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Show Nearly Two Million Aided By Government As Drouth Result WASHINGTON, July 25 (U.R) In the west where a coppery sun is shriveling almost every growing thing and water costs 50 cents a barrel, 1,600,000 people have turned turn-ed to the government for relief. ' They are receiving practically their entire support from the federal fed-eral emergency relief administration, administra-tion, which has spent 820,000,000 this month alone in efforts to combat com-bat the ravages of a drought such as this generation has not seen. Despite terrible crop losses, none need fear lamine experts say. In carrying out President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's edict that no American shall starve so long as the government has money, the administration is trying to give jobs to all those farmers whose fields have turned into miniature deserts and whose livestock has collapsed for lack of water.. . Official figures show 4 00,000 drought stricken families dependent depend-ent on relief funds. The great plains states, where wheat plants have dried up and blown away, and the midwest, where much corn is yellowed and little more than knee high, are the centers of the relief projects. Search for water, which has become be-come the 'most precious thing in the lives of millions, is the principal prin-cipal activity. Elsewhere in Wyoming. Colorado, Colo-rado, New Mexico and Montana, where many hotels refuse to let auests take baths and citizens dare not waste water on lawns, the administration ad-ministration is sinking hundreds of deep wells. |