The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-01

uniformly carried out but the comblna-
ton becomes patchwork.
"In improving either a street or an
individual home future perfection
should be studied. 10 parking a
street for example, a mar may believe
in a very narrow parking and a
correspondiugly wide carriage area,
today, while the street is net paved.
When 1t comes TO paying for paving
some time in the future he may char &c
his mind aud become fraly convinced
that a narrower area Of travel is ample,
On the other hand a home owner may
today contend that the parking should
be wide enough so as TO leave Just
room for carriages to pass In order
that there may be no weed growth
between the parking and the space
actually used in travel. In i've years
travel may so much increase that the
narrow street becomes crowded and
the parking is spoiled by carriage turn.
ing out upon 1t. Such questions
should be carefully weighed at the
beginning,
''lu a given block the majority OF the
owners of homes mag desire deep front
lawns and so set their houses we'll back
from the street. The last man to
build in the block may want a large
back garden but not willing to MAN,
tain a large front lawn SO be places his
house farther forward and shuts out
the view Of oil his n~elghbors. The
general setting for the entire row Of
houses is spoiled. The home that
suffers most IN appearance is the one
which stands prominently in the way
Of sll the others and becomes an
obstacle to civic beauty rather than 8 (,
participant 10 it. Does the fact that {
a man holds a deed to a city lot entitls |
him to the moral right to violate the 7
of bis neighbors who have /
established a beautiful neigh.
borhoOd? 3
Too frequently even the man who /
IS deeply interested 10 the beauty Of
bis OWL fails to catch the idea that
the whole town should be the unit Of
bis efforts. He mskes bis individual
home the unit snd fails to realize that Z
his resPo.sibi tiles sna bis rights do ;
not end where bis house loi Leaves of
Il Is not possible TO have $ be2ut,ul
town without having besuiii1l bones. Z
While ~besuiiiul bones % nU
necessarily result il s besuiif1i toEu 4
Oesutiful Town vii result il oeszfit1l
homes even though The grszisst E.Iass :
is mol placed upon The IndiTio0k homes
themselves. The scheme Of the Ehols :
and the drives, walks, street 7
paintings, grade;, etc which GDmpna
it is the primary concern; the h1usa Z
or homes are only incident Tn Z
bet er the factors which make NJ lie I
the better the town will BE-, un
he proper adjustment Of ali .Hs
into 3 somewhat parklike rhze
Is of more Importance thar the sco
themselves.
Violation Of community assgu
by individuals are not usutlF
re'u!t of positive desire TO mar -hf
appearance Of the general Dsguw r
hood. They are more often tht sz1 =
the absence of The genera sapsus
With a lack Of any pl Q Wllal
common to the interests Of Ill ~
individual can do no better than 70 2
ahead and improve as be THINKS bees {
his individual place without knowing (
what his n%eighbors may do OF VIE h-r
his method may conform with their. 4.
For this reason some form Of orgsniLs-
tion for unity of effort is desirable IT
the best results are TO be attained
Those towns which have accomplished
the most in the way of securing civic
beauty are bot the ones which have
spent the most money, but are those
which have established organized
effort Tor town improvement"
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