The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-15
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions a. to
How to auiI6 4 Wichita.

How to Build q Wichita.
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To the Editor OF the Eagle:
Now that lot OF people begin to think
and the more they think over the stun
the hot-air fellow gave vent to In the
Auditorium a few Sundays since about
Wichita and her husbands, wives. daugh-
tiers and sons. they feel like kicking them
selves-that they listened TO IT They
think ne is too small TO kick.
II there is anything more cruel to ami
mals than TO shear them in the early
spring / don't know it. see IL has begun
already IL is cruel and unnatural If a
horse Is properly groomed. fed and blan-
keted he VIII shed his coat early enough.
and as fast as il is healthy for him.
Stop II.
/ would not confine my climbing vine
planting to the residence or front porch.
but plant maderias over the porch: wild
cucumbers over another and cucumber
vines TO run over the woodshed and barn.
and cannas here. chrysanthemums there
and cailalillics and olsalders in other
places; cover your back fence with mas
turtions and border your walk with Pc
onas. Make your yard beautiful and you
Will be happy. The effect that beautiful
yard will produce in the giaddensng OF
faces. with the happy comments. win
doubly repay you.
I see by the Eagle that arrests OF BOYS
are being made almost every day for
, a nj Tod.
l learn that the reason these lads are not
in school is that they cannot be con-
trolled very well in school: too much of
a disturbing element. especially to The
teachers. hence they are roaming the
alleys and stealing. Every city OF this
size ought TO have a school building
modern, as good as any in the city. with
teachers peculiarly fitted TO handle such
boys and extra care taken to train and
handle them. This thing OK chasing or
crowding them out of school and chasing
them until they are run down and landed
into JAN for petty crimes Is a mistake.
morally. financially and humanely. MANY
of these lads are sinned against nsore
than SHINING.
/ am glad TO be able TO repor: progress
on the high school building, as well as
Inc auditorium but do dread the scrap
that will be engaged in over the location
OF the two institutions Already the
scrappers are preparing themselves, COM
mencing TO practice on punching bags.
There is a new CRATER or grafteress in
town-it is hard TO determine the sex
ri w ha
female. it also assumes the male to a
very large extent Outside observation
will hardly determine and yet the suckers
are standing around with their mouths
open ready to contribute to its scheme
1 would have the legislature pass a law
requiring all home building associations
and associations whose organization or
inccrporators consists of less than a half
dozen persons and all belonging 10 the
same family. with no visible or invisible
capital, to publish monthly their business
Where the money is that their agents
collected from day to day. how much Of
1t is deposited in the name of the organi-
zation, how much OF 1t is deposited in the
name OF the Individual officers or MEM
bers of the family. The government re-
quires its national banks to publish state
ments a number OF times during the year.
The state requires the same Of its state
and private banks. Life insurance
companies do the same. Wichita's
two building and loan association
statements are familiar with all
who are interested. Concerns that are
gotten up without one dollar OF original
~
agents-allowing them big per cent Of
what they can work the public for-should
be made 20 not only show down their
business. but should also be made TO show
their books and accounts TO verify their
statements. i make this plea for the in
experienced and unwary who are DESTROYS
of getting something and listening to the
hot air talks. are induced to invest. only
to discover that they have been robbed
No organization or association that Is
doing ar honorable, legitimate business.
fears publicity. for the more II is talked
of the more IL prospers. There are organ
izations. corporations. associations or
something whose success depends upon
the secrecy Of its business. They are
started on distrust. builded on distrust.
live for a time-as long as they are able
to keep the inner workings OF their busi-
ness a secret-they will thrive. but finally
there comes a limit 20 their promises. then
the collapse: then the innocent suffer and
the guilty are not to be found
Last summer the Regulator mentioned
the fact OF a lady who had a pitcher OF
ice water In readiness for the mail car
rier The following Monday the carriers
had enough ice water offered them 70
swim the whole carrier force. but none
OF them were offered lemonade. ice tea.
or buttermlIk or hot tea.
don't think We can harmonic a one
hundred and fifty thousand dollar high
school building and sixty thousand dol
lar auditorium with our dirt streets.
would make every circular. almanac.
rateu. medicine ard sad iron distributor
nav q license 50 high that IL would be
probititsve. 4 half dozen times a DAY some
da,-s the door bell f. rung and zhsn the
lady Of the house arrives at the door she
VII see a small irnpufent. iowsiy-hsadsd
kid with cigarette tn RS face. cutting
acrosS lots 20 the next hoUss. In Eng
land they have organized n socis;y whOss /
members plsd<e themselves no; 20 buy u
merchants xho advertise On biH-sparfs. 1
hams. rocks. houses and fences II are 1
car.. get an ordnance stopping ibis 4
ze could refuse 20 patroniz@ - 4
poster people