The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921. CIVIC PRIDE.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 636, 27 May 1921, Page 6

The Times. Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons.

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921. CIVIC PRIDE.

Civic pride is to a greater or lesser decree inherent in every community, •and accordingly as it is cultivated or neglected, the result is either a city oi' town that endures or is forgotten. The ancient Greeks cultivated civic pride under Pericles, and to-day Athens is remembered. The-4»«w*«ifi did the same and Rome endures. To an observant -visitor the degree of civic-pride is apparent the first hour dr two spend in a city or town. It Is reflected in the roadways and footpaths, in the lighting and sewerage, in the public buildings, the parks and the libraries. It is also reflected in the neat hedges or railings, in the tidy house fronts of the citizens, in the well kept lawns and the well trimmed paths and flower beds. It is reflected in the business part of a community in the style of architecture, the well dressed show windows, the conveniences for customers. We claim there is vast room for the inculcation of civic pride in Pukekohe. The railway station —the front door of the town —could be beautified with flower beds and grass plots by a commit tee of citizens as in Hamilton or Cambridge. The main street could be kept cleaner and the business houses could afford to invest in paint. Many ugly corners and allotments abound in this borough which could be improved at very little expense and which could he made to favourably impress where now they depress. Citizens must learn to take a positive not a negative pride in their own town, and when this is true Pukekohe will become a place of beauty and; at tract i veness. , Truly, civic pride is a worthy pride, and is worth living for and worth working for.

“We nothing extenuate, nor aught set clown in malice.”