The President's Appeal 
"Let me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a 
garden helps, and helps greatly, to solve the problem of the feeding of 
the nations and that every housewife who practices strict economy 
puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. This is the 
time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness 
and extravagance. Let every man and every woman assume the 
duty of careful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a 
dictate of patriotism which no one can now expect ever to be excused 
or forgiven for ignoring." 
Short crops, short commons, over much of the world. Millions 
of men speeding the gun and not the plow. We all know that, and 
here at home fume at the size of our provender bills. It is in the 
power, it is the imperative duty, of everybody who owns or rents a bit 
of cultivable land to "cultivate his garden" with especial industry 
this year, to raise what produce he can. 
Even if, as the undiscouraged commuting tillers and amateurs 
profess, not always in earnest, to believe, their garden plot beans, 
peas, potatoes, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, celery, tomatoes, and what 
not, cost them more than the greengrocer would charge for them, a 
theory now improbable, their self-supply reduces the demand and the 
accumulative effort and effect of millions of small producers will result 
in a great combined crop and keep prices down. Nothing bought 
tastes half so good as the fruit of your own elbow grease and skill 
in Adam's trade. 
This country is rich in women who have much time to themselves 
and have to kill it, some in paying for tea and cakes by hstening to 
papers on every subject under heaven at women's clubs, some by 
losing and neglecting God's sunlight at intempestive afternoon games 
of bridge, some by frittering away time on charitable and war relief 
concerns and occasions, whose purposes are sufficiently served with- 
out them; and so the rosary of idle women might be strung for many a 
bead. 
Votes for women? Food for men, women, and children is a little 
more pressing, and woman suffrage, prosperous and hopeful, can take 
a rest. If the inferior and fading sex may dare to make a request of 
the invincible, won't the women's clubs of every name and kind raise 
"garden sass" multitudinously this year? 
New York Times. 
