The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-10
THE ~cITY BEAUTIFUL" CLUB.

Every town, no matter how small or how large
should have a City Beautiful" club. This is al
organization that is almost indispensable if a tow
is to be made attractive and kept so. It makes NJ
difference how neat and orderly the citizens ma,
be about their premises or the merchants abou
their business houses, there are bound to be
thousand and one things that need the attention
of a special organization created for the purpose
There never was a truer axiom coined thar
whats everybody's business is nobody's bust
ness" This applies most forcibly to many things
that tend largely to make or mar the looks of 9
town.
I Now that the warm weather is coming on, the
labors of the city beautifers will be in great de.
mand. Just now, after the ravages of the win.
ter's storms, nature presents her most depress.
ing aspect, and much attention will be required
if she is to re-clothe the face of the earth in her
original garments of beauty. Unsightly washes
and gulies, filled up bitches and drains, accumul-
atoms of weeds and trash and leaves and twigs
are to be removed, and nature given her fair
chance to be her best.
1t is in this capacity that the order loving
women of the town show to advantage. Women
always have a keener eye for beauty and harmony
than men. They are more given to ~neatness and
ordiliness than men. Start out a committee of
energetic women to supervising the cleaning up
of a town and they will find nuisances and ,un-
slightly places of which the men had never
thought.
Just here we would like to offer a suggestion
in connection with identifying the town.
The problem of the vacant lot has always been
the hardest one for the town beauti6ers to solve.
The average owner pays little attention to it,
hence it invariably presents a neglected and desc
late appearance. Now this season is going to
see a demand for every dollars worth of food pro-
ducts that this country can produce, and these
vacant lots should, wherever possible, be turned
to account to swell the output. Any kind of grow
ing crop-corn, potatoes, vegetables-are far pre-
ferable to a coat of weeds.
When this is done, turn attention to the neg
lected back yards. You'll find many Of them that
now are refuse dumps, but that can be made
places of beauty and usefulness,
Most towns are like some people. They will
keep the main streets and buildings presentable,
but the more obscure places and the back
streets and alleys are neglected and permitted to
fall into decay. Taken to task in the matter, the
authorities often reply that strangers and visi-
tors never see these places, anyway, so it doesn't
No, But WE see them, which is worse. |
Strangers might see them and go away and forget
them, but we must live with them, which is liable
to breed neglect and disorder in ourselves. A
-.~~ ~-;tl ~-e%.e zoo n~ay lsne-vg Ahst IL is hidden4
from the public, but HE never forgets that it is
Always bear this in mind: The town will be
or the reverse, just in proportion as it's
people are lovers of beauty and order, or the re-
,erse. A beautiful and well kept home, with a
alley in the rear and a neglected street in
'front.', is a standing reproach to it's owner. He
should have sufficient pride to see that his sur
'~oundings harmonic with his possessions.
It's time to get busy in Greenwood.