Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1943 — Page 10

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1943

JOHN COULTER HAD V-GARDENS IN ’18

Secretary of State Victory Committee Had Charge of Producing Vegetables for Allies on Western Front in Last War.

By SHERLEY UHL The victory garden isn't a recent innovation. In fact, the man who first promoted the idea on a vast scale 25 years ago, now lives right here in Indianapolis. He's John G. Coulter, secretary of the Indiana committee for victory and unsuccessful candidate in the state's 1942 Republican congressional primary. He calls himself an “economic refugee from France,” which he left in 1939 with only a couple of suitcases full of belongings. For that matter, — BA ee Mr. Coulter insists he's “still lages in which American troops were { billetted, arrived at its destination

traveling,” giving as his only empty. On the next trip he boraddress the office of the In-/rowed an ordnance corps tarpaulin diana committee for victory containing the big black warning, in the Fletcher Trust buillding.| ame: sates sored ht a i > 2 The project proved highly sueSome people will be surprised 10 nessful. The only hold-back. aclearn that the victory garden is 2 copding to Mr. Coulter, was the fact product of world war I. Shortly that “our boys would fight among eiter America entered that confiict, themselves for bigger shares of Mr. Coulter, a § fresh vegetables instead of concengraduate of In- gx trating on the Germans.’ diana university | \ ih Who had early i he value of fresh produce at established & rep- the front can’t be underestimated, sotnes Mr. Coulter believes. “After those Ate of a bots boys have lived for months on joiied the nothing but canned and dried stuff, in France. they scramble for fresh food as if ste that he tit were gold,” he asserts. “It adds served with {tone to the morale as well as the physical condition.”

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commander of the service of sup-|, lied plies for Pershing’s armies. Gen a evoured Deh oma | rR of Ro A Qoutter, | THEN, too, American troops in| 1 i \ L < oO » & : the botanist and erstwhile dean of Britain have long been cultivating urdue university, asked him what their own victory patches. thought might be done to ime! Unfortunately, in this war the! prove conditions at the home front. [army hasn't been able to set up Young Coulter, who had seen Ger- | 2 fresh vegetable program, man and French troops cultivating “That's because the war is extremely small vegetable patches up near the | mobile instead of stabilized as it ront lines, replied, “Raise fresh|%Yas on the western front,” says Mr vegetables and send them up with | Coulter. He doesnt think such a h step would be at all practical in this! highly flexible conflict. | ! snorting, “You botanists! In the course of his tramping | if vou had your way, you'd grow over the French countryside, Mr.| geranit on the front line para- Coulter fell in love with the place. | The suggestion apparently He returned to the provinces after | the military bigwig, how- the war was over got a job man-| shortly after that he again aging one of the largest estates in| Coulter to Paris France at Beauvaise, not far from! Paris. He would summer in the] north, winter on the Riviera and| sometimes escort friends around! Europe. |

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! had a life of comparative ease, writing half-a-dozen books, | ART ka Tk ibls Solin artis . one of them an authoritative volume | knowledge ol the in ¥8P. Whine Cl on French history. He was ac-| the army,” Mr. Coulter first had 0 ystomed to return to Indiana for be officially qualified for his com- , ication every now and then, manding post. i taking with him his bare essentials. That was easy. According to Mri gaily after he had left on one Coulter himself, he went before an of these trips, the Nazis took over, examining board, shot back indifferent replies to a barrage of in-| ... paris.

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formal questions, and emerged a folks there for over a year, but says | captain. “The whole thing WAaS|,, jtends to go back after the war’s| simply a formality,” said Mr. Coul- over ter. | ————

He was given a free hand to write ut general orders establishing what) TROOP 2 IS WINNER amounted to a fresh vegetable section of the service of supplies. For a starter he was given some plots around Versailles, not far from the famous gardens themselves.

The final retreat of the third | camping session at Camp Chank- | tun-un-gi was won by troop 2 under | the direction of Charles Brockman. |

Expands Activities we expanded our activihe continued. “I tramped all ye French countryside, leasing ng outright thousands of farmlands. We had praco difficulty. The French

Swimming honors in competition went to Hubert Wilmann, Eugene Bouslog and Carl Spiess, . lad “to have som while track honors were captured re only too g have some- : re only glad . Beard 6 by Billy Hicks, Bob Voipp and one salvage crops that appeared ole salvage ( ops a a mt .._ Reardon Rowe. be doomed because oi in WHET AL the campfire court of honor, the! power shortage and other problems.” following boys received second class: Joe ora "u AYE ra iT . | Harmon 48, Don Kraft 15, Jay Romack Prisoners and recuperating casu 15, Junior Padgett 120, Max McMurtey alties were put to work cultivating 120, Bobo 2b 34, Earl Brooks 48, Joe "a . & Yb a § Kasler 360, Larry Poe 301, Godfrey Gat-! this gigantic victory garden project. | {iver 59. Tom Sheets 36, Harold Crawford | uch of the land was right up near 48 Jimmie Meek 48, Tom Walker 49, Sal- | M ch ont line and shrapnel. as well vidor Anderson 128, Dick Moore 48 Robert the front ine anG SHiAapntd, ws Dickmeyer 44 Norbert Jacobs 128, Martin « weeds. had to be dug out of the Hanley 128, James Reedy 128, Bill Clem-| 3 oy # ons 20. Max Timmons 335, Howard Coch- | reciall 1 SOil ran 44, Thom Rosenberger 7, Jack | It was risky too. Mr. Coulter re- White 335, Billy Price 96. ain ok | t . 3 ¢ 4 <t truck- jan 44, Jack Hacker ¢8, Leonard Sheats calls that one of the first truck- 5 pave Suter 335 ¢ < of fres roduce was blown Those who received first class were: | loads of fresh p vy! David Fenimore 20, Walter Myers 39, | to smithereens by a German shell cg; speiss 19, Bob Grabhorn 6, Harold | hat low int rank kitchen. Jorid 8 David Geddees 30, Albert Marthin that plowed into a Yar SUT 118, Bdwin Elliott 2, Bill Biekes 125, Fred | He had other troubles: Soldiers, pey 202, Forest Cullings 301, Paul Stafa wv si t resh ra- ford 34 : amazed by the s ght of : At Saturday campfire, the following boys tions, often plundered the food from received the camper rank. William Green. WrEe ParrYith 3 92: Robert Murray, 14; Albert Waldin, 39; trucks carrying it to the fronk ob "eis 9. Robert Newby, 44; Robert

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| Dickmeyer, 48; Fred Fay, 203; Norbert; { Champion, 120: John Fralick, 125; Jay . ’ y Romack, 15: Joe Clyne, 68; Billy Bailey Mr. Coulter remembers that the 301; Don Liggett, $2; Charles Grannan, | - mick . 68; Jack White, 336; Jack Yager, 48: Joe first truckload of cabbage, after Kane, 43; Jack McClain, 92; Paul Glass passing through a number of vil-|130; Reardon Rowe, 320; Morris Agnew. | ui ef — 115; Robert Stuckey, $2, and Ken Agne, 15.} | The following were awarded the woods-| man rank Bill Bailey, 301: Howard) | Judah, 37; Don Haverstick, 25; Joe Harmon, 48; Don Kraft, 15; Albert Walden 39; Karl VanBrooks, 48: Junior Padgett. | 120; Paul Stafford, 2; William Beskes, 125; ‘Jim Moore, 48: Jay Romack, 13; Edwin Cassidy, 9; Wilbur Owen, 58; Reardon) Rowe, 320; Salvidor Anderson, 120; Fred] Fey. 203; Clarence McCormick, 15; John| Smith, 133; ill Elliott, 2; Frank Knox. | | 234; Edwin Elliott, 2; Kent Mecum, 21:} | Don Parson, 15; James Lyons, 125: John| Fralick, 125; Ken Agne, 15; Tom Haskett, | |428; Davida Shimp, 14: F. Randall, ¥: ! Bruce Mitchell, 48; Jimmy Burgett, 48; { Jimmie Meek, 48; Wilfred Schwartz, 49; | Edward Woerner, 49; Harold Crawford, 48; { Billy Price, 96; Bussy Kinge, 15, and Har-

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