The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-06-24

tue COmDlu6u PERSONALITY duu I6
sources of the present municipal
administration. The Mayor and
Board MEMBERS expert superin,
tendents to direct the work, cor
poration carts and labor to haul
away all resultant waste and ref.
use, coal-oil and chemicals to kill
mosquitoes, destroy typhoid, and
disinfect the bre@diug grounds Of
these plaques and curses of hu-
manity, will be on hand to help
the good cause.
Although the mayor did not
commit himself to the policy ola
part of that desirable workY<it has
been doubtless suggested to him
by some OF the fastidious of our
townfolk that it would be better to
have "White- Wings" like those
employed in other municipalities,
as street cleaners than the feath-
cred Black Wings which at pres
ent perform some of that work
free of cost in a slovenly way. 1t
is claimed by such squeamish per
sons that the conditions which at
tract those baldheaded scavengers
should not be permitted to remain.
The system suffers none from of
fetal neglect, but it is.wrong in the
original for the picture of glut-
tonous buzzards battling over the
slush of garbage barrels and roost-
ing on the roofs above larvae-in-
tested rainwater cisterns is not
conducive to the normal appetite
or the internal comfort of a very
considerable proportion of our
population. The townspeople may
hope for 3 wiser way out of the
wilderness in hematter of garbage
disposal which does not involve
the free employment of forty odd
thousand ,altures every weekday
and Su ay, too
If the incipi Mt Civic Associa-
ton should des rpate any special
day 10 begin that extra monthly
cleaning up, and arrange for its
regular periodic continuance, in
the opinion of the most of our
worthy men and women we might
In time make our local existence
almost Utopian.
Barring the presence of about
thirteen trillion typhoid flies, twelve
billion mosquitoes of various sects
and different psalms and hymn
tunes, and half hundred thou
sand revolving vultures, the town
is all alright as it is. And our
tree shaded little city, so noted for
the attractive natural features of
its location and for the superior
mental and physical characteristics
of numbers of its inhabitants, truly
merits the title of THE Town
Beautiful. But, just like it is
with lovely woman, it is neces-
sary to keep it extra clean and
fresh-looking for that beauty which
attracts the eye and wins the ad-
miration. Just little stain on a
fair lady's gown arrests and dis
pleases the sight more than a large
splotch on the skirt of homely
scrubwoman.
Some of our leading citizens
maintain that if we wish to make
the town truly an Utopia we must
not have it SO that the eye may
casually turn from the blushing
bloom of the rose to the black
wing of vulture rocking to the
summer breeze on the green
branches of our grand old trees.
We must not allow the ear listen
ing to the vesper songs of birds
and the holy evening hymns of our
churches to be startled by the
shiny slosh of emptying slop bar
rels, the buzz of myriads of pu-
trescence-born flies and the ven
omous hum of malarial mosquitoes.
We must not let the delightful
nostrils drinking in the fragrance
of the flowers. and the fragrance
of dewy grass-swards be vigorous
|ly assaulted by crudiform am
mona, carburetted and sulphur
cited hydrogen and other very able
chemical compounds furnished to
unappreciative humanity by Old
Mother Nature to make men enjoy
n...oeA .,arfr.rnes. all the hetter for