The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-05-19

somewhat above the average in mat
tiers of cleanliness and order. Some
of them are not commendable, many
average well, and some are excellent,
but the average being good, and they
having talked much for cleanliness
and order and civic beauty, We con-
clude that there is merit in such talk
and we recommend that the other
half of the town get busy talking
about what ought to be done for
cleanliness.
Who Suffers Most?
Cleanliness carries with it its own
reward, and the penalty falls heav-
lest upon those who fail to practice
it. But it falls also upon those liv-
ing in the neighborhood, for the rea-
son that manure piles hatch flies and
the flies travel about the community,
visiting any places they wish. Per-
sons maintaining open toilets furnish
means of distribution of filth to
other homes by means of flies, and
this makes it the common concern of
Society and law makers have decreed
that the person keeping such things
within an incorporated town shall
keep them effectually screened, tank
ed or otherwise concealed. The same
rule is being enlarged to apply to
such things whether in town or In
the country, and the residents OF the
county seat come plainly within the
law as being fifty per cent Offenders
in some form or degree in the matter
we advocate applying the remedy to.
Opinion of Judge Wanamaker
Last Sunday morning Mrs. J. c.
Herbsman, representing the Ellison
White Chautauqua addressed gather
ing of leading business men at break
fast, and stated that 1t would be to
the advantage of the town to have
an entertainment committee, and
large number of automobiles subject
to call during the Chautauqua, to
take eminent lecturers, cartoonists,
musicians ond other Chautauquans
out for drives about the country be-
tween programs, so they could see
what the town and country around 1t
are made up of. They make obser-
vations on these things and report
upon them in journal of wide cir
culation and are being asked con-
stantly by people they meet as to
resources and conditions in the local
tiles they have visited. Therefore 1t
becomes great advertising oppor-
tunity for community, to have a
Chautauqua and to have a live enter
tainment committee. II these emf
nent persons passing on from Black
foot, report that the town Is fifty per
cent cleaned, that every alternate
home or city lot has an exhibit OF
ashes, brush, manure, rubbish, litter
or other fire menace, that there are
an unknown number of open toilets
visited by the flies Matched by the
manure piles existing in the proper
ton of one for every fourteen homes
and the same being in defiance OF
the laws of the state and the ord1n-
ances of the town, that the state
leaves it to the town to remedy and
the town leaves it to the state think
liz it hurts the pride of the state more
than 1t does the citizens of the town,
il such eminent men as Judge wanna
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York Marine band find the town in
that condition and report upon 1t,
certainly 1t affords unusual adver-
Using for the town.
Recommendation by the Judge
It is not especially disgraceful for
town to be dirty in the spring OF
the year but it is not commendable
for it to remain SO. If it has made
every reasonable effort to become
clean and sanitary, that can be set
forth in justification of its condition.
The committee on entertainment
might tell Judge Wanamaker and
Schovinsky that every dunghill In the
town is riveted down and that there
are not enough blacksmiths in town
! to cut the rivets. They would I'M
mediately send forth the word that
there is an opening at Blackfoot,
Idaho, for more workmen with ham
mers to pound and knock, and the
town would be supplied After all
efforts at cleanup are exhausted,
those who failed might consider for
while the old adage so often adj
dressed to the vanquished, 1T Is not
SO much that you're whipped, but
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