Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-30
SPRING CLEANUP
AGREAT SUCCESS
Tomorrow Ends TWo-Week
Campaign Fraught With
Good Results.
MORE TONS OF REFUSE
CARRIED TO THE DUMPS
Painters Busy Frightening Up the
Buildings and Adding to
Health Protection.

Washingtons first spring clean up
paint up campaign is on the final lap
Tomorrow be tho last day of the two
week campaign which began April 10,
and which has been waged in the four
sections of the city, together with many OF
the nearby suburbs across the line in
Maryland.
The last three days Of the big campaign
are in the northeast section, where hun
dreds Of men and women, boys and girls,
have been enlisted in the warfare against
dirt and general untidiness. The clean
up forces moved against the trash and
rubbish accommodations Of the northeast
section yesterday. and since that time
several hundred wagonloads of refuse
have been gathered up and hauled to the
dump at Benning and to other city dumps.
In the two-week campaign. according
to those at the head OF the city clean up.
several thousand wagonloads OF rubpish
and refuse have been carted away TO the
dumps. Never in the city's history, IT Is
declared, has such thoroughgoing, vide
reaching spring cleanup been conducted;
and that the whole city will benefit from
the work. both from standpoint OF IN,
creased neatness and attractiveness and
from a health and hygienic STANDPOINT IS
the assertion of those who have directed
the work.
The hearty cooperation of practi-
cally every civic organization IN the
District of Columbia, with the single
Citizens Association. has made the
1915 campaign the unqualified success
it has BEEN" said DR.. Arthur L. Murray
secretary Of the clean city commit
tee, today. 'In this springs campaign
we have had the cooperation Of the
Board Of Trade, the Chamber of Com
merce, the Federation OF Womens
Clubs, every citizens association but
one and a number of lodges and SINH
lar organizations
Painters in Lead.
Chief among the organizations
which have aided in the work has been
the Master House Painters and Deco
rators' Association, which, In addition
to donating $500 to the clean city COM
mittees fund, paid all the expenses of
the widest general publicity campaign
under the clean up-paint up slogan
the city ever had. The master painters
organization expended more than $1,000
for clean up-paint up signs. buttons.
lantern slides, etc, besides conducting
a campaign Of newspaper publicity
which has caused every one in wash
ington who reads the newspapers to
know that great big, comprehensive.
all-embracing clean up and paint up
campaign was to be waged here for
two weeks.
The removal of the winters accumu-
lations of trash and debris of every
kind cannot fail to bring about i'm
proved health conditions in Washing
ton during the hot weather of the COM
ing summer. Dirt breeds disease
every kindergarten pupil knows this
nowadays. Remove the dirt and you
remove disease breeding conditions.
Cleaner, Prettier City.
"a clean city is certainly more
healthful as a place Of residence than
ono reeking with filth, and nobody will
contradict the statement that clean
city is a great deal prettier and more
attractive than one that is Uttered
with rubbish. If. In connection with
the general cleaning up. the city gets
a general painting up. so much the bet
ter. Paint improves the looks of build
ings, keeps them from decay and de-
terioration, and helps in the work OF
sanitation.
altogether Washington has cause to
congratulate itself over the results Of
the campaign, which will come to an
end tomorrow. 1t is to be hoped that
the same forces that worked together
for a successful two weeks campaign
this spring may be lined up for a
similar effort next year"