Show THE WATER LICENSE thero is an ordinance among our municipal laws which ought tobe to be wiped out or amended it was placed here by the council which served under james quayle it in 1892 andI and 1893 it puts a premium upon sloth and makes enterprise pay it it makes it worth the sluggards slug gards while to let the weeds grow in his dooryard while it places a burden would undertake upon a i man who to keep a lawn and beautify his home and city this ordinance deferred to imposes a water tax of fo EO much per square yard vard wherever a lawn is kept and and cared for and sprinkled with city water if a man has no pride in tile the looks of his home no lie inte interest in the adornment of his city no desire in fact to give it the appearance P pe arance of a city instead of an overgrown village C he is satisfied with the present ordinance but an enterprising city should offer every inducement for reci residents dents to cut down weeds keep their door yards clean arid and tart start a lawn the man who uses the most water in his front yard does tile the city more good as a rule than the ono one who cares not if rag weeds grow up about his door we nile would like to see every home in logan 0 with a 0 grassy lawn about it with fountains fountain playing 0 in tile the sunlight 0 and tho the grass glistening with their spray god has given us plenty of clear sparkling water and rich productive soil it is our duty to make the best of it and show our appreciation by using that water to make the soil produce we would rather were euch a thing possible see a tax imposed upon all who allow their door yards to become rag patches and make it worth their while to shake off the lazy indifference to surroundings which now moves and controls them it would bo be far better belter for the city and show more enterprise on the part of the council to declare weeds which grow along the he sidewalks and ditches a nuisance and impose a penalty for maintaining them than to pursue the present policy of encouraging such things lings ti let the council look into this matter and revise tile the present present water schedule it should be our policy to encourage enterprise and cleanliness rather than discourage them |