I do not presume that anyone will seriously attempt to controvert the farreaching importance of the work undertaken by the National Government in reclaiming vast portions of the arid and semiarid States of the western part of this country. At no time in the worlds history has there been such a demand for land by the landless as at the present time. "Back to the soil" is a slogan born of the hopes which have welled up in the .hearts of millions to possess some of Gods domain and to work out their own destinies beneath their own vine and fig tree. Every thoughtful student of social economy recognizes the necessity of stemming the tide of immigration to the crowded tenements of the great cities and turning it toward the open country to aid in the production of the things upon which not only the prosperity but the very existence of the cities depends. This land hunger has within the last two decades doubled. trebled. and even quadrupled the price of land in the great agricultural States of the eastern. southern. and central regions of our country. The time has passed when aman of moderate means can go Into those regions and acquire sufficient land upon which to earn a iivdlihood and lay aside a competence for his declining years.
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