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Show TO THE DELTAITE. . i What doe a man owe to hi county? One of our leading writers and boosters, boost-ers, Mr. Hubert J. Hurdette, says: "Own a part of It. Kver ao small a piece of ground. If he can't own a big one. A forty toot lot, if he can do no belter. That gives him a stake In It." "That man who owns a piece of gtound, a home, lu a town or a latin never call his town IT. When he speaks of it, wether It be Salt Lake City, Ogden, I'rovo, or Tall-Holt, he say WK-OUK town, or our county, and he ha a right to- He Is a Htock-holder, Htock-holder, a partner. A man who ow ns hla home begins to study hi ticket before election day. ll'i scrutinizes every name on it, and look up the candidate's record. It Is the man who can tie up his real and personal proierty in a handkerchief that abuts hi eye and votes the ticket the bos gives him without un folding it. A man owes It to hi town to boost I:, in jiubllc on all occasion, and u( all times. The correction of Its fall ' lugs and faults are for the privacy of the home circle. A man who would thrash hi boy on the front steps of the court house ought to be whipped out of town. The citizen who welcomes wel-comes the stranger by telling him what a rotten city government wej have, what a corrupt aetjOf offjclaif rtilfei Je fWr'Toiifit, imw'ti Imi (.' county lag behind the age in all mutter mut-ter of progress and development; that It I a dead town and country and will be, ao long as certain men rule It, I an undesirable citizen. When a man tell you that what his tow n need Is a half a dozen first-class funerals, he may bo correct, but II K should be the first one lo be burled. A man owes It to hla own town and county to shout Its advantages from the house tops. The entire registry list should be the promotion committee If necessary put blinder on the visitor, vis-itor, and let him see but what you WANT him to see. When lie asks you what chance the poor man ha In the town, tell him the truth. Tell him the poor man Is the only man who has a chance. And that U no Joke. Show him the beaut It ul homes and farms of the men who came here with a capital capi-tal of working hand and thinking brains. Tell him the story of the men who began with day's wages. Mr. Editor, the above are the ideas of a man who is a booster and they should be engraved on Ihe heart and brains of every man and woman In Millard county; Just take a drive over the Melville and Carey Act project and call upon the men who are growing the crop this year, stop and figure who they ore. did they come here burdened bur-dened with much of this world's wealth? With but one or two exceptions, excep-tions, you will find they were poor, they are the men and women who pave tin-way tin-way for the rich man with his money. They can sell out their holding today fo.- more ready dsh. than they possibly possi-bly ever had In their lives, but where ran they move to and better themselves? them-selves? There Is no other place In this western country where bind and water may be purchased a cheap as can be I bought Itere, not mentioning the charm-it.g charm-it.g health giving climate. Its education a! advantages, Its transportation, It I delimited market. It social feature which, collided with a class of people who are the very embodiment of thrift, g ) t.) tuake it one of the most Ideal val leys of I'tah; so the cry from every man, woman and child, both day and nlKht. should be a KOO.TT LONG AND LOt'D. then there will arise from the sound thereof, conflleuce. sa'.lsfiirt Ion and happiness, pear and prosperity. A MOOSTKK. |