The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1909-11-07
THE OPEN COURT.

To the Editor of the Greenville Times.
Says a councilman supporter of the
whistle ordinance:
1.-The passage of the ordinance
against the blowing of the whistles III
the city was adopted after due con
sideration,'' and that flor years the
citizens have appealed to the members
of the City Council to have stopped the
nerveracking whistles.' In confes
ng that the whistle ordinance was
passed LATTER due consideration, = thc
counciImen voting yes have destroyed
all chance of sympathy from those who
would like to have excused them on
he grounds of hasty action.
In my judgment, time more inop-
perfume could not have been selecte.,
o aggravate and embsrrass the factory
interests than now, when we are to
shortly -expend our best efforts toward
giving tempting encouragement to new
factories to locate here.
Does any man of common sense mag
inc for an instant that a manufacturer
Of experience would indorse the action
of the city council? He viii be in
formed that. while we welcome hin,
with open arms. we cannot ana viii!
not tolerate him to bring here that hill
eous, shrieking whistle to rack the
nerves. of our nerveless people, amt
when told that, notwithstanding the
doctors are steadily complaining OF
hard times. we have the evidence or
one of our illustrious councilmen THAI
for years and years our nervous WON
II have been driven INFO illness, ana
even death, and our children into
'pasms. by the constant, r-splitting,
lncivilized, screaming whistle, which
he heartless manufacturer infiicts upon
-.
Ii this man, the manufacturer, SHOULD
decide that we really ha In It drawn on
an overworked imagination. he would
conclude that to save him embarras
| ment we had detailed only about one
half the awful horrors suffered from
this terrible thing.
Should he see the force of their po
! sition as defended in the Democrat Of
| the 9Th inst he would undoubtedly ex-
| CLAIM: ''All hail to the Queen City
/ of the Delta. that she harbors men that
are men; men that. after years AMI
years of patient listening, after one
have in one bold stroke displayed the
remarkable nerve to arrest this NUS
apce, and the progress of their city u
ne march zof civilization: have pre-
served TO this generation. and genera
i lions to come, the lives of untold mum
| beers, who but for this timely interven-
/ tion would vet be doomed to fill pre-
mature graves.
"'After due consideration. we do
not beiieve that it was through any
lack of confidence in the skill of our
| physicians that the city council took
this matter of saving lives in their own
| hands, but rather do we think it was
their human desire to save them a
number of cold winter calls that would
soon have been upon them. No more
nervous breakdown; the cause has
been removed.
]! What matters it if IN the council s
notice of a month ago they only pro
! claimed desire TO throttle the early
whistle, leaving no hint of warning OF
the full scope of their design: what
matters it if in their investigation they
question not the factory man, his needs
for this killing disturber; what matters
all this to them. then, if in their sym
pathetic hearts and kindly wisdom Cans
/ say in their imagination), they coule
offset the cost and benefit to the mann
1 facturers of thousand whistles, witt
the prevention of the direfu resulrs
that Invariably follow the whistles
cheeriess hottest
One great discovery only leads Il
another: so in discovering to rs ths
frantic appeal Of the travelling man t.