Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-02
CRUSADE OF PUPILS
Accusing Interest in the Clean
Up-at-Home Work.
DIRECTIONS TO TEACHERS
Instructions for Their Cooperation
With the Children.
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS MEET
Preliminary Campaign for City SAM
tation Discussed-New Appoint
ments to Central Committee.
DIRECTIONS TO TEACHERS
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS NEE.

Following a meeting of school princi-
| pals in Mckinley School building yester-
day afternoon. at which the clean-up-at-
home crusade being conducted by the
school children of the capital was dis
cussed, announcement was made today
| of plans for arousing the greatest posi-
BILE interest in the work on the part of
both teachers and pupils.
William NJ. Davidson, superintendent of
schools, has directed that there be sent
to each teacher a circular explaining the
object of the crusade and the methods by
which 1t is proposed to conduct it. The
circular will suggest means of keeping
children hard at work and their interest
unabateo until the campaign closes, i'm
mediately prior to the opening of city
cleaning week, April 15
Supt. Davidson also will direct that the
teachers submit reports on the progress
Of the campaign. These reports together
with the cards to be turned In by the
children as soon as they have cleaned up
the private premises where they reside
Will enable DR.. Davidson to inform the
central committee Of city-cleaning week
just how much of factor the school
children have been in making the capital
of the nation a cleaner and more sanitary
city.
School Representatives Meet.
There were more than 200 school rep
resentatives at yesterdays meeting, APP
proximately $50 of whom were school
principals, the meeting having been called
primarily for the purpose of considering
health rules for the public schools pro-
posed by the Association for the Preven-
ton of tuberculosis Although this sub
ject was carefully considered, no little of
the time of the meeting was devoted to a
discussion of the children's crusade.
The speakers who addressed the school
principals included Emile Berliner, Dr.
William c. Gwynn and Walter S. Ufford,
representing the Association for the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis; Mrs. s. F. EN-
mons Of the woman's welfare department
of the National Civic Federation; DR.. Ar
thur l.. Murray of the health department
of the District, and Supt. Davidson.
DIR. Murrays remarks were directed en-
tirely toward the plans for the cleanup
at-hOme crusade. Supt. Davidson closed
the meeting with an enthusiastic refer
ence to this subject, his remarks being
frequently applauded. The head of the
Districts public school system Endorsed
the plan to have children, for the pres
ent, participate in clean-up-at-home
crusade only, declaring this to be the
only proper course to pursue until the
central committee of city-cleaning week
meets and maps out a comprehensive
plan Of action for city-wide cleaning
compaign.
Preliminary Campaign Important.
Yesterdays meeting marked the second
attempt to impress forcibly on the prin-
cipals and teachers Of the public schools
the Importance Of the preliminary COM
paign for sanitation, which Is to be con-
Quoted entirely by the youth of the city.
With the mailing of the circular to the
teachers it is believed that the entire
corps Of instructors in Washington's pub
lie schools will have been thoroughly
aroused to a realization of the fact that
the school authorities are intensely in
terested in the campaign.
Preparations We're made today to have
printed several thousand cards which
will be distributed among the school chill
dren. Each pupil. as soon as he has
cleaned up the premises where he lives,
will record the fact on the card given
him, turning in the card at the school
where he is enrolled.
Already a number of such cards have
been distributed in the schools but the
supply rapidly was exhausted. The fol-
lowing wording appears on the cards:
City Cleaning Campaign
By the children Of the public schools of
Washington. d. c.. April to u, 1912.
desire to certify that I have cleaned
up my own premises at No. street
Signed. -
Similar cards have been printed by d.
rection of the local organization OF Boy
Scouts and distributed among the 1000
members of the organization. Edgar s.
Martin. supervisor of Fairgrounds and
commissioner of Boy Scouts, is taking an
active interest in the Juvenile preliminary
campaign, and will report to the central
committee OF city cleaning week the re-
suits of the clean-u p-at-home work done
by the Boy Scouts and children of the
Fairgrounds.
Appointments to Central Committee.
Two new appointments to the central
committee. which will direct city cleaning
week, were announced today. Miss Elizs-
| beth Brown will represent the Associated
Charities. and Mrs. William Lincoln
Brown will represent the woman's well
| fare department of the National Civic
Federation. The latest citizens associa-
ton representative to be designated for
the committee is Harry h. Gladman, repre-
senting the Southeast Washington Citi-
| zens' Association.
Plans for the first meeting Of the CEN
trail committee, which is to be held at
40 D. m. in the boardroom of the munich
pal building Friday of this wee':. pract-
calIy have been completed. The announce
ment of the full membership of the COM
mittee probably will be made tomorrow
by the District Commissioners. The Dis
| trict heads will be In attendance at the