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IN a tenement district lived a family surrounded by filth
and dirt. The whole atmosphere of the little room which
they called '‘home” was one of hopeless depression and
squalor. To pTove the power of suggestion, a good woman
placed on the ta. e a miniature statue of the Venus of Milo.
Against this grimy back-ground of dirt and wretchedness,
the Venus.shone out in all her whiteness and purity,
elevating and brightening her strange surroundings. The
good woman called a week later and found that the place
had been cleaned up, the dirt had been washed away and
a pathetic but sincere attempt at decoration had been made
— the subtle influence was effective.
If the homes in a neighborhood become weather-beaten
and shabby, values in the whole neighbor^ od deteri
orate, But if some house-owner paints and brightens up
his home, it radiates its attractiveness in every direction
and soon the whole neighborhood is made bright and
attractive.
Real Campaign Is
Taking Place of
:1me‘‘Clean Up"
roAL BATH” FOR TOWN S
TABOOED.
Five Thousand Communities Will
This Year Join “Clean Up §nd
Paint Up" Movement.
MORE than 5,000 cities and towns
will this year participate in
“opening weeks" in the National Clean
Up and Paint Up" campaign, accord
ing to Allen W. Clark, chairman o£ the
National “Clean Up and Paint Up”
Campaign Bureau, St. Louis. Many of
these committees, Clark declares, are
thus breaking away from the old
established “clean up” or “annual
bath” idea and are striving to make
their improvement programs continu
ous performances.
Files in the bureau’s offices, which
Indicate that the organization has in
reality become a national clearing
house for the dissemination of com
munity betterment ideas, show that
last year more than 2,000 cities and
towns made an effort to "clean up and
paint up.” “This year,” commented
Chairman Clark, "it looks as though
we would co-operate with more than
6,000 communities, In each of which
some live civic leader is trying to Im
prove living conditions. Though a
majority of these campaigns will start
with an 'opening week,' a definite
program of activity, we know that the
bureau’s success has been chiefly due
to the fact that we try to get away
from the old-fashioned ‘annual clear,
up' idea that has become odious tc
many civic leaders and an annual joke
in many cities. The plans of the
bureau call for continuous campaigns
that bring permanent results and help
form worth while civic habits.”
The Work to Be Done.
The work of the bureau this year is
more comprehensive than ever before.
Everything that will beautify, pre
serve, improve sanitation, reduce fire
risks, and better health conditions has
been carefully provided for. Among
the things which local ''Clean Up and
Paint Up” campaigners are doing this
year are: Cleaning the streets and
alleys, front yards, back yards, cellars,
stables, attlcks; the removal of ashes
and rubbish; cleaning up vacant lots
of rubbish and weeds; eliminating
breeding places of flies and mosqui
toes; planting and care of trees,
hedges and flowers; and the liberal
Use of paint on everything that
needs It.
It is this constructive, permanent
nature of the improvements effected
that has won the endorsement of
national leaders in every branch of
civic uplift work. Among those serv- i
ing this year on the National Bureau’s
advisory committee are:
Mrs. Clarence Baxter, Klrksvllle,
Mo., chairman of the Women's Com
mittee of the National Bureau, is
also vice chairman of the civics
department of the General Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs, and chair
man of the civic and health depart
ment of the Missouri Federation of
Women’s Clubs. Dr. S. J. Crumbine,
Topeka, Kan., president of the Asso
ciation of State and Province Health
Officers of North America. H. S. But
tenheim, New York, editor of "The
American City.” Clinton R. Wood
ruff, Philadelphia, secretary National
Municipal League and editor of the
"National Municipal Review.” Mrs.
Philip North Moore, St. Louis, ex-presi-.
dent National Federation of Women's'
Clubs. William Woodhead, San Fran
cIbco, president of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World. P. S.
Ridsdale, Washington, D. C., executive
secretary American Forestry Associa
tion. Richard B. Watrous, Washing
ton, D. C., secretary American Civic
Association. Mrs. Geo. Zimmerman,
Fremont, O., chairman of the civics
department, General Federation of
Women’s Clubs.
Pamt and Self-Respect.
The one most important factor in
spreading t1ie gospel of cleanliness,
thrift and civic pride, which the
liureau is trying to do, is the work
of newspaper editors throughout the
country, asserts Chairman Clark. For
instance, here is what Paul Brown,
editor of The St. Louis Republic, has
to say of the movement:
“Thousands of American cities and
towns have taken up the National
‘Clean Up and Paint Up’ campaign
that originated in St. Louis three sea
son's ago. It has been Indorsed by
thousands of civic, commercial and
women’s organizations all over the
nation. The cities that have made
themselves a part of the movement
are cleaner and better cities because
of it. The Republic aided in launch
ing the initial campaign and is glad
to know that the Federation of
Women’s Clubs is planning a general
St. Louis campaign for this spring.
This will aid in making ‘St. Louis the
Healthiest City,’ for paint is the great
preservative and a powerful aid in
sanitation. Add to beauty and economy
the fact that paint has a sanitary
value, and the arguments apply with
added force to the big cities. Nat
urally the paint dealer profits by such
campaigns. None but the pessimist
will object to this. He gives value
received and more. The house that
is painted is the better for it. A
neighborhood that has cleaned up and
painted up is a better one in which
to live. Paint makes for self-respect
and justifiable pride.”
In the office of the National ‘‘Clean
Up and Paint Up” Campaign Bureau
hangs a room-size wall map, with
every state dotted by red stars de
noting cities conducting campaigns
last year. And so it is true that civic
leaders in thousands of towns are
working to “get their town on the
map” this year.
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Suggested Program
of Beautification
for Civic Workers
“OPENING WEEK" FOR PER- '
MAN ENT EFFORT.
Schedule Perfected by Denver Man
Has Become Model for Hun
dreds of Other Cities.
HOW much better would Ourtown
look, how much would living
conditions be improved, if every one
would rally around
a live committee
and put over a
definite “Clean Up
and Paint Up” pro- j
gram? |
Here is a sug- 1
gested program
lowed for two years
in Denver. It was devised by L. T.
Minehart of Denver, member of the
executive committee, National “Clean
Up and Paint Up” Campaign Bureau,
St. Louis, and has been followed in
hundreds of cities:
Sunday—Civic Uplift Sermons in the
churches.
Monday—FIRE PREVENTION DAY.
Clean your basements and attics
of rubbish, greasy rags and waste
paper, wherever possible.
Tuesday—FRONT YARD DAY.
Cut lawns, plant flower beds, clean
walks and gutters. Salt cracks in
sidewalks; exterminate ants. ,
Wednesday—DANDELION DAY.
This day can be very profitably :
used in ridding your lawn of dande
lions, trimming bushes and gardens.
There is no more important work
which the campaign could accomr
plish than to rid this city of the
dandelion arid weed pest.
Thursday—PAINT DAY.
Paint up inside and out, porches,
fences, woodwork and: porch chairs.
Business houses clean windows and
replace old awnings.
Friday—BACK YARD DAY.
Clean alleys, repair fences and
sheds, screen garbage cans. Put fly
traps on garbage cans. Put on
screen doors.
Saturday—VACANT LOT DAY.
Boy Scouts and school children
clean vacant lots, removing tin cans,
paper and brush. Plow and plant
garden plots wherever possible.
TRY THIS ON YOUR OWN.
“Little pots of flowers,
Little pots of paint.
Make attractive neighborhoods
Out of them that ain’t”
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