The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-12-25
MAKE FARMS FOR The SOLDIERS
Declares Y. s. Should Provide for the
Ahnerlcanlxatlo Of Foreign BON
and Educate llliterate

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day. Schools, he added, should lay
Y more emphasis on teaching trades.
sOf immediate Importance Is the pro
posal that the government systemat-
ically 90 about the work OF providing
work TOR soldiers on existing irriga-
ton projects In the west. Later, Sec
Y rotary Lane suggests, more extensive
reclamation OF waste land should be
put under way and small farms sold
TO soldiers by the government on long
term payment plans
MI. Lane outlined n detail his. pro
posed methods Of carrying out this
pr0Sran. which he characterized as
part OF the looking ahead work" Of
the notion.
Referring to returning soldiers, he
isaid:
being Americans and being young,
they will not ask or expect pensions.
They will want work. They will want.
IL possible, chance for q home Of
their own"
Make Jobs for Men
BY systematic government develop
ment OF Idle lands, said Mr.. Lane,
there will be provided immediate jobs
for these men, labor markets will be
protected against possible collapse by
being swamped with q surplus OF la
Dor, fe-established industries will be
supplied with an immediate demand
for their products. the movement Of
population to cities will be checked,
4 MANY best proven Americans" will be
affixed permanently to agricultural oc-'
equations and great areas Of land now
neglected and valueless will be
brought into use.
After soldier has returned to his
home, said Mr.. Lane, II his old posi-
ton is not open and he wishes to turn
to an independent life, "there would
be laid before him a number of pro-
.ajects which the government had un-
tdertaken in the different sections Of
the country. Let us assume no more
than three, one an irrigation scheme,
another a drainage project, third
the development of a body Of cut over.
lands. The one wuld need to have
great dams constructed to impound
and divert waters, q hydr0-elec
plant, miles Of canal and tunnel, per-
haps, thousands Of, acres to be cleared
and leveled. fenced and broken. This
would mean years OF work at good
wages. work in the open under hous-
ing conditions that would seem pala-
itial to the soldier OF the trench and at
the end Z piece OF land On which would
be erected a house and barn, a farm
home in q group OF farm homes. For
this he must pay. But already he has
received wages out Of which he can
have saved the necessary first INSTALL
4 iYnent on his place at 10 or Is per cent.
Ihc nalence. Wltn lnteIeSL, ne can
pay ~ forty yearly { INST aiiMents s, or
carrier Il ne car.
Mr. Lane estlmated mat more tnal
one tnFd, proDaDiy nearer 0ne'naI. Y
tne g,s american troops N EUROPE cant
rom farms. and pro ply would VISA
70 return to the agricultural Work.
care snouId De taken, however ~, ne
SAID; TINT the government ~ selling
farms to tnese men ilLnlt lug saze ann
I impose restrlctions 70 prevenl tne1l
Deing asssesatted ln.o glea. es.Ates'
s Sost " 49, HIss ~.
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strike mas cost TINS country.
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Z depenaents q WARS Inat ended 5Wenly
ana MY years ago rs IS ASKED; 4. " Y. ou Us.
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y COST US % conaucl. Snat Wat Io[
single week Wouid people ina.
gave OUT OF nand, ONT O noDle sense
o. cnarlty % QUASI puDlic olga nlza-
ions, $oyV, OV0,OvV B. ZOE tne enterlaln.
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nome Work ana MONIES ior these same
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