Show CIVIC PRIDE breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said this is my own my native land ill J civic pride is a great thing in an individual but it if that pride does not impel ili to ta action what good is it there are many property owners in this city who seem to have utterly lost all the civic pride they ever pos sensed by the looks of their premises and the shade trees immediately front routing their property every man irian has a right ight to let the weeds grow in his garden and permit the trees in his orchard to become scraggy sk and barren but where the lack ZE of pride makes a property owner permit tile the shade trees in front of his place to agrow grow bushy front from the roots up tip and the atop top branches to hang down so that they are a menace to the safety of pei ides dest trian rians s then it is about time for someone to inject a little ginger into that individual in ill some parts of the city this condition exists to in an alarming extent much to the chagrin of neighbors and citizens as well as to the discomfort of all 1111 who have to duck their heads every time they walk walh along those par nicular sidewalks the rule used tobe to be that every property owner should clean out the irrigating ditch which runs past his premises that rule was so flagrantly abused that the city finally took it upon itself to do the cleaning taxing tile the property owner a nominal suni sum to lo coer the expense and since then arf crisham has nice clean ditches at TO ic st twice a year why could not the si salme ae be adopted with regard to trimming shade trees and keeping down tile the unsightly grass and weeds that grow along the ditch banks the extra tax on the property owner would be very small in return for which the city would get the means to enable it to employ competent men to trim up all the shade trees and someone to look after the weeds along the ditches 1 money spent in improving property Is well invested and certainly no home surrounded by beautiful grounds can make the same impression on the stranger it if the shade trees are unkempt and the ditch bank is covered with weeds as atwould if the condition was reversed civic pride Is a great thing the ouy only trouble being that as a rule we do not possess enough of it |