absence from the state program of any project dealing with the creation 
of statewide incentives for farmers to plant millions of trees, for which

absence the Central Ohio local is by no means responsible. 
22. State Gr&Wae. 
The Land Problem. By all odds the most important single fact 
bearing on the status of public sentiment in Ohio is that the farming 
interests, led by the State Grange, tend to be allied with forestry and 
against the game interests, instead of all being banded together for the

execution of a common conservation program. 
Por the present, this situation expresses itself in competition 
to dominate the intended reorganization of state conservation activities

promised by both political parties. 
This competitive relationship is, as far as I know, not publicly 
admitted to exist, but it is the starting point of all private discussions

of the subject by thinking citizens. It is analogous to the Iowa alignment

of Farm, Parks, and Nature-lovers vs. sportsmen, and is mentioned not 
for the purpose of painting a gloomy picture, but to emphasize the need 
of a new kind of leadership in Ohio affairs. As in Iowa, this alignment 
is merely one more symptom of an acute need for solving the land problem.

In both states the attitude of the various parties toward quail closure 
constitutes another symptom of the same disorder. 
It is not intended to imply that these public elements should 
have identical desires or viewpoints, or that they should not attempt to

write their viewpoints into the state's policies. It is intended to imply

that a certain give-and-take attitude is missing; that there are too 
many bitter-enders on all sides; that there is more interest in victory 
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