The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-01-07
GEEAT Big QUESTION
FOR FARMINGTON
Upon Its Prompt and Correct Settle
ment May Depend the Future
Good and Well Being of this
Community.

Ordinarily this would not appeal to
anyone as the proper season of the
year to attempt to start an agitation
for better sanitary regulations, as
there is no apparent necessity for
such improvement just now.
But, on the other hand, there ap-
pears to be considerable grounds for
the theory that this is the best possi-
BILE time to attempt to sir up renew
ed inerest in the question Of muni-
cipal sewerage for Farmingtoa.
| Such agitation should precede, if
possible, the period when the thing
most desired will be most needed. The
Times might wait until the heat of
the summer season is in full blast be-
fore mentioning Farmington's crying
need for sewerage, but what good pur-
pose would that serve?
1t appears to this paper that the
very best time to bring this matter to
the attention of its readers is right
now, when there is nothing else of
special urgency attracting attention,
and when they can view in dispas-
sionate manner how best to handle
this matter, that may mean, before
next summer passes, the health-even
the life-of many citizens of this COM
munity.
When one has any information as
to how many septic cess pools
there are, in all parts of the city, is it
at all difficult, think you, that such
pools might, when the water becomes
excessively warm, cradle--or even
create-a deadly epidemic?
1t is practically impossible, during
the summer season, to exercise exces-
sive precautions in regard to the
health of community. While it is
fact, that must be apparent to even
casual observer, that Pennington is
almost ideally situated in regard to
natural conditions of health, the fact
IS also Sfsesas real, ssen though itI4
may not appear to be so apparent,
that good system of sewerage
would throw around this community
almost incomprehensible safeguards
to the health of the citizenship of
this community.
The Times cannot but feel that the
people of this city are now ready to
take up and dispose of this matter
now, if it is brought to their atten-
tion, in the right way, and impressed
with the urgent need for speedy
solution of the matter. In case some
might urge as an excuse to evade
prompt action on such an important
matter, that there is no place for an
outlet for such sewer, we will say
such claim is untenable. 1t could
be turned into one immense cess pool,
as far removed from human hibita-
tion as possible. Would that not be
"A vast improvement over the present
system of perforating the entire city's
landscape with private cess-pools?
This is matter of surprising i'm
portance, in which every inhabitant ,
is vitality interested-consciously or
unconsciously. Every citizen owes it
to himself to think carefully and Sc
riously along this line. 1t is fact,
which cannot be successfully gain
said, that Pennington must, some
time, have a public sewerage. Then
why not now, in order that the people
now here may have the benefit of it's i,
purifying tendencies?
Think this over carfully, and we be- /,
Iieve you will soon be in favor of !,
pond issue for constructing sewerage !.
system for Pennington.