Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-14
PLAN VIGOROUSLY FOR CLEANUP WEEK
Why Shouldn't City Have New Bonnet and White
 Shoes?

In preparation for d warm, and perhaps prolonged, summer season, Charleston is vigorously beginning a campaign for "cleanup week. The slogan adopted is Clean up ana paint up. Why shouldn't city have a new bonnet and wear white shoes
 "The preparations which have been made for the cleaning up of the city next week are as thorough as have ever been made anywhere through a volunteer movement says the Charleston News and Courier. "Prac- tically every home in the city mas been reached in one way or another, or will be reached. All departments of the city government have gone in to the campaign energetically. The schools have promised and are lend ing their cooperation. Fine work is being done by the students of the Medical College in making a survey of the entire city under the direction of the health department Films are being shown at the moving picture houses. In a number of the churches the matter will be spoken of tomor- row. The negro ministers of the city have responded immediately, and they are undertaking to bring the matter home to their people, In short, every man, woman and child i'll Charleston, white or black, ought 10 be impressed with the fact that next week is cleanup week. Every house. holder should begin this morning to make preparation for putting his or her premises ill thorough order. Get rid of the waste, the rubbish, the tin cans, the stagnant water, the breeding places of flies and mosqui- paint brush. Let Charleston be, when next week is over, a cleaner, bright CT and healthier place-and the let us keep it so."
 Agencies cooperating in the cam paign are the chamber of commerce, New York bureau of municipal re- search. mayor, police department, fire department, health department, civic league, housewives league. re- tail merchants association, Young Mems Christian Association, Young Woman's Christian Association, Medi- cal College, Military Academdy, public schools, churches, theaters, Boy Scouts.
 A circular distributed broadcast says:
 Make your plans today for clean ing up your premises.
 Begin with the attic and go through to the basement and then take the back and front yards, re- moving all paper, ashes, wood, gar bage, excelsior, old bottles, tin cans, old rags and rubbish of all kinds.
 Be ready with all filth and trash in the street when the city wagons come around to haul it away.
 Not only "chase the dirt" but call in your painter and arrange to brighten up.
 Use plenty of lime in outhouses and whitewash fences and trees; all so whitewash pillars under the houses.
 Screen the doors and windows oi you~ home, especially those of the kitchen, dining room and pantry Protect the milk.
 Permit no flies in the sick room and disinfect excreta with chloride of lime or other disinfectant.
 Thoroughly clean garbage cans aft or emptying, and sprinkle content! with crude oil. lime or kerosene oil
 See that manure while in stable is placed in screened bin or pit. Kee1 all garbage cans covered with a fl. trap on the cover.
 Put screens over cisterns and rail barrels. Fill up all low places il 1.to 1yrot
 See the educational moving pic ture films telling the story of thu filthy fly and the poisonous mos quito.
 Plant your back yards with flow CTS and grasses and keep the weed cut down.
 Heln to make. Charleston the cit. beautiful.