The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-06-01
SOME THINGS LAMBERTVILLE NEEDS.
Extracts of paper read before the
Kalma cInb

York street on Monday evening, May
23rd. In the absence of the Presi-
dent, Mrs. Lilly, the Vice President,
occupied the chair. The officers to
serve the ensuing year, were elected
as follows:
President Miss Annie +. Stout.
Vice President Mrs. s. w. Coch-
ran.
Rec. Secretary Mrs. Chas. Dilts.
Cor, Secretary Miss Elizabeth b.
Titus.
Treasurer Mrs. James f. Lyman.
The subject of work for the coming
year is the study of India.
During the past year papers have
been written on Spain and Mexico and
some miscellaneous subjects in addi-
ton. The following extracts are TAX
EN- from paper written ON
'Some Things Lambertville Needs.
zone of our greatest Weaknesses i'll
Lnmbertvile Is that we call ourselves
a town and go on without knowing
We are a city, and without eultivating
a we'll developed civic conscience,
which we need because we are city.
For in cities, prominently must the
wholesome restraints of law and self
control and unselfishness rule if we
would have anything worth striving
for.
As business men become absorbed
in private concerns they neglect pub
lie interests. Men and women who
wash their hands of public concerns
are ns truly responsible for municipal
misrule Ms are the men who are in
politics for revenue only" The bad
citizenship of our good men and We
men is our aifliction.
We need everyone to he willing to
live for his city. To dare to suffer i'll
popularity because the work is for
principle. not for applause. We need
men willing to work while in office,
and to seek position when out of 1t
because they do not lose sight of the
public welfare.
The patriotism of tho good citizen
must he sleepless as that of the bad
citizen. The watchword of the past
years has been Rights. That of
the new should be DUTY"
Every reform divides society into
three classes Friends, Enemies and
the Indifferent. II success comes it
must be by the winning of the indif-
ferent. One of the means whereby
we might win the Indifferent of our
city to the fulfillment of their duty
would he to have digest of our city
laws printed. Also add to the lenflet
the duties of the City and County
officials together with their oaths of
IL strengthen public opinion. Does
not ignorance account largely for our
lack of public spirit, and the immun-
ity of those violationsof the laws with
which we nre familiar?
When we place these high standards
in view let MS not condemn in any
but instead, turn our thoughts to
those who are takingtheir places year
by year aud will continue to do so.
our community has many boys and
young men who desire to add to an
imperfect education. Necessity has
compelled boys to leave school, the
family demanded and needed the
assistance. These and others desire
TINT night school should be opened.
Provision could he made for it by our
City School Board aud regularly quail
flied teachers provided Add to this
night school IL short course of edu-
cation for citizenship and place ON
rs are valuable and instructive on the
same subject. 1t would take only n
few years to prove TINT the idea il not
n chimericnl one, but would simply
bring into balance the work of educa-
ton with the final net of useful man
hood. II would at once raise the
standard for citizenship.
Let us consider some things TINT
would make for beauty in our city.
If our streets are narrow and we can
not help it, and if our home lots are
smaller than we like, yet we can get
rid of some of the ugly objects. Two
of the things that might be handled
without gloves nre advertisements and
high board fences. These sometimes
together We have more than one
instance on our streets.
The Society for Checking the
Abuses of Public Advertising, is able
to tell Of much good work done. We
can heartily endorse the desire of New
Jerseys head. Gov. Murphy, who has
made an effort to remove the hundreds
of great advertising boards which dis
figure and blot ont the landscape on
the line of the Pennsy lvania II. Il.
between New York and Philadelphia.
Surely, if we were all distinctly
conscious of our citizenship, aud Of
the truth that the welfare of all Is the
concern Of each, we would not be the
ones to maintain the board fences, or
to back notices Of any kind on the
poles.
And we wonld urge and endorse
underground wires for our telephone
and electric light service, and compel
it for all future trolley roads.
We hope to live to greet the day
when fences shall disappear from all
our door yards and lawns. Not until
then shall we have done all we can
and show ourselves with we'll devel =
oped civic consciences. We must con
fess we fail to see the use of what we
call our front fences. 1T seems to be
n selfish feeling proclaiming ''this gar
den is mine" Why not make one
town better to look upon?
We should demand prompt compli