Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-09-22 | Page 6 | Trees Have Been Neglected and City Will Suffer as a Result in Eyes of Visitors

TREES HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED AND CITY WILL SUFFER AS A RESULT IN EVES OF VISITORS Editor Standard- Now that the president of the I'nited States is approaching ap-proaching Ogden. with a large company com-pany of distinguished people, including includ-ing representatives ot" groat news papers, and miles of the streets of this city are to be covered in course ol parade, we may well hantr our heads in shame that the spring time and summer time have come and passed and t he old dead trees, the half-living twisted, ugly trees, stand along the way; the otherwise handsome trocs for lack of being trimmed and prepared pre-pared for nature's beautiful dressing, are distressingly rapped and unattractive unattrac-tive withal the pretty residences and school buildings are obscured, and the 'streets are given the appearance of mads in the tack country Even our splendid Washington avenue mid Twenty-fifth street from Adams to Harrison, expensively paved, are Ut- terly neplected as to nttention to trees. Attention was called to these thirp. Iaa1 tall and warning was piven ist sprlnc, that private owners and pub-lie pub-lie officials niipht be aroused to tion but nothing was done-- neglC 1 on every hand. Will people never learn that nvn-ntes nvn-ntes make hours, dimes make dollr.rs, little things form the big things, and attention to details is at the bottom of all notable achievement? Spen lmp millions on a home or on a city will not ,niake the home or the city fl1 ;o live in unless attention be pien to comfort-making and beautifying details. de-tails. Lastly enough, wood fuel can be obtained ob-tained from a thorough cleaning up of the trees in the city to furnish all the families' in town with autumn fires, a month or two. I wonder what will be done I. WONDER