The record., 1912-06-13
The Needs Of Our City.

! NOTWITHSTANDING we HaNC dH up
to date model town in some respects
situated upon an elevated plateau
sufficiently undulatlng to give it an
admirable drainage, with well ar
ranged streets and sidewalks of
concrete work, nice modern built
residences on all the public streets,
with beautiful yards of bluegrass
clustered with flowers of every hue.
Notwithstanding we are free from
the practice of immoral conduct of
gaming and dissipation that mars
the peace of society, yet we greatly
stand in need of some things.
There is still a feature of rudeness
manifested in the disposition of
some of our citizens to adhere to
the usages and customs of the past.
We find this to be cropping out
in the conduct of some of those
that have been entrusted to look
after the welfare and piogressiveness
of our city. Unfortunately they
lack nerve and moral courage to
meet the demands of the times.
Their tim idity renders them in
capable of meeting with the required
demands that belong to progressive
civilization. There can be no
greater annoyance and nuisance
than brigade of starved chickens
to be prowling around over the
streets and alleys of our town, in
vading the gardens and flower beds
of homes and doing more harm
than hogs or COWS. We understand
that four of our honorable council
men failed to have sufficient nerve
to pull a setting hen from her nest,
and voted for the chickens to have
full sway in their destructive effects
and to continue a nuisance, to ag-
gravate the people who want to live
in peace and refinement. The said
parties seem to be reluctant to CIV
ing their support to the improve
ment of the conditions of our town,
or they seem to have a disposition
to forage their own chickens on the
premises and effects of their neigh
bors, such conduct shows that they
have a real old time back wood
symptoms ranking IN their mortal
makeup; but it is to be hoped that
the scales of delusive rudepess
may yet fall from their eyes and
they may be able to con1 and
to understand the present needs and
requirements of our town, as do
many of those with whom they are
associated and who seem to be in
their ADVANCE with better regulated
ideas OF Ap-to-date custom and OF
a more refined system of procedure
of living. We think 1t would be a
capital idea for the progressive peo-
pie of the town to persuade these
four councilmen to travel and agree
to pay their expenses if they would
visit some of the up-to-date towns
in Kentucky or elsewhere and see
the decorum displayed in the regu-
lation in regard to cows, hogs, dogs
and chickens. We think that such
would prove to be valuable lesson
to them and would give them cour-
age to initiate the examples of the
more progressive places and they
would be better qualified to pro-
ceed in the improvement of our
town. All fairmlnded people know
that when people are settled in close
proximity, that a lot of chickens
running at large are troublesome and
aggravating and ought not to be al
lowed thus to roam. There seems
to be about as much propriety and
fairness in restricting chickens from
running on the public throughfares
as there is in restricting COWS and
hogs from the same. It was hoped
that we had an up to date and pro-
gressiye council and that they would
strike for higher and more defined
status of living Instead of exhibiting
a cast Of fcgyisw and a want ol
nerve.
There is another nuisance tina,
should be looked after. We are OF
the opinion that the dog crop of the
city is too abundant for our needs
and demands. We think that the
dog industry should be looked aftel
by the proper authorities. 1t would
be progressive idea to retire the
dogs to the back yards for safe