Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12
News Behind the News
Permanent Planning Against Drought
Dry Land Farming FroUned On
Water Conservation Plans

cO1nlttpe,
Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke
will be to recommend a permanent land plan for
the drouth for the presidents presentation
to Congress.
Committee members privately agree that the
most important thing to be accomplished is
considerable reduction in dry land farming eS-
pecally in the Dakotas Montana, Wyoming
and other sections of the dust bowl"
The committee is practically certain to pro-
pose a large program of land acquisition by the
government which would retire millions of acres
from dry farming and turn it into grazing land
which would be opened to grazing associations
The next most important recommendation
probably will be for a program Of water conser-
walton, especially with respect to small streams
Congress would have to appropriate the
money Need created by the drouth has already
made it obvious that available relief funds of
WPA and the Resettement Administration can't
last beyond January at the most optimistic es-
innate.
The drouth has put Resettlement Admins
traitor Rex Tugwen very much back ON the map
after it had appeared that the RA was due for
extinction and it had been said that Tugwell
would be kept out of sight during the campaign.
The RA has become the backbone of the
drouth relief effort 1t is able to make grants
and loans to relieve rural distress, whereas WPA
can only provide work and has been unable to
so so quickly into action.
Also. more than 40 per cent of Resettlement's
9,5O00O0-acre submarginal land purchase pro-
gram is placed in the drouth area, which means
about S14,000,000 spent for land-moSt OF it
paid to families which want TO relocate.
The RA worked closely with state planning
boards, especially in the Dakotas, Montana, and
Wyoming, discovering the areas where there are
too many persons for the land to support.
The fumbling tactics of Liberty Leaguers and
the Al Smith Jim Reed -Brainbridge Colby Dem
ocrats continue to pass all understanding.
InaSmuch as Roosevelts worst enemies have
admitted ever since that the League banquet
featuring Smiths speech was of the worst
political bloomers pulled you might think
they'd watch their STEP
But now they let the call for convention
of Constitutional Democrats be sent out by
Sterling E. Edmunds, wealthy citizen of ST.
Louis. Edmunds is a leading spirit and big
shot in the National Committee for Protection
of Child, whatever else you might suppose it
to be, is a vehicle for fighting child labor egis-
lation
Edinunds is known to child welfare workers
as a tireless foe of the child labor amendment
What the Constitutional Democrats seem
to need most is brain trust.
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Mussolini should have little trouble
settling Ethiopia since he can always
exile political enemies.
Latest claims of Farley, Hamilton,
and Coughlin credit Uncle Sam with
something over 120 states.
A Michigan resort executive suggests
that, to attract tourists, residents keep
the state green. And resort men out
of the red.
It's a wonder that, this summer, poll
ticians haven't seen the possibility of
"cold standard"
Germany has placed ban on "The
Country Doctor" The attitude seems to
be that, if anything ails the country
DR.. Hitler will attend to it.
being destroyed and a terrorist organ
ization put in its place.
1t does not say, 1--WE must retain our
freedom 1t says, 1--WE must restore
our freedom"
All in all, it looks like the person who
wrote those articles is calling the wrong
group radical COmmunistic propagan-
da, dangerous as it is, will never be COM
batted by such methods-themselves as
radical as anything they can imagine.
Of course this newspaper has never
printed "neWs" like that!