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Show M. 0. PACKARD URGES LARGE BEETACREAGE : Thousands of Idle Acres May : I Be Cultivated to Keep i ; Sugar Factory Busy. ! j "I am awfully i.lud to be a lnem-'ber lnem-'ber of itie KiwanN o"g:t ion. be-I be-I eau-e it is clean and because it is i I such an idealistic oi- nialioii." :s;ud Dr. George II. Brim!.. .11. presi- ; i deht-eiiientus of the iP-i-ham loimg : j university, in talk gi ; u lo the I Sprhivi l:e K iwar.is ch:: at t mo weekly luncheon bad a; the lli-'h .school FritL.y ewwi-.g uary 4. j "Some people and so:::e organi:-::!- i lions of people rat tie along like a stream of wnicr wii.ii u- niU-i' pur-! pur-! I'.oso him u rattle and make a 1-; lh" noise but Kiv. ;:itN sknii'ies huik;- ' crs and it is l:Ae the .atvrs of a ' si ream that is taken out at higu levels and sii'eati out over the barren bar-ren lands to help build up the v, aste places,-' In. Brimha il added, j "One part of building ihat all can 'take pari in is along the line of building fellowship, me building of I good will toward each other- the I building of appreciation and the habit of manifesting it either in speech or by action' said Dr. Krim-! Krim-! hall. I "It is the heartfelt appreciation of I each man in his place that we do not get enough of. We are lacking I in the question of expressed appreciation. appre-ciation. We do not say it enough, i Praise the man and the woman who dig in the soil. When the farmer, j the merchant, the business man, the j manufacturer, the laborer and each is appreciated for the iudispeusible service which he renders then there will be a bond of union and appreci ation that will cause the community commun-ity to grow." Dr. Brimhall paid a high tribute i to mothers as being the builders of men. "A man can build a house, but no one in the world can build a home but a mother," he declined. '"It was my mother who built me, by her blood and by the feeding of the breast and it was she who built my T character and my ideals." Z., Packard, the newly elvspresse ZXU;- anuouncSr ,S""ioniies by th. year 1024 and outliueirious wards. to be undertaken ami tu-hings ' i tn itr-pnnmlishod "This i. U'l Mr. Packard, "was unitedly j'jJ - '' upon by members of the boai ;';rn"n:'-is ;';rn"n:'-is submitted for the eonsidern. and approval of the members." - As a keynote sentence to his remarks re-marks Mr. Packard asked, "What can- Kiwanis do for the best interests in-terests of our city?" and then stated that the slogan for the year would be to help agriculture, lie called attention to the fact that 40 per cent of the stock of tbe Springville-Mn-pleton Sugar Co.- was owned by Springville and Mapleton people and that the company had paid out to the beet growers and labor in this community last year the amount of $340,000. He stated that (here were -,s only about half enough beets pro- i' duced to keep the factory running t at its highest point, of efficiency and u; j urged that a movement be started ,v to get (he thousands of acres of land lying west of Springville, in the drainage district broken up from wild hay and producing sugar boots and other crops such as head lettuce, celery, vegetables and oilier crops that will be more profitable to the grower and a bigger asset to the community. lie also called attention to the Springville Canning company as a commnni) y asset and to the increased in-creased amount of tomatoes, beans anil fruit that can bo handled at that plant. Mr. Packard spoke of (be inability in-ability of having a Building and Loan society organized in Spring-I Spring-I ville as a means of keeping money at home and to aid iu the building of new homes by making it possible for people to build and pay for it on the monthly installment plan and ho urged that the Kiwanis club get behind the move and help put it over. Mr. Packard called the attention to the fact that there are sufficient, vacant lots on the blocks in Springville Spring-ville that our population may be doubled without any additions or the opening up of new streets nnd urged a co-operation of the club lu connection with the citizens in making mak-ing it possible for people to get homes in our midst at reasonable prices and convenient terms. John F. Meudenhall acted as toasfmastor. A vocal solo was rendered ren-dered by Elmo Coffman and Miss Birdie Jenkins rendered n whistling solo. Both responded to an encore. ; V. A. Tompkins traveling freight j agent for the D. & It. O. It. It.. Dr. and Mrs. George II. Brimhall and G. L. Da 11 1 n were int reduced a s guests at the luncheon. |