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Show oo THIS IS NOT A MONEY-MAKING MONEY-MAKING PROPOSITION. Expressing the very idea which has inspired the forming of Ogden's homo guard and the starting of the campaign cam-paign for stimulating crop production, the president of the International Typographical Union sends this letter let-ter to tho New York World: "Uncle Sam can enlist men, and he can buy the ammunition and the guna. But Undo Sam cannot manufacture potatoes or beans or onions or turn ips. The home guard can. Organize the home guard in a 'Plant-an-Acre" army." Responding to the suggestion, the World says: "The most important duty for this crop flcason is" that of the American farmer fortunately with a certainty of profit to spur this energy to put in seed even' possible acre of spring wheat, to make up for world scarcity and a bad start in the winter-wheat states. But Mr. Scott outlines a form of national defense peculiarly appropriate appro-priate for city and suburban dwellers who control land in small areas. This home guard every one not on a sickbed sick-bed can join, regardless of age or sex, and with the fine consciousness that they are defending their flag and country no less in the fields and truck gardens than in the trenches or munitions mu-nitions factories. Not one In a hundred hun-dred of the people of the United States will have any fighting to do, but for "the ninety and nine who stay at home there is tho equal obligation of doing their duty to the nation as It presents itself;.and one urgent aspect as-pect of that duty is to help feed the country. Not everybody can go Into the trenches and not everybody can plant an acre, but nearly everybody can add his individual bit to the products pro-ducts of the soil, with the result of safeguarding Europe at the same time from tho danger of famine." Here in Ogden tho ono great drawback draw-back to this movement Is the very high price the city has fixed for water to be used on vegetable gardens. Tho city can well afford to give tho water without cost because this Is no time to bo coining dollars out of tho patriotism of the country. Our mayor and his associates on the city commission are to be reckoned reck-oned with as most ardent Americans, as keenly alive to the requirements of preparedness as tho best informed, and we are confident they will further reduce the rate on water for irrigation irriga-tion purposes as the forco of the argument argu-ment for more reasonable rates is brought to bear on them. There are 5,200 square yards in an acre. At the published rate of two cents a square yard, the city would be demanding ?104 an acre. The 'charges fixed for water from the Bench canal is much less, but even that rate should be determined not on a basis of profit, but at actual cost of servico in supervising the flow of water through the canal. |