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formed. So we can look for no huge immigration after 
the war to solve our labor problem, and that problem 
is acute. There are no ruined cities to be rebuilt, or 
devastated farms to be restored in the United States, 
but there are innumerable construction tasks to be 
done that have been put aside during the war. 
Thousands of miles of road — to mention a single 
task — will have to be completely rebuilt. The day of 
the heavy motor-truck as a means of transportation 
between city and city has come to stay, and for its 
accommodation there must be a strengthening of roads. 
This is one of the great tasks awaiting the army of 
men returning from the battle-fields. The construction 
of new buildings in our cities, checked by war-time 
need of material and men, must be resumed and lost 
time must be made up. Cities will need many improve- 
ments which will keep the workers of the world busy. 
In these and a hundred other ways there will be steady 
call for the men released from strictly war work. 
All these facts point to the increasing value of the 
victory garden. It will be just as important a factor 
in the life of the nation and the community after the 
war as was the war garden during the conflict. The 
need for gardens will last for many years; and during 
that time, the value of gardening will have become so 
apparent that the movement will continue indefinitely. 
It will have become a habit fixed and firmly implanted 
in the hearts and lives of the people of the country. 
In addition to all this, gardening has been found to 
be a health measure. It has been used in the rehabili- 
