will not!" X iues v/e^ jy^' Q ga^ atv TO WO>o'5irJ- Wt+V ^WiF-E - T*«tr rr- 1^' Copiri;;ht, 1918, by International NewsScrv ALL MARRIED MEN KNOW IT, TOO Tad in New York Journal. Little Bopeep is feeding her sheep On the tops of the greens she has gi'own. They eat cauliflower just six times an hour; They're the fattest young sheep ever known, A young lady of Wilmington, Del., Attempted to jjut up some jell. When, it turned into mush She refused to say "Tush!" But insisted: "I'm doing quite well." THE TOONERVILLE TROLLEY THAT MEETS ALL THE TRAINS Since I'm growing my food on the spot I can knock H. C. L. off the lot. Without raising a liand With this stuff T have canned, And the people who can not cannot. Copyright, 1918, Wheeler Sjiidicate, Inc. Fux in ^\'as)linlJton Times, 16 W POTATOES HGHT Tlxeyr Save ^hcat WhXlSTRATION Copyr. Life Pub. Co. Reprinted from Lijr of Muy jj. 1018. THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION MOBILIZES THE CARTOONIST The pressure was too much and the guest was forced to forego his day of rest and weed the garden. ' ' I hope John didn't think I was hinting," the hostess said to Mrs. John, as they left him at work. "Such a thought would never enter his mind," was the re- assiu-ing reply of the devoted wife. Copyright, H. T. Webster. AMERICAN SAPPERS WAITING FOR THE WORD TO DIG IN Webster in Cincinnati Tijucs-Star. "Are you going to have a garden this j^ear?" "No," replied Mr. Growcher. "It isn't my turn to make a garden. I'm going to keep chickens this year and let my neighbor make the garden." The Day oi Rest ONE of the pathetic victims of other peoples' war garden enthusiasm was Mr. John, the hero of Maurice Ketten's " Day of Rest " cartoons. Invited to spend a week-end with friends, John was delighted with the opportunity to rest. "This is my garden, Mr. John," said his host- ess proudly, showing him over her grounds. "It's full of weeds." "Too bad," said the guest, but without en- thusiasm. "It's a shame to lose my vegetables," persist- ed the hostess, "but I can't find anybody to work." "Too bad," repeated John, feeling what was coming. "It's a crime to let good food go to waste now," ventured Mrs. John, looking at her lijLisband, coaxingly. "Don't you hate to see all those vegetables being spoiled by weeds, Mr. John?" the hostess persisted. Inmates of Pennsylvania's insane asy- lums are working in war gardens to aid in the fight against the Hun. "Crazy like a fox," takes on a new meaning. Now is the time to place the spade be- hind the flag. LEADING HIM ON Berkyman in Washington Star. 18 Cannergrams GET down to cases — cases of home-can- ned products. A row of filled preserv- ing-jars is a good defense against winter. fUerilized, sealed, saved — the three "S's" of home canning. S. O. S.— Sterilize on stove — another way of saying "boil those jars of fruits and vegetables so they wiU keep per- fectly." The useful life of a preserving-jar — -filled in summer, ready by fall, emptied in winter — hungry to save more food next spring and summer. A wooden false bot- tom in a home-canning outfit is a raft that keeps lots of perishable food from being lost. An aU - round good thing for the nation — a i-ubber ring on a preserv- ing-jar. A fourth-floor apart- ment is a fine place to produce a canned garden. WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON Stkes in Philadelphia Evening Ledger. UNCLE SAM'S SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY Bkkryman in Washington Star. 19 Persons of everj' level should can, the family in the top flat as well as the dweller in the bunga- low. You don't need even a foot of earth to raise a canned garden — in fact, the less dirt the better in home canning. The colors of those jars of canned and pre- served products put a ser\ace emblem in your*' kitchen. Brighten the comer in that kitchen closet — with canned beans, fruits, berries. Pantry natriotism — preserving perishable products in periods of plenty to provision people wlien production has passed. "Snoogles" tor To see By Hungerford THOSE BEANS NEVER WILL LOOK THE SAME HuNGERFOiiD in Harrisburg Telegraph. The Little War Garden (With apologies to the autlior of The Little Dutch Garden). I passed by a garden, a little war garden, Where all sorts of Hoover things grew, Big ripe, red tomatoes and bugless potatoes. And turnips and onions a few. I saw in that garden, that little war garden. Every last kid on our street. Red-headed Johnny and ciirly-liaired Tommy, And Jimmy and Tony and Pete. Thei'e gi'ew in that garden, that little war garden. TIME TO DIG IN DoNAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. Every vegetable known in the land, And the Red, White and Blue, tliat was well planted, too. In each heart of that tilled little band. My heart's in that garden, that little wa; garden. It tumbled right in when they said. "Say, mister, we'll 'sprise yer; we'll surt lick the Kaiser. If every Idd hoes 'till he's dead." SPRAVWq BUCS,3-CSNt3 -SSR.-SKE S'a^S.Q. Copyright, 1918, Life Pub. Co. DON'T TRY TO FLIRT WITH A FARMERETTE Reprinted from Life of August 22, 101S, 20 . ifimnnnin ■ » • '•! ill STAR CAI/NG „es,^onro^'"""'" THE MESSAGE ICTA/O EMPTY JAR ESCAPE ^O^/f tV'f/lS ^00/?/oa THE PARA D£:/?S THE CANNERS AS SEEN BY A COMMISSION CARTOONIST 21 OUR JANUARY GARDENING Of course we liked our garden when we viewed the lettuce beds, And picked the tender ears of corn, and counted cabbage heads! It took a lot of work to plant and weed and hoe and prune. But then, we liked our garden! 'Twas a thin.'^; of art in .Tune! But now that winter blusters and all prices soar and soar And we can hear the H. C. L. a-scratching at tlie door. And mother opens home canned corn or peas or beets or greens! Say! Takes all year to show folks what a garden really means! Martha Hart in Dps Moines Tribune "The time has eome," the burbank said, "To Avork a fruitful graft. We'll cross the soil with garden seed And rake it fore and aft; And then we'll have so much to eat We'll look like wilvumtaft." SKETCHES FROM LIFE " GOT ALL MY SEED BACK ANYWAY " Temple in Cleveland Plain Dealer. "The time lias come," .lack Pershing "For you to back your sons. You've got to feed 'em mighty well. So they can man the gmis. Backed up by your home cammi' aid We'll cannonade the Hiuis." said. IF TF you can waste your food while thoR? -'- about you Are saving theirs with all their might and main; If you think we can win this war without you, Or think it's just your chance for private gain; If you can loaf while everybody's working, And make no move to help your Uncle Sam, But spend your days in idle, worthless shirking And show that you don't care a tinker's dam; If you are happy only when you're carving A big and juicy joint of prime roast beef, And have no thought for people who are starving, And save no meat to furnish them relief; If you permit your worthless heart to harden 4 To Europe's eager cry for bread and meat. And utterly refuse to make a garden To lielp increase oiu- stock of stuff to eat; I SAY — if you can live in this poor fashion And be as heedless as you were before, You're lost to all respect and all com- passion; YOU'RE JUST A SLACKER, MAN, AND NOTHING MORE; BUT IF you save whatever you are able, And help to feed the men who go to fight, By raising beans and cabbage for your table. So Uncle Sam may feed his soldiers right; If you will start your backyard garden ■ growing, Why, then, you'll have a right to crow and BRAG, For you'll be making just as good a showing As those who cross the sea to save the flag. 22 Help On the Food Work If you can't raise chickens yourself, you can at least encourage those who can. Plant a garden. The average size war garden can be persuaded to pay the average fami- ly's income tax. If you can't plant a war garden, at least you can refrain from sowing Avild oats to offset other people's gardens these busy days. One thoughtful para- grapher observes that many a man who thinks he could manage the entire country can't even manage his own back- yard garden. This obser- vation prompts another writer to declare thiat as a general thing that sort of a fellow has no back- yard garden. PRODUCER, MANUFACTURER AND CONSUMER DoNAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. Of course the office kidder had to wait till the day you retximed from a two weeks' auto trip to inspect your war garden^ Finch in Denver Post. "The time has come," the seapack said, "To tliink of growing things. Of com and wheat, to make our bread. And stuff tTiat gard'ning brings, For we must feed our soldier men And those of foreign kings," 23 Oad Has Inventeda the Gordc" in ->' Him to «'<"■" (fo/t^( f^'^'" ^f^rSamc Time Keep — —,. ■^^^ THE CARTOONIST'S SYMPHONY By Fox. Pinch and Sattbbfibi4>. 24 A housewife who lived in Deland Took her pipe-smoking hubby in hand. " Come along here," said she, '■ You can't leave it to me. You must help get this garden sass canned.' Alonzo Alplionso Romayne Is a wizard of legerdemain. With a wave of liis wand He can make an old pond Grow beets and toinatoe.s and Too Much Rivalry "How is your wife niakiug out with, those onions she is raising in a flower pot?" "They're drooping. Stirring the soil with a hairpin was all very well, but I don't think perfume from an atomizer is the sort of irrigation they need." Some cook in the navy has given out a recipe for camouflage ginger bread. An expert cook friend of ours tells us real ginger bread can be made for half the price. "Mamma, Billy Smith is keeping chick- ens now, and I have declared war upon him." "What for?" "Well I want to make our b?.ck garden safe for the world." A report by the Federal Children's Bureau says that since the increase of the price of milk to 14 cents a quart more than half of 2,200 families investigated in New York City had substituted tea and coffee for children. HOME DEFENSE Harding in Brooklyn Eagle. HELP CAN THE KAISER! Bhewkrtox in Atlanta Journal Clean over the top we will travel, As soldiers of hoe and of spade; We're digging the earth and the gravel. We're getting our war gardens made. To-day is no time for the slacker, And war has no place for the shirk; When you find slacker land take it firmly in hand. And if it won't fight, make it work. the cellai 1 n n ffi slalalo 1^^ Said Miss Gladys Clarissa McTanner: "I've abandoned my player pianner. Art is all very good But it won't supply food So I'm playing my times on my canner." A New Form of Test "He loves the very ground she walks on." ' ' Does he love it well enough to plant a vegetable garden in it for her benefit? " Tickle the earth with a spade and she will laugh back at you with a joyous crop. Fooling the Poultry- One ingenious gardener is said to have pretended she was planting something and then put some fake cards around her make-believe garden, after which she let the neighbors' chickens scratch themselves skinny looking for the seed. Even the people who live in apartments can raise their vegetables on a dumb waiter. Little Miss Muffet went out to rough it By working with spade and hoe, But when her tomatoes came up as potatoes Poor startled Miss Muffet said "Oh!" Think of the thousands of unborn beans that are awaiting the coming of the summer garden. HpW YOU FEEL WHEN YOU RAISE YOUR FIRST POTATO Finch in Denver Post. PATRIOTIC LITERATURE FOR 1918 There's a patriotic journal That is free from battle news — Wholly free from blood and thunder! You can read it if you choose. When you tire of war and war news. Why not give your brain a jog By a thoughtful wise perusal Of the garden catalog? Martha Hart, in Des Moines Tribune. 26 THE PLAVGR.OUMD BECOMES Said the youngsters of Lakewood, N. J. : "Just watch us make war gardens pay. We'll go over the top With a smashing big crop, For this is not work— this is play." IT'S A GARDEN PLOT A garden in every back lot Is about the best thing we have got. It's as good as our gims . For bombarding the Huns Is this anti-Him war garden plot. The Great Joker FRPJDBRICK W. VANDERBILT, at a dimier in Poughkeepsie, praised the production of his war garden. "'If I told you all that my war garden has produced," he said, "you wouldn't believe me. You'd think I was as men- dacious a joker as Mark Twain. "A young girl once asked Mark Twain to write in her autograph album. She said it must be something she could show her mother. The gi*eat humorist dipped his pen in the ink and wrote : "'Never teU a he.' "'Beautiful,' said the girl, in a shghtly disappointed voice; but Mark wasn't done yet. He dipped his pen in the ink again and added: "'Except to keep in practice.'" LeAVrNG'THt' TRACKS IS 50 COMMON AN occurence' WITH THE TK01.1.EY THAT THE'SKiPPER Hftb BECOME USED TO IT, BUT LAST WEEK THE BUAME THING WENT AND JUMPED RIGHT A WAR GARDEN WHICH THE SKll'PER HAD PUAMTED ALONG TH^ RIGHT OF WAY. Forethought "How are you getting along with your garden?" "Fine! I've planted the seeds two feet deep and defy the neighbors' chickens to dig them up." old Young Livingston Beekman de Peyser Said: "I'm gloating just hke an miser; I'U grow ammunition To send to perdition That blood-thirsty scoundrel the Kaiser." Mrs. Sadleigh has given up sighing At the cost of the food she's been buying, For she's got 'em all beat On the good things to eat Since she's taken to Canning and Drying. Copyright, 1918, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. Copyright, 1918, Wheeler SynaiCi.te, Inc. THE TOONERVILLE TROLLEY THAT MEETS ALL TRAINS Fox in Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Fox in Spokane Chronicle. 27 (^^ffpmm/sADi/£L THE COMMISSION'S OWN CARTOONISTS MAKE A SPRING AND SUMMER DRIVE AGAINST THE ENEMY VEGETABLES YOU SHOULD KNOW •yiMOTHY TURNIP he lives down- -*- sta-irs, No one could say that Jie puts on airs; He lives in a box that's made of wood, Very simple, but strong and good. And mother can always depend on him If she thinks the dinnc is kind of thin; He's a fat old thing, but he does combine, And he makes boiled dinners uncommonly fine. OH, Ann Letitia Carrottop, she is a stupid thing, She is sort of orange-colored with a bang of greenish string; She hasn't any manners and she liasn't any style, But when you see her in your soup — She makes you want to smile, She looks so handsome in your soup She makes a person smile. 28 Said Mrs. Josephus Brevoort: "This Canning is bully good sport. Evefy jar is a shell To give the Huns Hell And my house is a regular fort." The Society Gardener MRS. SMYTH-D ALSTON'S correspon- dence with lier local Avar-garden com- mittee develops some new and engaging phases of war gardening. Some extracts : I have decided to sacrifice my beautiful grounds for food raising. Kindly write me how to proceed. Also notify the society papers. Send them the enclosed photo- graphs and warn them not to leave the hyphen out of my name again! If they desire a personal interview, no doul^t it can he arranged, although such things are very tiresome. I have just bought the dearest set of ladies' garden tools imaginable. They are solid silver with mahogany handles. I am HOW ABOUT YOUR WAR GARDEN ? Mali boss t:illdn' about lie gwine make a drive f'Lih Uncle SaTU wid a wah gyahden dis spring. Da's all right, but Ah bet Ah bees de sojer wliui dooes de shootin', emiyhow. F^#r^ AVlieii we get to the season of frost You will feel hke a soul that is lost. If you haven't at hand Lots of stuff you liave canned For defeating the high hving cost. having my nionogi'am placed in platinum on each one. I also have the sweetest sun- bomiet you ever saw. It is made of rare convent lace, which the muis worked on constantly for twenty-nine years. It is shiri-ed oxn- rose-pink silk and caught at each shim ng -wath real pearls! Besides being almost priceless, it is extremely becoming. Seed catalogues received, but they arc Paw, oh, paw, don't you hurt yourself plantin' those peas ! " DuxAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. 29 READY FOR THE SPRING DRIVE Hal Coffman in Washington Times. strangely inadequate. They contain only common varieties of food which do not ap- peal to me. I love pdle de foie gras, but it isn't listed. Neither can I find apricots nor maraschino cherries. I must have the latter. My heart is set on having cherry beds under the Lodge windows. I shall need large quantities of mint and dinner raisins, and may as well raise my own olives and make my own oil — then there will be no question of impurity. Kindly send catalogues of the best foods by special mes- senger. Have ordered several smart gardening frocks, with droopy hats to match and can hardly wait to wear them. War work is intensely inter- esting and I am more than glad I took it up. I have not felt bored since last Friday. P. S. Sm-ely yon have blueberry bulbs ? Send a large quantity by mounted messenger. We all like blueberry pie. It seems strange that you have no other seed catalogues! And I am also extremely surprised at your advice to raise only beans and potatoes! They are so prosaic that I fear I should lose in- terest and, besides, we have splendid statuary on the grounds. I do not think it would look just right to see "Naomi Shielding Her Child" in the middle of a potato patch — or "Diana Hid- ing" in beans! Ther'e- fore I shall conform to my original plan of rais- ing the things of which I am specially fond. I feel that you de- serve severe criticism for not being able to supply everything asked for. But if you cannot do so, I must go elsewhere. As I finished the above sentence a seed salesman called — very opportune- ly — who can furnish everything I want. He was very helpful in assisting me to mark out small citron groves, fig plots and picturesque little palm gardens, which will be beautified by almond vines and walnut shrubs. In one section of the grounds I planned a miniature coffee plantation. The war has inflated seed prices frighl- Jullij! But, as the man said when I was " I DON'T WANTA DIG, I WANTA GO TO WAR! »' DoNAHEY in Cleveland Plain Dealer. 30 making out the cheek, we cannot eat money — it must be exchanged for food. Have just caught my men in the very act of spreading a Mghly offen- sive decomposed sub- stance in all directions. I ordered it removed instantly, of course, and have sent for disinfect- ants. Must close to give further orders. P. S. — Seven workmen have just left. Shall depend on you to send others immediatel3^ I have not heard from you — and do not want to! I hereby cancel all orders sent. Neither have I heard from the seed salesman — and four detectives have failed to find him! My confidence has been shamefully abused. The seeds he sold me at such fabulous prices were different kinds of fancy grass. I have 200 acres of it! It is needless to say I shall not attempt to go further with a war garden. I hardly think it was required, anywaj^ — the press has taken so little notice of it. Am leaving to-night for my usual season ct Newport, where I shall put war — and incompetent committees — out of ray mind completely. CAM I wor^r^ in M^- QA(?DeW UIlTrtOUT Ti^aMP- IN^ IT ^Li. UP ? " If you'd live a long life, take my liuiu-li: For your breakfast and dinner and lunch Eat potatoes and beans, Onions, cabbage and greens. And you'U give Father Time a stiff punrli. GARDEN HINTS Frueh in New York World. THE HOE 15 MIGHTIER THAN THE 51^'ORPAND PL!^ PASSING OF THE PRAIRIE LEAGUE Kettnkk in Cltnwhirshurg Public Opinion, 81 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ■II III! IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIII llllllllllll llllllll lill ^ 002 762 760 2 H After J. N. Darling, in New York Tribune. NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION Aflaiiated with the Conservation Department of the American Forestry Association THE MARYLAND BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. Charles Lathrop Pack, President. Luther Burb * nk, Calif. • Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Mass. Dr. Irving Fisher, Conn. Fred H. Goff, Ohio. John Hays Hammond, Mass. Fairfax Harrison, Va. Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Percival S. Ridsdale, Secretary. Dr. John Grier Hibben, N. J. Emerson McMillin, N. Y. Ch.'^rles Lathrop Pack, N. J. A. W. Shaw, 111. AIrs. John Dickinson Sherman, 111. Capt. J. B. White, Mo^. Hon. James Wilson, Iowa. Commissioner of Education. Additional copies of this book may be obtained upon request. We also issue a Manual on War Vegetable Gardening with directions for Home Storage of Vegetables and a Manual on Home Canning and Drying of Vegetables and Fruits. Copies may be obtained upon request. For single copies of these Manuals no charge is made. Organizations may obtain small quantities without charge and larger quantities at nominal charge. A list of manufacturers of Canning and Drying devices and equipment may be obtained upon request. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDQE7b27bD2 Hollmger Corp. pH8.5