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Show I THE MORTGAGE LIFTER With the coming of the harvest this year one cannot help but be impressed im-pressed as never before with the importance im-portance of the sugar beet industry and its value to the west. A guaranteed price of $12 a ton is being paid the farmers for beets which means that some $100,000,000 mill be distributed among the farmers farm-ers of the intermountain country and coast states by the various sugar companies. Not only will the farmers receive millions but many millions more will go to wage earners in cost of manufacturing. Cessation of meddling with this sugar industry for political effect will tillow the industry again to get on a sound basis. Sugar is an essential food, a necessity to modern civilized peoples. The world shortage of sugar still persists, and it is reasonably certain cer-tain that the world will be able to absorb ab-sorb all the sugar that can be grown and manufactured for the next several sev-eral seasons at a price that will yield a reasonable profit to enterprises conducted con-ducted on an economically sound and not inflated basis. The west has every reason to push the development of its sugar industry and co-operation between grower and manufacturer will put the industry on a permanently permanent-ly sound basis. |