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Show - 13p7 te In recent weeks several housewives house-wives have complained to us about the excessive number of handbills strewn about their yards. We assured as-sured the ladies that our shop did not print the bills, nor did the Franklin County Citizen. But we did promise to do something some-thing about the situation, since Preston has a handbill ordinance. We have printed several bills in the last four or five months, but only after our customers agreed to abide by the regulation governing circulation of "throw-aways." We haven't printed any of the grocery circulars that have cluttered up your porches and yards and we have felt that our city officials have been lax in dealing with the several "law breakers." The mayor informed us just recently re-cently that as far as he knows handbill circulators are keeping j within the regulation. That gave us a laugh, because we know different. Our usual Saturday Sat-urday morning chore is to gather up two or three handbills that have been deposited in front of our door. The regulation requires the passer-outers to hand the bills to house-, holders Has anyone pushed your doorbell and handed you a circular circu-lar lately? One man complained because a hHndbll tosser had crossed his newly new-ly sown lawn for a short cut to hiB neighbor's house. PreBton is one of the cleanest cities in the IntermouHtain area . . . except on Saturdays. Other cities nearby are enforcing enforc-ing their handbill legislation, and it Beems to us that our city Officials Offi-cials should awaken to that fact. We ask you, City Dads, for some action. It you fall to comply, don't he alarmed when a housewife calls tn you to clean up her cluttered up front porch and yard. Don't give us that old line that handbills are being handed and not tOBSed. We know different, and so do some eight or nine hundred housewives. The beet situation here has almost al-most grown out of hand. Storekeepers, clerks, etc. may be called on to declare half-holidays from their regular duties and go Into the fieldB to help with the work. The situation has made us wonder won-der about the wage scale. Farmers with heavily weeded patcheB, patches that need Immediate attention, at-tention, have not been able to get help. Beot thinners, paid by the acre, would rather thin a Bparcely weeded weed-ed patch than a heavily weeded i one more money by the day. Shouldn't the scale be overhauled overhaul-ed to meet the situation? Seoms to us that it should. The areas in the most critical conditions Bhould be Bet up on a higher wage scale, to attract more thinners. The wage scale for lesser less-er weed patches could be dropped. o o |