Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-02-13
4 PaoPHlOUs TINE FOR MUNICIPAL IN.
PA0vEmEMTs OF ALL KINDS.
Manufacturers Record. Feb. 5th,

@AS AO~Oh0 co'Oh improvement Ill
the market for municipal securities
should be taken advantage of
promptly by Southern communities
which are contemplating the issur-
ing OF bonds for public work. A vast
amount Of county, city and NUM-
cipial Improvements of every kind is
needed in the South, for which
bonds must he issued. At the pres
ent time there is a better market for
such securities, and coincident with
this ability to get money there is
surplus OF labor available, and man.
ufacturers of machinery and equip
ment are in a position to fill orders
to better advantage than would be
possible if all business interests were
active. The condition, therefore, is
exceptionally favorable for the prose
cution Of public work.
Throughout all parts of the South
and Southwest roads are to he built,
new streets made and old streets i'm
proved, sewerage systems and water
works are to be constructed or en-
larRed, and public buildings erected.
While it is desirable, and often i'm
pbrtant that public buildings should
be ornate and in keeping with the
life OF the community, it is especially
important that they should be abso-
lutely fireproof. Every courthouse
and every city hall ought to be
% well constructed as to make
thoroughly safe public records of all
kinds. These things are important
But the construction of the most
modern sewerage systems, and of
water-works to guarantee an ample
supply Of pure water, and the build
ing OF good roads and the paving of
streets and alleys are even more i'm
portant. These all take hold of the
essential things-health of the COM
munity. There is no greater econom-
ic wastefulness than that which by
reason of false economy prevents
municipalities from providing pure
water, the most sanitary sewerage
system and well paved streets and
alleys, which make possible city
cleanliness. Every illness and death
brought about by failure to do these
things is an economic loss due to
the laundering of incompetent offic-
ials, and this without considering
the sorrow and suffering brought by
illness and the deaths which better
sanitary conditions could have pre-
vented. The men in any community
who, from a narrow and misery
point Of view, delay the improve
ments of this kind, which are essen
tial 10 the health of community as
well as to its progress. are response
bic for sickness which other action
on their part might have prevented.
Every growing town and city in
the South needs to improve and keep
on improving every day and every
year its provisions for sanitation and
health. These include all such things
IS water-works, sewerage systems
and well paved streets. The field is
almost limitless. No wiser invest
ment can be made by people than
the money spent, when it is honest
" expended, for public works of this
kind. These Improvements mean |
progress, they mean better
Of living, better envi-
ronment for young and DID,. and |
better health and longer lives for the
people. It is especially important
that the authorities of
every community in the South
should study she situation in the
light Of present conditions when
for such work is becoming
more abundant and when the labor
available for it is in great supply.
Moreover, the very doing of these
.hings and the employment of labor
n works of this kind would stimu-
ate all business interests and large
= help in bringing about that gen.
raj prosperity for which all are look
y and hoping. This Is the South's