CHAPTER VI 

 HOW BIG BUSINESS HELPED 



ORGANIZED EFFORT TO CAN THE KAISER 



LIKE that young man of great possessions who 

 came to Christ, inquiring, "What shall I do 

 to be saved?" hundreds of men who possessed 

 or represented immense wealth, captains of industry 

 and leaders of big business, came forward in this pres- 

 ent-day struggle against pharisaism and demanded: 

 "What can we do to help?" In their desire to back 

 up the government, they were ready to do anything 

 possible to increase the efficiency of either their works 

 or their workers. 



Even before the war began, a few manufacturing 

 concerns had started community gardening among 

 their employes, though the number of such enterprises 

 was small. Once the war-time need of food was pointed 

 out, however, business and industrial plants in every 

 part of the country organized their men for garden 

 production. 



Happiness has been defined as a by-product of labor. 

 Straightway the concern engaged in the war-garden 

 movement found that it, too, had a valuable by-prod- 

 uct, and that was increased efficiency among the 

 workers. It was not alone through the addition of 

 certain amounts of food products to the nation's sup- 

 plies that war gardening proved valuable. It reacted 



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