The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-04-28
That Cleanliness Campaign.

That Cleanliness Campaign.
We are talking a great deal about
civic improvements lately, just learn
ing the rules of the game in fact
but, if are to attain the goal of i'm
maculate civic conditions which we
so manifestly desire, there must be
an early start while the year is yet
new and the prospect bright. You
know definite work, definite plans,
definite dates mean definite results.
To generalize over more or less hay
pans is to invite failure and wretch
er results. To start the ball rolling,
why not make of Arbor Day, May 6,
1910. a Montpelier Civic Cleansing
Day when men women and children
shall interest themselves particularly
in cleaning up the streets and the
lawns and the back yeards and the
side alleyways and the waste places
Yes, ] know I've suggested it before
and | mean to talk about it quite fire.
quently, if you please, because Mont
play ball is to arouse enthusiasm in
every one of her citizens to awaken
the spirit of cooperation, to cause the
least of us to be ashamed of his
squalor and TO make the best of us
ambitious to do more that he has al
ready done toward the betterment of
and moral conditions in the
community
What with the increased interest
in the most vital subject of forestry
in recent years, Arbor Day takes on a
ne significance which we can readily
turn to account, if we will, in eX-
pending more energy i'll its proper
and lasting observance than we have
trees, and treccs. The Women's Club
has a few Arbor Day plans but the
cooperation of every landowner and
every school child is necessary if
such an endcavor is to pan out well.
And that is the kind of reputation
Montpelier desires to make within
her borders and outside thcm-name-
ly, that her endeavors pan out we'll
Here's to a Civic Cleansing Day,
May 6, and if you don't do anything
else, at least you can clean up that
array of tin cans in your back yard
and burn your rubbish.
Hardwick stands in line for
for spotless town, under
the auspices of that old standby OF all
good things the Village Improve
ment Society. They may decide to
make Arbor. Day their special town
day and the Hardwick Gaz-
cite says of the effort:
The society will inaugurate its
work by arranging for a big civic
day in the near future. The
affair will be managed along the
lines of those which have been cor
spicuously success:l in progressive
all over the country.
3rooms shoyels and rakes will be
brought into lively use and care
fully planned warfare will be waged
upon every rubbish heap, refuse
nump and unsightly place in the vii
lage.
Everyone will he urged 10 CO.
operate by cleaning up his own
premises and wagons will be provid-
ed to cart all rubbish away. If every
of the community gives this
movement as much boosting as it de-
serves, it is thought that the village
will have taken stand for clean and
conditions which will de-
velop its bump of civic pride to
quite respectable proportions. 1t is
planned TO infuse a gala spirit into
the affair by big street parade, the
band, and a monster bonfire COM
posed of ;he rubbish which will be
carried away. 1t is possible also mat
The day will include some lively
speeches.
In instituting civic cleaning day,
Hardwick will be keeping in line
with the move on" efforts of larger
places. In many live communities
in Massachusetts, New York aud the
West, the clean up day is AS much
If regular institution as The Fourth
of July or abor Day. In our State the
custom is spreading
Shall we clean house togethtr on
May 9Th?
Fancy Fashions.
White satin girdles are beaded with
a pattern in black cut jet.