Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-05-19
PLANNING A CLEANUP
WEEK IN "ANY OLD" TOWN

Clean your street. You don't think
much of a woman who sweeps the dirt
from the living room into the hall. and
then out on the porch, and finally upon
a neatly clipped lawn and we'll kept
gravel walks will command respect
from those who pass your home. if they
see that the sweepings from lawn and
walks have been flung out into the gut
ter or street? Don't you judge d neigh
borhood by the condition of the cutters
and streets in front of the houses?
Don't you see them first and the front
yards and trim porches next?
If you have no street cleaning depart
ment i'm your city or town, il you have
no municipal fund to keep the streets
IN good condition.. even If they need
paving, all the more important that YOU
should do your part in keeping Your
particular house front clean. 1t will
not be long before your neighbors re-
mark on the decent front your place
puts up and do likewise.
But perhaps the most important re-
suit will be the attitude of your chill
dren toward public and private prop
erty. You cannot bring up a child six
years in an untidy home and her ex-
pect a school teacher to teach him re-
spect for school or private property.
Wherever Uncle Sans soldiers have
gone I'm he ropics-Cuba. Mexico. Pan
anna, the Philippines--they have
cleaned up first. They ,ave lived sani-
tatlon and have commanded respect.
The German soldiers have done the
same thing in the present terrible war,
improving sanitary conditions in cities,
towns. ha1nlets, even on farms. through
force of habit. a United states soldier
that there must be proper drain
age n pure water. He carries them
INTO a city along with the Stars and
stripes. the German soldier knows that
on the streets of Berlin no self aspect
ing citizen drops Il SCRAP Of paper, or q
cigar stub on the Immaculate pave
nents. He may have to spread havoc
as he makes war. but he tries to follow
conquest With the good order and tidi-
ness OF his home city.
Clean your markets. Make it very
clear that a merchant who sweeps the
TRASH from his store into the front
street street or back into the alley ia
not a desirable citizen worthy of your
trade. Boycott that tradesman who
Keeps vegetables. fruits and other food
Stunts in a filthy, unventilated, over
heated cellar. Take your trade from a
butcher who hangs his meat where it
Is exposed to flies, and whose apron and
hanos are dirty. or the grocer whose
pms and barrels are always open. Of
Ter your trade to clean dealers, and put
the rear of Coo and your sanitary laws
IN the hearts of those dealers who are
untidy.
Clean your schools. Do you know
whether your schools are kept clean
and how they are cleaned? Do you
know whether they are freed from dust.
germs. or whether they are sprinkled
with a disinfectant? Their is a great
difference between removing dust and
laying 1t. between digging out germs
and numbing them with disinfectants.
Have you ever seen the lavatories
ana toilet rooms in Your local school
houses? Do you know whether the
plumbing is in good condition and the
water supply clean and pure? Do YOU
know whether YOUR children use a
ommon or an individual drinking Gun
Or a fountain fauceto