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Show H NO CNCOURAGLMLNT. M During the recent months the Lo- M pan public: has heard much about M civic Improvement Major Hoblnson M and the local press, particularly, hac M been urgent In suggesting that grass M at the sides of cement walks, beds of H (lowers on lawns, well kept shrubbery, M neater fences, streets free from paper M and rubbish, will add materially to M the appearance of the city. Hut the fl public will hear little more of this fl talk from Tiik Rkitiimuan until the H oillclals of this city show a tlisposl- m Hon to assist those Inclined to bcautl- fl ty their property M Practically every cITort to prow fl lawns at the sides of thecement walks H Is a failure unless these lawns arc en- M closed with barbed wire fences Pc- M dcstrlans tramp out the grass In the M early spring and the labor of property M owners goes for naught. M As for beds of (lowers, It Is practical- M ly useless to attempt to grow them. M The tlowcrs arc stolen nightly and not H infrequently the plants themselves are M destrocd M Wire fences stietched to protect B newly planted hedge aic sat upon un- H til they are but a succession of un- H sightly sags, and the shrubbery Is bad- H Jy damaged M lloth new and old picket fences are H whittled and the topsof many pickets B arc kicked oi knocked olf H Many people scatter banana and H orange peel on the walks and paper Is H cast aoout promlscously by any and B all. Kven some business men sweep Km paper to the front guttci and others BV sweep It to the real of their establish- PBV ment fot the wind to blow whither it pftV Until some protection against van- HBb dahsm can be piocuied, until pedes- BBb trlans and blcjclcrs can be Induced. PBV threatened, or forced to use the co- ! ment walks, until careless and Ignor- PBV ant young men and women and bad IBV 1)0 s can be taught that fences are BBfl not to be used for couitshlp purpose BBfl or jumping rails, until men may have IBV the assurance that hoodlums will pftfl not break pickets and steal gates, and pftV until the police will havo the gctup to talk plalnlv to people whom they sec throwing refuse and paper or the walks and streets then, and not until un-til then should the public be urged to "beautify" their piopcrty. The homes, Sunday Schools, day schoolsand religion classes by teaching cleanliness and orcllllncss can help people to Godliness about as quickly as they can by Insisting on the members mem-bers knowing the exact location of all the towns In Palestine. |