Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-07 | Page 3 | Regional Director of U. S. Garden Army Visits Ogden

rait era of, II. s. garden m VISITS Bffl c. A. Stehbins, regional director of the United States garden army for the western section, was the guest of Supt. Karl Hopkins of the Ogden school systems sys-tems at a luncheon at the Weber club yesterday. commented on the, work of the Ogden school children and his talk in part follows: "I wish to congratulate the city of Ogden for its spirit of co-operation1 and for its educational program, interested in-terested in school-directed home gardens gar-dens I have been impressed with the good work of the past and with the plans for 102". "The 'bulb project' which is now un der way in the schools has our hearty commendation. Six thousand seven hundred and eighty bulbs will be' planted, cared for and brought to per-! f ctiun this year by the boys and girls No doubt the economic value of these j flowers in the open market can be estimated esti-mated easily but the educational values, val-ues, biological, mental and physical, which are absorbed in the process, can 1 not be measured. "Wo look to Ogden for an enlist j rnent of 1800 boy.-- and girls in the 1 S. S. G. 1800 boy s and girls to grow I foodstuffs at home to serve the tables at home and thus help lower the high living costs." Superintendent Hopkins said the; bulbs distributed to the various! schools of the city included; Five Points 230 Dee 265 Mound Fort 1450 Quincy 570 'Grant 250 I Madison 558 Lorin Fai r 1300 I Central , g46 High School 324 Lewis 555 Washington 164 PIngreo 350 West Ogden S8 1 I Total 6780 00