The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-09-14
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1916
Paving the Beauty Doctor.

wrinkles of age out of her brow and
put the blush Of youth back into her
cheeks, it is sort Of an expert service
that must be paid for. More than this,
it is a sort of luxury and because it
is luxury, the pay exacted is usually
just little larger than is usually paid
for services.
Cities have beauty doctors just the
same as the lady who would woo back
vanishing beauty and attractiveness,
and cities must pay them for their SER
vices.
The Getty Beautiful" is greatly to
be desired, but when the city has the
wrinkly old posts ironed off the face of
her streets and the trees are brought
back to pristine beauty by pulling
down the old wires which pull off their
leaves and mar their beauty, someone
has to pay.
In most cities the "beauty doctors''
are public service corporations and
they have no more idea of doing some
thing for nothing than the real beauty
doctor with finely manicured hands
who woos the dollars from the women
by her perfumed touch.
A lot of people prefer beauty to ug-
Illness, but they are forced to accept
comparative ugliness because they have
not the price of artificial beauty.
Just now the question is before the
Common Council of ironing the wrin-
kles out Of Pomeroy street. The alder
men believe that all poles and wires
should be taken from the street and
that service wires should be placed in
conduits under ground. Tt is a consul
nation devoutly to be wished, but the
man who wishes it should also wish
for someone to foot the bill. The pub
lie service corporations interested de-
clare their willingness to act as a
beauty doctor, but they want the peo-
pie to know in advance that the bill
must be paid and that q considerable
part of it must be paid by the people
directly iterested.
The Wisconsin Gas and Electric
Company holds that to take away the
pole distributing service and place the
wires for electric light in nifty con-
duits underground will mean service
charge of about $3.50 for each house
holder who has this service.
The telephone company informally
estimates that the cost Of putting tele-
phone wires into conduits from the ca
BILE to the home will be somewhere in
the neighborhood of so cents for each
foot OF conduit laid from the curb line.
A school boy should be able to figure
out about what your service conduits
are going to cost you.
lot of people might believe that
the companies are exacting an unfair
toll, The matter is not one alone for
the property owners affected it is a
question for the people of the whole
CITY Public service corporations get
their revenues from charges made for
services. These charges are regulated
TO large amount by the investment
tnat the company has. It would be
notably unfair to build frills for the
people on Pomeroy street in the way
or underground wires with the under
standing that the cost of these frills IS
to be paid by the people of the whole
city.
The man who still has line of dis
figuring poles confronting him on
his" street is not going to be in fa-
vor of paying the bill of the beauty
doctor. If Pomeroy street people want
wrinkles ironed out they should be
willing to pay. The same is true of
Durkee avenue or Prairie avenue. Nor
is the contention of the companies that
the people should pay, unworthy of con-
slderation. Service companies figure
rates usually on the most economic
method of distribution of their product
They have found that poles and wires
offers this most economical method of
distribution. A change in distribution
methods would be unjustly charged to
the general account to be paid by all
users of the service of these companies.
1t should and must be paid by the PEG,
pie directly benefited These are the
pertinent considerations that the people
OF Pomeroy street should have in mind
II they want underground wires and
service conduits. Not one of these
good people would think of asking his
neighbors on Prairie avenue to paw for
the identifying of the features of his
wife or daughter and he does not want
to be In the position of being a mendi-
cant to have someone improve the APP
pearance of his property.
Maybe f the people of Pomeroy
street are consulted they will not de-
sire to pay this added cost for service
most unnecessary. Maybe with a SER
vice fee of considerable amount star
ing them in the face they will be of
the opinion that poles ara not so OBJ
Jectionable after all.
Of course, if Pomeroy street wants
to pay the beauty doctor, then Pomeroy
street should be beautifed. but the