n6 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
There is no question that the cultivators of our war 
gardens, now become victory gardens, will continue 
their labors. 
For a decade or two before the war, there was deep 
study and much discussion of the problem as to how to 
check the exodus from the farm to the city; but argu- 
ment and discussion availed nothing, and the exodus 
continued. In the “city farmer” has been found a 
partial answer to the stay-on-the-farm idea. Ambi- 
tious young men and women will not remain in the 
country where comforts are denied and where advan- 
tages of education and social life are few; but they will 
be glad to farm in the city, The victory garden has 
opened the way. By this means almost every one 
becomes a food producer. 
Furthermore, increasing prices will make it desir- 
able to the individual, and the growing demand for 
food will make it desirable from the country’s point 
of view, that every one help to feed himself. The read- 
justment which must come out of the war calls for 
powers as Herculean as those it has been necessary 
to put forth during the terrible struggle against “Kul- 
tur.” This reconstruction work calls for every bit of 
man-power that can be found. It is a question not of 
months but of years before this up-building is com- 
pleted. In France, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Russia, and 
other European countries, the rebuilding of cities and 
churches, railroads and bridges, docks and roads, houses 
and barns, the remaking of trench-scarred and shell- 
torn farms, and many other big works, must be per- 
