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Fall seems to be about the most pleasant time of the year to boys and girls. Fields, and orchards, and gardens shine in the mellow sunlight and smell of the good things that the year’s bounty has given us.

Last year, you went out to the cornfield and picked a fat, golden pumpkin to make into a grinning Jack-o’-Lantern. You climbed up in the old apple tree and selected the largest, rosiest apple you could find to eat as you sat on the limb and looked off over the autumn colored country. And you decided that you would rather play with the other children than help grandfather clean the garden and get it ready for winter. You wanted to rake leaves and have a bonfire, or go off to the woods and fill your pockets with nuts.

This year, though, Uncle Sam wants you to spend the crisp, sunny fall days very differently. He says that you are to stay outdoors just as much as you did last year, and you are to have the same fall tum but in a bigger, more useful kind of way. There are a great many things he wants you to do to help your country in field, and orchard, and garden. Rh