The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-06-10
How to Make Paris "a Better
Place I'm Which to Live.

How 10 Make ParlS u Better
Place i'm Which to Live.
(By Thelma Sprigg, who was award
ed the first prize in the Partisan
essay contest of Grove School)
ut amt the guns nor arma-
ment, but close cooperation that
makes them win the day. 1t
amt the individual nor the army
as whole, but the everlastin'
team work of every bloomin
SOUL
-Rudyard Kipling.
Get the cooperation OF the people
of Paris, then Paris will become 4.
clean, decent town of which no one
need be ashamed. Wake up the
citizens of Paris; then we will cease
to live in town of which we are
ashamed. And Paris will be a spot
of beauty for Henry Countians and
Tennesseeans to point to with pride.
Let us get up some. pep for our
citizens, put some enthusiasm into
them, make them feel young and
boyish and interested, and we will
have a new Paris. Show them what
backward, dirty and shabby town
Paris is. They will be ashamed to
live in it any longer i'll its present
condition and will develop a Glossy
vile from our old Shabbytown.
Paris needs to realize that she is
no longer a little town, but big
one. Paris needs to discard her old
ways along with the bad streets and
dirty alleys. Paris must awaken to
the fact that she has long ago out
grown these things and give up the
old order for the new.
What prosperous town endures un-
canitary ana unsightly conditions?
What prosperous citizen lives in n
town that has these conditions?
And yet we will not realize that
this is what we are doing. We
have not even made an effort to
change these until recently. We are
only beginning to open our eyes and
see ourselves as other towns see us.
Haven't we the ''spunk" to over
come our carelessness? Haven't We
the backbone to put up a fight to
change the present conditions and
make Paris a home town to be
proud of?
Paris is in shameful need of
park. Our children and young peo-
pie are forced to stay on the streets.
We do not provide any other place
for them. We know that they mus
have recreation, and yet we leave
them with no chance whatever for
it. What can we expect of them?
Nothing other than leaving their
home town when they grow older.
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points an accusing finger at US and
we dare not dispute the fact.
Will Paris ever be any larger and
more prosperous as long as all our
young citizens leave us? We are
losing our life-blood and making no
effort to stanch the leak. We can
stop it. We know we can stop ii
and yet we sit with our hands in our
lap and wait for a miracle to hap
pen to us. If there is any miracle
we will have to do it
for ourselves. The sooner we realize
this and go to work, the better off
we will be.
There isn't a young man or woman
in Paris who wouldn't rather stay
in their hometown than go elsewhere,
provided that hometown is decent.
Why? They have more pride than
the older citizens for they are
ashamed to stay here and that is
more than the older citizens are.
Let us wake up and get busy.
There is no reason we couldn't make
Paris credit to Tennessee. We
want to, only we don't want to bad
fenough. If we did, we would do it.
Let us build up and clean up Paris.
Keep the young citizens here and
give them a chance. Then we shall
come out of our dormant period as
naturally as does any town
Let us get a park, a swimming
pool Let us clean UP our streets
and alleys. Let us make Paris the