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War Garden Victorious Book Promises Food War Legacy
Charles Lathrop Pack's new book on war gardens, distributed to libraries and groups, praises volunteer gardeners from Ocean to Pacific and credits press support. It details the National War Garden Commission, its leadership, and the rise of school garden armies under P P Claxton and J H Francis, noting millions gardened and billions of quarts canned.
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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
Fearne
Bond Nation
Quartermaster General's Office
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 T. Herrick
John Grier Hibben
Princeton University
Emerson McMillin
New York
A. W. Shaw
Ilinois
John Dickinson Sherman
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Illinois
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
Camp Dix
United States Commissioner of Education
J. H. Francis
Francis
Claxton
Wilson
Lane
Children of America
School Garden Army
Army
Meee
Garden Army