Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-28
Open PLUMBING in Civic Affairs.

that has developed with the ages and.
us in other events of world history,
has taken it's phenomenal jump in the
beginning of this century. A gentle
that the rapid progress of the last
quarter century seemed to eclipse the
revelations OF the preceding one hun
dred years and suggested that we are
approaching the apex of world devel-
opment. Think of the wonders that
have been revealed to US in twenty
five years and then wonder what the
next twenty-five can have in store for
Ius
But we started out to pay our COM
pliments to the modern place which a
man calls home. In the first place it
longer are disea Sc ridden plumbing
arrangements concealed in an air
tight closet, there to breed infection
and odor. 1t is out in the light of day
as open as the hand of charity. The
old fashioned idea of shutting off from
gaze these emblems of convenience
has been succeeded by the one of
making a necessity attractive in itself
and putting it where it must be kept
| floors and mirrors No abiding places
are provided in the up-to date dwell
| ing for ants, reaches, rats and mice.
1t is a living demonstration of the
remarkable revolution that has taken
place in public sentiment in the mat
ter of house building
| And in the modern domicile We find
the tendency of the times exemplified
out in the open" That is the
the light of day, in all civic affairs as
well as in house building. Municipal
and State open plumbing is a public
demand. Wholesome publicity shall
be the salvation of church and state,
as well as social life.
These ideas may be borrowed from,
we do not remember where but they
| are true and we thank the man who
| invented them. They are not only
worth repeating but reading and
bordering. An exchange says:
People complain of the freedom Of
| the press and are indignant at it's
publication-and sometimes justly-Of
matters of personal nature: but So
ciety is beginning to adopt the Pauline
| doctrine that no man liveth or dieth
to himself alone. We are members.
one of another And while it is in
creasingly difficult. in a complex So
munal interests, it is best for the
public interest that what Burke and
Fox called an unlicensed press should
be restrained only by the limitations
that exclude libel and indecency"
The call of the times is not for a
| 'muckraker" but for scientific and
sanitary civic plumbing. 3. Crime and
disease should not be hidden but
| turned out to the germ killing rays OF
the sun and the searching ozone of
| the heavens and publicity. Anarchy
and intolerance are the vermin of Sc
Guided spots and secret closets. Ig-
norance crawls between the partitions
of our civic construction and breeds
crime tainted children and vice that
| knows well how to avoid our legal
| traps-if we don't watch out
The policy of the Republican party
of Maine, led by Gov Feranald, is for
| open plumbing in State affairs.
A concealng Of necessary pipes might
for a time quiet the pangs of some
hide bound tax payer. but in the end
| it has proven better to keep the house
clean and everything in sight, even if
a few disgruntled ones complain of
| the expense of modern house building,
Good roads and support of excellent
institutions of learning and the like
| are expensive but in the scheme of
modern State building they are neces
sary
The windows of our State affairs
are uncurtained and the electric light
| of publicity is turned on full blast.
| If you wish to know and understand
look and inquire at headquarters, and
| have your questions met by the mas
ter plumber of the division you wish
conference.-the figures and back them
with the evidence.
Take a look at the open plumbing.