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BADIN BULLE'
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H. R. Wake
Managing Editor F. A. Cummings
Vol. 1 April, 1919 No. 7
Industrial Housing
The article in this issue on the above
subject is of particular interest to
Badinites, because our village is wholly
an industrial one. As familiarity with
danger breeds contempt, so are we prone
to lightly regard our blessings.
Without desiring to throw any bou
quets, but from a plain common-sense
standpoint, I wish to measure Badin by
the new standards of industrial hous
ing. We have two-family or duplex
houses, we have apartment houses, and
single detached houses, which comply
with the requirements of the National
Housing Association in every respect.
They are built far enough apart to allow
maximum ventilation. The town is well
drained, and has first-class water and
sewer systems. The drinking water is
tested daily to make certain that it is
pure. The school is among the best in
the State, and is completely equipped.
The churches are rapidly growing, and
we hope will soon be in their own build
ings. No town is better lighted, and
while all our sidewalks are not com
pleted, they will be continued this sum
mer, and will likely be followed by some
paved streets. With very few exceptions
each house can have a garden, and con
sidering the marvelous strides that have
been made in gardening in Badin during
the past two years, there is every reason
to believe that each family soon will have
a garden.
Having reached a point where the vital
necessities of successful industrial hous
ing are ours, it would appear that our
future can only be entirely what we
make it.
H. R. Wake
Oldest Pioneer Yet Discovered
We had an idea when we discovered
the three B’s—Book, Biddix, and Buf
fington—that we had run to earth the
RAY CLARKE
oldest men “on the job” in Badin. But
we are finding that in this, as in many
other matters, it isn’t safe to be too
positive.
Now, look at Ray Clarke. (His usual
expression isn’t quite so stern.) Who
would take him to be such a pioneer?
But the fact is that ho has been contin
uously on the job since November, 1912.
Ray is a Tarheel, born and “schooled”
in Ansonville, County of Anson. He
came with his people to Albemarle in
1904. His first connection with Badin
was made in 1912, when he joined the
surveying corps of the French Company,
in November of that year. In March,
1913, Ray entered the draughting room
of the French Company, continuing in
this work when the Tallassee Power
Company assumed control in 1915.
He is one of the most reliable and
steady men employed by the Company.
Our Trees and Shrubs
Much has been done in the past
months to beautify our streets and p
places, and greater progress is t
expected when our people in gei
learn that there are certain tl
around our town that they ought to
for and appreciate. We admit that
of the shrubs when set out were si
and to the average person looked li
mass of dead sticks and brush,
barbed wire entanglements around :
of the bushes were placed there mi
to save the plants from being tran
down, and were not erected to rei
the returning soldiers of their daj
France.
The balmy spring air and warm
shine will soon bring to life the diff
plants, and the work of many mo
will be shown up in a few weeks.
We feel that this work is of int
to everyone in town, as well as to t
who chance to visit here. What is >
than a street planted with a straight
of Norway maples, to protect you
the scorching rays of an August
and shade the walks from the blin'
glare? These trees will give a touc
dignity to our town that in a few T
will put us in the class of the
towns that rest quietly under cov*'
their masses of green so common W
section of the country.
More than trees are necessary ^
this the blossoming town you read *
Every individual family should do
thing to beautify their own pr**"!
A little planting goes a long »■»>'•
it and see. You will appreciate
if you do it yourself.
W. J.
Phases of the Housing
(Continued from p«fc s) . i
woman in the tenement occup'
many families, and where no
is paid to the care of the halls * f
there is no incentive to keep
rooms clean. (,(>
The scarcity of good hous^
makes it necessary for capable ^
men to take any house they ^
In this way they may be thro'*”
people whose habits are a ft>
whole neighborhood. The
ily, put into a subnormal
sink* to the subnormal. ^
The physical consequence* ^
housing are easily »«en.
explained. Dark, damp,
ed rooms multiply disease f* j^t *
can only be dntroyed by