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By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
farmers since President Roosevelt de-
clared his intention of rebullding rural
America and moving poverty-stricken
families into new homes where they
way bave a considerably better chance
to pake a living and find happiness,
Thr moving bills will be pald out of
Mr. Roosevelt's $4,800 000,000 work re-
lie? allotment, and the boss foreman
of the movers will be Rexford
Twgwell, under secretary of
tire and pride of Columbia university,
than the farmers can lft mortgages,
For the eight
work to be done there
and three entirely
being created,
new
The one which
well Is the rural resettlement division,
The recent exodus of 200 farm families
and privation which Mr. Tugwell and
his forces will conduct,
against overbearing odds of
sion, drouth and poor land. will
moved into new and better lands and
given a fresh start at Doctor Tug-
well's discretion. By the same token,
whole area groups of farm fam
flies who have collectively—and in
many cases literally—bitten the dust
will be gathered Into Doctor Tugwell's
moving van and rolled away to new
homes where the land and the life will
give them something more closely re.
sembling an even break. Pale and
underweight communities, suffering
from economic pip In their industrial
sections, may be moved to where
change of climate and a few honest
dollars wii] revive them; If they can't
be moved, new and healthy industrial
sections will be grafted (no double
meaning intended-—perish the thought!)
into them.
Break for Slum Dwellers,
Citizens who have found the going
a little bit too tough In the slum sec
tions of the larger cities will be moved
20 or 80 miles out In the suburban,
semi-rural territories, given small plots
of land on which to raise three squares
a day and found factory jobs where
the hours are short and the remunera-
tion adequate,
Officially known as the Resettle-
ment administration, Doctor Tugwell's
division has been allotted $10,000,000
by the “President for administrative
expenses. What further funds are
necessary for each authorized project
will be allotted at a later date,
President Roosevelt himself out-
lined the purposes of the resettlement
by dividing them into three brackets:
First: To administer approved
projects involving resettlement of
destitute or low-income families from
rural and urban areas, Including the
establishment, maintenance and opera-
tion, In such connection, of communi
ties In rural and suburban areas,
Second: To initiate and administer
a program of approved projects with
respect to soll erosion, stream pollution,
seacoast erosion, reforestation, foresta-
tion and flood control.
Third: To make loans as author
ized under the emergency relief appro.
priation act of 1085 to finance, In
whole or in part, the purchase of farm
lands and necessary equipment by
farmers, farm tenants, croppers or
farm laborers,
In carrying out these threefold pur.
poses, Mr. Tugwell was authorized by
President Roosevelt to acquire in the
name of the United States govern.
ment any real property which he deems
necessary, In the Resettiement ad
ministration are incorporated the en-
tire personnel and funds of the land
program of the Federal Emergency Re-
lief administration. This land program
has already been extended into 20 of
the states and includes in its opera
tions the movement of farmers and
thelr families to the Matanuska valley
of Alaska,
Never Tried Before,
No projects such as these have been
carried out by any other nations, ac-
cording to M. L. Wilson, assistant sec-
retary of agriculture,
“This only nation-wide planning with
the conscious ldea of removing land
too poor to farm from cultivation is
Commenting on the resettlement pro
gram, he said that there are approx
imately half a million farm
who
to be exchanged.
are on the poorest
ginal land,
Uses, It
country
in this
ownership,
has been
to get land
tradition
into
ing
cut-over timber land,
arid plains, land whose surface soil
to private ownership.
its private owners,
is to bring It back
It Is breaking
into the hands of
calling rural-industrial
Assistant Secretary
communities.”
Wilson esti
this kind of land have some idea in
mind concerning what they would like
to do about It and have a little money
with which they might earry out their
plans, The other two-fifths will re-
quire assistance from the Resettiement
administration,
“Some familles will be moved to
better land” Mr. Wilson explained,
“A richer farm may be cut up Into
smaller tracts. For Instance, a 820.
acre farm may be divided into 32 ten-
acre farms. Such a move will be made
only where It will not particularly in-
crease agricultural production for sale.
“Then we'll try to get an Industry
located thereabouts. The people who
have been relocated will find employ-
ment and will earn wages. The gov-
ernment will sell them land and houses,
We can let them put their common
labor in on the building of the houses.
Farmers have their option. They make
their own decisions whether to stay
or go.”
New Kind of Community,
Mr. Wilson even went so far as to
say that there must be a great deal of
shifting of population to maintain the
democracy, adding that considerable
economic planning would be required.
He sald that a new kind of com-
munity, the like of which this nation
has not had, will be created.
“They will furnish a life akin to
that of European villages where they
raise their own food and work for
wages,” he declared. “It is a new type
of industrial setup, in which Industry
to quite an extent is decentralized.”
Mr. Wilson sald that the economle
system was developing more leisure
time, and that some constructive use
of It must be devised or we will de
generate,
“There are spiritnal and ethical val
ues which come from contact with the
soil,” he sald. "I don't belleve you can
find anything to which everybody is
adapted save gardening and flowers.
Practically everybody is Interested in
growing things, There Is value In this
process of raising a garden, You
produce something used by the family.
If we develop In this direction, all the
workers can be absorbed Into indus.
try at a five or six-hour day,
“This is not socialism. It goes coun-
ter to a great many elements of social
fsm. Most of the working people
would own their own homes and plots
of land In the readjustment outlined.
As it and widely
known, it will become very important
in the program of the liberal elements
of soclety.”
develops becomes
About 75,000 000
marginal land were
retirement by the
board last winter,
this land were sald
ized by Incredibly
Hving."
acres of poor sub-
recommended for
national resources
The inhabitants of
“character.
standards of
to be
low
tesettloment is hardly the answer
the nation's farm problem, In the
opinion of the 150 delegates to the
conference of agriculture. industry
and met at Dearborn,
Henry Ford for his
“chemurgic” farming
rg
depend-
fo
science, which
honor
to
“declaration of
ence upon the soil”
Principal speaker in the conclave In
the town that Henry Ford built was
Louis J. Taber, master of
Grange, who urged farmers to
the National
grow
be grown In the United States, He
“The American farmer hopes
this conference will set In motion fu-
fluences that will do more for rural
life than the politician has ever been
able to accomplish.”
“Chemurgic”™ Farming.
What the conference, sponsored by
Chemical Foundation, suggested as the
remedy was, of course, “chemurgic™
farming. This would shorten the dis
tance between production and consump
tion by having the farmer once more
assume more of the elemental serv.
ices and processes, and claims that
chemistry will drive man back to the
farm, just as the machine age took
“Chemurgic” farmers would bend
much of their efforts to raising farm
products for purposes other than food.
Farm production would need to be
doubled If agricultural alcohol re-
placed petrol as a motor fuel, the con-
ference concluded, and it would open
up a new farm income of £50005, -
000 a year, It was said that no un-
solved technical problems stood In the
way “although Important Improve.
ments in processes can confidently be
expected.”
It was only a few days later when
4,000 farmers, mostly from the South,
marched (for the larger part in rail
road trains and automobiles) in a pil
grimage to Washington, to express
their thanks personally to the Presi
dent and the AAA for what the admin-
istration is trying to do for them.
Thinking they smelled a rat, opponents
of the New Deal, on the floor of the
senate and elsewhere, openly charged
that the “marchers” were hand-picked
by the AAA officials for a stunt to
arouse public sympathy for the pro-
gram, and that the farmers’ traveling
expenses were pald by the govern.
ment, :
At any rate the 4,000 farmers cheered |
the President wildly when hé de
nounced to them the “liars” who eritl- |
cized the operations of the AAA, They |
expressed themselves to 8 man as be |
ing heartily in favor of the proposed |
AAA amendments, some of which even |
propose to make it necessary for every |
manufacturer, wholesaler and retaller
of food products to obtain a license
from the Department of Agriculture.
Such amendments would put In the |
hands of that department the pre
scribing of rules governing business
practices, advertising and the general
regulation of the manufacturers’ and |
merchants’ business, They alm at con-
trol of every step In the process of dis.
tribution of food, Including the adver.
tising—under Tugwell, who has de
clared advertising to be “an economic
waste.”
There are 110000 food manufactur.
ers, 62,500 wholesale and 911,000 retsll
dealers In food products who, no mat-
ter how small and insignificant they
might be, would be subject to penal.
ties of from $50 to $500 a day for lo
lation of any rule made by the De.
partment of Agriculture,
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By GRANDMOTHER CLARK
This qulit dates back many gen-
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eral reasons why it is
“Wheel of Mystery.”
called
Each 18-inch
set together In
binations. Two
reversed color com
small blocks
two dark on light material
the 18-inch blocks are set
as {illustrated
dark wheels with
terial and light
colored material
from left to right in the
sembled quilt. The colors seem
reverse as the eye {ravels across,
When the
When
together,
will
colored
with
the
above, you
light
wheels
Count
dark
circles
making quiit use
to get the proper effect
will make a quilt 81x00 Inches.
This Is one of the 33
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BLACK WALNUTS
EXCELLENT CROP
IN DROUTH AREA
One neglected tree which offers
possibilities not only of a sure finan.
elal return, but an excellent solution
of drouth conditions is the black wal-
nut,
This type of tree roots deeper
than most and because of its habit
of sending its roots far down into
the lower soll can maintain its life
and produce its crops when all the
surface crops around it fail
Heavy yields of walnuts were re
ported last fall from practically the
whole commercial range of the tree,
from Pennsylvania to Arkansas, says
the Chicago Tribune, One dealer in
walnuis in western
each season. Two years ago he pur
of easily last year, when the walnut
crop was short,
well stored in cellars,
Commercial eracking
in many
farmer,
ot 11 ad
established
The
parts
careful eracking and
14 pounds of kernels
from 100
The Industrial plants using
net about ten pounds.
may be obtained
of nuts,
pounds
Food snd confection concerns con
sider black walnut
and some place single or
Farmers and state forestry depart-
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and large numbers of nursery raised
seedlings last year, especially in the
Ohlo valley states. A dual purpose
tree, the black walnut Is a favorite
for farm planting over a wide range.
Once plentiful in the hardwood for-
ests, walnut was used prodigally for
fencing, fuel and building. Later de-
mands for gun and furniture stock
further depleted the supply. Forte
nately the walnut tree is a fairly
rapid grower, and excellent for farm
forestry purposes. Foresters are urg-
ing more extensive plantings of both
nuts and seedlings where remaining
old trees indicate the walnut will
thrive,
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