CHAPTER VI 
HOW BIG BUSINESS HELPED 
Organized Effort to Can the Kaiser 
L IKE that young man of great possessions who 
came to Christ, inquiring, “What shall I do 
to be saved? 9 ’ hundreds of men who possessed 
or represented immense wealth, captains of industry 
and leaders of big business, came forward in this pres- 
ent-day struggle against pharisaism and demanded: 
“What can we do to help?" In their desire to back 
up the government, they were ready to do anything 
possible to increase the efficiency of either their works 
or their workers. 
Even before the war began, a few manufacturing 
concerns had started community gardening among 
their employes, though the number of such enterprises 
was small. Once the war-time need of food was pointed 
out, however, business and industrial plants in every 
part of the country organized their men for garden 
production. 
Happiness has been defined as a by-product of labor. 
Straightway the concern engaged in the war-garden 
movement found that it, too, had a valuable by-prod- 
uct, and that was increased efficiency among the 
workers. It was not alone through the addition of 
certain amounts of food products to the nation’s sup- 
plies that war gardening proved valuable. It reacted 
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