Show ARE ABE SETTLERS DRIVEN DRI VE VEN INTO Secretary of Interior Work Voik Suggests Federal Reclamation n is Doln Doing Harm I H ll Uc quests Becoming c Habit If federal reclamation reclamation is ia driving settlers Into bankruptcy and closing banks which have b been en making loans to 10 reclamation nation farmers Secretary Sec See Work Woric suggests that It is time timeo timeto to o call a hal halt halon on nl building ul new projects pro pro- Je ts in states where this ibis condition prevails at le least t. t until until agriculture agriculture c revives Especially is 19 a hai latt advisable advis advis- advisable a able le the secretary points out ont where new lW projects are to cost two nail and three times as much as 55 the old old- old ones Secretary Work Vor believes be eves that thi a agricultural rl d depression of recent a s undoubtedly has done much to interrupt to to the tIle gOVer govern govern- dent clent but but- says says ys that fact does not noti i make nake tho the of oC payment payment less leEs serious On some projects h he poli points tc out ont there ro are settlers who have made macic no payments for far five or six years Tears and with with's such uchi ch individuals requests for postponement of or payments payments' arc are ber be be- r a habit Will Consider Requests Once again the secretary states his desire t to tb give lve sympathetic c consideration conS con con- S to requests for relief when made by individuals who are are on oil the time land struggling g to hold their farms arms and nd have suffered hardship but when a request comes for T relie lle to all on a project we know mow that w co grant it means means that ft U will relieve I Ithe the consistent delinquent who is often often orf of or- f ten in a position to pay if he desires I II to do tie so and is an injustice to the I struggling settler who has lias met his his' obligations to the government at rot gnat personal sacrifice Secretary Work York declares more att attention at at- t will wIn be tie given to cIer c in iu the time future than in the past palt nd I that sound business prin principles i leg will ivill willbe be bc applied Requests for are oft n slated stated in such forai forsi i they imply that the building of or a mation project has boen boon their undoing undo ing lug and the debts incurred in its Ifs con con- an l peral oil 1 h bt teen n the cause c of cf such financial conditions that instead of developing the country country coun cotta try these projects have imposed Impose burdens that settlers cannot carry I If this is the outcome o of the time reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- policy it H a matter for serious consideration whether we should not postpone all new lle pro pro- or pr extensions of old ones one until agricultural conditions improve Secretary Work said sahi |