The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-04-10
A CLEAN UP
and PAINT UP
CAMP AIGN
May Fourth to May Ninth the
Week Named For Start of
Permanent Purity
"GOTOIT" ETHE COMMAND
Civic Improvement Ladies Will be
at Head ofWOrk All Aboard
the Clean Up Train
Go to itN'

Go to itN'
That's the comment that has been
issued stcntoriously by the Civic
Improvement Association in regard
to the 1914 Clean Up and Paint Up
Campaign.
These three little words also spell
the answer to the method, the organ
ization Of the campaign, the spirit,
the everything of the movement
started by the G. |, A. at the last
meeting of the association held Mon
day night at the Court house.
it was decided to make May 4th
to May 9th the big week
TO get the interest of the whole
town aroused in the work, the School
Board and the health authorities
and all organizations for the public
welfare, will be asked to endorse
and enter the campaign.
The real work, however, will not
be with the endorsement of organiza-
tions but with the people of the town
itself.
The idea is to have the town set
aside one week for general public
and private Clean Up and Paint Up
to establish the five-word slogan every
where, and create in the public mind
spirit of enthusiasm and sense
of intelligent cooperation; in fact,
everybody, old and young, will be
asked to lend n hand to clean up
property, indoors, and out, during
Clean Up and Paint Up Week.
A trip through this town shows
several streets, yards, and open places
that are Uttered with waste and rub
bish, and are unsightly and unsani-
tary. If these are the conditions out
doors, exposed to view, what must be
the conditions indoors in cellars, at
tics, and passagcways in factories,
and tenement houses, etc.
1t is hardly necessary to dwell in
detail on these facts, rs most of you
know that there is great need OF
thorough Clean Up and with tho
Clean Up goes the Paint Up, so nee
essary to make the Clean Up pcrma
ncnt and to make things bright anC
create better living and working con
ditions for everyone.
Most all citizens mean to keep th'
things clean and tidy, but they ar,
careless and busy about regular du
ties and neglect to do the cleaning
A Clean Up and Paint Up Cam
paign will remind the general publi
Of the importance of this work /
will result in everybody taking hol'
and making thorough job of it,an'
experience in other places, where sue
Campaings have been held, indicate
that after the Campaign is over pro
perty owners are much more apt T.
keep things clean than was the cas-
before the matter had been so fOrci
bly, brought to their attention.
The Clean Up and Paint Up Move
ment was conducted very success
fully in 1913 in the cities of 81
Louis, Mo-, Denver Colo, Buffalo
N. V, Baltimore, Md, and 81
other towns in these places enthusias
tic Campaigns we're carried on tina
resulted in tons of rubbish and vast
matter being carted away to the dunn
hundreds of dull and grimy build
ings being frightened up with Goa
of paint, and may lawns and yard
being trimmed up, the flower bed
put in and neighborhoods beautified
This is indeed Movement for tn,
homes and the towns, beautiful t.
promote cleanliness, thrift, and civil
pride, and should appeal to ever!
public-spirited citizen.
The Clean Up and Paint Up Cam
paign is along the line of other move
ments now being inaugurated fo
community betterment. Activity alonl
this line means much TO any communi
ty in more wholesome and healthfu
I'conditiOns, A Campaign of thii
kind is step forward along FirC
Prevention lines. 1t is bound to ric
homes and factories of accumulation
of rubbish that are liable to star
fires, and so are a menace to the
community.
Regarding the business side of thii
Campaign, it has been proven il
other places and also in Cape Grar