Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-08

and another to permit the State to
lend money to these parishes.
Hoover has accepted an invitation
of the Legislature to address botn
bodies at q joint session tomorrow
afternoon. BY that time he will have
completed a personal survey of much
of Louisiana's flood section and VIII
have a first hand picture Of condi-
lions in the affected parishes. 1t is
expected he will impress upon the
legislators at Baton Rouge the
necessity for tax relief and other
measures of assistance which the
State may be empowered to give its
subjects.
Would Extend Flood Loans.
Hoover intends to take steps to
so revise the purposes of the
emergency farm credit corporations,
set up after the flood but since rem
dered of little value by successive
rises in the river and its tributaries,
as TO extend these special flood loans
TO next years crops.
Under the original plan of operation
worked out by Hoover in conjunction
with the United States Chamber. of
Conrnerce, easy" loans were to be
made to flood victims for the planting
cession Of the April waters. The pro.
longed devastation initiated against
these corporations, however, with the
result that but little advantage could
be taken of the offer. 10
It is the, belief. thatawhen the Secre-
tary returns to Washington next week
he will confer with Chamber of Com
MERGE officials with view to having
the financiers of these corporations
agree to extension Of the loans on a
1928 crop basis.
One good crop next year will save
the valley, he contends. The farmers
will be able to repay all loans and set
themselves up a sizeable reserve fund,
withal, it is asserted. The most pro-
ductive part of the delta will lead
this year in production. The rich.
est part of the valley is the lowest
part, and its principal harvest this
Fall will be shouider-high weeds; other
sections, not so hard hit, will produce
10 to so per cent crop. it is esti.
mated.
Business Is Depressed.
The farm idleness has had a most
depressing effect on general business
conditions. Unemployment in Louisi.
ana has shown a vast increase over
today by Frank E. Wood, State COM
missioner Of labor. There are today
$4,000 persons unemployed in this
State, he said. Many Of these are
being rationed by the Red Cross, but
not all of them. There seems to be a
disposition in at least one or two
parishes, moreover, to endure the
situation as it is, and not endeavor to
find work or seek some means of livelf.
hood other than charity. This con:
dition was called to Hoover s attention
TODAY by Red Cross fed workers.
Some of the victims refused to plant
potatoes donated them by the Red
Cross, it was declared.
IF that is their attitude" Hoover
remarked, az think it's about time
something was done to change it,
These people must get occupations.
think the Red Cross should send case
workers into the community and at
tempt TO remedy this development by
personal contact"
The morale of the people in general
however. is remarkably high, under
the circumstances. The disposition on
the whole is TO accept gratefully any
advice offered and to cooperate to the
fullest extent in the working out OF
their own problems.
Most of Louisiana has at last come
out Of the tenacious grip of the food
water and the exact extent OF the re
covery will be investigated tomorrow
when the Hoover party visits all the
most affected places in the Evangeline
country, in Saint Landry and Saint
Martin Parishes.
The post-fiood emergency Is one call
ing for continuation Of the co-opera
ton already manifested in the South
taIH ,,aar,hnru ~ fhA Iaco
Rotary Club at their luncheon here
yesterday. If everybody works to
gether for a common victory over Tho
flood and its aftermath, the valley will
soon forget the flood of 1927 and bash
tn future nroSneritY he said.