The broad ax., 1913-03-22
NOW roR A oIRAN oHIoAao.

NOW FOR A CLEAN CHICAGO.
The signs of spring are here and be-
fore very long winter will be a memory.
There are also some other signs crop
ping up all over Chicago that are
very good to see; and these are the
signs which indicate that Chicago will
be a good deal cleaner city in this year
1913 than it has ever been before.
These signs for a cleaner Chicago may
be both seen and heard on every hand.
The many ward and neighborhood i'm
provement clubs are already beginning
to get active; the WOmen's City Club
has called a mass meeting to consider
ways and means for a cleaner city;
the Citizen s Street Cleaning Bureau
has started a movement for the organ
ization of a Clean Chicago League;
and last but not least the Boys and
Girls Clean Chicago Clubs, under the
auspices of the Departments of Health
are being organized and promise to do
great things towards making Chicago
the eleanest city of its size in the
world.
Concerning the Boys and Girl
Clean Chicago Clubs, it perhaps should
be stated again that the Department
of Health now has all che necessary
printed matter including membership
application blanks, report blanks, plans
of organization, stamped and addressed
envelopes and button badges. 1t is
suggested that each neighborhood have
club of this kind and that the parents
not only give their consent but also
encourage their children in this work.
There can be no question but that the
children themselves will be benefited
in every way. Their duties will take
them out of doors and besides being
of physical benefit will tend to develop
habits of observation and study of con-
/ ditions that make for community good
and safety and thus ineuleate some
splendid lessons in civic work. Any
boy or girl desiring to organize a Clean
Chicago Club in their communities can
obtain full information and supplies
by calling on the Secretary of the De
partment of Health, Room no, City
Hall.
Don't wait for the Mayors proela-
nation for a cleanup day. Start now
and beat him to it. In a big city like
Chicago every day should be a clean
up day Rubbish, ashes and garbage
should be gathered up and placed in
reeeptaeles ready for the city wagons
to remove. Let everybody tidy up.
Just now there are thousands of manure
piles all over the city. These manure
piles viii breed flies and flies are dan
gerous. Stable manure is valuable for
fertilizing the soil. It should be gath
cred up and sent to the country where
the farmers and truck gardeners can
make good use of it by scattering it
over their fields and Ploughing it into
the soil. Then they will raise big
crops of nice, fresh vegetables for the
markets of Chicago. So, manure in
the proper place is of great value;
but allowed to remain in the alleys
and stables of Chicago it breeds count
less millions of flies that only carry
disease and death wherever they 60.
So, the Department of Health is glad
to see the signs of Spring and glad also
to see the signs that promise good
things for Chicago. For if we make
our city clean it viii be a healthy city.
There will be fewer sick babies and
fewer baby funerals; and everybody
will be healthier and happier than they
could be in a dirty city. And as