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finally move, even the most indifferent reader. For 
this reason its publicity campaign did not end with the 
gardening season. News stories and garden statis- 
tics of all sorts were gathered by the Commission and 
given to the press. These stories included accounts of 
the work of individual gardeners, of garden clubs, of 
communities, and of the organized gardeners in great 
industries. Likewise the Commission gathered to- 
gether thousands of cartoons and funny stories and 
jokes about war gardens and war gardeners, and issued 
books of these humorous items. The press reproduced 
this matter the country over and in this way the funny- 
bone of America was tickled with the garden idea. The 
Commission’s publicity work was not confined to the 
daily press. Feature stories were supplied to many 
magazines and periodicals as well as to the magazine 
sections of Sunday newspapers. These articles were 
more pretentious than those prepared for the dailies. 
They aimed not merely to be authoritative but to have 
literary quality as well. They dealt with gardening 
from many different points of view, but always the 
lesson was conveyed that more food was needed and 
that it would have to be raised by the average American, 
irrespective of his vocation. With these magazine 
articles, and with many of its newspaper stories as well, 
the Commission supplied illustrations. Its agents had 
secured hundreds and hundreds of interesting photo- 
graphs showing different phases of garden work in al- 
most every portion of the country. These pictures, 
portraying war gardens from the arid sands of the 
