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Show LABOR SHORTAGE HELD INJURIOUS TO CROPS NKW YORK, Sept. 11. Shortage of( labor In the agricultural states Is re-lUlUng re-lUlUng In a reduction of acreage which! threatens America's food supply, ac-1 oordlng to the findings of Perley F. Walker, dean of the Kansas University Engineering school, made public today, at national headquarti r of the Amerl-! can Society of National Engineers Tho dean is head of a research com-mltteo com-mltteo of the mid-continent section of thjt society. I n an Walker round population at a stundstlll or declining In agricultural seotlons, pointing out that 16 of the, 105 counties In Kansas prevented that state from decreasing In population in i decade, the Increases all being In industrial sections "The same thing, holds good in Iowa and doubtless in other states for the same period.'' the dean reported Many farmers cannot pa their 1919 debts because the railroads are unable j to move their wheat harvest, and they, are paring down production, he said.1 As a remedy. Dean Walker suggest-, ed a Study by engineer;! of the econ-' omlcs of transportation and produe-! tlon with a Mew to systematizing a national fitting of enterprises to lo-Calltles lo-Calltles Thlw, he though!, would work out better distribution of population popu-lation where needed and would prevent pre-vent continued Inability of th.- transportation trans-portation systems to meet the demands de-mands upon them. |