Practical Plans to Be Made to Provide Farms for Returned Soldiers

The appointment by Governor Burnquist of a committee on land settlements for returning soldiers and industrial workers is a timely step in the right direction which will meet with general public approval and is in line with proposals which are now under consideration by the Land Committee of the national House of Representatives. However, the policy the governor has in view is of a broader scope than the plans outlines by Secretary Lane or in the bills presented in congress. The purpose of the national legislation now in preparation is to provide farms for returning soldiers on easy and workable terms, while the governor would extend similar privileges also to industrial workers, who may be fitly termed our soldiers of peace.

It is to be assumed that the appointment of this committee will be the initial step in working out a comprehensive policy for rapid settling of the vast areas of productive state lands that are waiting for willing hands to work them and reap their sleeping riches. A committee made up of such able men as those selected by the governor may be expected to formulate and present to the next legislature a practical scheme of legislation so well prepared and digested that final affirmative action may be had in the course of the session.