Alamogordo news-advertiser. (Alamogordo, Otero County, N.M.) 1912-1914, 1913-05-30
Committee Appointed by Mayor
MCRae to Make Preliminary
Arrangements Makes Its Re-
port to that Official
EACH FAMILY IN TOWN TO
PAY FROM rs TO 80 CENTS
Modest Sums Asked by Com,
mittee to Help Defray Nee,
esSay Expense: Some Clean
Up Notes From Other Cities

Up Notes From Other Cities
The committee appointed by Mayor
McRae last week to decide on the date
Of cleanup day for Alamogordo and
arrange for the work, met last Wednes-
day afternoon in DIR. McKinley's office.
where the matter was gone over very
thoroughly. The report of the com
mistee is as follows:
To Hon. ]. H. McRae, Mayor:
We the undersigned committee ap-
pointed by you TO investigate the sani-
tary condition of the Town of Alamo
gordo, have set apart Tuesday, June 10.
1913, as a Special Clean Up Day.
The citizens are, therefore, requested
to put their places in a sanitary condi-
tion by removing all cans and other
rubbish to the alley so this committee
can hve it moved away by their wagons.
All families will be required to pay
from 25 to so cents, depending on the
amount of rubbish to be removed,
The ladies' of the Civic League will
collect this money.
MRS. c. A. GARRETT.
JACOB SHOWER,
G. NJ. TOWER.
DR.. E. d. M'KINLEY,
Committee
There is the whole thing in a nut
shell. On June 10 the wagons, under
the direction of the committee, will
call for the rubbish and hanl it off. 1t
will cost each family either % or 50
cents, depending or how much dirt and
rubbish you can scrape up, and the
ladies Of the Civic League will call on
you to collect this small financial aid.
We had all better make it 90 cents and
be sure to get all the unnecessary dirt
carted away.
The business of cleaning up the town
is today worldwide movement.
Alamogordo is only getting into the
big bandwagon.
Banish dirt and starve the fly!
That is the solgan of the new
annual cleanup" movement, which
already has been productive of great
good in many towns and cities and
is rapidly assuming national proper
tions.
Among the large cities which
have put the cleanup idea into eff
feet this year with pronounced re-
/ suits are New York, Washington.
philadelphia, Chicago and st. Paul.
! Zach had a cleanup week, during
Which the citizens literally rolled
up their sleeves and made the dirt
.Iy.
The cleanup activities, however.
lave not b cen confined to large
.ities. Scores OF communities from
lilies to hamlets have gone sys-
tematically about beautifying and
/ purifying the places that were eye
sores and breeders OF germs, and
-hlldren as well as older folks have
taken part in the work.
In some places certain holidays
we're made the occasion of cleanups
An instance of this was in Port
Washington, y. Y, where the chill
iren made a cleanup day of Arbor
day and literally secured the town
The boy scouts have proved very
effective In the annual cleanup work
A vigorous campaign against dirt
was carried on in Philadelphia and
adjacent cities. In some of the
smaller cities in that district the
improvement was truly remarkable
Atties were depleted Of lyon
stored up treasures. such as broken
rocking horses, chairs with one leg
missing, pieces of broken china ,foI
long years awaiting the mender's
magic hand, old colthes. books, toys
and dust accumulators OF all deserip
tions.
Cellars were whitewashed anc
; musty corners ventilated No heaps
OF ashes were left in the back yardi
to offend the eyesight, and th'
prowling cat now seeks here II
vain for the friendly pile OF tin cna
; on which to mount as he walls hli
mournful midnight melody.
} Everything was made clean an,
beautiful. The grass in all tn,
lawns was moved, hedges and Dor
, ders trimmed with nicely and hun
dreds OF folwer beds planted. No
a scrap of flying paper nor an un
necessary clod OF dirt was left 4
, mar the perfect cleanliness OF thes
, progressive towns. which determln
; ed TO be celan, really and trul
, clean, and whose citizens, mer
. women and children. all added thei
, quota TO the work Of cleaning up
. The campaign against dirt In 81
, Paul was especially thorough
= Through the cooperation OF the civ
. ic organizations. the city authorltie
= and the schools transformatlo
. was wrought that satisfied the mos
. sanguine promoter OF the plan lnau