THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 175 



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The most remarkable cooperation was given in New 

 York City when virtually every one of the big metro- 

 politan dailies was running the Commission's garden 

 hints and suggestions 

 simultaneously. The 

 papers thus helping in- 

 cluded the Evening 

 Worlds the Globe, the 

 Evening Post, the Jour- 

 nal, the Evening Tele- 

 gram, and the Brook- 

 lyn Eagle. On Sundays 

 some of the papers regu- 

 larly ran an entire page or two of war-garden material. 

 In the United States a large number of the foreign- 

 language newspapers, Italian, French and others, told 



their readers of the ser- 

 vice they could perform 

 through war-gardening 

 and the conservation of 

 the surplus products 

 thus grown. Several 

 summaries of the war- 

 garden movement in the 

 United States were 

 FOR PATRIOTIC REASONS translated into French, 

 Spanish, Italian, and Portugese and sent by the Commis- 

 sion to leading publications throughout Latin America, 

 Canada, Australia, Europe, and the Orient. They ap- 

 peared, for instance, in such widely separated papers as 



