Show STIFFEN UP MORALE 0 QUO Experts found in the World War that the man or boy who wh could not have fun who couldn't enter into games enjoy merrIment merriment merrI- merrI ment give himself up wholeheartedly to fun fUll became morose got homesick and wasn't fit So they developed fun They got in i Harry Lauder to be f funny before the men in the trenches They I developed boxing wrestling and all games music made home shows anything to give the men at dangerous relaxation relaxation tion fun recreation For fun and does re-create re the person into a better livelier more forceful man And along that same line of thought the Delta Recreation Committee wishes to get the people merrier Have them ge get getaway getaway away from and their troubles and be lost in fun It will give each of us a better outlook Times are hard you bet Weve Veve had no decent crop many o ous of ofus ofus us for four years And certainly not for the last two But does doe it help any to holler it to the world in big letters The merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants see now that it is a mistake for the farmer to say to the outside world that his land isn't worth the special tax on it for then the world believed it and the hurt was done For now no noa not nota a soul will come in to buy waiting buy waiting for the bottom to be hit to where prices wont go any lower loner Stagnation And the merchants merchants merchants mer mer- chants saw right quick that the bondholders didn't settle any qui quicker ler for all that argument but they did see that business was hurt by it and now wish it stopped Let us have a stiffening up of our morale Stiffen up the backbone stick out the breastbone and hump to it Contributing factors in the present state of things are Lack of water Depletion of land fand With depletion of land increase of crop pests Heavy debts but every everyone one of them our own making And the general breaking down or in stronger words the COLLAPSE OF A ONE CROP SYSTEM I. j Let us have pleasure replacing gloom I have been here sixteen and a half years Weve We've been worse off than we are arenow arenow I now Mind you I dont don't say we arnt hard up poor no crops but I do say weve we've been poorer and carried on Why not stiffen up and carry carryon on now Enjoy pleasure Have free hearted recreation Give yourself yourself yourself your your- self up in merriment Go to dances see plays plays plays- get into the spirit of things or move But dont don't mope me The Recreation on wants to amuse you Let It do so Be willin that it should Go to their endeavors Give them your support Let them entertain you let them get you away from your troubles Mind yon I dont don't say that havin fun will cure all our ills but I do say Stop the country down Quietly get up and get out But to those who have to remain will remain got to stick stick stick- Lets Let's band together have fun see the best side of our condition met disaster with a smile hump up the old back and sing at the work It'll be better If this paper published what every farmer is openly saying wed we'd be mobbed and burned out before morning Change the tune Say WE WILL and sing while saying it We hail with delight the idea back of the Recreation Committee Commit Commit- tee to make it agreeable for us who will stick who must stick and who will pay as we stick Let it be as cheerful a task as we ever performed Maybe laybe that will make it easier in itself Give the Committee your support If you can entertain be among t the e actors if you cant can't act be among the but be with them them them- or others who are trying to lift the gloom |