Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-24 | Page 4 | The Season of Burning Leaves

THE SEASON OF BURNING LEAVES. Our City Commissioners have ordered or-dered that leaves must not be burned on the streets. The accumulation is to be hauled away. Fall days, in years gone by, have been made periods of coughs and colds by the irrigating clouds of smoke from the burning leaves and, to avoid this pollution of the air, a new method of disposing of the refuse has been made a city law. In Europe leaves are made to serve many useful purposes. Pinclpally they are employed as fertilizers. Gathered in great bales, they are sold to farmers, and, properly treated, enrich en-rich the- soil. But, Americans are not as careful of little things as the Europeans, and they disregard these small economies, and as a result inflict in-flict on themselves the burden of disposing dis-posing of the waste, while losing that which could be turned to the highest service. We Americans should begin to take more than one lesson from the book of the providential Europeans. oo