La Junta tribune., 1909-11-13
= uRlNG the past week the
editor OF the great family
journal received an epistle

In which he punctures the inflated
tire OF our last issue rs regards the
non-existence OF cleanup days in La
Junta. He asservates In words, fig
ures and facts thusly:
Editor Tribune: In your issue OF
November 9Th. I notice the following
article in your paper. which reads: :
Spring time is the season for a
cleanup campaign. but although the
matter was suggested to the city
dads some months ago. they refused
to act, until delegation from the
Federated Woman's Clubs. bent on
City beautiful waited and sat
upon them until they acQuiesced. In
the demand for a cleanup day
Now. as this Is the second time
that you have published this same ar
ticle. I beg to say you are certainly
very forgetful. or else desire to de-
ceive the public. Just after the
present administration went into Of
flee, the city health officer. DR. Hall.
and myself drove through every alley
In the city and requested everybody
with dirty yards to clean up the same
and the city teams would haul the
rubbish away. c. f. Adams. city
marshal. was instructed to notify ev.
erybody In La Junta Of a cleanup day
on June /, 1903. and these notices
were printed In your office. The or.
ders Yere complied with. and am
very proud To say that S5 per cent
Of The people complied with this re.
quest. and the city teams hauled
away all tin cans and oil offal which
had accumulated In the city. City
Clerk Mayors and myself drove
through every alley on June lst and
I'd and saw that this order was com:
piled with and the alleys were as
clean as they could possibly be made.
will also state that we visited every
dairy that sells milk In the city OF La
Junta. and had those places thorough
ly cleaned.
At the meeting OF the city council
on October 18th we received dele
cation from the ladies' OF the Fed.
Grated Woman's Clubs. with the re-
quest OF another cleanup. but they
did not state any date. After they
left the rooms OF the city council, we
decided upon October goth for the
second cleanup day OF this year. and
on that day City Clerk Mayors and
myself again drove through all the
alleys and we found that ninety per
cent OF the people had complied with
the request a few days later the
writer met one OF the ladies and she
stated that they were very grateful
to the city council for complying with
their request. but they were very
sorry TO state that they would be
unable to participate on that day. on
account OF their clubs meeting the
ladies' from Rocky Ford. but advised
IN not to change the date and II
they were unable to attend at that
time. they would Monday.
I will state that as far as the city
council IL concerned. We believe we
are servants Of the people. and We
welcome the ladies' Of the Federated
womAns Clubs to call on us nt any
time and cooperate with us In \
cleaner and more beautiful La Junta.
We also invite every business man.
tho Industrial Association Of La Juntn.
and wc desire to be criticised by tho
press for any acts. However. I Will
state. when We get an unjust criti.
cism. I will certainly reply to the
same. You will remember that when
I addressed tho Industrial Associa.
tion, I used tho following language:
THE management Of . city should
not be Z matter Of politics. Il should
be \ matter Of business. In fact. In
the case Of our city. II Ii an ex.
ample Of = cooperative enterprise
and Il Ia large In liz problems. Those
problems are yours ~ wsll ~ tho
mayors. and Il II proper therefore
that you business men should take
an interest In what your executive IL
doing and bow he II doing II. and II
some conservative telk you that .
commercial association SHOULD not
eater Into Do,itics. tell hin Tat b.
takinS On iatsrest II he city affairs