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Show I STREETS AND AUTOMOBILES. It seems only a few months ago when there was a great campaign on in Weber county to get a tract of land upon which the farmers could park-not park-not their automobiles but their teams and horses. The farmers complained, and Justly complained, that Ogden merchants sought their business but fiave little heed to their request for a place where they could leave their learns and wagons. j And now there is a campaign being i conducted to provide more space whereon farmers can park their automobiles. auto-mobiles. There may still be a demand for a place to park houses and teams but it seems that there are more farmers farm-ers driving into Ogden in their automobiles auto-mobiles than In horses and Wagons. Nobody feels unhannv j that the farmer is buying an automo- j bile. If anybody is entitled to an auto j it is the farmer and if ho has enough money to buy a car he has earned ev-1 ev-1 ery cent of It. j Tie complaint is made, that the farm- er needs more space to park his car on the city streets than he has been receiving and the request is made that 'the city business man leaVe hlB auto-mobile auto-mobile in tho garage on Saturday so the farmera may use the space usually occupied by the city automobile. This begins to sound as though Og-: Og-: den had an automobile parking prob-H prob-H lem like several other cities. If the parking problem is serious In cities with streets as wide as tho : streets 'of Ogden and of Salt Lake, im- ngine the troubles of some of the larg-l t or cities, whichwero laid out on plans J calling for principal streets about as wide as our Hudson avenue. When we read of Seattle's declara-lion declara-lion that certain streets shall be "one way" streets only, that men in San Francisco who own vacant property near the business section are getting rich renting parking space at a few cents an hour and of the great force of traffic officers necessary In other cities to see that parking rules ,are observed when we read of all this we give enthusiastic praise to the minds of the Utah pioneer leaders whose efforts ef-forts led to the layiug out of Utah cities cit-ies with wide streets and avenues. -on. |