Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-04-09
OTHERS VIEWS
HENDERSON'S BEAUTY
OUR CIVIC DUTY.
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
| Springtime is here. The streets need
cleaning, the lawns need the rake, and
a little grass seed will work wonders.
Everyone with a spark of ambition
and of personal pride will create some
improvements around the home, in
doors and outdoors as well. It is an
old adage, "The externals indicate the
| interior of a man." The same truth
applies to town. But the very fine
people Of Henderson are not to be
blamed for most of the unsightliness
about town. Let us try to remedy mat
tiers at the source.
| We have, at the north and south
ends of Henderson, mill sections that
are classic scenery equal in scenic
! grandeur only to the Grand Canyon
or the Yellowstone National Park.
Speaking of the menace of Commun-
ism, Father Owen Dudley, of Eng
land recently said: Communism is a
challenge to the injustices and evils
of the social system, warning to
Europe to set its house in order. We
may repudiate its doctrines and it's
| methods, but we cannot ignore the
fact that Communism is demand for
new social life If we turn a deaf
ear to the alboring masses cry for
| that life, we are not worthy to bear
| the name of Christian. The answer to
| the Red Menace is for Europe to give
| that new life to it's working millions"
Henderson industrial heads, please.
take counsel! We shall have more to
say on this subject later. !
More pressing, perhaps, is the need
of increased sanitation within resi-.
Dental Henderson. A month ago we
addressed this personal letter. It has
not received reply. W. now make it
! an open letter to the proprietors of
the High Price Warehouse:
Mr.. c. J. Flemming,
Proprietor, High Price Warehouse, =
| Henderson.
Dear Sir: AS the small church of st.
Paul is so located, here on Mont
gonery street at College, you will
readily understand that my parish
| toner's, as we'll as visitors to morning
and evening services, are obliged to
pass your warehouse as the practical
approach to the church. ?
Several folks, whom / had invited
to attend the Sunday evening services,
remarked that they would attend
more frequently were it not for the
ill7smelling and ill-lighted part of
Montgomery street "just back from
| the Vance HOTEL
| Permit me, please Sir, courteOusly
to make a suggestion. The saw-dust
box, in the High Price Warehouse is
| dangerous substitute for a sanitary
sewerage, as concerns the health of
all. I myself am almost sickened
when passing there on my way back
from the dining room.
| Certainly it would require no great
expense of funds to connect a drain
age system with the city sewers. I am
seriously asking you to undertake this
improvement in the near future.
Wishing you health and every bless
| ing, am, dear Mr.. Flemmnig.
Very sincerely yours,
REV. LEO G.. DOETTERL.
| We have since noticed that there is
| connection with the sewerage, and
that the saw-dust box serves to take
care of leakage. This is exposed to
| view, and three feet from the side
walk. Back on Mitchell street, at the
| other end of the same warehouse, and
amid decently-kept properties, is a
pile of ill-smelling refuse, which no
town officials should tolerate. Stencil
on both streets. There is no reason
why filth should surround a tobacco
| warehouse Wilson has more ware
houses than we, but they are not sor-'
did spots on the town map. The writ
er was pastor there four years. 1t is
clean city, as also are Oxford, Rox-
boro, and Franklinton. Why must
| Henderson be the only ill-kept and
squalid child in this fine family of
| tobacco towns?
If more prominent citizens say moth
ing on these trying conditions, be-
cause of the swaying power of "big
interests in town. the people of our
beloved city might take suggestion,
| from one who has no axe to grind,
to speak out and to demand some.
thing better for Henderson. 1t is the
teaching of the Catholic Church that
no power on earth, neither Church
nor State, (nor Industry can take
away our natural rights. One of these
! rights is to. frugal comfort for the
working classes, and another natural
right is to decent living conditions.
If this open letter also goes I'M
needed, we shall, at the end of thirty
days, send a full report and photo
graphs to the Bureau of Health in
Raleigh and in Washington, D. G.
Very sincerely,
REV. LEO G. DOETTERL,
! Pastor.
| Henderson, April 8, 1896.