Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-26
STARS FIGHT FOR
CLEANER STREETS
LAUDED BY DANA
Librarian Says Crusade Is Edu'
cation and Just What
People Need.
ASSERTS PUBLIC is TO
BLAME FOR CONDITIONS
c. JenkinsOn Declares "Sys-
tenn of Garbage Collecting
Is All Wrong"

The subject of leaner streets for
Newark, which the Evening STAR Is
advocating for the benefit of the pubic
and the boosting of the fair name oil
Newark, was made the basis of an IN
terview with Librarian John Cotton
Dana, who is also a member of the city
plan Commission. Mr.. Dana said to-
day that he considered the campaign
OF the STAR educational and that 1t Is
just such things that will aid the city,
not only in making for cleaner Streets
but in improving conditions geheranS.
THE public must be awakened salu
Mr.. Dana, land it should be heid re-
sponsible for all the wrongs IN the
city government. ! am not prepared
to talk authoritatively on the condition
of the city's streets. kno that they
are in better shape now than ten years
ago.: l also know that they could be
still cleaner, but | most emphatlealiy
declare that the public must do some
thing to bring about the necessary I'M
provement. The public does not care
and it ought to be made to care.
Seven years ago there was begun in
this city an agitation for cleaner
streets. All Newark became Interested
in the movement, and as a result Il
positive Improvement was soon APP
parent. The same thing should pc dohe
now and all the time. .
take the public as a whole ana II
is Indifferent. Psy~ehologically speak
ing, a man does not open his eyes when
he walks the streets. A man can 30
from his street. which Is clean, TO d
street in a more congested nelghbor-
hood of the city, which Is dirty, ana
he will not notice the difference, rms
Ia to be regretted. Every one OF us
should see all there is to be seen, ana
should make known approval or dis
approval of conditions. If this were
done we would have cleaner streets.
ct understand that there is an Or
l.dinance on u books making 1t a mis-
fdemeanor to throw refuse on the grass
or walks in the city parks. The Shaoe
! Tree Commission provides receptacles
for papers and refuse of all kinds. Yet
we see every day men and women
violating this ordinance directly In
front of a policeman. A citizen walk
ing by notices this and says not a
word. .
"If. however, this citizen would call
the Officer ) dllCiiAlph W $50
he is aiding in the violation OF an Or
dinance he would soon realize that ne
As n~eglecting his duty"
Mr.. Dana believes absolutely tnat a
system of education along these lines
would do a great deal of good. He
stated that the STAR was doing a
good work, and that by advocating
cleaner streets the readers of this
newspaper would naturally begin think
ing about streets, the condition IN
which they now are, and the condition
: that should prevail. .
Richard c. Jenkinson was asked 10
Rive his view of the condition of the
streets. He said:
"Generally speaking do not think
that Newark streets are dirtier than
the streets in other cities. / will say
however, that our systm Of garbage
collection is all wrong, and that our
people are not careful, and do not make
II effort to keep their streets clean
"Our back yards and alleys are dirty
and when the wind blows the streets
soon become Uttered with refuse despite
the fact that the streets have just been
swept. We must remedy this oondi-
lion"