Show BACK TO EARTH WITH BUMP f PS Oregon and Wyoming Land Fiascos Not Net Creditable to Nation Says Legion Weekly S The Oregon and Wyoming land hind fiascos fiascos fias fins cos states a a. a writer in The American Legion Weekly are not exactly credItable credItable cred cred- to 10 o a nation that prides Itself above all aU els else on its bu business cy The machinery Jammed some- some what where what machinery there was was was- for when farms go to 79 70 men out of who exhibit enough Interest to write to Washington about the land then It Is evident too few wheels are grinding To th the returning soldier his familiar America took on the aspect of an El EI Dorado He It with something of at tl the e practical Idealism of the Immigrant To be sure he knew knes' Its streets were not gold paved but he ho recollected how lIe he had always alway heard beard It was the land of ot opportunity and how from bo boyhood hood he lie ha had seen people eople taking advantage of at the And to whom would A mOM 1 4 quicker extend the helping hand than her home corning defenders He Be had been shaken out ut of a rut iu in which he probably wol would ld have havo lived livel and died but for the wars war's coming coining Being out he determined not to drop back He heard the call of the land Picture the feelings then of some of these pioneers who traveled to Wyoming only to find that less than a 11 tenth of ot them could get the land they L u Picture the feelings of S men who went to Oregon to be shown desolate tracts that reminded of th thi rockiest thorniest passes of the Ai As gonne gonna The rue land Jand and home features of ot th till plan legions legion's four fold compensation cannot make the desert nor can sections so as asto asto asto the they divide government to make room for tor all comers corners But they can see to it that the machinery Is adequate adequate ad ad- equate to give all land ex ice mel mei opportunity to establish their homes whet wherever they want ant them and to prevent such costly and disappointing disappoint disappoint- ing stampedes as Oregon and Wyom- Wyom In I lust have witnessed |