The Independent . ise that the writers will get asmuch real recreation out of their experi-ences of this summer as ? in the dayswhen they spent their labor in pursuitof pleasure. Most of them, it seems, arestudying strategic methods for out-maneuvering that enemy of all man-kind, General H. C. of L. This is aservice in which the whole family canenlist, from the youngster old enoughto kill potato bugs to the man who runsa reaper. Evidently the backyards ofthe United States are going to be util-ized for other purposes than croquetand clothes-drying. Agriculture is to beboth more extensive and mo
The Independent . ise that the writers will get asmuch real recreation out of their experi-ences of this summer as ? in the dayswhen they spent their labor in pursuitof pleasure. Most of them, it seems, arestudying strategic methods for out-maneuvering that enemy of all man-kind, General H. C. of L. This is aservice in which the whole family canenlist, from the youngster old enoughto kill potato bugs to the man who runsa reaper. Evidently the backyards ofthe United States are going to be util-ized for other purposes than croquetand clothes-drying. Agriculture is to beboth more extensive and more intensivethan ever before. The army in jeanswill rival the army in khaki. Some willbe planting peanuts or picking berries;some will be raising pigs, poultry orpotatoes. A South Dakota lady is writ-ing sonnets for the New York papersand donating the checks to the RedCross. An Idaho high school boy is herd-ing cattle in the mountains and keep-ing the sheep off of the range. TheFederation of Colored Womens Clubs. of Tennessee is carrying on a gardencampaign. Daddy, Mother and MaryElizabeth, six months old, are canningcherries and apples on a hillside farmin Pennsylvania. An Iowa lady writes:I am going to dedicate my porch andyard, at least once a week so themothers can safely leave their babiesand little ones and attend and becomeinterested in the patriotic Methodist minister in Connecticutdevotes his summer to telling the peo-ple by trolley that Trained local lead-ership and directed local loyalty areessential to local welfare and to a re-public. A seventeen-year-old boardingschool girl from Tennessee is going totake out a claim of Government land inthe Ozark Mountains and can the ap-ples, berries and peaches that grow wild 412
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