Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1937, Page 7

SUUND LAND PLIN OCCUPES WALLACE Rational Policy of Conser- vation Vital to Welfare, He Declares. BY BLAIR BOLLES. America’s agricultural policy dur- ing 1936 emphasized the land and not the tiller of the land. The Supreme Court at the beginning of the year turned the Government from Iiis course of stressing market returns for the farmer. The death of the adjustment act opened the way for the development of a new agricultural philosophy, long-range and based upon conserving the fertile soil and reinvigorating the depleted, so that it might produce for centuries to come. “It is coming to be generally rec- ognized that the corner stone of a sound national economy is a rational land policy.” Secretary of Agriculture Wallace remarked of the development of this outlook—not new, but new in its importance—toward agriculture. “The droughts of recent years, with the resulting soil blowing and dust storms, have focused attention on the need of long-time land use planning. Forest devastation, the progress of #oil erosion by water, the wide extent of farming on submarginal land, the zrowing sericusness of tenure problems in many areas and the prevalence of destructive cropping and overgrazing Are & few of the problems which be- token the want of a co-ordinated land policy.” 1‘ The most. vigorous proponent. of this | settlement Administration, now about to be absorbed into the Department of Agriculture after a 19-month ex- istence as an independent agency under direction of Rexford Guy Tug- well, who at the same time was Undersecretary of Agriculture. Long before the closing months of 1936 R. A. announced that it had bought 9,500,000 acres of land across the United States, an ares almost the size of Maryland, to be developed for future generations. And the chief figure in Resettle- ment’s land-planning program was Dr. L. C. Gray, who for years was a noted agricultural economist in the Agriculture Department, but who blossomed as a man of great impor- tance when Tugwell borrowed him to supervise the job of buying a large slice of America. “The Resettlement Administration has begun to acquire poor farm lands and to promote their development for other uses,” Wallace said in expla- nation of the R. A. program, which henceforth will be in his province. “It has also aided farm people in some areas to find better locations. Approximately $38,000,000 already has been allotted for the conservational development of these lands, and the undertaking gave employment to as many as 55,000 relief workers.” R. A’s land is divided into 207 projects. The acres were bought after considerable study of their fu- ture possibilities and the needs of the families occupying them before they came into the possession of the Fed- eral Government. The usual pro- cedure has been for Resettlement to find new homes for the inhabitants of these unfertile acres and then to turn the land over to a developing agency. The National Park Service of the Interior Department, for instance, is developing 46 of the 207 projects for recreational purposes, 32 of them are under control of the Bureau of Bio- THE EVENING STAR, L“’ASHINGTON, D. C, AFIiIDAY. JANUARY 1, 1937. protective areas for migratory water- fowl. The Indian Bureau took over 31 projects to provide more land for the Red Men. Sponsered 96 Projects. “The Resettlement Administration has sponsored 96 projects primarily of an agricultural character, though some of them include recreation, wild life and forestry aspects,” Wallace recounted during his observations on the course of agriculture in 1936. R. A, also approved 97 projects com= prising 730,000 acres and contemplat- ing construction of homee for 13,258 families. This activity pro.ided the agency with its title of resettiement, for the occupants of this land would first be transferred from other land, or resettled. ‘The great asignificance of land waste and consequent erosion was ex- plained by Wallace, who remarked: “Mistaken land use practices in the United States have caused the ruin by erosion of some 50,000,000 “acres and seriously damaged 50,000,000 acres more. Much additional land is in danger. Soil erosion injuries not mere- ly the owners or the occupants of the eroded land and their immediate neighbors; its harmful consequences extend through whole watersheds and throughout the country. “Erosion dissipates fertile soil in dust storms, piles up soil on lower slopes, covers rich bottom land with poor subsoil, destroys food and cover for wildlife and increases flood haze ards. It causes the silling and the sedimentation of stream channels, reservoirs, dams, ditches and harbors, and damages roads, railways, irriga- tion works, power plants and public water supplies. It is a public as well 8s a private liability, and it can be dealt with effectively only by co- operative effort.” The problem cannot be answered by the Federal Government alone, sald Wallace. Good soll care on one Store Closed All Day Today—Re- opens Saturday From 9:15 to 6. ‘ Lansburely SEVENTH, EIGHTH ond E STREETS $ DISTRICT 7575 s Lanshropk farm can be offset by poor care on tand-preservation policy was the Re- | logical Survey, which uses them as|the neighboring farm. 225 d*35 SIrr REDUCED TO ¢ Every suit from our regular stock, bearing the Lanshrook label! Wool prices are up. Similar suits will undoubtedly sell for more in regular season! NO MAIL OR PHONE ORDERS! 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