American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-06-13
Opening Guns Fired
This Week
A. l.. Yates, Commander-in.Chiei Of
the blues, and Francis Child, ,om'
Inan1er-ln.ChiefO OF the keds-flhe
Meeting Sunday Night.

The Clean Town movement Is
taking hold Of Lehi with firm grip
.>eariy every citizen seems ~ nave
Ueen lnoccuiated with IL and all over
Gown can De seen people cleaning up
amending fences Or painting thelr
houses. Many have also gone on the
OUTSIDE ana cleaned the weeds from
the street In front oil their homes
Ihe movement seems TO be catching.
when one man cleans the weeds or
the contrast is 80 decided that his
neighbor. seeing his good work, goes
ana does likewise.
This week the committee of thirty
one selected 1872 block captains, whose
duty will be to visit every family on
his block and explain the movement,
and then by example ana precept
preach the clean town propaganda TIL
every home on his block is able to
score rs points and be given badge
OF honor. The block captains Will
leave with every family a circular ex-
planning the movement and the points
which will count In the scoring
rive hundred badges arrived this
week, and their distribution Will com
mence at once. They are beauties and
were Made in Utah." On red or
blue ground Is printed "A Cleaner
Lehi." IL has been said that II Lehi
wins this prize OF being the cleanest
city In the state 1t win be worth Sl0,-
O0O TO the city. Say that the five hun
dred buttons are gotten out on the
aDove basis, the buttons will have an
intrinsic value of $40 each. But they
cannot be bought. Like the pearl
OF great price" In the scriptures, you
must dig up whole lot to earn one.
Francis A. Child has been chosen
commander-in-chief OF the army of
the Reds and Albert L. Yates is the
general who will marshal the forces
Of the east side under the banner OF
the Blues. Center street will be the
Mason and Dixon line and the battle
Will rage first on one side then on
the other. The victims 10 be slaugh-
tered will be unclean premises As
the battlep rogresses the results will
be announced In the newspapers and
on bulletin boards or charts. The re-
suit OF the first skirmish will prob.
ably appear In our next Issue ant
then weekly thereafter. As the vic.
tins fall the victor will be given
button In honor OF the event and re
suits will be announced daily on tn,
charts of the battlefield.
A rousing clean town meeting wa.
held In the Tabernacle Sunday even
Ing under the auspices of the Secon,
Ward NJ. |. A. G. y. Peterson pre-
sided. Junius Banks, chairman OF tn,
general and executive committee, CAV,
a detailed explanation OF the move
ment and musical numbers were rem
dered by Professor Johnson, the new
high school musical director; Mrs
Lulu Anderson, Arno Kirkham an,
Miss Evelyn Bushman. The principa
address was delivered by DR.. Lloy,
woodruff, a representative OF tn,
Utah Development League. who mad,
the trip from his Bountiful home b,
auto, accompanied by his father Tn,
doctor is an enthusiast on sanitation
and made some telling points on tn,
desirability OF swatting the fiy ant
destroying Its breeding places.
Bountiful Is conducting a vigorous
campaign, pursuing system some
what similar to that OF Lehi. Tn,
committee has issued a circular L
the bottom Of which Is appended
The Fly Decalogue.
|. Thou shalt swat the fly that hail
survived the winter. One swat IL
April is worth a million In Sep
TENDER.
2, Thou shalt clean thy back yart