New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-16
In Fact, It's "CIean-Up" Month
and Youngsters All Strive
To Be Immaculate.
"G0TTER BE CLEAN TO GO"
And Jacks and Josies All Know
1.-two Examinations This
Week, as Fresh Air
Homes Are Ready.
Cleanup week ?"

! or June and thoughts of vacation.
Say, rather. then. Cleanup month";
! Not matter. this. of sidewalks piled
high with cast-off household utensils ard
streets invested by the valiantly charg-
ing white squadrons Of our doughty Com
missioner Edwards. Cleanup week"
was Ia some sort novelty; cleanup
month has been an established institu.
ton since before the days of the Centcn-
NAL Exposition.
Perhaps YOU never heard Of IL. but YOU
could hear it right now If YOU would hold
! your hand 10 your ear and listen for a
moment in almost any neighborhood OF
the City-over there in parts Of Green
witch Village. for instance. or much louder
down here on the lower East Side, with
echoes from Harlem and Brooklyn and
other places
Hear II now? That splash, splash.
splashnG Of water! That scrub. scrub.
scrubbing of the implements OF cleanli-
ness. That snip. snip. shipping Of the
BARRIERS shears! Not a single splash here
and an isolated scrub yonder, but ten,
| twelve thousand ships. scrubs and
splashcs IN voleys as II were. in the
battle against dirt.
What's getting cleaned? Why. this is
June. and after June comes July, and In
July no school and Josie and Angela and
Mary. and Jack Sam and Tony are think
Ing OF a vacation trip out OF town.
"You Got To Be Clean"
Now. most OF us think that the .rst
STEPS In preparation for such an event
are wide study OF thoroughly illustrated
summer resort pamphlets and trip 10
the savings bank. But Mary and Sam
and the rest of the spashers and scrub
beers, they know better. being better
versed IN the habits and habitats Of at
least one kind OF vacation.
They know. and they will tell you. that
TO 20 to the country you got 10 be clean.
because that Fresh Air doctor won't leave
YOU go II YOU amt And there's the
secret OF cleanup month" All during
June each year The Tribune Fresh Air
Funds medical examiner goes the rounds
of the city, visiting schools. settlements.
churches. homes and all ether places
where prospective yacationers congrcgste.
10 inspect the children and tell them what
I
places IN some Tribune party during the
summer.
That splashing you heard was Mary
some thousands or so OF her-in the tub:
that scrubbing was Josie at the wash
board: that snip shipping was the tune Of
the BARRIERS shears. moving their way
through Jacks unkempt thatch-sentence
imposed by the keen-eyed examiner. such
a splashing. shipping, scrubbing never
was on land or sea before.
For the most part. It IS only the pre-
limnary examination Of the children that
takes place in cleanup month" But
toward the latter part Of the month the
more important final examinations begin
10 come I'm. These settle the question
whether or no a child is TO be sent away
in a given party. For the examiner
certificate indicating thorough cleanliness
and freedom from disease. must De shown
for each child before II may join the va
cation host.
Tribune Funds Standard High.
Depend upon Il. Mary and Jack viii
appear for the final inspection, combed
and brushed and with faces fairly glow
ing in their cleanliness. for the prelimi-
nary examination has set them on the
right tack. And IL Jack IS one Of the
fortunate few, he will take what seems
10 him a last and nightly effective pre-
caution and say 10 his mother shortly
before the time set for the great test:
Nom, en- | put me Sunday suit on
There will be many a Jack among them.
however, unable to give this hostage TO
fortune through lack Of the Sunday suit
Fresh Airs must be clean. In sending
them 10 the people Of the country the
Tribune Fund guarantees that those re-
ceived will be clean In every respect and
free from the danger of carrying disease
with them TO the homes OF their hosts.
Because the high standard required by
the Tribune Fund is known 10 social ser
vice workers and children. both workers
and children begin weeks before inc
schools close 10 prepare for the cleanup
test. A well known social worker MADE
the statement recently that this campaign
for physical cleanliness. although not
carried on az an end In Itself Is almost
AZ great a force for good IN the city as
the actual Fresh Air outings themselves.
There will be at least two final exani-
nations this week, as Happy Land ana
the Mlddletown-G Goshen Home VIII open
their gates for the first parties OF the
season Of 1913