Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-21
CITY HEADS GIVE AID
Join Heartily in Plans for
Cleanup Week.
TURN OVER B0ARDR0OM
Will Be Headquarters for Spotless
Town Crusade.
SCHEME OF ORGANIZATION
Cooperation of Citizens Necessary
if All Refuse Is Removed
From Capital.
SCHEME OF ORGANIZATION

| Indicating the extent of their interest
| IN the pan of The Star for a week of
| city cleaning, to be held April Is to 20,
| the Commissioners of the District of Co
| lumbia today decided to give the use of
| the boardroom in the Municipal build
| ing to the committee of citizens and
| District government representatives who
| will direct the health crusade.
The Commissioners did not stop with
this, but promised to preside over the
first meeting of the committee, which will
be held in the boardroom at 4:45 o'clock
| Saturday afternoon, April Ii, when final
plans for conducting the cleanup cam
pagn. which will begin bright and early
the following Monday, will be mapped
out. Cuno II. Rudolph. president of the
board of Commissioners will call the
meeting to order.
AS result of the immediate indorse-
ment given by the Commissioners to the
plan of The Star to improve the sanitary
conditions of the National Capital, it has
become possible to announce the general
features of the proposed arrangement
for conducting the health campaign.
Meeting of Representatives.
At the meeting to be held Saturday,
April Is, representatives of all the cit
liens associations of the District and OF
a large number of civic organizations,
as Well as of several departments of the
District government which have been
asked TO participate in the campaign.
will be in attendance. These representa-
tives will compose the central committee
of the campaign.
The principal business to be disposed OF
at Saturdays meeting will be the ap-
pontment of an executive committee
which will meet daily in the boardroom
of the Municipal building while the city
cleaning week is in progress. Complaints
of nuisances and of places about the city
that need cleaning UP will be made to
this committee, which will devise ways
and means of dispOsins of them.
Cooperation Necessary.
The plan contemplates cooperation by
the members of the various organizations
to the extent of their reporting nuisances
in the section covered by the organization
to their respective representatives on the
central committee These representatives
will lay the complaints before the execu-
tive committee, where a decision as to
what action shall be taken will be
reached.
The success failure of the plan
to make Washington a cleaner city than
it has ever been will depend almost en-
tirely on the efforts to be put forth by
the individual members of the OrganiZa-
tons represented in the central COM
mittee.
Citizens of the District of Columbia gen.
orally asked to take part in the cam
paign. and complaints made to the eX-
ecUtive committee by residents who may
not belong to any of the organizations
actively participating also will be con-
sidered and acted upon.
Woodward May Head Work.
Among the departments of the District
government that will be represented on
the central committee are the health,
police and street cleaning departments
and the board of charities.
DIR. William c. Woodward, health Off
Ger of the District. has ueen mentioned
as chairman of the executive committee,
and il is probable that he will be elected
to that position at Saturdays meeting
AS an Indication of the need of gen.
eral clean up campaign. such as that pro-
posed by The Star, report has just
been made to the engineer department
of the District by Roy c. Haynes, sec
rotary to the board OF condemnation OF
insantary buildings, covering the results
of recent inspection Of alleys in the
District.
According to Mr.. Haynes report, 237
inspections We're made and eighty-nine
instances discovered. This is an unusual
| ly high percentage and the report has
been called To the attention of the health
| Department. as many of the nulSanceS are
| of such character that they require i'm
mediate attention
Severe Winter Cause.
Mr. Haynes attributes the poor showing
| to the fact that the winter has been a
severe one and hOusehoders have not
| had an opportunity to clean up. 1t is
| his belief that The Stars crusade Will
bring about better sanitary conditions in
the alleys of the National Capital than
| ever have existed in them.
| Details of the plan for the crusade Will
| be announced from time to time in The
Star Practically all of the organiza-
| tons which have been asked to partici-
nate have consented to the plan without
exception having been commenced py
every organization TO whose attention 1t
has been brought. The personnel of the
central committee will be announced
| within a few days.
Mount Pleasant in Line.
! The Mount Pleasant Citizens Associa-
ton voted unanimously last night to in
| dorse the week of city cleaning as pro-
| posed by The Star, and pledged itself to
| direct the EFFORTS or ali OF It's members TO
| a systematic cleaning up OF the territory
! In Mount Pleasant embraced in the asso-
| citation limits. +. {. Coldren, former
president of the association. will be its
representative in the general committee
to be formed.
| In a letter TO The Star today Richard
T. Watrous, secretary of the American
| Civic Association. says:
! The American Civic Association is de-
| lighted at the announcement of week
| of CITY cleaning. and we hasten to assure
| Won that we shall be very glad to coop
! crate in every way possible in making
| the week a memorable one for Washing
ton. which shall be but the beginning OF
an always clean city. A cleanup week Is
| ineffective in itself unless 1t is the initial
step in a systematic practice that shall
be forever adhered to afterward. A clean
Inn week that exhausts itself in seven
DAYS is Just as ineffective as revival
that wins converts who backSlide after
the enthusiasm of the rally meetings is
| at its height.
Reasons for Interest.
| ''The American Civic Association is in
| terested in the Washington cleanup week
| for a double reason. First, because we
are a part of Washington and are ambi-