The Nevada County picayune., 1915-04-23
Club Women Work to Clean Up and Paint Up
 Five Thousand Cities
CIVIC LEADERS PUT BAN ON
 PINK TEAS.
Clean Yards, a Few Shrubs and Flowers, and a Little Paint, for a Better Hometown
 Mrs. Clarence Baxter.

THAT the club women of America
 \ are not waiting for full suffrage
 before taking an active part in
 civic bettermeHt work Is proven by
 the earnest efforts of thousands of
 women in local Clean Up and Paint
 Up campaigns u practically every
 state in the Union The men are too
 busy or too Chesty. said one of these
 women, to see the need of or to do simple Identification and sanitation
 work. And yet that work is vital 10 the health of thousands and to the progress of the community in better living conditions to keep pace with increasing population
 There was time she continued. when pink teas and gossip character. ized our local club meetings But that time is past There are million things for the betterment of the town that we are able to do, and we are trying to do them as fast as we can get 10 them. The Clean Up and Paint Up campaign. in which we are working shoulder To shoulder with the men, embod.e5 q fig batch of i'm proyements We have had~ in mind T his campaign seems to be for tunate combination of ideals Clean Up and Paint | p. It gives us work to do new, with a definite program to start things off and Wiih absolutely no end of possibilities in permanent constructive effort Aud the best of it is that this campaign simply forces the men to work with Us. \ success ful campaign means an increased de mand for many kinds oi merchandise. means conservation oI property, means increased realty yames-it means better business town and better home town Why shouldn't the men lend a hand?'
 And this woman is not alone in her enthusiasm Mrs. Clarence Baxter. chairman of the Womens Committee Of the National Clean | D and Paint Up' Campaign Bureau, St Louis. has seen her home town, Kirksyille. Mo refurbshed from the city hall te cor= poraton limits entirely through the earnest work of group of women. x chairman of the CiHtc aad health de partment of the Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs, and as vice chair man of the ciyigs department Of tHg General Federation of Women's Clubs Mrs Baxter is inspiring and adNisia- thousands Of club women Tn simiIa work. She Will be glad to write te and advise others.
 Mrs. George Zimmerman. of Ere mont, 0. chairman Of the civics de. partment of the General Federation ol Womens Clubs. heartily endorses the national Clean Up and Paint Cp' movement. and is member of the advisory committee of the National ''NA 'dIi. -r,s~e-, sSsa
 s 4Ae C.yicS depa.,savata of several state fedora oHs 6f Womens clubs have already arrau for state.aidc "Clean Up and Paint Gp' yaupa.sas this year. with q definite weeks pro gram to start the ball rolling
 One man who always was harpinp nc the old saw "Woman's place is in nc home, has net been heard from s.nce-A year ago when his wife ted in Clean lp and Paint Ep' cam paien which Practically regenerated the town The good woman repaired and painted ! pies2 Of vacant prop erY pe,Qnging lQ Der hus0apd, prop erty that haa 5e5a erai9 On h!s purse G[ p<ce s'R pS S?fSS sSSS sad o5S:s.3 .5S aS ras as nreachiBS Clean u9, Paint Up, Re pair to others, and she Believed h l prarticing what she preached After , criticising his wife for her public ac. tivity. and especially for spending real money on that old shack the hus band was sorely chagriued one day 10 receive ali offer ot S6oo more r3r the property than bls folWep pai"@ ton iIe made tav sala ~'
 This year h4 L. ..u shut ua .s ,ue heaviest contrib uyor to that local Clean Up and Paint Up" campaign fund.
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