WIN THE NEXT WAR NOW 



BY CHARLES LATHROP PACK 



PRESIDENT, NATIONAL WAR GARDEN COMMISSION 



I 



N THE hearts of more than one million of the best 

 and bravest men of the United States, now serving 

 in the American army and navy, there is this great 

 thought : 



"We are fighting now so that there may be no more 

 world wars. We are going to see this through to the 

 finish, if it takes every last one of us to do it. The 

 world must be rid forever of military autocracy." 



Like a night chorus back of them the American people 

 from coast to coast respond: 



"We too are going to fight until victory is com- 

 plete. There 

 will be no com- 

 promise which 

 might mean 

 another w a r. 

 We'll win the 

 next war now." 



This means 

 that there must 

 be no limit to 

 the efforts put 

 forth. There 

 must be con- 

 stant work and 

 unstinted giv- 

 ing. Every one 

 must exert 

 himself to the 

 utmost. There 

 must be vast 

 production. 

 There must be 

 conservation in 

 all directions so 

 that plenteous 

 supplies may be 

 on hand and 

 that the - army 

 and the navy, 

 and the work- 

 ers who are 

 turning out material for them, may be properly fed and 

 clothed and housed. Nothing must be wasted, nothing 

 must be scpiiandered. There must be generous and open- 

 handed giving to the Liberty Loans, War Savings fund, 

 Red Cross and all the activities that are helping to win 

 the war. 



The soldiers themselves, in addition to fighting the 

 battles of Democracy are showing their deep patriotism 

 their whole-hearted love of country by other sacrifices. 

 They are not only giving themselves. They are giving 

 their money. They are buying liberally from their small 

 salaries of Liberty Bonds. They are purchasing thrift 



Photograph by La Tour 



BIGGEST CAMP GARDEN STARTED AT CAMP DIX 



Col. Edmond Tompkins, Camp Quartermaster at Camp Dix, New Jersey, greets the first truck load of 

 the "Seeds of Victory" given the 48,000 soldier boys by the National War Garden Commission. Following 

 this the Reclamation Division of the United States Army, at the direction of Col. J. S. Fair, will spend 

 $60,000 for war gardening at other camps. 



and war saving stamps. And now they are going to 

 help feed themselves. They are willing, yes, eager, to 

 do anything for the cause they represent the firm estab- 

 lishment of freedom and peace throughout the world. 

 The men of the American army realize the importance 

 of food in this war. They recognize the value of military 

 training, the necessity of guns and ammunition and ships 

 and airplanes; but they know that back of all these is 

 food. No army could last a week without it, whereas it 

 might hold out for some time without certain other 

 supplies. The American army, therefore, is starting to 



raise part of 

 the rations 

 needed for its 

 own support. 

 The French 

 army has been 

 doing this for 

 several years, 

 and this year 

 expects to pro- 

 duce in war 

 gardens back 

 of the line 

 enough vegeta- 

 bles and greens 

 to supply the 

 entire army 

 with that part 

 of its food. 

 Last year it 

 fed a consider- 

 able portion of 

 its troops in 

 that way. The 

 English army 

 took up the 

 plan and this 

 year has the 

 work well un- 

 der way sol- 

 diers who are 

 physically incapacitated for service at the front and those 

 who are back of the lines, waiting to be called into active 

 service, take care of the war gardens. 



Camp Dix at Wrightstown, New Jersey, witnessed the 

 inauguration of war gardening in the army camps of the 

 United States. There arrived at the "city of 48,000 

 soldiers" recently nine big motor truck loads of seed, 

 fertilizer, plows and cultivators to get the work started. 

 These supplies were the donation of the National War 

 Garden Commission Lieut. -Col. Edmond Tompkins, 

 quartermaster of the camp, received them in behalf of 

 the men stationed there. He is heartily back of the move- 



