The Congress can at once direct thousands of the returning soldiers to the reclamation of the arid lands which it has already undertaken, if it will but enlarge the plans and appropriations which it has entrusted to the Department of the Interior.
Wilson urges Congress to direct returning soldiers towards land reclamation efforts.
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