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1932 › Herbert Hoover (Republican) › Planned use of land and retirement of marginal farmland
Support a sound program to divert land from unprofitable to profitable use
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Solution
Back the USDA land-use conference program and the Republican platform plank to reorganize agriculture so poor lands are withdrawn from cultivation.
Rationale
Cultivation of lands 'the chief return on which is the poverty and misery of those who live upon them' should end.
Statements (2)
The national welfare plainly can be served by the acquisition of submarginal lands for watershed protection, grazing, forestry, public parks and game preserves. We favor such acquisition.
The broad objective of such a program is to promote the reorganization of agriculture so as to divert lands from unprofitable to Profitable use and to avoid the cultivation of lands the chief return on which is the poverty and misery of those who live upon them. The Republican platform contains a plank which constitutes the first declaration upon that subject. I shall be happy to support any sound program.
Follow-through
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Hoover lost the election; the pledge could not be tested in office. Submarginal land purchase and soil conservation became New Deal policy (Resettlement Administration; Soil Conservation Service; 1936 act).
Enacted by others
| 1936-03-01 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | statute Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act | source |
Other positions on this issue
- A national policy of planned land use — economic soil survey and retirement of marginal farmland — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 specific_pledge
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