Show cry of laissez faire hears an echo from Secret secretary arv wallace T ET us alone the outcry L L of some of the more individualistic vi dualistic business men against what they deem to be too much government activity and their passionate declarations that natural processes will restore prosperity find sn an unexpected echo in the annual report of secretary of agriculture wallace only secretary wallace Is talking of a natural wisdom more ancient than that of any business man ann or indeed of any man nature left to her own devices may create more wealth for men than man himself could create in the same areas in agriculture of other occupations he offers whenever man takes plow ax or grazing livestock he inevitably upsets the biological balance of the wild lands he undertakes to subjugate nature tolerates and even rewards his intrusion if pioneer man does not come as a lawbreaker if he does not expose steep slopes to erosion by plowing it if he leaves enough grassroots to hold the rangelands against the winds tha t would raise raging dust storms storm S if 11 he leaves mick mack swamps and lakes to tile the ducks and muskrats but let him blin break a basic commandment ti greed or even in innocent ignorance and natural law inexorably sets the penalty pioneer americans who came to conquer a continent and their enterprising ter grandsons who remained to create land booms alike demanded for agriculture the things that belonged belong rl to nature they cut too clean grazed too close drained too dry erosion ore drouth inevitably followed saw logs 1019 cattle and big crops paid high for a time took equally high fines thereafter |