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Show oo CITY-WIDE GARDEN MOVEMENT Writing to The Standard from Chicago, Chi-cago, one of the foremost club-women of Ogden directs The Standards attention at-tention to the garden movement in that city, saying: The enclosed clipping will explain ex-plain itself. One of the papers startrd the move and now there is the greatest enthusiasm about iL Of course, our school children have already done something along this line, on a very small scale, however, and it sr-ems to me that if you could secure cooperation co-operation such as the move has here, it would result in an immense im-mense amount of good. The Standard endorses the movement move-ment and urges on the parents and school directors of Ogden the importance impor-tance of the plan and emphasiz s the same by reproducing the extract sent us, as follows : The allegiance of 10.000 of Chicago's Chi-cago's finest boys was pledged today to-day to make the city-wide garden movement as success. "We will go the limit." said L. I... McDonald, head ot the local branch of the boy scouts, "and our representatives will be present at the mass meeting of representatives representa-tives of all the gardening movements, move-ments, ready to pledtre anything reasonable that is asked of us." Other organizations, large and small, fell rapidly into line today, and indications point to a support for ihe co-operative gardening movement that will cut hundn ds of thousands of dollars from the city's grocery bill and give I cago a national name lor utilizing itR Vacant lnts ttVt ralclner vnira. tables and berries. Mayor Thompson Thomp-son was expected today or Mon-day Mon-day to call the mass meeting for Wednesday of next week at some prominent hall, when definite plans for independent gardening groups will be formulated and rushed through in time to be cf-fective cf-fective for this spring's activity "Our boys will be mighty glad to help in this work," continued Mr. McDonald, "and there are many things they can do. For In- j stance, there are probably scores of widows with children or families fam-ilies with sick members wifo would like to have garden plots, but have no one physically able to tend I them. But let them hae a plot anyhow, Our members whose code I is to do good to others would de- light in aiding many a poor woman wom-an struggling with poverty to get a piece of ground into vegetables and help her cut the high cost of living. We will also be ready to I assist in tabulating vacant, lots, finding needy families, helping keep watch over gardens and other things." Letters were being prepared today to-day to be sent out to as many mm organizations as could be reached I on short notice urging representa- 1 tion at the meeting of civic lead- , era and directors of garden bu- I reaus. ' "We may not be able to reach all by letter," said Health Commissioner Commis-sioner Robertson, who is signing j the mass meeting call with Mayor Thompson, today, "so we want the invitation through the press to be taken by all interested as to them personally. The city-Wide move- ment will be a success only as all organizations, public and private co-operate. "It is one of the finest things , ever offered in Chicago, to cut th cost of living, provide recreation for older people and employment for boys and girls, and to improve the health tone of the city by outdoor out-door work." 1 Help of the Chicago Association of Commerce also was pledged by President John W. O'Leary. "This is a fine civic movement, and deserves the support of every person in Chicago," he said. "Count on the Association of Commerce Com-merce to use all its power to push it through." Plans tor developing gardening on a wider scale than over among the Cook county schools outside of Chicago were developed at a meeting meet-ing today of the country life directors direc-tors of the schools at Superintendent Superintend-ent Edward J. Tobin's otfice. Last year's effort created for them a unique place among the schools of I America. Every school this year will have a garden, and every pupil pu-pil above the fourth grade required to take care of an individual plot as a part of the school course. I |
