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And because his department has handled similar problems In the past, he lias mmle it Ids duty to bring the mutter to the at tenllon of the president nnd congress. He ailnt ut that every country has found Itself face to face with this problem at the close of a great war. From Home under Caesar to France under Xnpoleoti down even to our own Civil war, the problem arose ns to whnt could be done with the siMlers mustered out of military service. At the close of the Civil war America faced a somewhat similar situation. Hut fortunately at that time the public domain offered opsrtunlty to the soldiers. The great part the veterans of that war played In developing the West Is one of our epics. The homestead law had heen signed by President Lincoln In the second year of the war, so that out of our wealth la lands we had farms to offer the mlll'nry veterans. It was also the era of transcontinental railway construction. It was likewise the period of rapid, yet hroud and full, development of towns and communities and states. To the great number of returning sold ers In die present war land will undoubtedly offer the Tbe exgreat and fundamental opportunity. perience of wars points out the lesson that our changed the land situation. One of the features of this plan Is that holders are aided In linprov Ing and cultivating the farm. In a word, there home-returnin- g rczjmzpivimzrrcoiaxAD08Asnr acres can be reclaimed and made profitable for service men, because of army life, with Its open- nnd activity, will largely seek out of doors vacations nnd occupations. This fact Is accepted by the allied European aatlnns. Thnt Is why their progrums nnd policies of relocating and readjustment emphasize the lOpportunltles on the land for the returning soldier. The question then Is, What land can be made available for farm homes for our ness sol-dler- sr We si) To Imi th siiiiltns tnr. th rullnc true horn i hUhvr tnmr spirit In than to ml n empire, drink; nesrr think. lk who have not the bountiful public domains of the sixties nnd seventies. In a literal sense, for the use of It on n generous scale for soldier farm homes as In the sixties, thn public doinnln Is gore. The official figures at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1017, show thnt we have unapproUnited Stales priated land In the continental to the amount of 230,657,755 acres. It Is safe to er of this land will ever any sense. So we have o lnnd In any way comparable to that In the Public domain when Appomnttox came nnd men turned Westward with army rifle and roll blanket to begin life anew. While we do not have thnt matchless public domain of 05, we do have millions of acres of lands In the Northwest, lake states nd South, nnd also swamp lands In the middle West nnd South, which can be made available through the proper development. Much of this hud can be made suitable for farm homes If Properly handled. Hut It will require thnt each type of land he denlt with in Its own particular fashion. The rtd lunds will r lnnd require water, the require clearing and the swamp lnnd must " drained. Without any of these aids they regain largely No Man's Land. The solution of ttese problems Is no new thing. In the admirable achievement of the reclamation service In recla-atlo- n and drainage we have nbundnnt proof what can be done. Hooking toward the construction of additional Projects, Secretary Lane announces that plans ad Investigations have been under WRy for some A survey and study has been In the course I consummation by the reclamation service on e great Colorado basin. That project, undoubt-appeto the new spirit of America. It ould mean the conquest of an empire In the tbwest. It Is believed that more than 3,000,- acres of arid lnnd could be reclaimed by the oaiplctlon of the upper and lower Colorado basin ay that not one-ha- lf prove to he cultivable In er cut-ove- 111 home-comin- al rejects. been officially estimated that more than acres of Irrigable lnnd now remain In governments hunds. This Is the great storehouse of government land for redaction. Under whnt policy and program millions these acres could be reclaimed for future farms c homes remnlns for legislation to determine. amount of swamp nnd cut-ov.. lands In Unl,el Stntes extern Is available for ,, farming nst how much there Is hns never been , with any degree of accuracy. Irnctlcnl-j- . ms Paf,sed lnt private ownership. tlmt reason, In considering Its use, It would 'SSary to work out a Policy between the prlv ownpr8 and the government unless the ' Ian WaS Purchased. It has been estimated that the nrea nn swamp and overflowed lands In th (lo! United States Is between 70,000,000 nnd 80,-crea, Of this amount, about 60,000,000 000,000 ' 1 m agriculture. The undeveloped swamp lands lie chiefly In Florida, In the states along the Atlantic and gulf coasts, in the Mississippi delta and In Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and California. What nmount of lnnd In Its nnturnl state unfit for farm homes can he made suitable for cultlva- tlon by drainage only thorough surveys and studies will develop. It Is known, however, that authentic figures show more than 15,000,000 acres have been reclaimed for profitable farms, most of which lies In the Mississippi river valley. The amount of cut-ovlands In the United Stntes, of course, it Is Impossible even In approximation to estimate. These lands, however, lie largely In the south Atlantic and gulf states, lake stntes and the Northwestern states. A rough estlmnte of their number W about 200,000,000 acres that Is, of land suitable for agricultural development. Substantfidly mil of this cutover or logged-of- f lnnd Is In private ownership. The failure of this land to be developed Is largely due to Inadequate method of approach. Unless a new policy of development Is worked out In cooperation between the federal government, the stntes nnd the Individual owners a greater part of It will remain unsettled and uncultivated. lands lie chiefly In The undeveloped cut-ovthe Pacific Northwest (particularly In Washington nnd Oregon), In the lake states (Minnesota, Michigan nnd Wisconsin), and In the south Atlantic nnd gulf costnl states (Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas). of land for the , Any plan for the development returning soldier will come fnce to fnce with the fact thnt a new policy will have to meet the new conditions. The era of free or cheap land In the United Stntes hns passed. We must meet the new conditions of developing lands In advance security must, to a degree, displace speculation. There are certain tendencies which must be faced frankly In our consideration of a policy for g soldier. First, the drift land to the to farm tendency. The experience of the world shows without question that the happiest people, the best farms nnd the soundest polltlenl condition are found where the farmer owns the home The growth of this tennnd the farm lands. an Increase of 32 per shows In America dency cent for the 20 years between 18!K) nnd 1010. Second, the drift to urban life. In 1880 of the totnl population of the United Stntes, 20.5 per cent of our people resided In cities and 70.5 per rent In the country. At the census of 1910, 40.3 per cent resided In cities nnd 53.7 per cent remained In the country. It Is evident tlyit since the war In Europe there hns been a decided Incrense In the trend toward the city beenuse of Industrial conditions. The adoption by the United States of new policies In Its lnnd development plans for returning veterans will also contribute to the amelioration of these two dangers of American life. A plan of land development whereby lnnd Is developed In large areas, subdivided Into Individual farms, then sold to actunl, bonnfide farmpnyment basis, lias been In ers on a long-tim- e forre not only In the United States under the reclamation act but also In many other countries for several years. It has proved a complete success. In Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand and the Australian commonwealth It baa completely -- Is organized community development Its benellclul results have been well described by the Canadian commission which was appointed to Investigate Its results In New Zealand. There, the commission reported, the farmers Had built better bouses or remodeled their old ones, brought a larger acreage of land nnder cultlva tlon that would otherwise have reuiulned lying Idle; had bought and urged more labor-sn- v Ing machinery on the farms and in the houses. They kept more sheep and pigs and had so largely Increased the revenue from their farms that they were able to meet the payments on the mortgages and to adopt a higher standard of living and a better one. Throughout the country a higher and better civilization was being evolved; the young men and women who were growing up were happy and contented to remain at home on the farm and found ample time and opimrtunlty for recreation and entertainment of a kind more wholesome and elevating than con be obtuined in the cities. It may be said that this country, outside of Alaska lias no frontier today. Of course, Alaska will still offer opportunity for pioneer life. And, of course, Alaska likewise has yet unknown remarkable agricultural possibilities, but unless we make possible the development of this land by the meu who desire a life In that field we will lose a great national opportunity. Furthermore, this Is an Immediate duty. It will be too late for these things when the war Is over, and the work of definite planning should Je done now. The plan outlined by Secretary Lane does not contemplate anything like charity to the soldiers, lie Is not to be given a bounty. lie la not to be made to feci that he Is a dependent. , On the contrary, he Is to continue. In a sense, In the service of the government Instead of destroying our enemies, he Is to develop our resources. The work that Is to be done, other than the planning, should be done by tbe soldier himself. The dam or Irrigation project should be built by him; the canals, ditches, the breaking of the lund, and the building of tbe houses should, nnder proper direction, be his occupation. He should be allowed to make his own home, cared for while he Is doing it and given an Interest In the land, for which he can pay through a long period of yeara perhaps 30 or 40 years. The farms should not be turned over as the prairies were unbroken, unfenced, without accommodations for men or animals. There should be prepared homes, all of whl,ch can be constructed by the men themselves and paid for by them under a system of simple devising by which modern methods of finance will be applied U their needs. of chopped apple and two pints of onion; If this Is ton large an sinouiit for the family use cups pint blended Blanqustt of Chicken. Take one cold cooked chicken or fowl, the yolks of two eggs, one pint of chicken broth, with salt and jsqqier to tuste. leel four fresh mushrooms and simmer in the broth until lander. Add the chicken sliced In thin slices nnd cook until hot ; add the beuten yolks nnd as soon as the sutire is smooth and ereumy adl the suit and pepper and a few drops of lemon Juice, Serbian Chicken Iut a good-sizeslice of salt (sirk Into a saucepan und fry, add somo minced pnrsley root, ear-ro- t, onion and a clove of garlic. Joint the fowl and place It In the pun; add salt and pepsr. Cook In the oven one hour; then add three peeled toiuutocs with the seeds removed. Continue to add to the pun enough water to baste the fowl frequently. Cook until the foul Is tender ami serve with rice and bacon or minced bam for flavor. Pour the gruvy over the chicken. Baked Ham. Soak the hnm over night; In the morning scrub it and trim away any rusty part, wipe dry and cover the hum with a thick paste of bread dough, one-hal- f Inch thlrk. I.ny In a dripping pan with a little sweet elder, basting often nnd adding more elder as It Is needed. When a skewer will pierce the thickest part, remove the crust and outside skin, sprlukle with brown sugar and crumbs, stick with cloves and brown In the oven. Brown the comment liefore making It Into mush, using care tlmt it does not scorch. It will have a most tusty flavor of parched corn. Crab Salad. Take four cupfuls of crab meat, one cupful of boiled dressing, one-hal- f cupful of cut pickles, suit and pepper, two of chopped green peppers. Mix nil together nnd serve on lettuce. Brown Breads Tuke one cupful each of graham, rye nnd corn men), one cupful of sour milk, two cupfuls of sweet s of a cupful of molus-se- s, milk, one egg, one tensioonful of soda and a of salt Steam three hours and set In the oven to dry off, aftor taking from the pnn. well-season- tuble-spoonfu- ls two-third- Give to your friends a cordial welcome, Instead of a variety of cakes and pastry. three Take table. I n stead of pints, Imcoii took the onion In a little hot or suit pork fat until nearly soft, then add the apple, a little salt and cayenne and a tnblesjMionful or two of corn sirup. Cook uul the apples sre brown. Remove the skin Salad Sardin from eight tameless surd lies suit break 11 I them In pieces. Iure and core a Ann tart apple, cut In very thin sllees and mash with a fork. Mix the fish and the apple together, adding a little of the sardine oil from the box to make the mixture of the right consistency to mold. Shape like sardines rnd serve two on a nest of lettuce hearts. Serve this aulud with cither Frenm or may onnalse dressing. Apple and Raisin Sandwich. Chop one large apple with a third of a of raisins; mix well, add a of lemon Juice ami spread on buttered graham bread; cover with unother slice of hultcred trend. The rich spiced sirup left from pick led penelle may be usi d again another yiur to save sugar. This same sirup gives a delicious flavor to meat wheu used to Imste It. Tango Salad Iure, halve und core three ripe, Juicy pears. Squeeze lenioit Juice over them to keep them from discoloring. liaro a ball of rreuin chis-sor a cube of Ihopicfort In the cavity of each icar. Set these on the heart leaves nnd imur over a French dressing seasoned with chnpMd red and green pepper, a dash of mustard with the olive oil nnd vinegar, salt anil cayenne cii-f- ul ul e pcpiMr, Apple Cake Line a deep pie plate with pastry. Then mix together one-ha- lf cupful each of rulslns, nuts and s of a cupful of honey und a of cinnamon; sprlukle tenspoonful these over the crust and cover with three thinly sliced tart apples; sprinkle kith two tnhlcsHHinfuU of sugar; ur over a cupful of udlk beuten with one egg. Bake slowly until the custnrd is set, then reduce the heat and bake until the apples are cooked. A tart, gruted apple, one cupful of sugar nnd an egg white beaten until stiff nnd it will stund up, makes a flue flavored filling for a layer cake. The cake with such a filling will not dry quickly. two-third- In all th world thsre la no vice, than avarice; lee prone to exi-rIt neither cares for food nor clothing. Nature's content with little, that with nothing. s The smile of the hostess of tho feast. SEASONABLE N Is ths cream DISHES. FAVORITE DISHES. UNUSUAL but most pnlatnble salad la the following : Take a cupful of crab meat, the canned variety, cut with a sharp knife Into small pieces, add an equal amount of finely diced tart apple, senson' with salt ond a few dashes of paprika, add of mayonnaise and serve. a A little chopped green pepper may be added for variety. half-cupf- Ham With Cider Slices of cold hnm rider which has been thickened with cornstarch. Serve poured over the ham. A half glassful of a p pie or currant, Jelly with a half cupful of water and a tablespoonful of cornstarch mnkes a good sauce. Cheese and Pepper Fondu. Use two tablespoonfuls each of chopped red and green peppers, of a cupful of corn cake crumbs, the snme amount of scalded milk and cheese, teaspoonful each of salt and paprika, a few grains of mustard and two eggs. Grease a baking dish and sprinkle with the finely THE VOICES OF BULLET8. chopped peppers. Add the scalded milk to the grated cheese, seasonings, One hundred steps more would have brought crumbs, and beaten egg yolks; mix me inside of Canllgny. But I was doomed never well, then fold In the stiffly beaten to enter Cantlgny; Just then I went into a shell whites. Turn Into the baking dish nnd hole. The reasons that made me mindrop into the bake in a slow oven twenty-fivshell hole were, I think, two. For one, there was utes. in the crater a wounded boy, a boy shot Chocolate Molasses Cakes Take through the shoulder, together with three of a cupful of molasses, hospital corps men who were starting to dress him, and I went of a cup of boiling water, on In with some vague Idea of offering help. f of shortening, But nlso something was after me by that time. of flour, of cupful cupful I had not noticed it at first; that Is, when finally corn flour, of a tenspoonful I became aware of it. It was the knowledge that of soda, the same of salt and cinnaIt had been going on for quite a while. Little mon, one and a half squares of melted zips" were passing by me; small, short whispers, chocolate and a half tenspoonful of hardly attaining the volume of sound, and gone vanilla. Beat thoroughly after combinalmost before they were heard discrete, quick, ing ns usual, and bake In small greased little zips like the lightest of pencil strokea-z- lp, muffin pans. zip, zip, and zip. Coconut Biscuit. Sift two cupfuls Now and then, though, Just as brief, one of barley flour with four teaspoonfuls reached a higher volume of sound, something like of baking powder, a half teaspoonful a short cat meow, but more respnant of salt, two tablespoonfuls of shortenthus a spiteful cry. Some sharpshooter ing and one cupful of fresh grated cowas after me, some ambushed Boche who did not conut. Add the coconut milk for approve of Colliers Weekly. That Is really why the liquid nnd roll out inch I dropped Into the shell hole, I think not so thick. Brush the top with milk and very much to help the three hospital corps men. minutes. bake moderately twenty-fivJames Uopper in Colliers. are heated In two-thir- one-ha- lf well-beate- n e one-thir- d one-slxt- one-hal- one-fourt- h one-thir- d one-hn- e HERE Is such a diversity of dishes thnt be Is Indeed hard to suit who cannot find some in fi menus all will pleeee. T h Cream. which r et lea Take the Juice of three lem- oranges, three the rlced pulp of three bananas, three cupfuls of strained Let honey, three cupfuls of water. stand one hour then pour Into a freezer, add a cupful of cream and freeze. This amount will serve ten persons. ' Peanut Straws. Roll rich pastry of an Inch In thickness, with pennut butler, sprend wet the edges and fold the remaining half over it Roll lightly, prick with a fork to prevent puffing up. Gut In wide and four strips a Inches long. Brush with milk and bake in a quick oven. When done sprinkle with paprika. ' Spanish Meat Dish In the bottom of a baking dish place a layer of thinly sliced potatoes. Over these lay sliced cold roast beef, chicken or any kind of cooked meat; pour over a cupful or less of good gravy. A very onion Is then sprinkled over the gravy. Then cover with two cupfuls of thick tomato; put Into the oven to bake; after an hour add a tablespoonful of cooked green peas and serve nt once. Salt nnd pepper should be added to each layer, as the seasoning Improves ns the illsh cooks. Stuffed Green Peppers. Uut off the tops of a dozen green peppers nnd put these bits with one small onion through a meat chopper. Add a pound of a cupof sausage meat, ful of cracked crumbs, two tableons one-eight- nnd h one-ha- lf half-inc- h finely-shr- edded two-thlri- spoonfuls ls of catsup, one egg well s of a teaspoonful beaten, of salt and milk to soften. Remove the seeds, stuff the peppers nnd set them In a baking dish with a little warm water to keep them from stick three-fourth- Ing. oven one Is brown and Bnke In a moderate hour or until the meat tbe peppers soft , , lf "KuxaIc llYL&utdlL) |