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War Garden Victory Told Through Pack Book and Movement
The article reviews The War Garden Victorious by Charles Lathrop Pack, praising war gardens as a key to food supply and national vigor. It details the National War Garden Commission, its leadership, and the role of editors, schools, and corporations in mobilizing gardens, with statistics on garden counts and yields across 1917 and 1918. It highlights Mrs. Sherman and the United States school garden army, plus Wilson’s endorsement and the broad social impact of community and workplace gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman
America
Earth
Europe
Atlantic
Pacific
Oregon
Arizona
Middle West
Texas
Charles, Lathrop Pack
Pack
National War Garden Commission
United States
Thomas Edwards
Oberlin
Mr. Pack
Tie
Prom
Ionagasties
Liberty Loan
Red Cross
Quartermaster General's Office
Charles Lathrop Pack
New Jersey
Luther Burbank
California
P. P. Claxton
Commissioner of Education
Washington, D. C
Charles W. Eliot
Massachusetts
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Connecticut
Fred H. Goff
Ohio
John Hays Hammond
Fairfax Harrison
Virginia
Myron
Herrick
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Emerson McMillin
New York
A. W. Shaw
Illinois
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Minois
J. B. White
Missouri
James Wilson
Agriculture
Iowa
Carl Vrooman
Ridsdale
American Forestry Association
Conservation Department
Commission
Norman C. McLoud
Sherman
Department of the Interior
United States School Garden Army
Temme
Marlow
Nand
United States Bureau of Education
PB. P. Claxton
United States Commissioner of Education
J. M. Francis
Francis
Claston
Wilson
Lane
Ameren
School Garden Army
Army
Garden Army
Shertman
General Federation of Verona
Nationas
Council of Women
Animes