Show i 9 Can Can Take Take R If With With Youl Day has hag always ways been to U Us a misnomer r. r That Is S the one day of the year on which th the fewest lewest p possible number of Americ Americans ns id Ig required to toil Not only that but bul it has becOme not merely a day but a week weekend nd and a long tong one at that So what happens W We take our fifty some som million cars to t hie hIe- us ua to some sylvandell sylvandell sylvan sylvandell dell or meadow mcadow or woods ta to mountain or lake or stream or beach And what with the need for sustenance and refreshment smokes smoked and snacks we create mountains of trash As we start back to the salt mines On Tuesday morning after highway workers on our primary roads alone will expect to be facing tons of this litter that must be picked up and disposed erf of This much trash in case you cant can't quite visualize visualize vis vis- it would cover a two lane highway a foot deep from Chicago to Minneapolis and that's miles I r Also around the 48 states a lot of carefree week enders apprehended while tossing this and that out of the car window will be facing the judge They The will be leaving as little as a dollar in Kentucky or as much as 1000 in Georgia to purge their disrespect for their fellow man Our own state of Utah for lor example is very specific about this offense oUt against good manners The sign I at the roadside says simply for j littering Jittering highways An practically nobody nobody nobody no no- noI I body seems to think it is a bargain But theres there's a brighter side to the picture For every offender f a hundred or perhaps a thousand more thoughtful citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens will will be collecting their trash h in litter litter- bags as they go along and parking it in suitable receptacles as provided by pub pub- spirited lic-spirited gas stations picnic areas resorts resorts resorts re re- re- re sorts and roadside rests In spite of the steadily increasing highway travel the clean up cost to the the- taxpayer has been halted at the 50 60 million million mil mU- lion a year level and appears to be gradually gradually gradually gra gra- dually diminishing Credit for this we thing belongs lar largely ly to an organization called Keep America Beautiful Inc and to the garden clubs and many other civic organizations that have joined the nationwide nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide crusade crusade- ag against the litterbug and have haw supported local and state enforcement agencies in a tougher attitude toward the trash I |