Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1920-04-17
A COMMUNICATION

with the avowed purpose Of putting
Custer in its rightful place before the
public as a live, up-to-date, clean, pro.
gressiye town.
How shall this aim be accomplished
Most assuredly by each one taking a
personal pride in the upbuilding of the
town morally and physically. Good
schools and good churches are an asset
to town but their efficiency will be in.
creased when, linked with their efforts
is the determination on the part of citi
zens to make the town as good a place
to live in as possible. There are dirty
streets and alleys to be made clean and
wholesome. There are uuseemIy and
highly Objectionable sights unnecessarily
brought to the attention of school chill
dren by the present condition of things
Our present Town Board has made a
good beginning by enaCting an ordi.
nance to become effective May lst, pro
hibting the running at large of stock
an ordinance that any self-respecting
town should always have in effect
Since this Board is to be superseded by
another before that date its enforcement
rests with the Board TO be elected next
Tuesday.
Most of us are aware that there are
those who put personal advantage or
gain above the greatest good to the
greatest number to whom personal lib
erty means l want my way regardless
of how it affects my neighbors.' As if
to say, "the air is free, my arms are my
own to do with them as / please. |
choose to exercise by standing on the
street and swinging my arms" But
suppose you happen to be walking by at
the time and my arm comes violently in
collision with your head. What about
your liberty to walk upon the street?
An officer of the law would very soon
rightly inform me that my liberty ends
where yours begins.
Extend that thought to the subject of
personal property at the mercy Of ami
mails roaming the town, seeking subsis-
tence by calmly opening gates, walking
in and browsing on well-kept lawns or
luscious garden stuff over which one has
toied early and late. Hundreds of dol
lars worth of damage is done yearly by
stock on goods temporarily left on sta
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shrubbery ruined, lumber sheds made
a shelter from sun or wind, while mil
lions Of flies follow the trail of the
stock
To look out on Main Street almost any
day and see load Of hay on the scales
being weighed, surrounded by half a
dozen cattle, also with their feet on the
scales, would provoke a laugh if it were
not that it is such a sorry commentary
on civic pride.
Two candidates in some OF the wards
have been put up to the voters, one
pledged to a clean town and progress,
the other from what We can gather,
willing to see our town continue in its
present unenyiable position of careless
indifference to the rights of others, and
to the respect of the stranger within our
gates. If the adherents to the latter
win in next Tuesdays election of what
use is Commercial Club2 Not that
the question of roaming animals is the
only one or the main one for a Town
Board to consider, but it seems to hold
the center of the stage at present. With
that settled a business board and live
Commercial Club can then put their
energies to work in plans for live,
clean and progressive town, with side
walks where people and not cattle may
walk, where people have the heart to
bring their families and establish
homes.
Every man and woman voter who
believes in this destiny for our little
town is urged to vote next Tuesday for
the candidates that stand for clean
town and Progress. And let us stifle
forever the spirit of retrogression.