The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-14
SUGGESTIONS FOR
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL
A MEMBER OF THE STUDENTS
CLUB OUTLINES A PRAcTI.
CAL PLAN.
Something Interesting For The Little
Folks To %.

The ladies of the Students Club fee
very grateful to the Herald for allow
ing them to use their columns as ;
meeting place where they and tbs
other ladies OF the town can exchange
hopes and plans for the improvement
and identifying of our little city
whose natural beauties and advan
tages are so great No spot on this
globe has more natural gifts than ouI
home spot. with its big trees, pictures
que rocks, and rich green grass. No
landscape could furnish prettier set.
ting for homes than this, and now
when every town and city is working
with enthusiastic emulation toward
making itself a model of order, health
and beauty, Columbia cannot miss the
inspiration, and when she wakes to
action, we shall not be disappointed
in the result. 1t is true we have some
rather serious obstacles in the way of
rapid progress, for we are somewhat
like half-grown boy or girl-not
large enough for full city privileges
and too large for the simple ways of
the village or small town yet these
very obstacles can be so overcome as
to bring us peculiar beauty possessed
by neither little town nor city.
AS our little city is too small to
have the regulation street cleaning
force, such as a city has, it will have
to be the work of each dwelling to
keep its own individual spot of street
as clean as possible. Some visitors
in Columbia recently remarked on the
quantity of dirty papers blowing about
On the streets. Here is one simple |
little thing that even our boys and |
girls can help in. Indeed the boys
and girls this summer, even the tiny
little tots, can really have great fun
while doing a good work-by organic
ng themselves into bands with cap
aims and other officers for gathering
Up loose papers, banana peels, ETC.,
md keeping weeds and grass off the
Davements. If some ''grown-ups" will
lelp get the little folks started, this
will be fine amusement for summer
mornings, and little chaps who can't
"a induaod to wOpk mothar,c Anuyar
eds, can do a lot of work as captain,
orporal or sergeant of the South
lain Street Improvement Company
Or as mayor or president
the West Seventh Municipal Or
anization. 1t has been suggested
1at good uniform for such brig
de would be bare feet, blue overals,
r blue aprons for the girls and straw
ats The weapons for such soldiers
lust be old knives, old brooms, and
little red wagon as an am
llance to bear off the dead grass,
eeds, and papers to the hospital, or
trash can or barrel
With the G. M. A. boys before them
incite to brilliant deeds and faith
i work, what might we not expect?
specially if the grown people will
st be so nice and interested-as
ell as interesting-as to show inter-
t In the work of this Summer School
Columbia Universally, pass judg- :,
ent on it as they drive by in the "
enings and perhaps-who knows? =
some father or mother may under
and boys and girls so well as to offer =,
a prize big watermelon, or a
Eat of soda water, to the valiant
igade that has conquered most
'eds. captured most papers, and -
epared the cleanest spot of pave ~
mt for church-goers to pass over on
nday morning.
Are there any boys and girls who m
uld like to take Up such summer di
rk. We feel sure they can count fie
the Herald for advice and encour- We
sment when NEEDED, and a Children's
usatie can be begun that WIN count n
much. VI
ONE OF THE STUDENTS