The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-02-02

For years | have not heard the buzz
of fly. | can hardly hear person
speak when the ordinary tone Of
voice Is used, but in this same neigh
borhood that am telling you about,
last fall, heard flies buzz. APP
preached pig pen that was bla:k
with flies and as | struck the boards
to make the pigs move SO that l
could see them. the flies rose in
such cloud and with such noise
that / heard them like the wind rus
thing the dry leaves in November.
1t was music all right, but | did not
like the band. Now, then, the i'm
mediate yard around this house
where this happened is swept daily.
In fact, In this particular neighbor-
hood that l am telling you about, 1t
seems to be veryd isgraceful thing
to permit loose leaf within eight
or ten feet of the house, and around
some little houses the paths have
been swept until ridges have been
formed at the edge Of the path that
are from eight inches to a foot high
above the level of the path. Now 1t
is a nice thing to keep the immediate
house yard free from litter, but why
should SO much energy be expended
here, and then submit quietly, calm
ly, peacefully and with dignity to the
fly nuisance? 1t is beyond me.
cannot understand it. However the
dignity helps some.
The pace for the farmer to live
at the present time is on his farm.
l honestly think that the worst plac-
es in the State of Utah to live are in
some of our small towns. Now, that
is a pretty strong statement to make.
Country towns in Utah ought to be
very decent places to live in. Pos
sibly compared to the rest Of the
world, they are. But let me tell you
what mean. In one town Of about
1000 population, the people are most
ly farmers, having farms outside and
homes inside the towns. They haul
their feed and farm products all into
town. and sometimes they haul the
manure out. On one block where !
asked for information, four families
were living and last winter $50 head
OF cattle were wintered on the inter-
ior of that block, and lot of the ma
nure left by those cattle, laid there
through the summer. There is no
sewerage; they do have fairly good
water supply. There Is another town
where conditions are somewhat sim
liar to these / have just described, is
a dry town under a Democratic ad-
ministration, but the officials do not
see, and many of the pigs are blind.
This Is the more remarkable when
you understand that coming In con-
tact with one of these blind pigs"
often makes a man see double. On
any kind OF holiday, gambling Is
open on the street. l have seen men
on the sidewalk In the business part
of the town, walking UP and down
with currency In their fingers calling
for bets on foot races, and jumping
contests about to take place right
there on the sidewalk on block d.
agonally across the street from one
OF the meeting houses. Horse racing
on the streets is permitted by con
sent of the mayor. This was every
day for ten days, where several hun
dred people, men aud boys mostly.
but few girls and women. assem-
bled to see the horse racing. and
were numbers of men seeking for
bets, carrying their money In their
hands, and calling loudly for takers
OF their betting propositions. do
not object to witnessing a fair horse
race or any properly conducted con-
test Of athletic skill. l enjoy these
things myself. / do OBJECT to betting
on those things. which is In itself a
violation of the State law. Now. per-
haps where the State laws are SO
fagrantly violated. and where other
conditions are as bal as l have stat
ed, 1t is a good place to live; possibly
1t is. II you are deaf. blind. and
crippled In all your senses, possibly
you can get satisfaction in a home
town Of that kind, doubt II and
wonder.
A town of another class Is one that
I visited early last June, where there