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Show PEOPLE OF MLPLEASANT, "LEND ME YOUR EARS" You have a child in your midst nearly ten years old faiir and robust when born 'but now hollow eyed, sallow sal-low skinned, emaciated. It must be supported when it tries to walk. Without support it cannot even move. It is starving to death in a land of plenty. You promised to feed this child ere it came but that promise pro-mise has not been kept. You have said, "Let George do it, "and George heard you not. It is now for you to iay if your child is to live and it it our responsibility. You- cannot oni;er say, "Let George do it. "Will ou feed your child? No? Then it dies and in its passing an added burden will fall upon you. Sadnes . md regret will be your lot for then you will come to know your real loss Feed it -and it lives. It has wonder ful vitality. Feed it and though it is young it will return you ten fold, yes a hundred fold for your effort. I see another picture here. A man full grown. Once robust and strong Now haggard and bnt; shuffling and unsteady of gait; .ragged, dirty, disheveled, luinkempt. But he is your friend, your servant, and you know it not. He has worked for you slaved for you, fed you and now, ' When he asks for "bread you give him a stone. "You have not only f.aken all that he had to give !but you have robbed him at every turn and held him up at every corner demand-ng demand-ng more. Soon he too must die and in passing your best friend is no more. Your faithful servent has jone out of your life. Feed him. nourish ihim and with gladness and t smile he will likewise return you ien fold yes a hundred fold for your effort. You may think I am over coloring the pictures but I think not. The child of your responsibility is the sugar factory your sugar factory at Moroni. Let its days end and your tax burdens increase. General and community prosperity will be lessened lessen-ed and you, Mr. and Mrs. Citizen, Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Farmer, Stockgrower, all will feel the effect' You cannot longer say, 'Let Geonge do it. 'George does not hear. Mt. Ple.is-ant Ple.is-ant pledged 1200 acres of sugar beet;-when beet;-when the factory was built. 19 25 Mt. Pleasant only raised 125 acre3. Mt. Pleasant could and should (grow 1200 to 1500 acres eacn year. Will she do it? It is for you to say. Thi is not alone a farmers' problem. Every individual is vitally effected in the question of the factory living or dying. Note Lehi the factory closed last year. Now civic bodies and farmers, far-mers, everybody, are uniting to have he factory run again. They have ! experienced the effects of a closed ! factory. The same is true in Cache ' County and in Idaho where factories : were closed last year for lack of heets And now for your friend and servent. He who has fed and cloth ; ed you for so long. Look to your '.land my friends. It does not pro ( duce as it did in its young and robusl . days. ' You have taken from it all 'these years-and given nothing back. Robbed it, mined it instead of farming farm-ing it. It has oried out for food such as good rotation of crops would produce- alfalfa, peas, sugar beets, potatoes, live stock and you ha.? said, "Give us more grain." Yoer best friend and servant is dying for want of sugar beets. Your child will soon breathe its last unless it gets sugar beets. What will you do?? N. G. Stringhami, Manager. |