The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08
OUR FRISCO LETTER
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then sent out to instruct farmers how
to protect themselves from the depre-
dations Of the plague-carrying SPUR
rels, A number of these instructors
are travelling through California at the
present time.
One day is a good thing, a splendid
start, but surely past experience has
proven elsewhere, and ! believe also
in Honolulu, that eternal vigilance is
the cost of a city's health, and clean
liness is included in citizenship.
One Of the most recent practical and
effective campaigns of cleanliness was
carried on by the city of New Britain,
Conn, the campaign being inaugural
ed by the Mems Brotherhood of a Con
gregational church.
Six languages were required to tell
the inhabitants of the town what was
required of them as members of the
"Spotless Town Brigade" Several
weeks We're occupied in the propaga-
ton of the gospel of cleanliness
Everyone was told just what was ex-
pected Of them, and it is an interest
ing commentary that the leaflets given
out to the foreign-born citizens was
the FIRST communication in their ma
tive language which they had ever re-
ceived from the government whose flag
was floating over them"
Just how extensive the work was is
indicated by an account which came
recently to hand, from which ! take
the following extracts:
"The city missionary had given
them tracts which they could under
stand, but the city itself had never
given them anything. Accordingly they
responded with enthusiasm. When the
man who had been born in Poland
read, Co many zrobic ably dopomodz
oczyscic miasto New Britain; when
the man from Naples read, 'Sgombrate
lie vOstra cenere le immondizie dial
! vOstrO cortile'; when the man from the
Rhine Valley read, 'Reinigen Sic Ihren
Keller, Stall oder Scheune; when the
man from Stockholm read, 'Blanda icke
ihop aska och affall; and when the
man from the ghetto of a Russian city
read some advice which the pages OF
The Congregationalist cannot repro
duce because it was printed in Yiddish
these recently arrived citizens were
but having brought home to them in
ineligible TRANSACTIONS such injunc-
tons as:
What You Can Do to Help Make New
Britain a Clean City.
1. Take away all the ashes and dirt
from your back yard Immediately.
Send your rubbish to the dumping
ground
,. Clean out your cellars, stables,
and sheds Whitewash your cellar
walls, fences, and hen-houses.
3. Burn all rubbish that will burn.
Clean your vacant lots and alleyways.
A. Avoid mixing ashes and garbage.
This is against the law. You may be
fined five dollars.
,. Refrain from throwing old paper,
banana or orange skins into streets.
6. Plant some grass and flower
seeds to make your home beautiful.
Every house should have a little green
grass and a few trees.
Z. When you have cleaned up for
Easter, keep your yard clean all the
time.
Dirty yards cause flies, sickness,
death.
Old tin cans hold water; water
breeds mosquitoes.
Rotten garbage makes bad air, bad
air makes weak bodies, weak bodies
make big doctors bills.
The methods Of modern advertising
also were employed to contribute to
the end sought Thus:
"At the outset there was the photo
graphing of some guilty back yards
which had first suggested the idea Of a
Spotless Town. This savored not a
little of adventure. On one accession
a president of a congregational
Church Mems League narrowly es
capped a baptism of garbage thrown out
from a third-story tenement. A few
days after the results Of the kodak
campaign had been made public, a
minister of a Congregational church
was accosted on the street by an irate
individual and profanely threatened
with physical violence if ever again
he was seen trespassing upon certain
real estate. lnasmuch, however, as
the Spotless Town pictures had really
been taken by the sanitary inspector
Of the city i'm the prosecution Of his
official Investigations, these and Other