Newark post., 1910-10-26
AN APPRECIATION
OF NEWARK
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the town as we'll as its condition a
hundred years ago. These little dwell
ings existing side by side with the
new and modern buildings, with All
their Improvements, help the stranger
to read at a glance, as if it were, the
progress achieved. But while this
contrast no doubt attests the advance
of the town, the very existence OIL
these old houses, preserved not by an
historical motive, but by the force OF
their own self preservation, no doubt
also testifies to the existence OF many
conservative nature as yet unin-
fluenced by the march of new IDEAS
This simple case is mentioned only as
little instance of many phrase OF
town life. OF course, no one could
attempt to criticize Newark for lacE.
of mechanical improvements, Each
town like each individual has its own
excellencies, and it is in the measure
in which these are fulfilled that the
place is living up to its standard.
The primary exceilencies OF a coun-
try town, whatever other advantages
it may possess, is undeniably sanitary
conditions. PEOPLE fee from the con-
gested cities to the beautiful country
towns to seek health How gre at then
is the surprise OF the newcomer to
Newark, when he frs. sees ali along
the cutters pools OF filthy water, full
OF flies and mosquitoes and other car
riers OF diseases!
The ity person on seeing those
conditions cannot help but think that
the city is actually more sanitary than
the country. In the city there are ef-
iective measures for the supervision of
water and milk supplies, but there are
no such provsionin i'll rural communI-
ties. SO long as their well water is
cold and lilnpid ard they cannot see
with the naked eye, those things which
the college professors call microbes,
the people will hold on to their wells.
There are, it is true, some voices from
the press and other enlightened cen
ters crying out for the need of a sew
age system. But it is as yet a voice
crying in the desert When one thinks
of all the industrial advance it would
have meant for Newark to have sew.
age system, and still more of the loss
OF many dear ones, one cannot help
believing that the town is somewhat
slow to act, and content with condi-
tions which would have alarmed other
communities. Slow not in planning
and advising efficient and economies
means for success, but slow in realiz-
! ing the need of the thing in question.
! To one coming from more sanitary
place the sewage question appears to
him a moral question. The loss of
the many friends in Newark, which
can never be repaired ought to weigh
| on the conscience of each inhabitant
OF this town and awaken every ones
attention to the need of cooperative
work in the line OF sanitary improve
| ment.
| Much also could be said on the way
| the educational situation impresses the
stranger, if space would allow it. The
privilege that Newark has in posses
ing the college in its midst, lew Of the
people can realize to its full extent.
| The college not only benefits the few
that seek knowledge under its roof,
but has an influence far more reach
ing; it raises the standard of life in
the community in the midst of which
| it exists, improves the whole run of
our mental moral and physical we'll
being, even though we may be uncon-
scious of it. That Newark would not
have been what it is to-day, without
the college is thing easv to realize.
But on the other hand that it is not
what it could have been because it
does not sufficiently cooperate with
| the college activities is a thing which
few people as yet recognize. One
notices with regret that town which
possesses SO many scholars, college
professors, men OF science, ministers
trained as we'll in secular as in church
knowledge, press standing for en-
lightened ideas, should take so little