a generation whose people knew king's mountain and shilou. a generation whose people knew freemont and custer. but a generation facing a live of dirt and poverty, disease. growing up without proper food, medical care or schooling, ill clad, il housed and ill fed and in the greatest river valley in the world. ♪ ♪ >> there is no such thing as an ideal river in nature but the mississippi river is out of joint. dust blowing in the west, floods raging in the east, we have seen these problems growing to alarming extremes. when we first found the great valley, it was 40% forested. today, for every 100 acres of forest we found, we have ten left. today 5% of the entire valley is ruined forever for agricultural use. 25% of the top soil has been shoved by the old river into the gulf of mexico. today two out of five farmers in the valley are tenant farmers. 10% of them share croppers and we are forcing 50,000 more into tenancy and cropping every year. flood control of the mississippi means control in the great delta. control. we had the power to take the

a generation whose people knew king's mountain and shilou.ew freemont and custer. but a generation facing a live

a generation whose people knew king's mountain and shilou.ew freemont and custer. but a generation facing a live of dirt and poverty, disease. growing up without proper food, medical care or schooling, ill clad, il housed and ill fed and in the greatest river valley in the world. ♪ ♪ >> there is no such thing as an ideal river in nature but the mississippi river is out of joint. dust blowing in the west, floods raging in the east, we have seen these problems growing to alarming extremes. when we first found the great valley, it was 40% forested. today, for every 100 acres of forest we found, we have ten left. today 5% of the entire valley is ruined forever for agricultural use. 25% of the top soil has been shoved by the old river into the gulf of mexico. today two out of five farmers in the valley are tenant farmers. 10% of them share croppers and we are forcing 50,000 more into tenancy and cropping every year. flood control of the mississippi means control in the great delta. control. we had the power to take the valley apart, we have the po