Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-04 | Page 4 | Urban Despoilers

URBAN DESPOILERS Is the time of year when the average THIS IL city resident devotes his Sundays to arousing the farmers farmer's bitter and enduring enmity A warm Sunday jams all country roads with automobiles And every orchard along the way has to pay its toll Motorists climb fences with disregard of property rights and rip off branches in ignorance of the fact that they are Inflicting a direct monetary loss on the man who owns the blossoms Something seems to come over the city man to make him lose sight of or the ordinary rules of conduct He wouldn't saunter into a grocery store and pocket such merchandise as he could grab while the grocers grocer's back was turned Nor would be invade his neighbors neighbor's flower garden and root up all the blooms that took his fancy The truth of the matter seems to be that in the spring the city man realizes deep In his heart that a city is not and cannot be bea a e. fit place for a human being to live The sight of a blossoming apple tree reminds him that that sort of thing is his heritage his birthright which Jle has somehow managed to sell So forgetting that he is supposed to be bea a law abiding citizen he waddles across the road and commits robbery not because he heis heis heis is more callous or light-fingered light than other men but simply because he has been smitten smitten smitten ten with a deep homesickness for the country coun coun- try This however cannot be taken as justification justification justification jus jus- for the robbery robbery robbery-a a sentiment the farmer will heartily echo