Two big dust bowls have formed in the United States, one on its northern border in North and South Dakota, another to the south in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. The Tands may be saved if soil conserva: tion work and. intelligent farming are helped by a succession of rainy years but many families will con Uinue to live on the border-line of poverty. As many as can be helped, and are willing to be helped, will be aided In settling elsewhere.
What effect will the drought have fon the elections? Will the farmer, grateful for the aid which the Roosevelt administration has given him, vole for the President. Or will he, as he looks at his wasted crops, turn against a government which preached the need of crop reduction. Will he feel that perhaps the plagues which have beset him were due to Divine anger at the efforts of man to curb the processes of nature? The farmer is often a religious fundamentalist and this viewpoint is widely adopted.
'A great deal will depend upon whether or not the farmer who is not fon relief has as much income as usual, If he has, then the Democratic party may keep his votes. The De-
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