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Show I for yourselves"? Even the microscopic uni-cel-lular animal known as Volvox globator finds that it gets nowhere no-where unless it swims with its companions in a great colony of organized and uniform movement move-ment and it has no brain. Neglect, carelessness, disputes, and unsanitary conditions can only result if people dispose of their own garbage. When a political shibboleth, like "economy," becomes an obsession, ob-session, we can expect an occasional occa-sional reduction ad absurdum. P. S. Marthakis Former state senator LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Editor, Salt Lake Times: As illustrated by the great chain stores, it is ineluctable that a big store contracting or buying unit can procure goods and services serv-ices at less cost than can a small one. Hence, as much as we admire ad-mire Mayor Lee's general yen for economy, his idea that the individual in-dividual householder can obtain better and chepar garbage disposal dis-posal than can the city as a whole is untenable. What about handicapped and other citizens who cannot afford to pay for any garbage service? As well seek to initiate a town in French Guiana, where every roadside puddle is a smelly cess-pol, cess-pol, and rotting cowhide is used for footbridges over mud. What would happen if a general gen-eral of an army were to djvide the commissariat money among the soldiers and then say "shift |