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harrowed. Often it happened that the land available 
would not accommodate all the men applying for plots, 
and in such cases employers frequently leased additional 
near-by lands and turned them over to their employes. 
The mutual interests so engendered created a more 
friendly feeling of cooperation not only among the men 
themselves, but also between the management and the 
employes. This was particularly true where, as hap- 
pened in many cases, the heads of large concerns be- 
came fellow-gardeners with their employes. Burns has 
told us the secret of democracy in a single sentence: 
“A man’s a man for a’ that!” When men get togethei 
and work together for a common end, they learn the 
fundamental lesson of democracy. Thus the commu- 
nity war gardening which sprang up in so many parts 
of the land accomplished more, far more, than the pro- 
duction of so much provender, useful as that strictly 
utilitarian end undoubtedly was. Unquestionably, 
community gardening will continue. It will be the 
peace-time descendant of the war garden. 
