Show ALL PRAISE TO THOSE 31 MEN EN rj Yesterday was held here in Salt Lake tho the first dry farming congress And the men who devised it I n are e Crien friends s of the state stale and of the nation There Is the most trying business in the world u I If 4 f There Thero Is the occupation which more than anything else elso proves pro the tho mettle of oC men and tho the courage of or women r When a family takes up its residence on n a dr dry farm It leaves leans behind most of or the attractive things which I have ha ma made e farming a n. pretty prett picture from the beginning H There is no noon shade to lie In no flowery lanes to i saunter along no woods to hide hille In n and forget that the thee e i June sun Is shining There Is nothing but sand an and r tho the people must have plenty of It There is nothing but work and hope and amI plan and work a and d hope and plan again Thero There are aro more dis dis- discouragements ments than an any other form of oC agriculture ever everi E. E i presented v In time It pays out out of course courso But nut meantime It has t taxed edthe the man and the woman who havo have devoted themselves themI themselves them- them I selves to it h. And nd if the they reclaim a tract of or land by bj byA byI I A i. i the the dr farming dry process the they ought to have two I It F. F n l c they can make c the desert blossom like e the rose roee with with- Ith- Ith out the I aid of irrigation of f I they are arc entitled to the best t- t harp that a future existence affords r w Wo Wa 0 honor these men who havo have devoted themselves to U the e tusk task of f reclaiming tho the desert In spite of oC tho the thoC C drought rought They arc are doing more moro for tho the nation than th the I man who ho cleared cleare a farm In tho the forest or tho the man wh who turne turned 1 Mowing flowing w water ter from Its natural course into th the f fU furrows w of or his fields There Thero is a whole lot Jot of or arid and land In Utah and th the tho N adjoining state Much of or it will never bo be Ini irrigated J because there thero Isn't enough water to go around Much of it Il Is IJ is g good od and the farming dry men believe they thoy I n can rescue most I if not all o of t It It and make snake it produce t. t crops 2 If th e ry do rIo the they are better than soldiers who capture capture capture cap cap- ture a city And Anil their rewards will not be measured y by hy any ordinary standards They will be he called Saviors o of oC tho the West J |