THE FREEDOM WAY
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At the other end, to show you how you can fit this simple
life into any scheme of living you fancy, there's a man
named Clark Richardson who, tired of the city, tired of
being broke, tired of working and having so little to show
for it, decided that for him the real wilderness life was
the thing.
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He had managed to save only $500, no more, but that was
enough to get him past the Canadian Government officials,
who screen those who enter their country. With that $500 he
was able to "retire" permanently. He built a cabin on
rented ground in British Columbia, and earns enough working
by the day for a few weeks a year to live in comfort and
satisfaction for the rest of the time.
So don't hold back from making your leap into simple living
because you happen now to live in a large city. Either move
to the spot where you have always fancied you would like to
live, or, if circumstances require you to be in the city
for business each day, move out of the city far enough to
find the sort of living you want. Don't say it can't be
done. It can. Hundreds have done it. How do you know you
can't until you have tried it yourself?
In this country for the past dozen years there has been a
back-tothe-land movement that has elicited the cooperation
of the Government in Washington. Shortly after World War
II, for instance, the Goverment opened up tracts of five
acres, under the Five-Acre Tract law, passed in 1938, in
the desert of California. Hundreds of families and
individuals have leased these tracts at $5 per year, $1 per
acre per year. The requirements are not strict. The Act
merely requires that you state the purpose for which the
land is to be used. It can only be used as a home, camp,
cabin, health, convalescent, recreational or business site,
and not for farming. You have also to prove that you have
financial responsibility to maintain yourself and carry out
the undertaking for which you propose to use the land.
Information about where to write for such land is included
in Section VII. There also you will find information about
other Government lands which are available for your use in
living the simple life.
But don't worry too much if there isn't public land near
where you are. There's land. That is all that counts,
because if you are persistent and earnest about it you can
find a place for your experiment, all right. The main thing
is, are you in earnest?
If you are, you are ready to read Section III. It tells you
just how you can live this simple life, what kind of house
or other shelter you can live in, and how easy it is to
provide yourself with the essentials of a roof over your
head.
SECTION III
HOW YOU CAN LIVE
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