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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH , U. S. Gardeners --- Aid in Nation's WHO'S , Increased Number of Garden This Year Vital For Balanced Diets. THIS Vfj WEEK Uncle Sam's wartime food needs have put the Br LEMUEL F. PARTON family vegetable garden back on the map. Millions of Americans are now poring over seed catalogs, checking tools and eyeing likely planting sites. Once the frost is gone, an army of gardeners recruited from farms, small towns and big cities will prepare the earth with spades and fertilizers. Then will come seeding, weeding and cultivating in a vast effort to produce plenty of fresh vegetables, F. O. B., the kitchen ing gallery belts. He $100 Wad Shot conveyor college and if he had he probably would have been voted the least likely to succeed. But, with young people, yon can't be too sure what is monkey business or what isn't This boy. as above, really had his mind on bis work when be was bang-- i ing away la the shooting Be got himself a work ' bench and brought through the Garand rifle, which has in- -i fir-creased our army small-ari and ing power by which has brought to the 53-John C. Garand spe- -' year-oleial commendation from General MacArthur. gal-ler- y. m pus-sle- , He was born in Montreal, was a sweeper in a textile mill in a small Connecticut town at the age of 12 and was working part time in a machine shop when he found his laboratory in the Coney Island shooting galleries. ar of T. - A- sup-nnrt- E m-innnuiff- !!! , try S5r land-base- J - "right out of the about the supposed general physical unfitness of our new army. It's just a cream-puf- f army if you listen to these croakers. None of them took the trouble to telephone the man who knows Dr. C.-A. Winslow of Yale university. He has studied the physical fitness of our recruits, after a lifetime as a specialist in such matters. He says: "Our draft army Is probably the most physically and mentally competent large body of young men ever gathered together under any flag." Dr. Winslow's succinct finding is reported in the . ," BE WMWafljlZtdUL BY all-o- W A Tfiti- ut 1917-1- "'t Issue of magazine. d Since 1915, Dr. Winslow has been lauder professor of public health at the New York Museum of Natural History, as director of the division of public health education in the New York state department of public health and has been associated with the Rockefeller foundation in public health research and education. He has written a wide shelf of books on subjects in his field, con- t ducted innumerable surveys, to countless forums and conferences. con-tribut- ed ! ' Dr. Winslow was the founder of the American Hygiene movement. A Bostonian, he schooled for bis g battle against physical unfitness at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and New York ' It is believed that this country can - -- Best Under Any alarm based Flag, Dr. Winslow on something i j be done. long-rang- defect of a is that people usually don't consult authorities before making up their minds. We have heard c there is plenty of speculation in could Washington as to just how this !ur - ONE Survey-Graphi- In view of President Roosevelt's to Japan, promise to tarry the war ' as many produce, in three months, as planes and fighting are bombing Bed beets . . . beans . . . lettuee . . . carrots . . . wmaioes . . . The geographical possesses. the vegetables this young lady, busy in her garden, can loon Japan of islands just a few ofHnrin those months the family fact is that the chainAlaska and Women and Older Men Hired hm Mminr mnnth. Dnrinr rnn..j from out and stretching ni h ri!j n frsh veretables that will keen them healthy affor con curving over the North Pacific ad- TF YOU can't be in the army or strong, but there will be plenty left over to can and preserve island by island navy, why not try for a defense a fords possible sumption during the following winter. vance somewhat comparable to that job? After brief and free train, These town and city gardeners are the Japs have been making in the ing you can help fight our battle which produced 528,000,000 pounds with rivets and dies! being cautioned that their gardens Cast Indies. of food. Workers are needed in every is contended that our bombers But there was waste and unneces- must be economical; tnat every It section. That goes for women, every pound of fertilizer and could be steadily advancing, sary sacrifice, too. Many a hopeful seed, door. that there bv surface craft which would too! With production big city garden yielded nothing but verv imnlement counts:memDers up oi include carriers, and hence fighting and men joining thespeeding This effort is part of a great nablisters and backaches. In some must be no waste. The services. tional Victory Garden program. In places these warden clubs will meet and planes. Eventually we would be women have a chance for every park lawns, golf courses and discuss the weeks since Pearl Harbor, off- public recreation their problems together ana within striking distance of Japan sort of defense job. There are areas were plowed icials of the U. S. department of ag.Pro DroDer. women inspectors, up and planted to potatoes. Orna- obtain guidance from experts. parachute riculture have been consulting with mental in many made are as oi me uunu lens grinders, laboravisions being in private grounds not is makers, It plantings regarded orstate. from Defense Civilian on every gardening experts whether attacKS imnnrtanr were sacrificed; flowers were for- cities by the tory aides, flying instructors. Organizations everywhere have gotten to make room for vegetables; ganization for the establishment of Janan DroDer could then be made pledged their aid garden clubs. Boy and gardens were attempted in con- community gardens in which plots The point is mat long before such a booklet telli what agencies Our Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, gested big city locations where suc- are assigned to families that do not statre was achieved the Japs would are giving tbesa and other defeats clubs. As the program develops, cess was obviously impossible. have fertile garden soil of their own. have been forced to witnaraw mucn course, lists typical defense jobs, sections can be found and addresses where activities will follow two major Today an abundance of land is Schools and organizations are pro- 3f their air power from the present whete they for work. Seod you can lines: available for Victory Gardens with- moting the program. area of war in the Southwest Pacific your order to: 'register a to in How a is it the in or put out sacrificing landscape beauty big job 1. Farmers and their families in order to resist this threat the growing of flowers which are garden, and make it produce suc- Northwest Pacific. throughout the United States SERVICE will just as important to morale, as vege- cessfully? by planting Provided it achieved any success 117 Minns St. Baa Francisco, Calif, Simple to Garden. tables are to physical in 3,760,000 vegetable gardens. be time it at all, might easily ' Enclose 15 cents In coins for your It's relatively simple, according to to save This is particularly true in small 2. Small town and big city Australia and New z.eaiana. out copy of GETTING A DEFENSE JO& of areas in point experts. They towns suburban the gardening and dwellers win sponsor commuthat with modern knowledge of soils, Help on Way Name big cities. nity and school gardens, and plant foods, new tools and the imNumerous objections are obvious Nutrition Is Watchword. wherever possible individual Address varieties devel- One is that if we can supply enough Nutrition is the watchword of the proved vegetable family Victory gardens. is it possioped by plant breeders, and bombing planes for such This newest move in the war on present program. First of all, our ble to gTow fresh vegetables for the fighting an effort, backed by more So be well must nourished. soldiers the Axis is reminiscent in many family in a favorable location with sea power, why not aid direct ways of the stirring days of World must defense workers in fields and only a few hour's light exercise each ly in the fighting already in prog our and Russia factories. Britain, back-yard War No. 1, when gardenweek. ress? other allies must be kept supplied The secret of effective gardening The answer to this wis tersely put with food. But the program goes lies in the size of the Too big plot the President himself. The line by A battle is that. beyond being waged of suddIv to the East Indies is on the home front against malnutriBanked by the Caroline and Martion. Regardless of how long the shall islands, whence the Japs could World war lasts, the nutrition battle attack with land based planes. The at home will go on until every Amerline of supply to this bridge of is ican is receiving enough of the right lands is not so threatened. For a kinds of food. long distance precisely the distance In considering the two main which would be covered by the proof Garden the In NR (Nature's Remedy) Tablets, Victory pro phases posed highway to Alaska it is in there are no chemicals, no minerals, m i-gram, the farm effort will of course ',Sv 1""!I be inside channel the protected waters, phenol derivatives. NR Tablets are difthe backbone. Every farmer who Erom Puget Sound well up into the ferent cf different Purely nttiab- lcan possibly do so will have a gar combination of 10 vegetable ingredients .. !.of ' Alaska. Panhandle A den where he can produce fresh .(' formulated over 50 years ago. Uncoated For all this distance the Japs or candy coated, their action is dependvegetables and fruits for home use and have some surplus to market. might attack by submarines, and able, thorough, yet gentle, as minions e bombers. But of NR'a have proved. Get a 25 bos possibly Secretary of Agriculture Wickard today ... or larger economy size. summed up the movement's philoso they could pot send fighters save to be would and by carrier, subject phy when he told delegates attend d attack by ourplanes all ing a recent conference in Washing ton: along the line. "This situation is different from This would be the first time in the 1917. Then the effort was to save war, it is pointed out, that the food so there would be plenty for COATED United Nations would be picking the our troops in France. Now the need theater of war fighting where we ' RECUURI radishes for Fresh salads are what is for a balanced diet. When the this wanted to fight instead of where our young lady is gathering. Her enemies farm family grows- its .own vegeta' TOMORROW ALR1GHJ wanted to fight US will give the neces Garden Victory bles, it eats more and thus im- sary balance to the the that fig Assuming production family's daily proves the family's health. We hope ures are right and there is no reafor an ' increase of 1,300,000 farm meals. LEND FOR VICTORY son to question them this sort of vegetable gardens in 1942. The goal a garden is likely to be neglected. attack would not interfere with a Make Your Money Count; we have set is 5,760,000. One just large enough, producing continuance of supplies for the Brit Buy U. S. Defense Bonds "Growing vegetables on the farm the vegetables a family needs and ish and Dutch in the other war thea food the is to it where be no more, in balanced Miss Peg reaps the results of havputs right proportions ters. In fact it would impose little ing a garden of her own. The green used; it doesn't take any freight can be kept well without hard work. burden on our shipping facilities, as beans she is collecting will be deli- cars or trucks to move food to those Another secret is in not trying to barges could be used very handily, Wo'ro not toe young for a shot of CUTTER cious at the family's evening meal. families. Home vegetable gardens grow too large a variety. One au perhaps even the concrete barges release more commercial vegetables suggests six different vegeta- we are building so feverishly. era did their bit to make good the for other purposes. Commercially thority bles as a basis tomatoes, snap It might risk an naval en slogan: "Food Will Win the War." canned vegetables are packed in tin beans, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and gagement, but that would of necesBut there are wide differences, too, and we are short of tin." greens. All are high in food and sity cripple the Japs seriously in and it is hoped that many of the As a reinforcement to the farm vitamin value. Moreover, tomatoes. their Southwest Pacific operations. 8 mistakes of the war garden garden movement, the work of small carrots and greens can be beans, Buy Defense Bonds program will be avoided this time. town and big city gardens will help easily canned. The last war demonstrated: that sweu uncle bams food output. Japanese Secrecy These gardening experts will tell home gardening can contribute imIn communities large and small you one more Nations that Keeps Guessing thing got you've portantly to the food supply. In 1917 every family that has access to a to feed the soil if to it you When expect Will was making his acres Rogers of 1,150,000 alone, city and favorably situated plot for produce for you. This means pro last trip across the Pacific, and town land were under cultivation. By part of its food supply is producing asked being viding u witn plant food. And this wirelessing a hundred-od1918 there were 5,000,000 gardens to words a join a Victory Garden club. is just as true if you garden on the day for a box feature in U. S, many farm or in town. The average farm- newspapers, war had broken out be SALT IAKE BOISE POCATEUO er, knows by experience with field tween the Japanese and Chinese crops that fertilizer will enhance the Will reported conversations with size oi nis crop, increase its re the Chinese stokers. They pointed sistance to disease, improve the to casualties of the last three days quality and promote These figures are not hardiness. He will apply that reported. those used by Rogers, but they give , ... . 'J , .killed, knowledge in making his Victory uiea: rirst aay, z japs garden contribute to the national mi 188 Chinese; second 59 day, Japs defense. The city gardener can killed, 486 Chinese; third day, 204 profit by the farmer's experience The three fertilizer elements most Japs killed, 1,574 Chinese. "Velly good," Will reported the needed for plant growth are nitro gen, phosphorus and potash. Thes Chinese stokers as saying. "By and elements are mentioned in this or- Dy no more Japanese!" The story, of course, brought der in the analysis of commercial home the numbers of the Chinese iertiuzer. "For effective gardening use, breeding faster than they could possaid one authority, "it has been sibly be killed. That phase of the round advisable to annlv the f.rti illustration is not applicable to the lizer before planting time, mixing it present war. but the question of im ut sou when the portant war supplies, particularly From Industrial centers and other defense localities now working at firstuwiuugiuy orwiw uie is done. l l SO eB,r plowing spading B The snips, pianes, tames, etc., may be top speed for the nation's Victory program, the excellent business condito apply will vary with the The Japanese fooled the world. tion found there are overflowing into the more rural sections el the quantity soil type, but the Victory Gardener and the United States particularly, United States as the above map shows. As farm erops and rural wiu oe saie in using 5 pounds of a very Daaiy on its military equipment Increases better business conditions win ahow in the fair" areas mixture sucn as to each 100 at the outbreak of the war. We had el the U. S. square xeet or garden. been wondering for several years Once having undertaken its about their big battleships. We knew American Farmers Now While production has been ingarhad built some new ones, but the dening project, the average family they creasing, prices received by wnl Making Wartime Plans we not know how many, much did dividends reap far Faced with the biggest demand farmers for what they sell have also exceeding their size.' nrmnr B1""! mms m.m.A for agricultural products in the his- been rising. Average prices are now the crop of vegetables at harvest less etc. was time. Of the Japan war-tuonly 13 prime the in in country in importance highest years. Prices which tory of the nation, American farmis the morale factor. Garden- the world about which Jane's Fightthe farmers pay have also been goers today are planning preparing and working toward the single end ing up, but not quite so rapidly, and ing is a morale builder without equal ing Ships frankly acknowledged its of producing the crops, livestock, the ratio between prices received anywhere. There is no better anti- - ignorance. It was known they had something ior war "blues" than a session dairy products, fibers and other raw and prices paid is steadily becoming aoie in the way of fighting ships about with hoe. more favorable. Gardening materials to meet wartime needs, It has already provides a writes L. G. Elliott, president of the reached the goal of parity, and the release from the worries and nerv- wnicn we aid not know details. ous But we had no idea whatever oi of long hours spent at a v;, LaSalle Extension university. policy of the government is to main- desktension or of her air power. We the in the machine More food will be required by our tain prices at around that level. In shop of a wereamount lulled into security by the apmunitions gives the military forces. Demand from our that way, farm income will be kept housewife afactory. It stalemate of her war against parent of change from pace allies is constantly growing. at the average rate. , ; uuna. u routine ox aoraesuo duties. lint f ex-O- m c WOT Service.! READER-HOM- d . many Draft Army pressions (Bell Syndicsts - well-bein- g. gun-sigh- the v.. 4-- H mop-haire- "Fitness-for-Freedo- Chain of Islands From Alaska to Carry War to Tokyo . . . Don't Fool Ourselves About Japan . Mr. Garand is still a gunsmith at the Springfield 8rmory, earning around $3,000 a year. He has had big commercial offers for his gun, but has refused them and has waited patiently for the army to make up its mind, during the years of controversy and many rigorous tests. He is an erect, lean featured, d man, with alert, bespectacled blue eyes which focus sharply at about the distance cf t. He seems rather a about the medals ho has won and the money he d might have made and is that anyone should suggest that be ever had any thought other than handing his gun to the government. It was in 1923 that he offered the first rough model of his gun. The bureau of ' standards backed him, grooved him into the Springfield armory, . and it was In 1939 that the war department provided funds for the manufacture of the rifle. feed-box- - J Rerieweo by CARTER FIELD a 'V New Defense Jobs Opening Each Day - d, d absent-minde- -- 4 ; two-fol- f : (Released by Westers Newspaper Union.) (Conoll4atd Features WNU Brvlc.) There was a skinny NEW YORrL over on Coney Isand who in one day spent $100 popping off ducks and clay pipes on the shoot- In Gallery Help Net Garand Rifle Iaffairs niBH'nraiHH"T!nFnnniJHrPHi!i r i 1 NATIONAL, Fresh Vegetables or the Family ... NEWS !r ' life-lon- university. has furthered wider participation among college students in g sports and he Jias been a pioneer in both "positive health" and preventive medicine. This department has noted a swelling tide of misinformation about the British stalling, the Russians getting ready for a fast double-crosour war production a mess and our It is possible army a that somebody who doesn't like us is channeling this into dinner-tabl- e talk. It might be a good idea if every American newspaper would run a standing "get it straight" box, giving the names and addresses of trusted authorities in each field of war effort, and urging talkative citi-seto hook up with headquarters, or else keep still. , i ',..'He health-buildin- s, push-ove- r. ns AT pro-dnetl- on ne . rirtHioiitvp1, ''' |