Show I WHAT'S TILE MATTER 1 DELTA With one of the greatest productive productive tive agricultUral areas in the Intermountain intermountain Inter Inter- mountain region with a climate unsurpassed un- un surpassed sed for the growing of all ors cro 8 a temperate zone with witha a k scan water mild winters I a summers and the b 1 t alfalfa hay for the successful r I u g livestock that can be Pound found on earth the people who Inhabit Inhabit In- In habit this section are naturally ask ask- askI I Ing themselves the question What Is the matter with Delta Notwithstanding Notwithstanding Not Not- withstanding all the natural advantages advantages the country Is not going ahead as it should do A panicky feeling Is In the air and the people are aro at a loss to know which way to turn In order to m make ke ends meet In fact they are much like the prize fighter fighte r In the ring who has received on the point Of the chin an all but a knockout knock knockout out blow which makes him groggy ad sees things as a big blur but he keeps on fighting Instinctively In a dazed condition The only question Is can he fight on until his mind clears and he can see things dis- dis seo the things necessary ry todo to todo do to snatch victory from apparent nt defeat That Is our condition just justat justat at present Millions of dollars have been invester Invester In- In vester by outside to help reclaim reclaim re- re claim our lands Millions of dollars rs I have been spent In money and time I and energy by our local people tomake to i I make the lands productive No one representing outside capital has Ihas come forth with a program program pro pro- gram to make possible the repayment repayment repay repay- ment of their money invested No Noone Noone one representing the people has come forth with a constructive program program pro pro- gram that wm will save saye their millions anti make possible for them to repay repay re- re pay the money Invested from with with- out All are In the the rapIds rapids and all headed for the great falls that will engulf the tho whole works unless some someone someone one either r from the Investors of the Investor within wakes up and finds I a of safety t I In the first p place ace sp so much money has been brought in from without to help reclaim our lands and nd the initial payments in Interest and in principal have been so great that the people have felt that the only way out was to gamble on the production production pro pro- of a big alfalfa seed crop to meet the payments In doing this they have turned themselves into into in- in to a bunch of gamblers instead of ofa ofa a bunch of farmers The result has been baen a a. disappointment all along the thelIne theline lIne Lands that once produced i on Editorial Page I |