The Redwood gazette., 1902-04-16
WHAT WE WOULD DO # WE COULD.
Mayor Aune Tells of Some Improvements
That Might Be Made.

Mayor Aune Tells Of Some Improvements
That Might Be Made.
To the man of public spirit in any
city or town the question of local
Improvements is always aninterest-
ing problem. After all, life should
not be all absorbed in the one idea
to get money, and lots OF it. We
also want our homes beautiful. our
surroundings pleasant and our.
streets clean and wholesome. We
are pleased when our home town is
attractive Even satisfactory bank
balance will not make our homeWard
way joyful if we are forced to reach
it by wading through mud or gliding
through thicket of weeds. A we'll
kept city is standing and effective
advertisement of real estate. It
pays in dollars and cents.
But alas! The public spirited
citizen is held back by the urgent
need of having the tax levy OF his
town reasonable. A man who sees
his house and lot sold for taxes to
the ever active aud festive tax
shark, could not be comforted by
the thought that the aforesaid tax
shark had become the owner OF the
lot in finely improved and up-to-
date city. So we must recognize the
fact that some things we could do
are not the things we would do, We
are forced to cut off and do without
| improvements we would all welcome.
And we trim down the budget to tit
| the width and depth of the tax pay
ers pocket book, and often find that
the things we want with a big s'W'
are the things that must be trimmed
off the ledger of Improvements, and
the net result seems often open to
the objection of the old lady in the
4 poor house to her dinner: 1t ain t
good enough and there ain t enough
of it,
/ The first thing we would have, il
we could, would be to take advant-
age of all that is offered to this city
in the beautiful lake to be given us
!. by the enterprise and business abil
lily of our esteemed fellow toWnsman
! August Bnrmeister. We would ce-
ment a part of that lake and every
! evening in the hot otmonths we would
have an ideal bathing ground within
a fifteen minute walk of every child
in Redwood Falls. We would have
the bathing ground guarded by
chains and posts and we would put
in charge of it a competent man who
could teach every youngster to be 9
good swimmer. By this we would
save the sacrifice of life which may
be the price we shall have to pay
for this added and splendid improve
ment to our city We would fur
ther, if we could, have the grounds
so attractive that the public bath
would be feature OF Redwood life.
We would surround the lake with a
drive and walk that would almost
force the LATEST to take exercise.
Nature has given to Redwood Falls
a natural park that Chicago or Bal
timore would give a fortune to equal;
we only wish we had that fortune to
improve it.
| The next thing we would have,
but for the stringency in the city
finances, is suggested by the sue
cess of this forum Were it possi-
BILE we would build city hall and
furnish to the forum for its meeting
la commodious hall, and heat and
light it during the winter months.
After getting the people clean in the
summer we would make them intel
ligent in the winter. We would en-
courage just such discussions as
this aud we would add to it further
( a we'll equipped library where the
members of the forum could read
before speaking You will pardon
me if | suggest that some of the eff
forts of the past winter in this
learned assembly indicate that some
times the talk came first. Here the
people would throng to hear argu-
ments on topics running in import
anee from reforms in morals, science,