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harrowed. Often it happened that the land available 

 would not accommodate all the men applying for plots, 

 and in such cases employers frequently leased additional 

 near-by lands and turned them over to their employes. 

 The mutual interests so engendered created a more 

 friendly feeling of cooperation not only among the men 

 themselves, but also between the management and the 

 employes. This was particularly true where, as hap- 

 pened in many cases, the heads of large concerns be- 

 came fellow-gardeners with their employes. Burns has 

 told us the secret of democracy in a single sentence: 

 "A man's a man for a' that!" When men get together 

 and work together for a common end, they learn the 

 fundamental lesson of democracy. Thus the commu- 

 nity war gardening which sprang up in so many parts 

 of the land accomplished more, far more, than the pro- 

 duction of so much provender, useful as that strictly 

 utilitarian end undoubtedly was. Unquestionably, 

 community gardening will continue. It will be the 

 peace-time descendant of the war garden. 



