The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-11-06

These things were reported mixeC
in friendly groups at the rear o.
stores:
Excelsior. paper, chunks, bricks
tin cans, wire, shipping boxes Of
wood and fibre, bottles, broker
glass, feathers, ch cken heads
chicken feet, manure ash dumps Of
considerable age, weeds. sticks
dead rats, coal that might be in
cellars or in boxes or Enclosures
mud holes, standing pools. play
houses for children-which make
the other things look less disreputa-
BILE, hut the other things detract
from the beatty Of the playhouses.
One young man described the ALLEY
Short Street-as "a convenient
garbage can" Someone remarked
about the attractive scenery the
telephone girls have to look down
upon from their window.
Remedy: General clean I'D day
observed by every Main Street store
that has a back yard. Garbage cans
for filth, chicken offal, papers tin
ans, broken bottles, etc, these 10
be emptied very frequently, so as
never to be seen overlooking as
some elsewhere are. Frequent
clearing away Of every bit Of rub
bish, filling in and thing the in
land seas that come with every
rain.
IL would be fine thing i'cihose
entire back lots the whole lengthl
Short Street were cleared Of eva
thing on them, plowed, tNrCwed,
lined, MANFRED and sown in rye or
some other winter crop. Next
spring a dozen kinds of vines and
twenty kinds Of shrubs and flowers
could easily be planted, cultivated
and trained so as to make a walk
along Short Street a pleasant ex-
perience instead OF heart sickening.
One fellow remarked, "If folks who
buy things 10 eat would only look
TO see what's behind some OF the
grocery stores, the things wouldn't
taste half so good"
l5) Many spoke of the careless,
unsightly, unsanitary habit that
students have Of throwing pie plates
on campus, streets, walks, any
where the student happens to be
when the plate is emptied The
same is true Of apple cores and ba-
mana skins. A teacher was seen
walking from Cooperative Store
with a bag Of bananas in hand,
throwing skins on the campus and
eating as he walked-"couldn't wait
till he got 70 his ROOM"
A dozen or more mentioned care
less habits Of throwing paper on
,ampus-envelOps. paper bags. etc
for the paper gatherers rather than
put such trash into garbage cans
which are not always convenient.
(6) Other things reported as con-
'tant sources of unpleasant memo
'ies are: the fine life-sized mud hole
m front Of Cooperative Store that
little thing would remedy. the
.rOwded condition at the College
'ostOfflce which almost make you
'uss every time you go for your
nail dust and full grown dirt Of
EN- left on steams pipes, window
ills, corners and floors of class
'OOms.
| have given a mere summary OF
he reports made by these young
men and women who are being i'm
'ressed daily with these unsightly ,
pots. Visitors TO Berea also see
With both eyes. Now that attention
las thus been called to them hun
reds of others will doubtless look
0 see if the truth has been told.
In two or three weeks this same :
lass will be asked TO make another .
xcursion and discover, il possible, :
That steps have been taken TO make /,
! must not forget TO mention one \
eport Of a mana father-who was r.
cen sitting on his porch playing \
nth a cat while his children were
laying in the yard amidst tin cans. a
'aste paper, broken bottles and e
her trash. A conclusion was "
rawn from the picture, which n
FUNDS best not printed. n