"SEEDS OF VICTORY."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14665, 24 July 1918, Page 4

"SEEDS OF VICTORY."

"WAR GARDENERS" OF THE

UNITED" STATES.

"Every Garden a Munition Plant" is the slogan which the National War Garden Commission of Washington, D.C., has sent throughout, the 'States J and reports received by the commission indicate that considerably more than 7,000,---000 liomc gardens have been planted; this year in the effort of America toj ■help to feed her Allies, to save wheatand other staple foodstuffs which can' be shipped abroad, and to substitute^ home-grown vegetables for other foodj products. Many organisations have cooperated with the commission. Chambers of Commerce and local trade bodies gave it their support. Women's clubs and committees of National and! State Councils of Defence entered actively into the .spirit of the movement. Large corporations and manufacturing 1 concerns, banks and business houses,' called attention to the great service Which individuals cottld .render their country by cultivating a home garden. Large manufacturing companies encouraged and aided their employees to plant gardens. Tlie companies provided land, which was ploughed and prepared for' the men free of charge, each worker being given a small individual plot. Fertiliser and seed as a rule were bought in larger quantities and sold to the men at cost, they being allowed to pay for it in easy instalments. A powerful force in stirring the American people to the patriotic duty of war gardening was the slogans which the commission used in its campaign. These were placed on its posters and employed in the press material and other literature which was sent out. Cme of the very handsome posters this year is entitled "Sow the Seeds of Victory." It represents the figure of America clad in a dress of red, white, and 1 blue, and wearing the red cap of Liberty, walking across a field scattering seed. . Underneath is the caption, ''Every Garden a Munition Plant." It is the work of Mr. James Montgomery Flagg, a well-known artist. Another poster is by J. Paul Vcrrees, a Belgian soldier artist, which shows the head of the Kaiser in a vegetable can, labelled "Monarch Brand Unsweetened,", and byr its title calls on tho war' gardener to '"Can Vegetables and Can the Kaiser, top."