Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-18
CITY IS URGED To
CLEAN UP FOR
SHR|NERS
Potentate Adair Says Atlanta
Must Be "SpotIess Town."
Council Gets Busy.

ut is less than two months now
until the Shriners come" said For
rest Adair, potentate of Yaarab Tenn
pie, Wednesday. The time Is short
for Atlanta to finish getting ready
for them Mucn remains to be done
"A multitude of details is in charge
of the Shrine committees. Other de-
tails are up to Atlanta.
"One of the things Atlanta must dc
for US is this% She must open heI
best homes to the visitors.
Another thing she should do is
this: She should clean up every
where, shine up, wash up, paint up
We want TO make the best impress
sion possible.
Local Shriners are doing these
things already. Their homes will en-
terrain two or three thousand invited
guests among the visiting MOBILES
Their places of business will be dec
grated for night as well as for day
display. They are painting and clean
ing everywhere.
"Atlantans who are not Shriners
will get just as much credit for doing
these things, and just as much blame
for emitting them as the Shriners
themselves.
THE newspa pers of the city can do
no better service for Atlanta than to
begin now to urge this program OF
cooperation"
Council Starts Cleanup.
City Council has started the clean
up movement. City Hall will be
cleaned from top to bottom at once,
and all other city buildings will be
refurnished for the eyes Of the thou
sands who are coming. Even the old
Texas" the locomotive at Grant
Park, which pursued Andrews Raid
ers, is scheduled to get the shelter II
has needed so long, In scores of other
ways the city government is getting
ready.
In line with the movement to make
their homes as attractive as possible,
Atlanta Shriners have begun the
planting OF Shrine emblem flower
beds. the design being the scimiter
and claws of the order. instead of the
usual circle or square or other mean
ingless pattern.
In this. too, the city Is co-operat-
ing. Manager Dan Carey, of the pub
lie parks, is having his workmen
draw all their flower beds in Shrine
patterns. Coleus and pansles and
geraniums and asters are being used
for these purposes, with candytuft or
sweet alyssum and other shrubs for
borders.
Many Homes Needed.
The listing OF homes where rooms
will be available for the visitors has
begun in earnest A bureau has been
esta biished for this work in the Ma
sonic Temple. Anyone who has room
for one or more visitors during the
week around May 10 and IA is eX-
pected to communicate with J. c.
Greenfield either by mail or tele-
phone. The telephone number is Ivy
6297.
I'VE won't make any reserva tons
for two or three weeks yet" said Mr.
Greenfield Wednesday. We can't
wait any longer than that however.
Our files are full already of letters
from Shriners who want rooms. The
best will not be any too good for
them. We want plenty Of the best
rooms in Atlanta-rooms that ordi-
narily would not be rented to strang-
ers.
THE visitors will want the best,
and will pay for it gladly We have
plenty of tenders of free rooms. but
we can't use those, for strangers
would feel a hesitancy about accept
ing them We simply must hear from
hundreds, thousands, of the best
homes in Atlanta on this point with
in the next three weeks"