Author : United States; Congress; House; C Lands
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ISBN 13 : 9781331228561
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (285 download)
Book Synopsis Farms for Soldiers (Classic Reprint) by : United States; Congress; House; C Lands
Download or read book Farms for Soldiers (Classic Reprint) written by United States; Congress; House; C Lands and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Farms for Soldiers From the hundreds of replies received a number of extracts have been taken and are here appended which give their purport. There have been but two replies which condemned the plan. All the other replies have been in its favor. One of the division commanders, Gen. Hersey, submitted the matter to a vote of his division of 23,363 men stationed on the Rhine. The result of this vote shows that 4,595 men expressed themselves as personally interested in it. Col. F. H. Adams found 245 men in his regiment who were anxious to become identified with this development work. Col. Peyton found in 206 men of the Sixty-first Infantry 98 men who either wanted to know more of the plan or who wished to try it. Brig. Gen. Poore reports that in his brigade out of 7,010 men 1,800 expressed interest in the plan. Col. Stone, at Bourges, France, advises that out of 3,463 man who gathered to consider the matter a total of 789 were "interested" or "vitally interested." Col. Wheeler, at Coblenz, advises that out of 1,480 men 22 percent were interested. Brig. Gen. O'Neil took a poll which showed 27 percent of 1,800 men who thought so well of the plan that they intended to investigate it. These figures and others that you will find in the letters show a much larger interest than anyone had heretofore thought obtained among the men, although we have now in this office postal cards and letters from 107,000 men in which they have asked to know what opportunity along this line the Government was extending. I commend for your consideration the facts presented by these distinguished men, none of whom can have any interest in the matter other than that which patriotism and a high regard for the welfare of their men would prompt. I take this occasion to emphasize the thought that it is in this plan, and has been from the outset, that these farms are to be located in every one of the States, and not exclusively in any one section of the country. Cordially, yours, Franklin K. Lane. The Speaker of the House of Representatives. Maj. Gen. Mark L. Hersey, headquarters Fourth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Germany: I am in receipt of your letter of May 6, 1919, regarding your plan for developing the unused land of the United States through the efforts of honorably discharged soldiers. The plan itself is so favorable that there can be no doubt of a hearty response on the part of the men concerned. Personally, I feel that Congress could not make an appropriation that would result in greater advantage not only to the men but to the country at large. With a view to determining in actual figures the number of men in this division that would be not only interested in farming, but interested with sufficient definiteness to take up the work should the plan be put into effect, I caused the attached memorandum to be issued to all organizations of the division in such numbers that it could be read to every soldier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
