Show public sentiment is becoming active in bountiful for a clean and beautiful town dr titus remarked during his visit to bountiful that while our town would not score ehigh I 1 high as a clean town it was certai certainly n ly the most enthusiastic town he had bad ever seen that remark was tremendously encouraging 0 to the sanitation committee given that potent the air called public sentiment there is nothing by way way of beautifying and cleaning up the city that may not be accomplished great need is not of funds the pio built the temple and tabernacle and other splendid str uc tures laid out wide straight streets and lined them with shade trees in deeper poverty than we can know curious people those pioneers they planned lan and executed all their public work on a noble scale and skimped at home to make up we do not like to skimp why should we it pleasant and wo we dont need to still enough of that hut public spirit to feel the interests to be our jovn would be the finest thin thing that could happen to bountiful that the town is waking up is is apparent the children who raked main street on may ath view its neatness with pride and are more prone to pick up pieces 0 of f paper and other bits of rub bibb than to throw them down to re litter the street many piles of brush left on the streets from cleanup clean up day have been burned or otherwise wiped off the face of the highway the people felt so t good about getting rid of broken d dis iskes ies old cans rocks and otner accumulated trash that many of them are now devising 0 schemes for disposing of such thin thins things s daily rocks are being used to till in some depression in the lot an open furrow is left in which catt can easily be covered potato peelings pe elings 0 vee ve vegetable 0 e tops and other 0 green stuff that if left in the open to decay will foster flies dies the danger of throwing dish water and slops into the door yard is being behig 0 thought over by the housewives the emptied emptied can is no longer tossed on a rubbish heap with enticing odor and free access to the fly but is placed in a covered box or can until it can be removed from the premises A few burdocks murdocks bur docks have been laid low since the official day set for their annihilation we believe that many more will be chopped off after our citizens reflect that the luxuriant burr plants flourishing flouris bing on their rented sidewalks or th the e vacant lots next their own well polished yard vard are going to prickle forth disastrously disastrous lv to themselves and fellow citizens rather than to the absent landlord Aft after ersome some reflection the life de more V bewon upon straying ying 0 habits of the house fly many outside closet doors that have so far remained rather ob stina tely open will hereafter be kept closed A firmer stand is being taken against the cows commonly supposed to belong only to widows that persist in wandering 0 over our lawns and then lying down just outside our front gates chew their cud straying cows ought to be em pounding and not all of our community ills be laid at the door of the the defenseless widow without doubt flies are fewer in number than at this season last year let us continue the good work by keeping all filth fly tight this summer let us save our portion of the 1000 babies that die annually in utah during the first year of life by feeding them uncontaminated milk let us pledge 0 ourselves to the eradication of all preventable diseases |