s, it is
not large enough to involve the problem at all. Further than this,
I do not think the problem will come up under this system of
allotting blocks, for the reason first stated above.

It will Americanize immigrants through co-operation and social
intercourse, through the various settlers' organizations necessary
to their social and financial welfare. We have a Stock Breeders'
Association which meets at regular times to discuss live-stock
problems at intervals during the year. They are all on equal terms,
each one buying the land for himself, thus breaking down class
distinction. There will not be the distinction between lessees and
freeholders that we find in the Middle States. Their children will
go to the same school.

This undertaking of California is the only one in the field of public
land colonization anywhere in the country, except for projects involving
soldier settlements which some states have lately begun to undertake.

STATE PROVISION FOR SOLDIER SETTLEMENTS

With the close of the War there began to appear on the calendars of
state legislatures the subject of land settlement provision for
returning soldiers. Up to the time this report was written, twenty-three
states had passed some legislation relative to this need. The following
table indicates in a general way the extent and nature of this provision.

TABLE II

STATE LEGISLATION TO PROMOTE LAND SETTLEMENT FOR SOLDIERS UP TO JUNE,
1919[11]
---------------------------------------------------------------+
| | | Amount of
State | Bill Number| Date Approved |Appropriation
--------------+------------+---------------------+-------------+
Arizona | Senate 89|March 26, 1919[10]|$ 100,000
| | |
California |{Senate 246|April, 1919 | 10,000,000
|{Senate 221|April, 1919[10]| 1,000,000
Colorado | Senate 262|April 9, 1919[10]|
Delaware | House 182|April 2, 1919 | 25,000
Florida | Senate 21|December 7, 1918[10]|
Idaho | House 100|March 7, 1919[10]| 100,000
Maine | Chapter 89|April 4, 1919[10]|
| | |
Missouri |{Senate 355|April, 1919[10]| 10,000
|{Senate