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the bulletin-boards, and other usual avenues. Oddly 

 enough, it is usually hardest to influence man for his 

 own benefit. The matter of home food production 

 was no exception to the rule. Before the people would 

 spring to the hoe, as they instinctively sprang to the 

 rifle, they had to be shown, and shown conclusively, 

 that the bearing of the one implement was as patriotic 

 a duty as the carrying of the other. Only persistent 

 publicity, only continual preachment, could convince 

 the public of that. Hence it was necessary that the 

 campaign of education be well-conducted and contin- 

 uous. This called for the creation of an organization 

 to back the movement and assure its standing. The 

 author, therefore, realizing the need of developing latent 

 resources of food supply, and after consultation with 

 other men who were eager to do their duty in the cir- 

 cumstances, conceived, and organized the Commission. 

 This organization consisted of Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, President, of New Jersey; Luther Burbank, 

 California; P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner 

 of Education, Washington, D. C; Dr. Charles W. 

 Eliot, Massachusetts; Dr. Irving Fisher, Yale Univer- 

 sity, Connecticut; Fred H. GofT, Ohio; John Hays 

 Hammond, Massachusetts; Fairfax Harrison, Virginia; 

 Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio; President John Grier 

 Hibben, Princeton University, New Jersey; Emerson 

 McMillin, New York; A. W. Shaw, Illinois; Mrs. John 

 Dickinson Sherman, chairman of the Conservation De- 

 partment of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 

 Illinois; Capt. J. B. White, Missouri; Hon. James Wil- 



