The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-13
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Mrs. F. 8. Hines Takes Up
This Important Subject
For the Bay View Club
and Makes a Pointed Al
gument.
WE WILL HEAR AGAIN

The Bay View Reading Club was or.
ganized a little over four years ago
for the purpose Of the intellectual ad.
vancement Of its members, and while
we have thoroughly enjoyed the liter
AIRY advantages that have accrued
therefrom, as was limited in last weeks
issue, We have decided that the time
has come for us IT, live less selfshly
and more for the good of our fellow
men.
Casting about for q field in which
to labor, nothing has appealed to us
more forcefully than that of endeav.
oring to make this little city of ours
more beautiful and more healthful.
/ use beautiful" and "healthful'
side by size for display has ever been
a health crusader. Generally speak.
ing, residence streets are cleaned in
small towns just as waterworks are
introduced, to crafty the display mo.
tive of those who have lawns 10 water
and clothes to show. Get people inter
csted in identifying their homes and
civic cleanliness is bound to follow.
1t was love of display quite AZ much
AS love OF beauty that gave Greece
the goddess Hygeia, the worship of
whom expressed secondarily u desire
for universal health, and primarily a
love Of the beautiful.
1t is the inalienable right of every
property-holder in Tucumcari to beau.
tify his home, but how is he to do so
if everyone persists in throwing pa
pers, tin.cans and all sorts of rubbish
broadcast to be carried along by the
all.too.frequent wind.storms that pswee
through our valley'
Most of the rights we call i%nalien.
able are political rights no longer
questioned by anybody and ne longer
thought Of in connection with our ev.
eryday acts, pleasures and necessities.
The relation of man to mar today re.
quires that we formulate rules of &C.
tion that prevent one man s taking
from another those rights, economies
aud industrial that are as essential TO
twentieth century happiness as were
political rights to our forefathcrs two
centuries ago.
Let every man, woman and child On.
list in this crusade against filth and
disease and battle for u greater Tu.
cumcari. Health rights, like political
rights can only be obtained through
common action. Everybody ought to
join in this war, for the Fight against
~uncleanliness is a fight 10, health and
for vitality, for a fair chance against
e%nvironmental conditions preindicial
to efficient citizenship.
Ii efficient laws do not already ex-
list for tho protection Of the health Of
our people, let the City Council enact
such ordinances as will compel the neg.
ligent to be more careful. The wis.
dom of our citizens In establishing a
sewerage system Is to be commended.
This will afford and escapement for
much Of the filth that has heretofore
been a baneful disgrace to our com.
munity. But let not the good work
end here; let us provide for some way
of disposing Of the rubbish from our.
downtown district besides being cart
ed out TO some vacant spot to be blown
back By the first Tucumcari zephyr,
Let us insist that dead animals and
chickens he buried instead Of being
left uncovered TO breed stencil and di.
sease. Investigate u grocery stores
and see if the food they have to sell
is kept in a sanitary manner, screen
cd from flies, the soiled hands of
children and the noses Of dogs. No
class in a community will respond more
quickly to an appeal for the rigid en-
foreement of the health laws than the
merchant class.
How about these stables and pigger
les that exist in some parts of town de
priving the residents in their neighbor
hoods Of even sleep ON warm and windy
nightst Housewives, examine your
milkhottles and notice whether you will
find any sediment or not.
These hints are merely dropped tC
awaken the citizens Of this city to the
crying need of a campaign for cleanli
ness. No educational work will accom-
plish more for any community than t.
make rich and poor alike conscious oi
nuisances that are being committed
against themselves and their neighbors
Habits nj cleanliness are easily Axe,