A LITTLE LAND 64 



AND A LIVING 



YOU, MR. HALL, 



are a man of strong powers of observation and 

 have the ability to express your thoughts in an 

 inspiring manner; you know the sociological 

 conditions in this country as well as any man. 

 Can you not make glow to a flame the spark 

 that is existent in everybody? You hear from 

 a great number of people that when they get 

 a competency they want to have a spot of land 

 that they can call their own and where their 

 wives and children can ENJOY life. This shows 

 that it is human nature everywhere for every one 

 to long to be nearer Mother Earth and to claim 

 a patch of the land as his own. 



In your book, " Three Acres and Liberty," 

 you have shown one side that it pays in money 

 to go back to the country and take up agricul- 

 ture. Now write a book which will show that 

 it pays from other standpoints as well. You 

 do not have to go far out of your way; the 

 means are near at hand and the evidences for 

 the movement are to be found everywhere you 

 turn in the cities. Let the people go to the 

 land for their own sake, for the good of their 



