Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1937 — Page 13

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Roosevelt's Tenancy Text

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Ww ASHIN VGTON, TFeb The text of President Roose velt's i to Congress of farm tenancy follows: To the Congress the United States: I transmit formation of port of the Farm Tenanc) The facts presented in this report reveal a grave problem of great magnitude and complexity. The American dream of the fam-ilv-size farm, owned by the family which operates it, has become more and more remote. The agricultural on which an energetic young in might ascend irom hired man to tenant to independent owner, is ne longer serving its purpose. Half a century ago one of every four farmers was a tenant. Today, two of every five are tenants, and on some our best farm lands seven of every 10 farmers are tenants. All told, they operate land ahd buildings valued at $11,000,000.000 Fer the past 10 years, the number of new tenants every year has heen about 40.000. Many tenants change farms every two or three years and apparently one out of three change farms every year. The agricultural ladder, for these American citizens, has become a treadmill. At the family-size ping down. commonly conside insecure as owner-operator's

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‘ACTION IS IMPERATIVE’

When nalf the total farm population of the United States no longer can feel secure, when millions of our people have lost their in the soil, action to provide is imperative, and will be lv approved. problem of such magnitude is ved overnight, nor by any one ach, nor by the Fednment alone. While agvated by the depression, the roblem is the accumulated yenerations of unthinking

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enants. 12 with the problem of rerural people during the lepression, we have already lated information and experience which will be of ng-time program. to start the permanent program on a scale commensurate with our sources arsl experience, with purpose of later expanding the progr to a scale commensurate with magnitude of experience ill permit.

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gin the upward climb toward land ownership: Third—The retirement by public | agencies of land proved to be unsuited for farming, and assistance living thereon in|

finding homes on good land;

CO-OPERATION EMPHASIZED

Fourth—Co-operation with state and local agencies of Government to improve the general leasing system. These activities which bear such close relation to each other should furnish a sound basis for the beginning of a program for improving the present intolerable condition of the lowest income farm families. The committee has properly emphasized the importance of health and education in any long-time program for correcting the evils from which this large section of our population suffers. Attention is also called to the part which land speculation has played in bringing insecurity into the lives of rural families, and to the necessity for eliminating sharp fluctuations in land value due to speculative activity in farm lands. The attack on the problem of farm tenancy and farm security is a logical continuation of the agricultural program this Administration has been developing since

Pi ‘ogram the Congress devises will have to be closely integrated with existing activities for maintaining farm income and for conserving and improving our agricultural resources. Obviously action by the states alone and independently cannot cure the widespread ill. A nationwide program under Federal leadership and with the assistance of states, counties, communities and individuals is the only solution. Most Americans believe that our form of Government does not prohibit action on behalf of those who need help. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The White House, February 16, 1937.

TCC OFFICIAL Is DEAD WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—George Banks McGinty, Interstate Commerce Commission secretary since 1913, died at his home here today of pneumonia.

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emphasizes the on of at least four types: Action hip tenants who now ability and exbut who can become own€rs with the assistance of liberal credit, on long terms, and technical advice; Second—Modest loans, with the necessary guidance and education io prevent small owners from slipping into tenancy, and te help the masses of tenants, croppers and farm laborers at the very bottom of the agricultural ladder increase their standards of living, achieve greater security and be~

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Agree to Extend Free Hauling

Of Red Cross Supplies Until Feb. 28.

Railroads hauling donated flood relief supplies for the Red Cross | into the flood area agreed today to continue free service until Feb. 28, it was announced by Newell J.| Ward, Red Cross traffic official here. | Mr. Ward was loaned to the Red | Cross for the emergency by the Pennsylvania Raliroad. The lines signing the agreement were the Pennsylvania, Big Four, | B. & O., Nickel Plate, Erie, Illinois | Central, C. & E. 1., Missouri Pacific, | Indiana Railroad and the Indian- | apolis Belt Railroad. { Mr. Ward said that up to yester- | day, 161 carloads of donated supplies had been received by the Red | Cross in Indianapolis. Thirty-seven | cars were loaded here with supplies

| collected in the city March 4, 1933. Necessarily, whatever !

24 Cars Here Now

One hundred twelve cars have been shipped out of Indianapolis to | the south, he said. Approximately | 24 cars are in Indianapolis now, | and 30 are being unloaded and | sorted. The cars contained mostly cloth- | ing. he said, but there are now five | cars of canned foods, smoked meats, | potatoes and other foods in Indian- | apolis, to be dispatched when calls | for provisions come. J. J. Liddy, Belt Railroad superin- | tendent, and co-ordinators for shippers in the emergency, carried out | the work with a minimum of confu- | ‘Ward said.

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