Show Clean Up For The Visitor FOR REASONS OF BOTH economics and genuine Utah heartily welcomes the visitors who come to enjoy what we fondly believe to be some of the nation's greatest tourist AT LEAST WE FEEL WE are giving them a warm But are WHAT SORT OF WELCOME does a visitor feel as he drives past weed-choked and rubbish-strewn vacant or piles of trash on curbs in what ought to be well-kept towns HOW WARM A WELCOME is conveyed by an old of which there are hundreds in rotting in the waiting for a strong breeze to blow it over but meanwhile standing as an eyesore to all who pass Or ancient farm long abandoned to rust by a farmer who to haul it out of sight How welcome does a visitor feel as he drives along highways littered with facial tissues and beer cans and broken WE LIKE We like them personally and we like the million they add each year to the state's BUT HOW WELL DO THEY like us Do they go home determined to return and tell their friends about a wonderful Or do they leave with unpleasant thoughts about a people who don't care enough about themselves and their visitors to keep their state clean and WE DON'T BELIEVE are really of the careless character their farmyards and city streets sometimes We prefer to think that through long habit they just don't see the eyesores that offend IT'S TIME WE START seeing It's time to enforce the new law that allows a community to clean up a weed-choked lot and send the owner the It's time to force junkyard operators to shield their collections from the highways with fences or move them someplace It's time to crack down on highway with stiff fines up In the the law or as has been done in other sentencing them to clean up several miles of highway It's time for communities to get together with concerted public pressure against residents who harbor eyesores on their own private Let's clean up Let's give our visitors an impression worthy of the kind of people who really live |