Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-30
CRUSADE BY YOUTHS
ChiIdren's CIean-Up Work to
Be Outlined Tonight
SCH0UL HEADS TO ATTEND
Health Officials Will Show Need of
More Sanitary City.
CITIZENS RESPOND HEARTILY
Practically All Associations Have
Selected Delegates to the
Central Committee.

capt. James F. Oyster. president of the
board Of education. will preside over a
meeting tonight in the Public Library in
the interest Of a campaign for cleaner
premises, which children Of Washington
are to wage for the next two weeks. The
Juvenile crusade is planned as a pre-
liminary to the city cleaning week to be
conducted under the auspices of The
Star. beginning Monday, April Is.
Invited to attend tonight's meeting are
the principals of Washingtons 16O public
schools. the scout masters Of approximate
ly forty chapters of local Boy Scouts and
the directors of the various Fairgrounds
of the capital. These officials will be
presented with instructions for the con-
duct of the campaign 1t is anticipated
that fully $1,000 pupils of the public
| schools will engage in the undertaking of
cleaning up the private premises where
| they reside.
Speakers of Meeting.
| In addition to the school principals
and other officials who are to be pres
ent. several members of the board of
education are expected to attend the
meeting. Henry p. Blair of the board
will attend, as will Ernest L. Thurston,
assistant superintendent Of schools.
DR.. William NJ. Davidson. school super
intendent. probably will address the
| meeting.
The speakers will include DR.. William
c. Woodward. health officers of the Dis
| trict; DR.. Arthur L. Murray of the
health department.; E. c. Stoy, an in
spector of the health department, and
Edgar C. Martin, supervisor of play
grounds and commissioner of Boy
Scouts.
The meeting will be largely an in
formal one. as the school principals
and instructors of the Fairgrounds and
Boy Scouts will be expected to ask
questions concerning the regulat lions
which are to govern the campaign. The
| meeting might be called an institute on
| sanitation, as that probably is what it
will resolve itself into. One Of the
aims Of the health department speak
ers will be to make clear the kinds
Of rubbish that children should look
for in cleaning up their own yards.
Methods Of depositing the refuse for
collection by the street cleaning de-
partment probably will be discussed
by DR.. Woodward.
Pictures to Be Shown.
An interesting feature of the meeting
will be an exhibit Of photographs, ar
ranged by The Star. depicting insanitary
alleys. vacant lots and yards in various
sections of the District.
1t is planned to have the information
presented at tonights meeting dissent
mated among the school children Monday
of next week, or on the earliest possible
day thereafter. The principals. in all
probability, will bring the matter Of a
preliminary crusade to the attention of
the pupils at Mondays chapel exercises,
while the grade teachers also will be
asked to discuss the subject in the class
rooms.
Thousands to Take Part.
With 81 600 children engaged in the
task of removing refuse from the private
premises where they reside. it Is esti-
| mated that not fewer than 10000 Wash
| ington homes will have been benefited
| from a sanitary standpoint. When such
| condition has been brought about a
| foundation will have been laid for the
AA1oA z 6ChCA Oh SouPdASh AOA C1Iy WHO ocL4.
itation. which is to be waged during The
| Stars city cleaning week. which will
continue from April Is to 20.
The personnel Of the central commit
tee which is to direct city cleaning week
practically has been completed. There
are but one or two organizations which
have failed to appoint delegates to the
| committee, and they are expected to an
nounce their selections within a day or
| two. The full committee will be an
nounced early next week. The commit
tees first meeting will be in the board
room of the Municipal building Friday
| afternoon. April 5. at 4:45 o'clock
Maj. Richard Sylvester. superintendent
of police, will represent the police de-
thusiastic over the plans for the cam
paign, and believes that the cooperative
| effort to be put forth by citizens and rep
| resentatives of the District in Improving
the sanitary condition of the city will be
productive OF great deal Of good
| The Chamber Of Commerce has desig-
mated as its representative on the central
committee Albert Schulteis. He is chair
| man of the chambers committee on the
| Improvement of the Anacostia flats, and
| has represented that body in other mat.
| tiers of public interest. 1t is his belief
| that city cleaning week will make the
| coming summer the healthiest Washing.
ton has ever known.
Delegates to "Clean-Up" Meeting.
Practically all of the citizens associa-
tons have selected their representatives
for the committee. Twenty of the citi.
zen bodies representatives were an.
nounced a week ago by The Star. The
appointments to date to the central com
mittee are as follows:
Brentwood Citizens Association, Judge
Daniel O'C Callaghan.
Brightwood Park Citizens Association
Or. G. B. Heniecke.
Northeast Washington Citizens Asso
citation, William A. Linton.
Lincoln Park Citizens Association, H
L. Colerider.
Georgetown Citizens Association. DR.
George w. Wood.
Columbia Heights Citizens Association
DR.. Lewis ]. Battle.
Randle Highlands Citizens Association
DR.. B. T. Woodward.
Meridian Hill and Lanier Heights Citi
zens' Association, William Ramsay.
Citizens Northwest Suburban Associa
ton. DR.. John w. Chappell.
Piney Branch Citizens Association. ]
F. Robb.
East Washington Citizens Association
Dr. Charles NJ. Emmons
Citizens Association Of Chevy Chase
ID. c.. w. NJ. Phelan.
Petworth Citizens Association. c. II
Hanson.
Cleveland Park School and Communit,
Association, William L. Browning.
Anacostia Citizens Association. DR.. T
D. Mudd