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.SQUALOR ON THEROADSIDES*
_Is the . person who litters the roadside with trash invariably a monster ? Probably not. He is, of course,, if he loads his car with junk and deliberately deposits it along the highway under cover of darkness. The tourist who carelessly tosses the wrapper of a candy bar out of a car window may really be a decent human being led into error by the condition - of the roadsides as left by those who came ahead of him. But in this way the nuisance is compounded; we are all degraded by contributing to roadside squalor,, even moderately, or by tolerating, it. Sick and tired of the, litter and of the task of hauling it away, highway departments have begun to try to reason with people, appealing to pride and purse. .. The Missouri State Highway Department has invited drivers and passengers to throw a penny—or possibil? a nickel—out the win-# f dow with each piece of rubbish discarded, as a reminder of the cost of roadside cleanup. The new anti-litter film of the. Nebraska Department of Roads and Irrigation ... mixes persuasion, logic and ridicule . . . To all the education we suggest that a direct address to the pocketbook and to self-respect be added. Double vigilance, catch the worst offenders if you can, fine them and see that their names reach the editors of local papers.
—Better Roads Magazine
Nov. 1953 ' •*. v w.t-, 1,11 —— i ■ — . . _> . • » •
Any man who aspires to power - without first becoming humble, is attempting to grasp the strength of the wind in his hand.
To many the leaps of impulse are considerably greater than the bounds of reason, V
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