Show b jP Soldiers Ask AsI for Farms Congress Talks and Talks t S S S Butt ut Nothing Is Done pone J a By E. E C. C Rodgers N. N E. E A. A Washington Bureau I WASHINGTON r D. D C. C April 28 Months b before Core tho the stir ar ended ende Secretary Secre- Secre tary T of oC the Interior Lane a asked k congress con con- gress to appropriate the tho money for a 1 great Teat eat land reclamation project which would could Increase the nations nation's wealth produce food for tor millions of ot human beings being and give good Jobs job and homes its ito 10 every American soldier who came from fr m the war and wanted waited to go S-O on a aarm I. I farm farm arm of or his own jOver Over a third of ot all aU American aol ol- CAme cam from farms and most of ot them want ant to go back not to the farms of ot their fathers father or tho the farms where they worked as aa hired men bu but butto butto t tt to t their own farms that they may marry marly and raise roise families Thousands of nf these soldiers have written written to Laro Lano beb begging him to h help lp them them get farms farma They want ant to to pay i for the farms the dont don't rl they ask charity In pension form torm ALL CONGRESS DOES IS TALK Lane put all this before beron con congress cs Congress t talked ked about It lt Con Congress ress appropriated a few fen O e thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars dolls to Investigate tt Tho The re reclamation re- re service In Investigated and re reported reported re- re ported back to congress Congress started talking about it gain again Remember Lane asked congress long long before the war wor ended to get t busy and do something for tor the returned veterans veterans vet vet- erans The war ended Thousands of ot soldiers soldiers sol sol- 01 diers are being being- discharged over every day dar In every f elt city and hamlet soldiers ate are hunting work Thou Thousands are hu hunting for farms they ma may lIu buy with what little lit little lIt lIt- tle Uti money they have and can borrow borro them Land nd speculators arc are holding up ups Owners of or vast tracts of ot good farming land are try trying Ins Ins- to profiteer on onland onland land IMd sales How much of or the congressional fall fail failure ure uro to act mn may be he duo due to tho the land speculators cull Influence I dont don't know Anyhow con congress r hasn't t done a n athing athing thing except talk CONGRESS PAYS NO HEED Lano Mno Jano did everything ho could to persuade per- per suade congress to hurry lip lie sent m me me sages to con congress ress lie He went before the hou house e committee He lie did what whal few cabinet members do do appeared at atan atan atan an Informal meeting of or the tho house and nd told all about the project And this is what he ho a asks ks Congress s to appropriate with which a start could he made mado building roads draining swamps gettin getting get get- et- et tin ting water on arid land an and clearing clel cut over cut o er timber Umber lands this work to bedone bo be I done by discharged soldiers fed red and an housed near their work and paid current current current cur cur- I rent wa wages tI As rapid rapidly as each project is completed completed completed com com- the soldiers who worked on it could make their farm selections the government furnishing the money for buildings and and farm machinery machiner and stationing an agricultural agent near to help the soldier soldier farmers These farms arc are not to bp hS given ghen the soldiers They dont don't want charity The Thc will pa pay for the farms farms starting scatting after they the have l gotten gOllen well settled and paying over a II long lon period of or years lars Thus they would get t fine tine farms In whatever te section of the country they wanted to ll e In at an approximate cost of ot each Land nd speculators peculators charge twice and three times that much now no FAR AHEAD OF U. U S. S Canada and Australia alread already have these farms arms for tor soldiers projects 1 launched Their legislative bodies Lodies didn't waste their time Their soldiers soldier soldiers sol sol- diers dier are already at Work If tho United Stat States Slates was to put a as much money Into this project an as Australia Australia Australia Aus Aus- has done national wealth considered considered considered con con- we would spend four tour billion dol furs I Lane Lano wants moro more than to start with but h he ho says sas he Is afraid to ask for tor more mor even enn though he and congress know kno that it will be Le returned with Inter interest t. t Against the tho project are arC land speculators speculators and some selfish farmers who fear their land values alues may be reduced reduced if thousands of or new forms farms s are opened and who fear far that an nn Increase nrc of ot food products will lower their prices price |