Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-03-31
ootb CENTURY TOPIC CLUB
oseoRT OF THE COMMITTEE ON
civics AND PUBLIC
HEALTH.

Last fall your committee reported
hat civic work, like house-cleaning,
sbould be done all the time instead of
once a year. Therefore, the commit
zoe has endeavored to constantly bear
{, mind the needs of the community,
and has the following report to make:
Smoke Consumer.
The pumping station connected
Nth the water works system of the
city is a public nuisance because of
tbe clouds of black smoke which pour
from its chimney. This smoke
capses SCOT to drop all over the
neighborhood, soiling clothes, spelling
rainwater, and polluting the air The
CITY authorities have been requested
TO abate the nuisance.
Some time ago money was appro-
uriated by the city fathers for beautl-
fving property owned by the city in
the neighborhood of the st. Paul rail-
way station. BY this part of the
town we are judged by all passing
through our city. 1t is hoped that
the city fathers win not wait longer
before identifying city property. The
committee has requested the council
10 act in this matter.
The mayor has been asked to APP
pont a weed commissioner for this
wear who will cut the weeds before
they go to seed. All too often the
weeds fall where they have grown
and sow the seeds of another crop. If
a weed commissioner were properly
yigilant, there should not be crops Of
noxious weeds year after year.
The street car company is charging
rs two cents mile for transporta-
ton. the same as steam cars, through
Wauwatosa, and yet does not provide
us with the comforts and convenien-
ces which should be given Us. 4 suit
able and comfortable waiting station
should be provided on Main street. A
request for such station has been
preferred by the committee.
The committee wishes to go On rec
4 ord as opposed to annexation to Mil
waukeo. NO public improvements are
provided except as the tax payers pay
for them. Therefore, il we would
have fire department, we must pay
Tor it. II we were part of Milwaukee,
Nc would be an outlying ward and
Mould get whatever favors the Mil
aukce common council saw fit to
testow Our schools would be a part
bf the Milwaukee school system, in
stead of being the product Of the
Thoughtful consideration of interested
citizens who are striving to give the
children the wisest care, teachers of
noble personality and inspiration as
well as the best scholastic attainment
that the public purse permits. And
worst of all, we should have TO drink
water into which the sewage OF Mil
waukee flows
Believing that more germs and dirt
8get into the system from the hands
q than in any other manner, we arc
planning to organize Clean Hand
q Brigades" in the school. We mean to
Il have printed and circulated in the
81 schools a leahet or other suitable re-
minder.
n Wauwatosa is now favored with
a the collection of garbage and ashes.
In order to make this work effective
the citizens must cooperate. Loyalty
Is our club motto and a great measure
of our delight and satisfaction in our
club comes from our zeal in living up
70 this motto. In order to solve civic
problems the same spirit of loyalty
must prevail. One would think that
every citizen desiring the collection of
ashes and garbage would at once sign
81 Inc necessary papers. On the con-
& trary, the signed cards are coming in
very slowly and many people remem-
per the card only when they see ashes
#coIlected from their neighbors' prem
8lseS This is making the work I'M
necessarily difficult.
Because of the collection of refuse.
me work of cleaning up the home
gfounds will be easier this spring
nan ever before. But let us not for
get that leaves are fertilizer and
mould never be burned. The spirit
conservation should prompt us to
lsEe use of so clean and useful a
Fertilizer.
IN closing, we would submit and
rye you to take to heart the follow
s Seven Health Suggestions of the
uoile Health Department of the
plate Federation.
FIRST Remember-That Cleanliness
next to Godliness." And that scru-
Ruious neatness in the household is
ue OF the prices of good health.