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employment, and the production and consumption of manu 

 factured goods. The last heading covers the trends in agricul' 

 tural production, the ability of goods to reach market, and 

 the effect of industrial progress on farm production. 



According to the National Resources Board Report, this 

 is a list of the technical information the planner must have. 

 ( 1 ) A financial balance sheet. This would be a list of the worth 

 of the resources and the amount of expenditures by govern 

 ment for the United States as a whole a list of the financial 

 assets and liabilities of the country. This would show what 

 money was spent for permanent improvements as opposed to 

 money which is spent for temporary improvements. Natural 

 resources are permanent, and money spent to protect these 

 would be shown on this balance sheet as money spent for a per 

 manent investment. (2) Population, composition, and move" 

 ment. A study of this subject would show what products would 

 be needed where, and who could best produce them. (3) Map- 

 ping. (4) Climatology and climate risks. A more thorough 

 knowledge of our various climates and how they act would help 

 prevent such problems as future dust bowls. (5) Water studies. 

 (6) Soils. (7) Vegetation. (8) General research. 



REGIONAL PLANNING BASED ON A SINGLE RESOURCE 



With all these various kinds of information necessary for 

 planning, one thing is clear. It would be very hard to cre 

 ate any system of regions in which these many factors could 

 be made to fit into any one plan. For instance, take one kind 

 of regional planning which has already been working for sev 

 eral years, the interstate compact. In the chapter on water 

 (see page 136) we have seen how these compacts have grown up 

 for the purpose of dividing the water in such a way that 

 everyone will get what he needs. This is a type of planning 

 based on a single resource, water. But a great many things 

 affect the use of water. Take the Tri-State compact between 



