Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-27

,Raleigh-A statement clarifying
veterans preference for Rehabili-
tationin-place and Resettlement
homes or farmsteads was Male here
this week by Homer H. B. Mask,
Regional Director of the Resettle-
ment Administration.
According to the statement, a
certain preference is given veterans
applications which are approved by
the Veterans Administration. APP
plications thus approved are hand
led in a more direct manner. Also,
after a veterans eligibility has been
established under the rules of the
Resettlement Administration and
his name has been placed on the &C
ceptable list, he will be shown a pre-
ference over no%n-veterans in the
actual assignment of Resettlement
homes or farmsteads.
"But veterans should be re-
minded, that while recommended
ton by the Veterans Administra-
ton is important, there is something
else to be DONE" Director Mask
said. "They must be otherwise
qualified. Veterans must meet the
same qualifications as other persons.
They must satisfy the Resettlement
Administration that they are suited
to and likely will make a success Of
the new venture" he declared.
Farm experience or farm back
ground is necessary for both Re-
habilitaiton-in-place and Resetrle-
ment. All applicants also should
be free from such disabilities as
would prevent them from carrying
out their obligations. These and
other qualifications must be met by
veterans as well as non-veteran ap-
plications. Once the veterans ap-
cation has been investigated, how
ever, and he has been found salts
factory by the Resettlement Ad-
ministration, all other things be-
ing equal, the veteran will be shown
a preference, Mr.. Mask pointed out.
Some citizens, including veter-
ans have received the erroneous i'm
preston that the Resettlement Adj
ministration will lend them money
with which to buy an individual
farm, or will purchase for them
a specific farm that they have in
mind. But it is not the present
policy of the Resettlement Admin
istration to lend money directly
with which to buy land" Mr.. Mask
stated, "the general practice being
to offer approved applicants the
chance to buy on easy terms homes
or farmsteads which have been Sc
lected, purchased, and developed by
the Resettlement Administration as
a part of one of its Resettlement
Projects" (There is one exception
to this rule. Under a farm tenant
project, 100 individual farms are
being purchased for qualified ten
ant farmers in selected counties in
North Carolina and Tennessee.
Some of these farms, if suitable and
for sale, may be farms upon which
tenant applicants now reside or
farms which tenant-applicants re-
commend
Part of the misunderstanding,
the statement said, may be caused
by a lack of information as to the
difference NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and Resettlement which are two
separate phases of the Resettlemnt
Administration program.
Simply stated Rehabilitation-in-
place means small loans, and super
visory assistance by County Re-
Mobilization Supervisors to eligible
farmers who are unable to secure
proper credit elsewhere. 1t does
~. auo1yo r,urch,ca of 1,nd
assistance may be given toward
helping the farmer to rent a suit
able farm. The farmer is assisted
to get on his feet again, usually on
the farm where he resides, or in the
same county. The Resettlement
phase involves the relocation of eli
gible families in new homes or
farmsteads.