Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-10-16

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Going o. With this sans (heught, the
third fundansntal reveals itself In
he statement that under no condi-
tons can . city afford to reject it,
physical plant. The railroad that
pays out TIE bulk Of IL earnings in
dividends on watersd stock and neg
lscts TO keep its road ~ IN repair,
it, rolling stock IN good order. or a.
lows the physical equipment to be-
come run down, win sooner or later
70 into the hands Of . rscsiver. The
factory that does not repair the leaks
in the boiler tubes. furnish Iubricat-
ing oil for its engines or get belt
ing for the machinery, can expect
sooner or later to land in the scrap
heap.
The same 10 literally true Of a
city. Neglect your sewers, or your
water supply, pollute and saturate
your soil with animal and human ex-
creta, leave your garbage pals on
the hack steps to be emptisd by the
dogs, or hauled through your streets
in hand wagons or wheel barrows and
you will reap the harvest. You will
pay the bill through tho undertaken,
through the positive refusal Of capt.
tai to invest in your community,
through the moving away Of all those
who are able to leave and whose
brains and money and energy you
badly need.
The cities, Zig or little, all over
the world that are going ahead are
those that are in the best physical
conditions, whether that city is To-
Gated in Europe or South America or
the United States.
Deming has a future, provided
these lessons are needed. Deming
mas mineral and agricultural re-
sources that should make her city
Of fifty to one hundred thousand in
the next ten years. Get ready for
il now. Plan the city. Take up the
wasted places and beautify them.
Don't let an addition be made without
Il provides a place for the park and
the school and the coming manufac-
turers. Put the work In the right
condition. Build the small homes.
but build them right. Not mere
shacks in which men and women can
exist, but homes in which they can
live. II viii pay, it always has paid.
Never has a failure been known along
these lines.
The last fundamental for making
a real city is organization along ef-
aciency lines. Several times in the
writer's life it has fallen to his LOT
to be one Of company Of fifty or
sixty wearing the uniform Of this
government and facing mob Of sew
eral thousand, and never have we
known Of the mob rushing the CON-
pany.
You may select eleven Of the
brawniest savages in the world and
put them on the football field and we
will defeat them with the Deming
High School team. In other words.
il is organized efficiency ready for
business, against the mob and say
age strength.
The chamber Of commerce and the
commission form Of government are
the FIRST scientific moves that have
been made in America along these
lines. Our cities are wasteful. Mon
ey, time and energy are wasted. Two
efficiency organizations trying to ac-
complish the same thing at the same
time result in doing nothing. I'm
agine a football match and a base
ball game being conducted on the
same diamond. But we find in our
cities special commissions. individu-
ais, organizations crossing each 9th
ers' lines all the time, without cooper
alton and without coordination, and
here We have the vast waste that
prevents the making Of n real city.
Study, plan, act. A real city costs
The city level Of prosperity
is the general level Of the success
Of the individual and business en-
terprises. This general level depends
on you. II you have waste. careless
ness, indifference, debt, bad health.
L is because you, and by you mean
The man reading this article, IL you |
have read this far and want II so. |
you ere either too Indifferent or too
lazy to endeavor to correct II. II
you are efficient, growing and up-to-
late, ii Is on account Of the stand
ard you have set and the city lives
up to It, so measure a city's pros