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Show GOVERNMENT PLANS TO PUT ALIENS ON FARMS New Commissioner of Immigration Immi-gration Announces Brand New Scheme I r ; WASHINGTON, March 16. Plant to I divert Immigrants from the cities and industrial centers and to coordinate agencies of the departments of Interior, ', l:il6r and agriculture, to place the ) ifwcomori on itmall farms, have been innounccd by W. W. Husband, com-1 com-1 misnfoner general of Immigration. Mr. Husband, who succeeds Anthony I. CamlnetM, was worn In Monday. He .nude puhllc a plan, approved by Sec--lary Davis, which, he declared, would eip solve the immigration problem ! and correct the economic situation arising from the flow of population to the larger cities. "There Is land enough for millions of small farms," he said, "land that the department of the Interior is opening In the West for entry, lands In the Houth and elsewhere that are swamps, but that can be put to use, and still other lands In the Kast that have been abandoned as farms. CREATE NEW FARMS. "Our plan Is not to replace American farmers with foreigners, but to create new farms stmt wiakg new farmers, fn--" creasing the resources of the nation. Our Immigration problem la largely a problem of distribution of the immigrants. "The majority of our Immigrants arc peasants and essentially farmer a American labor never would taite up in la rare tracts the land now Idte. but by cuttfns; them up into small farms and offering; them to. the immigrant, we will offer him a chanos to realise his life's dream to own land. "Our plan Is not to scatter these people peo-ple out in sparsely settled sections and put them up airalnat problems that our pioneers went through. Neither de w plan to start fore is; n settlement communities com-munities In tha strict sense of the term, but we plan to jrroup them, somewhat some-what on ths Kuropean village plan, and offer them the advantages of expert agricultural and home demonstration instruction through the department of agriculture, and to aid them In taking advantage of the farm loan act. WOULD AVERT RED PERIL. "By handling the Immigration problem prob-lem in this manner we will do away with the Ted' danger. The farm will be the best sort of an Americanlsation school. "Ws must divert Immigration from the crowded Industrial centers. The change from Kuropean rural life to conditions In some of our big factory cities is too much for human nature. "Our employment service csn be made to be a great aid to the immigration immi-gration service. The flow of immigration immigra-tion to the cities has been a matter largely of follow tha leader.' A few early arrivals from each Kuropean district dis-trict have stayed In the cities and the bulk of tha others following naturally lodged there. We believe the current ean b diverted to tha farming sec-tlons." |