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Show The Mark Of A Town A town is good or a town is bad according to the manner in "which it meets the needs of its citizenry; it is judged good or it is judged bad as it appears to the passerby. And only through concerted con-certed action based on wise planning plan-ning can a town be made good for its residents and present a pleasing aspect to the passerby. It must be remembered that the exigencies of a town are many and not the least of these is the maintenance of a town's appearance. As the people of a community have a right to expect ex-pect their city government to provide adequate water and a suitable sewer system so arc they within their legal and actual bounds when they look to their city government for the necessary neces-sary means of keeping up the appearance ap-pearance of their town. In increasing numbers interstate inter-state travlers are pausing in Roosevelt for a bite to eat or for a night's lodging, and in increasing increas-ing numbers these passerbys are saying, "What a dirty little town what a dirty little town." And the good folks of Roosevelt must sit back with reddening faces totally helpless before the onslaught. Tiie growing need for improving improv-ing the looks of Roosevelt cannot be met by the blustering roar, "Well clean your place up." Suppose Sup-pose every resident of the city conducted a weekly, self-imposed clean up campaign, what disposi- tion is he going to make of the refuse once he scrapes it together? togeth-er? The answer is self-evident: he'll burn it if its burnable, he'll haul it if possible, to the city dump in his personal car or in a rented conveyance, but more than likely he'll leave it in a big pile, wondering how in the world lie's going to dispose of it and in the meantime more trash is accumulating. ac-cumulating. The Roosevelt citizen will empty his ashes in the street or he'll dump them in the back yard until his property looks like a series of ant hills, but the Roosevelt Roos-evelt citizen, has no other alternative altern-ative than to make his back yard a rubbish pile. The Roosevelt citizens' business bus-iness streets arc a cluttered mass of rubble, empty bottlcs.'discard-ed bottlcs.'discard-ed paper and a collection of odds and ends befitting the city dump it If. In this instance Mr. Citizen Citi-zen himself is at fault for waste disposal units have been placed on business streets, and the people are asked to use them. But the sidewalks and gutters are more conveniently located, hence they serve as a dumping ground. The city council has it in its power pow-er to stop this careless cluttering of Roosevelt's streets by the enactment en-actment of an ordinance, if one does not already exist, making it a misdemeanor to dispose of any waste whatsoever on the streets, sidewalks and in the gutters gut-ters of the city. Legislation stringently enforced can produce results far more reaching than a public appeal. But back to the matter of what the residents and business houses are going to do about the matter of adequate trash disposal. Criticism Crit-icism comes cheap and is often damaging beyond repair unless it is followed by a constructive suggestion that seeks to improve a bad condition. There is no denying de-nying the fact that a rubbish disposal dis-posal system is a crying need of Roosevelt and the city council cannot disregard its responsibility responsibil-ity in providing for such a system. sys-tem. After all the town's citizenry citizen-ry looks toward its duly elected governing body for guidance and leadership in meeting the needs of the town. And while expecting expect-ing the council's needed help some of the folks come forth with suggestions of merit. In this instance they've solved their own problem and ask only that the council give it due and unbiased consideration. Believing this suggested plan to be Nvorkable in the matter of city rubbish disposal we offer it as something entitled to more than a fleeting thought. The city has trucks, the people have a trash disposal problem, which can be solved by the employing of one man to devote his full time to collecting trash from the residential and business districts of the town, keeping the streets clean and hauling his collections to the dump in a city truck. The citizens suggest that they pay the wages of this man themselves by assessing each resident $1.00 a month and each business house from $2.00 to $5.00 a month. They further suggest that a certain cer-tain day each week be designated in which rubbish shall be collected col-lected in a specified section of town, and that the residents and business houses have such trash deposited in suitable containers, placed on the curb or in the case of business houses at the rear of the building for pick up. Roosevelt Roose-velt docs not cover such a vast area as to prevent a full time employee from making weekly garbage collections while also maintaining the appearance of the business streets. No incentive exists today for Roosevelt citizens to clean the trash from their yards for no means is at hand for them to dispose of it. Yet the people are anxious to make of their town an attractive place in which to live and to present to the passerby passer-by a community of pleasing appearance, ap-pearance, a town the passerby will not forget. |