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Show ABSENTEE LANDLORDS OF OGDEN "The poor man can be depended on to clean his back and front yards," said a pioneer to a Standard man. "but what of the big vacant lots of Ogden, owned by the well-to-do and by absentee landlords? They are unsightly un-sightly and will remain so, even after our boys and girls today, tomorrow and all this week have done their full share. The Standard should start a campaign to Induce the owners of vacant lots to do their part in this cleanup. Why not set the agents of one of these absentee owners of dirty lots, to pose for a picture. There arc a number of places where the man, all but the upper part of his face, might be hid from view by the accumulations of a quarter of a century." cen-tury." The pioneer, who, by the way, has made his impress on- Weber county in a thousand beneficial ways, was assured that this paper would not overlook his excellent suggestion, and. beginning today, the Standard will urge on all owners of empty lots the necessity of participating In this movement to make Ogden a cleaner city. Those who build should not be alone obligated to cleanup the city. The work of applying the hoe and the rake, should extend to every person who has a dollar's worth of property here or who participates in the pleas: ure of living in a city that should be one of the purest, most beautiful on earth. |