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<br />. <br />! <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />which can be utilized immediately. <br /> <br />When Sec~etary Fall <br /> <br />was in the Valley some time ago the ex-service men had a <br /> <br />conference with him, in which conference he said that he <br /> <br />was behind everythin~ that the American Legion wanted, and <br /> <br /> <br />we made a proposition to him that if fifty thousand acres <br /> <br />COuld be set aside for tho soldiers and veterans welfare <br /> <br />work in the state of California, it should be developed <br /> <br />immediately and put in shape so ex-service men could go <br /> <br />there and start farming. <br /> <br />Our endeavor will be to incor- <br /> <br />porate into this bill a clause which will g~ant preferential <br /> <br />settlolnent rights to ox-service men and l"iOmOn; and not only <br /> <br />th~t, but we are going to endoavor to got the Government <br /> <br />in some way or other to finance these men who desire to <br /> <br />Settle on this land, booause without some financial aid <br />it will be impOSSible for them to go on the land and make <br /> <br />a success of'farmins. <br /> <br />It costs money to reclaim desert <br /> <br />land. <br /> <br />By ~uttin6 these men on thero,-- all we ask is that <br /> <br />,the Fede~al Government extend to tho ex-serVice men some <br /> <br />financial eid, ~hich they can in the future return to the <br /> <br />Government. <br /> <br />All we ask for is a chance to get the necessary <br /> <br />finances to GO on the land and develop it and make prosper- <br /> <br />ous farms of it. <br /> <br />;..e are in favor of the Federal Government <br /> <br />proceedins at once to the construction of this dam. <br /> <br />'CHUi1NAN HOOVLR; <br /> <br />The Commission is devoted entirely to <br /> <br />the ~uestion of the ~espective ri~hts between the stetes in <br /> <br />the matter of the title and equitable division of the water, <br />