Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-27
WORK SHOULD GO ON
Views Regarding The Stars
City Cleaning Crusade.
MOVE FOR ASSOCIATION
Health Officer Woodward Believes in
Perpetuation.
COOPERATION A SURE PLAN
Sanitary Improvement by Method
to Begin April Is, and
Last a Week.
MOVE FOR ASSOCIATION
COOPERATION A SURE PLAN


trict OF Columbia may be organized as a
result Of The Stars city cleaning week,
which is to open April Is and continue
until April 20.
That the work to be done by citizens
in improving health conditions of the city
should not stop with city cleaning week.
but that arrangements should be made to
perpetuate it, is the belief of DR. Will
liam c. Woodward, health officer of the
District, and other officials of the District
government
Plans for an organization of citizens to
work comparatively with the District
will be presented to the central commit-
tee which is to direct The Stars cru
SADIE. The plans are yet in an embryonic
state. but it is certain that they will be
week closes.
For the purpose of ascertainng the re-
suits Of the sanitary campaign, meet
ing of the central committee will be held
within a few days following its close. AT
this meeting, it is expected, the question
of forming a permanent organization to
continue the work will be discussed.
Summary of Arguments.
Advocates OF an organization of citizens
to look after the health interests of the
District point to the fact that neither the
health nor street cleaning department,
with the limited forces at the command
Of each, can keep the city in as satisfac-
tory condition as 1t should be in, nor de-
tect all violations Of the sanitary regula-
TONS
With an association of citizens cooper
ating with both departments. they assert,
to the end of reporting nuisances and
lending assistance in correcting them,
Washington should be not merely for a
healthiest as well as the most beautiful
city of America.
That The Stars plan for a city cleaning
week already has led to vast improve
ment in the sanitary conditions of various
sections of the city is the gist Of reports
made by inspectors of the health depart
ment to Health Officer Woodward. There
are numerous evidences to the effect that
the cleanup fever is taking hold Of citi-
zens in every part Of Washington, they
declare, and, il plans for the sanitary
campaign should be abandoned. the eff
forts so far made would more than justify
the results that already have been &C
complished.
Indications are that more complaints
concerning nuisances will be received by
the health department this week than in
any previous week in years. Last week S
showing in this respect established new
record.
Welfare Workers Interested.
The Washington branch Of the Wom-
ans Welfare Department of the National
Civic Federation today accepted the invi-
tation rendered it to participate in the
representative to serve on the central
committee will be announced within a
few days
The Monday Evening Club also will be
represented on the central committee. The
representative Of this organization will
be chosen at the first meeting of its exc
cutive committee.
Interest in the campaign is being taken
by the Home Economies Association of
Washington. which will discuss it at the
annual meeting of the association, to be
held April . 1t is likely that this asso-
citation also will be represented on the
central committee.
Children's Preliminary Campaign.
The announcement yesterday that the
children of the Fairgrounds and the
Boy Scouts of Washington will con-
duct a preliminary campaign for sani-
tation, prior to the opening of city
cleaning week, by removing waste &C
cumulations from the private premises
where they reside, has aroused the in
terest of District officials and others,
who believe that much can be accom-
plished by such campaign. 1t is es-
timated that not fewer than 5000 chill
dren will participate in this work and
that from 1900 to 1000 premises will
be cleaned up. Preparations are being
made by the directors of the play
grounds and scout masters of the Boy
Scouts to get the preliminary CAM
paign started bright and early Mon
day, April 1.
Blames the Trash Man.
In letter to The Star William S.
says:
''Your articles, with accompanying
photographs of sundry back yards,
relative to a cleaning-up campaign are
very much appreciated by most house.
1.-The cleaning-up manager of the house
hold, as a rule, finds the naughty trash
man to be violently opposed to hauling
away the motley assortment which greets
him when he appears on semi-occasional
rounds: there is a large bunch Of wall
paper which the paperhanger has left,
that the trash man promptly lays
aside: SO on, throughout the accumulate
he makes his choice-so that eventually
we have our attention called to the
PHOTOGRAPHIC representations Of our back
YARDS in The Evening Star.
please get after the trash man"
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