Roosevelt Standard | 1947-12-18 | Page 3 | Congressman Sees Interest in Soil

Congressman Sees Interest In Soil Farmers and business men are more interested in soil conservation conser-vation than any other aspects of a long term agricultural program for the United States, according to Rep. Walter K. Granger .He as a member of the Houie Com-mittee Com-mittee on agriculture, has been iocalTt?eit0 teslimony ta seval This interest in saving the soil is not surprising taking into account ac-count the rather gravi government govern-ment reports lately about decltee nWn reservs of many important im-portant resources. Oil wells and mines peter out. Zlyi customed ourselves to acknowledging this fact. But we .know that our soil can be preserved pre-served by the right kind of management. man-agement. The enlightened attitude which Congressman Granger encountered encoun-tered among the committee's witnesses springs from the realization real-ization that if nothing can be done about the depletion of some resources that is all the more reason why every saving and nourishing device should be applied ap-plied to the resource soil that can be restored, saved or built up. I Americans rapidly are swing, ing to a point of view that it ia not enough to encourage owners of land to improve the soil. Our national soil policy must move in the direction of preventing land owners from abusing the soil.