Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-07-22
Is 1t Not a Disgrace?

Is 1t not a disgrace lOr people, es-
pee ia " the whites who claim SUI
palioritv, in presumably civilized
community, to live in the midst Of
so much filth? In our town, Just As
in thousands Of others, there Is
enough debris to breed yellow fevc'.
TO say nothing abont typhoid and
other diseases conveyed by cont2-
gion and mosquitoes. Outwardly
things look comparatively clean and
the interior OF these homes are
cleansel and garnisilcd, bnt when
YOU have said that you have said
all: for tin cans, half filled with
Stagnant water and mosquitoes, rot
ten rags. rotten wood, and other un-
mentionabe filth we have galore.
If you doubt what ! say, walk
around with your eyes half open,
and look behind our stores and un-
der some houses, and you will be-
come convert to the gravity of
the situation. The sad part of it all
is that nobody seems enough inter
ested to organize a civic league or
to insist on the authorities having
an inspector, who knows his busl-
ness, look after things. These very
persons who accumulate SO much
and destroy so little filth make
splendid mourners at the funerals
for which they are guilty.
The authorities give them dis
enfectants but they are too lazy to
use them. A cat or a dog would
Use f, but people that will not
speak to you on the street are not
ashamed of their back lots and
store lots and kitchen window. One
year ago last spring, making
eighteen months, purchased a bar
rel of rock lime for which was paid
one dollar and fifteen cents. Every
day that lime has been used and
that barrel is full TO the brim to-day,
and daily being used, as it slacks.
AT this rate / am paying for lime
forty cents year. Think of
it,. And for that folty cents, and
few other precautions, | am proba-
bly, saving the life of some person
in my or another family, and saving
much distress and expense. Of
course the cleanest people in the
world have sickness, but it is trace
able to some filthy person some
where else. Now to get any town in
healthy state it is absolutely nee
essary to get rid of any wet and
stagnant place where mosquitoes
hatch; it is necessary for the town
to see that all clogged bitches are
cleaned out; that all back premises
are disinfected; that the sun be al
lowed to shine in these places. The
writer is not troubled with these
menaces; for he lives at a distance
from stores, and his neighbors are
carefully about such
things. But if l did live near the
stores and had such ncighbors there
would be a warm time in the old
town, for it is a specie Of homicide
and suicide for so-called civilized
people to be less cleanly than cats
and dogs. If we have hit one of
these animals, unintentionally, we
hope that the dog will yell and the
fur will fly. Two ladies met each
other on the street; one was hand
somely dressed; the other in calico.
The calico lady scrubbed and swept |
and lined; the silk lady would not
to speak. On the street
one was a fashion-plate, the other
3 real woman. At home one was a
what: the other was a plain but
lady. Oh, this world is
filled with slams! If the town au-
do not look after these
choked up drains, filthy yards, lazy
people and fashion plates, there is a
class that will look after them,
the doctors, the preachers
and the under;akers. Let's get up
a little public sentiment and little
private cleaning. If we are ashamed |
in the day, sneak around in the
night, but clean up.
Neighbor.