| Show THE CITY BEAUTIFUL CLUB contributed every town no matter howshall how small or liow bow large should have a city beautiful club this is an organization that la is almost indispensable if a town is to be made attractive and kept so BO it makes no diff dif fernee ernce how neat and orderly the citizens may be about their premises or the merchants about their business houses henses bea there are bound to be a thousand and one things that need the attention of special organization created for the purpose there was never a truer axiom coined ned than business is nob dyB odys basus business this applies most moat forcibly to many things that end largely to make or mar the the ibe looks of a town now that the warm weather is eming coming on the labors of the city beautifiers fleis will ill be in great demand clemand jit now after the ravages of the winters winter storms nature pirt present sent he most depressing aspect and much attention will be required if she is to re clothe the face of the earth in her original gown of beauty unsightly washes and gullies filled up ditches and drama drains accumulation of weeds and trash and ad leaves leave and ad twigs twi gaare are to be remo removed ad and nature given her fair chance to do her best it is in this capacity that the order loving woman of the town show to advantage women always have haie a keener ee for beauty and harmony than men they are more given to neatness and order than men start out a committee of energetic women to supervise the cleaning up of a town and they will find nuisances and unsightly places of which the men had never thought just here we would like to offer a suggestion in connection with beautifying the town the problem of the tha vacant lot has always been the hardest one for the town beautifiers fiera to solve the by av owner pays little attention to it hence it invariably presents present a neg eg located and desolate appearance now this season is going to we see a demand for every dollars worth of food products that this country ca can produce and these vacant low lota should wherever possible be turned to ac count to swell the output any kind of growing crop corn P potatoes v ve a notable ge tables are far preferable to a coat of weeds when this is done turn attention to the neglected backyards find many of them that now w are am refuse dumps but that can be made a place of beauty and usefulness most meet towns are like some people they will keep the main streets and buildings presentable but the more obscure places piece and the back streets and alleys are am neglected and permitted t to 1 fall into decay taken to task 1 in the matter the authorities often reply that strangers and visitors never see thew these places anyway a so it matter after no but we see seas them which is worse strangers might see a the them and go away and forget them but we must live ive with them which is liable to it breed bread neglect and disorder in ourselves A man with a sore toe may know it is hidden from the public but never forgets that it is a there always bear this in mind th town will be beautiful or the just in proportion as its ita people lovers of beauty and order or reverse A beautiful and well home with a foul foot alley in the rear and a neglected ajeet in front is standing ding reproach to iti owner he hould a have hake sufficient pride to see the that his hia surroundings harmonize or me nize with his possessions it is time to get busy in this town give ilive tle the west an equal chance the great development issues fir western states are involved in pro beems of public lands conservation and water waier power policies half it a dozen eastern millionaire maintain a national press bureau and flood the press of the united states with their ideas on these lines kitty to sixty per cent of the area of the western states are held back from natural normal settlement ba b various kinds of reserves forest reserves power reserves coal reserves oil reserves and gamt game reserves are used as pretexts pretext ato to per manent ly hold up lands accord according ing to highest authorities when these western states were ere ad they acquired all sovereign powers of the older states congress retained the right to dispose of public lands to forward immediate settlement and develop ment of these new western states in the grant to congress by stated there was no thought of allowing the federal government to exercise perpetual dominion over them that is the afterthought engraf ted on our government by the doctrine of western conservationists who have become autocratic guard lans western senators and represent Re presen natives who are playing the game eastern conservationists should realize the folly of their position release the natural resources and the natural rights of the western states from the clutch of those are playing the game of of future generations for purposes at our expense reaching the limit the united states has juht jua reached the limit of endurance must assert its international rights or confess itself a craven who is un on worthy of any rights the over act has hag occurred cured oc at this writing there seems no possible means of avoiding war if would remain a nation of self res pecking people but one fact should prevail all others if we are forced lot war we should go in as a people with a grim determination leave no act undone that will ce repel respect for far our flag and citizenship we abhor war but even an hon ban warfare is 13 preferable to a diss dis honorable peace the time for protesting has pas pace i sed the hour for determined overwhelming action is a at hard hand when diplomacy fails the must take its place the stars star and stripes forever |
