Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-26
OTHERS VIEWS

OTHERS VIEWS.
THREE CHEERS FOR DURHAM
To the Editor:
Below is a clipping from the News
and Observer of 23rd, inst. Read
carefully, mediate over it and let's
see if we cannot crystalize sentiment
in favor of enacting such an ordin-
ance here and enforcing it after rati-
fication.
What's the use of all the blowing
of horns, footing of whistles, adgitat-
ing of the old and exhiting the young
folk, confounding and confusing of
even the animal and bird family, dur
ing all and any hours of the day and
night?
1 am not mean and a fusser my in
tentions are good, wish right to pre-
vail. Personally I can stand it, 1 was
raised hard and am physically strong
but there are many who are not we'll
and whose nerves are tender and re-
spond to interferences, it is for these
principally I am pleading.
1 note with regret that the spoken
of ordinance does not in it's summary
include churches, oh what mistake
and 1 am sure it was an oversight, I
trust they will make a codicile of
that. 1 also note the referred to
ordinance does not take in the most
distressing disturbances I know of
and to which we are daily subjected
and at the distressing hours, 5 a. M,
(too late to again sleep or rest after
we hear it for an hour 20 6 a. m.
every day except Sunday and on that
morning 1 wake and wonder why I do
not hear it ETC., all by the making
up Cor tearing DOWN of trains over
on the Seaboard Railway tracks.
L positively refuse to argue. the
matter of the noises the freight cars
make, with Walter Vaughan, I know
the "All wise maker" would have
given more or longer hours to the
days or have caused the sun to run
more slowly q know the sun stands
ana that the earth revolves though
oscar Falkner argues to the con-
trary) had it been necessary for the
railways to work longer hours than,
as it at times stated, honest and law
abiding people are awake and not
subject to being disturbed with nois-
es unusual.
were l as rich as was Croesus I
would have prevented the consum-
nation of the underpass and now I
would have the railway tracks moved
outside of the city limits, I could
have accomplished both with less
money than will total the cost of the
underpass I dare say
"One swallow never made a sum-
mer' and smoke never made Pitts
burgh, all these noises are not essen
tlal to good and increasing business,
the health and happiness of our citi-
zens, nor is it conducive to getting
outsiders to come with us. or those
here to remain here.
Let's cut out noise by making q
noise, about it,
r. B. POWELL.
Henderson, Sept. 25, 1896.
(EncloSure)
Durham, Sept. 22-An anti-noise
ordinance aimed chiefly at the un-
necessary blowing of automobile
horns was after some months of agi-
tatlon in Durham, unanimously pass
ed by the city council Monday night.
Although the ordinance allows the
motorist to sound his horn when
passing other cars and for any other
danger signal, it prohibits the blow
ing of horn as a signal device while
the vehicle is not in motion and also
blowing while the car stands wait
ing at stop light This latter form
OF horn-blowing has constituted what
many citizens and visitors tern the
biggest nuisance of all. The ordin-
ance states that even the blowing of
a horn as a danger signal cannot be
cone for IAN unnecessary and unreas-
enable period of time"
Some of the other noises prohibited
by the ordinance are the use of me-
chanical loud-speakers or amplifiers
on trucks, airplanes. or other moving
vehicles, the blowing of steam whist
les except to give notice to begin or
stop work, the erection or demolition
of buildings before a. M, or after 6
p. M, and the creation of any excess
i've noise adjacent to any school, lib
rary, sanitarium, or court while in
session.