The Detroit times., 1911-05-13
Ii the Meantime, Why
NotSimply Go Ahead and
CLEAN UP the Alleys?
That's the Imperative Move To Be
Made Now--Let's Clean UP
and Talk About Ways and
Means After the Dan
ger Has Passed.

ger H.. Pa...d.1 from Detroit and heard something
Made you proud to call yourself Detroiter didn't it,
compliment your home city quite often the smoking
compartment Pullman just naturally to get to
talking with each other
Pleases you to bOu
like the above Detroit and look around the other faces
everybody taking what the who is talking you saying
you listening nice things that are
being said Detroit third party the smoking compartment
Going interrupt the who telling all about Deroits beauties W
asking him if he took a look under the piano.
other words this third party going to put red pepper on the
boquet asking enthusiastic about Detroit ne
4 EVER TOOK A LOOK AT ONE OF OUR ALLEYS
Then the stranger will be told ALL ABOUT alleys and it's dollars
dougnu change opinion of Detroit quite suddenly
yourself What kind Of husekeeper would
you your wife, though house looked neat and tidy
|she left the sweepngs under the sideboardi
right and that is Drot
plant against the pays keep its house clean
Paving kept up pretty fairly respectable
alleys ferhe sweepngs all there and the
bare holding high weather setting in.
things that being said about Deroits
beauties days being desirable live
get fellow who knows about alleys
YOURSELF that they DsGRACEFUL and DANGEROUS
condition YOU ARE ACCEPTING COMPLIMENTS FOR YOUR CITY
UNDER FALSE PRETENSES.
A CITY rs ONLY CLEAN AS ITS ALLEYS
repeatedly called the attention of the citizens the
filthy condition of city's alleys
We did this last year year when conditions
found public citizens who made it their business
investigate
awakened the real state Of affairs
and 10 the Importance this public everybody
% be in quandary as to be done about it
Citizens would have the conditions remedd
running about in suggestions chickens with their heads cut off,
The suggestion which offers with view to aiding
these and officials.
suggestion that important step to take the CLEANING
3 OF THE ALLEYS.
to keep after having cleaned them
have suggestion to make In that connection
Let's get up and talk about keeping clean afterwards
The department Of public responsible existing
ditions
tn which do the work but didn't
the Of estimates making
about the alleys good right the shoulder might have got an
appropriation
Detroit hasn't the money lets borrow II from get
Or here is another way which funds might be raised
coming for their reunion voted
$4,000 identifying ourselves ON Wo0DWARDAvE with couple
81 archie and few posts
Il seems to easy the council find the
the College Medicine
Detroit and want suggest that we
puced the alleys should be to give the doctors
good opinion Of our looks -.
y night purpose identifying OUR ALLEYS honor the
coming Of the clinic
ought be able to the work done Tor less than $o put
& a would be well worth that much.
Now for our suggestion the alleys clean
Il can be n way and only
way is by COOPERATION
may week and appropriate until the COWS
alleys will be filthy from today unless each
will take himself his INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE
|urTY AND LOOK AFTER HIS OWN BACK DOOR
whose intelligence enables him to look at the
latter alley from the standpoint of his his my his neigh
v hors and his citys health
citizens with pride in Detroit HAVE by this time CLEANED
any need be told refuse MAKE THEM CLEAN UP
s ~ J@1f Cop IoooorJo RI Croo1>