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Show GKT Ol T OF THE OLD KIT What's the use of spending our whole lives sleeping in the same old rut when there are bigger ones all around us? What's the use of being in a rut at all? We want more industries in Mount Pleasant, and new industries are never found in ruts. Ruts are too small for them. There is nothing in the old rut for Mount Pleasant, but there are opportunities in every direction di-rection if we care to reach out and grasp them. It is up to us. We can stagnate in our rut, or we can reach out and grasp something pull ourselves out do something get to the top. But we'll never do it as long as we rattle around in the same old rut with dry bones of our ancestors for company. We need more electricity, we need more light, we need to give employment employ-ment to our boys at home instead of sending them away to find whatever may happen to come in their way. And this season we need a good ball team to represent the town in the athletic field, and we need to encourage en-courage the young men to represent the town well. We have Braby here and he needs employment, so why not give him a job at the electric power plant? We need the electicity, and our. time at the key board here is more valuable than his at the plant. The cry has been that the City could ?not afford to hire another man at the plant to give continuous service to the people of Mount Pleasant, but this is all a lot of nonsense. People want electricity, and will use It if It is there to use. This little office has three operators idle every time the power goes off. Other people want it but can't get it. Moiu't Pleasant has the name of beiug the slowest to take hold of anything of any of the towns in the county. We let Ephraim and Manti rub it over us Morning Noon and Night. And all the while we have better opportnui-ties opportnui-ties than either of the other towns. Distinguished men of Salt Lake City look at us as back woodsmen on account ac-count of not having things more up-to-date. We need new industries, and there are manufacturers all over the country coun-try looking for changes in location. But they will never erect their plants in a rut. They are full of life, and they want a live atmosphere about them. They want to locate in a community with advantages. We have them. They want to be surrounded by people of intelligence, who know how to use their brains. We have intelligence in our midst, and our brains are capable of ac complishing vastly more than we have ever dreamed of in the past. Mount Pleasant is charged with intellectual in-tellectual and physical dynamite, but it is in a rut and needs some one to 'blow it out. Let's all get busy and blow. Let's pull some of those manufacturers manufac-turers here on a tour of inspection, and then let's give them a fair opportunity op-portunity to size up our natural advantages ad-vantages and our intellectual force. We won't get them all by any. means, but we will get some of them if we will only make the town inviting. in-viting. No one ever swallows a loaf of bread at one gulp. Many bites make up a square meal, and many efforts will bring new industries in our midst, with bigger pay rolls, and more money in circulation, and more houses to be filled and mouths to be fed. It all contributes to the prosperity of a community. We want prosper ity here, but prosperity never goes out looking ftfr a place to light. We must hook it on the y, and our hook must be well baited or the other fellow fel-low will have the strongest pull. Again we say, let's get out of the rut and do something. Opportunity is everywhere but it won't crawl into our pockets uninvited. We must reach out for it. How many of our citizens would like to see new- factories or industries indus-tries come to Mount Pleasant? How many are willing to join whole heart-edly heart-edly in an effort to get something. Let's stand up and be counted. |