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Show EVERY CITIZEN SHOULD HELP No Reason Why Fight on Civic Ugll-necs Ugll-necs Should Be Left to an Organization. The Anti-Ugly association Is the attorney at-torney for every home owner, every property owner, every person who does business In Kansas City. Every defacement of sidewalk, street or alley al-ley damages property. It tends to make Kansns City a less desirable place to live in. A man may erect a million-dollar building, and we still pennit his neighbors to give him a back alley trash can setting. A family may put its savings into a home, and we permit per-mit the owner of a vacant lot next door to depreciate the value of the home. The Anti-Ugly association has gone out to remedy this condition. It Is employing attorneys to help enforce existing ordinances and to study the situation with a view to more protective protec-tive legislation. In this It is acting as the agent for the average citizen The man who hears about the work says. "That's fine." If he meets n member of the organization he slaps him on the back and calls him bully j boy. But kind words pay no bills. It Is no more the job of the members mem-bers of the Antl-Usly association to do tl'. is work than it is of any other citizen. Kansas City Star. |