Evening star., 1934-10-09

houses, planned and ready for con-
struction, will average $2,500-amor-
tized at SIS a month, the slate wiped
clean>in is years. At the end of that
time the property reverts to the ex-
service men, in fee simple.
No family with fewer than two
children will be considered. Size of
houses depends upon the number of
occupants. There will be five TO seven
rooms, with baths, heating plants and
electricity for lighting and cooking.
Three to five acres of land will be pro-
vided for gardens.
Soon as the first 10000 veterans are
accommodated. another quota will
start for the countryside until all
eligible and willing to go are housed in
thier own homes.
SAG, 1882 Cases of Disability.
At the last counting. the Veterans
Administration lists 1882 service
connected cases Of disability, veterans
drawing compensation. No totally
disabled veterans will be considered.
This class, mostly in hospitals, number
36.o62 cases.
Only those able and willing to work
will be placed on homsteads, according
to the prospectus drawn up by Counsel
Lawrence Westbrook, assistant to
Harry Hopkins, Federal relief admin
istrator, and DR. E. G. Dexter, solicitor
| of the Veterans Administration.
Further, no man may accept home
stead unless he has the written con-
sent Of his wife, who must voice de-
sire to leave the city for the country.
Gen. Frank Hines, veterans ad-
ministrator, is understood to have ap-
proved the project, after a conference
with the President. Mr.. Hopkins is
ready to hand over $50, 900, 900 and to
double that sum should the veterans
respond. Cost Of housing the frst
| 10000 veterans is placed at S25, ,000, 900.
May Get More Funds.
II the veterans take kindly to the
idea, the new Congress, which con-
venes in January, may be asked to
appropriate further funds. Repre-
sentatives Wright Patman, Democrat,
! Of Texas stands ready to go on the
floor of the House and demand the
money-if for no other reason than to
prevent bonus marches on WASH
ington.
In this program the American Gov
eminent is taking page from the
note book Of Germany. At present
most Of the German front line SOL
diers are being housed in modern
homes, set up in colonies at Govern
ment expense. The past Summer Sem
ator Joe Robinson of Arkansas. DEM
ocratic floor leader, visited the Ger
man soldier colonies and was i'm
pressed by what he saw.
The American concept differs from
the German in this respect-there
will be no exclusive soldier COLOMBIA
ton, but balance of civilian and SOL
dier population. Only Is per cent Of
ex-Service men will be placed In any
community. So there will be no in
feriority complex on the part of the
ex-service men, only those who have
had vocational training will be selected
to go among the civilians.
Hand-picked, the first 10000 will
be the cream of the American war
veterans. These men will be skilled
artisans, disabled but competent to
earn their living, unemployed but
willing to work
There Is model community al
ready set up and ready to receive
some Of the veterans, at Lakewood,
Tex, hundred miles from Houston.
Three others are in course of con-
struction, at Media, Wichita Falls and
Lubbock, Tex.
As the lists were gone over the
veterans and Federal relief admins
trations found that the average
monthly pension of World War dis
abled is $42 With this sum, a man
and his wife and children would
starve in q city. On a subsistence
homestead, with Government aid,
there would be money left over after
all necessary expenditures. Statis-
ticians figure dollar a day will cover
actual living expenses on the home
steads-shelter, food and clothing.