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the bulletin-boards, and other usual avenues. Oddly 
enough, it is usually hardest to influence man for his 
own benefit. The matter of home food production 
was no exception to the rule. Before the people would 
spring to the hoe, as they instinctively sprang to the 
rifle, they had to be shown, and shown conclusively, 
that the bearing of the one implement was as patriotic 
a duty as the carrying of the other. Only persistent 
publicity, only continual preachment, could convince 
the public of that. Hence it was necessary that the 
campaign of education be well-conducted and contin- 
uous. This called for the creation of an organization 
to back the movement and assure its standing. The 
author, therefore, realizing the need of developing latent 
resources of food supply, and after consultation with 
other men who were eager to do their duty in the cir- 
cumstances, conceived and organized the Commission. 
This organization consisted of Charles Lathrop 
Pack, President, of New Jersey; Luther Burbank, 
California; P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner 
of Education, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Charles W. 
Eliot, Massachusetts; Dr. Irving Fisher, Yale Univer- 
sity, Connecticut; Fred H. Goff, Ohio; John Hays 
Hammond, Massachusetts; Fairfax Harrison, Virginia; 
Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Ohio; President John Grier 
Hibben, Princeton University, New Jersey; Emerson 
McMillin, New York; A. W. Shaw, Illinois; Mrs. John 
Dickinson Sherman, chairman of the Conservation De- 
partment of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 
Illinois; Capt. J. B. White, Missouri; Hon. James Wil- 
