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Show for greater care and consideration for all our landscaped areas. Those charged with the upkeep and protection pro-tection of our public beauty spots are often waging a losing battle against the carelessness and maliciousness mali-ciousness of the general public. GUV Urges Care OfPublic Parks With the coming of Spring, we all become happily conscious of the color transformation creeping ever the countryside. The browns and grays of winter are steadily giving way to the soft greens of the trees and grasses, and the delicate pinks and whites of the bursting fruit blossoms. There are few experiences more inspiring than a drive through Utah .Valley at the peak of the lush vernal season. The well kept lawns and shrubbery shrub-bery surrounding many of Central Utah's schools and public buildings serve as silent yet pleasing testimony testi-mony of the civic pride of many of our good people. I recall each spring a remark made by an Italian gardener friend of mine in Carbon county. In response re-sponse 'to my praise of his well kept lawns and flower beds, he answered, "Yes, but she's a work." Beautiful landscaping, whether public or private is work. In addition addi-tion it requires vision, planning and constant care. Happily the results re-sults are usually in keeping with the effort and-"head work" expended. ex-pended. v In passing through my hometown home-town park the other day I noticed several valuable shrubs that had been deliberately broken down by either the careless or malicious acts of some "moronic" barbarian. To produce flowering bushes of this type has required several years of laborious and intelligent care; yet they were destroyed by an act that required less than two minutes. Some folks are really difficult to understand. They will so often deface- or destroy the very things that have been provided for their own use and enjoyment. If these acts of vandalism were only the work of children, they might be attributed to immaturity or lack of judgement; but in far too many cases teen-agers and even adults are responsible. Greater Utah Valley, Inc., pleads |