An excellent article by Leland DuVall in the Arkansas Gazette calls rural housing "the forgotten orphan in the privatepublic program that has enabled the United States to become the best housed Nation in the world." In suggesting steps that can be taken to modernize all rural homes. Mr. DuVall tells of the need for improving the housing of farm laborers as well as other rural families. We have every reason to believe that the recently enacted Omnibus Housing Act of 1964. with its provisions for Federal financial assistance to rural groups that want to build better homes for farm laborers. will do much to help eliminate the shacks that too often pass for housing in areas where migrant laborers harvest the crops. The new legislation will enable the Farmers Home Administration to contribute up to twothirds of the cost of farm labor housing.