Abstract

Hunger-1931

This article focuses on the aftermaths of the drought disaster of 1930. The magnitude of the drought disaster of 1930 is not realized by the country at large, while only those who have observed them at first hand can have any adequate conception of the tragic and pitiable conditions that prevail in the drought area. The American Red Cross is feeding farm families in more than seven hundred counties scattered through a score of States, but the States hardest hit on the whole are Arkansas, Mississippi, with parts of Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, and Maryland. Final statistics issued by the Weather Bureau indicate that Maryland and Virginia received less rain in 1930 than any of the other States, but crop averages, curiously enough, were lower in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. It must also be pointed out that the drought is not yet broken in large sections of this area.