The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-16
City Council Making
Plans for Clean City


named by the city. In one case you
need q slop bucket, a shovel, some
waste paper and perhaps a bottle of
coal oil within easy reach. You
need strip of ground, say a foot
wide and a rod long in which to dig
and fill trench the depth, Of the
shovel. You will dig, perhaps two
feet a week and cover 1t. After q
few weeks you can go back and use
the same ground again II you wish,
TOR 1t absorbs the waste rapidly. On
the other plan you need the slop
bucket and waste paper to line the
bucket, you need the garbage can
with tight cover on it, and then
there will be small bill to pay for
hauling away the contents of the
can. You may be, able to keep the
garbage can from getting foul by
lining it with waste paper as you do
the slop bucket.
The City Park
The improvement committee have
under consideration the improve
ments at the city park to make 1t
more convenient for the tourists. H.
B. Kinney is chairman Of the COM
mittee and when they get all the
data together they will lay 1t before
the council for decision.
The council may have all the or
dinances codified so 1t will be easier
to find information on any given
subject. The ordinances make quite
volume now and 1t is waste of
tima fnr a tn hoEya n
all to try to find what the law is on
!. any point in question. It is also q
big expense to codify them so they
can be traced rapidly. They are in
vestigating to see what they had bet
ter do. 1t is said that nobody knows
what the ordinances provide, and 1t
is rather confusing for the officers to
enforce the laws OF the city when
they do not themselves know what
the laws are. 1t is also rather awk-
ward for the public when they do not
know what the laws are.
In a general way the public know
what is right and wrong, and most
of them are we'll informed on the
traffic laws because the public press
has undertaken the task of keeping
them Informed, but not everybody
knows that man may plant trees
and shrubs in the street bordering his
property and enjoy protection from
folks who want to tie their horses to
the trees or pasture the shrubs. Peo-
pie who keep cows in town do not all
know that they are not privileged to
picket their cows where they can
craze on Peoples parking and shrubs
and cross the sidewalks and let the
animal or the picket rope interfere
with pedestrians. They do not all
know that people driving loose stock
thru town are not privileged to chase
over peoples gardens to round up
those that break away from the
bunch. People having trees that
shed loads of leaves into the main
ditch running by them, might like to
know whose duty it is to celan out
the ditch and keep it free of leaves,
but as matter of practice the ditch
company generally does it and IL It'll
blows back into the ditch when the
owner Of the place ought to remove
them, 1t may bring on disputes and
annoyance. Every unselfish person
knows that If he does his share and
then some. there will be no trouble
and no damage. The fellow who
makes flower bed along the ditch |
and has it covered ruthlessly with
mud when the ditch company decides
to clean out or enlarge, is apt to wish
that the workmen had some regard
for his part Of the property. The
man who cleans his lots and finds
them Uttered with leaves and trash |
and newspapers every time the wind |
blows, may wish that his neighbors
would remove their trash or keep it |
staked down, but ordinances that are |
not understood do not regulate such |
matters and the willing folks have
to just keep doing their work over
and over until their neighbors COM
prehend and speed up their own
duties.
On all these doubtful matters it is
u good plan for each man to do his
share and some besides, and trust to
the others to catch the idea and act
the generous part. Everybody knows
pretty near what is right, but it re-
quires some sacrifice for the selfish
ones to hurry around and do what is
right and fair and sportsmanlike.
An0vher Wireless Station
Some of the boys of the town have
asked permission to erect wireless
instrument on top of the new water
tank, and permission is likely to be
granted. Messages are passing thru
the skies all the time and the young
fellows want to pvt out listener
and see what is doing.
A proposal to employ police
matron was considered and rejected
after considering the experience of
some neighboring towns in that mat
ter. The council did not believe that
conditions at Blackfoot justify keep
ing a woman on the job in addition
to the probation officer to keep cases
on peoples conduct and to investi-
gate such matters as may suggest
the possibility OF improper conduct.