The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-12-05
No Gutter Wanted on
State Settlement Land
"And No Japsl" Adds the American Legion;
Men Now There Making Good
By Ralph J. Benjamin


WHITE BLUFFS. Dec. s.
mo cutters wantcdl''
That's the waichword adopted
By .. q. Scott. manager of the
states land settlement project
for veterans al White Bluffs.
Iianford.
The American Legion post.
which IN one Of the few 100 per
cent posts la the country. has
added.
IAN Japs keep out"
Cutters and JapH are not wanted
In tho Priest Rapids valley. The
state won't accept cutters or let
them get on the noldier-sailor farm
tracts n II can help Il. The legion
men have determined 90 keep tho
Jnps out. and there are no laps In
the valley now. Occasionally "A Jap
drives In and looks the land over.
but tho legion men spot him. ana LET
him know. without wasting words
that h. isn't wanted. And he goes.
The department OF conservation
and development, that n carrying out
tho reclamation and settlement pro.
gram In the Priest Rapids valley. In
trying 20 beat tho old. old adage
that II takes three crops OF settlers
20 develop tho land. that u IN always
tho third settler on the land who
makes good The only way 60 beat
that old system IL 10 select the sol
diers and sailors and marines very
carefully, and then help them over
the rough spots. encourage them.
keep them NJ work. ana make them
know that tho state IN interested In
their progress. To date tho project
manager. J. c. Scott. has had only
four applicants for tracts who backed
out when tho going became rough.
and these men wers not farmers In
any sense Of the word. they were all
right, but thoy didn't m in.
1T would DO wonderful II We could
take men on with smaller down pay.
msnis and then loan them money as
they needed IT, nays Project Man
agar Scott. but the law forces ua
TO ask for the payments we require
and the state constitution won't por.
init US TO loan tho money.
The boys we are selecting now
are given TO understand that AFTER
NC have gone the full limit IL il up
TO them 70 get In and work. work.
work. no farming II easy. but II
the men put their hearts into II at
the end Of 10 years they will have
homes and good incomes and con.
tcntment that only goes with a
good farm.
THE veteran who comes In should
have at least $1,000. That seems
like lot OF money. but II IL neoos.
sary. There II work 20 be had. but
unless tho man has more than the
ordinary amount OF sand, no will
need at least tho $1,000. He must
buy COWS and chickens and horses.
And he must live.
The young man who has
St.eo0 and who hands over $500
Of 10 for = first payment on one
Of thc~e tracts. and then pays
out the rest of his savings 10
tide himself over until his land
starts bringing him q return. h
more apt 10 be q worker and a
thinker and . success than the
fellow who comes In with moth
Ing and risks nothing. We 90
not want failures. wc want sue
c~sses. This II only n very small
project, hut n II In successful II
viii pave the way to larger land
settlement work."
Here are tho men actually work
ing their tracts under the land act
tiemcnf scheme:
Dale VI. Atwood. Everson: James
NJ. Coffman. Haas. William Wing.
Seattle. Albert v. Moede. White
Bluffs: Shaun Kelly. Spokane. W.
Morford. Olympia. Ira 8. Jones. Mes
peiem: Roy c. Robinson. Walia
walla. Edward Ponsat. waila waila:
Virgil o. Kern. Tacoma; Oris w.
Brown. Moscow. Idaho: sIlas r.
Murray. sedro. wooiley; Albert L.
Brockway. Seattle: Guy w. Phars.
Dryad, James r.. shuii. Monitor;
Elmer c. Yodcr. Hanford. Patrick
Hcaley. Black Diamond; ChaA. Il.
wooten. Butte. Mont: y. u. u. BIZ
art. winthrop.
Hero arc the men who have no
iectcd tracts but have not yot
moved on:
Frank A. Damon. Prosser; Horace
Y. Boss, Alder. walter Phare. Eliens.
burg: George r. Norton. Bothell:
Walter Elliott, Roslyn: Arne Hole.
Everett. These men. after making
their first payments. have six
months TO get on their land to
start work. Some OF them have be-
gun work and all will be cuitivating
their farms by spring.
Virgin Kern. former Tacoma boy.
got on his land last April. He was
one OF the first. He has about half
OF II under cultivation now. He
raised n good.sized crop OF corn.
some vegetables. and got two cut.
tlnEs OF alfalfa from about five
acres.
This looks like n mighty good bet