BIG PROGRAMME

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 12

BIG PROGRAMME

PREVENTING EROSION

AMERICAN DROUGHT

MONEY ALLOCATED

(Received July 15, 2.30 pjn.)

WASHINGTON, July 14.

President Roosevelt has allocated 300,000,000 dollars to the.Works Progress Administration to continue the nation-wide programme for curbing soil erosion by afforestation and flood control. Allocations will be made to twenty-pine States beside the twelve officially' designated drought States.

The Works Progress Administrator, Mr. Hopkins, issued a statement that the W.P.A: is interested in'long-ranga and not emergency drought relief. "We are confronted with a chronic or recurrent tragedy," he said. I . . .

Mr. Hopkins said that the W.P.A. relief measures included fifty dams, in South Dakota, an artificial lake twenty miles long in Minnesota, and small dams, reservoirs, and _. wells in 'Wyoming. ''.''•

■ Today, for the first time in any recent drought, the Government moved sheep in Dakota. ... ;