Show IN SYMPATHY WITH CONGRESS Governor Hoch of Kansas Heartily Endorses Move Movement Movement Movement ment for Dry Farming WEST NEEDS MORE PEOPLE SENDS ENCOURAGING WORD FROM TOPEKA President Fisher Harris of the th Dry Farming congress yesterday received rece ved a aletter aletter aletter letter from Governor E W V Hoch of Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas expressing his regret at being unable to attend session of the con congress congress gress gross to be held in Salt Lake Jan 22 2 to 26 and expressing briefly his Ills sentiments relative to the promotion of dry farming as a means of reclaiming the arid acres of the west The letter follows I 1 have convened the Kansas legislature in extraordinary session and will be over overwhelmed overwhelmed whelmed with official matters in this con connection connection when your great congress assem assembles asse bleB bIos on the U of this month It will be impossible therefore for me to attend as asI a aI I must deny myself this great privilege and pleasure for or the reasons rea ns stated nut hut ButI I beg to express myself ms lf to you ou and through you Ou to the gr jat at body bod over which you ou will preside my profound interest in inthe inthe the important work the congress will meet tg consider and foster A line Une draWn dran north and south across a map of the United States through St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis for instance will reveal the fact that about of the time territory of this country lies east of that line tine while an investigation tion will also reveal the fact that of the present population of this country lies Ues east of that line That ThatIs Is to say sa of the territory but only of the population of the I country countr lie He west of a line drawn north and south through the city of St Louis It is conservatively estimated that the population of this forty years I from now will be and that In Inless Inless inless less than years it will be This additional population must largely find homes west of the line described Finding homes they must find subsist subsistence subsistence subsistence ence Scientific farming must largely solve this problem for all of 01 the arid and amI semiarid territory in this country countr is west of the line described These simple facts should suggest the great field of opera operation operation operation tion with which your Our congress will wilt have to do and suggest the great problem which It will be Its business to help solve Surely such an undertaking Is worthy of the best thought and best effort of the intelligent thoughtful and determine men who will constitute the second s cond session of the Dry Farming con congress congress congress gress gressI I send you greeting The western I fourth of my own state is vitally Interest Interested ed in this great project The Almighty never made a more wonderful land or a aricher aricher aricher richer soil and I have haV always contended contend d that he makes no mistakes that the tho need needed needed needed ed elements would sometime be had to tomake tomake tomake make this timis part of our state tate like similar lands elsewhere sometime me blossom as the theto therose rose roge to e Dry farming will help mightily Regretting more than I can tell you my Inability to attend personally personal believe me when I say saw that my heart will be with you and that r t look for large results from the deliberations of ot the congress |