The Springdale news., 1919-02-14
WHAT HE THINKS
 OF WATER WORKS
aa,, Timer" Expresses His Senti-
 Ahont Water Works and Sewerage. and Some Other Things


 raitor News: With your permis- [ would like to say a few words
 Ut tbis proposition of water works and sewerage, concerning which We
 +olk an the streets at every cor .or and which was dwelt on at some ,.a,+b hv contributor in your paper iost week. While haven't been here lonq IS some people, still l am a nronartv a#ner, and boni-fide eiti- ao, who wolld nave to help pay the 1;n f 4his= expense was saddled on us. T.. that reason l believe l have a riobl 10 Ha heard.
 In the first place, l don't think we ,oed water works and sewerage. The s:,ost atar in the world can be had aryvbere in town by digging down in 4he arouud a few feet, as the many wells scattered all over the town will sbow Some people have gone to the exnense of putting in pumps, which, according to mg Gay of thinking, was ,ot at All necessary. With a few ,,;eces of waste lumber can make a;ndlass. and with n outlay of about s1 51 for rope and bucket l can supplv my needs for water for at loast ! year. This is quite a con trast to at least $1.50 per month which would have to pay if l got my water from city water plant. When wash day comes always make 1t noint to draw few buckets of water for my wife. but so far as that IS concerned she doesn't mind q bit draw ino the water. It depends altogether m how a person was raised. can remember the time when We lived In the country and had to carry water for about half d mile, and l don't see hut what Re got along just as we'll then as ve do now when we have a well right in the yard The idea ef havine things fixed so that you can inst turn crank and get water with outgoing out of the house is ridieu- lous. and contrary to nature. The good Lord never intended for lis people to nave to buy water It Is one of the gifts of nature, and VAS intended to be as free as the air and the sunshine. As evidence of this fact we see how 1t is sent down to us from above.
 So far as the drummers getting bath is concerned, what dc the people of Springdale care if they don't? II they don't want to come to Springdale let them stay away and go to Rogers, Bentonyille or Fayetteville where they have water works They are nene too good to wash their faces in tin basin like the rest of us do. You may be sure the drummers will keep on coming as long they can sell any thing and if they should stop all to- gether what's to keep the merchants from ordering their goods by mail? suppos, the mails will keep going even though the water works are not built It IS not necessary to have water works in order to take bath. Once or twice d month my wife puts a kettle of water on the fire, and af- ter it gets hot l take one of her wash tubs and have a bath that is good enough for anybody.
 Some people argue that we ought to have water works because 1t would help us to put out fires. Ev- erybody knows that Springdale hardly ever has a fire, and when we do the people all turn out and help, by carry ing water from wells. It seems to me that the town spent lot of money needlessly when it bought that auto mobile arrangement to help put out fires. l am perfectly willing to go with my bucket and help carry water every time we have fire, and l am sure every citizen in town will do likewise That will be cheaper than being taxed 5000 or 5000 a year for water works.
 It seems to me the people of tthls community are going crazy We are to be taxed to build road from here over to Spring Valley, and to my Knowledge the people have been tra= veling over that road for forty years and have been getting along all right. It would have done for forty years more without going to the expense ot grading it and graveling it. It will ohly cause the people to travel more when they should be at home at work. When the weather is bad now they cant travel over the road, conse- quently they remain at home and do work that might otherwise go undone. when that road is built you will see string of farmers driving to town oh days when 1t is too wet to work Nhen they should be at home building fences, and doing other things about the place. We were taxed to build bridge across White River which