The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-05-21
Comprehensive Suggestions for Car
rying on Crusades in Cities Con-
tanned in Magazine Arti-
Gle by Cochran
MAYOR SHOULD
TAKE THE LEAD
Proclamation Should Be Issued and
Thorough Organization Effected;
"Pitiless Publicity" and Whole
sale Agitation Required

In the April number of the American
City, Jerome Cochran makes sugges-
tions for carrying on a cleanup"
campaign as follows:
The mayor should first issue suit
able proclamation calling upon all citl-
zens to clean up cellars, yards, area
ways and their entire property, to the
end that the city may start the sum-
mer free Of disease breeding accumu-
lations Of trash and filth and reduce
the fire hazard.
In large cities a committee repre-
senting the departments of highways,
fire, health, ETC., should be appointed
by the Mayor to take charge of tho
work done under the supervision OF
the city officers
This committee may be divided into
subcommittee such as finance, press,
poster and printed matter, trade as
sociations, community associations,
charitable and benevolent. school and
school children, churches, retail stores.
street cars, vacant lots, fire preven-
tion. etc. Persons on this citizens
committee should all be prominent
business men interested in civic ac-
tivity.
In small cities and towns, meetings
of citizens should be held to appoint
committees to stimulate interest in
the movement
The town should be divided into dis
tricts. neighborhood club or commit
tee being organized in each district
for active work, and to encourage riv-
airy between districts.
Each neighborhood committee should
hold a meeting a short time before
cleanup day or week and endeavor to
get all adults in their districts at the
meeting and enlist their aid.
The various schools should be visit
ed by citizens interested in the move
ment, and the children should be in
formed concerning its object.
An extensive and effective means
of advertising should be entered into
in order that every citizen may know
the date and the object of the clean
UP campaign and give his best coop
Grafton BY proper publicity, through
the press and by leaflets distributed to
the school children and from house to
house, the campaign can be made to
go with swing.
| Large placards announcing the
cleanup campaign should be distribut-
I ed to schools, libraries, clubs, lodges.
commercial and industrial establish
ments and railroad companies, with
a.he result that they be posted in a
prominent place Two oe the same pla-
cards should also be posted on the win
dows of each street car operated in
| the city.
Attractive gummed labels advertis-
ing the campaign suitable for attach
ing to envelopes and to packages car
ried through the mail and delivered
by the department stores. should be
distributed to all public service cor
porations. department stores, newspa-
pers, banks and trust companies.
Bulletins or hand posters suggesting
means by which the citizens may CO.
operate with the city officials should
be distributed to each house in the
city, preferably by the police, explain
ing in detail the nature of the work
contemplated and so designated that
the back can be used to notify the city
waste collectors wherever there is
rubbish to be removed These bulle-
tins should not be thrown on the
porch, but should be handed to each
householder.
Colored display placards may be dis
J tributed to the department stores and
Z all retail merchants, to be posted Il
} prominent places in all the large show
} windows. A much larger poster, simi
. lar in design. may be posted on al
\ the billboards In the city. and man,