Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 13, 1921, Page 2

¥ i t FAIL TO RESPECT PROPERTY | Great Body of Americans Need Edu.| cation Concerning Proper Usage | of Public Places. ! The mental make-up of men and women who scatter papers along the | highroads, who trample down growing | crops, who break down farmers’ | fences, and who are responsible for surrounding our woodland streams with a beadwork of tomato cans Is quite easy to understand. Such peo- ple are merely primitive individualists. They have not yet advanced in civill- zation to a point where they can visualize the property rights of others. There is another group of wayfar- ers which, though allied closely to the first, we both dislike and cannot un- derstand. This is the group which ‘mot only scatters refuse over private lands, but also leavks a trall, which he who runs may read, over the land belonging to citles, states and the na- | tion. A public park, whether it be but a triangle of grass at the inter- section of three village streets, or & rolling meadow land set down in the heart of a great city, or a forest re- serve of a hundred thousand acres of the national domain, is property to which each and every one of us has an fnalienable right, To scatter trash over a bit of green in the heart of a clity or to slash off the top of a pine tree in a national park Is to damage part of the common land to which every citizen Is heir. We can understand how a man can disregard the rights of a neighbor, but it is not so easy to understand how a man can destroy the beauty of land which is his own and his children’s. If we are to continue to bulld parks in our cities and set aside wildernesses for our recreation, we must also bufld up, in the mind and heart of every cltizen, a spirit of jeal- ousy for the beauty of these green places. Perhaps the present generation of Americans Is already past the cure, but there is another generation of citizens in the making, and, if we are wise, we will do for them what the forestry association has been do- ing in the clty of Washington, If we catch Young Ameriea young enough, our parks of tomorrow may be as | pop bottleless as the bheech-shaded sward of Hampstead leath—The | Qutlook. CAN CUT DOWN FIRE LOSSES Abundant Proof That Carelessness Is | the Chief Cause of Many Disas- | trous Conflagrations. | The Soclety for Electrical Develop- ment, dissatisfied with a- recent re- port of the National Board of Fire | Underwriters in which electricity was | blamed as the chlef cause of fire losses, bas made an exhaustive examination, taking the year 1919 as a basis, It | publishes in the Electrical World the | results of this investigation. The re- | port shows that in 345 citles, with an | aggregate population of 28,495,851 per- | sons, there were 138,553 fires in 1919, of which those apparently of electric origin numbered 3,508, or 2.57 per | cent of the total. Reginald Trautschold, writer of the report, remarks that “a large propor- tlon of electric fives, if not the major- ity, are caused by careless disregard of quite obvlously necessary precau- | tlons, such as leaving an electric flat- | ‘fron with the current turned on upon an inflammable froning-board.” Though fires resulting from such causes usual- ly cause only trifiing damage, it is | easy to see how they may result in very serious conflagrations. The House and Its Site. Most houses should appear to have some connection with the surround- ing landscape and should be bullt of | some sultable material, Stone, brick, | marble or wood may each be inap- | propriate to some surroundings, Have you not seen, perhaps, a white marble house situated where a brown wooden one should he built? Or white garden furniture placed on a lawn where the house was finished in tones of brown? These scattered white spots prodnce a very unpleasant sensation. Geog- raphy plays an important part in the color and materlal of a house. Flats Supplanting Dwellings, The single dwelling with a front and back yard I8 giving way, even in the smaller cities of the United States, to the modern apartment house, ac- cording to a report of 1920 building operations Issued by the United States | chamber of commerce, It shows that | last year 70 per cent of the families | provided with new homes got one-fam- fly dwellings; 11 per cent, two-family dwellings, and 19 per cent, a multi- family dwelling. The proportion of multi-family dwellings was largest in the small cities. Good Community Work. It was the community spirit in play as well as In work, the spelling matches and singing schools that made the life of the ploneer tolerable, The Country Life association has | found the way to lead the people back to the soll In thus providing commun- ity comforts and community amuse- ments. @ubscribe for The Dally P'.Olllr.l i THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER 7 Har¥wem TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1921 {4 [VATION-W_:_Z}‘E; N - > 2 i 3 . 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