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Show GRANT BOOSTS UTAH PRODUCTS Urges Relief Society Women To Insist On Goods Made Here SALT LAKE CITY, April 4. (U.E) The L. D. S. church had been counselled today by its leader, President Heber J. Grant, to support sup-port home industry. "Personally," exclaimed President Presi-dent Grant in an address to the L. D. S. Relief society, "I am for Utah and Idaho first and, after that, the United States." President Grant exhorted all church members to confine their purchases, as much as possible, to home industries. He mentioned specifically sugar. Boosts Beet Sugar "There are hundreds of thousands thou-sands of bags of foreign sugar which come into the two states and sell for ten cents more than our home-grown beet sugar," he commented. com-mented. "There is a reward out for anyone who can toll the difference dif-ference between beet sugar and the foreign product. ' "We have it in our power to greatly relieve the busmss depression depres-sion in Utah and Idaho. All that is necessary is insist, wherever possible, on Utah and Idaho products pro-ducts when you buy at various stores." President Grant renewed his attack at-tack on the use of tobacco and also included in this address tea and coffee, "for economic reasons." reas-ons." "Every dollar that is expended for tea and coffee leaves not on,ly the state but the nation," he pointed but. "There is nothing mote damning than to teach foung girls to smoke. And that, in effect, is just what these tobacco interests are striving striv-ing to do." ' |