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What this generation would bequeath to future
generations--United States safeguarded against internal
dangers and made impregnable against attack or
invasion--No other plan will accomplish that
result--Summary of reasons why Homecroft Reserve System
will accomplish it--Comparison of cost of larger
Standing Army and same number of Homecroft
Reserve--Epitome of advantages of a Homecroft Reserve
from the standpoint of Peace--Homecroft Reserve System
must be evolved gradually--Rapid development would
follow when system once well established--This is
illustrated by growth of Rural Mail service, Electric
lighting, aerial navigation, and telephone--Where the
first 100,000 Homecroft Reservists should be
located--50,000 Reservists in California, 50,000 in
Louisiana, 80,000 in West Virginia, and 10,000 in
Minnesota--Specification of apportionment to projects
of the $100,000,000 that would be saved from military
expenditures for increased Standing Army--Homecroft
financial System proposed--Homecroft Certificates to be
issued--Advantages of the Homecroft Reserve System to
the Homecrofter--Economic power created for the Nation
would result in Universal Peace.

OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE

THE PATRIOTISM OF PEACE