4. Eliminate the use of land incapable
cf affording a minimum standard of living,
develop agricultural production on the most
suitable soils only, and aid in ratsing the
standards of living in many agricultural re
gions.
5. End the wasteful use of our mineral
resources and substitute a national policy
of mineral concervatlon.
(i. Make available large areas of land
for purposes of popular recreation.
7. Assemble basic data in regard to map
ping. public finance and population, neces
sary for national planning.
8. Avoid the extravagance caused by fail
ure to co-ordinate public works — Federal,
State, and local; bring about better pro
gramming of socially useful public works;
prepare public werks projects suitable, if
desired, for use in emergency situations.
9. Provide for continuous long-range
planning of land, water, and mlrioral re
sources in relation to 'each other and to the
larger background of the social and economic
life in which they are set.
Considering what, is to be accomplished, the1
cost does not seem unreasonable in a nation with
an income such as ours. Certainly it is more
onstiuctlve than a dole system, which appears as
.he alternative.
Planned Abundance.
i New York World-Telegram >
Secretary Wallace’s annual report points a course
for American agriculture into a future of “planned
abundance.”
Killing little pigs and plowing under cotton.,
though necessary in the recent past to wipe out
price-depressing surpluses, do not fit into the future
he describes.
He has no rigid program but a plan for a steaJ
i’y expanding production of "different commoditi.
in the proper amounts and proportions." Mr Wal
lace wants American farmers to produce anything
and everything that they can market profitably.
