If we do not recede and concur in the Senate amendment we will bring to a close an activity and an agency that has demonstrated beyond all shadow of doubt its value and its use. and we virtually say to thousands of those farmers who are still in that region and who have been able to fight the adversities of nature there that have come to them in the last 6 or 7 years. "Now. there is nothing for you to do but go on direct relief. become a W. P. A. worker. or a migrant farm workeranother wanderer so vividly described in the Grapes of Wrath." This matter was taken out of the House bill by an extremely close vote. and I make that statement as a member of the committee who helped write the bill and as the one who suggested its proper place would be in Reclamation. I thought it ought to be taken over into the Department of the Interior. in the Reclamation Service. which has not been done. If the House now denies this $500.000 item. we load upon ourselves an amount considerably in excess of that in the care of destitute farm people that we drive from the land they love and where they could continue to live if they only had the precious water that would be made available to them. because water is everything in that region.