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7. If you live in a city or town, you are under at least four 

 different governments: city or town government, county gov 

 ernment, state government, and federal government. Try to 

 find out what those various governments do to regulate the 

 use of land in the city or town. For instance, does the federal 

 government control the rivers, or has the state worked out a 

 plan of flood control for the city? Has the county built parks 

 near the city? If you live in the country try to figure out just 

 how the state and county and federal governments control the 

 use of land in your county. 



8. If you had a farm in a district under the Soil Conservation 

 District Law and you disagreed with the regulations made for 

 the use of your land, what should you do about it? 



9. Trace the flow of power in the 1938 Agricultural Adjust' 

 ment Act from the federal government in Washington to the 

 fanners on the land. 



10. Find out how many bureaus of the Department of Agricul' 

 ture are in your county? What land use activities do they 

 represent? How is their work unified? Does their work conflict 

 with the land use activities of other departments of government? 



DEBATES 



1. Are the farmers justified in receiving special help from the 

 government through organizations like the Agricultural Adjust' 

 ment Administration? 



2. Is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration a more effec' 

 tive way of handling the farm problem than the old educational 

 methods under the Department of Agriculture? 



3. Is the federal government justified in spending money col' 

 lected from all the taxpayers to help a special group of tax' 

 payers such as the farmers or the manufacturers? 



4. Should the production of crops be controlled by an order 

 from the Secretary of Agriculture forbidding the planting of 



