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Show Order Instead Of Chaos Chaos is often the outcome of a Roosevelt celebration. The present conflict between the Roosevelt Racing Assn. and Jaycees over who has the tennis courts for Friday night's dance at this time it looks as if the Jaycees will sponsor is a typical typ-ical example. With no central directing body to take charge of scheduling activities on civic property, conflicts of this type are often inevitable, according to the law of averages. What apparently is needed is a committee, or individual, to handle the scheduling of such events, and even private affairs, when the city is directly or indirectly in-directly involved, or when city property is in use. The Christmas parade is another an-other example of chaos when there might have been order. This time, of course, there was no conflict in events, only in plans. The parade was delayed i for almost an hour, mainly be cause no one knew what his neighbor was doing. The absence of Santa for so long was the principal bottleneck. He finally showed up, but a little too late to insure a flawess parade. No one in particular can justly be blamed for things going wrong1, but more careful plans might be made in the future, especially if there are several groups in on the show. Anyone who knows will tell you it's a bad situation in war when, in the midst of battle, a supporting army does not arrive on time. To guard against further tennis ten-nis court conflicts and Ghris-mas Ghris-mas parade mix-ups, the city might well seriously consider the appointment of a scheduling committee, which, even though it would have jurisdiction only over community celebrations and the use of city property, would cover considerable territory terri-tory including most of the major ma-jor celebrations. This committee woud be expected to steer clear of conflicts, and shortly would become adept at clock-work planning. It would not necessarily neces-sarily direct all affairs in which the city has a part, although it might, but would ' invariably control the use of city property. One can hardly expect to see all event conflicts ironed out and every celebration, no matter j how unimportant, go off on schedule. Around Roosevelt thre are often several meetings, celebrations, dances, etc., going go-ing on simultaneously. This situation, sit-uation, too, is in accordance with the law of averages there's just not enough time to avoid. all conflicts. But the large celebrations might be better scheduled, organized, or-ganized, and supervised. The excellent order apparent this spring at Roosevelt high school's complicated activities days celebration cele-bration proves that precision planning is useful. A city committee com-mittee might possibly do just as well with community affairs. The committee would also serve another useful purpose. In supervising the use of city property, it could make sure that all improvements, etc, donated don-ated to the city by various civic clubs for a specific purpose are not misappropriated by individual in-dividual groups using city rec-recreation rec-recreation facilities. GWH |