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Show Chamber of Commerce Starts Drive for Fundi (Continued from page one) west side, for which it was striving to bring material benefits, nbt limited lim-ited to any one town, but of fai reaching benefit to the entire com munity. Judge Tracy said that he had ai ways given; that he always expect ed to give, and that one bushel ol seed would not be his limit if th organization needed more. Thi farmers could well afford to contrib ute liberally and that he would m found with his shirt sleeves rollec up ready to tussle for it. Michael Brown talked of the bej crop, of diversified farming and o the necessity of keeping the indust ry he represented permanently going which coould easily be accomplishei by each farmer planting a few acre: of beets. This year there werer sev eral twenty-ton yields. Ben Douglas spoke oof the finan ces of the Chamber, and the need o bolstering the same. Pres. Stanley ,. Folsom gave th concluding address and asked for di rect action. He said that many sue cesses had been made on the farm: in the last two oor three years; tha he would like to see more farme: members. The latest and most far reaching benefit the Chamber o Commerce has secured for the farm er was the checking of an attemp to withdraw state funds from an; loans in a drainage bond area, w'uicl would have withheld great finan cial assistance from this region. Ii working for this thing the objec was entirely to benefit the farmer Had the state withdrawn any futur loans in this region, great injur; would have resulted to the farmer He concluded by saying that what . ever was the farmers' problem wa tho club's problem. The Chamber o Commerce had always co-operated and would continue so to do. At the conclusion of the meetim committees were formed and th drive for support will 'soon follow i The banquet, which was preparei and served by the Domestic Scictte class of the Delta high school, in deserving of, and received high com , mendation. The Chamber of C m . merce warmly thank Principal Sav age for the use of the school buiiil ing and the Domestic Science clas for their treat. |