Show TIME TO PREPARE C FEAR EAR of ot criticism should not deter defer 1 the water department officials from establishing and enforcing sprinkling re regulations at the earliest moment the they arc are needed Serious Water water wa Wa- ter shortage hortage Is one of ot the most distressing distressing distressing dis dis- calamities that can befall a city and e especially Salt Lake wh where re systematic Irrigation Is essential to the tho nurture of lawn and shrubbery Responsibility for or the threatened shortage does loes not rest upon the present present pres pres- ent city government government but responsibility I ity for tor minimizing its extent 1 and its disastrous effects does doeH rest upon It Man Many Salt Lake householders aro are provokingly provokingly pro- pro reckless In la tho the use ue of ot water J for IrrIgation irrigation purposes Tho The difference difference differ differ- ence between sho shortage e and an ample supply not nol Improbably lies in the annual annual annual an an- nual wasta wastage e. e This can be controlled checked and even oven terminated by lW sensible re regulations enforced without fear or favor or Enforcing water restrictions I la is however one of or tho the most embarrassing embarrass embarrass- I ing tasks that may confront a n. city ad ad- ministration The Thc reckless and profligate profligate prof prof- are arc not ordinarily found among the obscure and unimportant citizens rather are the they eminent well-to-do well and influential neither too retiring to complain when their privileges aro are curtailed nor too weak to point their resentment with effectiveness s Tho The elc degree ree to which these usually the most wasteful because of or larger realty holdings holding's to which water must bo be applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied arc are brought into obedience to tore re restrictions Is an unfailing test of the Impartiality with which law Is en en- fo forced reed Householders ers also owe their neighbors neigh neigh- bors hors an obligation It Is their dut duty to assist the water department to i minimize the effects of the coming I shortage e by moderate use of water b by respecting the regulations as the they would wish others to do i iI I |