The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-05
Cleanup Com
mittee Reports
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: average or worse than there was an
; reasonable excuse for, but after con
: siderable work and taking into con
. sideration all the circumstances en-
: umerated in the foregoing para
graphs, decided to ask that the worl
of this committee be continued tw,
more weeks to give people more tim
and full opportunity to put thei
property and premises in condition
before making detailed report.
Both Rich and Poor
II your committee at this tim
named all the people whose premise
are in condition to justify a publ,
censure, it would necessitate namin,
almost all of the property owner
and renters of the town. 1t woult
include the names of many of the old
est and wealthiest families as wei
as the poorest and humblest citizens
Your committee has no disposition tc
shield the old residents or thu
wealthy and the well-to-do, but
rather, would censure them the most
severely because they have the pres
ent ability to keep their premises in
perfect condition and with few ex-
ceptions they have not done it.
Your committee has no DISPOSE
ton to shield the poor and humble
on account of their lack of means
because we believe that the poor have
plenty of time to be orderly and
Clearly and they, more than anybody
else, ought to take good care of what
little they have and to protect against
waste, disorder and ill health be.
cause they need every advantage il
is possible for them to have in order
to better their condition and to pro-
tect against sickness and further dis
| ability.
Need Insurance Inspectors
The rich and poor are alike guilty
of maintaining fire menace that
threatens not only their property, but
that of their neighbors. We find fire
traps in good many places-old
buildings that are not serving any
useful purpose or very little useful
purpose and are such menace that
they raise the rate of insurance on
buildings and thereby become a
source of constant expense to neigh
bors as we'll as a source of danger,
and in most cases, are also very I'M
slightly and in that respect are a
positive damage to the town. We
recommend that a committee of in
surance men be asked to go over the
town and confer with and advise the
owners Of such property and try to
get them to realize how much it
means to keep them in place.
Rights Never Existed
We find that many people have
cleaned up their premises and
dumped the trash over their property
line as if their responsibility ended
there or as If they had right to
dump on the streets or alleys-a
right they never had and should
never assume.
Some Of them pile the trash up on
their own premises, assuming that
1t is nobody's business but their own
another error as we'll as an evil
dence of bad breeding. Your COM
mittee found cases where people had
carted the trash across the street and
piled it in front of other property be-
yond the middle of the street and |
left it there, as if that discharged |
their duty or ended their RESPONSE
bility.
We found places where people
dumped trash over their front prop
erty line and left it in front of their
own residences as If getting it off of
their own grass was their only wish
Not Good Neighbors
There are places where the trash is
piled up along the rear margin of the
lots, unsightly and a menance to both
themselves and their neighbors, be-
sides being good breeding place for
lies that will scatter out over the
and do as much harm
% their neighbors as to themselves.
There are places where people once
lad stately trees and beautiful
that have gone to decay or
hru lack of pruning have become
lesolate looking and bramble to dis
trace the town by holding out the i'm
'ression of general decadence of
population as well as of property.
such trees breed disease that scat
ers over the town, destroying what
would otherwise be beautiful, healthy
reeS }
There are good many fences that
ave outlived their usefulness and
heir removal would improve the ap- c
earance and value of the property.
n very rare cases did we see fences r
hat seemed to have any justification
or existence, and some of them are G
fire menace besides being unsightly. +
government Property a Reproach 8
Your committee finds in Black e
Dot reproach upon the theory and G
ractice of government ownership r
nd operation of anything. We find |,
hat the sidewalk in front of the b
lackfoot post office receives less of Il
weeping and shoveling to keep t
now, mud, water and dust of of it i
ian do the private-owned business O
ouses along the street, and the t.
lightly sunken square or two of ce- n
tent walk next to the door that a
Dlds a shallow puddle half an inch G
eep after shower, seldom receives Il
lie attention that privately oper- IL
led business house would receive.
e recommend that two-inch hole
; drilled thru the low square of ce- !,
ent to allow drainage or that the y
vners of the property tear it out and a
y new block, and that the post -