Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-10
ANOTHER PEP LETTER

FUltOr NpWS-buUSGG.
While we are discussing the matter
of pep let's get down to brass tacks
and we will find pep an Authorization
Of pepper. and following this line of
thought. get back to essentials. name
ly. that in this case we had to go to
the country for something that grows
for Il title for what we desire to inject
into our commercial life in order to
give it snap. Pep is good, pepper bet
tcr-gin is good, but ginger is now con-
coded better; both the pepper and gin
ger come from the land-frOm soil
well cultivated, and so / say, with all
due regard for our manufacturing in
dustries, that no city or village can
become richer or more prosperous than
the country tributary to it" The OPP
pOrtumity Of the city lies in the devel-
opment of its trade territory surround
ing it. Build your country and your
cities and villages will follow. We
will heartily endorse any movement
that will tend to the making of the
Ladysmith Cooperative Creamery the
largest creamery in Wisconsin and the
creamery that pays the farmer the
highest price.
While all commercial development is
good and everything that tends to
bring greater returns to agriculture
pursuits is to be encouraged we de-
sire also, i'll d greater measure. an I'M
Wavering. persistent effort to improve
and make farm life more attractive.
Wisconsin and the nation stands on the
threshold of a situation exactly parallel
to that which caused the downfall Of
the Roman empire underprOduction of
agricultural products. 1t was not
that Nero fiddled while Rom
burned" but because he might as Well
for the time had long passed for Nero
to help. The whole empire had been
crumbling from the day that agrfcul
ture had ceased to be the leading pur
suit Of its people. But ten days off
is the Risk County Fair. Here is an
opportunity for all Iadysmith people
without regard to their pocketbook or
their personal feelings Of who may
profit by If or who its officers may be-
or what mistakes have been made in
the past or those to be made. Let's
make this fair time. when Town and
Country meet. Let every commercial
interest in Ladysmith and for that mat
fer. in all Of Rusk county, forget for
the days of the fair the matter of profit
and in good faith and WhOle-hearted
fellowship converse and visit with our
agricultural brothers around the sta
bic. the straw pile and the tractor.
Let's make these farmer fellows our
farmers-meet them. not as SOd-bust-
ers and hay-seeds, but as neighbOrs
and friends, Anyone who reads must
know of the effort. the deliberate effort
being put forth of recent years to di-
vide the town and the country, effort
put forth entirely for s0rtid and cor
rupt reasons. to provoke and arouse
antagOnism between them.
For the real. sound, permanent de-
velOpment OF the city of Ladysmith, /.
for one contend we need pep in our eff
fort TO develop our whole agricultural
interests in Rusk cOunty-nOt only de-
velOp our farms by clearing the land.
but develop also that spirit Of friend
illness and cooperation between our
selves and our neighbors that is the
real test OF living. the proof Of prog
ress and while thus engaged, from it
will come better citizenship, better
schools. better living conditions. better
home life. a greater city and greater
country.
Ladysmith. Sept. 9th. 1920.
w. \. BLACKBURN.