University Missourian., 1912-12-15
COLUMBIA NEEDS TO 'sSPRUCE UP''
Wednesday Is the Day Named for General
Cleaning and Frightening
You Do Your Part?

menace to our health. Therefore, let
us clean up Columbia.
MRS. w. W. CHARTERS,
Chairman, Education Committee,
Women's Civic League.
by Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane.
Most people seem to have the idea
that it is the function of the street
cleaning department alone to give us
clean streets. AS matter of fact,
when we shall have really clean
streets it will be an achievement Of
collaboration between the street
cleaning department. the people who
use the strets. and the various muni-
lpal departments or corporations
that install water and sewer systems,
and other public utilities.
| Our street paving committees, our
water, police and city engineering de-
/ partments; our public service cor
porations and our various civic or
ganizations, the children in the pub
lie schools and citizens in general
must be made to comprehend that a
clean city is not something which is
to be accomplished by the sole and
unsupported effort of the street
cleaning department: that all who
want clean city must refrain from
contributing to the mass of litter and
general refuse which should never
have escaped from business and pri-
vate premises, from the hands of ped
estrians, from the wagons of care
boards and other sources. Such
boards an dother sources. Such
nuisances, in most cities. constitute
ocular proof that the people really do
not care much about having clean
streets.-From "The American City,"
The Stand Of the d. 4. r.
AS daughters of women, who. in
the trying days of the American rev.
olution supported their sons and
husbands in their struggles after
better conditions, the ID. A. r. should
and does stand for every movement
that looks toward the betterment of
humanity, and certainly no move |
ment tends more directly to that end
than the very general one for clean |
er and more wholesome conditions
in our towns and cities.
Therefore l hope that every men,
Der of the d. A. r. will heartily CO.
operate with every effort to make |
Columbia a cleaner and more beauti-
full city. and since cleanliness like !
charity begins at home, that she will |
see to it that her lawn and parking, |
the gutter in front and the alley be-
hind her home are clean. More than |
that, if any member of her family is !
engaged in business down town that !
she will urge that the alley back of
his place of business be cleaned and |
kept clean.
MRS. GEO. B. MACFARLANE.
State Regent of the d. A. R.
From WOmen's Civic League.
To the Women's Civic League, a
clean Columbia means the cleanest
city from the standpoint of health,
both physical and moral, that the
combined efforts of every man and
every woman in Columbia can make
it. Not lust as clean as any other"
not even 1.-The cleanest in the state"
will satisfy us. We want it to be the
best that intelligent cooperation
directed" can secure.
We recognize that this must not be
a spasmodic affair, that comes once
DR. twice annually. We want our
own to be clean and wholesome ev-
cry day in every year, and to grow
better each year. We must bring
his about by awakening a public SEN
iment that shall demand of each in
lividual that he shall at all times use
lis best efforts to make Columbia
lean.
We are going to make a start to-
yard this next Wednesday and I ap-
zeal to every woman who reads this
hat she use her influence to have
he parking. the gutter. and the alley.
djoining the home where she is liv-
ng made clean and sanitary. The
allen leaves, and street dirt make
n excellent fertilizer for the yard
nd garden. If you do not have
lace for such material. then put it
a a heap, in the street and public
pirited men will send carts to re- |
love 1t.
Let us all work together for per-
ectly sanitary Columbia.
MRS. c. w. GREENE,
President Women's Civic League.
That the FOrtnightly Club Says
We are all interested in a clean and
eautiful town and cooperation with
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