Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde & Seedlings. In his acceptance speech Governor Roosevelt had specified reforestation as an "immediate means" of giving 1,000,000 men employment. Said he: "There are tens of millions of acres east of the Mississippi River alone in abandoned farms and cut-over land. . . . Economic foresight and immediate employment march hand in hand in the call for reforestation of these vast areas. . . . I'm doing it today in the State of New York and the Democratic party can do it successfully in the nation...
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde got President Hoover's permission to crack back at Nominee Roosevelt. Ridiculing the Democratic plan as "utterly visionary and chimerical," Secretary Hyde argued: "One man can plant about one acre or something near 1,000 trees a day. A million men, therefore, could plant 1,000,000,000 trees in a day. But all the nurseries in America do not possess 1,000,000,000 seedlings. They probably do not possess 200,000,000. But suppose there were 300,000,000 seedling trees available, 1,000,000 men could plant them in about three hours...
Juggling figures lightly, Secretary Hyde showed that, on the basis of the U. S. Forest Service, a million men could care for an area twelve times the size of the U. S. To acquire title to cut-over and abandoned land on any such scale would, he insisted, "disorganize counties, destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
Governor Roosevelt smilingly refused to answer Secretary Hyde. He would retort directly to no one but President Hoover. But through the Democratic National Committee, Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee declared: "Secretary Hyde understands more about politics than he does about agriculture. . . . 'Farmer' Hyde has an apparent idea that reforestation consists of going to a nursery, buying a seedling and planting it. He overlooks entirely the great problems of flood control . . . soil erosion . . . preparation of the soil . . . drainage." The American Forestry Association rebuked Secretary Hyde for viewing reforestation "in the narrow sense of merely planting trees...
...Heard pleas for executive clemency for six murderers condemned to death. ¶ Received an "Old Home Week" welcome upon returning to his Hyde Park estate...