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Show THE CLEAN TOWN H MOVEMENT H Tho street cleaners may pick up B every scrap of paper. Householders may rake and comb their neatly B trlnuncd lawns. Hut If the people H of a town li.'.THlst In maintaining ug- H ly buildings, tho town will always uffend people of good tnsto. Our laws preserve jealously the H rlRbts of tho Individual. Every mail's B house Is his castlo It ho sees fit l to paint It n shouting combination F of blue, purple, and orange, ho can B do It. The law can not Interfere. Many advanced reformers demand n M closer regulation of tho development B of private property. They would have plans for any prospective build- H Ing Inspected In ndvnnce by a build- B lug commission, which should havo B power to reject anything that would H lower tho appcaranco of tho town. B Much can bo said for such an B Idea. Yet when you consider bow H municipal otllco Is tilled, bow tho H politicians would enjoy serving on H' Mjch a commission, with Its possl- H bio chances of graft proposals for H nny such regulation will go very B 8 Pcoplo who contemplate nny kind H of building should consider not B merely tho costs and Income of It, m but Us cITect on tho town ns n B wholo. A llluisy structuro of tin m and gingerbread does more harm H than Its taxes aro worth. Tho 1 worst offenders nro not always the B cheap builders. Some men who in- H vest largo sums of money, erect Hor- f Id and conspicuous structures that H nro ridiculously unlit. It such build- B ers could bear" tho remarks of their 1 neighbors, they would wed no regu- H latlon by building commission. H A building dating back to a town's H early history often stands long after H Its use has piwt. Paint Judiciously H npplled will at least mako It Incon- H splcuous. If It Is not worth a good H coat of iKitnt, It Isn't worth standing. H If It has any appearance of being H ininsliacklo, It Injures nearby real H estate ,and Is not a profltablo Invest' H ment for the owner. 4 |