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278 An American Dilemma
Nobody who has had any contact with those doing field work for the
Farm Security Administration can escape becoming impressed by these
attempts to rehabilitate farm families by making up plans for almost every
aspect of the farm-and-household economy and by ^‘helping the clients to
help themselves.” Attempts are made to introduce written contracts of more
than one year’s duration for the clients who are tenants—^the so-called flexi-
ble farm lease. Most tenants on the rehabilitation program have such leases
with their landlords.®® States are urged to adopt legislation for this pur-
pose—^so far, however, without any success as far as the South is con-
cerned.®^ The Farm Security work, after this period of rather diversified
experimentation, has provided the kind of practical administrative experi-
ence which would be needed for a major reform of land and tenure condi-
tions. But it is not likely that there will be enough popular backing for such
a system in the South—^until the Southern farm population has been hit by
at least one more major economic crisis. The coming post-war crisis might
furnish this needed impetus.
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