of the world's population, but the total man- 

 power growth in this country from this source 

 for the next one or two decades at least will be 

 considerably less than heretofore. 



3. Consequently the growth of the South, so 

 far as agricultural labor is concerned, even though 

 it should keep pace with that of other sections of 

 the United States, would not be very rapid — not 

 rapid enough at least to absorb the agricultural 

 possibilities of the cut-over timber lands alone for 

 a long time. 



4. Therefore, the South needs and should have 

 a greater influx than the country in general. This 

 means that some positive and spectacular stamp 

 of approval must be placed upon the region by 

 an authoritative agency, so that the unfortunate 

 psychology existing in the rest of the United 

 States respecting the South be shattered. 



5. If the National Government should estab- 

 lish three or four colonies in each of the Southern 

 States and place its stamp of approval upon them, 

 Baying that it recommends them as homes for its 

 returning heroes as freely as it recommends col- 

 onies in any other State of the Union, such action 

 would go far toward breaking up this unfortunate 

 attitide vastly farther than any other thing of 

 which I can think. 



6. In addition to placing the Government's 

 blanket stamp of approval on such Southern 

 colonies, as distinct from approving its soil condi- 

 tions by one Government bureau, its climatic 

 conditions by another bureau, and its crop pro- 

 duction by still another bureau, etc., is the fact 

 that something like as great publicity would 

 be given to the Southland as has been given to 

 the Western sections from the work of the Recla- 

 mation Service in the arid regions. The South- 

 land has never had anything like the systematic 

 advertising of the West. 



For example, about ten days ago a party of 

 four of us sat down to dinner in the cafe of the 

 Hotel Wilmington, in Wilmington, N. C. On the 

 bill of fare were five California products set forth, 

 as such, three of them right down the line, as follows : 

 New California lettuce, new California celery, new 

 California tomatoes; the other two were California 

 olives and California prunes. Investigation was 

 instituted by one of the party, who was nettled, 



