_Sixth:_ No length of actual field service would impose any hardship or privation on the families of any of the Homecroft Reservists. Each family would continue to occupy and get its living from the Homecroft during the absence of the soldier of the family. The routine of the family and community life would continue undisturbed. For the first fifty year period the cost of maintaining our present standing army of less than _100,000_ men will be _five billion dollars_. _During that same period_ the revenues from the Homecroft Reserve rentals would repay the entire investment required for the establishment and maintenance of the Reserve, and the ultimate cost to the government of the maintenance for fifty years of a reserve of _five million men_ would be _nothing_. For the second fifty year period, the net revenues from the Homecroft Reserve rentals, over and above the entire cost of the maintenance of the Reserve, would be fifteen billion dollars,--$300,000,000 a year every year for fifty years,--more than enough to cover the entire expense of our standing Army and Navy, as at present maintained. In other words, the profit to the government from establishing a Military Reserve which would be at the same time a great _Educational Institution_ for training Citizens as well as Soldiers, and a Peace Establishment for Food Production, would be large enough to cover the entire cost of the nation's regular Military and Naval Establishments. For all time thereafter, the country would be relieved from the heavy financial burdens of maintaining them. The revenues that the regular Military and Naval Establishments will otherwise absorb could be diverted to building internal improvements, highways, waterways, railways, reclaiming lands, safeguarding against floods, preventing forest fires, planting forests, and supporting a great national educational system that would make the Homecroft Slogan the heritage of every child born to citizenship in the United States of America: _Every child in a Garden, Every mother in a Homecroft, and Individual Industrial Independence For every worker in a Home of his own on the Land._ From the standpoint of peace, if there should never be another war, and as a means of national defense against the dangers that menace the country from within--civil conflict, class conflict, social upheaval, racial deterioration, and a degenerated citizenship--the advantages of the Homecroft Reserve System may be epitomized as follows: _First:_ Every Homecroft Reserve Rural Settlement of 100,000 acres--100,000 Reservists--100,000 families, created by the national government, will be a model for an industrial community which will demonstrate that the cure for city congestion is the Homecroft Life in the suburbs or in nearby Homecroft Villages.