Show rebuilding 17 b rural america ga WF Y W 4 t above drouth leads to cattle slaughter in the west below left to right henry ford M L wilson and R G tugwell by WILLIAM C UTLEY OVING day Is fast approach M MOVING ing for hundreds of thousands of america americas s most destitute farmers ance s nee prescient pres dent roosevelt de dared his intention of rebuild ng il america and moving moning poverty stricken families into new homes where they may have a considerably better chance to make a living and ali d the moving bills will be paid out of mr roosevelt s 4 work re I 1 ef allotment and the boss foreman ot of the movers will be rexford guy tugwell under secretary of agrical ture and pride of columbia university who s he can lift pianos easier than the farmers can lift mortgages for the eight main types of relief work to be done there are some CO 60 federal departments and divisions al at ready existing to administer the funds and three enair entirely ely new divisions are being created the one which deals with the retracing of the agricultural map of the united states under tug well is the rural resettlement thyl division sion the recent exodus of farm families of the north central states of alaski there to begin life anew with the slate wiped clean was only a curtain raiser to the main bout against rural poverty and privation which mr air tuam tugwell ell an I 1 his forces will conduct single farm famil es who have coa con ducted something of an isolated battle against overbearing odds of depres slon drouth and poor land will be moved into new and better lands and given a fresh start at doctor tug wells well s discretion cy by the same token whole area groups 0 of f farm fam hies illes who have haie collectively and in many aises I 1 bitten the dust will be gathered into doctor tugwell s moving an and rolled away to new homes where the land and the life will give them something more closely re dembling sem bling an even break pale and under underweight communities suffering from economic pip pit in their industrial section may be mo moved moed ed to where change of climate and a few honest dollars will revive them if they cant be moved new and healthy industrial sections will be grafted no double meaning intended perish the thought 1 into them break for slum dwellers cit bitens bens who hive found the going a little bit too tough in the slum sec see tion s of the larger cities will be moved 20 or 30 miles out in the suburban semi rural territories given small plots of land on which to raise three squares a day and found factory jobs where the hours are short and the re munera ion adequate officially known as the resettle ment administration doctor Tug tugwell wells s division has been allotted 10 by the president for administrative expenses what further funds are necessary for each authorized project will be allotted at a later date president roosevelt himself out lined the purposes of the resettlement by dividing them into three brackets first to administer approved projects involving resettlement of destitute or low income families from rural and urban areas including the establishment maintenance and opera tion in such connection of commune ties in rural and suburban areas second to initiate and administer tei a program of approved projects with respect to soil erosion stream pollution seacoast erosion reforestation foresta tion and flood control third to make loans as author iced under the emergency relief ampro pria privation tion act of 1935 to finance in whole or in part the purchase of farm lands and necessary equipment by farmers farm tenants croppers or farm laborers in carrying out these threefold pur poses mr air tugwell was authorized by Prez president ident roosevelt poosevelt to acquire in the nime of the united states govern ment merit any real property which he deems necess ly in the resettlement ad ro ra n sn sti tion ire incorporated the en tire personnel and funds of the land program of the federal emergency ency re lief ilef administration this land program has already been extended into 25 of the states and includes in its opera eions the movement of farmers and their families to the al Ala atanus ka valley of alaska never tried before no projects such as these have been carried out by any other nations ac cording cordin to at 1 L wilson assistant sec detary of agriculture this only nation wide planning with the conscious idea of removing land too poor to farm from froin cultivation la being done in the united states he asserted commenting on the resettlement pr an gram he said that there are irately lina tely I 1 alt alf a million farm families famil leb who are unable to produce anything to be exchanged their homes which often average three persons to a room are on tie t ie poorest grade of ginal land the land must be shifted to better uses it has been trad tion in this country to get land into ownership but the land on which families are fall ing because of its poorness Is partly cut over timber land areas in the semi arid plains land whose surface soil has been washed away by erosion etc it Is largely land which Is not adapted to private ownership it Is breaking its private owners the thin thing to do Is to bring it back into the hands of the government fhe the sol Is the gradual transfer of people on it to what we have been calling rural industrial communities assistant secretary wilson esti mated that three fifths of the people on this kind of land have some idea in mind concerning what they would like to do about it and have a little money with which they might carry out their plans the other two fifths will re quire assist assistance arice from the resettlement administration some families will be moved to better land mr mir wilson explained A richer farm may be cut up into smaller tracts for instance a acre farm may be divided into 32 ten acre farms such a move will be made only where it will not particularly in crease agricultural production for sale then well we 11 try to get an ind astry located thereabouts the people who have been relocated will find employ ment and will earn wages the gov will sell them land and houses we can let them put their common labor in on the building of the houses farmers have their option they make their own decisions whether to stay or go new kind of cornmon ty mr wilson even went so far as to say that there must be a great deal of 0 shifting of population to maintain the democracy adding that considerable economic planning would be required he said that a new kind of corn the like of which this nation has not had will be created they will furnish a life abin akin to that of european villages where they raise their own food and work for wages he declared it Is a new type of industrial setup in which industry to quite an extent Is decentralized mr wilson said that the economic system was developing more leisure time and that some constructive use of it must be devised or we will de generate there are spiritual and ethical val ues aes which come from contact with the soil he said I 1 don t believe you can find anything to which everybody Is adapted save gardening and flowers practically everybody Is interested in growing things there Is value in this process of raising a garden yol a produce something used by the fir family mily it if we develop in this direction all the workers can be absorbed into indus try at a five or six hour day this Is not socialism it goes coun ter to a great many elements of social ism most of the working people would own their own homes and plots of land in the readjustment outlined 4 As it develops de dei and becomes aldel known it will become very iery important in the program of the libbril liben element elements of society 1 about acres of 0 poor land were recommended for retirement by the national reg resources board last winter the inhabitants of this land were said to be character I 1 iced by incredibly low standards 0 kofl lial living resettlement Is hardly the answerl answer to the nations nation s farm farra problem in th the opinion of the delegates industry to th ahw conference of agriculture industry f and science which met at dearborn mich to honor henry ford for his to chem chemurgic urgle farming and to sign a of depend i ence upon the soil i principal speaker in the conclave in ln the town that glenry ford built was wasl lou louis Is J taber master of the national il grange who urged farmers to grow every plant and every product that can be grown tn in the united states lie said the american farmer hopes this conference will set in motion in fluentes fluen ces that will do more for rura rural I 1 life than the politician has ever bee been 1 able to accomplish chemurgic Chem urgle farm ng what nihat the conference sponsored by checkal foundation su suggested eg ested as th the remedy was of course chemurgic farming this would shorten the distance between production and tion by having 0 the farmer once more assume more of the elemental services and processes and claims thail that chemistry will drive man back to the them farm just as the machine age took him from it chemurgic farmers would bend much of their efforts effort sr to raising farm products tor for purposes other than food farm production would need to be doubled it if agricultural alcohol re rei i placed petrol as a motor fuel the conj con j ference concluded and it would open up a new farm income of 5 a year it was said that no unsolved technical problems stood in the way although important improve ments in processes can confidently be expected it was only a few days later when farmers mostly from the south marched for the larger part in rail rall road trains and automobiles in a pit grimage to washington to express their than s personally to the dent and the AAA for what the admin I 1 Is trying to do for them f I 1 thinking they smelled a rat opponents opponent sl of the new deal on the floor of the senate and elsewhere openly charged that the marchers were mere hand picked by the AAA officials for a stunt tol to arouse public sympathy for the program and that the farmers trave traveling lingi expenses were paid by the govern j ment at any rate the 4 farmers cheered the president wildly when he denounced to them the liars who critt cited the operations of the AAA they expressed themselves to a man as ks be ing heartily in f favor avor of the p proposed prop uSed AAA amendments some of propose to make male it necessary for averyt manufacturer wholesaler and retailer of food products to obtain a license from the department of agriculture such amendments would put in the i hands of that department the pre scribing of rules governing business practices advertising and the general regulation of the manufacturers aal and merchants business they aim at con trot of every step in the process of dis trib ution of food including the adver using under tugwell who has declared advertis advertising liag to be an economic waste there are food manufacture ers 62 wholesale and oil retail dealers in food products who no mat ter how small and insignificant they might be would be subject to penal ties of from 50 to a day for violation of any tiny role rule made by the department part ment of agriculture i a 0 western newspaper Newe paper union A |