The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-04-25
Cleanup Day for Bamberg.

Cleanup Day for Bamberg.
The members of the Bamberg
civic league will hold meeting some
afternoon this week to arrange for
a cleanup day for this city. 1t is
hoped that every citizen will COOP
crate with the ladies. In this con-
nection, the following article will be
of interest to all:
Previous to the date set for
'clean-up day." meeting of citi-
zens in each community should be
held, to formulate some systematic
scheme for cleaning up their town.
Householders should begin at
home doubtless every citizen feels
| that his house, his outhouses and
| his back yard are clean, doubtless he
| is mistaken. The board of health
does not undertake to accuse any one
of dirtiness, it does urge that on this
one day of the year every man, wo-
man and child, and all their prem
ises be made cleaner than they ever
were before.
Dirt and trash of all kinds, old
papers, tin cans, decaying wood, the
remains of baby's Christmas toys,
the pile of decaying food under the
kitchen window, the trash in the
cutters that you have been planning
to move, but haven't got around to,
fecal accumulations about the out
houses, the chicken head by the
woodpile where last Sundays victim
was executed. Clean up, pile up and
burn or haul off all of them and
give your fence and outhouses a
fresh coat of whitewash-leave the
front yard for the last-it probably
is doing fairly we'll. When you get
through, go over and offer to help
your neighbor-he will refuse it, but
he won't need help next time, and
YOU will have aided the cause that
much.
At school the teachers should lay
books aside for day-explain to
the children the object of the days
work, and start them playing the
game of running down germs.
Small boys like to kill things, let
them know that every can of water
emptied kills hundreds of mosqul-
toes, every mass of decaying filth
burned is death to thousands of flies,
every coat of whitewash buries mill
lions of germs-give arbitrary num-
erical values to these different op-
erations and let the kids keep score
of their killing" Put them in
aprons and let them daub whitewash
to their hearts content.
When the school is clean inside
and out, send them home to help
with the domestic clean up.
Business men, clean up. Clean
your back yards, clean out your
stores and cellars, wipe off all dust
and mold from old stock-clean your
windows, your signs, your pavement
and the ditch beyond.
Hotels and restaurants offer
vast field for cleaning up in dining
room, kitchen and bed rooms. Put
on fresh linen everywhere, thus fly
ing the flag of cleanliness.
The municipality can do it's share
by cleaning public buildings, parks
and streets, and most important of
all by arranging to remove all waste
trash and garbage as they are placed
in convenient places by household
ers.
Let the railroads and street rail-
ways try just this once the expert
ment of having their cars, waiting
room and toilets in cleanly and sani-
tary condition.
Aside from the moral effect of
such a campaign, the beautifying ef-
feet, and the educational value of
such a demonstration.
These campaigns are commented
on by newspapers and medical jour
nails. All over the country, the hold
ing of a "clean-up" day is accepted
by the outside world as evidence OF
enlightenment, sanitary culture and
q desire for the best in morals and
physique on the part of those partici-
pating.