Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1911-02-11

+, With upper berths now lower, look Tor
the travelling man -hgher up.
food intentions make poor paving ma,
teriai for pleasantvilies streets.
The world would not be so full Of
kickers if we all mad wooden legs.
What the public welfare needs in legis-
latiye bodies is the key to deadlocks
When everything else goes amiss the
alib is the lullaby that puts justice to
sleep
The two hardest things for man to
catch up with are his ambitions and his
debts,
Voters, like dynamite, sometimes re-
sent that familiarity that breeds con-
tempt.
The inventor has neve, been born who
could patent scheme for making both
ends meet.
When town ceases to grow it COM
mences to die, and the. more the people
| try to kill off each other in their bust
ness and good name, the more rapidly
will utter ruin come to all. Stand to-
gether for the advancement of every
citizen If man shows ability to pros
per do not pull him back with jealousy
or weigh him down with cold indlfer-
ence.
\ local paper is often accused Of bias
in giving personal notices-comment
on the coming and going of some and
| emitting others. The accusation is in
variably wrong and unjust. The fault is
J with the people and not with the editor
He is always willing and even anxious
/, to tell who comes and who goes. if he
can find out, but country paper can not
afford to have score of salaried report
ers and must depend on the people to
some extent. If you have visitors, let
us know who they are and where they
are from if anything happens in your
| vicinity, let us know about it.
At the post office few days ago a
young man accosted the editor with the
remark, Please, sir, back this letter for
me- Did you write the letter?v was
| asked No sir, friend did it for me,
and signed my name. | can't write" !"
| How sad, we thought, that man, full
| grown, should be uneducated these days
| of free education, to write and yet far
| better that he should be utterly ignorant
than to use his hand to write and send
OH its evil way an anonymous letter.
| bearing its baneful message to the inju-
ry of the character or business integrity
| of a fellow being. Robbery steals a
| mans goods, murder robs him of life,
but the sneaking insinuations of the
| anonymous letter destroys his peace of
| mind, injuries his influence, and stabs
| him in the back with a towards weapon.
We execrate the man who, for revenge,
| would poison a well. How much more
! shout. we abominate and condemn the
man or woman who would, in malice,
! send forth the anonymous letter to poi
son the minds OF an innocent mans
neighbors. leaving him utterly without
the means of defense. Shame on the
man or woman who would thus violate
] the moral law
To be truly conservative is to be fairly
abreast with the times, and to be in
keeping with the spirit and purpose OF
the day A person can be radically be-
hind as well as radically forward This
is a proposition of which a great many
| people lose sight, and yet it is self-evi-
dent The watchword of municipal gov
ernment is forward for the betternent
of local conditions, and, being forward in
the Improvement Of municipal govern
ments and the Improvement of physical
conditions of the town and cities, is not
equivalent to being radical. We can on,
ly win our way forward by adopting
those Improvements which have beer
tried and accepted by The best cities anc
towns in this country and abroad. a
clean town. good streets, proper drainage
ali go along together. You can not have
cleanliness unless you have the means
and method of purifying the physica
condition Of municipality. You mus
have good surface drainage and goot
sewage if you want a town that evel
closely approaches the approved and ac
cepted conditions of cleanliness ant
healthfulness in places where population
is concentrated. Sewage and goo'
streets must naturally 60 along togeth
er. You can scarcely have the one with
out having the other. and it should b
the purpose Of the town government an
Of the people Of Pleasantville to hav
these things in their proper order and \
nearly together and at the same time 4
actual construction can make them
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