Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-02-11
WORK FOR BOYS
How They Can Help In Keeping
the Streets Clean.
URGE OTHERS TO DO LIKEWISE

Campaign Of Education Carried en- BY
a Civic League Of Sehoolboys-Call
Attention Of Offenders to Gravity Of
Their Ofense.
Clean streets add greatly to the at
tractiveNess Of towns. In small COM
nunities especially, if every one, young
and old, did what he could TO keep
the streets clean. many an unhempt
town would be wonderfully improved.
Boys can band together and help TO do
such good work as the ~schoolboys OF
the Crowell Civic league in New York
ara doing. They are not only aiding
the city to keep the streets clean, but
they are training themselves and edu-
eating their parents III civic righteous
ness. While the league was organized
under the auspices Of the street clean
ing department and is supervised by
an employee Of the department, Mr..
Rueben S. Simon, the boys themselves
are doing the work. SO far as possible
10y w hONl'4IS ~ ~ NY
lower east side clean.
The boys don't get into white duck
and go about the streets with q broom.
Of course. They attack trouble at its
source. When they see a man or wo-
man violating Il Of the city ordi-
nances by throwing refuse into the
streets. they call the attention Of the
offender to the gravity Of the offense.
IT that does not serve they hand out
one Of the circulars given below. Ev-
cry boy carries a supply, neatly folded.
in his inside pocket. 1t is as follows:
MOTHERS
By the Crowe!l Civic League Of Public
School No. ..
We, your sons, have organized to help
keep the streets Of our district as clean
as possible, We ask YOU for your help.
We and YOU, too. do rot like to hear
people from other sections Of the city
remark on the dirty condition Of our
streets. Won't you aid Us in showing
these people that We are just as good cit
liens as they? We will distribute anon
YOU from time to time copies of the law.
But there are two things We want to men
ton here:
We feel very much ashamed of the
alarming habit among some of US OF
throwing garbage and slops into the
streets through windows and call upon
you 70 help us stop it.
Garbage and ash cans are filled TO over.
flowing and scattered over the sidewalks.
We recognize that the landlords are also
at fault in not providing enough cans
We welcome all complaints.
Take heed Of our appeal. Help US be-
come good citizens of our great city that
we may justly say. we are proud of on,
clean city of New York"
CROWELL CIVIC LEAGUE.
Public School No. 2,
116 Henry Street, n. Y.
These circulars are printed in Eng
lish and Yiddish, and as the funds Of
the Crowell Civic league increase 9th
er languages may be added. Branches
Of che league have been established in
a Humber of schools, q teacher being
placed In charge of each.
At regular intervals a meeting is
held, when the boys make q report of
what they have done. These reports
are in regular form, addressed to the
commissioner Of street cleaning. The
name and address of the offender are
given when the name is known, and
each boy tells the measures he took to
prevent a recurrence Of the offense.
The boys of the Crowell Civic League
OF Public School No. . are the only
ones as yet to c!rcularzie the residents
in che district in which they live. They
have little money, but they have man.
aged to have a few circulars printed,
which they distribute as needed. They
realize that ignorance lies at the roo,
of the fault and that few would offend
again if they realized that they were
violating laws Of health as well as OF
the municipality.
The officers of the Crowell Civic
League Of Public School No. 2 consist
of a president, vice president, record
ing secretary, corresponding secretary
and q foreman.
The chief purpose for which the
league was organized, that Of keeping
streets clean and urging others to dc
the same, can be applied to any tow
and will be found beneficial.