Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-18
HOW OTHERS PROVIDE FOR
EX-SOLDIE.RS.

Following the request of the gov
eminent, a number of men from va
rious sections of New Mexico will
come together today for the purpose
Of devising plans for unemployment
OF discharged soldiers and war
workers.
This is a matter which belongs dis
tinctively to the federal government,
which drafted both soldiers and la
borers into service during the war.
But the federal government has done
nothing.
It may be worth while TO note what
is being done by Canada and Austria
liza.
Canada will grant any British ex-
service man one hundred and sixty
acres Of land and a loan IN to twen
ty-five hundred dollars with which
to buy implements and stock and
make improvements. Such a soldier
must have had farm experience, or
he must take years training with
wages at government farm or with
some selected farmer.
Nova Scotia has set aside large
tracts of land for community settle
ments where from one hundred to
two hundred families will be settled
in a group about government dem
onstration farm from which the set
tiers may hire tools and teams if
they choose. To each settler will be
sold from ten to one hundred acres
at nominal price and funds will be
loaned to him on long time with
which to make building improve
ments.
Ontario will give to any ex-service
man a years training at an agricul-
tural college, and will establish colo
MES for such men along lines OF rail-
road, where they win first construct
central settlement and clear land,
of which each settler will receive
eighty acres free, with loan IN to.
five hundred dollars for stock and
equipment
The Canadian Pacific railroad, which
owns an empire of prairie land and
has never been subjected to rulnous
regulation" by the government. will
prepare farm of one hundred and
sixty acres for the eX-service man,
build a house and barn, fence the land
and break forty acres. then lend the
settler o thousand dollars to stock
the farm. On this land the settler
need pay nothing for the first three
years, but may have twenty-five years
in which to pay off the debt Of forty
dollars per acre incurred for land,
loan and improvements. without in
terets other than rs included in the
forty dollars an acre.
Australia has provided for colony
settlements OH irrigated lands with
perpetual leases given in lieu of titles,
and loans for the settler up to twenty
five hundred dollars to improve and
stock the farm.
In every one OF these instances 1t
has been recognized that the soldier
must have experience in farming, and
provision for the same Is made. They
make no distinction between soldiers
from any part OF the British empire,
and they purpose to give such soldier
a real start in life-society from the
outset, farm that will yield the first
year, and loan that will put the
farmer on his feet from the begin
ming.
When we contemplate the provi-
sions made by the British colonies
and the Canadian Pacific railroad,
and provisions for labor in the British
Isles on public improvements made
by that government. and similar pro-
visions made in France, we begin to
understand how derelict our own gov
eminent has been in what it should
have regarded as a sacred duty.
A grateful nation could not do less
than make provision for work for
every man who wants to work. The
men who risked their lives to protect
this nation should not be cast adrift
by the nation when the peril was
over,