It’s been quite a while since the “spring cleanups” – and this seems a good time for Utalms to pitch in again and rid their premises of litter. Litter is a slap in the face of your community – a black mark on civic pride. Shabby premises, including littered and weed grown lots and streets can depreciate the appearance and value of the entire neighborhood Everyone should care about litter and here are some reasons given in a Community Litter Prevention Guide distributed by the Utah Brewers Association: – Litter costs American taxpayers $500 million annually for removal from streets, parks, beaches and other public property. Include litter cleanup costs on private grounds and the figure more than doubles. – There’s enough litter generated during one long holiday weekend in the country to fill a line of trash trucks 43 miles long or fill a hole 10 feet wide and 26 miles deep. – Five times in every hour an American home is destroyed or severely damaged by fire started in rubbish or trash. The cost – an estimated $30 million per year. – Water litter and road litter have been shown to be responsible for both boating and vehicular accidents involving personal injury as well as damage to property and facilities. Now’s the time to size up the job on your own property and plan appropriate action. This goes, too, for school campuses and property owned by cities, counties, the state, and federal government. In some cases weeds are growing up through and along sidewalks in downtown areas, and on the parking strips. Cleanup means beautification and a neater, better – kept city. Keeping America (and Utah) beautiful is a day-to-day job and control of litter is one of the first steps. So They Suy “Some standards im osed on urban areas such as View York City are impossible ones, in that they will never be achieved. Others are achievable only if we accept a firm no-growth policy.” -Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, calling for more equitable treatment for New York, citing the fact that last year the federal government took $10.6 billion more from New York state than it returned. “On the one hand, many businessmen encourage a rhetorical anti-communism that seems more concerned with liturgical obeisance than practical achievement. On the other hand they tend to resist – in the name of free enterprise – any attemtgt to control the level of trade or e rate of credits or to relate them to concrete foreign policy developments.” -l-lenry Kissinger, chiding U.S. business for its shortsightedness and lack of understanding of its long-range goals.