general line followed by many other governments. 

 Congress will be asked to pass the necessary legis- 

 lation and make ample appropriations to this end. 



(2) Enact legislation which will specifically 

 provide for the part that the National Govern- 

 ment, the part that the States' governments, 

 and the part that private land owners should per- 

 form. 



(3) Further, the several State governments 

 will be asked to pass and repeal such legislation, 

 if such action be necessary, to enable the respective 

 commonwealths to make effective the proposed 

 national legislation. 



These laws taken in combination will provide 

 the machinery for carrying out in this country 

 the general methods which have already been 

 found successful in other countries and in a few 

 States of our own country. They are along the 

 general lines of the ideas presented to this congress 

 and indorsed by a unanimous resolution thereof. 



Conclusion. 



Summing up briefly — there are four fundamental 

 factors which must govern any successful large 

 movement for placing our returning soldiers upon 

 the land. They are: 



1st. Providing for a class of settlers almost 

 wholly without capital. 



2nd. Creation of model communities with such 

 attractions and comforts that the soldier with only 

 a small equity will work to retain it. Certainly 

 no less should be done for the soldier than has been 

 done for the employee in ship building or munition 

 plants. 



3rd. Establishment of colonies large enough 

 to develop community spirit and enterprise, and 

 compact enough to eliminate loneliness and iso- 

 lation. 



4th. Provision for each colony of advisers who 

 are competent and experienced, to carry the 

 settler through the formation period of the first 

 three years. These will be found among their 

 own comrades. 



5th. The opportunities for such colonies in 

 every State in the Union can doubtless be found, 

 and certainly exist, in profusion in the South 

 coastal plain. 



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