The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-01-07

there will be several million war
workers. coming home too.
This great home coming will per-
haps cover period of IL to IS
months.
1t appears to me that we at home
should be making definite plans to
receive these boys and girls, but l
know nothing of any such plans, yet.
1t appears that out of their war
profits industrialists have been al
lowed tax free AZ billion dollar re-
Mobilization fund, with which to make
postwar adjustments.
To me, it only seems fair that con-
gress create like sum for the re-
Mobilization of those discharged from
the government service I do not
consider it fair or just to the other
citizens that the rehabilitation fund
be given as present, for if it was,
in the end it would miss it's objec-
tive, the objective being, millions
more of home owners.
Being farmer I will speak of what
could be done toward more owned
farm homes, of family type
Without hesitation, will state that,
within the boundaries of the United
States there is ample room for to 4
million MORE family type homes. We
have the land, some is exceptionally
high productivity, some very low,
some will produce one to several
kinds of crops successfully, some just
one. A lot of the poorer lands could
be made much more productive. But
as the question is not the production
of greater amounts of agriculture
commodities, but more evenly dis
trlbuted production ability, something
the consumers should be vitality in
terested in.
have been wondering for some
time, why not? Out of the vast bill
lions of dollars appropriated by con-
gress for war purposes Qend-lease
and what not appropriate a so billion
dollar rehabilitation fund for the use
Of those discharged from the services,
not to be given to them as a present,
Ooe ioiiSto CIV oiloOlC Ii Ou WulCu lu6Y
can make rehabilitation loans on very
easy terms and conditions.
Suppose that such a fund was Gre
tied and one million returned soldiers
iesired to become farm owners of
amily type farms. We will assume
hat, family type farm fully equipped
would cost around $4,000, just to
make simple example, land $4,000,
$4,000, equipment S.
100 or total of Is billion dollars,
livided as land billion dollars, i'm
billion dollars and
equipment five billion dollars.
Now this one million farm homes
We are creating are in excess to the
lumber of farms we now have. To
ny way of thinking, we farmers in
he family type class have nothing to
worry about even though there were
0 be or million more family type
arms.
What does the creation of a mil
on more family type farms mean.
he land we have, but the improve
tents we have not, so it means the
reation of billion dollars worth of
improvements, improvements means,
ouses, barns, buildings of all sorts,
ellis, pumps, fences and items too
umerous to mention and all the labor
onencted. Then there is equipment
billion, that means tractors,
'ucks, automobiles, sheep, hogs, cat
e, chickens, and all things necessary
, bring this farm into a status of
gricultural commodities production.
o do that, and produce the COM
ODDITIES of replacement for those one
illion extra farms, will require the
Dor of thousands of non-farmers for
ears to come.
How are these loans to be made
yailable and how will they be re-
lid?
The loans could be made, through
an agency for that purpose-the re-
iyment should start after the second
,ar of production, with an annual
3 payment. To finance the admin
tration cost repayment funds could
loaned to other farmers at go in
rest, of course our present money
nders and banks would howl about
at, but money values have reached
unproportional value to human
shts and the welfare of all people.