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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



social unit)- that will mean better life for everyone." 



Now if everybody else will "vote with both hands" to 



continue the garden movement and make it a permanent 



institution, the problem will 

 be solved. We will have the 

 10,000,000 Victory Gardens 

 for which we hope. What 

 that will mean to the world 

 cannot be told ! It will be 

 impossible to determine the 

 number of lives that may be 

 saved, the sufifering and de- 

 privation that will be avoid- 

 THE PARAD^RS cd and the happiness and joy 



that will come to thousands upon thousands of poor 

 people abroad whose daily bread is of meager quantity 

 and wretched quality. Reports have told how the Ameri- 



niore than any other nation to hold in check and finally 

 crush altogether the terrible foe. Hunger. Mr. Hoover 

 has said there will be seven years of world food short- 

 age. This must be reduced, 

 if possible. 



Let the Victory Gardeners 

 now line up ! Let them see 

 this war through to a glor- 

 ious conclusion. Let their 

 motto be: "We have just 

 begun to fight." That speaks 

 the true spirit of America. 

 That was the impulse which 

 sent the boys through at 

 Cantigny and at Chateau Thierry, at St. Alihiel and in the 

 bloody Argonne. The memory of these deeds must be an 

 incentive and an inspiration to every man, woman and 



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can soldiers as they passed through some of the war- 

 racked villages of northern France and Belgium, took 



little children upon 

 their knees and 

 Y shared their rations 

 I with them, and of the 

 ^^/ hght which shone 

 ^ - upon the thin, sad 

 z::S\£l- faces at this act of 

 mercy. The American 

 soldier typifies the 

 United States. This 

 country must now 

 help to feed the world. 

 Uncle Sam has be- 

 come the Joseph of the Modern World. He must try 

 to stave off the "seven lean years." We alone can do 



child in the United States. There can be no finer tribute 

 to the nation's heroes than to make real and lasting the 

 victories for which 

 they died. 



In a sense every 

 home garden planted 

 in 1919 will be a 

 monument to the 

 American fighter and 

 to the service he per- 

 formed in helping to 

 establish firmly for 

 the benefit of all man- 

 kind the undying 

 principles of Liberty, 

 Truth and Justice. Every individual, every organization, 

 every community that encourages others or actively 



