Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-11-22 | Page 2 | Coal Company Selling Potatoes to Its Men

COAL COMPANY SELLING POTATOES TO ITS MEN SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 22. Announcement An-nouncement Is made by the Delaware & Hudson Coal company, of this city, that it would sell to the heads of families in its employ five bushels of potatoes at $1.25 per bushel. These potatoes aro now being harvested from hundreds of acres planted last spring and cultivated during tho summer at the expense of the coal company. Whon the big drive for a greater food yield as close to tho back door as possible was begun last spring by the National Emergency Food Garden commission, of Washington, the D. & H. company was one of tho first corporations cor-porations to join in the movement, and place under cultivation hundreds' of acres of idlo coal lands in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. Cadwaldor Evans, then general superintendent became personally interested In the commission's campaign for war gardens, gar-dens, and not only directed the planting plant-ing of the company's Idle lands, but also urged the employes to cultivate their gardens. Thousands of the commission's manuals, containing information on practical gardening methods, wore or tho employes. Scores of workmen raised great quantities of vegetables in their back yards, while the company's com-pany's land was given over almost en-tlroly en-tlroly to tho growing of potatoes. An enormous crop is now being harvested, and this will bo distributed among the families of tho employes at prices far below tho market price of potatoes In cases where the fathers are dead and boys and young men are the heads of families, officials of the company com-pany will permit them to purchase the regular allotment of potatoes. The sale will bo restricted so that no person can buy more than five bushels The excellent spirit shown by tho ., H. company is typical of what other large private corporations havo done In the matter of trying to help their employes feed themselves