Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-12
President Decides to Remain
Here to Personally Direct
Relief in Stricken Area.
LIGHT RAINS FORECAST
IN PART OF DRY BELT
White House Greatly Concerned
Over Unemployment, Stock Feed
and z Per Cent Crop Drop.

President Hoover has definitely
abandoned his contemplated Summer
vacation trip to the national parks Ia
the Rocky Mountain regions so as to
be on hand to personally direct the
Governments activities in planning
and administering relief in the drought
stricken areas.
In making this announcement at the
White House today the President said
he thought he could be of more service
in Washington than on a vacation IN
the Far West. He said also he expects
to spend three or four nights a week
at his fishing camp in the Virginia
mountains. This camp Is equipped
with direct telephone and telegraph
wires to the White House and his
operations can be carried on in the cool
and comfort of that mountain retreat
as handily as though he was at his
desk in the White House.
May Visit Rapidan.
Mr.. Hoover added that If the weather
in Washington remained cool, 1t was
quite likely that he would even shorten
his weekly visits to the Virginia noun
tains. He made 1t evident that he
wanted to be In as close touch as posi-
BILE with this emergency. While he does
not look upon it as bordering on any.
hing resembling National catastrophe,
he is conscious of its seriousness and
has reason to be concerned.
The indications are at present that
the principal damage has been done
to food for live stock and the scarcity
of water has had q telling effect on
farm animals, but at the same time
the human problem Is coming into EVIL
dence principally in the form of I'm.
employment on the part Of persons liv-
ing on farms in the affected regions
Thousands of the people have lost
their livelihood because of destroyed
crops and loss of live stock, and one Of
the important factors in the relief pro-
gram being outlined by the President
is to arrange for the caring of these
| unfortunate persons, not only for the
present, bat SO as TO carry them through
| the coming Winter months.
Maps Conference Program.
Mr.. Hoover today continued with the
task OF formulating his plans for util.
izing all OF the agencies of the Federal
Government in extending aid where it
Is needed. He said that his program
will not take definite form until after
with the Governors of the IL States
affected by the drought. He will first
want their views and advices before
putting his plan for relief organiza.
ton into final form.
Also he wants more information
from the stricken areas. This is reach
ing him every day now in the form Of
detailed reports from the more than
700 county agents of the Department
of Agriculture in the drought areas.
These reports are first received by Sec
rotary of Agriculture Hyde and when
presented to the President they are &C
companied by expert analyses as well
as charts, so as to make the Presidents
INSTALLATION of the situation easier.
Studies Crop Report.
The President said today that he att
tached considerable significance to the
crop report made public at the Agri-
culture Department yesterday for July,
which showed per cent slump dur
ing that period, which was attributed to
large extent to the protracted dry
weather
The President was represented as
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