The Personal Factor 



(3) The Suitability of Ex-service Men as 

 Cultivators of the Soil. 



This is a question which requires very 

 careful consideration. To be a successful 

 settler a man must be intelligent ; but it is 

 a mistake to assume that a man must have 

 been brought up on the land, and be skilled 

 in agricultural processes, in order to qualify 

 him for success. The Governments of Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand, the Salvation 

 Army, private individuals such as Mr. S. 

 Copley in Western Australia, and successful 

 syndicates in the United States, have done 

 excellent work in the way of settling urban 

 artisans on the land under expert guidance. 



It may be said that in the past, whenever 

 the settlement of ex-service men has been 

 attempted in England, the results have been 

 unsatisfactory, and the men have not got 

 on well with their neighbours. The reasons 

 for this are not hard to find, (i) They 

 were settled under wrong conditions, (2) 

 in no case were they settled in sufficient 

 numbers to form a society unto them- 

 selves. Another point to bear in mind is 

 that the men discharged at the end of this 



