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Show INCONVENIENT BUT NECESSARY THE determined manner in which the city officials are enforcing the regulations regarding the payment of water rent is commendable. It is absolutely abso-lutely necessary to take the drastic measure of shutting off the water if the rent is not paid on time in order to compel some to remember to pay and others to pay. But in this connection the News makes the suggestion that all property owners who rent their property prop-erty to others should themselves pay the water rent. If the water is not paid for the bill is charged against the property. prop-erty. If the renter is supposed to pay for the water he uses the amount should be added to the rent and collected col-lected from the renter by the property I owner. When this is not done the own- I er is liable for the water rent should S the renter fail to pay. Of course the water will be shut off, but not until the renter has used the water for at least twenty days without paying. Of course the enforcement of the ordinance requiring re-quiring that the water be shut off unless un-less the water rent is paid will cause inconvenience and sometimes indignation. indigna-tion. But who is to blame? Not the officials who are only doing their duty by enforcing the law and trying to collect col-lect what is due the city. Another suggestion: sug-gestion: If every person who rents a house from an owner would be particular partic-ular to know that there is no unpaid water rent against the property before he moves into it, perhaps much inconvenience incon-venience would be avoided and considerable consid-erable nerve force conserved and heated heat-ed discussion avoided. All honor to the officials who are on the job and attending at-tending to their duties. And the writer had the water turned off in mid-day, too. II |