We must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a
redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those
best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to
raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to
purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing
realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our
small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the
Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand
that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the
unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered,
uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning
for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of
communications and other utilities which have a definitely public
character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can
never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act
quickly