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Show MAKE THE VACANT LOTS SERVE. With a scarcity of everything produced pro-duced on our farms, the city people should begin to think of means of helping themselves to obtain garden truck. Three years ago a movement was well under way In Ogden, having for its object the cultivating of the vacant va-cant lots in OgdML Last yerir the enterprise en-terprise languished and little or nothing noth-ing was done, except the growing of flowers. Why not revive the undertaking under-taking and get earnestly down to plowing and preparing the soil of the weed-covered empty lots? Vegetables for the homes of Ogden. and a surplus, can be grown on the unsightly vacant ground available in all parts of the city. Our school children should be rallied ral-lied for the work. There would be a three-fold good derived. The children would be brought closer to nature, foodstuff would be obtained and un- I clean lots beautified. As aids and guides of th young people, the grown ups should bend to the task, volunteering for the purpose. pur-pose. War may be upon this country before be-fore another month. One direction in which the tuy-nt-homes can move to the great advantage of Tncle Sam is toward the cultivating of the unused city soil as a source of food supply. Here is constructive work for the Taxpayers' Protective league, which, in mass meeting last Friday night, organized not only to alertly watch public servants, but resolved to make Ogden as progressive as the wonderful wonder-ful advantages of Ogden warrant. There are more ways than one of enlisting in the services of your country. coun-try. Who would volunteer in this call to duty? |