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Show you want to dirve a nail into a tough piece of wood is to just keep i g hammering it squarely on top of the head. The rule applies j in many instances to the matter of public officials. Just keep on; hammering and after awhile they will begin to realize the necessity ; of either dodging legitimately or paying some attention. jX As a proof -we have but to look back tne past year or so and . note the wonderf ah results obtained by the Farm Bureau. But there . must needs be something beside the work of the rv.rm Bureau and & that by the farmers themselves, which matters can only be adjusted i by the concrete organizing, so to speak, or ?t least a sort of get-to- f gether-movement. You no doubt remember a remark made to : you some three weeks since when it was stated that as a group of citizens, the farmers did more hauling that all other businesssss combined and also that they had the very worst possible roads in all the United States to do it over and were recognized the least of any business known. ! In one of the counties of this state in a particular district where j. a lot of poor men have taken up their residences and are endeavoring i to make homes and also to make the land yield of its wealth, they have asked and asked rpeatedly for at least a hi tie recognition from 'j the county officials and as repeatedly they have been refused or put i off by some1 paltry excuse. That particular bunch of officials would j be out of office and a new bunch take their places and the same thing I . has been repeated for some thirteen years. The farmers requests jo were very modest to say the least. They asked the county officials!.; to take over a strip of road approximately four miles in length and , : have it owned and claimed as a county rond. The necssi'.y of it j was obvious for it is the only road across a valley which is cultivated j and fenced for a distance of its length of fifteen or more miles. The road is the only one which the traveling public can g2t across the valley val-ley to attend their regular routine of annua! and daily business. A further fact is that along this road within a radius of two miles there is raised in any two years more alfalfa seed th.m in all the rest of j the county combined and this must all be hauled out byteans and wagons in order to get it to market. Thb is but one small item as: there are loads of hogs, grain, automobile traffic by the hundreds every; month. In fact it is the only route by v.-'iich m?.ny mm can j reach their farms or the farmers reach cither of the towns to tran- sact their business. For many weeks at a time it is almost impossible im-possible for the farmer to get along thb road and a'iLourdi ,very j year they have spent hundreds of dollars in the matter of repairing, j grading and plowing, yet there is only a part of the traveling public ; who can use it on account of its condition. On of the officials had the gall to ack: . Ho aro the traveling; public?" Can you beat it? And when o'ie individual went to1 ask for some help his answer was "The county has no money to use on any such enterprise." Just a few days after this another individual in-dividual went and asked the same bunch of officials for the prrt of $5,000.00 to give to a railroad company which could buy out the whole blooming county, officials and all, ar.d his arswer was, according accord-ing to the minutes, that they would defer it til! the next meeting, and if the legal status of the case would permit his request would be granted. 1 ask you again, dear Editor, and in cape, CAN YOU BEAT IT? HITS THE NAIL SQUARELY In the Utah Farmer of March 31, a "Subscriber," and incidentally incident-ally a "booster" for good roads, hits the nail squarely on the hefid in a c:oir.riiiiiiir:!ition to the publication. The article is good and is up-pliruble up-pliruble to this section in many respects and for this reason it is herc-wi'li herc-wi'li reproduced : "I'urt of my sincere convictions of the philosophy of life ia that if |