Show N NN NM 1 1 N N NN NN N No More W P A Please Enterprise was a letter In a recent issue of The Ephraim construction of a sewer from Soren C. C Ross in wh which i he opposed least He predicted an end for Ephraim at this time at system ahead then and saw hard times inflated currency to the present closed his letter with the next build us a let and Why not wait a little sewer system W We serious in that statement e We Ve hope Mr lVIr Ross was vas not p We Putter Along the had all thought though t most people se seen en Surely by now those who they ever want to see in this country will wilt see cannot help but admit that VP A projects were some of undertaken by the people of America the most expensive exp ever the local people nothing or little The idea that the projects cost should have from Washington because most of the money came been exploded long before this Those free buildings outhouses and other things were not free at all We Ve are paying for them now and will continue to pay for them through the years ahead But the cost in dollars of these projects was not the greatest expense to the nation The cost in self-reliance self and self-confidence self in honor and honesty was much greater Projects were notorious not to get the most for their waste and inefficiency The aim was for the money expended but was to give all the employment possible possible possible pos pos- was produced Raking sible no matter how little new wealth was vas cleaves in the dead of a cold leaves in in the parks parks' clearing ice from streets cold winter and piling the stuff along the sides of the streets to form traffic hazards until warm weather melted it the building ofa of ofa a road on the west side of the valley in the dead of winter when it took several teams to pull a router which turned up huge chunks of frozen earth that could not be smoothed into a road such projects as these were wasteful to the nth degree They may have furnished needed work but of what profit was wa the work What new wealth did it create i in furthering the something for VP A was not guiltless nothing philosophy which has plagued still plagues and will continue con con- time to plague the land If as Mr Ross assumes another depression is coming lets let's I not meet it with philosophy that will make the depression permanent until a war comes to end it Rather let us now plan plans not stifle in individual initiative s something that will encourage Itha that tha will vill instill not ell a sense of individual o that will vill encourage not discourage efficiency and economy We Ve have seen too much waste of working hours and of funds but worst of all of self-respect self self-reliance self of moral fiber and resourcefulness to want any more WP A. A America lets let's set our If we are to have a bigger and better sites higher than a wasteful inefficient repetition of the WP A night night- night night-I mare Lets Let's plan something that will vill encourage and help people to care for themselves and their families and not set out on some will vill them to become become become be be- new program or repeat the old that encourage come constant charges of the state dependent on an nn inadequate dole for doing as little work vork as possible And lets let's cast out once and for all the false idea that money which comes from Washington is a FREE gift Its It's free just like a C. C O. O D D. D parcel or like buying on the installment plan with the interest and carrying charges amounting through the years to tom m more re than the principal t c I I |