Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1948, Tokyo, T�ky�                                It is an achievement and a great achievement to formulate Princi Ples and to shape Laws which will ensure to a people or to a nation democratic principles and Opportunity for democratic Freedom. It is also an achievement and a difficult one to carry Over to men oppressed for centuries understanding of the part democracy can play in their lives and to teach them the uses of their newly acquired  a task is the prime concern of eighth army military government teams coordinating with the Japa Nese government under its new Constitution and its new Laws. Perhaps nowhere is the military government role More marked than in the Vari Ous phases of the land Reform pro Gram which critics have lauded As one of the most All embracing and far reaching of Japan s economic changes. In the first phases of land Reform the deep seated Feuda Listic control was destroyed and individual far mers every Here were Given oppor. Unity to buy land and have a voice in its control. The final step in the democratization of the japanese far Mer lies in the agricultural Exten Sion program which legalizes National support for agricultural Exten Sion work in All prefectures As a democratic substitute for the expensive and inefficient experimental farms which have failed to meet japanese agrarian needs on a Large scale. The task of Extension work is to help Rural families apply science to the Day by Day routine of farming homemaking soil conservation. The varied aspects of Rural living. It teaches Farmers to recognize As prob lems for solution conditions which they had previously accepted As inevitable such As crop blights. The Extension Job is primarily one of education. Scap has directed eighth army military government surveillance in the organization of the National japanese Extension Agency As a Means whereby Farmers receive guid Ance and instruction both from National and local Levels with a View to improving farm management and farm living conditions. The local Extension agent will handle the prob lems of 400 to 500 Farmer families. Approximately 11,000 such Extension agents will be required by the Japa n2se government As a Means of achieving better Homes and better Farmers. The new farm Village a travelling information conference worked out in Kochi prefecture on the Island of Shikoku by the information officer of the Kochi military government team is representative of the High Quality work being carried on daily. Kochi prefecture has 168 villages. Its farm population comprises 57% of its 848,337 Peoples. Since Kochi is a mountainous sparsely populated and backward area with Only 90 Miles of Railroad in the entire prefecture japanese prefectural officials have found it difficult to know at first hand the problems of the Rural areas. William a. Scott civil information officer of the Kochi military government team saw that Ordinary methods of transmitting information would be of Little value in such a prefecture. Radio and newspapers though excellent reached a Small proportion of the people. Continued on Page 13 % v./. -