Evening star., 1936-07-28
LONGTIME RELIEF
|. PROGRAM IS SEEN
TugWeIl Says Drought Fam
lilies Will Need Help
for Year.

The Federal Government todav
faced Q full year Of granting relief
and making loans In the dry lands of
the drought area.
Back from a swing through the
sun-baked States, Resettlement Ad-
ministrator Tugwell estimated that
perhaps 10000 Northwestern farm
families will need the longtime
relief.
His statement, made at press con-
ference, conceded with an announce
ment that an additional SB27,o00 in
direct loans and grants had been ap-
portioned to distressed farmers in
eight States.
Tugwell listed the resettlement pro-
gram as next in importance, declaring
that some opposition had developed
among business men in the area who
feared the neighborhood purchasing
power would be endangered by thin
ming out the rural population.
"Small-town business men who have
not suffered personally, as have the
farmers, are more optimistic and are
opposed to anything that would tend
to thin out the neighboring rural pop
ulation," he explained.
Some Evacuate Voluntarily.
Tugwell added that, while some
farmers voluntarily were evacuating
and others were seeking advisory and
financial assistance from the Reset
tlement Administration, the more def
mite policy of resettlement awaited
recommendations of the Presidents
Great Plains Drought Area Planning
Committee.
He forecast that the cattle business
would continue where it has -four
ished in the past and said the admin
istration policy was to keep as many
persons as possible on their farms.
During the day the Governments
Crop Reporting Board announced a
sharp drop caused by drought in the
prospective crop Of green peas for
manufacture.
1t estimated a crop Of 1877 tons,
compared with 26Sl20 tons last year
and five-year average of 1s2,070 and
a pack Of about 1900, 900 cases, COM
pared with 24,69s,OOo last year.
Nebraska Is Aided.
Meanwhile. Nebraska was added to
the ofllcially designated drought States
by the Department Of Agriculture. 1t
included of the States counties
among 81 in 6 States added 10 the
list Of emergency drought counties.
The department also named 2f ad-
ditional Kentucky counties, Is in Min
nesota, in Montana and l each in
Missouri and Wyoming. bringing the
national total to GOT counties in II
States.
The A. A, A. Cattle Committee re-
ported that live stock prices in the
principal markets held up well enough
throughout the day to make Mondays
contemplated cattle purchases unnec-
essary. Thus far no Government cat
tie purchases have been made. al
though the machinery has been ready
for more than a month.
Tugwell said one OF the favorable
factors in the Northwest drought Hliet
program was the early evacuation of
foundation herds to pastures and feed
lots.
Cattle have been moving out in
good numbers" he said, and the live
stock numbers left are in satisfactory
physical shape. No cattle are dying OF
hunger and thirst as they did in 1894
1T is our purpose so far as possible
to preserve the cattle business where it
has flourished in the past, and to keep
as many persons as possible on their
farms
1T seems possible to keep large num-
bers on their own property unless 1t de-
veiops that the drought has nit that
country permanently rather than in &
cycle"
Tugwell said resettlement plans
would depend in part on how badly the
soil blows during the Winter.