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From the Steamboat Pilot on March 24, 1933

Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture has issued the following statement:

"I have been asked to state the policy of the Department of Agriculture on the question of fees for the grazing of domestic livestock on the national forest for 1933. The grazing fee now in effect for this year is at an average rate of 13.5 cents per head per month for cattle and 4.5 cents per head per month for sheep and goats. These rates are based upon the rates prevailing for the use of forage on private lands comparable to national forest lands. It has been announced to permitees that these rates will be in effect in 1933."

American Legion gives support to Roosevelt

The alarming state of national finances has made it necessary for Congress to authorize President Roosevelt to make drastic cuts in expenditures, including payments to veterans. It is even said to be necessary to cut $400,000,000 a year from payments now going to ex-service men.

But with the patriotism they showed in time of war, members of the American Legion are going to give support to the government. National Commander Louis Johnson, who is in Colorado this week, called upon all Legion members and all Legion posts to stand solidly back of the president. He spoke at Greeley Tuesday night and at other places in the state during the week.

"On the day following the new president's inaugural oath," he asserted, "I pledged the million men of the American Legion to give their utmost loyalty and help in the complex and difficult problems now facing the chief executive. I stated then, in a nationwide broadcast in which the president participated, that the American Legion wants nothing more than to be of service to America in this situation as our members were in 1817-18.

"The time to render that service has arrived. Congress has given the president the authority to put into effect the economics the president believes necessary to restore the financial stability of our country ... The Legion has every faith in the discretion, fairness and justice with which the president will deal with this problem - involving as it does in many instances the need for compassion and mercy."